"The Prisoner's Dilemma"
Jan. 28th, 2005 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalCopied and posted from jblum's LJ:
At last! At last!
New "Prisoner" Novel Available For Pre-Order
"The Prisoner's Dilemma", the first of the new set of novels based on Patrick McGoohan's 1967 TV series "The Prisoner", is now available for pre-order at the Powys Media website, at http://www.powysmedia.com.
"The Prisoner's Dilemma", by Jonathan Blum and Rupert Booth, features an introduction by longtime "Prisoner" fanatic J. Michael Straczynski ("Babylon 5", "The Amazing Spider-Man"). Blum is the winner of last year's Aurealis Award for Best Australian SF Novel for "Fallen Gods"; Booth is a British filmmaker and comedy writer. A 120,000 word 327-page trade paperback, the book is available for $14.95.
The novel will be released in the last week of March in the US. Initially the books will only be available on import in the UK and Australia, though overseas distribution plans are currently being settled.
Upcoming books in the series of six will be written by acclaimed "Doctor Who" novelist Lance Parkin and Nebula Award recipient Robert Sheckley. Further information, including excerpts from the first novel, is available on the Powys website.
The surrealist spy series "The Prisoner" was the tale of a secret agent who resigns his job and is abducted by unknown parties who want the information in his head. He finds himself in a charming seaside village which is really an escape-proof Orwellian prison, and must fight to keep his mind intact in the face of his captors' twisted social and psychological mind-games. The novels are set just before the series' legendarily enigmatic final episodes. "The Prisoner's Dilemma" re-launches the series with a complex and paranoid tale of murder in the Village, the uses of terrorism, and the shaping of the Information Age.
----------
I've been carrying this book on my back for just under two years now. I finished writing it a year ago, finished rewriting it six months ago. Now, at last, it's ready to go. So get to it!
(Note that it probably won't be listed on Amazon just yet -- so order it on the Powys site, http://www.powysmedia.com, so all the bucks can go to the small-press publisher instead of a soulless mega-corporation. :-)
Royce here: I had the opportunity to proofread the first draft of this book. Suffice it to say that Jon & Rupert's novel stays true to the world of "The Prisoner" while expanding it in some interesting and unexpected ways. If you're a fan of the original series, you should pre-order it now.
At last! At last!
New "Prisoner" Novel Available For Pre-Order
"The Prisoner's Dilemma", the first of the new set of novels based on Patrick McGoohan's 1967 TV series "The Prisoner", is now available for pre-order at the Powys Media website, at http://www.powysmedia.com.
"The Prisoner's Dilemma", by Jonathan Blum and Rupert Booth, features an introduction by longtime "Prisoner" fanatic J. Michael Straczynski ("Babylon 5", "The Amazing Spider-Man"). Blum is the winner of last year's Aurealis Award for Best Australian SF Novel for "Fallen Gods"; Booth is a British filmmaker and comedy writer. A 120,000 word 327-page trade paperback, the book is available for $14.95.
The novel will be released in the last week of March in the US. Initially the books will only be available on import in the UK and Australia, though overseas distribution plans are currently being settled.
Upcoming books in the series of six will be written by acclaimed "Doctor Who" novelist Lance Parkin and Nebula Award recipient Robert Sheckley. Further information, including excerpts from the first novel, is available on the Powys website.
The surrealist spy series "The Prisoner" was the tale of a secret agent who resigns his job and is abducted by unknown parties who want the information in his head. He finds himself in a charming seaside village which is really an escape-proof Orwellian prison, and must fight to keep his mind intact in the face of his captors' twisted social and psychological mind-games. The novels are set just before the series' legendarily enigmatic final episodes. "The Prisoner's Dilemma" re-launches the series with a complex and paranoid tale of murder in the Village, the uses of terrorism, and the shaping of the Information Age.
----------
I've been carrying this book on my back for just under two years now. I finished writing it a year ago, finished rewriting it six months ago. Now, at last, it's ready to go. So get to it!
(Note that it probably won't be listed on Amazon just yet -- so order it on the Powys site, http://www.powysmedia.com, so all the bucks can go to the small-press publisher instead of a soulless mega-corporation. :-)
Royce here: I had the opportunity to proofread the first draft of this book. Suffice it to say that Jon & Rupert's novel stays true to the world of "The Prisoner" while expanding it in some interesting and unexpected ways. If you're a fan of the original series, you should pre-order it now.
