Stephen Hunt at the SFX Weekender

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Starts: 2010-02-05
Ends: 2010-02-06
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Category: Fiction

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The Rise of the Iron Moon

British readers gearing up for the Weekender in 2010, the UK equivalent of the Comic-Con event, have been given the news that Stephen Hunt will now be appearing with stars such as John Barrowman (from the BBC's Torchwood TV series), James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville), Lis Sladen (Doctor Who's Sarah Jane) and a number of the world's best-selling sci-fi authors and comic-book creators. Other bestseller fantasy/horror/sci-fi writers appearing alongside Stephen Hunt include Robert Rankin, China Mieville, Mark Millar, Peter F Hamilton, Richard Morgan and Joe Abercrombie. Stephen’s novel, The Court Of The Air (2007), commenced his international best-selling Jackelian fantasy steampunk series, and was the first of his works to be published by JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis’s publishers, HarperCollins. The Court Of The Air was also one of the ten books selected by the organisers of the Berlinale Film Festival for presentation to US and European film producers, and was the only sci-fi novel in the line-up. HarperCollins pitched The Court Of The Air as “Charles Dickens meets Blade Runner”, instantly earning the book a place on our shelves. In November 2008, his second book in the Jackelian series, 'The Kingdom Beyond the Waves', was nominated for the long-list of the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy. The third book in the series, 'The Rise of the Iron Moon', was published in the UK in February 2009, and the fourth book, 'Secrets of the Fire Sea', will be published February 6th 2010. Foreign language and international editions of the three novels of the Jackelian series have been published by Tor Books (USA), Albin Michel (France), Verlagsgruppe Random House (Germany), Enterbrain Manga and Anime (Japan), Edições Saída de Emergência (Portugal), Paidós (Spain), AST (Russia), and the Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House (China). More details of the Weekender at http://www.sfxweekender.com