UK and US paperbacks now available
Accelerando is now on sale in paperback in the UK, and I have in my hands one of the first US paperbacks -- they should be in shops within another week or so. You can order them here:
Signed UK hardcovers now available from the publisher
Accelerando is officially published in the UK next week by Orbit. You can now order hardcovers direct from the publisher, here; the first hundred are pre-signed.
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Signed copies now available
My local specialist SF bookstore here in Edinburgh is Transreal Fiction. If you want to get hold of a signed copy of "Accelerando" you should contact Mike Calder, the proprietor. He can take payment by credit card or PayPal and he can arrange for me to drop by and sign books before mailing them out. For the Ace hardcover of "Accelerando", which just arrived today, the price is £16 per hardcover, plus £4 postage in the EU and £4 (surface) or £8 (air mail) for everywhere else. (If this price strikes you as high, please bear in mind that (a) these books are international imports so you're effectively paying two sets of international postage, and, (b) Mike runs a tiny hole-in-the-wall shop and can't get the same discounts as, say, Amazon.)
Transreal's phone number and email address are on the website; note that Edinburgh is four hours ahead of EST, so if you're going to phone rather than email please take the time difference into account! The shop closes for the evening around 10:30am by California time.
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Amazon quirk
A couple of readers have contacted me today to say "Amazon just cancelled my order! What's happening?"
If you're in the UK and ordered via amazon.co.uk, you may have ordered a non-existent edition by accident. (There's a rogue entry in Amazon's UK database that purports to be a paperback edition to be published by Ace on July 1st.) Amazon are now cancelling these pre-orders. If you think this has happened to you, follow the links in the sidebar at the right of this web page and you'll be directed to the correct Amazon page for the UK hardcover edition.
(The real paperback edition won't come out for another year.)
Ordering signed copies
Some folks like autographed books. This entails getting the author to sign a copy, either in person or at a bookshop. I'm not visiting the USA much over the next few months (aside from a trip to Austin, TX in late August) so signed copies of "Accelerando" will be rare in North America.
My local specialist SF bookstore here in Edinburgh is Transreal Fiction. If you want to get hold of a signed copy of "Accelerando" (or any of my other books) you should contact Mike Calder, the proprietor. He can take payment by credit card and he can arrange for me to drop by and sign books before mailing them out. (Please allow a couple of weeks to get items signed – I'll try to get round to requests rapidly, but I'm out of town about 25% of the time and Mike doesn't have the space to stock crates of signed Stross first editions.)
Transreal's phone number and email address are on the website; note that Edinburgh is four hours ahead of EST, so if you're going to phone rather than email please take the time difference into account! (The shop closes for the evening around 10:30am by California time.)
Note that while Mike stocks both British and American editions, the American ones have to be shipped across the Atlantic first. Thus, it's unlikely that he'll have the Ace edition of "Accelerando" in stock before the Orbit edition becomes available.
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Where to buy "Accelerando"
"Accelerando" is published by Ace (an imprint of Penguin-Putnam) in the USA, and by Orbit (an imprint of Time-Warner Books) in the UK. Additional non-English translations are pending.
Currently, "Accelerando" is only available as a hardcover. The Ace edition has been printed, is on its way to the shops right now, and is officially on sale from July 1st, 2005. The Orbit edition is in the pipeline and will be officially on sale from August 4th, 2005. In addition, the Science Fiction Book Club will be printing their own edition in August 2005.
You can order the US hardcover via Amazon.com, and the British edition via Amazon.co.uk.
I don't get over to the US very often. For readers who want a signed copy, I'm currently talking to a local specialist SF bookshop who may be able to take credit card orders via email and ship internationally. More on this as/when we've got a system in place.
If you're a bookseller and want a listing here, contact me.