Amazon Publishing Brings Together Bestselling & Award-Winning Authors Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Veronica Roth, Amor Towles...
April 16 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Coming from Amazon Original Stories in
September 2019, Forward will offer readers mind-bending,
binge-worthy short stories from some of today’s most acclaimed
authors
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon
Publishing, announced today the forthcoming six-part
science-fiction collection Forward, featuring original short
stories from some of today’s most celebrated voices in fiction,
including Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Veronica Roth, Amor Towles,
Paul Tremblay, and Andy Weir. Forward will be available for free on
September 17th, 2019 to Prime and Kindle Unlimited customers.
Readers can download the collection as a Kindle eBook or Audible
audiobook.
Forward explores a central theme: the resounding effects of a
pivotal technological moment. While each author started with this
same prompt, readers will discover that each story unearths a
unique corner of the sci-fi genre, ranging from intimate to epic,
grounded to far future, hopeful to harrowing.
Andy Weir (Artemis, The Martian) imagines a high-tech Las
Vegas casino heist; Paul Tremblay (The Cabin at the End of
the World) immerses readers in a patient’s mysteriously slow
healing process; Amor Towles (A Gentleman in Moscow)
explores a fertility clinic’s god-like abilities to alter an unborn
child’s life path; Veronica Roth (Divergent trilogy) spins a
story of finding connection in the face of our world’s certain
destruction; N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth series) subverts
all expectations when an explorer returns to the ravaged Earth his
ancestors fled; and Blake Crouch (Dark Matter) follows a
video game designer whose character Maxine unexpectedly “wakes
up.”
“Each story in the Forward collection stands alone as a singular
achievement in science fiction, imagined by a storyteller at the
top of their game,” said Mikyla Bruder, Publisher, Amazon
Publishing. “In this ambitious collection, these writers deliver a
formidable reading experience that will delight their fans and
thrill readers new to their work.”
“I find the theme of the Forward collection particularly
exciting,” said Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of
the Divergent trilogy. “Sci-fi often skews toward wariness of the
future, for good reason, but this collection prompted me to tap
into the other side of it, into wonder and imagination. It was a
welcome challenge!”
“The short story is one of the hardest, most rewarding forms in
fiction, and with Amazon Original Stories, we had the tools to
gather together the best of the best in sci-fi, fantasy, YA,
horror, and historical and bring these groundbreaking stories to a
true mass audience,” said Blake Crouch, bestselling author of Dark
Matter and the curator of Forward. Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy
and his novel Good Behavior, both of which were adapted for
television, were also published by Amazon Publishing, under the
Thomas & Mercer imprint.
“Amazon Original Stories is all about innovating on what
storytelling looks like today, and Forward’s all-star cast of
beloved authors is helping us do just that,” said Julia Sommerfeld,
Editorial Director, Amazon Original Stories. “We think of our
story collections as reading’s answer to podcasts, and are proud to
offer our readers—and listeners—fresh ways to fit binge-worthy
narratives into their lives.”
Launched in 2017, Amazon Original Stories brings unforgettable
short fiction and nonfiction to Kindle. Past collections include
the Amazon Original Stories and Amazon Studios joint acquisition
The Fairer Sex by Michelle Miller, Warmer by Lauren Groff, Jane
Smiley, Jess Walter, and more, and Dark Corners, which features
Lisa Unger’s Edgar Award-nominated short The Sleep Tight Motel.
Each story is available free to Prime members, as well as Kindle
Unlimited subscribers, and is available for download for
non-subscribers beginning at $1.99.
www.amazon.com/amazonoriginalstories
About Amazon Publishing
Amazon Publishing is a leading publisher of trade fiction,
nonfiction, and children’s books with a mission to empower
outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide.
The Amazon Publishing teams based in Seattle, New York, Grand
Haven, Luxembourg, London, Paris, Madrid, Milan, and Munich publish
emerging, bestselling and critically-acclaimed authors in digital,
print, and audio formats. For more information, visit apub.com.
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