#CoverReveal ‘Mercury Rising’ by R.W.W Greene

Hello! I am here with a delicious teaser of a post regarding one of mine, and yours, favourite genre indies, Angry Robot Books

They have a brand new look, a brand new logo, and a gorgeous new book to shout about!

Here is some information about this awesome publisher-

Angry Robot Books are proud to reveal their new logo, designed by Kate
Cromwell, which comes as part of an overall rebranding including the
launch of an upgraded website, enabling the direct sale of physical books.
Formed in 2009, Angry Robot Books have undergone some key
adjustments throughout the years but, since joining Watkins Media in
2014 and coming under the leadership of Associate Publisher Eleanor
Teasdale in 2019, the award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and
genre-boundary pushing company is thriving. This new logo represents
the history of Angry Robot Books whilst simultaneously looking forward.

With initiatives such as Clonefiles – offering free ebooks to any independent bookshop physical purchase
– Angry Robot Books have a cherished legacy of serving the book-buying public, and this new, upgraded
website with physical sales capacity, deepens the direct connection between publisher and customer.
These developments come at an exciting time for Angry Robot Books as summer 2021’s runaway hit, The
Coward by Stephen Aryan, is already in its third reprint and the October super-lead, Un-su Kim’s The
Cabinet, continues to bask in reviews including selection for the Best Science Fiction of 2021 in The
Washington Post.

With 2022 books crossing geographical, figurative, mythological, and atmospheric
borders, the future is bright for Angry Robot Books as highlighted in the recent survey of genre for 2022
at Library Journal which so prominently featured a range of the imprint’s titles and authors.

Eleanor Teasdale: “Angry Robot Books have always celebrated diverse stories, exploring incredible
emotional journeys and embraced other cultures as normal, never “othering” the marginalised. This new
logo emphasises the move forward as it plays on the similarities and the legacy of Angry Robot, and yet
looks to the future and exciting changes at hand.”

Senior Designer at Watkins, Kate Cromwell: “The new logo design is influenced by the classic science
fiction film, Metropolis. The film is rich with inspiration from the sets to the posters, and was produced
during the highly creative Weimar period in Germany. The iconic art deco ‘machine man’ seen in the film
was the starting point for the new direction for Angry Robot’s branding.”

Etan Ilfeld, Managing Director of Watkins Media: “Being part of the SFF community has always been at
the forefront of Angry Robot Books. 2022 is the beginning of a new stage in AR’s legacy, and this new
logo and website is at the heart of it all. With titles forthcoming from a BookTok star and our first Black
Voices Matter acquisition, as well as blockbuster epic fantasies and sci-fi exploring humanity and
celebrating representation, I am proud and thrilled to see this hard work come to fruition.”

How exciting is this?

Here is the new logo-

You want more? Here we go….

Pretty cool, it stands out, identifies its’ strong grounding in science fiction, fantasy, horror and urban fantasy.

One of the first novels to be branded with the new look Angry Robot logo, is genre favourite, ‘Mercury Rising’ by R.W.W Greene, which will be published in May 2022, with a cover designed by David Leehy.

Alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty

Even in a technologically-advanced, Kennedy-Didn’t-Die alternate-history, Brooklyn Lamontagne is going nowhere fast. The year is 1975, thirty years after Robert Oppenheimer invented the Oppenheimer Nuclear Engine, twenty-five years after the first human walked on the moon, and eighteen years after Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven sacrificed their lives to stop the alien invaders.

Brooklyn just wants to keep his mother’s rent paid, earn a little scratch of his own, steer clear of the cops, and maybe get laid sometime in the near future. Simple pleasures, right? But a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes is about to make his life real complicated…

Find out more about R.W.W Greene here, and pop over to Angry Robot to sign up for their newsletter, so that you can get ahead of the game on all sorts of must read books-and their pretty extensive back catalogue!

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