Napier's Bones is (almost) a bestseller

Locus Magazine has published their bestseller list for August 2011. Napier's Bones got the 'runner-up' position on the trade paperback list, meaning ti was the highest-seeling trade paperback not to make the list. Still pretty good!

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Napier's Bones gets press in Planet S

Saskatoon-based Planet S magazine is shining the spotlight on Derryl Murphy and his latest, NAPIER'S BONES. Murphy talks about his writing style:
“It is a bit of a peripatetic work. There’s a journey that they go under, they go from place to place. But I didn’t want [readers] to get sucked into the sight-seeing aspect of the journey — what I wanted instead was for this to be balls-to-the-wall from the beginning to the end: let’s not stop, please don’t take a breath.”

Read the interview here.
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Cory Doctorow reviews Napier's Bones!

BoingBoing founder Cory Doctorow has given a great review to Derryl Murphy's NAPIER'S BONES, calling it "as fun and intense an adventure novel as you could hope to find." How exciting!

Read the review here!
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Napier's Bones reviewed by Fantasy Book Critic

Liviu Suciu of Fantasy Book Critic has reviewed Napier's Bones. She writes: "The numerological stuff in the novel is as good as anything I've read and the action is fast and furious with no let-up till the powerful climax."

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Quill & Quire reviews Napier's Bones

". . . Napier's Bones is a consistently compelling and inventive read. Think of it as literary prog-rock, stretching the bounds of what is possible . . ."
—Ian Daffern, Quill & Quire

More information about Napier's Bones here!

Derryl Murphy on The Big Idea

Derryl Murphy is featured in the latest edition of John Scalzi's The Big Idea column, talking about his inspirations for Napier's Bones.
"But there is obviously something to be said for standing in a place and discovering it in a multitude of dimensions, to say nothing of the happy accidents that can worm their way into your brain. A wrong turn I took on one hike to see a potential location ended up playing a fairly significant role late in the book, all because I discovered something that I suspect most visitors don’t even know is there."

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McNally Robinson - An Interview with Derryl Murphy

CG: Napier's Bones has one of the most unique and interesting systems of magic I've encountered. What drew you to the idea of mathematics as magic?

DM: Many authors talk about making sure your magic has a system. Frankly, what could be more systematic than mathematics? When my friend Wayne Malkin first showed me a picture of Napier's Bones from a book about a collection of artifacts at a museum in the UK and spoke the magic words - magic words that I shouldn't share, because they are a part of the central conceit and surprise of the book - I knew that math and magic were going to intertwine in the world I was creating, and my goodness did it ever open up a wide vista.

Read the full interview here.

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And if you're in the Saskatoon area, come to the Napier's Bones book launch on April 4!

NYRSF likes Objects of Worship, Napier's Bones

The New York Review of Science Fiction calls Claude Lalumière's OBJECTS OF WORSHIP "potent, memorable stuff. His living dead and dead alive are quite full of soul."
They also call Derryl Murphy's NAPIER'S BONES "a clever lark full of free-wheeling adventure and odd intellectual borrowings; a sort of winking DaVinci Code for the math set bracketed in magic and uncertainty."

NYRSF is print-only, so no link here unfortunately.

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And Napier's Bones!

Napier's Bones Shout Out

A mini shout-out to CZP and Napier's Bones in McNally's newsletter, which has a really neat flash online version.

View it here!

Napier's Bones: "Unlike Anything I Can Think Of."

"While NAPIER’S BONES is a blend of sci-fi and fantasy, there are enough scientific and religious undertones to make it a true original. Readers will have no problem accepting Murphy’s tight prose, which not only keeps the story flowing at a quick pace, but makes these magic mathematical abilities seem (at times) frighteningly real."

Read the rest of the review here.

Preorder your copy here!

A Rare Treat: Napier's Bones Review

Backlisted has this to say about the soon-to-be released NAPIER's BONES:

"With Napier’s Bones, Derryl Murphy has given readers a new toy box to play in, one with a set of rules so widely accepted and understood that, regardless of the fantastical nature of the narrative and characters, our feet remain firmly on the ground. That, and an ending that screams out for a sequel of mathematically mind-numbing complexity, it is a surprising and all too rare treat."

Read the rest of the review here.

Copies are available for pre-order here!