Cassandra Rose Clarke: My Favorite Novel… (Guest Post)

I know that Margaret Atwood has an unsavory reputation in a lot of genre circles, but that hasn’t stopped me from reading her 2000 novel The Blind Assassin several times since the first time I read it in high school. And I rarely reread novels. Along with One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Blind Assassin is easily one of my favorite books of all time.

The Blind Assassin is a tricky book to pin down. It won the Man Booker Prize and was included on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923. It also contains a science fiction story (of the “talking squids in space variety,” even). The book is not science fiction in and of itself, but you’d have to be pretty determined not to read it, at least in part, as a love letter to the pulp SF novels of the ’30s and ’40s.

Interview with CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE

An author who looks like she’s going to have a very good year – with a well-received YA novel already out (The Assassin’s Curse) and an upcoming adult novel (The Mad Scientist’s Daughter) that has also caught bloggers’ notice, Clarke’s work is generating a lot of interest and discussion online. It was, therefore, a perfect time to get in touch, and ask her about her novels, writing, genre-blending, and more.

Cover Reveal: “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter” by Cassandra Rose Clarke (Angry Robot)

This is just a very quick post to share this new piece of cover art. This time, it’s for Cassandra Rose Clarke’s second novel, The Mad Scientist’s Daughter:

The novel will be published by Angry Robot Books in February 2013. Here’s the synopsis:

There’s never been anyone – or anything – quite like Finn.

He looks, and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task is to tutor Cat.

When the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world.

The Mad Scientist’s Daughter will follow hotly on the heels of Clarke’s first novel, The Assassin’s Curse, which will be published in October 2012 by Strange Chemistry (Angry Robot’s YA imprint).

Readers may remember that The Assassin’s Curse was the subject of an earlier cover art post. Clarke is certainly having great luck with book jackets.