The Metal Den has learned that Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world—and Heavy Metal magazine have announced the Heavy Metal Pulp project, a line of illustrated novels that will incorporate the sensuous artistic style and graphic imagery of the iconic fantasy magazine with noir fiction stories to create a brand new series for the 21st century. Heavy Metal Pulp will partner the top illustrators and designers from Heavy Metal with today’s most talented science fiction and fantasy writers. PLEASURE MODEL, the first book in the “Netherworld” from the “Heavy Metal Pulp” project, is due out from Tor Books in February 2010.
“I grew up reading comics and pulp novels,” says Kevin Eastman, Publisher of Heavy Metal Magazine. “Heavy Metal Pulp is the perfect combination of the two genres, the perfect format for science fiction, detective noir, horror, and fantasy. I’m very excited to work with Tor Books. They are an innovative company breaking new ground with this hybrid graphic novel concept.”
PLEASURE MODEL stars down-and-out police detective Rook, who gets a big break when he’s assigned to a bizarre and vicious murder case. The clues are colder than the corpse and the case looks like it’ll remain unsolved—until an eyewitness is discovered. But the witness is an illegal gene-grown human with no emotion or empathy—Plesur’s only purpose is to provide satisfaction to her owner, in any way. When the murderer targets Plesur in order to eliminate the one witness, Rook takes her into hiding to protect her. Thus begins a descent into the dark world of exotic pleasure bots and their illicit international buyers and manufacturers as Rook frantically looks for clues. But is Rook falling under Plesur’s spell . . . ?
PLEASURE MODEL is a spellbinding combination of hardboiled action and fantastic graphic art, and a perfect showcase for this exciting collaborative project from the two leading publishing partners in their respective fields. Heavy Metal Pulp is a joint venture between Heavy Metal, the world’s foremost brand for science fiction and fantasy, Red Sky Entertainment, a design/production company focused on innovative publishing content, and Tor Books.
About Tor Books
Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books, founded in 1980 and committed (although not limited) to SF and fantasy literature. Between an extensive hardcover and trade-softcover line, an Orb backlist program, and a stronghold in mass-market paperback, Tor annually publishes what is arguably the largest and most diverse line of science fiction and fantasy ever produced by a single English-language publisher. Books from Tor have won every major award in the SF and fantasy fields, and for the last twenty-one years in a row the company has been named Best Publisher in the Locus Poll, the largest consumer poll in SF.
Watch an EXCLUSIVE trailer for Christopher Rowley’s PLEASURE MODEL HERE.
PLEASURE MODEL
Netherworld Book One
By Christopher Rowley
Tor Books/Heavy Metal Pulp
0-7653-2388-5 * 240 pages * $14.99
Publication Date: February 2010
http://www.heavymetal.com/
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