The Redemption Engine by James L. Sutter Named Best Original Novel (Speculative) in Competition with Star Trek, Sleepy Hollow, Grimm, and Fringe
REDMOND, WA (July 13, 2015): Paizo Inc., publisher of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, is thrilled to announce its Pathfinder Tales novel, The Redemption Engine by author James L. Sutter, has won the Scribe Award for Best Original Novel (Speculative) awarded by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. The winners were announced this past weekend at San Diego Comic Con. The Redemption Engine tied for first place with Fringe: Sins of the Fathers by Christa Faust.
The Redemption Engine is the sequel to Death’s Heretic, which was released in 2011 and ranked #3 on Barnes & Noble’s Best Fantasy Releases of 2011. The Redemption Engine was in a category alongside novels based on such properties as Star Trek, Sleepy Hollow, Grimm, and Fringe, with other categories including work based on Doctor Who, 24, Stargate, and more. This was the first year Pathfinder Tales received a nomination for a Scribe Award.
About the Author
James L. Sutter is the Executive Editor for Paizo Publishing and a co-creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game campaign setting. In addition to The Redemption Engine, he is the author of the novel Death’s Heretic, which was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel as well as ranked #3 on Barnes & Noble’s list of the Best Fantasy Releases of 2011. He’s written numerous short stories for such publications as Escape Pod, PodCastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Geek Love (the most-backed fiction anthology in Kickstarter history at the time of its publication), and the #1 Amazon bestseller Machine of Death. His anthology Before They Were Giants pairs the first published short stories of science fiction and fantasy luminaries with new interviews and writing advice from the authors themselves. In addition, he’s published a wealth of gaming material for both Dungeons & Dragons and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, including such titles as Distant Worlds, City of Strangers, and The Asylum Stone. Follow him on Twitter at @jameslsutter.
About Pathfinder Tales
Pathfinder Tales are the official novels, novellas, and web fiction stories that explore the fascinating world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, written by some of fantasy’s best-selling authors. Each Pathfinder Tales novel comes in mass-market paperback format, with new volumes released every two months. Subscribers receive a free downloadable version of each book they purchase, in both PDF and ePub formats. For more information, including sample chapters, visit www. aizo.com/pathfindertales.
About IAMTW’s Scribe Awards
Acknowledging excellence in this very competitive field, IAMTW’s Scribe Awards honor licensed works that tie in with other media such as television, movies, gaming, or comic books. They include original works set in established universes, and adaptations of stories that have appeared in other formats and cross all genres. Tie-in works run the gamut from westerns to mysteries to procedurals, from science fiction to fantasy to horror, from action and adventure to superheroes. Gunsmoke, Ghost Whisperer, CSI, Star Trek, Star Wars, Shadowrun, Underworld, Man from UNCLE, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, these represent just a few.
About Paizo Inc.
Paizo Inc. is publisher of the award-winning Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Pathfinder Tales novels, as well as board games and gaming accessories. The Pathfinder world, in which players take on the role of brave adventurers fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil, is currently translated into six languages, and has been licensed for comic book series, graphic novels, toys, and apparel, and is being developed into an MMORPG. Paizo.com is also the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world.
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