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Science fiction and fantasy publisher Angry Robot has bought two books from Australian fantasy author Trent Jamieson. Publishing director Marc Gascoigne arranged the deal with agent Sophie Hamley for an undisclosed sum, with rights secured for the UK and US in paperback, e-book and audiobook formats.
Roil, the first book in Jamieson's new steampunk fantasy series, will be published in September 2011. It focuses on a dying land of decaying clockwork technology that is being devoured by a great rift in reality known as the Roil, and is filled with monsters with strange names like Vergers, Quarg Hounds, and Hideous Garment Flutes. The second book in the series, Night's Engines, is due in late Spring 2012.
Jamieson said: "Angry Robot have been publishing some bloody excellent books in the last couple of years, so I'm thrilled to be part of their list. Roil and Night's Engines take me in some rather different directions to anything I've done before."