This Week in Publishing: Pottermore Presents and Unbound Worlds

This week in science fiction/fantasy (and related subjects) publishing news… Beloved book universes, from J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world to M.R. Carey’s post-outbreak future from The Girl with All the Gifts, are expanding thanks to recently-announced sequels and prequels. New Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi covers abound, a young adult anthology will reimagine Asian mythology and folklore, and we look at what’s next for the Hugo Award fiction winners.

• Suvudu is becoming Unbound Worlds! In addition to a name change, the site will be covering even more sci-fi/fantasy authors and TV series. And not to worry, the Cage Match tradition will carry on on Unbound Worlds.
• Elsie Chapman and Ellen Oh’s young adult anthology Legendary (coming summer 2018 from Greenwillow) features reimaginings of East and South Asian mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. Publishers Lunch announced the full author list, including Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Alexander Chee, Roshani Chokshi, Preeti Chhibber, and many more.
• J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore tales are being transfigured into Pottermore Presents, a set of three eBooks: Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide; Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists; Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies will be published on September 6.

• The Martian author (and Hugo Award winner) Andy Weir is releasing a short story collection titled Principles of Uncertainty. The digital collection—with nine stories, including a never-before-published piece called “Yuri Gagarin Saves the Galaxy”—will be available August 29 on the reading app Tapas.
• Neil Gaiman’s publisher has commissioned a number of covers from Robert E. McGinnis for reissues of Gaiman’s novels. The first one, a delightfully retro American Gods, is out in the wild!

• Isaac Marion is following up his zombie Romeo and Juliet story Warm Bodies with The Burning World (Atria), which sees R. and Julie trying to make a new home for themselves (literally and figuratively), only for the plague to follow them.
• Soho Press has purchased the North American and open market rights to Robert Repino’s Culdesac. A sequel to Mort(e), it follows “a ragtag band of animal soldiers fighting in an apocalyptic war, led by the titular Culdesac, a brutal and very badass bobcat.”
• And M.R. Carey is in the process of writing a prequel to The Girl with All the Gifts (Orbit Books), set in the same universe as Melanie’s story but examining new characters affected by the outbreak.
• If you’re looking to add to your Wheel of Time collection, Barnes & Noble is releasing a leatherbound collectible edition of The Eye of the World.
• The 2016 Hugo Award winners were announced this past weekend at Worldcon. Plus, find out what’s next for fiction winners N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Hao Jingfang, and others.
• Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time wins the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
• Subterranean Press revealed the cover for Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi, which collects Scalzi’s works from 1991-2016 and features four never-before-published pieces. Miniatures will be published in December: