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Penguin Group (USA) Dominates the Top of the Adult New York Times Bestseller Lists for the week of January 20^th, Scoring Four of the Seven #1 Positions Simultaneously for the Fourth Time in Five Weeks, with: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; and Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

Penguin Group (USA) Dominates the Hardcover Fiction List, Holding Nearly 40% of the Positions for 11 Straight Weeks

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  • >> Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns: the #1 Bestselling Adult Fiction Hardcover for the Year
    
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  • >> Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love: the #1 Bestselling Adult Nonfiction Trade Paperback for the Year
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  • >> Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner: the #1 Bestselling Adult Fiction Trade Paperback for the Year

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The judges of the 2007 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society have announced the nominated works, and one is Ace's own Saturn Returns by Sean Williams! Saturn Returns is the first book in Williams' gripping and bitingly intelligent new Astropolis series. It tells the story of Imre Bergamasc, who awakes after two hundred years to find that he's been the victim of an elaborate murder plot-one that changed the fate of galaxy.

Williams, an Australian by trade, was undoubtedly asleep when the nomination was announced. But when the waking hours down under synced back up with those at the Penguin offices, he was kind enough to give us an interview....

Jessica Wade: Congratulations on your nomination! What will you be doing to celebrate?

Sean Williams: Thanks! I'm on holidays in Darwin at the moment, up the tropical north end of Australia, so I might well have a G&T or two with my wife, Amanda. It's a tremendous honour to be on that list, and definitely worth celebrating.