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Publishers Weekly: Hugo- and Nebula-winner Wells’s excellent first full-length Murderbot Diaries novel (after the novella Exit Strategy) sees her hilariously humanlike Artificial Intelligence Security Unit recount a routine space mission gone horribly awry. […]  SecUnit’s gloriously candid, frequently confused assessments of its crew and their predicaments allow for an amusingly childlike perspective on what it means to be human. Wells puts an astonishing amount of technical detail into SecUnit’s narrative, which will please hard sci-fi readers without detracting from the engaging […]

Congratulations to our DMLA authors who were chosen as finalists for the 2019 Nebula Awards! Novel Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing) Game Writing The Magician’s Workshop, Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games) Fate Accessibility Toolkit, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry (Evil Hat Productions) Andre Norton Award Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion)

In a three book deal, Jo Ann Ferguson, writing as Jo Ann Brown, will be a launch author for the new Love Inspired trade fiction line coming in Spring 2021 with Amish Bad Boys: Return to Bliss and two sequels, acquired by Tina James at Harlequin via Jennifer Jackson.

Winner of the Distinguished Book Prize from the Society for Military History, Michael Livingston’s CRECY: THE BATTLE OF FIVE KINGS, how the author and other modern scholars used neglected manuscripts, satellite technology, and old-fashioned fieldwork to discover that nearly everything that has been written about 1346’s Battle of Crécy –one the most famous and widely studied military engagements in history — may be wrong, to Marcus Cowper at Osprey, by Paul Stevens.

Kirkus: Young roboticist Efi dreams of creating a better life for her community, where omnics and humans live peacefully, in this novel inspired by the video game “Overwatch.” Efi spends so many hours in her workshop ironing out bugs in her robots that her mother worries she isn’t connecting enough with best friends Naade and Hassana. But her work pays off when Efi wins the Genius Grant given out by her idol, Gabrielle Adawe, who founded both the organization Overwatch and […]

Congratulations to Tamsyn Muir for having Gideon the Ninth featured on ALA’s Top Ten Over the Rainbow List 2020!

Congratulations to Shaun David Hutchinson for having Brave Face and The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried on the 2020 Rainbow Book List!

Congratulations to our DMLA authors for their appearances on the 2019 Locus Recommended Reading List! NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) Escaping Exodus, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager US) NOVELS – FANTASY The Red-Stained Wings, Elizabeth Bear (Tor) YOUNG ADULT NOVELS Dragon Pearl, Yoon Ha Lee (Disney Hyperion) FIRST NOVELS Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing) The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager) COLLECTIONS Hexarchate Stories, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US & UK) NON-FICTION Broken Places […]

Kirkus: A collection with 27 excellent stories showcasing the talent of one of the genre’s most versatile writers. “Covenant,” for example, is a suspenseful story about a serial killer who becomes a victim. The science fiction twist is that he undergoes a voluntary procedure called “rightminding,” which rewires his brain to reduce his psychopathic tendencies. He also becomes a woman in the process—and thus the target of another psychopath. Because the memories of her time as a serial killer remain, she […]

Publishers Weekly: Moral ambiguity abounds in this dark, captivating coming-of-age fantasy that expertly depicts the painful loneliness of growing up and apart