Booklist: The diverse, multifaceted characters, meticulous world building, and complex interhouse conflicts will draw readers into this new, action-packed fantasy series.
B&N’s Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2018
Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the B&N’s Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2018! The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Temper by Nicky Drayden Witchmark by C.L. Polk The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Kirkus’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018
Congratulations to Jonathan French on The Grey Bastards making Kirkus’ list of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018!
November Subsidiary Rights Deals
Debut author Daniel M. Bensen’s JUNCTION, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennie Goloboy. Dan Koboldt’s PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION, with foreword by NYT bestselling author Chuck Wendig, a collection of essays from scientists, physicians, engineers, and other experts to help authors get the science right and create more compelling fiction, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Paul E. Stevens, with Stacia Decker at Dunow, […]
November Translation Deals
Russian rights to Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka’s ALWAYS NEVER YOURS and IF I’M BEING HONEST, to AST, in a two-book deal, at auction, by Igor Korzhenevski at Alexander Korzhenevski Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. Latvian rights to Martha Wells’ Nebula and Hugo Award-winning The Murderbot Diaries series (ALL SYSTEMS RED, ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, ROGUE PROTOCOL, and EXIT STRATEGY), to Prometejs AB, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava i Prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Czech rights to […]
Amazon’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018
Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the Amazon’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018! Exit Strategy by Martha Wells Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
Deal: P.C. Hodgell
P.C. Hodgell’s 10th novel in the Kencyrath series, the sequel to By Demons Possessed (coming from Baen in 2019), to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Starred Review: Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
Publisher’s Weekly: Anyone who enjoys space opera, exploration of characters, and political speculation will love this outstanding novel, Bear’s welcome return to hard SF after several years of writing well-received steampunk (Karen Memory) and epic fantasy (the Eternal Sky trilogy). As an engineer on a scrappy space salvage tug, narrator Haimey Dz has a comfortable, relatively low-stress existence, chumming with pilot Connla Kuruscz and AI shipmind Singer. Then, while aboard a booby-trapped derelict ship, she is infected with a not-quite-parasitic […]
Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2018
Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2018. The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander Witchmark by C.L. Polk Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Deal: Seth Dickinson
Author of THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT and recently released THE MONSTER BARU CORMORANT, Seth Dickinson’s science fiction debut EXORDIA, a gonzo space opera and alien techno-thriller where Event Horizon meets Annihilation. In the tradition of Crichton, a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists investigate the unknowable. The world—and the universe—may be on the line. The deal was negotiated with Ruoxi Chen and Diana M. Pho at Tor.com for World English rights by Jennifer Jackson.