Publishers Weekly: In this highly original novel by Lee (the Machineries of Empire series for adults), 13-year-old Min must venture to the stars of the Thousand Worlds in order to find her older brother, Jun, who is suspected of deserting the Space Forces to search for the legendary Dragon Pearl. Min’s quick wits and technical prowess come in handy, but it’s her abilities as one of the fox people to shape-shift and charm others that prove vital after she leaves […]
Congratulations to Justina Ireland on Dread Nation making School Library Journal’s list of the Best Books of 2018!
Congratulations to the DMLA authors who have made Vulture’s list of 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018! Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett Temper by Nicky Drayden Semiosis by Sue Burke
Russian rights to the first two books in New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ Nebula and Hugo Award-winning The Murderbot Diaries series, ALL SYSTEMS RED and ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, to Eksmo, by Igor Korzhenevski at the Korzhenevski Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson. Arabic rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ Nebula and Hugo Award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, the first book in The Murderbot Diaries, to Noura Al Noman at Makhtoota 5229, by Michael Curry […]
From New York Times Best Selling author of the Others series Anne Bishop, a new dark fantasy novel, returning to the world of the Black Jewels, as first seen in the award-winning DAUGHTER OF THE BLOOD. Come back to the lands ruled by the SaDiablo family. When a young lord arrives in Ebon Rih and begins to court Lady Jillian, an adolescent Eyrien witch, he’s unaware that she’s the ward of Lucivar Yaslana, the Warlord Prince of Ebon Rih. When Lucivar […]
Nicole Glover’s THE CONDUCTORS, an historical fantasy set in post-Civil War Philadelphia, about a magic-wielding African-American couple, former conductors on the Underground Railroad, who solve mysteries the white authorities won’t touch, with a sequel, to John Joseph Adams at John Joseph Adams Books, by Jennie Goloboy.
Publisher’s Weekly: [A] riveting near-future debut… This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Andy Weir’s The Martian.
Debut author Micaiah Johnson’s THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS, a science-fiction novel where inter-dimensional travel is possible but only for the marginalized, about Cara, a multiverse traveler who discovers the parallel worlds of the privileged hold a deadly secret, sold to Julian Pavia at Crown with Angeline Rodriguez editing, by Cameron McClure. UK rights sold in a pre-empt to Sam Bradbury at Hodder via Harry Illingworth at DHH Literary.
New York Times: Martha Wells’s EXIT STRATEGY (Tor.com) is the fourth and final part of her brilliant Murderbot Diaries, a series of far-future novellas set in a universe worn out by corporate indifference and bureaucratic inertia. A single grumpy security unit—Murderbot—fights for life, liberty, and the pursuit of hours and hours of soap operas. The first book, “All Systems Red,” won both Nebula and Hugo Awards this year and is definitely the place to start. I came late to these […]
SHARDS OF HEAVEN author Michael Livingston’s fantasy novella BLACK CROW, WHITE SNOW, in which a desperate group of women warriors fights across a frozen wasteland in search of a mythical weapon they hope will repel a hostile invasion, to Steve Feldberg at Audible Originals, by Paul E. Stevens.