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Locus: The need for understanding between humans and Others remains the crux of this first volume in a new arc in Bishop’s world of the Others. There are definite similarities with the previous volumes, such as the focus on bemused Others learning from a human female needing protection from bad men, but new characters and the small-town setting offer intriguing differences. Vicki DeVine got the run-down lakeside resort called The Tumble as part of her divorce settlement, and though she knows the land itself is controlled […]

The audio edition of Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red is #8 on the New York Times Bestseller list! A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. “As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for […]

Kirkus: French’s adrenaline-fueled adventure fantasy, which features badass gangs of tattooed half-orcs on the backs of giant war hogs thundering across a lawless wasteland, is an unapologetically brutal thrill ride—like Mad Max set in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Powered by unparalleled worldbuilding, polished storytelling, and relentless pacing, French’s novel is a cool fusion of classic adventure fantasy and 21st-century pop-culture sensibilities with nonstop action; a cast of unforgettable and brilliantly authentic characters; vulgar but witty dialogue; and strong female characters who overturn old […]

Congratulations to Anne Bishop and Nicky Drayden for winning these 2017 RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards! CAREER ACHIEVEMENT, Urban Fantasy – Anne Bishop RT Award Winners Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding – Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop SF Novel – The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

Originally envisioned as a trilogy, Seth Dickinson’s The Masquerade – which began with THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT and continues this fall with THE MONSTER BARU CORMORANT – will be getting a fourth novel, completing this critically acclaimed epic fantasy saga. Marco Palmieri of Tor Books acquired the rights via Jennifer Jackson.

Debut novelist Daniel M. Bensen’s JUNCTION, in which a Japanese nature show host finds himself on an exploratory trip to an alien world, but when members of the party start to die, he wonders if one of the others might be a murderer, to Don D’Auria at Flame Tree Press, for publication in April 2019, by Jennie Goloboy.

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who are finalists in the 2018 Locus Awards! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus) FANTASY NOVEL The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor) City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher) HORROR NOVEL Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK) YOUNG ADULT BOOK Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking) FIRST NOVEL Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing) […]

Amazon Charts bestselling author of THE UNREMEMBERED GIRL and the forthcoming THE WIDOW’S WATCHER Eliza Maxwell’s THE SHADOW WRITER, in which an aspiring author and assistant to a burnt-out novelist develops a close relationship with his wife in hopes of bringing closure to her dark past by slipping her anonymous manuscript in the to-be-read pile, but as secrets are revealed, an obsession is clear, turning this into a deadly game, to Chris Werner at Lake Union Publishing, in a two-book […]

Audio rights to five more novels in Mike Shepherd’s Jump Universe series, including Kris Longknife’s Successor, Kris Longknife: Commanding, Vicky Peterwald: Domination, Rita Longknife: Landing Party, and Kris Longknife: Indomitable to Steve Feldberg at Audible via Jennifer Jackson.

German audio rights to Mary Robinette Kowal’s Hugo Award-winning novelette “The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” to Argon Verlag GmbH via Aylin Kuhls at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry. Russian rights to Jo Walton’s TOOTH AND CLAW, to AST, by Igor Korzhenevski at Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. Japanese rights to Martha Wells’ Nebula- and Hugo-nominated The Murderbot Diaries series (ALL SYSTEMS RED, ARTIFICIAL CONDITION, ROGUE PROTOCOL, and EXIT STRATEGY), […]