Chicago Tribune: Palmer’s most innovative strategy isn’t futuristic technology but rather the archaic and digressive 18th-century voice in which she (or Canner) has chosen to tell the tale. The result is a richly detailed, very odd future couched in language that recalls Henry Fielding more than Robert Heinlein (though there are occasional nods to science fiction along the way). Read the Chicago Tribune‘s full review of Too Like the Lightning here.
Molly Tanzer’s CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER, a Victorian-era urban fantasy pitched as inspired by THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, in which an epee-fencing enthusiast and her younger sister are drawn into a secret and dangerous London underworld of pleasure-seeking demons and bloodthirsty diabolists, with only her skill with a blade standing between them and certain death, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2017, by Cameron McClure.
B&N SFF Blog: Yoon Ha Lee’s short fiction has been praised for its elegant prose, outsize SF-nal ambition, and rigorous technical detail. Hard SF space opera from a mathematician and data analyst: one of those times you put a bunch of boring words together, and the result is only awesome. Ordered to retake a fortress captured by heretical rebels and with no other way to win, Captain Kel Cheris must welcome into her head the digitized consciousness of Shuos Jedao, an […]
UK/Commonwealth rights to 10 books in Emily Brightwell’s ongoing Mrs. Jeffries Mysteries series (#14-23) to Constable & Robinson, by Meg Davis at Ki Agency, on behalf of Donald Maass.
Congratulations to Nnedi Okorafor on Binti being a Best Novella nominee and to Tananarive Due on Ghost Summer being a Best Collection nominee for the 2016 British Fantasy Awards!
Michael Fletcher’s SWARM AND STEEL, a fantasy novel set in a harsh world where belief defines reality, in which Zerfall Seele, thousands of years old and creator of a punishing afterlife sees her creation through unbiased eyes for the first time and vows to destroy it, to Bradley Englert at Talos Press, by Cameron McClure.
RT Book Reviews: Suitably enough, given the rigid Doctrine of the hexarchate and the irresistible formation instinct of the warrior Kel faction, Ninefox Gambit is a book of precise rigor that gives a wonderful amount of worldbuilding without any clunky exposition dumps, is ruthlessly clear-eyed about the costs and concerns of war (especially at this technological level) and gives us an instantly ingratiating heroine who spends most of the book doing her best to outmaneuver the forces that have set her […]
Polish rights to Anne Bishop’s MARKED IN FLESH, Book 4 of the Others series, via Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson. Spanish rights to Jim Butcher’s TURN COAT and CHANGES, the 11th and 12th books in the New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series, to NOSOLOROL by Maru De Montserrat at International Editors Co. in association with Jennifer Jackson. French rights to Cherie Priest’s BONESHAKER, DREADNOUGHT, CLEMENTINE, three books from the Clockwork Century series, to Livre […]
Ann Claycomb’s THE MERMAID’S DAUGHTER, about a promising opera singer plagued by stabbing pain in her feet, who slowly discovers she is 8 generations removed from the original Little Mermaid in Hans Christian Andersen’s story and is given the same awful choice all the women in her family faced: kill yourself and end the pain, or kill your true love and return to the sea, to Rebecca Lucash at William Morrow, for publication winter 2017, by Cameron McClure.
Publishers Weekly: The 19th installment of the long-running Liaden Universe space adventure series (following 2015’s Dragon in Exile) opens with the members of Clan Korval and their allies still trying to solidify their economic position and regain their strength following their exile from their home planet. With the insidious Department of the Interior manipulating their public image and outright attacking their ships, the clan is hard-pressed to maintain and expand its trade routes. Meanwhile, Clan Korval member Padi yos’Galen is starting […]