Tor.com: On the back of a fantastic central character, City of Blades does everything a really good sequel should. If anything, it’s a better book than its predecessor, but without it, it wouldn’t be. It isn’t merely moreof what came before; it takes what was as a basis and builds on it brilliantly, adding additional layers to City of Stairs such that it too is enriched. Read Tor.com’s full review of City of Blades here.
Congratulations to Seth Dickinson on The Traitor Baru Cormorant making the finalist list for the 2016 Crawford Award!
Locus: The conflict between Humans First and Last and the Others heats up in this fourth novel, with humans thinking they can “reclaim” more land for themselves and get rid of restrictions on travel between human settlements. HFL steps up their sometimes deadly harrassment of humans and businesses who don’t join their movement (not unlike the early days of the Nazi party). A big part of the problem is the humans are unaware that the Others aren’t fighting back seriously yet […]
Congratulations to the DMLA clients who made the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List! Novels – Science Fiction * The Book of Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW; Hodder & Stoughton) Novels – Fantasy * Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (Tor) First Novels * The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor) * Vermilion, Molly Tanzer (Word Horde) Collections * Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due (Prime) * Falling in Love with Hominids, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon) Novellas * Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com) Novelettes * “The Heart’s Filthy […]
RT Book Review: Top Pick! As the fourth book in Bishop’s phenomenal Others series begins, there is an extinction threat hanging over the entire human population of Thaisia. The only thing preventing it at this point is the Elders’ curiousity about the effect blood prophet Meg Corbyn is having on the Lakeside terra indigene (“Others”). Without a doubt this is one of the best UF series on the market, and in this newest chapter, the peril and terror factors are completely […]
Czech rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF BLADES, Book 2 of The Divine Cities series, to Host, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure. French rights to Jo Walton’s MY REAL CHILDREN and TOOTH AND CLAW, to Denoël, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier. Hungarian rights for Anne Bishop’s first four books in the Others series: WRITTEN IN RED, MURDER OF […]
Audio rights to Mike Shepherd’s KRIS LONGKNIFE: EMISSARY, the 15th book in the series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible by Jennifer Jackson.
Leslie S. Klinger’s The Annotated Lovecraft, Vol. 2: Beyond the Mythos, to Will Menaker at W.W. Norton, by Donald Maass.
Congratulations to Cherie Priest on I Am Princess X being chosen as one of YALSA’s 2016 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers!
Locus: Butcher’s new series, The Cinder Spires, brings a wondrously strange world to life, in which humans live in giant spires, towers of stone that extend for miles, like monolithic city states, protecting humanity from the mist-covered, deadly surface world below. Travel between spires requires airships, and battles between unfriendly spires are common. Captain Grimm of the Predator is a privateer, attacking enemy ships for his home, Spire Albion. The airship battles are in fine maritime style with a few airborne […]