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Paul Cornell’s Chalk, about a fourteen-year-old boy forever changed by a horrifying act of schoolyard violence who taps into the ancient magic of the land to enact revenge on his tormenters, to Lee Harris at Tor.com, by Stacia Decker.

Congratulations to DMLA authors who made Amazon’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2015 list! The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson Letters to Zell by Camille Griep Zer0es by Chuck Wendig

SFX Magazine: …Christopher goes deeper than pastiche. Ray’s primitive systems can only retain 24 hours of memory, so each day he’s a clean slate, briefed on the case by Ada – and it’s not clear he can trust her. This is wonderfully noir, leaving Ray slightly adrift between the forces trying to manipulate him. And in true Chandler style, Ray quickly becomes implicated in the very case he’s investigating, making things even knottier. Made To Kill is book one of a trilogy. We’d happily go for more than three. Read the full Made to Kill review in […]

Library Journal: Fans of unusual colony fiction such as Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden will enjoy the slightly surreal alien world Newman (Between Two Thorns) creates. Whereas many hard sf novels would wallow in the nature of the aliens and the process of getting to the planet, the real draw here is the character of Ren and the cost that keeping the colony’s secrets has on her mental health. Decades after landing on an alien planet, the colonists who live at the foot […]

Boing Boing: Christopher really gets to grips with the constraints of Ray’s short term memory and the social implications of the mob-destruction of all the robots (save one), telling a story that’s gripping, funny, deadly and suspenseful. Best of all, this is book one of three, so there’s more of this kind of thing in the pipeline. That’s great news, because Christopher has hit on something that I’d hardly suspected before, and now can’t get enough of. Read the full Cory […]

Tor.com: Beautifully and heartbreakingly wrought, Planetfall is a genius novel that is far more than its exterior belies; a distressing, harrowing novel that left a deep mark on me.  It isn’t an easy, cheerful read, but it is a captivating story that can be very aptly be described as a must read. Read Tor.com’s full review of Planetfall here.

RT Book Reviews: Remarkable Harrison pulls out all the stops for this amazing new novel. This is a fantastic tale of friendship, love, loyalty and sacrifice that you won’t soon forget. Make sure you have a Kleenex nearby, for sometimes tragedy and loss are unavoidable. Without question, Harrison should be an auto-buy!

Daily Mail: One of the most compelling things about the fantasy genre is the sense it gives of other realities existing a mere hair’s breadth from our own – its practitioners constructing not only plots but entire worlds in which for them to unfold. Foreign Devils is an especially adept example of this. It is also what one can only describe as an historical thriller set in the future, the premise being that the Ruman (yes, Ruman) Empire has neither […]

NPR: Made to Kill finds the common ground between [the hardboiled detective story and science fiction], and Christopher owns every inch of it . . . Made to Kill is the first installment of a planned trilogy, but it has all the potential of an open-­ended series; knowing there are only two more Raymond Electromatic mysteries to come is the book’s only disappointment. Read the full review of Made to Kill at NPR.

School Library Journal:  Henry’s life is complicated. His previous boyfriend committed suicide without warning or explanation. His jerk brother’s girlfriend is pregnant. His nana has Alzheimer’s. And his new boyfriend refuses to acknowledge their relationship, instead humiliating and attacking him publicly. Henry is also haunted by questions about why his father left and if Henry himself is culpable. This is all further complicated by the fact that he is regularly abducted by aliens who drop him off naked in various locations […]