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National Post: “Once more, Laukkanen scores one of the thrillers of the year. It will be difficult to top Kill Fee, but once more, I expect he will.” Read more at the National Post website.

Hugo Award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal’s untitled short story collection, to Paula Guran at Prime Books by Jennifer Jackson.

Publishers Weekly: Charbonneau concludes her dystopian Testing trilogy with this action-packed finale, which sees Cia Vale secretly tasked by the President of the United Commonwealth to remove the officials behind the lethal Testing process that has claimed so many young lives. Caught in an impossible situation, under constant surveillance, Cia must find allies among her classmates, never sure who she can trust. If she fails, the Testing will continue to destroy teenagers in the name of creating future leaders, while the […]

Associated Press: “Kill Fee” works well as an in-depth police procedural and an insightful look at amorality and greed. Laukkanen employs the same strengths of brisk plotting and incisive character studies that he established in his first two novels. Read more at ABC News.

DMLA congratulates Joelle Charbonneau and Paul Crilley on their books The Testing and The Osiris Curse: A Tweed and Nightingale Adventure on making VOYA’s Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror for Teens list for 2013!    

Jay Lake’s and Ken Scholes’ THE WINGS WE DARE ASPIRE, a collection of related novellas in the award-winning Metatropolis setting, to Kevin J. Anderson at WordFire Press by Jennifer Jackson.

Hugo Award winning author Elizabeth Bear’s ANCESTRAL NIGHT plus a sequel, launching a new space opera series following Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz, as they pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human – and alien – vessels, to Simon Spanton at Gollancz by Jennifer Jackson.

Library Journal: This dark and chilling novel from the versatile Christopher (Seven Wonders; Hang Wire) builds tension expertly. Claustrophobic in mood but with the scope of great space opera, this is sf you will want to read with the light on. Although the ending arrives quickly, this is apparently the first book in a new series exploring more of the world of the Fleet and the Spiders. As his last assignment with the Fleet, Capt. Idaho Cleveland heads to the U-Star Coast […]

VOYA: Filled with intrigue and suspense, this is a stellar second book in a promising dystopian series. Charbonneau has created an elegantly organized plot that will keep the reader engaged and wondering how this richly layered plot will unfold. This novel surpasses expectations and leaves other comparative novels behind as it forges new paths to a futuristic, alternate world filled with corruption and conspiracy. The tension and conflict will have readers at the edge of their seats as the imagery and […]

Matthew C. Funk’s The City of NO, a mesmerizing literary debut in which a rogue cop in post-Katrina New Orleans will do anything to save young women targeted by human traffickers, while hunting the men who once exploited her, to Bryon Quertermous at Exhibit A by Stacia Decker.