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Congratulations to Martha Wells on her nomination for the 2022 Seiun Award: BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL NETWORK EFFECT, Martha Wells, translated by Naoya Nakahara (Tokyo Sogensha)

Tor.com: It’s no small achievement to tell a compelling story across the three books of a trilogy. That’s challenge enough, but for a handful of writers, simply doing that isn’t quite enough. I can think of a handful of examples of this, which takes the already-difficult task of following a novel with a sequel done in a new genre and further complicates things. Jeff VanderMeer’s done it twice, with the Southern Reach and Ambergris trilogies.And having read Premee Mohamed’s The Void […]

Booklist: Jackson provides a poignant but uplifting conclusion to his spellbinding, fast-paced Founders Trilogy, expanding the complex world with more innovative concepts and new characters.

Publishers Weekly: Muir tackles a new perspective in this characteristically brilliant successor to Harrow the Ninth, which offers a much more personal and tightly framed focus than the rest of the Locked Tomb series. Nona’s been alive for six months with no memory of who she was before awakening in her new body. She enjoys working as a teacher’s aide, petting dogs, and hanging out with her squad of friends, and she has no desire to reckon with the world beyond […]

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors chosen as 2022 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Noor, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) FANTASY NOVEL The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris) HORROR NOVEL A Broken Darkness, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling (St. Martin’s) YOUNG ADULT NOVEL A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) FIRST NOVEL Machinehood, S.B. Divya (Saga) The All-Consuming World, Cassandra Khaw (Erewhon) NOVELLA A Blessing of Unicorns, Elizabeth Bear […]

Kirkus: Bennett is a master of worldbuilding,… Great fun, with nonstop action and… high-spirited mayhem.

Nebula Award finalist Suzan Palumbo’s SKIN THIEF, her first collection of short fiction, to dave ring at Neon Hemlock for publication in Fall 2023 by Michael Curry.

Congratulations to Jim Butcher! HEROIC HEARTS debuts at #67 on the USA Today Bestseller List.

Publishers Weekly: A shamed warrior becomes responsible for the salvation of all Mkalis’s realms when an old enemy returns for revenge in Hall’s exciting sequel to The Border Keeper. The many realms of Mkalis serve as an afterlife for residents of a world called Ahri. Warrior Tyn, of Res Lfae’s realm, has been suspended from her position as Second Spear and struggles to come to terms with the role she played in the battle with the goddess Kan Fanieq and the knowledge […]

P.C. Hodgell sold rights to the 11th novel in the Kencyrath series to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books via Jennifer Jackson. Per the author, this sequel to Deathless Gods (coming from Baen this October), will wrap up many lingering storylines, and is possibly the final volume in the long-running tale, begun in God Stalk, of Jamethiel and the Highborn.