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Tor.com: It’s been almost one long year since Network Effect dropped, and let’s face it: the world is ready for more Murderbot. Dry wit, misanthropy, and space adventures are promises delivered in full in this month’s 6th installment of Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries… Murderbot, though, isn’t a stand-in for any other oppressed group, as much as some of us might see ourselves in its outsider-status, hatred of ally condescension, and “not applicable” gender. The prejudice it faces isn’t because it […]

Publishers Weekly: Marino does an impressive job writing tender and heartbreaking moments without sacrificing the brutal tone that drives the story. Absolutely devastating.

Tordotcom is thrilled to announce the acquisition of World English rights of The Archive Undying and an additional novel by debut author Emma Mieko Candon by Editor Carl Engle-Laird from Caitlin McDonald at Donald Maass Literary Agency. The Archive Undying is an epic work of mecha sci-fi about Sunai, the immortal survivor of an Autonomous Intelligence that went mad and destroyed the city it watched over as a patron god. In the aftermath of the divine AI’s suicide, Sunai is on the run […]

Library Journal: In crime reporter Thompson’s gripping fiction debut, Allie is welcomed to her wealthy new neighborhood by being framed for murder. The spot-on depictions of modern parenthood and suburban life make this story even more suspenseful, as Allie tries to find the real murderer before her entire life is destroyed.

NPR: Martha Wells’ newest entry in her award-winning, nerd-charming, trope-bending Murderbot series, FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, is a lot of things that you probably don’t expect. One of Wells’ superpowers has long been her ability to pack an epic’s worth of material into a very small package. And here, she uses the condensed timeline and single location as a way to put Murderbot in a situation of constant moral reckoning. Sure, there’s no end here without a showdown, some explosions, a cool robot […]

Booklist: El works as part of the Order, a sisterhood and core central body that rules Aytrium and keeps it running. Her magic, or “lace,” is powered by consuming the flesh of her ancestors. This power comes at a harsh price, and it’s one that El is willing to escape at any cost, which is why she agrees when a resistance group asks her to spy on the sisterhood’s top officials. Hall’s world is intricately woven, with a complex web of side […]

Fantasy Book Review: …an important and timely release that serves as a warning sign and reminder of the horror from whence we came, and the danger of following in its footsteps…. It’s also a hell of a good time, and serves up a damn fine cliffhanger.

Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger for having ELATSOE chosen as a 2021 Ignyte Award Finalist for Best Novel in the YA category!

Congratulations to all our DMLA authors who were chosen as 2021 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Machine, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tordotcom) FANTASY NOVEL Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom) The Midnight Bargain, C.L. Polk (Erewhon) FIRST NOVEL Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido) Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris) The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton) COLLECTION The Best of Elizabeth Bear, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)

Congratulations to Martha Wells! Fugitive Telemetry is #14 on the Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List and #4 on the Combined Print & eBook List!