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!
New Scientist: …a great noir-ish, Agatha Christie-ish murder mystery typical of the series, with far less shoot-’em-up than the series name suggests, plenty of deduction and the navigation of awkward relationships. Like all the Murderbot books, the plot is fast and the dialogue punchy, a snappy vehicle to carry the bigger narrative arc of Murderbot as it emerges from its defensive psychological cocoon.
Publishers Weekly: Malfi impresses in this taut, supernaturally tinged mystery, an intriguing variation on the well-worn serial killer plot….Malfi sticks the landing with a powerful denouement. There’s plenty here to enjoy.
Booklist: Burke’s third novel after her Semiosis Duology (Semiosis, 2018 and Interference, 2019) is a fast-paced hard-sf thriller set in a near future where power is tilted in favor of large corporations and a fascist government foments intolerance and bigotry among its sheep-like followers. In Wisconsin, three women who are seemingly unrelated are embroiled in a mutiny against a bigoted president who wants to restrict the rights of clones and other genetically enhanced persons under the guise of patriotism. Avril, Berenike, and Irene […]
Martha Wells, author of the bestselling and beloved Murderbot Diaries, which has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards, sold world English rights for six books to Tordotcom’s Lee Harris.The new deal covers three more books in that series, as well as three unrelated novels.The six-figure acquisition, which the imprint said is its largest to date, was brokered by Jennifer Jackson. The first new (non-Murderbot) book, WITCH KING, will be published in Fall 2022, with the rest following yearly.
Audio rights to Molly O’Keefe’s Riverview Inn series, to Lorna Henry at Dreamscape Media, in a five-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Chinese rights to Robert McCammon’s THE LISTENER, to Yilin Press, in a nice deal, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Czech rights to Skye Warren’s THE PAWN, THE KNIGHT and THE CASTLE, to Dobrovsky, in a three-book deal, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier. Danish rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s STORM FRONT, FOOL MOON, and GRAVE PERIL, the first three books […]