Kirkus Reviews: The first of a two-book series concerning a future Earth society patterned after the principles of the Enlightenment.
In 2454, nations are no longer tied to geography; instead, people ally themselves to Hives, according to their philosophical and intellectual inclinations. Discussion of gender and gender roles is essentially taboo, and organized religion is extinct. Instead, everyone is allotted a sensayer to discuss all of one’s spiritual concerns. In a world where there is no collective belief in God, what does it mean when a child appears who can do miracles? This is only one strand of the complexly webbed plot of this debut novel, written by a historian who has clearly brought all her knowledge and research to bear upon her fiction. […] Alas, the reader will apparently have to wait until Volume 2 to receive most of these answers, but the questions raised are at once thought-provoking, disturbing, occasionally perverted, and always entertaining.
Congratulations to Shaun David Hutchinson on We Are the Ants being named to Bustle‘s Best YA of 2016 list!
French rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s MARKED IN FLESH, Book 4 of the Others series, to Bragelonne, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Booklist: The universe isn’t expanding anymore—it’s actually shrinking, and Florida high-school senior Ozzie is the only one who remembers it differently. He’s also the only one who remembers Tommy, his best friend since childhood and boyfriend since the eighth grade. Tommy has vanished, both from Ozzie’s life and from the memories of everyone around him. As graduation approaches and Ozzie’s world becomes literally smaller, he struggles to find Tommy with increasing desperation, even as he grows closer to Calvin, the quiet, elusive boy in his physics class. Occasionally nihilistic but never completely hopeless, the narrative supports multiple topics with grace: gender and sexual identities, mental illness, and the inevitable grief that comes with learning to move from one phase of life to another. A few familiar faces from Hutchinson’s We Are the Ants (2016) make cameo appearances, and fans will recognize similar motifs—Hutchinson writes variations on a theme, to be sure, but it’s a rich theme. Wrenching and thought-provoking, Hutchinson has penned another winner.
Justina Ireland’s THE NEVER AND THE NOW and a sequel, a futuristic spy duology about cyborgs’ multigenerational battle to be recognized as people, not property, plus a stand-alone science fiction novel, to Miriam Weinberg at Tor, by Amy Boggs.