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Library Journal’s Best SF/Fantasy Books 2019

Dec 022019
 

Congratulations to A.J. Hackwith’s The Library of the Unwritten and Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth for making the Library’s Journal Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2019!

2018 Locus Recommended Reading List

Feb 192019
 

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the 2018 Locus Recommended Reading list!

NOVELS – SCIENCE FICTION
Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

NOVELS – FANTASY
The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)
Temper, Nicky Drayden (Harper Voyager US)
Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)
Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

NOVELS – HORROR
The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)

YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)
Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

FIRST NOVELS
Semoisis, Sue Burke (Tor)
Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)
Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)

COLLECTIONS
Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)

NOVELLAS
Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTES
“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)
“No Flight Without the Shatter”, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)
The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)

SHORT STORIES
“The Starship and the Temple Cat”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)
“Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse”, S.B. Divya (Uncanny 1–2/18)
“Mother of Invention”, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)

YALSA 2019 Best Fiction for Young Adults

Jan 282019
 

Cover of The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson.Cover of Dread Nation by Justina Ireland.Congratulations to the DMLA authors who have made the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2019 Best Fiction for Young Adults list:

  • Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
  • Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Vulture’s 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018

Jan 022019
 

Congratulations to the DMLA authors who have made Vulture’s list of 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2018!

  • Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
  • Temper by Nicky Drayden
  • Semiosis by Sue Burke

Library Journal’s Best Books 2018

Dec 122018
 

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made Library Journal’s Best Books 2018!

  • Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
  • Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
  • The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
  • The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French

New York Public Library’s 2018 Best Books for Adults

Dec 072018
 

Cover of Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee.Cover of The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander.Congratulations to the DMLA authors who made the New York Public Library’s 2018 Best Books for Adults!

  • Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
  • The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

B&N’s Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2018

Dec 052018
 

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the B&N’s Favorite Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2018!

  • The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
  • Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
  • Temper by Nicky Drayden
  • Witchmark by C.L. Polk
  • The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
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