Chuck Wendig’s ZEROES, a fast-paced, character-driven thriller pitched as Michael Crichton meets The X Files, about five hackers who are blackmailed into working for the U.S. government only to discover the sinister NSA program controlling them has far-reaching implications, in a two-book deal to Harper Voyager by Stacia Decker.
Jon McGoran’s third book in the Doyle Carrick eco-thriller series, after Drift and Deadout, when a whistleblower is murdered while trying to contact Doyle, the Philly cop is forced to delve into a biotech company’s dangerous involvement in foreign food aid, to Kristin Sevick at Forge by Stacia Decker.
Leah Ferguson’s ALL THE DIFFERENCE, written in alternating chapters, if she said yes and if she said no, about a career-focused 30-year-old who finds out that she’s pregnant on the day her long-term boyfriend proposes to her and is faced with making a choice, to Julie Mianecki at Berkley, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Elizabeth Bear’s The Lotus Kingdoms, a new fantasy trilogy set in the same world as The Eternal Sky, in which a brass automaton with a soul, the disenfranchised servant of a dead Caliph, and a priest with one golden eye are drawn into a high stakes political game involving two queens and the fate of their kingdoms, to Beth Meacham at Tor Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Hugo Award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal’s untitled short story collection, to Paula Guran at Prime Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Jay Lake’s and Ken Scholes’ THE WINGS WE DARE ASPIRE, a collection of related novellas in the award-winning Metatropolis setting, to Kevin J. Anderson at WordFire Press by Jennifer Jackson.
Hugo Award winning author Elizabeth Bear’s ANCESTRAL NIGHT plus a sequel, launching a new space opera series following Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz, as they pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human – and alien – vessels, to Simon Spanton at Gollancz by Jennifer Jackson.
Matthew C. Funk’s The City of NO, a mesmerizing literary debut in which a rogue cop in post-Katrina New Orleans will do anything to save young women targeted by human traffickers, while hunting the men who once exploited her, to Bryon Quertermous at Exhibit A by Stacia Decker.
Amanda Downum’s DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS, a contemporary story influenced by Lovecraft’s Dreamlands in which Liz Drake must unravel the truth behind a drug called mania and a modern-day cult of Dionysos which masks something far more ancient and terrible, for publication in 2015 to Jonathan Oliver at Solaris by Jennifer Jackson.
Edgar and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF BLADES, a sequel to his fantasy novel City of Stairs, as well as an untitled second novel, again to Julian Pavia at Crown, by Cameron McClure.