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2019 Locus Award Finalists

May 142019
 

Congratulation to our DMLA authors who made the 2019 Locus Awards Finalist list!

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

HORROR NOVEL
The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)

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

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

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

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

NOVELETTE
“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 STORY
“The Starship and the Temple Cat”, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)
“Mother of Invention”, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)

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

Shadowblade by Anna Kashina

May 072019
 

A young sword prodigy must impersonate a lost princess and throw her life into a deadly political game, in this kinetic epic fantasy novel by the author of the award-winning Majat Code series

Naia dreams of becoming a Jaihar Blademaster, but after assaulting a teacher, her future seems ruined. The timely intervention of a powerful stranger suddenly elevates her into elite Upper Grounds training. She has no idea that the stranger is Dal Gassan, head of the Daljeer Circle. Seventeen years ago he witnessed the massacre of Challimar’s court and rescued its sole survivor, a baby girl. Gassan plans to thrust a blade into the machinations of imperial succession: Naia. Disguised as the legendary Princess Xarimet of Challimar, Naia must challenge the imperial family, and win. Naia is no princess, but with her desert-kissed eyes and sword skills she might be close enough…

Deal: Wayne Santos

May 022019
 

Wayne Santos’s debut THE CHIMERA CODE, set in a cyberpunk, magical future; about a mercenary and her team, who are hired to erase a magician who’s already dead, to Kate Coe at Solaris, for publication in July 2020, by Jennie Goloboy.

2019 Hugo Award Finalists

Apr 102019
 

Congratulations to the DMLA authors nominated for the 2019 Hugo Awards!

Best Novel
Revenant Gun, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)

Best Novella
Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Tor.com publishing)
Binti: The Night Masquerade, by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com publishing)

Best Novelette
The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com publishing)

Best Short Story
“The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters, and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat,” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine 23, July-August 2018)

Best Series
Machineries of Empire, by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)

Best Graphic Story
Abbott, written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Sami Kivelä, colours by Jason Wordie, letters by Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios)
Black Panther: Long Live the King, written by Nnedi Okorafor and Aaron Covington, art by André Lima Araújo, Mario Del Pennino and Tana Ford (Marvel)

Best Semiprozine
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry as managing editor for Fireside Magazine
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry as special issue editor for Uncanny Magazine, Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction

Best Fan Writer
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

2019 Associated Awards (Not a Hugo Award):

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Dread Nation, by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Jeannette Ng (2nd year of eligibility)

2018 Nebula Awards Finalists

Feb 252019
 

Congratulations to all the DMLA authors who made the 2018 Nebula Awards Finalist list!

NOVEL
Witchmark by C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELLA
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield (Tor.com Publishing)
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)
“The Substance of My Lives, The Accidents of Our Births” by Jose Pablo Iriarte (Lightspeed 1/18)

GAME WRITING
The Road to Canterbury by Kate Heartfield (Choice of Games)

THE ANDRE NORTON AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY BOOK
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

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)

Review: Junction by Daniel M. Bensen

Feb 062019
 

Publishers Weekly:  Bensen has created some larger-than-life characters, but the true star of the tale is Junction itself. The author’s creativity gambols across the planet along with his characters, and the journey is as much about the weird creatures as it is about the human drama.

January Subsidiary Rights Deals

Jan 312019
 

a pair of black ear budsWorld English Audio rights Anna Kashina’s SHADOWBLADE, to Michael Olah at Dreamscape Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier, for Jennie Goloboy.

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

Deal: Nicole Glover

Dec 202018
 

Nicole Glover’s THE CONDUCTORS, an historical fantasy set in post-Civil War Philadelphia, about a magic-wielding African-American couple, former conductors on the Underground Railroad, who solve mysteries the white authorities won’t touch, with a sequel, to John Joseph Adams at John Joseph Adams Books, by Jennie Goloboy.

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