Congratulations to all the DMLA clients who are featured on the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List!
Novels – Fantasy:
- American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
- Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
- Between Two Thorns, Emma Newman (Angry Robot)
Collections:
- Conservation of Shadows, Yoon Ha Lee (Prime)
- Kabu Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor (Prime)
Novellas:
- “Rock of Ages,” Jay Lake (METAtropolis: Green Space)
- “Iseul’s Lexicon,” Yoon Ha Lee (Conservation of Shadows)
Short Stories:
- “Effigy Nights,” Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/13)
Booklist: The second book in the Others series continues to tell of the struggles of humans and the “terra indigene,” commonly referred to as Others. Building on the story told in the initial book, Written in Red (2013), Meg Corbyn is finding that life as a blood prophet, away from the man who had owned her, is anything but simple. In this fascinating tale, the Others, including vampires and shape-shifters, are the dominant species of the continent, and humans are the interlopers, barely tolerated. 
Romantic Times: After her father’s death, Catherine Meriweather is still adjusting to her cousin Edmund becoming the master of Meriweather Hall. Helping her with this is Jonathan Bradby, Edmund’s friend. Jonathan is a hero, or so they say. He knows his heroic act was just an accident. Instead of continuing to try and convince his friends of that, he decides he will just become a real hero by accomplishing a heroic act. 
DMLA congratulates Anne Bishop for making 
Kirkus: It’s 1879 in this alternate America where the Civil War still drags on, though both sides are utterly spent, Lincoln survived the assassination attempt (he’s confined to a wheelchair, however), and President Ulysses S. Grant has taken to the bottle, having despaired of politics in general and of the loathsome politicians that swarm around him. Young ex-slave and irascible genius Gideon Bardsley has invented a calculating machine, the Fiddlehead, that predicts disaster for both warring sides—but not by military means.