DMLA congratulates Anne Bishop for making Kirkus’ Best SF/F Books of 2013 list for her novel Written in Red!
Nov 202013
Nov 142013
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. Continue reading »
Nov 132013
Congratulations to all the DMLA clients nominated for the RT Awards!
- Career Achievement Award in Science Fiction/Fantasy: Elizabeth Bear and Anne Bishop
- RT Book of the Year Nominee: Written in Red – Anne Bishop (ROC)
- Innovative Historical Romance: A Lady’s Secret Weapon – Tracey Devlyn (Sourcebooks)
- Sensual Historical Romance: Forever A Lord – Delilah Marvelle (HQN)
- Historical Mystery: Midnight at Marble Arch – Anne Perry (Ballantine)
- Shapeshifter Romance: Kinked – Thea Harrison (Berkley)
- Urban Fantasy Novel: Written in Red – Anne Bishop (ROC)
- Urban Fantasy Novel: The Shambling Guide to New York City – Mur Lafferty (Orbit)
- Fantasy Novel: Without a Summer – Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Nov 122013
Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they’re trying to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called Fiddlehead, which provides undeniable proof of something awful enough to destroy the world. Continue reading »
Nov 052013
In a universe full of interstellar intrigue and burgeoning commerce novice Terran trader Jethri Gobelyn, adopted by a Liaden clan after an ill-directed bow of honor insulted the scion of a major Liaden house, is alive and whole to tell the tale. Convinced that the adoption has saved his life and made his future he settles into a comfortable and even elite routine, a Trader’s Ring his goal. Continue reading »
Nov 042013
DMLA congratulates its authors whose work made Publishers Weekly’s Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Books of 2013 list:
- American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
- 21st Century Science Fiction, including stories by Elizabeth Bear, Yoon Ha Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Karl Schroeder
Oct 292013
Kris Longknife is back in the good graces of the brass—and to demonstrate that, they’ve promoted her to Admiral. Now her mission is to find the home base of the space pirates who are plaguing the fringes of the galaxy.
But no mission is ever simple when your name is Longknife. And this time the complications range from the military to the personal, as Kris finds herself—reluctantly—having to make some command decisions about her future…
Oct 112013
Publishers Weekly: Priest’s final Clockwork Century novel (after The Inexplicables) wraps things up nicely, once again turning a mash-up of too-worn genre tropes (steampunk, alternate Civil War, zombies) into a work of entertainment laced with social criticism. In 1879, as the Civil War continues to rage, scientist and ex-slave Gideon Bardsley’s invention, a massive computer called the Fiddlehead, has predicted that the zombie outbreak from the Northwest will overwhelm both sides if they don’t end the war. Continue reading »
Oct 092013
Jay Lake’s short story collection Last Plane to Heaven, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe, to Beth Meacham at Tor by Jennifer Jackson.
Oct 042013
Jo Ann Brown’s inspirational trilogy “Precious Cargo” beginning with A Make-Believe Family, set in Porthlowen, a cove along the northern shore of Cornwall, to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired by Jennifer Jackson.