Congratulations to the DMLA authors whose works made Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2016!
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
Dec 082016
Dec 062016
Congratulations to Mary Robinette Kowal on Ghost Talkers being named to AudioFile’s 2016 list of Best Audiobooks!Dec 012016
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Nov 302016
French rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s MARKED IN FLESH, Book 4 of the Others series, to Bragelonne, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Jim Butcher’s ACADEM’S FURY, Book 2 of the Codex Alera series, renewed by Blanvalet, via Bastian Schlueck at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Japanese rights to NYT bestselling author Emily Brightwell’s MRS. JEFFRIES TAKES STOCK, to Tokyo Sogensha, by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Thai rights to Shaun David Hutchinson’s WE ARE THE ANTS, to The Reading Room, by Itzel Hsu at The Grayhawk Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs.
Czech rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BLOOD MIRROR, Book 4 in the Lightbrigher series, to Fantom Print, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Russian rights to Jo Walton’s AMONG OTHERS, to AST, by Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
German rights to the Nebula and Hugo Award winner for Best Novella, Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI novella series, to Michael Schuster at Cross Cult, in a three-book deal, for ebook and omnibus publication, by Julia Aumuller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Nov 232016
Liz Gorinsky at Tor Books has acquired Mary Robinette Kowal’s THE CALCULATING STARS and THE FATED SKY, an historical science fiction duology in which the devastation of a meteorite hit accelerates the 1950’s space program and building on the universe of her Hugo Award-winning novelette “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” for publication in 2018 via Jennifer Jackson.
Nov 212016
Nov 182016
Publishers Weekly: The morally gray heroes of this urban fantasy anthology refute the idea that all magic users are either good or evil. Butcher opens with his own “Cold Case,” the heart-wrenching story of a young woman trying to reconcile her new and terrible power with the duty she must perform. Seanan McGuire’s “Sleepover” follows nicely, revealing a world where magical people are reviled and unwelcome. Tanya Huff’s “If Wishes Were,” the grim story of a vampire holding desperately to her humanity through the man she loves, rounds out a powerful opening, but from here the anthology begins to lose momentum. Several stories are amusing but not exceptional. Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Sales. Force.” revives the flagging collection, but the final story, “Impossible Monsters” by Rob Thurman, falls flat, adding an incidental magical element to the tired trope of a serial killer who goes after evildoers. Not every story will appeal to every reader, but the best of them truly shine.
Nov 172016
Nov 162016
In this dark and gritty collection—featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman—nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil..
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.
Nov 112016
Tor.com: Jim Butcher is one of the biggest names in urban fantasy (maybe the biggest, considering his novels tend to debut at the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list), and Kerrie Hughes is one of the most accomplished anthologists in SFF. The two combine their estimable skills for Shadowed Souls, an anthology of urban fantasy stories whose theme focuses on the line dividing black from white, good from evil, and what lies in the shadows. The anthology is a good mix of stories, mixing contemporary settings, superheroes, and low-tech pre-industrial settings…. Every anthology will feature stories that work better for a one particular reader, than other stories would.. In this case, I found the Butcher, McGuire, and de Bie stories the most effective and enjoyable.