Tor.com: The end result is a series where each installment truly stands out and stands its individual ground as a wildly different sort of text, without ever losing the coherence and engagement of the project as a whole. […] It’s a fast read, compelling, that does interesting work with gender, politics, and human nature; it’s also got a strong plot, thorough research, and delightful characters. Highly recommended conclusion to a great set of books.
Jo Ann Ferguson writing as Jo Ann Brown’s novella featuring characters from her Amish Hearts series, which debuts in January 2016 with AN AMISH HOMECOMING, to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired by Jennifer Jackson.
Hungarian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, to Agave, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Turkish rights to Brent Weeks’s The Lightbringer series, to Ithaki, in a four-book deal, by Idil Pisgin at Onk Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
German rights to Seth Dickinson’s acclaimed debut THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT to Fischer Verlag/Tor Germany, in a pre-empt offer, by Bastian Schlueck and Julia Aumüller of the Schlueck Agency, in association with Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Michael Fletcher’s BEYOND REDEMPTION, to Luebbe, by Franka Zastrow at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
French rights to Clayton Lindemuth’s MY BROTHER’S DESTROYER, to Marie-Caroline Aubert at Le Seuil, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
German rights to Anne Bishop’s WRITTEN IN RED, MURDER OF CROWS, and VISION IN SILVER, the first three books in the New York Times bestelling Others series, to Drachenmond Verlag by Franka Zastrow at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Based on the New York Times Bestselling Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, a cooperative card game from the minds behind the Dresden Files Roleplaying system, to Evil Hat Productions LLC by Jennifer Jackson.
Audio rights to Ada Palmer’s forthcoming TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING, Book 1 of the Terra Ignota series, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, in a four-book deal, for simultaneous publication with the hardcover in May, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs.
Audio rights to World Fantasy Award nominee Yoon Ha Lee’s debut novel NINEFOX GAMBIT plus two sequels, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, by Michael Curry, on behalf of Jennifer Jackson.
The Aeronaut’s Windlass stays on the USA Today Best-selling Books list at #101!
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.
Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion—to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory.
And even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous task, he will learn that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity’s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake…
The aliens attacking the planetary system of Alwa are an enemy unlike any Admiral Kris Longknife has ever encountered before. She doesn’t know who they are, only that they worship a being known as the Enlightened One and are unafraid to sacrifice themselves against her fleet.
But Kris faces more than just the fanatical behavior of an alien armada. A saboteur has infiltrated the military’s medical facility and unleashed an epidemic that has spread throughout the fleet without warning.
Seventy-two career military women are down with something not even the aliens could do to them—including Admiral Kris Longknife…
B&N SF&F Blog: This is a rich, complicated, textured world, with a myriad of different people, different creatures, different cultures, coming together in both a hard clash and a harder understanding. This is the kind of fantasy that makes you slow down, sound out the unforgiving consonants of a foreign culture, so you can hear those uncomfortable vowels, both the familiar and the alien. We don’t have to be just one thing, but several, and in fruitful opposition. Winter isn’t coming. It’s already here.
New York Times: In Amanda Downum’s novel DREAMS OF SHREDS AND TATTERS, Liz Drake is a young woman living on the East Coast with her devoted boyfriend, whom she seems a bit ambivalent about which probably explains her rather casual attitude toward him, a casualness that extends to other things as well.
One thing she’s not casual about, however, is her psychic connection to Blake Enderly. When Liz has an intuition, she is absolutely certain that her friend Blake, who lives across the continent and has recently gone missing, is in trouble, so she crosses the country, boyfriend in tow, to help find him. The connection between the two is never fully, or even partially, explained it seems ambiguously metaphorical, a symbol of the fervent tribal bonds of postadolescent friendship, and on that level it does have some resonance. Similarly, the connections between Liz and her other friends are more asserted than earned as the story shifts perspectives, many characters feel like profiles or postures more than fleshy humans, an effect that may be symptomatic or intentional on Downum’s part, or both.
There are hints at a deeper story here, one of drugs and addiction, about getting lost and the depths to which you can go to save your friends. And there are moments of promise, in which Downum successfully blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy until the narrative takes on a dreamlike fluidity, resulting in the freedom of possibility, of real surprise.
The Aeronaut’s Windlass stays on the New York Times Bestseller’s List at #16 for hardcover, and on the USA Today Best-selling Books list at #16.
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.
Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion—to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory.
And even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous task, he will learn that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity’s ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake…
Locus: Dickinson has taken the gender concerns of Delany, and Delany’s attention to economic/vocational matters and colonialism/imperialism, all set in a pre-technological milieu, and conflated them with some of the aforementioned Cherryh-esque literary/thematic tactics to create a truly fine and distinctively individual fantasy novel that delivers action and philosophy, economics and warfare, love and hatred, in equal measures. His voice, however originally influenced, rings out strong and clear as a new addition to the chorus of fantasists.
The conclusion to the rebellion leaves her in a highly unanticipated situation, as Dickinson masterfully inverts almost all of the reader’s expectations.