Come join us October 4 @ 7:30pm at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA, for a Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 launch event, with me, guest editor Karen Joy Fowler, and contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Liz Ziemska, with moderator Daryl Gregory on hand to lead our discussion. [event details | Facebook invite]
In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just acquired two books by debut novelist Bryan Camp. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:
Bryan Camp’s THE CITY OF LOST FORTUNES, about a magician with a talent for finding lost things who is forced into playing a high stakes game with the gods of New Orleans for the heart and soul of the city, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a preempt, in a two-book deal, to be published Spring 2018, by Seth Fishman at The Gernert Company (NA).
The original editions of The Way of the Wizard and Federations from Prime Books are now out-of-print, but new editions are now available on Kindle and in format. The new covers are by Inkspiral Design.
The Way of the Wizard:
Federations:
Over on B&N’s Sci-Fi and Fantasy blog, we recently announced one of my 2017 anthologies: Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-Away Galaxies. It will be published April 18, 2017 by Simon & Schuster’s Saga Press imprint.
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A collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today’s best writers—for fans who want a little less science and a lot more action—and edited by two-time Hugo Award winner John Joseph Adams. Inspired by movies like The Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars, this anthology features brand-new stories from some of science fiction’s best authors including Dan Abnett, Jack Campbell, Linda Nagata, Seanan McGuire, Alan Dean Foster, Charlie Jane Anders, Kameron Hurley, and many others.
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My wife, Christie Yant, works for a small comics company called Kymera Press, and as part of her job for them, she’s going to be doing some comic con exhibiting for them. She (and I) did it for the first time at the Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con in June. We thought SDCC was not in the cards, but Kymera was on the wait list for exhibitor space, and a spot opened up at the last minute, so … WE’RE GOING TO COMIC CON, Y’ALL.
I’ll be working the Kymera Press booth alongside Christie. We’ll have all issues of Kymera’s two titles (Gates of Midnight and Pet Noir), and we’ll also have the Lightspeed and Nightmare “Destroy” special issues, as well as books I edited available for sale. I’ll be there July 20 – July 24; Christie will be coming down Friday evening, as she was unavoidably detained by jury duty, so she’ll be there working the floor Saturday and Sunday. We’re in booth 2003, in the Independent Publishers Pavilion.
Hope to see some of you there!
The Table of Contents for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 has now been revealed! Pop on over to io9.com to check out the best 20 stories of the year, as selected by me (series editor John Joseph Adams) and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler.
io9 has the full table of contents, along with a little teaser for each story. Or if you prefer, here’s a version of the TOC right here on the official website, and here’s the full list of the 2016 Notable Stories.
In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just acquired two books in a new series by Molly Tanzer:
Molly Tanzer’s CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER, a Victorian-era urban fantasy inspired by THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, in which epee-fencing enthusiast Evadne Gray and her younger sister are drawn into a secret and dangerous London underworld of pleasure-seeking demons and bloodthirsty diabolists, with only Evadne’s skill with a blade standing between them and certain death, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a two book deal, for publication in late 2017, by Cameron McClure at the Donald Maass Literary Agency (World English).
The latest Humble Book Bundle is a LGBTQ Bundle, and it includes LIGHTSPEED’s Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue. As is always the case with Humble Bundles, each purchase helps support a charity; in this case, it’s the It Gets Better project.
You can pay-what-you-want to get the bundle, which includes a great assortment of titles. Here’s more about the Bundle and how Humble Bundle works, from the press release:
Reading rainbows. LGBTQ literature? Take a look. It’s in a book bundle! Support Pride Month by getting up to $342 of ebooks, digital comics, and audiobooks while supporting the It Gets Better Project.
Pay $1 or more for Lonely Planet’s Guide To Pride: 20 Cities And Their Celebrations, Falling In Love With Hominids, StoryCorps: OutLoud: Voices of the LGBTQ Community from Across America, Kevin Keller: Welcome to Riverdale, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Starve Vol. 1, and The Mirror of Love.
Pay more than the average price to also receive If You Could Be Mine, Tipping the Velvet, The Infinite Loop, Artifice, Wandering Son Vol. 1, Queers Destroy Science Fiction, and Wuvable Oaf.
Pay $15 or more Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, Julio’s Day, Heart of Thomas, Smut Peddler 2014: A Superior Pornucopia For Classy Dames (And the Forward-Thinking Gentleman), and Wet Moon Vol. 1.
Name the price. Together, the books, comics, and audiobooks in this bundle usually cost as much as $342. Here at Humble Bundle, though, you choose the price!
Read them anywhere. The comics in this bundle are available in multiple formats including CBZ, PDF, and ePub, so they work on your computer, e-readers, iPads, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices! Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here. The books are available in PDF, ePUB, and MOBI formats, meaning you can read them anywhere at anytime. Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here. The audiobooks in this bundle are available as FLAC and MP3 files. Instructions for audiobooks can be found here.
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If you’ve already got QDSF, you should still totally go check it out, if for no other reason than it includes Nalo Hopkinson’s excellent collection, Falling in Love with Hominids.
So what are you waiting for? Go check it out!
I’m pleased to announce that Brooke Bolander’s story for Lightspeed, “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead,” which was previously announced as a Nebula Award and Sturgeon Award finalist, is now also a Hugo Award finalist! Lightspeed is no longer eligible in the semiprozine category (which it won the last two years), but I’m pleased to report that I have been nominated in the Best Editor, Short Form category. And last but not least, Alyssa Wong—whose story for Nightmare, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” is a finalist for both the Nebula and Stoker—is a finalist this year for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Major congrats to Brooke on the rare achievement of being nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula for the same work, and to Alyssa for netting a coveted Campbell nod in the same year she’s up for the Stoker and Nebula.
Thank you so much to all of you who nominated; you can see a full list of the other finalists at midamericon2.org.
In my new role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just acquired two books in a new series by Carrie Vaughn:
New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn’s BANNERLESS, a novel in which an investigator must discover the truth behind a mysterious death in a world where small communities struggle to maintain a ravaged civilization decades after environmental and economic collapse, to John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2017, by Seth Fishman at The Gernert Company. (North American)
Fans of Carrie’s (and/or my work in the short form) may recognize from that description that the book is set in the same milieu as Carrie’s Hugo-nominated story, “Amaryllis,” which I originally published way back in issue #1 of Lightspeed, and also her story “Bannerless,” which appeared in my anthology, The End Has Come.