Sedia (Paper Cities) collects 22 tales that look at werewolves from a multitude of different angles. Steve Duffy’s chilling dental thriller “Side-Effects May Include” examines how far a man will go to end his pain. A damaged alpha gains the trust of a homeless woman in Maria V. Snyder’s “Mongrel.” Murderous soccer moms eat cheaters in Samantha Henderson’s “Skin in the Game.” A woman accidentally turned wolf struggles against her dual nature before learning to accept it in Erzebet YellowBoy’s powerful “Inside Out.” The origin of T.J. from Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series is told in “Wild Ride,” and Mike Resnick’s preacher/con-artist Lucifer Jones makes an appearance in the hilarious “Royal Bloodlines.” The stories veer from comedy to horror and from tragic love story to coming-of-age tale, showing the richness inherent in the idea of shifting shapes and animal strength. –Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Congratulations to Ekaterina Sedia for her novel The Alchemy Of Stone
making the Tiptree Honor List for 2008.

“Sedia’s evocative third novel, a steampunk fable about the price of industrial development, follows Mattie, an emancipated automaton, as her home city is rent by conflict between alchemists and the mechanics whose clanking, steaming inventions are changing society. Though created by a leader of the mechanics, Mattie chose to join the alchemists, but her creator still holds the key that winds her up. When a terrorist bombing and an assassination touch off all-out war between the two factions, she discovers the ugly secrets and exploitation that keep the city supplied with food and coal. Sedia’s exquisitely bleak vision deliberately skewers familiar ideas from know-it-all computers to talking statues desperate for souls, leaving readers to reach their own conclusions about the proper balance of tradition and progress and what it means to be alive.”

–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Czech rights to Ekaterina Sedia’s The Secret History of Moscow, to Stanislav Juhanak at TRITON, by Milena Lukic of Prava I Prevodi, in association with Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, on behalf of Prime Books.

Polish rights to Ekaterina Sedia’s The Secret History of Moscow, to Mag Jacek Rodek, by Milena Lukic of Prava I Prevodi, in association with Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, on behalf of Prime Books.

• In the Best SF Novel category: Undertow (Bantam Science Fiction)
• In the Best Fantasy Novel category: Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age
• In the collections category: New Amsterdam
• In novelettes for: “Cryptic Coloration” (Baen’s Universe 6/07)
• In short stories for: “Orm the Beautiful” (Clarkesworld 1/07) and “Tideline” (Asimov’s 4-5/07)

Jay Lake gets props for:

• In the Best SF Novel category: Mainspring
• In novelettes: “Crossing the Seven” (Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories)
• In short stories: “C-Rock City”co-written with Greg Van Eekhout (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 2007)

Also, Ekaterina Sedia in:

• the Best Fantasy Novel category: The Secret History of Moscow