Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear and The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson are among the Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice Best Books of 2015!

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop, Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear, and The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher are all on Barnes and Noble’s Best Science-Fiction & Fantasy of 2015 list!

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson and The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher are both on Amazon’s Best Books of 2015: Science Fiction & Fantasy list!

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

“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.” — Locus Magazine

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

“To read The Traitor Baru Cormorant is to sink inexorably into a book that should not be anywhere near as absorbing as it is ­ to realize that the white-knuckled grip with which you hold it was provoked by several consecutive pages of loans, taxes and commodity trading. It seems impossible that the economics of a fantasy world should be so viscerally riveting, but they are, and it’s incredible: You think you’re on solid ground right up until you feel that ground closing around your throat.

And Baru Cormorant as a character is magnificent. I found it impossible not to root for her even amid horrors of her making, to grieve with her and for her at various points, to clench my fists in her defense and in desperate need for her to stay whole. There is so much to admire and so much to mourn throughout the building tragedy of this novel.

This is not a happy book. It is not an uplifting book. But it is a crucial, necessary book ­ a book that looks unflinchingly into the self-replicating virus of empire, asks the hardest questions, and dares to answer them.” — NPR.org