Jennifer Jackson – Literary Agent

Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop, Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear, and The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher have all been nominated for 2015 RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Awards!

An Apprentice to Elves by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

“Bear and Monette have written a very good book, here, to end a very good series. That’s the important part. 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.” — Tor.com

An Apprentice to Elves by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

“No one is simply one thing in An Apprentice to Elves, the ways no one is simply one thing in this hard life. The opening is deliberate, setting you up for the rising action of the climax in a way that means the novel could probably stand alone (which is no mean feat, as this review probably indicates). 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.” — Barnes & Noble SFF Blog

Congratulations to Jay Lake and Elizabeth Bear on being included among the 2015 Locus Award finalists!

FANTASY NOVEL
Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)

NOVELETTE
“The Hand Is Quicker,” Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)

SHORT STORY
“Covenant,” Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)

COLLECTION
Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)

The 2014 Locus Recommended Reading List includes Steles of the Sky by Elizabeth Bear (plus some of her short fiction). Also on the list is Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection by Jay Lake, as well as several stories by Yoon Ha Lee.