REVIEW: “Sophisticated sf/fantasy readers will find here everything they enjoy about the genre, plus a few other surprising delights.” —Library Journal, on BASFF 2016

“Whether conjuring a little magic or exploring technology’s impact, these impressive selections demonstrate that these works may be brief in length but long on complexity and voice. Sophisticated sf/fantasy readers will find here everything they enjoy about the genre, plus a few other surprising delights.” —Library Journal, on BASFF 2016 [review]

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REVIEW: “The only rating I could possibly give the book is five stars” —Dread Central

“If you’re looking for a read (or lots of reads, as the case may be) that’s equally fun, scary, and thoughtprovoking, then What the #@&% Is That? will be up your alley. With editors as experienced as John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen, I’d be surprised if most horror/sci-fi fans don’t enjoy it. The only rating I could possibly give the book is five [out of five] stars.” —Dread Central, on What the #@&% Is That? [review]

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NEWS: New Novel by Debut Author Bryan Camp Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

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).

 

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NEWS: New Space Opera Anthology COSMIC POWERS Announced (Saga, April 2017)

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.

COVER (art by Chris Foss)

COSMIC POWERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime—Charlie Jane Anders
  • Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance—Tobias S. Buckell
  • The Deckhand, the Nova Blade, and the Thrice-Sung Texts—Becky Chambers
  • The Sighted Watchmaker—Vylar Kaftan
  • Infinite Love Engine—Joseph Allen Hill
  • Unfamiliar Gods—Adam-Troy Castro, with Judi B. Castro
  • Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World—Caroline M. Yoachim
  • Our Specialty is Xenogeology—Alan Dean Foster
  • Golden Ring—Karl Schroeder
  • Tomorrow When We See the Sun—A. Merc Rustad
  • Bring the Kids and Revisit the Past at the Traveling Retro Funfair!—Seanan McGuire
  • The Dragon that Flew Out of the Sun—Aliette De Bodard
  • Diamond and the World Breaker—Linda Nagata
  • The Chameleon’s Gloves—Yoon Ha Lee
  • The Universe, Sung in Stars—Kat Howard
  • Wakening Ouroboros—Jack Campbell
  • Warped Passages—Kameron Hurley
  • The Frost Giant’s Data—Dan Abnett

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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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