All Systems Red by Martha Wells Wins the Hugo Award for Best Novella!

Plus new books from Karl Schroeder, Brian McClellan, and P. Djèlí Clark To view this email as a webpage, go [here.]( [Tor.com Publishing]( [Forward to a Friend]( This Month from Tor.com Publishing Murderbot won a Hugo! We're thrilled to announce that Martha Wells took home the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella at Worldcon in San Jose, CA for [All Systems Red]( the first volume of the Murderbot Diaries. Murderbot's adventures continue in Rogue Protocol, the third installment in the series, out this month. Plus we've got visionary science fiction from futurist Karl Schroeder and a brand-new world of monsters from Brian McClellan. P. Djèlí Clark also makes his debut with The Black God's Drums , a thrilling tale of orisha and airships set in an alternate New Orleans. All of these titles are available worldwide in ebook and paperback, simultaneously and DRM free. [Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells]( [Rogue Protocol]( Martha Wells Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk. Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas? Sci-fi's favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. “I love Murderbot!” —New York Times bestselling author Ann Leckie [📖][Read an excerpt]( Get Your Copy Today [amazon.com]( [Barnes & Noble]( [iBooks]( [IndieBound]( [Books-A-Million]( [kindle]( [nook]( [The Million]( Karl Schroeder Futurist and award-winning author Karl Schroeder imagines infiltrating the elite of a marginal society in The Million. Every thirty years, ten billion visitors overrun Earth during one month of madness: partying, polluting, and brawling. In between, the world is ruled by the Million; the inheritors and custodians of all of humanity's wealth and history, they lead unimaginable lives of privilege and wealth, and they see it as their due. [📖][Read an excerpt]( Download your copy for only $3.99 [kindle]( [nook]( [iBooks]( [Google play]( [kobo]( [The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark]( [The Black God's Drums]( P. Djèlí Clark In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air—in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie's trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God's Drums. But Creeper also has a secret herself: Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, speaks inside her head, and may have her own ulterior motivations. Soon, Creeper, Oya, and the crew of the Midnight Robber are pulled into a perilous mission aimed to stop the Black God's Drums from being unleashed and wiping out the entirety of New Orleans. [📖][Read an excerpt]( Download your copy for only $3.99 [kindle]( [nook]( [iBooks]( [Google play]( [kobo]( [War Cry by Brian McClellan]( [War Cry]( Brian McClellan Brian McClellan, author of the acclaimed Powder Mage series, introduces a new universe, new armies, and new monsters in War Cry. Teado is a Changer, a shape-shifting military asset trained to win wars. His platoon has been stationed in the Bavares high plains for years, stranded. As they ration supplies and scan the airwaves for news, any news, their numbers dwindle. He's not sure how much time they have left. Desperate and starving, armed with aging, faulting equipment, the team jumps at the chance for a risky resupply mission, even if it means not all of them might come. What they discover could change the course of the war. [📖][Read an excerpt]( Download your copy for only $3.99 [kindle]( [nook]( [iBooks]( [Google play]( [kobo]( [Your Afternoon Read] Your Afternoon Read “Pretend you are the land. Pretend you are a place far away, the last vibrant V of green and gold and tessellated rock before the sea and sky slither south unchecked for three thousand lonesome turns of a tern's wing. Once upon a time the waters rose to cut you off from your mother continent, better independence through drowning. Some day soon, when the ice across the ocean turns to hungry waves, all the rest will follow, sliding beneath an oil-slick surface as warm and empty as a mortician's handshake.” Read “ [No Flight Without the Shatter]( a new Tor.com original story by Brooke Bolander, author of [The Only Harmless Great Thing](. [Martha Wells and Sarah Gailey Win Hugo Awards!] Martha Wells and Sarah Gailey Win Hugo Awards! We're incredibly proud that after winning the Nebula Award for Best Novella earlier this year, All Systems Red received the Hugo Award for Best Novella this month. The first book in the Murderbot series, All Systems Red introduced the world to the misanthropic robot who wants nothing more than to be left alone to keep binging episodes of its favorite serial. You can read the next two books in the Murderbot series—[Artificial Condition]( and [Rogue Protocol]( now, and pre-order [Exit Strategy]( the fourth installment, to get your hands on it as soon as it comes out in October. And we're also thrilled that Sarah Gailey, author of [American Hippo]( won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer for their work on pop culture and literature! You can check out [their essays on the women of Harry Potter, storytelling through costume, and much, much more at Tor.com](. [WIRED on the Rise of the Sci-Fi Novella] WIRED on the Rise of the Sci-Fi Novella At WIRED.com this month, Jason Kehe featured Tor.com Publishing in his piece on [the joy and innovation of science-fiction novellas]( giving recommendations for short reads that ranged from the Murderbot Diaries to [Nnedi Okorafor's Binti trilogy]( to Kai Ashante Wilson's [A Taste of Honey](. Kehe writes about the appeal of stories that you can read in one or two sittings, and why they're especially welcome in a world where readers may be overwhelmed by more sprawling media. “For most of their existence,” he notes, “SFF novellas have been trapped in monthly magazines and anthologies, where only a fringe readership could visit them (along with short stories, but those babies can also live free in dedicated collections). At least, until Tor.com Publishing came along and liberated the novella, putting slender volumes in the hands of readers everywhere.“ [Ruthanna Emrys on How Reading Horror Can Arm Us Against a Horrifying World] Ruthanna Emrys on How Reading Horror Can Arm Us Against a Horrifying World Winter Tide and Deep Roots author Ruthanna Emrys served as a judge in this year's NPR Summer Readers Poll, helping to curate [a list of 100 favorite horror reads]( including Victor LaValle's [The Ballad of Black Tom]( [the Laundry Files by Charles Stross]( and The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson (included in [Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction]( out next month). For the summer reading series, [Ruthanna also wrote about the ways horror helps us cope and process real-world atrocities]( citing LaValle and Seanan McGuire as authors who use their fiction to unveil underlying truths about the inherent terror of the world. [Booklist Names Their Best SFF Books of 2018!] Booklist Names Their Best SFF Books of 2018! We always love getting love from librarians, so we were excited to see two of our books on [Booklist's Top 10 SFF Books of 2018]( so far! Binti: The Night Masquerade, the third book in Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy, made the list, as did [Witchmark, the debut novel from C.L. Polk]( which features magic, bicycle chases, and irresistible romance. Check out [the cover reveal for the new hardcover editions of the Binti books]( and read an excerpt from Witchmark [here]( [This Month on Tor.com: Xena Needs a Vacation] This Month on Tor.com: Xena Needs a Vacation At Tor.com, [Bedfellow]( author [Jeremy C. Shipp writes about five overworked fantasy characters]( who could desperately use some time off, including everyone's favorite warrior princess. And if you loved Daniel Polansky's The Builders or Brooke Bolander's The Only Harmless Great Thing, [the blog staff has some suggestions for other great speculative fiction books featuring anthropomorphic animals]( including Mort(e) by Robert Repino and Harlan Ellison's Vic and Blood. They've also rounded up [a list of the best dads in SFF]( (and the universe generally). Check out their picks, and leave your own suggestions in the comments! [Preview State Tectonics and See Malka Older in September!] Preview State Tectonics and See Malka Older in September! Malka Older's acclaimed Centenal Cycle series kicked off with her debut novel [Infomocracy]( the thrilling story of a near-future election with global impact. Now Older is wrapping up the trilogy with State Tectonics , out on September 11th in hardcover worldwide. You can read an excerpt of the new novel [here]( and catch up with Malka at events throughout the South and East Coast next month, including [the Decatur Book Festival]( on September 1st, [Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina]( on September 4th, [Politics and Prose at Union Market]( in Washington, D.C. on September 15th, and [Housing Works Bookstore in New York City]( on September 25th. [Photo of the Month]( Photo of the Month Here's Martha Wells just moments after the Hugo Award for Best Novella was announced! Check out our Instagram at @[TorDotComPub]( for more photos from this year's Worldcon, including author readings, dancing robots, and [George R.R. Martin doing the Time Warp](. Follow Tor.com Publishing [f]( [t]( [g]( [t]( This email was sent by: Macmillan 175 Fifth Ave., 6th Floor New York, NY, 10010, US We respect your right to privacy - [view our policy]( Macmillan believes piracy hurts writers, readers and everyone who loves books. 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