

The Power of Fun : How to Feel Alive Again by Catherine Price (Dial LJ starred review)
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The Defense Lawyer : The Barry Slotnick Story by James Patterson and Benjamin Wallace (Little, Brown, & Co.) leads holds this week. 1 trial date for DOJ antitrust suit over PRH acquisition of Simon & Schuster. Locus presents the 2021 World Fantasy Convention Report. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead LJ starred review) wins best novel. The 2021 African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) Nommo Awards are announced. Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tor: Macmillan) wins for best novel. The Hugo Awards are announced at DisCon III, along with The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter. I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90-plus percent of my problems are. You know that feeling when you’re at work and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you’re a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you’re Murderbot.Ĭome for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable AI you’ll listen to this century. Murderbot returns in its highly anticipated, first full-length stand-alone novel, Network Effect. Martha Wells’ New York Times and USA Today best-selling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since.
