It's Book Hype Week.

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Hi!

I’m feeling a little bit giddy with excitement over the positive press that’s starting to develop around MACHINE (or maybe that’s just that I’m already on my second pot of tea today) and so this email will mostly just be a bunch of links to people saying nice things about my book, I am afraid.

But first, something wonderful came in the mail today!

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Look what showed up in the mail today! It's the @torbooks Essentials editions of THE DRAGON WAITING by John M. Ford and of BLINDSIGHT by Peter Watts!

It so happens that my spouse, the inestimable Scott Lynch, wrote the introduction to this edition of the brilliant Mr. Ford's masterpiece, and I was honored to provide an introduction to this outstanding and grim piece of writing by Mr. Watts.

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October 1, 2020

Scott and I got our contributor’s copies of the Tor Books Essentials reprint editions of The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford and Blindsight by Peter Watts, to which he and I respectively contributed introductions.

These are two of my favorite books in the whole world, and I’m so excited to be a part of this.

Now, on to the hype!

Machine has already been featured in several “coming in October” lists, including a first for me—the Amazon Best Books Of The Month list.

Ernest Lilley has listed Machine in his Amazing Stories column as well. along with a review, and we made the cut at Nerds of a Feather’s New Books Spotlight by Joe Sherry and Andrew Liptak’s Reading List newsletter!

I can’t believe the company I find myself in this month. It’s an amazing feeling, and I’m just awed to be on lists with people like Naomi Novik, C. L. Polk, and Rebecca Roanhorse… V. E. Schwab… Seanan McGuire… okay, I could be here all week. ;)

Oh wait, I am here all week. It’s book launch week! There’s no escaping! (It’s like Street Cleaning Day, for the Night Vale fans.)

I also did a virtual panel for New York Comicon with Tochi Onyebuchi, Essa Hansen, Christopher Paolini, and Elaine Mongeon and Glen Zipper! Which you an watch right here:

Phew.

That’s it for today, I think. Further updates in a few, and I’m working on the book club post for paid subscribers, which this month will feature Network Effect (of course) and Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal. Which is a reread, but given that the pandemic has us all finding ways to be thriftier in the kitchen, a timely one.

Stay safe out there, fellow humans.

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