Publishers Weekly announced some new book deals today and it looks like we are headed into the year of Sci-Fi, which is actually really exciting. Check out the newly acquired books below and tell us what you think!
Brian DeFiore, at DeFiore and Company, sold world English rights to Rick Yancey’s YA sci-fi trilogy The 5th Wave to Putnam. Wave follows a teenage girl who survives an alien invasion only to then search for her brother, who may or may not have been abducted by human-looking extra-terrestrials. There is also a romantic angle, as the heroine is helped by a boy who might also be an alien in disguise. The manuscript is currently making the rounds in Hollywood.
In another major YA acquisition leading up to Bologna, Emily Meehan at Disney-Hyperion won North American rights at auction to Cristin Terrill’s debut, All Our Yesterdays. Disney said it was pitched as “a cross between The Terminator and The Time Traveler’s Wife”–in Hollywood. The novel, given its comparative titles, unsurprisingly has a time travel element; it’s about two teenage girls, the wealthy and popular Marina and the impoverished (and imprisoned) Em, who are, in actuality, the same person.
HarperCollins’s Greenwillow Books took North American rights, in a six-figure deal, to Salvage by Alexandra Duncan. Another YA science fiction entry, the book has what the publisher calls a “feminist slant” and follows a teenager raised on a male-run spaceship who comes to a scorched future Earth where she settles on a “floating island of garbage and debris.” Author Duncan is a librarian in North Carolina and has written a number of short stories. Greenwillow has Salvage set for a 2013 release.
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