Today Only — Get Todd McAulty’s The Robots of Gotham for Just $2.99
Todd McAulty was one of the most popular writers in the print version of Black Gate. Free SF Reader said “McAulty appears to be world class,” and Locus declared “Todd McAulty is Black Gate‘s great discovery.” His debut novel, The Robots of Gotham, was published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June, and has been accumulating rave reviews ever since:
“Massive and impressive… McAulty maintains breathless momentum throughout.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The whole story is a thrilling action flick in book form… Read it while walking in slow-motion away from an explosion.” — RevolutionSF
“Beautifully combines a post-apocalyptic man-versus-machine conflict and a medical thriller… This is thrilling, epic SF.”— Booklist (starred review)
“A massive, fast-paced, action-packed epic… Every page has the fierce readability of early Neal Stephenson, which is as high praise as it gets.”— Toronto Star
“A fast-paced, engaging read… The book is a thrilling ride.”— The Verge
Amazon’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (So Far)
The Robots of Gotham is 688 pages, and priced at $26 in hardcover. But for today only, August 29th, the digital version of the book has been discounted to $2.99. Copies are available at Amazon, Kobo, and other fine online retailers.
I recently finished Robots of Gotham, and I sincerely hope there are more stories coming; it is a fantastic universe and I hate to think the wonderful world building of that novel dies on the vine.
A great book, and I hope there’s more to come.
Hi Bill,
Thanks so much for the comment. As has been revealed elsewhere, Todd McAulty is the pseudonym I write fiction under.
I’m very grateful for your interest. There is in fact one more story in the Robots of Gotham universe, an immediate sequel to the novel that was published in the October 2020 issue of Lightspeed magazine. It’s a tale of Barry Simcoe and Zircon Border, and their attempts to stop a 60-ton killer robot on the shores of Lake Michigan, and it’s available online completely free:
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ambient-intelligence/
As for the sequel itself, The Ghosts of Navy Pier, is it partially complete, but my publisher (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) shut down their science fiction imprint, John Joseph Adams Books, when John left in 2020.
John was the guiding light for the entire team, and in truth for The Robots of Gotham and without his involvement I didn’t feel the sequel could be completed the way I wanted. I still hope to finish the book someday, but at the moment I am working on other projects.
That makes a lot of sense. Books seem to be a little like children, in that it takes a village. And the right village for the right book; may your other projects always find the right team!