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Julian Pavia is an Executive Editor acquiring thriller, mystery, suspense, science-fiction, and fantasy. He’s especially drawn to books with speculative elements that can cross over to a wide commercial audience or that play with genre in unexpected ways. He’s a sucker for a great first-person voice and for novels with that extra dose of verisimilitude and detail. His recent publications include Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, qntm’s There Is No Antimemetics Division, Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup, and Jakob Kerr’s Dead Money. His other bestsellers include Max Brooks’s Devolution, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One and Ready Player Two, Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter and Recursion, and Scott Hawkins’ The Library at Mount Char, as well as Andy Weir’s first two books, The Martian and Artemis. Julian joined Ballantine in 2019 after fifteen years at Crown, where he also published nonfiction across numerous categories.

Categories:  Action & Adventure  |  Commercial Fiction |  Gothic & Horror |  Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers  |  Science Fiction & Fantasy  |  Speculative Fiction