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2024 Williamson Lectureship
The 47th Williamson Lectureship was held April 11-13, 2024 in Portales NM. The theme of Lectureship, held at Eastern NM University and around town to honor SF pioneer Jack Williamson, was “Oh, the (In)Humanity”, and included discussions of AI, robots, posthumans/anti-humans, and guest of honor Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries, including 2023’s System Collapse. Connie Willis served as toastmistress.
San Jose criminalist Cordelia Willis started events Thursday with a presentation ...Read More
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A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Clarkesworld
Clarkesworld 3/24
Clarkesworld’s March issue opens with “Hello! Hello! Hello!” by Fiona Jones, a sweet story about an alien entity encountering a human adrift in a shuttle, eventually realizing that the human is dying, and carrying out a rescue mission. Jones does a wonderful job of presenting a truly alien alien, and showing the difficulties of communication between vastly dissimilar species, but also the possibilities opened up ...Read More
Ian Mond Reviews Power to Yield by Bogi Takács
Power to Yield, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye Books 978-1-40372-266-2, $17.99, 203pp, tp) February 2024.
Hungarian American poet, writer, translator, critic, and editor Bogi Takács has spent eir career promoting, encouraging, and showcasing the work of marginalised authors. The anthology Rosalind’s Siblings, edited by Takács and publishing poetry and fiction focusing on scientists erased or diminished because of their gender or sexuality, fittingly featured on the 2023 Locus Recommended ...Read More
Alex Brown Reviews Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis
Dead Girls Walking, Sami Ellis (Amulet Books 978-1-41976-676-3, $19.99, 368pp, hc) March 2024.
Serial killing runs in the family in Dead Girls Walking, Sami Ellis’s debut young adult horror novel. Several years ago, Thomas Baker was arrested, his reign of terror finally ended. He confessed to kidnapping, torturing, branding, and murdering more than a dozen people, burying their bodies on his sprawling farm. Temple grew up surrounded by ...Read More
Russell Letson Reviews Blade by Linda Nagata
Blade, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island Press 978-193719-744-5, $7.99, 308pp, eb) March 2024. Cover by Sarah Anne Layton
Subtract the mystery/thriller-family elements and most of the same tropes and devices enable Linda Nagata’s Blade, the fourth entry in her Inverted Frontier sequence, itself a continuation of the Nanotech Succession series. The frontier in question is inverted because the story line reverses the outward-bound pattern of much interstellar adventure by ...Read More
Colleen Mondor Reviews The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez
The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat, Camille Gomera-Tavarez (Levine Querido 978-1-646-14265-1, $19.99, 391pp, hc) February 2024. Cover by Dotun Abeshinbioke.
The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez is about navigating high school, finding true friends (and romance), and a magic jacket, magic ring, and magic baseball bat. (I’m not going to lie, while all of them are cool, the baseball bat really rocks.) ...Read More
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Octavia Butler Conference
The Huntington Library, which hosts the Octavia E. Butler Collection, has announced Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler, a “two-day conference [exploring] Octavia E. Butler, how we have learned from her writing, and what her archive at The Huntington can help future generations discover.”
The event will be held from May 23-24, 2024 at The Huntington in San Marino CA.
For more information, including the complete conference schedule, ...Read More
2024 SFRA Awards
The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) has announced the 2024 winners of its annual book awards.
The SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship
- Lisa Yaszek
The SFRA Innovative Research Award
- Rebekah Sheldon for “Generativity without Reserve: Sterility Apocalypses and the Enclosure of Life-Itself” (Science Fiction Film and Television Vol. 16 No. 3).
Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service
- Jeffrey Weinstock
Mary Kay Bray Award
- David Welch for
2024 Dagger Awards Shortlists
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards, including several titles and authors of genre interest.
Gold Dagger
- Over My Dead Body, Maz Evans (Headline)
- Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane (Harper)
- Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, Jesse Sutanto (Berkley)
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
- All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
- Ozark Dogs, Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
Historical Dagger ...Read More
2024 British Book Awards
The Bookseller has announced the winners of the 2024 British Book Awards, also known as The Nibbies, including several works of genre interest:
Fiction
- WINNER: Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang (Borough Press)
- The Ghost Ship, Kate Mosse (Mantle)
- Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Piaktus)
Pageturner
- WINNER: Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Piatkus)
- Icebreaker, Hannah Grace (Simon & Schuster)
- It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover (Simon & Schuster)
Apparition Lit to Close
Literary speculative fiction magazine Apparition Lit will close at the end of 2024.
The magazine was founded in 2017 by Rebecca Bennett, Clark Doty, Amy Robinson, and Tacoma Tomilson, who all served as senior editors.
In a post on Patreon, the editors thanked their staff and contributors, and explained, “It comes down to this: we’re tired and most of all, we miss writing for ourselves.”
Apparition Lit is no longer ...Read More