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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 12/24 Uncanny 1-2/25 The Deadlands Winter ’25

Before launching into new fiction for the (at this writing) still-new year of 2025, let’s mention Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #49. It is a 2024 publication but came out late in the year. The issue contains two works of fiction: novella “Pomegranate Hearts” by Dora Holland and short story “Hannah and Grackle, Lost in the Woods ...Read More

When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga 978-1-6680-6004-9, $29.99, 464pp, hc) April 2025.

In a career that has ranged from Dickian SF to rural horror, one scenario that seems to fascinate Daryl Gregory is bringing a small but diverse group of characters together under stress, whether survivors of gruesome horror stories (We Are All Completely Fine) or disparate members of a family gifted with psychic pow­ers ( ...Read More

Clarkesworld 12/24

“Stranger Seas Than These” by L. Chan in the December issue of Clarkesworld is full of lovely imagery and worldbuilding. Anna Maria, Pro­fessor Lin, and Sister Penitence are trapped in a submersible inside a dead Godwhale. When their readings suggest the Godwhale may be alive after all, Anna Maria jacks into the submersible in an attempt to communicate and ask for help getting home. Chan does ...Read More

The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan 978-1-80336-456-8, $18.99, 368pp, tp) February 2025.

Every time I review a new novel by A.G. Slatter set in the Sourdough Universe, I suggest you go back and read the other books – whether it’s the collections Sourdough and Other Stories and The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings or the novels All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, and The Briar ...Read More

Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/26/24 Diabolical Plots 12/24

There’s only one December issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies this year, and it contains a pair of epistolary stories dealing with injustice, royalty, and punishment. Shoshana Groom’s “The Be­loved Sisters of the Sun-Bleached Hills” unfolds as a series of letters between sisters Zarina and Durdana, who live in different kingdoms but who are facing the same alarming trend – their ...Read More

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Recipients have been announced for the 2025 Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize. Those of genre interest include Rana Dasgupta and Patricia J. Williams, both honored for nonfiction, and Sigrid Nunez, honored for fiction.

The Windham-Campbell Prize was established in 2013 “to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.” The prize is administered by Yale University, with ...Read More

Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage (Tor) won this year’s the Crawford Award, presented at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando FL on March 22, 2025. The award jury received 59 submissions from over 30 publishers, by authors from 20 different countries. Eleven of the submitted novels were translations. Judges were Brian Attebery, Eddie Clark, Candas Jane Dorsey, Mimi Mondal, and Yilin Wang.

The administrator was ...Read More

Author L.J. Smith, 66, died March 8, 2025 in Danville CA after a long illness. Smith was best known for the bestselling Vampire Diaries series and the Night World series.

Lisa Jane Smith was born September 4, 1958 in Fort Lauderdale FL and grew up in Villa Park in Southern California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University, and worked for three years as ...Read More

Once Was Willem, M.R. Carey (Orbit 978-0-316-50502-4, $18.99, 320pp, tp) March 2025.

Once Was Willem, M.R. Carey’s new supernatu­ral medieval fantasy, is a gorgeously written visit to 12th century England, a time of murderous lords, preoccupied kings and the life-and-death struggles of a small village called Cosham in the fiefdom of Pennick. This was the place and time of narrator Willem Turling, who died from illness at the ...Read More

The shortlist for the 2025 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt (Jonathan Cape) and Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon (Fig Tree).