Macmillan expects to reopen offices on July 7, 2022, following the “security incident” that shut down their operations on June 25, 2022. The closure included physical offices “out of an abundance of caution.”
Most systems are operational for employees again, and Macmillan has resumed warehouse operations, and are now receiving, processing, and shipping orders again.
In its latest statement Macmillan says the company is bringing extra resources to bear in ...Read More
No Second Chances, Rio Youers (Morrow 978-0-06300-105-3, $27.99, 400pp, hc) May 2022.
Rio Youers’s No Second Chances is many things: a thriller, a story of redemption, a crime novel, a tale of friendship, and a narrative about identity, influence, and power that sometimes dips its toes into the realm of horror. However, the important thing is that it’s wildly entertaining, and that it might be Youers’s best book yet. ...Read More
khōréō 3/22 Luna Station Quarterly 3/22 Shoreline of Infinity 3/22
Starting in on its second year, khōréō has another strong issue with five original stories. ‘‘Phoenix Tile’’ by Guan Un is a fun story about Ah Lok, a trickster demigod starting to fade out in Chinatown. He cons his way to the East Wind’s hangout, and mayhem ensues – possibly enough chaos to get him back on track. ...Read More
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris 978-1-78618-509-9, $18.99, 420pp, tp) June 2022.
In his introduction to Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan (who is both my podcast co-host and this magazine’s reviews editor) echoes an observation that ought to be self-evident, but that is often overlooked by readers and writers who get caught up in the theoretical mechanics of time ...Read More
Apex #130 PodCastle 2/23/22 PseudoPod 3/11/22
“Nine Theories of Time” by Spencer Nitkey leads off the six original stories of Apex #130. It is not so much a story as an eloquent meditation on time, life, death, and grief.
In the near future of “To Live and Die in Dixieland” by Russell Nichols, brothers Walter and Royce Mitchell develop a virtual reality platform, Dixieland, in ...Read More
El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl, a Chicano Sci-fi Anthology, Scott Russell Duncan, Armando Rendón, Jenny Irizary, eds. (Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press 979-8-409-93671-6, $10.00, 220pp, pb) May 2022. Cover by Polaris Castillo.
El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl offers readers a surprisingly comprehensive look at what contemporary Mexican-American science fiction has to offer. With a mix of up-and-coming writers and seasoned veterans of the genre, this anthology celebrates diversity ...Read More
Solarpunk Magazine 1-2/22, 3-4/22 The Sunday Morning Transport 3/6, 3/27, 4/3/22 Clarkesworld 4/22
I was sent the debut issue of Solarpunk Magazine, and I liked it so much I followed up with the second issue. While I tend to be skeptical of using “punk” as a suffix denoting various subgenres of speculative fiction, I’m more sympathetic to its use here. There’s so much news and so much of it is ...Read More
Greetings from beyond the paywall! We have been posting new content monthly on our Patreon Archive Feed – scans of vintage Locus and audio clips from author interviews and more – and wanted to share a little of what that feed looks like by making some of our earlier posts public. Come check out this post on our Patreon with an audio clip of J.G. Ballard.
In addition to all ...Read More
Greetings from beyond the paywall! We have been posting new content monthly on our Patreon Archive Feed – scans of vintage Locus and older audio clips from author interviews and more – and wanted to share a little of what that looks like.
In addition to all the benefits of lower tiers, including a digital subscription and other perks, patrons pledging $15+ monthly have access to the Archive content (AKA ...Read More
Finalists for the ninth annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award have been announced:
Olaposi Halim and Davina Kawuma have been announced as the 2022 Fellows for The Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors. Started by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, the fellowship “aims to support, elevate and connect emerging fiction authors of Black and/or African descent, based primarily on the African continent and writing in English.”
The fellows were selected out of 76 applicants, and were judged anonymously. Fellows “will be offered a funded ($500 ...Read More
Jesmyn Ward will be awarded the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction “for a lifetime of outstanding work.” Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said,
Jesmyn Ward’s literary vision continues to become more expansive and piercing, addressing urgent questions about racism and social injustice being voiced by Americans… Jesmyn’s writing is precise yet magical, and I am pleased to recognize her contributions to literature with this prize.
Ward was ...Read More
WisCon 45 was held May 27-30, 2022, in person at the Concourse Hotel in Madison WI, as well as online. Sheree Renée Thomas and Rebecca Roanhorse were guests of honor; Roanhorse participated virtually. Zen Cho and Yoon Ha Lee, also originally scheduled as guests of honor, were unable to participate but were honored nonetheless. There were 763 memberships, with 216 virtual memberships and an estimated 407 in-person attendees. Programming offered ...Read More
The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) announced the 2021 winners of their 50 Books | 50 Covers competition. The list features a number of titles and authors of genre interest, including After the Sun by Jonas Eika with cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead), Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby with cover design by Lydia Ortiz (Penguin), The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk with cover design by ...Read More
Finalists for the 2022 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction were announced on Twitter:
The winner will receive a plaque ...Read More
The Fervor, Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam’s Sons 978-0-59332-833-0, $27.00, 320pp, hc) April 2022.
Fantasy, spy thrillers, horror; Alma Katsu can do it all. A quick glance at her oeuvre, which includes titles like Red Widow, a 2021 spy thriller that changed the game by focusing on women; the Taker Trilogy, which brings together the supernatural with elements of fantasy, romance, and suspense; and The Hunger, a truly ...Read More
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has revised their requirements for Full and Associate memberships.
The requirements set for Full and Associate members are as follows:
A candidate shall be eligible for Full Membership if:
Lesley Conner has announced her new role as co Editor-in-Chief of Apex Magazine, alongside Jason Sizemore.
Conner said,
Jason and I have worked closely together on every issue of Apex Magazine since he stepped back into the role of Editor-in-Chief in Jan 2015 and I became managing editor, but since the first “Lesley” issue in Nov 2021 my role at Apex has really grown.
For more information about Apex, see ...Read More
Winners for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards have been announced.
Best Novel
Best Young Adult
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (Tor 978-1-25081-389-3, $25.99, 256pp, HC) June 2022.
Katherine Addison’s The Grief of Stones is a novel I scarcely feel capable of reviewing as it deserves. Addison’s The Goblin Emperor is rightly considered a modern classic, a storytelling tour-de-force, and other books set in the same world were long-awaited. This anticipation culminated last year, with The Witness for the Dead, a mystery novel ...Read More
Macmillan, including UK branch Pan Macmillan, suffered a “security incident, which involves the encryption of certain files on our network” on Saturday, June 25, 2022. In response and “out of an abundance of caution,” Macmillan closed physical and virtual offices, and stated in an email that “customers, employees, and other third-party partners may notice that certain systems are unavailable.” While their websites are still active, sales and delivery of goods ...Read More
The Immortal King Rao, Vauhini Vara (Norton 978-0-393-54175-5, $27.95, 384pp, hc) May 2022.
Along with Adam Roberts’ The This and Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, is the third book I’ve read this year that imagines a future where people have direct neural access to social media and the internet. This growing literary trend, a mix of cyberpunk and transhumanism, ...Read More
The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, John Kessel (Subterranean Press 978-1-64524-058-7, $45.00, 582pp, hc) June 2022.
I love big career-retrospective single-author collections, especially when the author provides notes on genesis and biographical context. John Kessel’s turn has come with The Dark Ride, a gathering of 20 stories from 1981-2021 that shows his command of a wide range of motifs and styles and his recurring ...Read More
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the annual Rhysling Awards for SF, fantasy, and horror poetry in the short form category. This year’s winners are:
The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced via Twitter a call for jurors to read applications for the Older Writers Grant as well as the Diverse Worlds and Diverse Writers grants.
SLF is a non-profit arts foundation, focused on the speculative literature community. “If interested, send a brief note to grants@speculativeliterature.org with the subject line: JUROR.”
For more information on the SLF and the grants in question, see their site.
While ...Read More
Winners for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards have been announced, including several titles and authors of genre interest. Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge & Joshua Viola, eds. (Hex) is the winner of the Anthology category, and Rise of the Red Hand by Olivia Chadha (Erewhon) is the winner in the Young Adult Literature category. The Science Fiction/Fantasy category winner is The Reincarnationist ...Read More
The 2022 Indie Book Awards Winners have been announced. Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden (Canongate) won in the Fiction category, and When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds, with Akhran Girmay as illustrator (Atheneum; Faber), won in the Children’s Fiction category. There were several titles and authors of genre interest on the shortlist.
The Indie Book Awards are for paperback books and are “curated exclusively by independent ...Read More
Fusion Fragment 3/22 Lightspeed 4/22 Fantasy 4/22
March also sees the first 2022 content from Fusion Fragment, with their tenth issue. Jennifer Hudak kicks things off with the bittersweet “The Topography of Memory”, which finds a narrator returning home for the first anniversary of her brother’s death, only to find she can’t quite find her way. The story is weighted with guilt as the narrator navigates their own ...Read More
