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2024 Kirkus Prize Finalists
Kirkus has announced finalists for their 2024 prizes. Authors and titles of genre interest follow.
Fiction
- The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich (Harper)
- James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)
- Prophet Song, Paul Lynch (Atlantic)
- Playground, Richard Powers (Norton)
Young Adult
- Bright Red Fruit, Safia Elhillo (Make Me A World)
Other categories include Nonfiction, Picture Book, and Middle-Grade. “Each award comes with a $50,000 cash prize. Books become eligible
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews To Turn the Tide by S. M. Stirling
To Turn the Tide, S. M. Stirling (Baen 978-1982193539, hardcover, 464pp, $28.00) August 2024
Time travel novels—recently, a trendy favorite of non-genre slipstream authors—have reached a state of incredible complexity. Multiverses, paradoxes, change wars, closed loops, and doppelgangers proliferate. This is all very entertaining, but sometimes it’s nice to read a simple, straightforward “person visits past, gets stuck, makes do” kind of book. A chrono-Robinsonade. That’s exactly what S. ...Read More
Jake Casella Brookins Reviews The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca
The Jaguar Mask, Michael J. DeLuca (Stelliform 978-1-77809-260-2, 348pp, $19.00, tp) August 2024. Cover by Julia Louise Pereira.
I was quite charmed by Michael J. DeLuca’s novella Night Roll, a solarpunk-adjacent fantasy set in Detroit. In his debut novel, The Jaguar Mask, DeLuca takes up a different kind of magic, but a similar kind of realism: a story of individuals and communities resisting oppression, on wounded but still ...Read More
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
Blackheart Man, Nalo Hopkinson (Saga 978-1-6680-0510-1, $28.99, 384pp, hc) August 2024.
Those who have been following Nalo Hopkinson’s fascinating (and Grand Master-winning) career have long been aware that a major novel titled Blackheart Man has been in the works for some time. In a Locus interview a couple of months ago, Hopkinson said she’d been working on it for more than fifteen years, and she even mentioned the book ...Read More
Liz Bourke Reviews The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso
The Last Hour Between Worlds, Melissa Caruso (Orbit 978-0-31630-347-7, $19.99, 432pp, tp) November 2024.
If I tell you that I love The Last Hour Between Worlds to pieces, that I read it when I was miserably sick and it took me entirely out of myself from the first page to the last, that’s probably not quite enough information to constitute a proper review. Melissa Caruso’s latest novel, her first ...Read More
Jake Casella Brookins Reviews Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
Toward Eternity, Anton Hur (HarperVia 978-0-06334-448-8, 256pp, $26.99, hc) July 2024. Cover by Stephen Brayda.
Initially set in a near-future Cape Town, South Africa, and eventually taking us to ever more distant times and locales, Anton Hur’s debut novel Toward Eternity begins with scientist Mali Beeko confronting the mysterious disappearance and reapparance of “Patient One.” Mali specializes in a nanotechnology treatment that cures cancer by replacing the host’s cells with ...Read More
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Paula Guran Reviews Momma Durtt by Michael Shea
Momma Durtt, Michael Shea (Hippocampus Press 978-1-61498-417-7, 310pp. $20.00, tp) July 2024. Cover by Tom Brown.
Michael Shea (1946 – 2014) is usually noted for his World Fantasy Award-winning fantasy novel Nifft the Lean, but he is almost as well-known among horror lovers for his Lovecraftian fiction. Among a multitude of short work in this latter category is a 2012 novelette: ‘‘Momma Durtt’’. It is a good allegorical ...Read More
2024 Prix Rosny Aîné Winners
The winners for the 2024 Prix Rosny Aîné have been announced. The prize is awarded to SF novels and short stories written in French and published in print in 2023.
Best Novel
- WINNER: Paideia, Claire Garand (Volte)
- Les Contes suspendus, Guillaume Chamanadjian (Forges Vulcan)
- L’Armée fantoche, Claire Duvivier (Forges Vulcan)
- La Cité diaphane, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
- Tonnerre après les ruines, Floriane Soulas (Argyll)
Best Short
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Melancholy of Untold History by Minsoo Kang
The Melancholy of Untold History, Minsoo Kang (William Morrow 978-0-06333-750-3, $28.00, 240pp, hc) July 2024.
Early in Minsoo Kang’s remarkable first novel The Melancholy of Untold History, a character known only as the historian makes an interesting observation about how civilizations tell their own stories. First, he says, come ‘‘tales of gods, monsters, and heroes,’’ followed by historical narratives of ‘‘important personages of the past who achieved great things ...Read More
Gabino Iglesias Reviews The Redemption of Morgan Bright by Chris Panatier
The Redemption of Morgan Bright, Chris Panatier (Angry Robot 978-1-9152-028-95, $18.99, 416pp, pb) April 2024. Cover by Sarah O’Flaherty.
Chris Panatier’s The Redemption of Morgan Bright is a great psychological thriller full of mystery that slowly morphs into a full-blown horror novel. At once the story of a sister looking for answers, a narrative about a crumbling psyche, and a tale that gets progressively more mysterious with each new revelation, ...Read More