These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit) is the winner of the 2024 Philip K. Dick Award.
The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman (Tin House) received a special citation.
The other nominees were:
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Nightmare 10/23, 11/23, 12/23 Heartlines Spec #3 The Deadlands 10/23, 11/23
In Nightmare #133, I found “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones to be notable. One of the most terrifying of modern horrors is the slaughter of school children by lone gunmen. Jones conjures a magical escape route for the innocents, but it is far from a safe haven. It’s a difficult theme to attempt, ...Read More
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NALO HOPKINSON was born December 20, 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up there and in Trinidad and Guyana, though she also spent some time in the US as a child. Her father was noted Guyanese poet Muhammad Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson. She moved with her family to Toronto, Canada in 1977, where she lived until relocating to Riverside CA in 2011. She earned a Master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction ...Read More
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Locus magazine has a long history in our field; from a one-page zine founded to support a Worldcon bid, it has grown to become the premier industry magazine for science fiction and fantasy publishing. For decades, they’ve covered the news from authors signing with agents to sales of books to ...Read More
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Submissions are now open for the third Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest.
The contest is run by Fix, Grist‘s “solutions lab,” and will be judged by authors Omar El Akkad and Annalee Newitz. They seek entries between 2,500 and 5,000 words that “envision the future of climate progress.” This year’s theme asks writers to “envision a future where humanity overcomes the climate crisis and builds ...Read More
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Asimov’s Science Fiction
Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention. There were 1,720 valid nominating ballots received and counted from members of the 2023 and 2024 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2024 Hugo Awards. Voting on the final ballot will open during April 2024.
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In the West, science fiction has been shaped by magazines like Astounding, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Locus, Galaxy, Amazing Stories, Analog, Lightning Speed, Destiny, Galileo, Asimov’s, F&SF, New Worlds, Vertex, and others. Editors like Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell took a keen interest in directing the respective authors to write stories as the days demanded. Unlike in the West, India has had no history of science fiction magazine in general ...Read More
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Strange Horizons 11/13/23, 11/20/23, 11/27/23, 12/4/23, 12/11/23 Cast of Wonders 12/3/23 Hexagon 12/23 Flash Fiction Online 12/23
At Strange Horizons, November brought a rather chilling look at future technology with Sam Kyung Yoo’s “Nextype” (to all practical scientists reading, please do not invent Nextype). In it, Mirae has been implanted with the titular technology, a brain implant meant to give her an advantage in life – one ...Read More
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Come spend a few minutes with Amelia finding out about all the great books coming out this week! Science fiction, fantasy, horror, young adult, you name it!
Read moreConvention organizer and editor Deb Geisler, 66, died March 23, 2024. She was in home hospice care with lung and heart disease. Geisler was best known for her work running Boston-area conventions, including a Worldcon.
Deborah M. Geisler was born September 20, 1957 in Dayton OH. She attended Ohio University, where she earned bachelor and master’s degrees, and got her PhD at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She taught communication and journalism ...Read More
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezik/OD Ekpeki Presents, 978-1-64710-077-3, $11.49, 450pp, eb) December 2023.
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 opens with WC Dunlap’s “March Magic”, a brief story about a critical day in twentieth-century American history. It is 28 August 1963, the day of the March on Washington, and Mama Willow, a swamp witch – ...Read More
Read moreAuthor James A. Moore, 58, died March 27, 2024. Moore was an award-winning author of more than 50 fantasy and horror titles.
James Arthur Moore was born September 3, 1965 in Atlanta GA. He began publishing work of genre interest with House of Secrets (1995, with Kevin Andrew Murphy), and his first solo novel was Hell-Storm (1996). Other notable books include Under the Overtree (2000), Fireworks (2001), Bram Stoker Award ...Read More
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The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”), celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.” Nominees of genre interest follow.
LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction
Kat Clay and Ian Nichols of Australia are the candidates for the 2024 Going Under Fan Fund (GUFF), which will send fans from Oceania to Europe to attend Glasgow 2024: A Worldcon for our Futures, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 8-12, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Voting is open until April 22, 2024. For more information, see the GUFF website.
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Red Side Story, Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton 978-1444763669, £17.99, 384pp, hc) February 2024. (Soho Press 978-1-64129-628-1, $29.95, 456pp, hc) May 2024.
When Jasper Fforde did clever things in The Eyre Affair (2001), I was one of many people who fell in love with this funny, bizarre, slightly-askew-to-reality world. Fforde was writing humorous fantasy that commented on and skewered the real one. It sounded superficially like the Discworld novels ...Read More
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The six-title shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Authors and titles of genre interest include:
The initial 70 titles on the longlist were “nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries around the world.” The shortlist features “6 books nominated by
The shortlist for the 2024 Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction has been announced. The prize is “open to both published and unpublished writers and aims to seek out the best established and up and coming voices in the form.” The theme for the 2024 prize was “The Uncanny.”
There were 7 shortlisted stories from the following authors:
The Briar Book of the Dead, A.G. Slatter (Titan Books, 978-1-80336-454-4, $16.99, 368pp, tp) February 2024.
When I reviewed A.G. (Angela) Slatter’s 2022 novel The Path of Thorns, I said she was one of the best contemporary fantasists in the field. But I was wrong; my vision was too narrow. Angela is simply one of the best contemporary writers of fiction, regardless of genre. Deep down, I already ...Read More
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Jones, Stephen Graham: The Angel of Indian Lake (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 9781668011669, $28.99, 464pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 03/26/2024)
Supernatural thriller/horror novel, third in the Indian Lake trilogy featuring slasher film buff Jade (now Jennifer) Daniels. Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her. Ebook also available. Simultaneous with the Titan Books UK ...Read More
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Phantastische Akademie has announced the winners for the 2024 SERAPH, a German fantasy award.
Best Debut
Kelley Armstrong, Cocktails & Chloroform (Subterranean 12/23) The latest volume in the A Rip Through Time Series (“Outlander meets The Alienist”) sees contemporary homicide detective Mallory Atkinson stuck in Victorian Edinburgh, where she investigates a sex-trafficking scheme. “A quick read… with reliable companions tackling all sorts of villains while also engaging in the sort of banter at which Armstrong excels.” [Colleen Mondor]
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Richard A. Kirk is an author, illustrator, and visual artist. He is the author of novels The Lost Machine and Necessary Monsters, and illustrated collection Magpie’s Ladder. Illustrated novel Tailor of Echoes was published in early 2022. He has illustrated works by Clive Barker, Christopher Golden, Frank Herbert, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Thomas Ligotti, China Miéville, the rock band Korn, and others. Kirk’s artwork is exhibited and collected internationally. ...Read More
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These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart, Izzy Wasserstein (Tachyon 978-1-61696-412-2, $15.95, 174pp, tp; -413-9, $11.95, ebook) March 2024.
The term “dystopia” has been so widely and sloppily overused of late that, in the eyes of some, I suppose, it might just as well refer to anyplace without a Starbucks. Without parsing definitions, I’ve always thought of it as a bad society resulting from actual policies and decisions, not just ...Read More
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Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea, C. D. Rose (Melville House 978-1-68589-084-1, $19.99, 224pp, tp) January 2024.
I love a lot of books. But I also love a lot of authors. This means that I rarely read more than one book by a writer in any given year. What I certainly don’t do is buy a new (to me) author’s back catalogue, even if I adored their work. I ...Read More
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Winners have been announced for the 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, including titles of genre interest.
Older Readers’
Younger Readers’
Iain J. Clark will design the base of the 2024 Hugo Award trophy, and Sara Felix will design the 2024 Lodestar Award trophy.
Each year, the rocket-shaped Hugo Award trophy “is given a unique base design to reflect the personality of the hosting Worldcon.” The Lodestar trophy is also given a unique design every year. Felix previously designed the first Lodestar trophy in 2018.
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Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham, John Wyndham (Subterranean 978-1-64524-143-0, $50.00, 424pp, hc) April 2024.
So many impressive writers of short fiction have shown up over the past few decades that it’s worth wondering how the writers of earlier generations seem to be holding up. A couple of new collections from two very different figures, Harlan Ellison and John Wyndham, might offer some clues. There was a ...Read More
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We hope you all had a fantastic St. Patrick’s Day! We’re back at it again with another video for you, so just relax and we’ll catch you up on the top science fiction, fantasy, horror, and YA books that are slated to hit bookstore (and Amazon) shelves for March 18th, with reviews and blurbs and covers!
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The inaugural Wayward Wormhole workshop was held November 1-21, 2023 at Castle de Llaés in Gurb, Spain.
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Author and professor of mathematics Vernor Vinge, 79, died from Parkinson’s disease on March 20, 2024. He was noted for introducing the technological singularity concept (AKA the Singularity) and known for his gripping hard science fiction.
Vernor Vinge was born in Waukesha Wisconsin on October 2, 1944. He was married to fellow science fiction author Joan D. Vinge from 1972 to 1979.
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The shortlist for the 2024 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (Granta).
The annual Dylan Thomas prize, in partnership with Swansea University, awards £20,000 “to the best published or produced literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under.” This year’s judges are Tice Cin, Namita Gokhale, Jon Gower, Seán Hewitt, and Julia Wheeler.
