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People & Publishing Roundup, October 2024
VIDA CRUZ-BORJA is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
SCOTT WESTERFELD & JUSTINE LARBALESTIER sold adult novel The Mortons – “The Secret History meets The Sopranos meets Saltburn,” – and a second book to Jeramie Orton at Pamela Dorman Books at auction via Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management. UK rights sold to Rosa Schierenberg at Viking UK in a ...Read More
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The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca: Review by Niall Harrison
The Jaguar Mask, Michael J. DeLuca (Stelliform 978-1-77809-260-2, 348pp, $19.00, tp) August 2024. Cover by Julia Louise Pereira.
The story of The Jaguar Mask does not start on the first page, in which the artist Cristina Ramos relives the murder of her mother in a garish vision – four tattooed mareros with machine pistols, haloed by angels of death, gunning down two government employees, a foreign lobbyist, and Eufemia ...Read More
Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch: Review by Ian Mond
Napalm in the Heart, Pol Guasch (Faber & Faber UK 978-0571375257, £6.99, 256pp, hc) July 2024. (FSG Originals 978-0-37461-295-5, $18.00, 256pp, tp) August 2024.
Reading Pol Guasch’s debut, Napalm in the Heart, right after Helen Phillips’ Hum is a disorientating experience. Both authors present us with dystopias, but while Phillips cleaves to our reality, Guasch gives us something more symbolic and experimental, a dystopia unmoored from time and ...Read More
The Dark, Uncanny, Apex, and Weird Horror Fall: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran
The Dark 6/24 Uncanny 7-8/24 Apex #145 Weird Horror Fall ’24
The Dark #109 features two originals. “The Abandoned” by Jack Klausner is a haunting story that begins with a little girl finding a box in the schoolyard. It takes us through tragic mystery and ends in resignation. The protagonist in Beth Goder’s interesting “Labyrinth” visits the infamous Winchester Mystery House in a story that ...Read More
Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine: Review by Gabino Iglesias
Your Shadow Half Remains, Sunny Moraine (Nightfire 978-1-25089-220-1, $16.99, 176pp, tp) February 2024.
If you look at someone, you’re dead. Not just dead, but dead in some horrible, violent way. That’s the premise at the core of Sunny Moraine’s Your Shadow Half Remains. Yes, readers familiar with Josh Malerman’s Bird Box may see a similarity to that novel in that premise, but Your Shadow Half Remains is very different, ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit 978-0316578974, trade paperback, 432pp, $19.99) September 2024
If Michael Bishop and Tom Disch had collaborated to script an episode of the Aliens franchise, and then the result had been filmed by Toho Studios, the result might have well come to resemble Adrian Tchaikovsky’s newest kick in the pants, Alien Clay. This is one of three great books Tchaikovsky has released in 2024; similar ...Read More
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Zoe Kaplan (1996-2024)
Writer and publishing professional Zoe Kaplan, 28, died October 9, 2024 of complications from diabetes.
Kaplan began publishing short fiction of genre interest with “Pink Marble” in 2021, and published several other stories in magazines and anthologies. She also worked in publishing, spending time at Tor before joining Simon & Schuster in 2021, first as a member of the production team, and later as a managing editorial associate, working extensively ...Read More
2024 SKRIVA Short Story Competition Winners
Results of the 25th Fantastiknovelltävlingen, a Swedish “Fantastic Short Story Competition” organized by writers’ email list SKRIVA, have been announced.
First Place
- “Ormens väg” (“The Way of the Serpent”) by Ellinor Romin
Second Place
- “Tunnelskeende” (“Tunnel Event”) by Lizette Lindskog
Third Place
- “Väktaren på Tunnbindargatan” (“The Guardian of Cooper Street”) by Erika Johansson
Honorable Mentions
- Mattias Kuldkepp
- Camilla Olsson
- Jolina Petrén
- Tobias Robinson
Winners were awarded prizes including cash, shares
Flash Fiction Online, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur
Flash Fiction Online 6/24 Strange Horizons 6/9/24, 6/24/24 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/27/24, 7/11/24
The June Flash Fiction Online features a range of rather grim stories about characters caught in oppressive situations. Perhaps the most surprising is Kurt Pankau’s “A Pin Drops”, which imagines bowling technology advancing to the point where pins are made intelligent and sentient in order for them to protect one another and form familial ...Read More
Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her novel The Vegetarian was the first Korean language book to win the International Booker Award. The 2024 prize amount is 11 million Swedish kronor, just over $1 million US.
For more information, see the Nobel Prize website.
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The Deadlands : Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise
The Deadlands Spring ’24
“The Slave Boy” by Denzel Xavier Scott in the Spring 2024 issue of The Deadlands looks at different forms of captivity and freedom. A young boy contemplates his own imprisonment and the imprisonment of the talking animals he’s forced to care for, pitying them, but also resenting them and the way they mock and torment him. He meets a strange man who offers him ...Read More