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2024 Sturgeon Award Finalists
The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
- “The Rainbow Ghosts”, Violet Allen (Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention)
- “Patsy Cline Sings Sweet Dreams to the Universe”, Beston Barnett (Strange Horizons 11/20/23)
- “The Unpastured Sea”, Gregory Feely (Asimov’s 9-10/23)
- “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200″, R.S.A. Garcia
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Colleen Mondor Reviews Forgotten Sisters by Cynthia Pelayo
Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer 978-1-662-51391-6, $16.99, tp, 284pp) March 2024. Cover by Olga Grlic.
Cynthia Pelayo’s Forgotten Sisters begins with a nightmare, then moves to a nuanced family history of sisters Jennie and Anna, who live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River that was owned first by their grandparents, then their parents, and now is theirs to treasure and maintain. In the second chapter, ...Read More
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Niall Harrison Reviews Beyond the Light Horizon by Ken MacLeod
Beyond the Light Horizon, Ken MacLeod (Orbit 978-0-356-51482-6, £10.99, 336 pp, tp) May 2024. Cover by Duncan Spilling. (Pyr 978-1-64506-066-6, $21.00, 336pp, tp) June 2024.
Are Ken MacLeod novels realistic? Twenty-five years ago I would have said no. Reading the Fall Revolution series (1995-1999) as a teenager, part of the thrill (I see now) was the vivid granular depiction of a world that (I thought then) didn’t work that ...Read More
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews Echo of Worlds by M.R. Carey
Echo of Worlds, M. R. Carey (Orbit 978-0316504690, trade paperback, 512pp, $19.99) June 2024
I pled for the author’s and publisher’s mercy in my review of the first captivating book in this series—Infinity Gate—begging for a quick sequel. Well, about fourteen months later, a reasonable interval, here we are. Prayers answered!
I also mentioned then that Infinity Gate was billed as the first book in a series. ...Read More
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Liz Bourke Reviews The Knife and the Serpent by Tim Pratt
The Knife and the Serpent, Tim Pratt (Angry Robot 978-1915202802, $18.99, 400pp, tp) June 2024.
between Tim Pratt novels, I always forget just how unabashedly pulp he is as a writer. I say pulp as a compliment, not a criticism. Pratt has a gift for embracing the ridiculous and turning it into entertainment: playing the emotional field with seriousness while rolling around in weird and wacky SFFnal propositions. In ...Read More
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Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: GigaNotoSaurus, Fiyah, and Baffling
GigaNotoSaurus 3/24 Fiyah Spring ’24 Baffling 4/24
GigaNotoSaurus’s April story, “The Grandmother Hypothesis” by J.S. Richardson, finds the narrator jumping from reality to reality using a machine of her own creation – one that cannot take her home again. But returning to her own world was never the goal, not after losing her child, and the story follows the narrator as she loses herself trying to explore, ...Read More
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SFPA Announcement
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has banned all works created using generative AI from its publications and awards consideration. The policy was announced in a statement posted to the SFPA website: “The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s creative ...Read More
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BayCon to Host Westercons 77 and 78
BayCon will host both Westercon 77 (2025) and 78 (2026). Site selection for 2026 was held during Westercon 76, July 4-7, 2024 in Salt Lake City UT. BayCon 2025 was previously awarded the right to host Westercon 77, announced on June 14, 2024.
More information about the vote is available on the Westercon website. Information about BayCon 2025/Westercon 77 is available at the BayCon site.
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Virtual ICFA Call For Papers
VICFA 3, the third Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, is open to academic and creative proposals. The theme of the conference is “Pantheology in World-Building and Magic Systems,” but VICFA welcomes proposals “on any topic of interest and specialization whether part of the conference theme or independent of it.” Submissions are open until July 31, 2024, and the conference will take place online from October 9-12, ...Read More
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July Announcements
The Virginia Kidd Agency/Arrowhead SF Foundation will once again sponsor and host the SF Portion of the annual Milford Readers & Writers Festival, to be held September 13-15 2024 in Milford PA, with a few of the events hosted at Arrowhead,Virginia Kidd’s historic home (and still the offices of her eponymous agency.) This year’s panel is “Milford: Why Our Town Was/Is a Mecca For Science Fiction”, with panelists Lawrence C. ...Read More
2024 Ignotus Finalists
The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
- Ascensión [Ascesnion], Nicholas Binge, translated by Gemma Benavent (Minotauro)
- Mi corazón es una motosierra [My Heart Is a Chainsaw], Stephen Graham Jones, translated by Manuel de los Reyes (Biblioteca de Carfax)
- Hermana Roja [Red Sister], Mark Lawrence, translated by Natalia