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2023 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners
The winners of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction have been announced.
Novel
- WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga Press)
- The Daughters of Block Island, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
- Every Version Ends in Death, Aliya Chaudhry (Haunt)
- Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- The Militia House, John Milas (Henry Holt & Company)
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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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Alexandra Pierce Reviews The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books 978-1-25088-425-1, 400pp, $29.99 hc) April 2024. Cover by Jim Tierney & Emma Pidsley.
Spain in the 1500s was not a great place to be if your family were converso – a term applied to Jews or Muslims who had been (often forcefully) converted to Catholicism – and worse still if you were caught secretly practicing your familial faith: It was the time of the ...Read More
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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
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2024 Prix Rosny Aîné Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2024 Prix Rosny Aîné has been announced. The prize is awarded to SF novels and short stories written in French and published in print in 2023.
Best Novel
- Les Contes suspendus, Guillaume Chamanadjian (Forges Vulcan)
- L’Armée fantoche, Claire Duvivier (Forges Vulcan)
- La Cité diaphane, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
- Paideia, Claire Garand (Volte)
- Tonnerre après les ruines, Floriane Soulas (Argyll)
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2024 Heinlein Scholarship Recipients
Winners of the Heinlein Society’s annual undergraduate scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year were announced on July 7, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein’s 116th birthday.
This year’s winners are Gabriel Black, Elizabeth Bradshaw, Maya Krolik, and Luxanna Sands. The scholarship awards $4,000 to each recipient. Winners were selected from a record 744 applications, including 40 international submissions from 28 different countries.
Krolik received the Virginia Heinlein Memorial Scholarship, which is dedicated ...Read More
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2024 CSFFA Hall of Fame Inductees
The Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced three inductees to the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame for 2024: Astronaut Chris A. Hadfield and authors Nalo Hopkinson and Jo Walton.
This year’s jury included Ryah Deines, Gordon Johansen, Rebecca Lovatt, Michelle Sagara, and chair David Clink.
For more information, see the CSFFA website.
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