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Eric Brown (1960-2023)
Writer Eric Brown, 62, died March 21, 2023 of sepsis. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2022. Brown was the author of over 50 books, and a longtime SF reviewer for The Guardian.
Brown was born was born May 24, 1960 in Haworth, West Yorkshire. He traveled extensively in Greece and Asia in the ’80s, eventually settling in Berwickshire, Scotland.
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness, James Tiptree, Jr. (Subterranean 978-1-64524-107-2, $45.00, 376pp, hc) April 2023.
The last line in James Tiptree, Jr.’s last story is “He headed down the highway, to encounter the existential Unknown.” The story, “In Midst of Life”, is haunting for a number of reasons, not least of which is its description of the surprisingly gentle afterlife of a man who has just committed ...Read More

Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: GigaNotoSaurus, Flash Fiction Online, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and F&SF
GigaNotoSaurus 12/22 Flash Fiction Online 12/22 Three-Lobed Burning Eye 12/22 F&SF 1-2/23
December’s GigaNotoSaurus story has some strong Star Trek vibes with “Patterns in Stone and Stars” by MV Melcer, where a Federation in conflict with different galactic powers needs to determine if the inhabitants of a certain strategically important planet are sentient and therefore would prevent the world from being colonized. Szkazy is from the outer ...Read More

Paula Guran Reviews The Deadlands, PodCastle, and Dark Matter
The Deadlands 11/22, 12/22 PodCastle 12/20/22 Dark Matter 11-12/22
The Deadlands is a monthly speculative fiction magazine. They “publish short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It is an adventure into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d ...Read More

Adrienne Martini Reviews Dead Country by Max Gladstone
Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom 978-0-7653-9591-7, $17.99, 256 pp, tp) March 2023. Cover by Goni Montes.
Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence created a world in which slivers of soul are used as currency and lawyers are as close to clerics as you can get. All six books in the sequence can be read independently of each other, mostly, but reading them all in any order tells a more complete story ...Read More

Ian Mond Reviews The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff (Harper 978-0-06-325689-7, $30.00, 320pp, hc) February 2023.
As many readers of Locus will know, Maureen Kincaid Speller passed away on September 18, 2022. She was an outstanding critic (a collection of her reviews and essays, edited by Nina Allan, will be out from Luna Press in 2023) and a generous and insightful editor for Strange Horizons. Maureen was ...Read More

Colleen Mondor Reviews The Wicked Remain by Laura Pohl
The Wicked Remain, Laura Pohl (Sourcebooks Fire 978-1-7282-2890-7, $10.99, tp, 462 pp) September 2022. Cover by Ray Shappell.
Laura Pohl finishes off her Grimrose Girls duology with The Wicked Remain and there is a lot, A LOT, to absorb in this 450+ page read. Picking up soon after the events of The Grimrose Girls, our four heroines are reeling from the discovery in that book that they are ...Read More
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2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the winners for the 2022 NBCC awards. Authors and titles of genre interest include Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) which won in the Fiction category, and Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Tin House) which took the John Leonard Prize. City Lights bookstore in San Francisco was honored with the Toni Morrison Achievement Award for “institutions that

Colson Whitehead Receives National Medal
Colson Whitehead received a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Biden on March 21, 2023. Whitehead was among 12 honorees for the National Humanities Medals, as well as honorees for National Medals of Arts. “With genre-defying craftsmanship and creativity, Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novels make real the African American journey through our Nation’s continued reckoning with the original sin of slavery and our ongoing march toward a more perfect Union.”
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2023 International Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2023 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Limberlost by Robbie Arnott (Atlantic).
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 Jon Gower, Rachel Long, Prajwal Parajuly, Di Speirs, and Maggie Shipstead.
The winner

Platz Named Nebula Awards Toastmaster
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced that performer and designer Cheryl Platz will be toastmaster at the 58th Annual Nebula Awards to be presented May 14, 2023 in Anaheim CA. SFWA President Jeffe Kennedy said, “We are proud to welcome Cheryl Platz as our 2023 Toastmaster. Platz shares our love of game writing and exploring new worlds — from the page to the movie screen and ...Read More

Alexandra Pierce Reviews Nightwatch Over Windscar by K. Eason
Nightwatch Over Windscar, K. Eason (DAW 978-0-75641-859-5, $28.00, 480pp, hc) November 2022. Cover by Tim Green.
First things first: you definitely don’t want to read this without reading the first in the series, Nightwatch on the Hinterlands (2021). This second book in the series opens just months after the events in the first, and while there is a little backstory as a reminder of the stakes, it’s definitely not ...Read More

Karen Burnham Reviews Short Fiction: Future SF Digest and Asimov’s
Future SF Digest 12/22 Asimov’s 11-12/22
As I wrap up my reading year for 2022, I’m sorry to also be noting the shuttering, at least for now, of one of my favorite venues. Future Science Fiction Digest, edited by Alex Shvartsman, is going on hiatus as of its 17th issue. It started publishing in 2018 (the same year I started my short fiction column here) with an emphasis on international ...Read More

2023 Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices
Analog has announced the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, open to “any writer over 18 years of age who customarily identifies as Black, has not published nor is under contract for a book, and has three or less paid fiction publications.”
Submissions will be read blind. Please remove all identifying information from the document before sending it. The file name should be the title of the story. Submissions should ...Read More

2023 Yoto Carnegie Medals Shortlists
The shortlists for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing
- The Light in Everything, Katya Balen, illustrated by Sydney Smith (Bloomsbury)
- When Shadows Fall, Sita Brahmachari, illustrated by Natalie Sirett (Little Tiger)
- Medusa, Jessie Burton, illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury)
- The Eternal Return of Clara Hart

2023 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Winner and Shortlist
Alina Pete’s “Telling the Soul of Mars” is the winner of the 2022 Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award. The $1,000 prize is given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) to “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.” Other finalists are “The Good One” by Allanah Hunt, “The Tangle” by Rae Mariz, and “Spirit Medicine” by Gina McGuire.
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Authors’ Club Best First Novel Shortlist
The six-title shortlist for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award has been announced, and includes When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Hamish Hamilton).
The award is open to any debut novel written in English and published in the UK. The £2,500 winner will be announced at a dinner at the National Liberal Club on May 24, 2023.
For more information, visit the Authors’ Club website.
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