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Black Tide, KC Jones (Tor Nightfire 978-1-25079-269-3, $10.99, 256pp, hc) May 2022.

KC Jones’s Black Tide is a blend of horror, sci­ence fiction, and romance that somehow works. Weird, tense, and at times unexpectedly funny, this novel, which is Jones’s debut, has a cinematic atmosphere and a last third that contains enough alien monsters and action to hook fans of science fiction, adventure, and horror equally.

Mike and Beth ...Read More

More Perfect, Temi Oh (Simon and Schuster UK 978-1471171284, £16.99, 592pp, hc) May 2023. (Saga Press 978-1-98214-283-4, $19.99, 592pp, tp). August 2023.

More Perfect is described as ‘‘a reimag­ining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus.’’ This is true, given its plot, structure, numerous references, and the name of one of the main protagonists (Or­pheus). I think it also references the Yoruba legend of Queen Moremi, who ...Read More

Emergent Properties, Aimee Ogden (Tordotcom 978-1-25086-681-3, 128pp, $16.99 tp) July 2023.

Parent and parental figures may have hopes, expectations, and even plans for their offspring. However, I expect all of us know that those hopes, expectations, and plans do not necessarily match what the offspring themselves do; I’ve never met a person who has not, as some point, done something that surprised or dismayed a parental type. In Emergent ...Read More

The Fortunate Isles, Lisa L. Hannett (Egaeus Books 978-1-83839-608-4, £39.00, 250pp, hc) May 2023.

Lisa L. Hannett is a “drop everything” author, in as much as I will drop everything to read her latest work. This has been the case since I picked up her debut collection, Bluegrass Symphony, in 2011. That book, with stories set in a fantastical version of America’s prairie lands, established Hannett’s remarkable storytelling ...Read More

Abeni’s Song, P. Djèlí Clark (Starscape 978-1-25082-582-7, $17.99. 336pp, hc) July 2023. Cover by Michael Machira Mwangi.

P. Djèlí Clark makes his middle grade de­but with Abeni’s Song, the first in a new fantasy trilogy, and it is everything you’d expect from Clark, and then some.

The morning of Abeni’s 12th birthday begins with excitement. In her mother’s golden wrap and with fresh oils rubbed into her skin, ...Read More

I know you love books! Check out this week’s offering in SFFH!

Greetings from beyond the paywall! We have been posting new content monthly on our Patreon Archive Feed – scans of vintage Locus and audio clips from author interviews and more – and wanted to share a little of what that feed looks like by making some of our earlier posts public. Check out this post with the entire issue 39 of Locus.

In addition to all the benefits of lower ...Read More

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced that poetry and translated fiction are now accepted as qualifying works for membership in the organization. The decision is the result of a vote by members to reverse previous referendums disallowing poetry and translated fiction from counting towards qualification.

We’re excited to welcome poets and translators into the fold, joining prose, game, comics, graphic novel, and screenwriters working on traditional, ...Read More

The preliminary ballot for the 2023 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF has been announced.

The 2023 Aurora Awards winners for works done by Canadians have been announced.

The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey 978-0-593-49985-6, $28.00, 416pp, hc) June 2023.

Connie Willis’s loyal readers have long known of her fascination with the whole Roswell/UFOlogy circus. More than 20 years ago she published a hilarious chapbook called Roswell, Vegas, and Area 51: Travels with Courtney, in which she described extensive road trips over much of the Southwestern United States, visiting those and other oddball land­marks, ...Read More

The Moon Represents My Heart, Pim Wang­techawat (Blackstone 979-8-21234-003-8, $25.99, 272pp, hc). June 2023.

Pim Wangtechawat’s debut novel, The Moon Represents My Heart, is an am­bitious, timey-wimey, multigenerational saga about love, grief, and healing, although for me it never quite reaches its emotional po­tential. The story revolves around a family of British-Chinese time travelers whose frequent forays into the past influence their relations in the present. Joshua and ...Read More