Month: September 2024

New Titles & Bestsellers 

Magazines Received – September

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This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet

  • Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, eds.
  • Issue No. 48, Septem­ber 2024, $6.00 print, bi-annually,
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Awards News 

2025 Future Worlds Prize Opens

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The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour is open to submissions from unpublished writers of color based in the UK until January 26, 2025.

The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and up to six shortlisted authors will each receive £850. All writers will also receive mentoring from one of the prize’s publishing partners: Bloomsbury, Daphne Press, Gollancz, Hodderscape, Orbit UK, Penguin Michael Joseph, ...Read More

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Conventions News 

StokerCon 2025 Guests of Honor

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StokerCon 2025 has announced their Guests of Honor: Scott Edelman, Paula Guran, Adam L.G. Nevill, Joyce Carol Oates, Gaby Triana, and Tim Waggoner.

StokerCon 2025 will be held June 12-15, 2025 at the Hilton Stamford Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Stamford CT.

For more information, see the official website.

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Awards News 

Holmwood Wins 2024 WSFA Small Press Award

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The winner of the 2024 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction has been announced:

  • WINNER: “A Bowl of Soup on the 87th Floor”, Kai Holmwood (DreamForge Anvil 3/11/23)
  • “Six Meals at Fanelli’s”, Annika Barranti Klein (Fusion Fragment 4/23)
  • “Baby Golem”, Barbara Krasnoff (Jewish Futures)
  • “Interstate Mohinis”, M.L. Krishnan (Diabolical Plots 6/16/23)
  • “Better Living Through Algorithms”, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 5/23)
  • “Machines”, Jennifer R. Povey
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Commentary Features 

Future Fiction Workshop

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It takes true dreamers to make dreams happen. In the case of the Future Fiction Workshop held near Chongqing, China in June 2024, those were the intrepid Italian editor Francesco Verso and Fan Zhang, dean of the newly estab­lished Fishing Fortress Science Fiction College. Francesco, who has made World SF his life’s mis­sion, has long worked in promoting science fiction into and out of China. Fan, who now supervises no ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker: Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom 978-1-250-33026-0, $20.99, 170pp, hc) Septem­ber 2024.

I seem to have found myself reading a number of haunted house novels in the last year or so, and it’s always fascinating to watch how authors still find ways to ring new changes on a template that goes back to the earliest Gothic novels. In Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker’s witty approach is to focus ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon: Review by Alex Brown

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One of Our Kind, Nicola Yoon (Knopf 978-0-59347-067-1, $28.00. 272pp, hc) June 2024.

Jasmyn, her husband Kingston, and their young son Kamau are excited to move to the new all-Black community of Liberty, just outside Los Angeles in Nicola Yoon’s One of Our Kind. King’s new job and higher income landed them a sprawl­ing home in a luxury community where everyone from the retail workers to the cops ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

Egypt + 100 edited by Ahmed Naji : Review by Niall Harrison

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Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji ed. (Comma Press 9781912697700, 160pp, £9.99, tp) July 2024.

From the point of view of a science fiction reviewer, Egypt + 100 marks an interesting development in Comma Press’s “Futures Past” series of SWANA-focused anthologies: it is the first in the series to emerge from an ac­tive and substantial science fiction tradition. In the introduction to Iraq + 100, Hassan Blassim lamented the ...Read More

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Awards News 

Casati Wins 2024 Glass Bell Award

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Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (Penguin Michael Joseph) won the 2024 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, honoring a novel in any genre “with brilliant characterization and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realized.” The winner receives a handmade glass bell and a cash prize of £2,000.

The awards are decided by team members from Goldsboro Books. For more information, see the Goldsboro Books website and announcement at The ...Read More

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Awards News 

Douglas Barbour Award 2024

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The Alberta Book Publishing Awards have announced that Guy Immega’s novel Super-Earth Mother: The AI that Engineered a Brave New World (EDGE) is the winner of the 2024 Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction.

The Alberta Book Publishing Awards were created by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta to “celebrate the essential role Alberta book publishers play in supporting authors.” The Douglas Barbour award honors the late Canadian science fiction ...Read More

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Announcements News 

SFWA Special Election Candidates Announced

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has finalized the candidates for its upcoming special election for the roles of president and secretary.

  • Candidates for president are Jennifer Brozek, Kate Ristau, and Christine Taylor-Butler.
  • The candidate for secretary is Matthew Reardon aka JRH Lawless.

A voting link will be posted and optional paper ballots will be mailed on October 9, 2024. Ballots will be counted after October 23, 2024. ...Read More

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New Books Video Is Up for 9/24/24!

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Another week of the top SF, fantasy, and horror releases on our YouTube channel! Come by and give it a watch so you can keep up to date on all these fantastic new books! We really do appreciate when you show us your support by liking and subscribing! And if you’d like to find the titles, we have them all up at our Bookshop.org page: Bookshop.org/shop/locusmag!

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Books Reviews 

New Adventures in Space Opera edited by Jonathan Strahan : Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Stra­han, ed. (Tachyon 978-1-61696-420-7, $18.95, 336pp, tp) August 2024.

Dating back more than 80 years, space opera is almost certainly the longest-running term in con­tinuous use for a particular kind of SF – though we’ll probably never finish arguing over whether it’s a mode, a subgenre, a theme, or (in the eyes of some) a mistake. In 2003, Locus ran a special issue ...Read More

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Awards News 

2024 Prix Aurora-Boréal Winners

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Winners of the French-language Prix Aurora-Boréal were awarded on May 22, 2024 at the Congrès Boréal in Québec City, Canada.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: La Voie de l’apprenti, Jean-Sébastien Drouin (Nux & Nox)
  • Dissident, Jean-Pierre Gorkynian (mémoire d’encrier)
  • Inmortem, Mireille LaCombe (Luzerne Rousse)
  • Sombre Chaos, Jennifer Pelletier (Édiligne)
  • Couleur de l’obscurité, Maxim Poulin and Frédéric St-Jean (Luzerne Rousse)

Best Short Story

  • WINNER: “Ce qu’on laisse derrière”,
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Awards News 

Inaugural Andromeda Award

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The United Talent Agency (UTA) and Conville & Walsh (C&W) have announced the inaugural Andromeda Award. The contest aims to “seek out and support the best new emerging science fiction and fantasy writers.”

The contest is open to anyone based in the UK or USA with a full length SF/F novel. The first-place author will be awarded $5,000, second place $3,000 and a spot in Curtis Brown Creative’s nine-week Writing ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang: Review by Archita Mittra

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A Song to Drown Rivers, Ann Liang (St. Martin’s Press 978-1-25028-946-9, $32.00, 336pp, hc) October 2024.

Inspired by ancient Chinese legends, A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang is an intrigu­ing historical fantasy novel that tempers the logic of trope-driven storytelling with a mature understanding of the futility of war. As a folkloric retelling of the tragic story of Xi Shi, one of the ‘‘Four Great Beauties’’ of ...Read More

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New & Notable New Titles & Bestsellers 

New & Notable

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Paolo Bacigalupi, Navola (Knopf 7/24) Bacigalupi returns with his first new novel in seven years, this time an epic fantasy inspired by Renaissance Flor­ence, first in a duology about a young man from a powerful family attempting to navigate cutthroat politics and affairs of the heart. “It’s undeniably new territory for Bacigalupi, and it’s a pleasure to report that his most impressive narrative strengths have ported over intact.” [Gary K. ...Read More

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Awards News 

2024 Dream Foundry Award Winners

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Dream Foundry, a “non-profit dedicated to bolstering the careers of nascent professionals working with the speculative arts,” has announced the winners of its 2024 contests.

Writing Contest

  • Vikoriia Grivina (First Place)
  • Kaia Ball (Second Place)
  • Nigel Faustino (Third Place)

Art Contest

  • Moneke Gabriel (First Place)
  • Martins Deep (Second Place)
  • Dhiyanah Hassan (Third Place)

First place winners receive $1,000.

Writing judges were Valerie Valdes and C.L. Polk, and art judges were

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New Books New Titles & Bestsellers 

New Books, 24 September 2024

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Alkaf, Hanna: The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s (Simon & Schuster/Salaam Reads 9781534494589, $19.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/24/2024)

Young-adult horror novel. A highly reputable school for girls has an outbreak of screaming, first one student in the middle of class, and by the end of the day 17 girls are affected. ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

Sinophagia edited by Xueting C. Ni: Review by Eugen M. Bacon

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Sinophagia, Xueting C. Ni, ed. (Solaris 978-1-83786-117-0, $16.99, 496pp, tp) September 2024.

Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror is a carefully curated anthology of contemporary Chinese horror. It’s a cultural fest that arrives with triggers warnings of corpses, childhood trauma, self-harm, torture, graphic violence, domestic violence, strangulation and, strangely, coercion/gaslighting – not commonly associated with hor­ror, but typical of psychological abuse.

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News Obituaries 

Fredric Jameson (1934-2024)

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Scholar and critic Fredric Jameson, 90, died September 22, 2024 in Durham NC. Jameson was an immensely consequential figure in the world of literary theory and cultural criticism, and a lifelong devotee of SF.

Jameson was born April 14, 1934 in Cleveland OH. He attended Haverford College as an undergrad, then did graduate work at Yale. His PhD thesis was published as Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961). He ...Read More

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Reviews Short Fiction 

Lightspeed, Worlds of Possibility and Reactor: Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur

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Lightspeed 6/24 Worlds of Possibility 6/24 Reactor 6/5/24

Lightspeed ushers in June with Oyedotun Damilola Muees’s “Warning Notes from an An­nihilator Machine”, which is framed as a series of messages from said Annihilator Machine to Tijani Damilare (known online as Teejay_009) concerning the approved destruction of Earth. Despite the dire message, ANM-722 actually wants to help Tijani, providing information that might help avoid the approaching mechanical apocalypse at ...Read More

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Features Spotlight 

Spotlight on Micaela Alcaino

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MICAELA ALCAINO is a book cover designer and illustrator who relocated from her home in Sydney, Australia to London, UK in 2013. Her career has been marked by sig­nificant achievements, including being named one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars in 2021 and winning the prestigious Designer of the Year title at the British Book Awards in 2022, with a sub­sequent nomination this year in 2024. She was also a finalist ...Read More

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Reviews Short Fiction 

Clarkesworld: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

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Clarkesworld 6/24

“Twenty-Four Hours” by H.H. Pak starts off the June issue of Clarkesworld on a high note. The story is beautiful and heartbreaking as a mother spends a final twenty-four hours with a programmed version of her recently deceased daughter in an effort to gain closure. The story does a wonderful job of portraying grief in its various stages and capturing the feeling of wanting to spend just a ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum: Review by Ian Mond

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Track Changes, Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene 978-1-73856-170-4, £15.00, 448pp, tp) August 2024.

In March, Abigail Nussbaum, on her blog Asking the Wrong Questions, reviewed Francis Spuf­ford’s Cahokia Jazz, one of my favourite novels of 2024. It’s a review that encapsulates everything magnificent about Nussbaum, a well-deserved Hugo winner. First, there’s the sheer artistry, the way the review is crafted like a mystery (fitting for a noirish novel), raising questions ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

Gabino Iglesias Reviews Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

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Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey 978-0-59372-312-8, $28.00, 384pp, hc) June 2024.

After so many great novels – Bird Box, Goblin, Black Mad Wheel, Daphne – perhaps the most impressive thing about Josh Malerman is that he seems to be getting better with each new novel. That’s certainly the case with Incidents Around the House, which is the author’s fastest, sharpest, creepiest novel to ...Read More

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Awards News 

Nota Bene Prize Shortlist Announced

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The Nota Bene Prize has announced its shortlist for 2024, including the following works of genre interest.

  • Disturbance, Jenna Clake (Norton)
  • Chrysalis, Anna Metcalfe (Random House)
  • The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (Zando)

The Nota Bene Prize honors “thought-provoking, accessible and relatable reads that engage diverse topics.” The Prize is run by marketing agency Agile Ideas. The winner receives £1,500.

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Announcements News Publishing 

F&SF Goes Quarterly

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In the newly released Summer 2024 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, publisher Gordon van Gelder explains that “Ongoing production problems have led us to skip the Spring issue and to switch to a quarterly schedule.”

He apologized to “disappointed readers” and assured subscribers that they would not be shorted any issues. “Thank you for bearing with us during this rough stretch.”

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