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The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor 978-1-25081-619-1, 352pp, $28.99, hc) March 2025.

At the end of Katherine Addison’s The Grief of Stones (2022), the second novel in her Cemeteries of Amalo sequence, Thara Celehar, a witness for the dead – a cross between priest, detective, and necromancer – lost his powers. Since Celehar’s job involves quieting ghouls and zombies, communing with the recently deceased to discover their final ...Read More

Don’t Sleep With the Dead, Nghi Vo (Tordot­com 9781250362612, $24.99, 112pp, hc) April 2025.

Nghi Vo’s 2021 novel The Chosen and the Beau­tiful was so thoroughly entwined with its source text, The Great Gatsby, that it seemed a sequel would be unlikely, if not impossible. Nearly all the action in that novel took place within the defined spaces of Fitzgerald’s classic, and much of its ap­peal lay in ...Read More

Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK 978-1-0350-1379-1, £22.00, 448pp, hc) February 2025. (Orbit US 978-0316579025, $19.99, 416pp, tp) June 2025.

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shroud is an epic first-contact novel and delivers one of the most intriguing visions of alien/human interaction that I’ve read in many years.

The Garveneer has been tasked with deciding whether a particular solar system is worth strip-mining. Through their exploration they discover that a gas giant’s moon ...Read More

Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor 978-1250782977, 240pp, $27.99, hc) May 2025.

I think it’s safe to say, on the basis of Riot Baby and Goliath alone, that we didn’t have any idea what to expect next from the adventurous Tochi Onyebuchi. But I doubt that even his most assidu­ous readers were anticipating a hardboiled his­torical/political private-eye postcolonialist noir fantasy mystery (and even at that, I’ve probably left some stuff ...Read More

Reactor 1/13/25 The Sunday Morning Transport’s 1/5/25, 1/12/25, 1/19/25

Reactor led 2025 off with a terrific dark fantasy novelette by A.C. Wise: “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon”. Teenaged Merrow’s grandmother was once the protector of their small town but she’s dead. After the five doe-girls – similar to selk­ies but with doe rather than seal skins – are slaughtered and their radiant magic is gone, the town needs ...Read More

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The New York Public Library has announced its Young Lions Fiction Award finalists for 2025. Titles of genre interest in the five-title list include Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda.

The $10,000 prize is awarded “each year to an American writer aged 35 or younger for either a novel or a collection of short stories” by a panel of judges. Previous winners include E.J. Koh’s The Liberators (Tin House) in 2024 and ...Read More

Neil Gaiman has filed a demand for arbitration against Caroline Wallner, the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct while she lived on his property in New York. He is seeking more than $500,000 in damages, arguing that Wallner violated a non-disclosure agreement by coming forward with her account.

Caroline Wallner lived on Gaiman’s property in Woodstock NY from 2014 to 2021 and says that she felt pressured to have ...Read More

The six-title shortlists for the Jhalak Prizes have been announced. The shortlists include titles and authors of genre interest, such as My Friends by Hisham Matar (Viking) in the Prose category and Mayowa and the Sea of Words by Chibundu Onuzo (Bloomsbury) and The Boy to Beat the Gods by Ashley Thorpe (Usborne) in the Children’s & YA category.

The awards “seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of its 2025 Specialty Awards.

Mocha Memoirs Press is the recipient of the Specialty Press Award, given “to a specialty publisher whose work has substantially contributed to the horror genre, whose publications display general excellence, and whose dealings with authors have been fair and exemplary.”

The Richard Laymon President’s Award, “presented to a volunteer who has served the HWA in an ...Read More

The shortlist for the inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize has been announced. Titles, authors, and translators of genre interest include:

For this prize, PEN Presents partnered with the ...Read More