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Features Spotlight 

Spotlight on Virginia Lee

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VIRGINIA LEE is an artist, illustrator and sculptor based on Dartmoor, England where she was raised in a creative house­hold immersed in myth and fantasy art. She has illustrated several books for children, including the Greek myth of Persephone and the Rus­sian fairy tale ‘‘The Frog Bride’’. She provided illustrations for “The Enchanted Lenormand Oracle”, StoryWorld cards, and The Secret His­tories: Mermaids and Hobgoblins books. She also worked as a ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins: Review by Jake Casella Brookins

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Remember You Will Die, Eden Robins (Source­books Landmark 978-1-72825-603-0, $16.99, 336pp, tp) October 2024. Cover by Erin Fitzsim­mons.

After reading Manuela Draeger’s fascinating novel Kree, about afterlives and reincarnation, and translator and anthologist Anton Hur’s ex­cellent debut novel Toward Eternity, in which artificial intelligences and nanite-transformed humans have found a strange immortality, the centrality of mortality in Eden Robins’s Remem­ber You Will Die is almost refreshing. While ...Read More

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New & Notable New Titles & Bestsellers 

New & Notable

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Brom, Evil in Me (Nightfire 9/24) A woman who dreams of making it in the punk scene gets pos­sessed, and the only way to exorcize the demon is to get hundreds of people to chant a spell together in this dark tale of music and mayhem. This author shows off his noted artistic talent as well with b&w illustrations throughout and eight pages of full-color plates.

 

 

 

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Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions by Nalo Hopkinson: Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo Hopkinson (Tachyon 978-1-61696-426-9, $15.95, 224pp, tp) October 2024.

Story collections almost never sell as well as novels, but maybe they ought to. A novel is the end product of processes that may have unfolded over months or years, while a collection offers us glimpses into those processes themselves. All of the sixteen stories in Nalo Hopkinson’s Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions were published ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

Playground by Richard Powers: Review by Niall Harrison

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Playground, Richard Powers (W.W. Norton & Company 978-1-32408-603-1, 383pp, $29.99, hc). September 2024.

Richard Powers is another writer whose work – omnivorous, full-bodied novels of both character and idea – you would think difficult to replicate via generative technologies, but his new novel Playground suggests the man himself is not convinced that will always be the case. Genera­tive tools owned by one of the protagonists, the tech billionaire Todd ...Read More

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Awards News 

New Poetry and Comics Nebula Awards

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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced the addition of Poetry and Comics categories to the Nebula Awards.

Award eligibility begins in January 2025, and the first awards for the new categories will be presented at the 2026 Nebula Awards Ceremony.

In other news, SFWA is hiring for a full time position of Office Assistant, and a contract position of Nebula Awards Project Manager. They’re also looking ...Read More

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Best SFF of 2024: The Washington Post

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The Washington Post included numerous genre works on their Best of the Year lists.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy list featured 11 titles chosen by their critic Charlie Jane Anders:

  • The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo (Holt)
  • Metal From Heaven, August Clarke (Erewhon)
  • Annie Bot, Sierra Greer (Mariner)
  • The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (Tachyon)
  • The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tor.com)
  • The Tusks
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New Video Is Up! Come Check Out The Top New Releases For 11/19/2024!

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It’s the week of 11/19/2024 and we’ve got a terrific new week of releases to tell you all about, so come on by if you’re looking to add to your TBR pile! Also, why not support what we do and subscribe to the channel, it’ll keep yourself up-to-date on our weekly content and all the top new SF, Fantasy, and Horror releases slated to hit shelfs!

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Awards News 

2024 National Book Awards Winners

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Winners for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced.

The winner in the fiction category is James by Percival Everett (Doubleday), who sometimes writes SF. (See his entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.)

Winners were honored at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, 2024.

For more information, including the complete lists of winners, see the National Book Foundation site.

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Books Reviews 

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky: Review by Russell Letson

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Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK 978-1035013746, £16.99, 400pp, hc) March 2024. (Orbit US 978-0316578974 , $19.99, 432pp, tp) September 2024. Cover by Lauren Panepinto.

In Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky continues to build fantastical worlds on sturdy non-fantastic-fictional foundations. Where the secondary-world fantasies of The City of Last Chances and House of Open Wounds make use of occupied-city (say, Alan Furst’s The World at Night) or comic-ironic ...Read More

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Hampton Heights by Dan Kois: Review by Gabino Iglesias

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Hampton Height, Dan Kois (Harper Perennial 978-0-06335-875-1, $16.99, 208pp, tp) September 2024. Cover by Jackie Alvarado

Dan Kois’s Hampton Heights: One Har­rowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is very much like its title in that it shouldn’t work, but it somehow does. Entertaining, touching, and funnier than I expected, this short novel about a group of kids spending a night trying to sell newspaper subscriptions in ...Read More

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Announcements Conventions International News 

2030 Edmonton Worldcon Bid

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Edmonton (AKA ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ / Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Canada has announced a bid to host the 88th World Science Fiction Convention in 2030.

Northern Alberta Science Fiction Society chair Mike Johnson said, “Edmonton is one of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing cities. It’s bubbling with ideas, creativity, diversity, and a can-do attitude. It has an energy that I think science fiction fans from around the globe will find themselves aligned with.”

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News Publishing 

Hachette Acquires Sterling Publishing

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Hachette Book Group has announced its purchase of Sterling Publishing from Barnes & Noble.

Sterling Publishing includes the imprints Union Square & Co., Union Square Kids, Boxer Books, Puzzlewright Press, plus stationery brands. Sterling’s output includes various genre books and gift editions of classic works.

B&N CEO James Daunt cited Union Square’s recent expansion and its need for more resources as a publisher. “Union Square has [outgrown] the infrastructure of ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball: Review by Ian Mond

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The Repeat Room, Jesse Ball (Catapult 978-1-64622-140-0, 256pp, $27.00, hc) Cover by Sara Wood. September 2024.

I first came across Jesse Ball back in 2007 when his debut, Samedi the Deafness, was shortlisted for the Believer Book Award (a terrific prize that introduced me to authors as varied as Bennett Sims, Keith Ridgway, Valeria Luiselli, and Danielle Dutton. I miss it… and the magazine). I bought the novel ...Read More

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Announcements News 

Christie’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Auction

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Auction house Christie’s has announced their “first sale dedicated to Science Fiction and Fantasy,” with bidding open from November 28, 2024 to December 12, 2024.

The auction “will explore the extraordinary history of the genres through the books, objects and artworks that continue to inspire new generations of readers and viewers.”

Highlights include The Dune Bible, “an extraordinary artefact from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic Dune project (estimate: £250,000-350,000);” an “exquisite ...Read More

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2024 Salam Award Winners

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The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the 2024 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced.

The winner is “A Shrine by the Sea” by Syed Zain Haroon. Finalists are “The Shopkeeper’s Remedy” by Manahil Bandukwala and “The 11th Wish” by Raazia Sajid. Honorable mentions are “On the Moonglow Road” by Ramsha Farooq Raja and “Hexes on Exes” by Zuha Siddiqui.

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Suzan Palumbo: Don’t Look Away

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SUZAN PALUMBO was born in the 1980s in Trinidad & Tobago, and moved to Canada with her family as a young child. She grew up in Rexdale, Toronto, a Caribbean and South Asian immigrant neighborhood.

Palumbo began publishing work of genre interest with ‘Bloody Therapy’ in 2017, and has published more than a dozen pieces since in various magazines and anthologies, including WSFA Small Press Award and Nebula Award finalist ...Read More

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Reviews Short Fiction 

Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis: Review by Colleen Mondor

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Full Speed to a Crash Landing, Beth Revis (DAW 978-0-756-41946-2, $23.00, tp, 192pp) August 2024.

Beth Revis gives readers an action-packed science fiction adventure in her latest novella, Full Speed to a Crash Landing. Opening with a literal bang, she introduces space salvor Ada Lamarr, who is clinging to life in her space suit after an accident onboard her ship blew a hole in its side and forced ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister: Review by Jake Casella Brookins

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The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister (Counterpoint 978-1-64009-662-2, $28.00, 336pp, hc) October 2024. Cover by Nicole Caputo.

Isolated on their West Virginia estate, the five Haddesley siblings have a troubled and trou­bling relationship with their magical heritage. Charlie, the next in line to be patriarch, has been severely injured by a falling tree, and doubts his ability to fulfill his part of the bargain with the bog that supports and ...Read More

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Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud: Review by Gabino Iglesias

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Crypt of the Moon Spider, Nathan Ballingrud (Nightfire 978-1-25029-173-8, $17.99, 85pp, tp) August 2024. Cover by Sam Araya.

Nathan Ballingrud is one of the finest purveyors of speculative fiction working today, and Crypt of the Moon Spider, the first book in what will be The Lunar Gothic Trilogy, further cements him as one of the strongest voices in the field. Wonderfully atmospheric and very strange, Crypt of the ...Read More

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Awards News 

2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Shortlists

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The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for “the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year” with three fiction and three non-fiction titles.

The fiction shortlist includes James by occasional SF writer Percival Everett (Knopf). The non-fiction list includes Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of ...Read More

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B&N Book of the Year Winners

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James by Percival Everett (Knopf) is the winner of the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year 2024, and fantasy novel Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (Random House Children’s Books) is the winner for Children’s Book of the Year.

Shortlisted titles are nominated by Barnes and Noble booksellers. The winner was announced on November 15, 2024.

For more, see the Barnes and Noble website.

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Books Reviews 

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo: Review by Liz Bourke

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The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom 978-1-25037-682-4, 224pp, $24.99, hc) October 2024.

Nghi Vo has a Hugo Award and a Crawford Award to her credit for The Empress of Salt and Fortune, the opening novella in the Singing Hills Cycle, as well as an Ignyte for Into the Riverlands. The City in Glass, her latest work – a short novel – is unrelated to her ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, November 2024

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MILESTONES

ROY GRAHAM, K ARSE­NAULT RIVERA, and SASCHA STRONACH are now represent­ed by Arley Sorg of kt literary.

LAURA BLACKWELL is now represented by Jake Lovell of Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.

AWARDS

JOHN HORNOR JACOBS received the Heasley Prize for Fiction, presented October 22, 2024 at his alma mater, Lyon College in AR.

BOOKS SOLD

TIM LEBBON sold folk horror novel Secret Lives of the Dead to Cath Trechman ...Read More

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News Obituaries 

Tim Sullivan (1948-2024)

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Author, actor, critic, and filmmaker Tim Sullivan, 76, died November 10, 2024 in hospice care in Newport News VA.

Timothy Robert Sullivan was born June 9, 1948 in Bangor ME. He studied literature and got his degree at Florida Atlantic University, and spent time in Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Southern California.

He began publishing SF with “Tachyon Rage” in 1977 (as Timothy Robert Sullivan). “Zeke” (1981) was a Nebula Awards ...Read More

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Time Magazine’s Must-Read Books of 2024

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Time magazine has released a list of 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. Works of genre interest include:

  • Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda (Norton)
  • The Book Censor’s Library, Bothayna Al-Essa (Restless)
  • Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
  • Your Utopia, Bora Chung (Algonquin)
  • You Glow in the Dark, Liliana Colanzi (New Directions)
  • A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enríquez (Hogarth)
  • James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)
  • The Bright
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News Obituaries 

Bruce Boston (1943-2024)

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Author Bruce Boston, 81, died November 11, 2024. He was best known as a poet, but was also a prolific prose writer. He was the recipient of the first Grand Master award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) in 1999.

Bruce David Boston was born July 16, 1943 in Chicago IL and grew up in Southern California. He moved to the Bay Area in 1961 and attended UC ...Read More

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Awards International News 

2024 Fishing Fortress Awards Winners

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The winners of the second Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Awards, honoring the best in Chinese SF writing, were announced on November 9, 2024.

Sci-Fi Master Achievement

  • Han Song

Sci-Fi Promoter Achievement

  • San Feng

Sci-Fi Educator Achievement

  • Li Guangyi

Sci-Fi Publisher Achievement

  • Yang Feng

Sci-Fi Translator Achievement

  • Li Keqin

Sci-Fi Academy Award

  • Yan Feng

Marco Polo Award

  • Francesco Verso

Best Novel

  • Once Upon a Time in Nanjing, Tianrui Shuofu

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2024 Wonderland Awards Winners

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BizarroCon has announced the winners for the 2024 Wonderland Book Awards for Excellence in Bizarro Fiction.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: Edenville, Sam Rebelein (William Morrow)
  • The Last Night to Kill Nazis, David Agranoff (CLASH)
  • Elogona, Samantha Kolesnik (WeirdPunk )
  • Glass Children, Carlton Mellick III (Eraserhead)
  • Soft Targets, Carson Winter (Tenebrous)

Best Collection

  • WINNER: All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of
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Reviews Short Fiction 

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, and Worlds of Possibility: Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies 8/8/24, 8/22/24 Lightspeed 8/24 Worlds of Possibility 8/24

J.A. Prentice returns to Beneath Ceaseless Skies with August’s “An Isle in a Sea of Ghosts”, which finds Kreisa on a journey to try and save her brother from a spell that changes him into a different animal every day. After two years, she has gone through almost everything she can think of, and her brother has ...Read More

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