The finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
The finalists for the 2023 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced.
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EUGEN BACON is the 2024 Hedberg Writer-In-Residence at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, and will spend three months writing, teaching, and “taking part in community conversations.”
TED CHIANG is the winner of the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, which “recognizes writers who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.” Chiang will be honored at the annual PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony on ...Read More
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Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer 978-1-662-51391-6, $16.99, tp, 284pp) March 2024. Cover by Olga Grlic.
Cynthia Pelayo’s Forgotten Sisters begins with a nightmare, then moves to a nuanced family history of sisters Jennie and Anna, who live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River that was owned first by their grandparents, then their parents, and now is theirs to treasure and maintain. In the second chapter, ...Read More
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Clare Winger Harris is the winner of the 2024 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors.
Mrs. Harris (1891-1968) was a true pioneer of the field of genre science fiction, and was the first woman to write regularly for the early Science Fiction pulps such as Amazing Stories and Science Wonder Stories under her own name. She published a dozen stories between 1926 ...Read More
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Beyond the Light Horizon, Ken MacLeod (Orbit 978-0-356-51482-6, £10.99, 336 pp, tp) May 2024. Cover by Duncan Spilling. (Pyr 978-1-64506-066-6, $21.00, 336pp, tp) June 2024.
Are Ken MacLeod novels realistic? Twenty-five years ago I would have said no. Reading the Fall Revolution series (1995-1999) as a teenager, part of the thrill (I see now) was the vivid granular depiction of a world that (I thought then) didn’t work that ...Read More
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The winners of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction have been announced.
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Bookseller and publisher DOUG LEWIS, 69, died May 20, 2024 of complications of diabetes. Born 1955, Lewis and his wife Tomi owned and operated the Little Bookshop of Horror/Roadkill Press in Arvada CO and won a World Fantasy Award in the non-professional category in 1993. ...Read More
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The Knife and the Serpent, Tim Pratt (Angry Robot 978-1915202802, $18.99, 400pp, tp) June 2024.
between Tim Pratt novels, I always forget just how unabashedly pulp he is as a writer. I say pulp as a compliment, not a criticism. Pratt has a gift for embracing the ridiculous and turning it into entertainment: playing the emotional field with seriousness while rolling around in weird and wacky SFFnal propositions. In ...Read More
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has banned all works created using generative AI from its publications and awards consideration. The policy was announced in a statement posted to the SFPA website: “The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s creative ...Read More
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BayCon will host both Westercon 77 (2025) and 78 (2026). Site selection for 2026 was held during Westercon 76, July 4-7, 2024 in Salt Lake City UT. BayCon 2025 was previously awarded the right to host Westercon 77, announced on June 14, 2024.
More information about the vote is available on the Westercon website. Information about BayCon 2025/Westercon 77 is available at the BayCon site.
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VICFA 3, the third Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, is open to academic and creative proposals. The theme of the conference is “Pantheology in World-Building and Magic Systems,” but VICFA welcomes proposals “on any topic of interest and specialization whether part of the conference theme or independent of it.” Submissions are open until July 31, 2024, and the conference will take place online from October 9-12, ...Read More
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The Virginia Kidd Agency/Arrowhead SF Foundation will once again sponsor and host the SF Portion of the annual Milford Readers & Writers Festival, to be held September 13-15 2024 in Milford PA, with a few of the events hosted at Arrowhead,Virginia Kidd’s historic home (and still the offices of her eponymous agency.) This year’s panel is “Milford: Why Our Town Was/Is a Mecca For Science Fiction”, with panelists Lawrence C. ...Read More
Read moreThe Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the finalists for the 2024 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards).
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
GigaNotoSaurus 3/24 Fiyah Spring ’24 Baffling 4/24
GigaNotoSaurus’s April story, “The Grandmother Hypothesis” by J.S. Richardson, finds the narrator jumping from reality to reality using a machine of her own creation – one that cannot take her home again. But returning to her own world was never the goal, not after losing her child, and the story follows the narrator as she loses herself trying to explore, ...Read More
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The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books 978-1-25088-425-1, 400pp, $29.99 hc) April 2024. Cover by Jim Tierney & Emma Pidsley.
Spain in the 1500s was not a great place to be if your family were converso – a term applied to Jews or Muslims who had been (often forcefully) converted to Catholicism – and worse still if you were caught secretly practicing your familial faith: It was the time of the ...Read More
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The shortlist for the 2024 Prix Rosny Aîné has been announced. The prize is awarded to SF novels and short stories written in French and published in print in 2023.
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Winners of the Heinlein Society’s annual undergraduate scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year were announced on July 7, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein’s 116th birthday.
This year’s winners are Gabriel Black, Elizabeth Bradshaw, Maya Krolik, and Luxanna Sands. The scholarship awards $4,000 to each recipient. Winners were selected from a record 744 applications, including 40 international submissions from 28 different countries.
Krolik received the Virginia Heinlein Memorial Scholarship, which is dedicated ...Read More
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The Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced three inductees to the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame for 2024: Astronaut Chris A. Hadfield and authors Nalo Hopkinson and Jo Walton.
This year’s jury included Ryah Deines, Gordon Johansen, Rebecca Lovatt, Michelle Sagara, and chair David Clink.
For more information, see the CSFFA website.
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PulpFest has announced the nominees for the 2024 Munsey Award, given to “an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community.” Nominees are selected by the general pulp community, with the winner selected by a vote of past Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards winners. The nominees are:
The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Phantastikpreis der Stadt Wetzlar, a speculative fiction prize awarded by the city of Wetzlar, Germany:
The winner will be announced in mid-July, with a public award ceremony in September 2024. The winner receives €4000. For more information, visit the award website.
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The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) announced the winners for the 2024 Dagger Awards.
Jake Lamar’s Viper’s Dream (No Exit Press) won in the Historical Dagger category, and Anthony Horowitz won The Dagger in the Library, for “a body of work by an established writer of crime fiction or non-fiction who has long been popular with borrowers from libraries.”
As previously announced, James Lee Burke and Lynda La Plante were joint ...Read More
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The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has announced Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez (Dutton) as the winner of the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2023. Other nominees were:
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Winners for the 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ).
Best Novel
Best Youth Novel
Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom 978-1-25084-768-3, $27.99, 304pp, hc) June 2024.
To quote Tom Clancy (or was it Jeff Bezos?), it takes ten years to become an overnight success. I suspect Vajra Chandrasekera can relate. He spent a decade working on his craft, with short fiction published in various genre magazines and anthologies. Then, last year, Chandrasekera published his first novel, The Saint of Bright Doors, which immediately caught ...Read More
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The City of Stardust, Georgia Summers (Redhook 978-0-316-56148-8, $29.00, hc, 352 pp) January 2024.
The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers blends our recognizable world, mostly through the home of the Everly family in the English countryside, with the fictional city of Fidelis, a place of academics and magic that hides a horrific truth. (And that horror really is bad; we’re talking ritual-sacrifice-of-kidnapped-children kind of bad.) Violet Everly lives ...Read More
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The longlist has been announced for this year’s Mo Siewcharran Prize, which “aims to nurture talent from under-represented backgrounds writing in English.” This year’s submission call was for YA and adult fantasy novels. Shortlisted entries include:
Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer 978-1-66251-391-6, $16.99, 303pp, tp) March 2024. Cover by Olga Grlic.
Cynthia Pelayo has made a name for herself in horror by bringing to the table a mixture of horror, crime fiction, and folklore that always contains a dash of poetry and by telling stories that invariably take place in Chicago, a city that Pelayo always turns into a character in her work. ...Read More
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CHỊKỌDỊLỊ EMELỤMADỤ was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK, and raised in Awka, Nigeria. She attended boarding schools there, and went to college at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria, graduating with a BA in English language and literature. She returned to the UK in 2004 and attended the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she earned a Master’s in Cross Cultural Communications and International Relations. She went on to earn a ...Read More
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Analog 3-4/24 khōréō 3.4 Clarkesworld 4/24
The March/April 2024 issue of Analog opens with “Enough” by William Ledbetter, wherein a graffiti artist encounters tech designed to resist tagging and report the location of artists to authorities. Working with his ex-girlfriend and her new partner, he finds a way to co-opt the tech and broadcasts a message of hope and resistance. “A Long Journey into Light” ...Read More
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