Storytelling organization Climate Spring has announced the new Climate Fiction Prize, to “showcase novels of powerful literary merit and to solidify, grow and expand fiction that engages with the climate crisis.” The prize will be launched at this year’s Hay Festival, to be held May 23 – June 2, 2024.
The award is supported by Climate Spring, and the winner will receive £10,000. The judges for the inaugural year are ...Read More
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The winners of the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction have been announced, honoring contemporary short stories.
Winners of genre interest include:
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The 2024 Tähtifantasia Award shortlist has been announced, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year.
The winners of the Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works of speculative fiction.
Novel (Fan Award)
Novel (Jury Award)
Short Story
Best Translated Novel
Authors James Lee Burke and Lynda La Plante are joint winners of the 2024 Diamond Dagger Award, presented by the Crime Writers’ Association. Burke is the author of In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (2011), among other works of genre interest.
The award is the highest honor offered by the group, and “recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a ...Read More
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The Mars House, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury US 978-1639732333, 480pp, $29.99, hc). March 2024.
If, a century from now, there are enough readers and enough academic presses to warrant reprinting early 21st-century Anglophone science fiction, editors in search of candidates might do worse than considering Natasha Pulley’s The Mars House for their list. In its style, its intellectual interests, and the strengths and weaknesses of its execution, Pulley’s sixth novel ...Read More
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The Los Angeles Times has announced winners for their 44th annual Book Prizes.
Works of genre interest include The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga), which received the Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Award, Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House), which received the Fiction Award, and Gone Wolf by Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends) in Young Adult Literature. Jane Smiley received the 2023 Robert Kirsch Award for ...Read More
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Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, has announced that voting is open for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.
All members of Glasgow 2024 are eligible to vote, including Attending Adult, Young Adult, Teen Members, Online Attending Members, and WSFS Members. The ballots must be received by July 20, 2024 at 08:17 p.m. GMT.
Author Ray Garton, 61, died April 21, 2024, just weeks after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Garton was the author of nearly 70 books, most horror.
Ray Garton, Jr. was born December 2, 1962 in Redding CA, and grew up in Anderson CA with his adopted parents. He worked at Pinnacle Books in New York City in the 1980s.
Garton’s debut novel, Seductions, appeared in 1984. Other ...Read More
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The Fair Folk, Su Bristow (Europa Editions 979-8-889-66012-5, $18.00, tpb, 464pp) January 2024.
In her gorgeous new historical fantasy, The Fair Folk, author Su Bristow crafts the story of a particularly complex interaction between mortals and faeries. Opening in 1959, the novel follows the shifting relationship between then-eight-year-old Felicity and Elfrida, the apparent queen of a long-established fairy group ensconced in the woods near her home. At first, the ...Read More
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Lee & Low publishers have released their latest diversity survey, documenting ‘‘incremental’’ changes in the demographics of the publishing industry in North America. ‘‘We know institutional change takes time to bear fruit, which is why revisiting the survey every few years is so vital.’’ The survey reached out to executives and staff at 200 companies, including trade and academic presses, literary agencies, and review publications, and received over 8,600 responses. ...Read More
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Triangulum: An Epic of the Nine Worlds of Surya, Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Rosarium Publishing 979-8-98661-460-1, $19.95, 300pp, tp) January 2024.
In his first novel, Subodhana Wijeyeratne takes elements of religious stories from the Indian subcontinent and reimagines them in space, with godlike aliens and humanity spread across the solar system. None of these aspects are apparent from the outset, but are gradually revealed as the story unfolds in epic, and ...Read More
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The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom 978-1-2508-8180-9, $18.99, 128pp, tp) April 2024.
Generation starship stories tend to come in a few distinct flavors, with distinct character types. There are the refugees, trying to keep humanity alive while escaping a dying or overpopulated Earth (the sort of wishful fantasy that Kim Stanley Robinson set out to demolish in Aurora a few years ago). There are the ...Read More
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Worlds of Possibility 12/23 Zooscape 12/23 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/28/23, 1/11/24, 1/25/24 Kaleidotrope 1/24
Worlds of Possibility ended 2023 with an issue including Keyan Bowes’s “A Refugee from Fairyland”, which imagines a sudden eviction of a number of children from the “care” of the fairies. The narrator, Latasha, works with an organization seeking to either reunite these lost children with their families or provide long-term housing for ...Read More
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Clarkesworld 1/24
January’s Clarkesworld opens on a high note with “Nothing of Value” by Aimee Ogden. Skip technology allows people to travel long distances by allowing all the information about themselves to be downloaded into a new body at their destination while the old version is destroyed. The unnamed protagonist travels to Mars to meet up with a former friend/lover in hopes of rekindling their relationship. One of ...Read More
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The New York Public Library announced its five Young Lions Fiction Award finalists for 2024, including House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Flatiron Books), Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon), and Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books).
The $10,000 prize is awarded “each spring to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories” by a panel of ...Read More
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Finalists 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
Both the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year and the Children’s & Young Adult prize shortlists were announced today. The Children’s & YA shortlist includes Wild Song by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling).
The award seeks “to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers” and accepts “entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry and all ...Read More
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Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2024 were announced on April 13, 2024. The awards “recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlighting our long-standing charitable objective to ‘seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of'” J.R.R. Tolkien. The society’s trustees choose the shortlist, with winners chosen by the membership.
Best Book
Nominees for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards have been announced, including several authors and titles of genre interest.
eDUNNIT Award
H.R.F. Keating Award
Last Laugh Award
Best
The shortlist for the 2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2023, has been announced.
French Novel
Foreign Novel
The shortlist for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize features authors of genre interest, including “A Song Sung in Secret” by Jayne Bauling, “The Devil’s Son” by Portia Subran, and “The Woman Upstairs” by Audrey Tan.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize recognizes “the best piece of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth.” The overall winner receives £5,000 and regional winners receive £2,500. Regional winners will be announced on May 29
The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has released the finalists for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2023.
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The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Kurd Laßwitz Preis. The prize is awarded to German-language SF works published in the previous year.
Best German SF Novel
Doorway to the Stars, Jack McDevitt (Subterranean 978-1-64524-188-1, $40.00, 107 pp, hc) February 2024. Cover by Edward Miller.
In two novels nearly 20 years apart, Jack McDevitt offered a platter full of puzzles and oddities. Ancient Shores (1996) and Thunderbird (2015) begin with the discovery of certain artifacts and buildings on what, 12,000 years earlier, had been the shore of the inland sea of Lake Agassiz in North Dakota: ...Read More
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The Sunday Morning Transport 12/17/23, 12/3/23, 11/19/23, 11/12/23, 11/5/23 Uncanny 11-12/23 The Dark 11/23
By the time you read this, the new year of 2024 will no longer be so new, but there’s still some short fiction from the end of 2023 to catch up on.
A laundry that washes stars? Nikki Brazie takes the unique premise of cleaning luminous celestial bodies and weaves it into a touching tale about ...Read More
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Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks have joined a previously reported lawsuit opposing Iowa’s SF 496, a law that seeks to ban books depicting sex or involving gender identity or sexual orientation. They join existing plaintiffs Penguin Random House; the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA); authors Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, Malinda Lo, and Jodi Picoult; three teachers; and a high school student.
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Read moreThe finalists have been announced for the 2024 Gotham Book Prize, given for best New York City-based novel, including We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White (Astra) and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday). The winner will be named at the Queens Public Library’s annual gala on June 5, 2024.
The $50,000 prize was created in July 2020 by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson to “support New York City and ...Read More
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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced that The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga) is the winner of the 2023 Compton Crook Award.
Other nominees were:
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“Locus of Control” by Zack Be is the winner of the 2024 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, for “original stories celebrating optimistic, near-future space exploration.” Trent Guillory won second place for “Extraction” and William Paul Jones won third place for “Saving Gallivander”.
Be and the runners-up will be honored in a ceremony at the 2024 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles CA, May 23-26, 2024. Be will also ...Read More
Read moreArtist, editor, and author Trina Robbins, 85, died April 10, 2024 of a stroke in San Francisco CA. Though best known as a legendary feminist comics writer and artist, she was also a science fiction fan and occasional SF writer, with stories including “Lines from a Diary” (1992) and “Innana: Witchwoman” (2011). She wrote and illustrated a comics adaptation of Tanith Lee’s The Silver Metal Lover in 1985, and was ...Read More
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