2024 International Booker Prize Longlist

The 13-title longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been announced, and includes The Silver Bone, Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (MacLehose) and Crooked Plow, Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz (Verso)

The award is given “every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.” The £50,000 prize is divided equally among the author and translator(s). ...Read More

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2023 Hugo Award Voting Statistics

Here are the 2023 Hugo Award voting statistics from the Chengdu Worldcon! The committee has 90 days to provide the voting and nomination stats, and have said the nomination numbers will follow later within that time frame.

We had hoped to get the write up of how the voting played out into the current issue of Locus (Dec/Jan issue) but they came in too late to make the deadline. We ...Read More

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Ness Brown Guest Post

For most of human history, on clear nights our species could marvel at an untarnished view of nearly 3,000 stars. This view, shared by civilizations around the globe, was a wellspring of awe and speculation out of which flowed diverse myths and philosophies. Countless cultures have long traditions that connect stargazing with storytelling.  

In the centuries-old Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, Princess Kaguya is a native of the Moon. ...Read More

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Locus Lineup: Vintage Issue from the Archives

Greetings from beyond the paywall! We have been posting new content monthly on our Patreon Archive Feed – scans of vintage Locus and audio clips from author interviews and more – and wanted to share a little of what that feed looks like by making some of our earlier posts public. Check out this post with the entire issue 130 of Locus.

In addition to all the benefits of lower ...Read More

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From the 2022 Recommended Reading List: Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology

Here’s a highlight from our 2022 Recommended Reading list: the anthology Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology, edited by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H.D. Hunter & LP Kindred, out from Android Press.

From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers:

When a desperately mundane woman borrows clothing from her mother, a soucouyant goes searching for her skin. A Nigerian parent climbs mountains to heaven to ...Read More

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Greg Bear (1951-2022)

Greg Bear died November 19, 2022, after complications from a heart surgery. Doctors discovered he had suffered a number of strokes during the procedure, and a week after the surgery, in accordance to his directive, he was taken off life support.

Bear was the author of over 50 novels and almost as many works of short fiction, for which he won two Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards and many ...Read More

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Butler Wins Forry Award

The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) has selected the late author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) as this year’s recipient of the Forry Award for lifetime achievement in the SF field. Butler was a major figure in the field who won three Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, among many other honors.

The award, named for Forrest J Ackerman and given annually since 1966, was presented ...Read More

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2021 Ladies of Horror Readers’ Choice

The 2021 Ladies of Horror Readers’ Choice results have been announced. The top ten winners are:

  • “Become a Flute, Become a Spy Glass, Become a Knife”, Elou Carroll (Grimm & Dread: a Crow’s Twist on Classic Tales)
  • Earthly Bodies, Susan Earlam (Speleorex)
  • Till We Become Monsters, Amanda Headlee (Woodhall)
  • The Night Library of Sternendach, Jessica Lévai (Lanternfish)
  • Bad Witch Burning, Jessica Lewis (Delacorte)
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Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award Opens

The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) has opened submissions for the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award for “emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination” until December 1, 2022.

Applicants must send a “200-word statement with background & goals in writing SF” and a “4,000-word maximum writing sample addressing Indigenous perspectives” to Professor Grace L. Dillon at dillong@pdx.edu. For more information, ...Read More

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Death Noted: Aiki Flinthart

Australian author and editor AIKI FLINTHART died February 1, 2021, just over a year after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis. After the diagnosis, she reached out to her favorite writers for stories, and created anthology Relics, Wrecks & Ruins (2021) before she passed. She was also the author of novels Shadows Wake (2018) and Blackbirds Sing (2019), the Kalima Chronicles fantasy series, the Ruadhan Sidhe urban fantasy series, and children’s ...Read More

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2021 An Post Irish Book Awards shortlist

The An Post Irish Book Awards have announced their 2021 shortlist, featuring writing across 20 categories. The awards “celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Each year it brings together a vast community passionate about books – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise the very best of Irish writing talent.”

Titles and authors of genre interest follow.

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Publishing News, October 2021

HarperCollins has announced reorganization plans for the recently acquired Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. They will have four imprints, which will see ‘‘see increased focus and investment, with the majority of acquiring editors remaining in place.’’ Mariner will publish most of the adult books, and will absorb Custom House. The Clarion and Versify imprints will retain their names as part of the new Clarion Group. Graphic novels from the Etch imprint will ...Read More

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