Finalists for the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1943, have been announced by Dublin 2019, the 77th Worldcon, to be held August 15-19, 2019 at the Convention Centre Dublin in Dublin Ireland. They counted 217 valid nominating ballots (214 electronic and three paper) from the members of Dublin 2019 and Worldcon 76. Ballot information for individual categories has not been released.
Best Novel
It is the distant future: 1995. In this 21st installation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first female-led Marvel movie, Brie Larson plays Vers, a green blue-blooded member of the Kree, a technologically advanced race of aliens who value emotional control. Vers and her mentor, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) lead a Starfleet Starforce secret mission against the Romulans Skrull, a shapeshifting race that has been at war with the Kree ...Read More
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LEIGH BARDUGO was born April 6, 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel, and grew up in Southern California. She attended Yale University, graduating with an English degree in 1997, and worked various jobs, including as a copywriter, journalist, and make-up and special effects artist.
Her debut YA novel Shadow and Bone, an epic fantasy, appeared in 2012, and began the Shadow and Bone trilogy that continued with Siege and Storm (2013) ...Read More
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Yes, I will admit, I would have preferred to see fewer brutal fistfights accompanied by the amplified sound of crunching lettuce and more leisurely attention to the imaginative underwater environments that mostly serve as backdrops for the film’s incessant free-for-falls; and yes, the film would have benefited from some judicious editing to reduce its two-and-a-half hour length to two hours. But overall, Aquaman qualifies as a successful superhero film, persuasively ...Read More
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Lightspeed 8/18, 9/18 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/18 Tor.com 7/19/18, 8/1/18 Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol 8, No. 3
Lightspeed has reached its 100th issue! A proud milestone for any magazine, they celebrate in style this September with a more-than-double issue: ten stories plus extra reprints and interviews. It leads with a mythic SF story, “Her Monster, Whom She Loved” by Vylar Kaftan. In this story a goddess births ...Read More
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Winners for the 2018 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best works published in Spain last year, have been announced.
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
Winners for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced by Worldcon 76, the 76th World Science Fiction Convention, on Sunday August 19, 2018 during a ceremony held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA:
Best Novel
Black Chamber, S.M. Stirling (Ace 978-0-399-58623-1, $16, 400pp, trade paperback) July 2018
For the past twenty years, since the publication of Island in the Sea of Time in 1998, S.M. Stirling has been compounding an immense series of books that fall under the rubric “Novels of the Change.” But he has not focused exclusively on that series, issuing many other titles, standalone and otherwise, in that same period. If ...Read More
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The British Fantasy Society has announced the shortlist for the 2018 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees are:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced the winners of the 2017 Nebula Awards at an awards banquet during the 52nd Annual Nebula Conference held May 19, 2018 at the Pittsburgh Marriott Center in Pittsburgh PA.
Novel
Finalists for the 2018 Ignotus Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best works published in Spain last year, have been announced.
Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)
Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Worldcon 76, the 76th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA August 16-20, 2018. 1,813 valid nominating ballots (1,795 electronic and 18 paper) were received and counted from the members of Worldcon 75, Worldcon 76, and Dublin 2019. Nominating ...Read More
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How to view the state of the field now? SF (and fantasy) are in some sort of pop culture ascendance – the rapturous reception of The Last Jedi on the one hand, and Wonder Woman on another hand, and even The Shape of Water (a more ambitious film than the more popular pair I mentioned, and yet also an hommage of sorts to 1950s monster movies) is surely evidence of ...Read More
Read moreThe Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have released the final ballot for the 2017 Nebula Awards.
Novel
Winners for the 2017 Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest are listed below.
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Books are original 2017 publications, except first-US editions of books that earlier appeared in the UK, Australia, or elsewhere (indicated by +).
Pierce Brown’s Iron Gold reaches #4 on the LA Times list but drops on three others. ...Read More Read more
Neal Shusterman’s YA novel Thunderhead (Simon & Schuster) debuts on three lists, ranking #3 on the New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list. ...Read More Read more
Holly Black’s YA novel The Cruel Prince (Little, Brown) debuts on two lists, ranking #3 on the New York Times‘ Young Adult Hardcover list. ...Read More Read more
The trade paperback edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale returns to or climbs six of the seven lists compiled here — perhaps inspired by the win of the TV series version at last night’s Golden Globes Awards. ...Read More Read more
Finalists for the 2017 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest are listed below:
Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels
Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
New this week on two Amazon lists, and the print LA Times list, is Naomi Alderman’s The Power (Little, Brown), which has been included on numerous lists of the top 10 books of 2017. ...Read More
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Just one title ranks #1 on any list this week — Andy Weir’s Artemis, still ranking #1 on the Los Angeles Times fiction hardcover list. ...Read More
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Year One by Nora Roberts, author of the long-running In Death series of associational SF/police procedural novels under the name J.D. Robb, debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #3 on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly fiction hardcover lists. ...Read More
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Andy Weir’s Artemis hits #1 on the Los Angeles Times list and continues to rank on the other four print lists compiled here. ...Read More
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Dean Koontz’s The Whispering Room debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #9 on the Publishers Weekly list. ...Read More
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Much to my surprise, I actually enjoyed watching Justice League, which can be appreciated as unpretentious fun, featuring likable characters and some moments of genuine humor. To be sure, it is not an ideal film, but the concept of bringing together popular superheroes to battle against common foes is appealing enough to overcome the recurring infelicities that have marred almost all of the recent films in the DC Extended ...Read More
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A YA Star Wars novel by Ken Liu, The Legends of Luke Skywalker (Disney Lucasfilm), debuts on two lists. ...Read More
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Joe Hill’s Strange Weather: Four Short Novels (Morrow) debuts on three lists, ranking as high as #9 on both the New York Times and USA Today lists. ...Read More
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Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Knopf) debuts on three print lists this week, two of them YA lists, the third the combined USA Today list, where it ranks #9.
Also debuting is a British Library book of an exhibition about the history of magic, tied to Harry Potter — under slightly different titles, it’s in hardcover in the UK, trade paperback in the US, and it ...Read More
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Several hardcover titles debut this week, by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare, Orson Scott Card, and Maggie Stiefvater, and most prominently Alice Hoffman, whose The Rules of Magic (Simon & Schuster) ranks #5 on the New York Times.
Publishers Weekly‘s website is not updated with this week’s issue’s bestsellers today.
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 10.29 LAT 10.22 USAT 10.15 PW 10.16 Amz (10.23) UK:Amz UK ...Read More Read more
