The Third Rule of Time Travel, Philip Fracassi (Orbit 978-0316572514, trade paperback, 336pp, $18.99) March 2025 I will never forget the thrill of encountering Jack London’s novel The Star Rover when I was a teen. This incredibly powerful and vivid tale of a man who can send his consciousness roaming across time and space to live again through distant events was truly thought-expanding. It was mind-opening in its large vistas.

Water Moon, Samantha Sotto Yambao (Del Rey 978-0-59372-499-6, $28.99, 384pp, hc) January 2025. Cover by Fritz Metsch. Samantha Sotto Yambao brings whimsy with an unexpectedly sharp edge in Water Moon, her first novel since 2020’s The Beginning of Always. Ishikawa Hana is about to take over the nameless family pawn shop, as her father finally retires after many years. This is no normal shop; for one thing, it’s not in

The Black Orb, Ewhan Kim (Serpent’s Tail 978-1-80081-572-8, £14.99, 368pp, tp) August 2024. (Mira 978-0-77838-734-8, $28.99, 304pp, tp) February 2025. There’s little written in English about South Korean science fiction author and critic Ewhan Kim. A brief profile of Kim written by the author on the ‘‘Science Fiction Writers Union of the Republic of Korea’’ tells us he became ‘‘a writer after reading Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles’’ and since 2004

Bestselling fantasy writer Terry Brooks announced his semi-retire­ment from writing in a post on his website and social media March 8, 2025. He also announced that author Delilah Dawson will become his co-author on the Shannara series going forward. Brooks wrote, Let’s start with a few life facts that I have come to accept and just recently decided to address. I am now eighty-one years old. I have been writing

Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Saga) debuts on three lists this week, ranking as high as #2 on the Los Angeles Times list. Suzanne Collins’s Sunrise on the Reaping debuts on two print lists at #1, and is part of the #1 ranked title on the NYT Children’s & Young Adult Series list; NYT won’t be listing the title separately. Note that Publishers Weekly has an updated Children’s

Winners of the 2025 Writers Guild Awards were announced February 15, 2025 during a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills CA. Winners of genre interest include Nickel Boys in the Adapted Screenplay category, based on the book by Colson Whitehead, and The Penguin in the Limited Series category. For more information, including a complete list of winners and nominees, see the Writers Guild website. While you are

Welcome back, book lovers! We’re starting the month of April off right with a lovely new video on our top picks for the best SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA books of the week! We post a new video every week, so come on by our YouTube channel and subscribe to keep up-to-date on future releases! We hope to see you next week!

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has posted an update on the election results for the 2025 SFWA Board of Directors. Ryka Aoki joins as new Director-at-Large along with returning Director-at-Large Curtis C. Chen and continuing Director-at-Large Christine Taylor-Butler. Kate Ristau continues as president and Steven D. Brewer continues as secretary. These terms will take effect on July 1, 2025. As previously reported, Day Al-Mohamed was appointed to

Candlemark & Gleam has announced that editor and publisher Athena Andreadis has stepped down and sold the press to Candlemark author Melissa Scott. Candlemark & Gleam was originally founded by Kate Sullivan in 2010 and was purchased by Andreadis in November 2015. Since its inception, Candlemark has earned a reputation for publishing a wide range of speculative fiction—science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, magical realism, and more—that regardless of subgenre focuses

Rest Stop, Nat Cassidy (Shortwave 978-1-95956-536-9, $13.99, 160pp, tp) October 2024. Cover by Alan Lastufka. When done right, there’s nothing like a novella: short, fast, engaging, and easy to devour. Nat Cassidy’s Rest Stop brings all of that and more to the table. Besides being fast and engaging, it’s also weird, intense, and deeper than it seems on the surface. A young vocalist and bass player named Abe is on

The Society of Illustrators has announced the 2025 inductees into its Hall of Fame. Honorees “are chosen based on their body of work and the impact it has made on the field of illustration.” 2025 Hall of Fame Laureates Peter Arno Rudy Gutierrez Kadir Nelson Tim O’Brien Frank R. Paul Marie Severin The artists will be honored at the 2025 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, to be held October 9,

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has opened registration for the 2025 Nebula Conference and Award Ceremony, to be held June 5-8, 2025 in Kansas City MO and online. Registration may be purchased at this link. Registration to attend the in-person conference is $375.00. The ticket is all-inclusive and grants access to “in-person programming & events, the Nebula Banquet and Ceremony, and… online recorded content at events.sfwa.org until

The 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize has announced its list of five finalists. The award honors “mid-career authors in fiction,” and the winner receives a $50,000 prize and a residence at the University of California, Berkeley and/or Bay Area. The award is given by the New Literary Project. Works and authors of genre interest include: Say Hello to My Little Friend, Jennine Capó Crucet (Simon & Schuster) Bear, Julia Phillips

The judges for the Crawford Award, which honors “an author’s first work of fantasy in book form,” are soliciting books published in the year 2025 between March 30 and December 31, 2025. What qualifies as a book is flexible: “In addition to novels and novellas, collections of poetry, short stories, and fiction aimed at younger readers are all eligible.” The Crawford Award will be given at the International Conference of

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has named Nicola Griffith the 41st recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. SFWA President Kate Ristau said, It is SFWA’s honor to recognize and celebrate Nicola’s past achievements, while looking forward to her future triumphs. Her work continues to inspire and challenge me, and when asked to pick a Grand Master to lead us into our Diamond Year, I looked

Clarkesworld 1/25 Zun Yu Tan’s “When There Are Two of You: A Documentary” in the January issue of Clarkesworld is set in a world where people can implant digital clones of themselves in their heads or have them uploaded into artificial bodies. The story is told in alternating sections between a woman with a Sentience in her head, and a digital clone in an artificial body, effectively exploring the concept

Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of April 1, 2025.  Abeysekara, Shalini: This Monster of Mine (Sterling/Union Square & Co. 978-1454958093, $19.99, 416pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 04/01/2025) Fantasy romance novel in a world inspired by ancient Rome. Sarai survived an attempted murder four years ago. As a Petitor, a

Baffling 12/24 Flash Fiction Online 12/24 Zooscape 12/24 Baffling closes out 2024 with plenty of steam in an issue that mixes queer themes, speculative elements, and a particular focus on intimacy and sex. In K-Ming Chang’s “The Glass Wife”, that focus illuminates a narrator and her lover, who is made of glass. For the narrator, having a lover made of glass means sometimes losing sight of her, not seeing her

On APRIL 1, 2025, Saga Press published When We Were Real, a science fiction novel written by Daryl Gregory and Clippy, the Microsoft Office Assistant which debuted in Office 97. Gregory said that he would never use an AI to write. “LLMs have used the work of writers and artists without permission or compensation, they waste huge amounts of water and energy, and the output they generate is mediocre,” he said.

The April 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Daryl Gregory and S.A. Barnes and a spotlight on Tachyon Publications. News includes the 2024 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, the sale of Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF to Must Read Magazines, and much more. Obituaries and appreciations remember Guy Thomas and Chris Moore. Reviews cover new works by Guy Gavriel Kay, Joe Abercrombie, Nnedi Okorafor, Sofía Rhei,

We are so happy to release our sixth episode of The Storytellers, our series of Zoom-recorded author readings! Previously, we had Henry Lien read the first chapter of Peasprout Chen Today we are pleased to show Hannah Yang reading “A Monster in the Shape of a Boy“, a short story published in Apex Magazine and anthologized in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 4 . This story was

The Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 has released its list of winners. Recipients of genre interest include The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please (Harper Collins), Overall Winner and the winner of Best Illustrated Book; and Rune by Carlos Sánchez (Flying Eye), winner in the Best Book for Younger Readers category. Category winners each receive £2,000 and the overall Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year title

Allan Kaster is a child of the Sputnik era. Raised, mostly, in San Antonio, Texas, he traveled the world as an Air Force brat. Sharing and trading comic books with other kids in Germany is a fond memory of his childhood. He started reading sci-fi novels when he was ten-years old. Not surprisingly, science was always his favorite subject in school. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree

Our Winter Monster, Dennis Mahoney (Hell’s Hundred 978-1-64129-633-5, $26.95, 304pp, hc) January 2025. Cover by Janine Agro. Dennis Mahoney’s Our Winter Monster is a wonderful mix of pulpy horror and crime that has a struggling couple at its center; a strange monster that wreaks havoc in an idyllic little town in the middle of winter, and a killer on the loose. Fast-paced, full of chaos, and featuring a unique monster

Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster 978-1-66802-166-8, 400pp, $29.99, hc) March 2025. The woman might have been beautiful once. Lips pink and plush, and long blond hair, the kind that shone with each brush. She was falling apart. Her face had been shredded into confetti, held together by one bleary blue eye, while her torso was a smooth bioplastic vest, translucent as a milk carton. Ruijie had tried pressing the

Death of a Unicorn blends fantasy and horror with a weird monster movie twist, but is it enough to refresh a somewhat stale fantasy trope? Written and directed by Alex Scharfman, this A24’s genre-crossing film stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as the father-daughter duo of the story along with a talented cast of supporting actors including Richard E. Grant, Téa Leoni, and Steve Park among others. A24 is known

Author Todd Grimson, 72, died January 30, 2025. He was best known for surreal horror novel Brand New Cherry Flavor (1996), adapted as a streaming TV series in 2021. Grimson was a pen name for Todd Spillum, who was born February 2, 1952 in Seattle WA and grew up in Portland OR. Spillum worked for the Veterans Administration Hospital and in a Portland emergency room, experiences that inspired debut novel

Winners of several awards given by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) were announced during the 46th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 43), held March 19-22, 2025 in Orlando FL. “Parasitism, Coexistence, and Colonialism in Animorphs” by Miranda Miller won the David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award, which gives a $250 stipend “to the graduate student submitting the most outstanding paper.” An

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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 12/24 Uncanny 1-2/25 The Deadlands Winter ’25 Before launching into new fiction for the (at this writing) still-new year of 2025, let’s mention Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #49. It is a 2024 publication but came out late in the year. The issue contains two works of fiction: novella “Pomegranate Hearts” by Dora Holland and short story “Hannah and Grackle, Lost in the Woods” by Susan DeFreitas.