The European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) has announced the Hall of Fame Awards, Achievement Awards and winners of the Chrysalis Awards for emerging talent. Hall of Fame Awards Best Author WINNER: Adrian Tchaikovsky (Great Britain) Pierre Bordage (France) Guido Eekhaut (Belgium) Marc Elsberg (Austria) Lanfranco Fabriani (Italy) Vesela Flamburari (Bulgaria) Adnadin Jasarevic (Montenegro/Bosnia-Herzegovina) Igor Rendić […]
Award-winning author Evie Wyld talks about her new book “The Echoes” and why there are so many sharks in her novels. Also Catherine McKinnon’s epic war novel “To Sing of War” and Jordan Prosser’s novel about a band road trip “Big Time”. Evie Wyld is one of the few Australian writers to have won both […]
Science Fiction, Magic, Queer LA: Sexual Science and the Imagi Nationa new science fiction exhibition, will open on August 22, 2024, at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition focuses on: …Los Angeles from the late 1930s to the 1960s, looking both back and forth to trace the lives of […]
The knife and the snakeTim Pratt (Angry Robot 978-1-91520-280-2, $18.99, 400 pages, tp) June 2024. Tim Pratt’s latest novel, The knife and the snakehas all the hallmarks of a Tim Pratt story: the tone is intelligent and engaging, even when one (or two) characters are neither; the action is brisk, but not so brisk that […]
The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced that it has received a $5,000 capacity-building grant from the National Book Foundation. The SLF is one of 49 nonprofit literary arts organizations in the United States that receive grants to support projects that build organizational capacity and increase sustainability. The Speculative Literature Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated […]
Asimov’s 5.-6./24. The May/June 2024 issue of Asimov’s contains three novellas, making it perfect for readers who want to delve into longer short stories. The first of the three novellas that opens the issue is “Barbarians” from Rich Larson. Yanna and his partner Hilly have been hired to take a pair of creepy rich twins […]
Voting has been announced for the World Fantasy Awards for works published in 2023. Awards will be presented during the 2024 World Fantasy Convention, to be held October 17-20, 2024, in Niagara Falls, NY. The Life Achievement Awards, given annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to fantasy, go to Ginjer Buchanan and Jo […]
The collapsing borderJonathan Lethem (PM Press 978-1-62963-488-3, $16.00, 160 pp., tp) March 2024. With all the well-deserved tributes to the late Terry Bisson and his work (including a long-running and very funny column for this magazine), it is easy to overlook the brilliant series of writers’ books he edited for PM Press over the past […]
The Malachi Covenant, Dee Kelly Jr. (Forefront Books 978-1-63763-255-0, $26.00, 432 pp., hc) April 2024. Cover by Mary Susan Oleson. The international success of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code unleashed a flood of novels that sought to work in this area, mixing elements of thrillers and historical novels with elements of various religious faiths. […]
The Dragonfly GambitAD Sui (Neon Hemlock 9781952086793, $13.99, 142 pp., tp) April 2024. For generations, the Rule expanded their empire by colonizing planets and systems, but in recent decades many of the colonized have rebelled against their overlords. Nez, Shay, and Kaya, three young adults from the Oran system, were drafted into the Imperial Air […]
