Cixin Liu Museum Opens in China
A museum dedicated to science fiction author Cixin Liu has opened in Yangquan, China. Ceremonies were held on October 13, 2024, as part of Yangquan’s second annual Liu Cixin Hometown Science Fiction Culture Week.
Liu, author of The Three-Body Problem, The Wandering Earth, and other influential works, took to the stage with local officials. In his commemorative speech (reported here), he said, “I hope that science fiction can bring ...Read More
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo: Review by Jake Casella Brookins
The City in Glass, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom 978-1250348272, $24.99, 224pp), October 2024.
If you’ve read any of Nghi Vo’s earlier work, you already know that she’s a writer to watch – a masterful stylist with a flair for bringing together magical premises, subtle anthropological worldbuilding, and deep wells of mythic imagery and themes. If you haven’t, Vo’s newest, The City in Glass, is not at all a bad ...Read More
Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet by Molly Morris: Review by Colleen Mondor
Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet, Molly Morris (Wednesday 978-1-250-29006-9, $20.00, 336pp, hc) June 2024.
The town of Lennon, California has a secret that only the residents (and a few chosen former residents) can know. The Welcome Back contest allows the townspeople to nominate someone to come back from the dead for 30 days. This year, Wilson Moss has won, and that means her friend Annie is returning, but ...Read More
Model Home by Rivers Solomon: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
Model Home, Rivers Solomon (MCD 978-0-374-60713-5, $28.00, 304pp, hc) October 2024.
“Everyone believes in haunted houses,” says Ezri, the narrator of Rivers Solomon’s Model Home, and who’s to argue? Based on the resurgence of the theme in the past couple of years alone, it’s proved to be not only a durable framework for supernatural shenanigans, but a kind of magical mirror for all sorts of issues ranging from ...Read More
Asunder by Kerstin Hall: Review by Liz Bourke
Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom 978-1-250-62543-4, $29.99, 432pp, hc) August 2024. Cover art by Greg Ruth.
Kerstin Hall writes sharp, fierce stories with precise and visceral prose, and with worldbuilding that possesses a keen sense for the weird, the haunting, the marvellous, and the twistedly strange. Asunder is only her fourth long-form work, her second novel (after 2021’s Star Eater and the novella duo The Border Keeper and Second Spear ...Read More
The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca: Review by Niall Harrison
The Jaguar Mask, Michael J. DeLuca (Stelliform 978-1-77809-260-2, 348pp, $19.00, tp) August 2024. Cover by Julia Louise Pereira.
The story of The Jaguar Mask does not start on the first page, in which the artist Cristina Ramos relives the murder of her mother in a garish vision – four tattooed mareros with machine pistols, haloed by angels of death, gunning down two government employees, a foreign lobbyist, and Eufemia ...Read More
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Strange Horizons Launches Podcast Series
Strange Horizons has announced the launch of a year-long podcast series, SH@25, in celebration of their 25th anniversary.
SH@25 will feature “interviews with authors, artists, poets, and former staff of Strange Horizons, charting the magazine’s 25 year trajectory from being founded in September 2000 to winning a Hugo in August 2024, as well as looking ahead at its future.” The project will be led by podcast editor Kat Kourbeti and ...Read More
2024 British Fantasy Awards Winners
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards.
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
- WINNER: Talonsister, Jen Williams (Titan)
- At Eternity’s Gates, David Green (Eerie River)
- Beyond Sundered Seas, David Green (Eerie River)
- A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth
Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch: Review by Ian Mond
Napalm in the Heart, Pol Guasch (Faber & Faber UK 978-0571375257, £6.99, 256pp, hc) July 2024. (FSG Originals 978-0-37461-295-5, $18.00, 256pp, tp) August 2024.
Reading Pol Guasch’s debut, Napalm in the Heart, right after Helen Phillips’ Hum is a disorientating experience. Both authors present us with dystopias, but while Phillips cleaves to our reality, Guasch gives us something more symbolic and experimental, a dystopia unmoored from time and ...Read More
The Dark, Uncanny, Apex, and Weird Horror Fall: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran
The Dark 6/24 Uncanny 7-8/24 Apex #145 Weird Horror Fall ’24
The Dark #109 features two originals. “The Abandoned” by Jack Klausner is a haunting story that begins with a little girl finding a box in the schoolyard. It takes us through tragic mystery and ends in resignation. The protagonist in Beth Goder’s interesting “Labyrinth” visits the infamous Winchester Mystery House in a story that ...Read More
Leonard Riggio (1941-2024)
Longtime Barnes & Noble head LEONARD RIGGIO, 83, died August 27, 2024 in Manhattan. He had Alzheimer’s.
Leonard Stephen Riggio was born February 28, 1941 in New York, and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. After graduating in 1958, he took night classes at NYU for a while before dropping out. He founded a small bookshop, the Student Book Exchange, in 1965. In 1971, he purchased New York bookshop Barnes ...Read More