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
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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
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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
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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
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) sent a message to members on October 15, 2024, announcing that Russell Davis is being brought in for “a transitional leadership position.” Interim President Anthony W. Eichenlaub said
Recent resignations prove to us how much we’ve come to depend on our staff while also highlighting flaws in the structure of our organization. SFWA must change as it rebuilds… [Davis] knows SFWA well, ...Read More
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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
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Seattle Worldcon 2025 has announced a short story writing contest with separate categories for adult and young adult writers.
The winners in each category will be recognized at the convention, receive free memberships to the convention, and have their stories published in an upcoming anthology by Grim Oak Press. Stories must draw inspiration from our Worldcon theme: Building Yesterday’s Future – For Everyone.
The theme “was selected to invoke nostalgia
VIDA CRUZ-BORJA is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
SCOTT WESTERFELD & JUSTINE LARBALESTIER sold adult novel The Mortons – “The Secret History meets The Sopranos meets Saltburn,” – and a second book to Jeramie Orton at Pamela Dorman Books at auction via Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management. UK rights sold to Rosa Schierenberg at Viking UK in a ...Read More
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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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The winners of the 2024 Prix Utopiales and the 2024 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse have been announced. The prizes recognize work in the fantastic genres published or translated into French.
Prix Utopiales (Adult Literature)
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association has announced the winners of its annual prize for poetry. Poems were judged in three categories, listed below.
Dwarf Category (10 or fewer lines):
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
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The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards.
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth
ANANDA FERNANDES LIMA was born in Brasília, Brazil, and grew up there. She attended high school in Australia for a year through an exchange program and returned there for her undergraduate degree. While in college, she did a year abroad in Los Angeles and later moved back to attend grad school at UCLA, where she earned her MA in linguistics. She met her husband there, and they later lived in ...Read More
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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
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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
Read moreLongtime 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
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Your Shadow Half Remains, Sunny Moraine (Nightfire 978-1-25089-220-1, $16.99, 176pp, tp) February 2024.
If you look at someone, you’re dead. Not just dead, but dead in some horrible, violent way. That’s the premise at the core of Sunny Moraine’s Your Shadow Half Remains. Yes, readers familiar with Josh Malerman’s Bird Box may see a similarity to that novel in that premise, but Your Shadow Half Remains is very different, ...Read More
Read moreWriter and publishing professional Zoe Kaplan, 28, died October 9, 2024 of complications from diabetes.
Kaplan began publishing short fiction of genre interest with “Pink Marble” in 2021, and published several other stories in magazines and anthologies. She also worked in publishing, spending time at Tor before joining Simon & Schuster in 2021, first as a member of the production team, and later as a managing editorial associate, working extensively ...Read More
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Results of the 25th Fantastiknovelltävlingen, a Swedish “Fantastic Short Story Competition” organized by writers’ email list SKRIVA, have been announced.
First Place
Second Place
Third Place
Honorable Mentions
Winners were awarded prizes including cash, shares
Flash Fiction Online 6/24 Strange Horizons 6/9/24, 6/24/24 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/27/24, 7/11/24
The June Flash Fiction Online features a range of rather grim stories about characters caught in oppressive situations. Perhaps the most surprising is Kurt Pankau’s “A Pin Drops”, which imagines bowling technology advancing to the point where pins are made intelligent and sentient in order for them to protect one another and form familial ...Read More
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Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, received 3,436 valid ballots (3,431 electronic, five paper), up from 1,674 at Chengdu Worldcon. There were an additional 377 ballots disqualified as fraudulent or ‘‘not cast by natural persons.’’ There were 1,720 nominating ballots (1,715 electronic, five paper), down from 1,847.
The procedure for counting nominations remains the E Pluribus Hugo, or EPH, system. The rather complicated system gives a single point ...Read More
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South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her novel The Vegetarian was the first Korean language book to win the International Booker Award. The 2024 prize amount is 11 million Swedish kronor, just over $1 million US.
For more information, see the Nobel Prize website.
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The Deadlands Spring ’24
“The Slave Boy” by Denzel Xavier Scott in the Spring 2024 issue of The Deadlands looks at different forms of captivity and freedom. A young boy contemplates his own imprisonment and the imprisonment of the talking animals he’s forced to care for, pitying them, but also resenting them and the way they mock and torment him. He meets a strange man who offers him ...Read More
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Scientific American published a list of “Science-Fiction Books Scientific American’s Staff Love.”
“Top Shelf Recommendations” include The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Contact by Carl Sagan, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.
There are a number of other categories featuring works of genre interest, including “Ghastly Thrillers” and “All’s Fair In Love, War And Time Travel.”
For the complete
The United Nations bookshop, located in the Visitors Concourse of the United Nations in the General Assembly Building, held a one-hour “meet the author” event featuring Kim Stanley Robinson on September 21, 2024.
Robinson read from The Ministry for the Future and the following Q&A was moderated by Nanette Braun, director of Public Information at the Department of Global Communications.
The bookshop offers “the latest books published by and about ...Read More
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Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should ...Read More
Read moreThe 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards have been announced. The Science Fiction & Fantasy category winner was a three-way tie: Guardians of the High Pass by Avery Christy (Well Read Coyote), Magical Mushrooms by Kris Neri (Well Read Coyote), and Oceana by E J Randolph (Well Read Coyote).
The award mission is “uncovering and honoring the best in Arizona and New Mexico books.” Each book is judged by members of ...Read More
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Matthew Reardon, AKA JRH Lawless, has withdrawn his candidacy for secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) special election. While there are now no official candidates, Steven D. Brewer is a write-in candidate for the position.
SFWA is holding the special election for president and secretary following the resignations of president Jeffe Kennedy and vice-president Chelsea Mueller, among others. Secretary Anthony W. Eichenlaub is currently interim president. ...Read More
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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Ananda Lima (Tor 978-1-25029-297-1, 192pp, $24.99, hc) Cover by Jamie Stafford-Hill. June 2024.
Ananda Lima’s Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is pleasingly hard to classify. One could take the easy route and call it a debut collection – and an exciting one, to be sure, an excellent mix of stories magical, speculative, and wholly grounded. But there’s reason to think ...Read More
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