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Liz Bourke Reviews Fathomfolk by Eliza ChanFathomfolk , Eliza Chan (Orbit US 978-0-316-56492-2, $19.99, 448pp, tp) February 2024. Cover by Kelly Chang. Eliza Chan has racked up several...
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Tusks of Extinction by Ray NaylerThe Tusks of Extinction , Ray Nayler (Tordotcom 978-1-25085-552-7, $26.99, 112pp, hc) January 2024. Just over a year ago, Ray Nayler offered us...
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New & Notable Books, February 2024Josiah Bancroft, An Empyreal Retinue (Subterranean 10/23) Collection of eight stories, four new, all expanding upon the...
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Ian Mond Reviews Womb City by Tlotlo TsamaaseWomb City , Tlotlo Tsamaase (Erewhon Books 978-1-64566-056-9, $27.00, 416pp, hc) January 2024. Tlotlo Tsamaase’s debut novel, Womb City,...
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The Year in Review 2023 by Niall HarrisonEvery once in a while, in defiance of all the cacophony of the actual world, the federated genres of the fantastic can still produce a work whose...
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2024 Prix Bob Morane FinalistsFinalists have been announced for the 2023 Prix Bob Morane, recognizing French-language works in the science fiction, fantasy, espionage, and...
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Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction CallThe Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume Three anthology is open to submissions until March 31, 2024, covering works originally...
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2023 Analog AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards FinalistsFinalists for the 2023 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards, and the 38th Asimov’s Readers’ Awards, have been announced, with...
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2023 L.A. Times Book Prize FinalistsFinalists have been announced for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Categories and works of genre interest follow. Science Fiction,...
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Alexandra Pierce Reviews The Parliament by Aimee PokwatkaThe Parliament, Aimee Pokwatka (Tordotcom 978-1-25082-097-6, 320pp, $28.99, hc) Cover by Jaya Miceli. January 2024. Aimee Pokwatka leans...
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The Year in Review 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins2023 wound up being a strange reading year for me. I started the year with a big move: from Chicago back to beautiful Buffalo, NY. While it’s...
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2023 Stoker Awards Final BallotThe Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards: Superior Achievement in a Novel...
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Liz Bourke Reviews The Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedThe Butcher of the Forest , Premee Mohamed (Tordotcom 978-1-250-88178-6, $18.99, 160pp, tp) February 2024. Cover by Andrew Davis. It seems to...
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Ian Mond Reviews Deluge by Stephen MarkleyThe Deluge , Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster 978-1-98212-309-3, $32.50, 896pp, hc) January 2023. I won’t lie. I balked at reading Stephen...
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Steve Miller (1950-2023)Author Steve Miller, 73, best known for the Liaden Universe series co-written with wife Sharon Lee, died suddenly on February 20, 2024, as...
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SFWA Career Mentorship Program Open to ApplicationsThe Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has opened applications their 2024 career mentoring program, seeking both mentors and...
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Colleen Mondor Reviews The Parliament by Aimee PokwatkaThe Parliament , Aimee Pokwatka (Tordotcom 978-1-250-82097-6, $27.99, 320pp, hc) January 2024. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds was...
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The Year in Review 2023 by Archita MittraOnce upon a time, bad things happened and eventually, things got better. While this might be true for certain stories, real life, plagued by...
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Locus Bestsellers, FebruaryThe Locus Bestsellers for February include top titles: System Collapse by Martha Wells (Tordotcom), Dune by Frank Herbert (Ace), Bookshops...
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New Books, 20 February 2024Albert, Melissa: The Bad Ones (Macmillan/Flatiron 9781250894892, $19.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 02/20/2024) Young-adult...
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2024 Dell Award Winners“Lolo’s Last Run” by Emma Kerkman is the winner of the 2024 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy...
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2024 Splatterpunk Awards NomineesNominees have been announced for the Splatterpunk Awards, “honoring superior achievement for works published in 2023 in the sub-genres of...
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Weekly Bestsellers, 19 February 2024Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow slips out of first place on the four print lists compiled here, but remains in...
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Kinning by Nisi ShawlKinning , Nisi Shawl (Tor 978-1-25021-269-6, $28.99, 432pp, hc) January 2024. Nisi Shawl’s 2016 Everfair was one of the more provocative...
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The Year in Review 2023 by Arley Sorg2023 was a bummer: We published our final issue of Fantasy Magazine in October. All the same, it was a wonderful issue, and a strong way to go...
