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2025 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Finalists
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Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fictio…
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The Mune by Sue Dawes and The Hampdenshire Wonder by J.D. Beresford: Review by Niall Harrison
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The Mune, Sue Dawes (Gold SF 978-1-91598-324-4, $19.95, 329pp, tp) March 2025. The Hampdenshire Wonder, J.D. Beresford (Sidgwick & Jackson 412pp, hc) 1911. (The MIT Press 978-0-26255-141-0, $19…
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rekt by Alex Hernandez: Review by Paul Di Filippo
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rekt, Alex Gonzalez (Erewhon Books 978-1645661597, hardcover, 368pp, $28.00) March 2025 Here comes another startling debut novel to give us all hope for the future of the field in the hands of a ne…
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Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao: Review by Alexandra Pierce
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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 Mo…
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The Year in Review 2024 by Liz Bourke
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Look Back, Look Forward, Look Around I have a list, every year, of books I wanted to read but for which I ran out of time. This year’s is even longer than usual (and it includes Nalo Hopkinson’s Bl…
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix: Review by Ian Mond
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley 978-0-59354-898-1, $30.00, 496pp, hc) January 2025. What better way to start the year than reading a novel by my favourite horror author, Grady …
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Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy: Review by Colleen Mondor
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Sorcery and Small Magics, Maiga Doocy (Orbit 978-0-316-57675-8, $19.99, 400pp, tp) October 2024. When I settled in to read Maiga Doocy’s debut, Sorcery and Small Miracles, I expected an ‘‘enemies …
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IBI AANU ZOBOI was born was born Pascale Philantrope in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on June 22, 1977. She grew up in New York City, and now lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children; she le…
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2024 NESFA Short Story Contest
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The New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) SF/F short story contest is now open to entries. “The purpose of this contest is to encourage amateur and semi-professional writers to reac…
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Garcia Wins 2024 Sturgeon Award
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“Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200″ by R.S.A. Garcia (Uncanny, 7/23) is the winner of the 2024 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction story, presented by t…
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The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi: Review by Paul Di Filippo
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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 wh…
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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…
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The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim: Review by Ian Mond
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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 …
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Weekly Bestsellers, 31 March 2025
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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 deb…
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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…
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2025 Writers Guild Awards Winners
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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 Ada…
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New Books Video for 4/1/25 is Live!
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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…
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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 r…
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Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy: Review by Gabino Iglesias
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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 dev…
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2025 Nebula Conference Registration Opens
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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. Regis…
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2026 Crawford Award Submissions Open
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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.…
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Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
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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.&#…
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2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Finalists
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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 t…
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Griffith Named SFWA Grand Master
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has named Mercedes Lackey the 41st recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. SFWA President Kate Ristau said, It is SFW…
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Clarkesworld: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise
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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…
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Issue 771 Table of Contents, April 2025
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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 fina…
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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. Abeyseka…
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Baffling, Flash Fiction Online and Zooscape: Reviews by Charles Payseur
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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 …
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Saga Publishes Novel Co-Written by Clippy
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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 h…
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Spotlight on Allan Kaster & Infinivox
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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 m…
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The Storytellers: Hannah Yang Reads A Monster in the Shape of a Boy
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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 pl…
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The West Passage Wins Crawford Award
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Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage (Tor) won this year’s the Crawford Award, presented at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando FL on March 22, 2025. The a…
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Diabolical Plots: Reviews by Charles Payseur
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/26/24 Diabolical Plots 12/24 There’s only one December issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies this year, and it contains a pair of epistolary stories dealing with injustice, ro…
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Author L.J. Smith, 66, died March 8, 2025 in Danville CA after a long illness. Smith was best known for the bestselling Vampire Diaries series and the Night World series. Lisa Jane Smith was born S…
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Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey: Review by Colleen Mondor
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Once Was Willem, M.R. Carey (Orbit 978-0-316-50502-4, $18.99, 320pp, tp) March 2025. Once Was Willem, M.R. Carey’s new supernatural medieval fantasy, is a gorgeously written visit to 12th century …
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2025 International Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist
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The shortlist for the 2025 International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The six-title list includes Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt (Jonathan Cape) and Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lenno…
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Death and Other Speculative Fictions by Caroline Hagood: Review by Jake Casella Brookins
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Death and Other Speculative Fictions, Caroline Hagood (Spuyten Duvvil 9781963908503, $18.00, 116pp, tp) January 2025. Caroline Hagood’s Death and Other Speculative Fictions is an astonishing read, …
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It’s Not Cheating If It’s With Your Clone: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Mickey 17
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Capitalism, in fiction and in real life, has usually depended on expendable (that is, cheap) labor. Slaves, serfs, indentured servants, children, undocumented migrants, gig workers, (now science fi…
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New Books Video for the Week of 3/18/2025!
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Welcome back for another week of our picks for the top new releases in the SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA fields! If you’re looking to keep up-to-date on super releases, and support what we do, …
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The shortlist for the 2024 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced. Best Novel Calypso, Oliver K. Langmead (Titan) Rabbit in the Moon, Fiona Moore (Epic) Alien Clay, Ad…
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The Locus Bestsellers for September include top titles: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsb…
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Transmentation | Transience by Darkly Lem: Review by Alexandra Pierce
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Transmentation | Transience, Darkly Lem (Blackstone 979-8-21218-599-8, $28.99, 400pp, hc) March 2025. Cover by Kathryn English. I came to this novel with no knowledge of what I was going into. I ha…
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The Dagger in Vichy by Alastair Reynolds: Review by Alexandra Pierce
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The Dagger in Vichy, Alastair Reynolds (Subterranean 978-1-64524-280-2, $40.00, 120pp, hc) August 2025. Cover by Andrew Davis. The Dagger in Vichy is very different from Alastair Reynolds’s other …
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Barakat and Mtoor Win 2025 Watermelon Grant
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L.D. Lewis has announced Ibtisam Barakat and Monir Mtoor (Nissan Al-Jalele) as the winners of the inaugural 2025 Watermelon Grant. This grant “offers $2000 USD in unrestricted funds to an eme…
on Mar 19
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Climate Fiction Prize 2025 Shortlist
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The Climate Fiction Prize has announced its inaugural shortlist. Founded by Rose Goddard, Imran Khan, and Leo Barasi and supported by Climate Spring, the prize seeks to “celebrate the most in…
on Mar 19
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The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
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The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami (Pantheon 978-0593317600, $29.00, 336pp, hc) March 2025. This may sound like an odd question, but are algorithms starting to take over the narrative function that psi…
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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 March 18, 2025. Baumann…
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Anathema has announced a call for co-editors via Bluesky, saying they are “moving forward with plans for Anathema 2.0, and we would like to bring on more co-editors who are committed to the m…
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Convention organizer Guy Thomas, 67, died March 13, 2025. Guy Wayne Thomas, born February 21, 1958, discovered science fiction fandom in college, in Carbondale IL. His first science fiction convent…
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2025 Carnegie Medals Shortlists
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The shortlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration, honoring UK books for children and young adults, have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interes…
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