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2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners
The winners of the 2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2023, have been announced.
French Novel
- WINNER: Du thé pour les fantômes, Chris Vuklisevic (Denoël)
- Trois battements, un silence, Anne Fakhouri (Argyll)
- Vie contre vie, Tristan Garcia (Gallimard)
- Le Tournoi des preux / Le Conte de l’assassin, Jean-Philippe Jaworski (Les Moutons Électriques)
Foreign Novel
- WINNER: Le Ministère du
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Ian Mond Reviews Changes in the Land by Matthew Cheney
Changes in the Land, Matthew Cheney (Lethe Press 978-1-59021-526-5, $3.00, 90pp, eb) April 2024.
If you read my 2023 Year in Review essay published in the February edition of Locus, you’ll know my favourite collection was Matthew Cheney’s The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories. I’m not going to repeat what I said about the book other than to note that while the stories tended to be grim ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews Robert J. Sawyer’s The Downloaded
The Downloaded, Robert J. Sawyer (Shadowpaw Press 978-1989398999, trade paperback, 199pp, $14.95) May 2024
It’s a testament to Robert Sawyer’s skill—and his generational wisdom—that he has created, with his latest book, a novel that is at once exuberantly old-school and utterly au courant. It reads like Greg Egan rebooting Neil R. Jones’s Professor Jameson cycle. This book exemplifies the “best of both worlds” approach that charts a viable future ...Read More
Alexandra Pierce Reviews Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
Song of the Huntress, Lucy Holland (Redhook 978-0316321655, $19.99, 448pp, tp) March 2024.
I’ve read a lot of Greek and Roman mythology retellings recently, so it’s nice to see Celtic/ British mythology getting some love too. In Song of the Huntress, Lucy Holland (Sistersong, 2021) brings the Wild Hunt to Cornwall and Wessex in the mid-700s. This is some centuries after the Roman conquest and departure; Saxons ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Lost Ark Dreaming
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom 978-1250890757, hardcover, 192pp, $19.99) May 2024
Thrillers confined to a single stage set or venue have an admirable lineage. One has only to think of the original Die Hard film or David Morrell’s novel Creepers to provide strong examples. In SF, this approach is often conflated with the Big Dumb Object trope: let’s explore Ringworld or Rama. James Cambias’s The Scarab Mission ...Read More
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills
The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (Tachyon 978-1-61696-414-6, $18.95, 336pp, tp) April 2024.
It’s been interesting to watch the rehabilitation of “science fantasy” as a respectable mode of storytelling over the past few decades. Once applied loosely to everything from sword and sorcery to Vancean far futures, it was derided as a “misshapen subgenre” by Darko Suvin and a “bastard genre” by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. ...Read More
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Octavia Butler Conference
The Huntington Library, which hosts the Octavia E. Butler Collection, has announced Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler, a “two-day conference [exploring] Octavia E. Butler, how we have learned from her writing, and what her archive at The Huntington can help future generations discover.”
The event will be held from May 23-24, 2024 at The Huntington in San Marino CA.
For more information, including the complete conference schedule, ...Read More
2024 Williamson Lectureship
The 47th Williamson Lectureship was held April 11-13, 2024 in Portales NM. The theme of Lectureship, held at Eastern NM University and around town to honor SF pioneer Jack Williamson, was “Oh, the (In)Humanity”, and included discussions of AI, robots, posthumans/anti-humans, and guest of honor Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries, including 2023’s System Collapse. Connie Willis served as toastmistress.
San Jose criminalist Cordelia Willis started events Thursday with a presentation ...Read More
Ian Mond Reviews Power to Yield by Bogi Takács
Power to Yield, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye Books 978-1-40372-266-2, $17.99, 203pp, tp) February 2024.
Hungarian American poet, writer, translator, critic, and editor Bogi Takács has spent eir career promoting, encouraging, and showcasing the work of marginalised authors. The anthology Rosalind’s Siblings, edited by Takács and publishing poetry and fiction focusing on scientists erased or diminished because of their gender or sexuality, fittingly featured on the 2023 Locus Recommended ...Read More
2024 CrimeFest Awards Winners
Winners for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards have been announced, including authors and titles of genre interest.
eDUNNIT Award
- WINNER: Prom Mom, Laura Lippman (Faber & Faber)
- Sepulchre Street, Martin Edwards (Head of Zeus)
- The Devil’s Playground, Craig Russell (Constable)
Best Crime Novel for Young Adults
- WINNER: Stateless, Elizabeth Wein (Bloomsbury YA)
- The Brothers Hawthorne, Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Penguin Random House Children’s UK)
- Promise Boys,
Tähtivaeltaja Award Winner
The winner of the the Tähtivaeltaja Award is Tällä tavalla hävitään aikasota [This Is How You Lose the Time War] by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Hertta), translated by Kaisa Ranta.
The award honors the best science fiction book published in Finland in the previous year, and is sponsored by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society.
The judging panel includes Hannu Blommila, Toni Jerrman, Elli Leppä, and Kaisa Ranta. For more