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Brin Wins Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award
David Brin has been announced as a 2024 recipient of the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, the university’s highest honor for alumni. Brin was honored with the award “for his enduring excellence in storytelling, examining how change, science, and technology affect the human condition in his New York Times-bestselling science fiction novels; for his support of revolutionary ideas in space science and engineering through NASA’s Innovative and Advanced Concepts Program.”
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Liz Bourke Reviews Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom 978-1-25032-488-7, $20.99, 176pp, hc) July 2024.
With Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard flexes her space opera muscles in a slightly different direction, in a universe that draws as much on the ‘‘cultivation fantasy’’ of xiānxiá as on the atmosphere and aesthetics that underpin her Xuya universe novels. Navigational Entanglements opens new vistas in a world where space travel is accomplished through the ...Read More
Alex Brown Reviews Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido 978-1-64614-379-5, $19.99. 400pp, hc) April 2024. Cover by Rovina Cai.
In 2020, Darcie Little Badger had her YA debut with the utterly delightful mystery novel Elatsoe. Ellie, a 17-year-old asexual Lipan Apache teen, lives in a slightly alternate contemporary version of America where legendary creatures and magic are a normal part of life. In particular, she has the ability to call ...Read More
Colleen Mondor Reviews Malicia by Steven Dos Santos
Malicia, Steven Dos Santos (Page Street Publishing 978-1-645-67787-1, $18.99, 352pp, hc) June 2024. Cover by Aleksey Pollack.
If you are in the mood for a deeply dark YA fantasy, with plenty of terror, gore, and moments of blood splattered dismemberment, then Steven Dos Santos has you covered with his latest, Malicia. Set on a small island off the coast of the Dominican Republic, Malicia is a theme park ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews Victor Manibo’s Escape Velocity
Escape Velocity, Victor Manibo (Erewhon Books 978-1645660842, hardcover, 368pp, $28.00) May 2024
The Jacobean Revenge Tragedy is a mode not unprecedented in SF. The instance that comes most readily to mind is Bester’s The Stars My Destination, modeled on one of the most famous such, The Count of Monte Cristo. And now, with Victor Manibo’s sophomore novel, the field gets another vivid enactment of injustices avenged. Except ...Read More
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom 978-1250890757, $19.99, 192pp, hc) May 2024.
The idea of social stratification enforced through architecture – in other words, high-rises with the rich living at the top – has been a staple of SF imagery at least since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and it’s been extraordinarily useful as a way of exploring everything from overpopulation to Ballardian alienation to urban dystopia to – more ...Read More
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New & Notable Books, May
Cory Doctorow, The Bezzle (Tor 2/24) Forensic accountant Martin Hench returns in this noir thriller, a prequel to Red Team Blues set during the dot-com bubble. Hench and a friend bring down an amoral millionaire running a pyramid scheme, who retaliates with a slow, vicious revenge, in a tale that introduces some moral complexities that will leave this younger Hench a bit wiser in the future.
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...Read MoreLiz Bourke Reviews The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond
The Fireborne Blade, Charlotte Bond (Tordotcom 978-1-25029-031-1, $20.99, 176pp, hc) May 2024.
It’s always interesting to review a novella, and this month I have three. Or three very short novels, at least: the line blurs. Charlotte Bond’s The Fireborne Blade harks back to the adventure style of sword-and-sorcery fantasy that had its most recent great flowering (to the best of my knowledge) in the 1980s. Everything old is new ...Read More
2024 Dublin Literary Award Winner
The winner of the Dublin Literary Award is Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu.
The initial 70 titles on the longlist were “nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries around the world.” The shortlist featured “6 books nominated by 6 libraries from 6 countries.” The judges were Lucy Collins, Anton Hur, Daniel Medin, Chris Morash (non-voting chair), Irenosen Okojie, and Ingunn Snædal. The winner received €100,000 and was announced May 23, 2024. ...Read More
Gabino Iglesias Reviews Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi
Small Town Horror, Ronald Malfi (Titan Books 978-1-80336-565-7, $27.99, 400pp, hc) June 2024.
It’s hard to find fresh, unique ghost stories. It’s probably even harder to find original narratives – horror, mystery, crime, whatever – in which someone is forced to go back to their hometown to face their past. In Small Town Horror, author Ronald Malfi manages to do both. At once a spooky tale about a ...Read More