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Kaguya Sci-Fi Contest Winners
Japanese science fiction website VirtualGorillaPlus (VG+) has announced the winners of its 2021 Kaguya Sci-Fi Contest, judged by Kanata Inoue, Tatsuya Isogami, Hakka Kishitani, and Mahiro Saeki.
- Grand Prize: “Magic Ball”, The Carrier of Violence and Ruin
- Readers’ Prize: “The Multiverse Scavenger Hunt race, which was held in the afternoon of the Jonan Elementary School Sports Day”, Dainei Makino
- Judge’s Special Prize: “Screams”, Noe Itokawa
Winners were chosen from 381 ...Read More
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews In Universes by Emet North
In Universes, Emet North (Harper 978-0063314870, hardcover, 240pp, $26.99) April 2024
I never would have predicted that the fantastika genre would be graced in 2024 with a novel that resonated so vibrantly with two classics from the 1970s: Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time. And yet that is precisely the vibe that I feel confident in proclaiming emanates from Emet ...Read More
Liz Bourke Reviews Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas
Cascade Failure, L.M. Sagas (Tor 978-1-25087-125-1, $17.99, 416pp, tp) March 2024.
Clearly this is the month for me to discuss debut novels. Cascade Failure is the first novel from L.M. Sagas: a science fiction adventure in the high-octane tradition. Stories set in futures ruled by soulless corporations have multiplied in recent years, perhaps as the naked greed of unfettered capitalism has grown more blatant since the decade-defining financial crash ...Read More
Jake Casella Brookins Reviews The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey 978-1-9848-2070-9, $28.99, 432pp, hc) February 2023.
Robert Jackson Bennett’s previous fantasy works – The Divine Cities and Founders trilogies – were immensely and somewhat unexpectedly delightful for me. I don’t often seek out fantasy series anymore. So, when I encounter an author who writes the kind of fun, propulsive work that kept my teenage self scouring the shelves for the next ...Read More
Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Fiyah, Flash Fiction Online, GigaNotoSaurus, and Diabolical Plots
Fiyah 1/24 Flash Fiction Online 1/24 GigaNotoSaurus 1/24 Diabolical Plots 1/24
The first Fiyah of 2024 is unthemed, but as guest editor Nelson Rolon describes, that doesn’t mean certain motifs and elements didn’t end up running through most or all of the pieces – most engaged with death and what comes after. In N. Romaine White’s “D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion)”, a group of vampires meet to ...Read More
Gabino Iglesias Reviews Clever Creatures of the Night by Samantha Mabry
Clever Creatures of the Night, Samantha Mabry (Algonquin 978-1-61620-897-4, $18.99, 240pp, hc) March 2024. Cover by Kayla E.
Samantha Mabry’s Clever Creatures of the Night is a master class in atmosphere with a literary bent and a few surprising turns up its creepy sleeve. At once a murder mystery, a postapocalyptic narrative, and a story about friendship, this novel about a missing friend and some strange young people living ...Read More
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Liz Bourke Reviews Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW 978-0-75641-885-4, $28.00, 320pp, hc.) April 2024.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In is award-winning short fiction writer John Wiswell’s debut novel. I went in expecting good things, and I wasn’t disappointed. The most straightforward shorthand I have to describe it is: ‘‘It’s as if T. Kingfisher wrote one of her fantasy romance novels from the point of view ...Read More
2024 Tähtifantasia Award Shortlist
The 2024 Tähtifantasia Award shortlist has been announced, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year.
- Kertomukset, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anu Partanen (Teos)
- Babel, R.F. Kuang, translated by Helene Bützow (Teos)
- Kellopelisydän, Vehka Kurjenmiekka (Aula & Co)
- Tytär hämärän, piika pimeän, J.S. Meresmaa (Myllylahti)
- Soturi sumussa, Gene Wolfe, translated by Heikki Karjalainen (Moebius)
2024 Zsoldos Péter Award Winners
The winners of the Zsoldos Péter Award have been announced, honoring Hungarian works of speculative fiction.
- Felfalt kozmosz [Devoured Cosmos], Markovics Botond (Agave Könyvek)
- Kígyók országa [Country of Snakes], Rusvai Mónika (GABO Könyvkiadó)
Short Stories
- “Az erdő szíve” [“The Heart of the Forest”], Gaura Ágnes (Az év magyar science fiction és fantasynovellái 2023)
Best Translated Novel
- Bábel [Babel], R.F. Kuang, translated by Vivien Horváth
Diamond Dagger Winners
Authors James Lee Burke and Lynda La Plante are joint winners of the 2024 Diamond Dagger Award, presented by the Crime Writers’ Association. Burke is the author of In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (2011), among other works of genre interest.
The award is the highest honor offered by the group, and “recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a ...Read More
Niall Harrison Reviews The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
The Mars House, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury US 978-1639732333, 480pp, $29.99, hc). March 2024.
If, a century from now, there are enough readers and enough academic presses to warrant reprinting early 21st-century Anglophone science fiction, editors in search of candidates might do worse than considering Natasha Pulley’s The Mars House for their list. In its style, its intellectual interests, and the strengths and weaknesses of its execution, Pulley’s sixth novel ...Read More