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40th Anniversary Writers & Illustrators of the Future
The annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards gala event was held on April 25, 2024 at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. This years’ proceedings marked two important milestones: the 40th anniversary of the Awards for Writers and the 35th for Illustrators. The lavish ceremonies commemorated 24 new winners and included retrospectives on four decades of imaginative achievement; Grand Prize winners were Jack Nash in writing (for his ...Read More
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
The Bezzle, Cory Doctorow (Tor 9781250865878, $27.99, 240pp, hc) February 2024.
There are a handful of SF writers so sharply attuned to the arcane systems that underlie contemporary culture that it sometimes becomes a challenge to figure out what’s SF and what’s not; William Gibson and Kim Stanley Robinson come to mind, as does Cory Doctorow. The Bezzle, Doctorow’s second novel in a new series featuring forensic accountant ...Read More
Colleen Mondor Reviews River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta
River Mumma, Zalika Reid-Benta (Penguin Canada 978-0-73524-476-4, C$24.95, 256pp, tp) August 2023. (Erewhon 978-1-645-66135-1, $27.00, 284pp, hc) March 2024. Cover by Rebecca Farrin.
So there you are, grad school completed, back home with degree in hand, and all your hopes and dreams must be shelved because the only job you can get entails a lot of folding clothes, cleaning up fitting rooms, and greeting bored customers. This is the ...Read More
Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Strange Horizons, and Flash Fiction Online
Escape Pod 1/25/24, 2/8/24, 2/22/24, 2/29/24 Fusion Fragment 2/24 Strange Horizons 2/19/24, 2/26/24, 3/4/24, 3/11/24 Flash Fiction Online 2/24, 3/24
Catching up with Escape Pod, their January original “The Ballad of Starburst Smith” by David Marino finds a mostly failed musician visiting a special service called a Winnower in order to see a possible future where her music career is more than just disappointing. The downside of using ...Read More
A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: The Deadlands
The Deadlands Winter ’24
The Winter 2024 issue of The Deadlands is full of lovely prose and quiet stories meditating on life and death. In the beautifully written “Threnody in Dark Wood” by Avra Margariti, a professional mourner who sings the dead through the Doorway receives a mysterious assignment to attend an empty funeral with a sealed coffin and soon realizes this is a job unlike any other. ...Read More
Jake Casella Brookins Reviews The Climate Action Almanac edited by Joey Eschrich & Ed Finn
The Climate Action Almanac, Joey Eschrich & Ed Finn, eds. (Center for Science and the Imagination) November 2023.
Edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn, The Climate Action Almanac is an online anthology that brings together a selection of science fiction and non-fiction to fire up our imaginations about climate change and the vast range of possible responses to it. Charmingly illustrated throughout by João Queiroz, the collection strikes a ...Read More
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Arnaud Lagardère, CEO of Lagardère SA (parent company of Hachette Book Group), was required to step down from his position after being charged with ‘‘vote buying, abuse of power and breach of trust, disseminating false or misleading information and failure to publish accounts.’’ He is under judicial supervision and was ordered to produce a bond of €200,000. The charges stem from an investigation into the battle for control of the ...Read More
Announcements
The Free Library of Philadelphia has announced “Pride Month: How Science Fiction Dances to the Music of Time”:
Samuel R. Delany speaks with Music Department library trainee & Hollywood indie film composer Mark Inchoco on the intersections between science fiction & music. Hear how great musicians, librettists, & musical events such as Cab Calloway, Pete Seeger, the Newport Folk Festival, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Dylan, Samuel Barber, Leontyne Price, & Macy ...Read More
Paula Guran Reviews The Sunday Morning Transport, Weird Horror, Uncanny, and Apex
The Sunday Morning Transport 1/1/24 – 3/17/24 Weird Horror Spring ’24 Uncanny 1-2/24, 3-4/24 Apex #142, #143
Lots to cover this month, so let’s concentrate on the cream of the crop.
The Sunday Morning Transport publishes new fiction almost every Sunday throughout the year. Each of the stories merits a read, but of the first eleven stories of 2024, six stood out for me.
The title of Mary Robinette Kowal ...Read More
SFPA Announces AI Policy
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has banned all works created using generative AI from its publications and awards consideration. The policy was announced in a statement posted to the SFPA website.
The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s creative ...Read More
Caitlin Thomas (2002-2024)
CAITLIN THOMAS, 21, died April 17, 2024 in Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago IL. She had Aicardi Syndrome, a rare congenital disorder.
Born October 28, 2002, Caitlin was the daughter of editors Lynne Marie Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas of Uncanny, and was a familiar and beloved figure at conventions and events.
Michael wrote, “Caitlin was the best of all of us – the most pure, loving, fun, and ...Read More