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2024 Sir Julius Vogel Awards Finalists
Finalists for the 2024 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ).
Best Novel
- Turncoat, Tīhema Baker (Lawrence & Gibson)
- A New Eden Menilik, Henry Dyer (Podium)
- A Wolf in the Garden, Allegra Hall (self-published)
- Decimus and the Wary Widow, Emily Larkin (self-published)
- Ghosts of the Catacombs, Janna Ruth (self-published)
Best Youth Novel
- New Dawning
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Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Worlds of Possibility, Zooscape, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Kaleidotrope
Worlds of Possibility 12/23 Zooscape 12/23 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/28/23, 1/11/24, 1/25/24 Kaleidotrope 1/24
Worlds of Possibility ended 2023 with an issue including Keyan Bowes’s “A Refugee from Fairyland”, which imagines a sudden eviction of a number of children from the “care” of the fairies. The narrator, Latasha, works with an organization seeking to either reunite these lost children with their families or provide long-term housing for ...Read More
A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction from Clarkesworld
Clarkesworld 1/24
January’s Clarkesworld opens on a high note with “Nothing of Value” by Aimee Ogden. Skip technology allows people to travel long distances by allowing all the information about themselves to be downloaded into a new body at their destination while the old version is destroyed. The unnamed protagonist travels to Mars to meet up with a former friend/lover in hopes of rekindling their relationship. One of ...Read More
Russell Letson Reviews Doorway to the Stars by Jack McDevitt
Doorway to the Stars, Jack McDevitt (Subterranean 978-1-64524-188-1, $40.00, 107 pp, hc) February 2024. Cover by Edward Miller.
In two novels nearly 20 years apart, Jack McDevitt offered a platter full of puzzles and oddities. Ancient Shores (1996) and Thunderbird (2015) begin with the discovery of certain artifacts and buildings on what, 12,000 years earlier, had been the shore of the inland sea of Lake Agassiz in North Dakota: ...Read More
Paula Guran Reviews The Sunday Morning Transport, Uncanny, and The Dark
The Sunday Morning Transport 12/17/23, 12/3/23, 11/19/23, 11/12/23, 11/5/23 Uncanny 11-12/23 The Dark 11/23
By the time you read this, the new year of 2024 will no longer be so new, but there’s still some short fiction from the end of 2023 to catch up on.
A laundry that washes stars? Nikki Brazie takes the unique premise of cleaning luminous celestial bodies and weaves it into a touching tale about ...Read More
Ian Mond Reviews The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham
The Invisible Hotel, Yeji Y. Ham (Zando 978-1-63893-137-9, $28.00, 320pp, hc) March 2024.
Early on in Yeji Y. Ham’s intense debut novel, The Invisible Hotel, our narrator, Yewon, describes her mother’s daily ritual of cleaning of their ancestor’s bones in the family’s bathtub.
My stomach began to thrash. I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t want to smell it. Heat, breath, sweat, the odor that rose into the ...Read More
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2024 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists
The New York Public Library announced its five Young Lions Fiction Award finalists for 2024, including House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Flatiron Books), Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon), and Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books).
The $10,000 prize is awarded “each spring to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories” by a panel of ...Read More
2024 Prometheus Novel Award Finalists
The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has released the finalists for the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2023.
- Theft of Fire, Devon Eriksen (self-published)
- Swim Among The People, Karl K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven)
- God’s Girlfriend, Dr. Insensitive Jerk (self-published)
- Lord of a Shattered Land, Howard Andrew Jones (Baen)
- Critical Mass, Daniel Suarez (Dutton)
All members of the Libertarian Futurist ...Read More
2024 Kurd Laßwitz Preis Shortlist
The shortlist has been announced for the 2024 Kurd Laßwitz Preis. The prize is awarded to German-language SF works published in the previous year.
Best German SF Novel
- [empfindungsfæhig], Reda El Arbi (Lector)
- Niemandes Schlaf, Sven Haupt (Eridanus)
- Adam und Ada, Christian Kellermann (Hirnkost)
- Neurobiest, Aiki Mira (Eridanus)
- Skábma – Das Nanobot-Experiment, Jacqueline Montemurri (Roter Drache)
- Tachyon – Die Waffe, Brandon Q. Morris (Fischer Tor)
Publishers Join Iowa Book Ban Lawsuit
Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks have joined a previously reported lawsuit opposing Iowa’s SF 496, a law that seeks to ban books depicting sex or involving gender identity or sexual orientation. They join existing plaintiffs Penguin Random House; the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA); authors Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, Malinda Lo, and Jodi Picoult; three teachers; and a high school student.
“We as publishers are uniting ...Read More
2024 Gotham Book Prize Finalists
The finalists have been announced for the 2024 Gotham Book Prize, given for best New York City-based novel, including We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White (Astra) and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday). The winner will be named at the Queens Public Library’s annual gala on June 5, 2024.
The $50,000 prize was created in July 2020 by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson to “support New York City and ...Read More