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2023 LA Times Book Prize Winners
The Los Angeles Times has announced winners for their 44th annual Book Prizes.
Works of genre interest include The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (Saga), which received the Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Award, Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park (Random House), which received the Fiction Award, and Gone Wolf by Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends) in Young Adult Literature. Jane Smiley received the 2023 Robert Kirsch Award for ...Read More
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Colleen Mondor Reviews The Fair Folk by Su Bristow and The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert
The Fair Folk, Su Bristow (Europa Editions 979-8-889-66012-5, $18.00, tpb, 464pp) January 2024.
In her gorgeous new historical fantasy, The Fair Folk, author Su Bristow crafts the story of a particularly complex interaction between mortals and faeries. Opening in 1959, the novel follows the shifting relationship between then-eight-year-old Felicity and Elfrida, the apparent queen of a long-established fairy group ensconced in the woods near her home. At first, the ...Read More
Alexandra Pierce Reviews Triangulum: An Epic of the Nine Worlds of Surya by Subodhana Wijeyeratne
Triangulum: An Epic of the Nine Worlds of Surya, Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Rosarium Publishing 979-8-98661-460-1, $19.95, 300pp, tp) January 2024.
In his first novel, Subodhana Wijeyeratne takes elements of religious stories from the Indian subcontinent and reimagines them in space, with godlike aliens and humanity spread across the solar system. None of these aspects are apparent from the outset, but are gradually revealed as the story unfolds in epic, and ...Read More
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom 978-1-2508-8180-9, $18.99, 128pp, tp) April 2024.
Generation starship stories tend to come in a few distinct flavors, with distinct character types. There are the refugees, trying to keep humanity alive while escaping a dying or overpopulated Earth (the sort of wishful fantasy that Kim Stanley Robinson set out to demolish in Aurora a few years ago). There are the ...Read More
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
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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 Tolkien Society Awards
Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2024 were announced on April 13, 2024. The awards “recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlighting our long-standing charitable objective to ‘seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of'” J.R.R. Tolkien. The society’s trustees choose the shortlist, with winners chosen by the membership.
Best Book
- WINNER: The Letters of JRR Tolkien: Revised and
2024 CrimeFest Awards Nominees
Nominees for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards have been announced, including several authors and titles of genre interest.
eDUNNIT Award
- Sepulchre Street, Martin Edwards (Head of Zeus)
- Prom Mom, Laura Lippman (Faber & Faber)
- The Devil’s Playground, Craig Russell (Constable)
H.R.F. Keating Award
- Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction, Lisa Hopkins (Palgrave)
Last Laugh Award
- The Last Dance, Mark Billingham (Sphere)
Best
2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2023, has been announced.
French Novel
- 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)
- Du thé pour les fantômes, Chris Vuklisevic (Denoël)
Foreign Novel
- L’École des bonnes mères [The
2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize features authors of genre interest, including “A Song Sung in Secret” by Jayne Bauling, “The Devil’s Son” by Portia Subran, and “The Woman Upstairs” by Audrey Tan.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize recognizes “the best piece of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth.” The overall winner receives £5,000 and regional winners receive £2,500. Regional winners will be announced on May 29