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HWA Summer Scares
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced their Summer Scares Reading list for 2024.
Adult: Jackal, Erin E. Adams (Bantam, 2022); Such Sharp Teeth, Rachel Harrison (Berkley, 2022); This Thing Between Us, Gus Moreno (MCD x FSG Originals, 2021).
Young Adult: All These Bodies, Kendare Blake (Quill Tree, 2021); Dead Flip, Sara Farizan (Algonquin Young Readers, 2022); #MurderTrending, Gretchen McNeil (Freeform, 2018).
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews Robert J. Sawyer’s The Downloaded
The Downloaded, Robert J. Sawyer (Shadowpaw Press 978-1989398999, trade paperback, 199pp, $14.95) May 2024
It’s a testament to Robert Sawyer’s skill—and his generational wisdom—that he has created, with his latest book, a novel that is at once exuberantly old-school and utterly au courant. It reads like Greg Egan rebooting Neil R. Jones’s Professor Jameson cycle. This book exemplifies the “best of both worlds” approach that charts a viable future ...Read More
Alexandra Pierce Reviews Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
Song of the Huntress, Lucy Holland (Redhook 978-0316321655, $19.99, 448pp, tp) March 2024.
I’ve read a lot of Greek and Roman mythology retellings recently, so it’s nice to see Celtic/ British mythology getting some love too. In Song of the Huntress, Lucy Holland (Sistersong, 2021) brings the Wild Hunt to Cornwall and Wessex in the mid-700s. This is some centuries after the Roman conquest and departure; Saxons ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Lost Ark Dreaming
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom 978-1250890757, hardcover, 192pp, $19.99) May 2024
Thrillers confined to a single stage set or venue have an admirable lineage. One has only to think of the original Die Hard film or David Morrell’s novel Creepers to provide strong examples. In SF, this approach is often conflated with the Big Dumb Object trope: let’s explore Ringworld or Rama. James Cambias’s The Scarab Mission ...Read More
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills
The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (Tachyon 978-1-61696-414-6, $18.95, 336pp, tp) April 2024.
It’s been interesting to watch the rehabilitation of “science fantasy” as a respectable mode of storytelling over the past few decades. Once applied loosely to everything from sword and sorcery to Vancean far futures, it was derided as a “misshapen subgenre” by Darko Suvin and a “bastard genre” by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. ...Read More
A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Clarkesworld
Clarkesworld 3/24
Clarkesworld’s March issue opens with “Hello! Hello! Hello!” by Fiona Jones, a sweet story about an alien entity encountering a human adrift in a shuttle, eventually realizing that the human is dying, and carrying out a rescue mission. Jones does a wonderful job of presenting a truly alien alien, and showing the difficulties of communication between vastly dissimilar species, but also the possibilities opened up ...Read More
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New Books Video for April 30
Did you catch last week’s New Books YouTube? Find out about the new books hitting shelves each week!
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Octavia Butler Conference
The Huntington Library, which hosts the Octavia E. Butler Collection, has announced Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler, a “two-day conference [exploring] Octavia E. Butler, how we have learned from her writing, and what her archive at The Huntington can help future generations discover.”
The event will be held from May 23-24, 2024 at The Huntington in San Marino CA.
For more information, including the complete conference schedule, ...Read More
Ian Mond Reviews Power to Yield by Bogi Takács
Power to Yield, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye Books 978-1-40372-266-2, $17.99, 203pp, tp) February 2024.
Hungarian American poet, writer, translator, critic, and editor Bogi Takács has spent eir career promoting, encouraging, and showcasing the work of marginalised authors. The anthology Rosalind’s Siblings, edited by Takács and publishing poetry and fiction focusing on scientists erased or diminished because of their gender or sexuality, fittingly featured on the 2023 Locus Recommended ...Read More
Alex Brown Reviews Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis
Dead Girls Walking, Sami Ellis (Amulet Books 978-1-41976-676-3, $19.99, 368pp, hc) March 2024.
Serial killing runs in the family in Dead Girls Walking, Sami Ellis’s debut young adult horror novel. Several years ago, Thomas Baker was arrested, his reign of terror finally ended. He confessed to kidnapping, torturing, branding, and murdering more than a dozen people, burying their bodies on his sprawling farm. Temple grew up surrounded by ...Read More
2024 B&N Children’s & YA Book Awards Winners
The Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards have announced their winners, including Powerless by Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) in the YA category and A Royal Conundrum by Lisa Yee (Random House Children’s Books) as the overall winner.
The Awards “discovers, champions, and celebrates the very best in Children’s publishing in three categories: Picture Books, Young Readers and YA.”
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2024 Premio Ernesto Vegetti Finalists
The Associazione World SF Italia announced the finalists for the 2024 Premio Ernesto Vegetti, an Italian SF award.
Novel
- I Giganti immortali, Stefano Carducci & Alessandro Fambrini (Elara)
- Daimones, Giancarlo Giuliani (Tabula Fati)
- Eva dei sette mondi, Max Gobbo (Elara)
Nonfiction
- Gli scrittori di Urania, Davide Arecco, Roberto Chiavini, Luca Ortino & Franco Piccinini (Profondo Rosso)
- Fantascienza, un genere (femminile), Laura Coci (Delos Digital)
- Mondi