Starburst Magazine has announced that Tasha Suri has won 2019’s Brave New Words Award for her debut novel, Empire of Sand. The Brave New Words book prize goes to an individual, not a specific work. Like all of the Starburst Awards (such as the ones presented at the Starburst Film Festival), it’s designed to encourage new and exciting work. The
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Catriona Ward’s Little Eve has taken the top award for best novel in the 2018 Shirley Jackson awards. The awards are for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction. Prizes are awarded for Best Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Fiction, Single Author Collection, and Edited Anthology. The full list of winners and nominees can be seen below:
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M. Ainihi is a passionate independent author and adventurer. She hails from the wilds of Upstate New York and is currently residing in the Chicagoland area. Ainihi mainly writes dark fantasy but dabbles in many genres. She is currently working on the third book in her epic fantasy series, The Blood Inheritance Quartet.
Read moreErik has sewn a thousand tabs of LSD into the seam of the strap in his backpack. A sheet of Purple Ohms neatly cut into long strips of fifty-by-two and carefully wrapped in clear cellophane. He has kept fifty for the journey and has them stowed under the tight skin of his African drum. “We’re going to walk to Glasto,
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The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the 2019 winners of the Prometheus Awards for Best Novel and Hall of Fame (Best Classic Fiction). The LFS has chosen Causes of Separation (Morlock Publishing), by Travis Corcoran, as the 2019 winner of the Best Novel category of the 39th annual Prometheus Awards. LFS members also voted to induct “Harrison Bergeron,” a dystopian
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8th July 2019 – The Lightest Object in the Universe – Kimi Eisele What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe imagines what happens after the global economy
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Wolves is the first part of C. Gockel’s I Bring The Fire series, initially a trilogy but now extended to eight full releases and several novellas. As is usual for self-published series of this length, you can pick up this introduction to the series for free, as I did. Wolves tells a story with many familiar elements. The main character
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This book is the first in a series of BBC tie-in novels known as “The 8th Doctor Adventures”, commissioned and published in the interim years between the show ending in 1989 and being relaunched in 2005. The series of books ran alongside another set of releases known as “The Past Doctor Adventures.” For both of these, the clue is in
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Laurie Bell is a once upon a time former teacher who has worked with children of all ages in the literary sphere. She is now an administrator and is the one to go to with any question. She is regularly featured by publications such as the Antipodean Science Fiction E-Magazine. A lover of fantasy and science fiction of all kinds,
Read more‘Pull yourself together,’ Messalina said to Henri Delacourt, as they sat in the Limehouse Water Bar. The ancient poet in the tatty blue corduroy jacket stared down into his vodka club soda. She could only see bushy grey brows where eyes should be. So irritating, she thought; if you’re going to ask my opinion at least have the courtesy to
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