29th October – The Saints of Salvation – Peter F. Hamilton Live in hiding – or die for freedom Humanity welcomed the Olyix and their utopian technology. But mankind was tricked. Now these visitors are extracting a terrible price. For two years, the Olyix have laid siege to Earth, harvesting its people for their god. One by one, cities are
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15th October – Phoenix Extravagant – Yoon Ha Lee Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers. But when Jebi discovers the depths
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6th October – Once Upon Another World – Anthology Not all fairy tales are as they appear. Was it actually Red who hunted the wolf? What if the prince was the one in distress? Did the straw really get spun into gold? How well did those glass slippers truly fit? Where princesses do their own rescuing, princes aren’t who they
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Apex Magazine has today announced the launch of their Holiday Horrors Flash Fiction Competition. With a hard limit of only 250 words in which to craft your horrifying holiday tale, flash fiction is a challenge for all writers! There’s a $25 prize for the winner, as well as getting their work published in Issue #121 of Apex Magazine. The competition
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced that C.L. Clark will be the new SFWA Blog Editor. She takes over from the previous incumbent Todd Vandermark, who stepped down earlier this year. C.L. Clark has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative writing from Indiana University and is currently best know as one of the co-editors
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The Sunburst Award Society has announced that The Sunburst Awards For Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic will be going on Hiatus. The incredible global impact of the Covid-19 virus has taken another victim, although it seems that this one will not be a permanent closure. The Sunburst Award Society announced the hiatus on their website, full quote below,
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Dark Moon Digest, a quarterly magazine from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, have launched Night Frights magazine, an annual release aimed at Young Adults. In this inaugural edition of our annual young adult magazine, monsters take revenge on a school board who cancels Halloween; a kid and some teens try to get a balloon out of a tree; witches recruit a
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Celebrated author of the Legacy of Orïsha fantasy series, Tomi Adeyemi, has received an unexpected accolade in the form of making Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of 2020. At only 27 years of age, Tomi Adeyemi is already no stranger to success, having already taken home an Andre Norton award and a Hugo Lodestar award for
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This year’s Arthur C Clarke award was announced in unusual style with last year’s winner, Tade Thompson, having the honour of tweeting the news. That’s right, the announcement was tweeted. 2020, right? The honour of this year’s award goes to Namwali Serpell for her novel The Old Drift. In a series of tweets announcing the win, Tade Thompson had this
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With the previously announced launch of the Ad Astra Imprint from House of Zeus, today we’re bringing you a very special Out This Week! feature on all of their launch titles! 1st October 2020 – Hold Up the Sky – Cixin Liu A collection of award-winning short stories – a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Liu’s writing takes the
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