Hey there, fellow readers and lovers of all things speculative fiction! We have some exciting news to share with you today. The finalists for the 2023 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction have just been announced, and boy, do we have a stellar lineup for you!
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Hey bookworms! Exciting news coming your way. The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust, known for celebrating the magic of imagination, has just revealed the shortlist for the second annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. And let me tell you, it’s a seriously impressive lineup. This fabulous literary prize awards a whopping $25,000 to a writer for a
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PRISMS, an anthology of dark science fiction and fantasy co-edited by Darren Speegle and Michael Bailey, is now available! This anthology was previously published in limited hardcover by PS Publishing in March 2021 and re-released in trade paperback and eBook by Written Backwards.
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It’s been my great privilege over the past [mumble mumble] years to edit several anthologies devoted to international speculative fiction in all its forms, beginning with the first volume of The Apex Book of World SF back in 2009, done on a budget of chewing gum-and-string, and culminating this year with The Best of World SF: Volume 3 from Head
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Welcome to the Hopepunk bundle! What is Hopepunk, you ask? It’s a subgenre of speculative fiction, so it includes fantasy as well as science fiction, and it’s a reaction to the dystopian views that grimdark novels have. Where grimdark is violent and amoral, hopepunk stories feature characters who fight for positive change, communal responses to challenges, and even radical kindness.
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10th November 2022 – The Fall of Númenor – J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need
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Something doesn’t feel quite right. The world around you seems a little…off. Things turn strange and fluid, as if you’re trapped inside a dream…but you aren’t. Something about you might have changed in a fundamental way that you sense but can’t understand.
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11th October 2022 – The Immortality Thief – Taran Hunt In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into
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26th September 2022 – The Golden Enclaves – Naomi Novik Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do
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15th September 2022 – Stone Blind – Natalie Haynes ‘So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.’ Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her Gorgon sisters, she begins to realize that she is the only one who experiences change, the
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