The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal continued its domination of the Award scene by adding the Hugo Award for Best Novel to an already impressive array of acclaim. The award also meant that Kowal joined the short list of authors honoured with winning both the Nebula and Hugo awards for the same work! A... Continue Reading →
20th August 2019 - The Withered King (Tempest Blades) - Ricardo Victoria Fionn - wielder of a legendary Tempest Blade and blessed, or cursed, by the Gift - thought his days as a warrior were over. He cannot grow old and is full of regrets. But life proves that it has other plans for him, once he agreed to help... Continue Reading →
The Dragon Awards have announced the ballot for the 2019 awards. Among the nominees are such well-known names as Kim Stanley Robinson, for Red Moon, and James S.A. Corey, for Tiamat's Wrath, both up for the Best Science Fiction Novel Award. The full list of nominees can be seen below: Best Science Fiction Novel A... Continue Reading →
This was the secret Paradise hidden amid the world’s great weights.A door was opening.“Karen: I will see you again.”Together, they would reach a new place. Eibonvale press have released the latest in their beautiful series of chapbooks, Animals of the Exodus by Alexander Zelenyj. This small book collects four stories on the theme of refuges for the broken,... Continue Reading →
15th August 2019 - Distaff - Anthology DISTAFF: NOUN A staff used in spinning.Of women and women’s work.An anthology of women’s stories woven through time and space. In 2018 a crack team of women sci-fi writers, all members of the sffchronicles community forum, came together to write an anthology. Distaff is the result. Join us as we share... Continue Reading →
8th August 2019 - To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves. At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth... Continue Reading →
30th July 2019 - Death Goddess Dance - Levi Black The thrilling conclusion to the intense Lovecraftian horror of The Mythos War trilogy In Red Right Hand, Charlie Tristan Moore became the unwilling acolyte of The Man In Black, a treacherous elder god also known as Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. In Black Goat Blues, Charlie fought her way past bloodthirsty gods and... Continue Reading →
The 2019/1944 Hugo Award Administrators have announced that Guteto, edited by Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas), has been added to the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Award ballot, and that Fantasy News, edited by William S. Sykora, has been removed. The full text of the Administrator’s announcement is below. The Hugo Administrators have discovered an error in their... Continue Reading →
Following two rounds of nomination and voting from the members of the British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon, The British Fantasy Awards has announced the shortlist for each of the Award categories. The shortlisted entries are now entered for consideration by the appointed juries for each category. A full list of the jurors can be seen... Continue Reading →
