The Scribe Awards have announced their winners of the 2017 awards. Earlier this year we introduced you to the Scribe awards, the award ceremony that celebrates the work of tie-in writers. Or more specifically: The Scribe Awards acknowledge and celebrate excellence in licensed tie-in writing—novels based on TV shows, movies, and games. Traditionally seen as... Continue Reading →
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced winners in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards. Best Science Fiction Novel - Death's End - Cixin Liu Best Fantasy Novel - All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders Best Horror Novel - The Fireman - Joe Hill Best Young Adult Book - Revenger - Alastair Reynolds Best First Novel... Continue Reading →
This is the book plants don't want you to read... There's been a lot of coverage in recent times of the successes and failures of the crowdsourcing model, epitomised by Kickstarter. Well we've found one Kickstarter that looks primed to be a success! From the Kickstarter description: Improbable Botany is a brand-new science fiction anthology about... Continue Reading →
Gollancz have announced the arrival of Strange Weather, a collection of four "short novels" by the award-winning Joe Hill. This collection of novellas is due for release on the 7th of November, but you can already get your pre-orders in. Joe Hill is best known as the bestselling author of the 2016 release, The Fireman,... Continue Reading →
Orbit Books has released M. R. Carey's follow-up to his smash hit The Girl With All the Gifts, The Boy on the Bridge. Carey's post-apocalyptic tale, The Girl With All The Gifts, has already been seen in several versions. Originally the tale appeared back in 2013 as Iphigenia In Aulis, a short story that was nominated for an... Continue Reading →
Orbit books has announced the acquisition of the rights to Josiah Bancroft's series, The Books of Babel. Bancroft's first in the series, Senlin Ascends, was self published by the author back in February 2013 and has met with excellent reviews. It tells the story of Thomas Senlin, a mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, who... Continue Reading →
Following on from our post just yesterday, announcing The Underground Railroad was in the running for the Booker Prize, Colson Whitehead's novel has been confirmed as the winner of the 2017 Arthur C Clarke award. Whitehead's novel has been collecting accolades and awards across the entire scope of literary world, uniting the experts of the... Continue Reading →
Having already taken home the 2017 Pulitzer prize, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction (from the US based National Book Foundation) and being one of six nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Underground Railroad has been taking the literary world by storm. The latest accolade to come the way of this exciting... Continue Reading →
In celebration of an emerging new genre we can announce a new award ceremony, the SplatterPunk awards! Certainly not to everyone's tastes, the genre of SplatterPunk is characterised by extreme violence written in gory, graphic detail. Whereas many horror authors will attest to the power of letting the reader's imagination run wild, pointing them in... Continue Reading →
