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2024 CrimeFest Awards Nominees
Nominees for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards have been announced, including several authors and titles of genre interest.
eDUNNIT Award
- Sepulchre Street, Martin Edwards (Head of Zeus)
- Prom Mom, Laura Lippman (Faber & Faber)
- The Devil’s Playground, Craig Russell (Constable)
H.R.F. Keating Award
- Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction, Lisa Hopkins (Palgrave)
Last Laugh Award
- The Last Dance, Mark Billingham (Sphere)
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Russell Letson Reviews Doorway to the Stars by Jack McDevitt
Doorway to the Stars, Jack McDevitt (Subterranean 978-1-64524-188-1, $40.00, 107 pp, hc) February 2024. Cover by Edward Miller.
In two novels nearly 20 years apart, Jack McDevitt offered a platter full of puzzles and oddities. Ancient Shores (1996) and Thunderbird (2015) begin with the discovery of certain artifacts and buildings on what, 12,000 years earlier, had been the shore of the inland sea of Lake Agassiz in North Dakota: ...Read More
Paula Guran Reviews The Sunday Morning Transport, Uncanny, and The Dark
The Sunday Morning Transport 12/17/23, 12/3/23, 11/19/23, 11/12/23, 11/5/23 Uncanny 11-12/23 The Dark 11/23
By the time you read this, the new year of 2024 will no longer be so new, but there’s still some short fiction from the end of 2023 to catch up on.
A laundry that washes stars? Nikki Brazie takes the unique premise of cleaning luminous celestial bodies and weaves it into a touching tale about ...Read More
Ian Mond Reviews The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham
The Invisible Hotel, Yeji Y. Ham (Zando 978-1-63893-137-9, $28.00, 320pp, hc) March 2024.
Early on in Yeji Y. Ham’s intense debut novel, The Invisible Hotel, our narrator, Yewon, describes her mother’s daily ritual of cleaning of their ancestor’s bones in the family’s bathtub.
My stomach began to thrash. I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t want to smell it. Heat, breath, sweat, the odor that rose into the ...Read More
Liz Bourke Reviews The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
The Principle of Moments, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (Gollancz 978-1-47323-419-2, £18.99, 520pp, hc.) January 2024.
Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson’s The Principle of Moments, the debut original novel from the first winner of the UK’s Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy & Science Fiction Writers of Colour (in 2020), feels like an answer to the question of: What happens if you cross Star Wars with Doctor Who? And then make it queer (queerer ...Read More
Niall Harrison Reviews The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction edited by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, ed. (The MIT Press 978-0-26254-761-1, 162pp, $19.95, tp). March 2024. Cover by Seth.
For about 15 years now, Joshua Glenn has been banging the drum for the historical and literary value of “proto-SF” published between roughly 1900 and 1935. He dubs this period, with a touch of dark whimsy, the “Radium Age,” on the grounds that ...Read More
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2024 Gotham Book Prize Finalists
The finalists have been announced for the 2024 Gotham Book Prize, given for best New York City-based novel, including We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White (Astra) and Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday). The winner will be named at the Queens Public Library’s annual gala on June 5, 2024.
The $50,000 prize was created in July 2020 by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson to “support New York City and ...Read More
Ashing-Giwa Wins Compton Crook Award
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced that The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Saga) is the winner of the 2023 Compton Crook Award.
Other nominees were:
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
- These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit)
- Deathwind, Brad Pawlowski (Sunquake)
- How to Be Remembered, Michael Thompson (Sourcebooks Landmark)
The award honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of ...Read More
2024 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Winner
“Locus of Control” by Zack Be is the winner of the 2024 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, for “original stories celebrating optimistic, near-future space exploration.” Trent Guillory won second place for “Extraction” and William Paul Jones won third place for “Saving Gallivander”.
Be and the runners-up will be honored in a ceremony at the 2024 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles CA, May 23-26, 2024. Be will also ...Read More
Trina Robbins (1938-2024)
Artist, editor, and author Trina Robbins, 85, died April 10, 2024 of a stroke in San Francisco CA. Though best known as a legendary feminist comics writer and artist, she was also a science fiction fan and occasional SF writer, with stories including “Lines from a Diary” (1992) and “Innana: Witchwoman” (2011). She wrote and illustrated a comics adaptation of Tanith Lee’s The Silver Metal Lover in 1985, and was ...Read More
People & Publishing Roundup, April 2024
F.J. BERGMANN has been named Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. The award is given to “an individual living at the time of selection whose body of work reflects the highest artistic goals of the SFPA, who has been actively publishing within the target genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a period of no fewer than 20 years, and whose poetry has been noted ...Read More