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2024 Romantic Novel Awards Winners
The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) has announced winners for the 2024 Romantic Novel Awards.
The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award
- WINNER: Girl, Goddess, Queen, Bea Fitzgerald (Penguin)
- One Christmas Morning, Rachel Greenlaw (Harper Collins)
- Maybe Next Time, Cesca Major (Harper Fiction)
- Ghosted, Rosie Mullender (Sphere)
- The Wicked in Me, Suzanne Wright (Piatkus)
Winners were announced May 20, 2024 at the Leonardo Royal Hotel in London. For more
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Alexandra Pierce Reviews Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee
Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte Press 9-780-59348-833-1, $19.99, 352pp, hc) June 2024. Cover by Priscilla Kim.
As Yoon Ha Lee’s YA novel Moonstorm opens, Hwajin is ten years old, living with her extended family on the clanner moon Carnelian, part of the Moonstorm. Carnelian has an eccentric orbit, and its gravity is consistent only when there is harmony amongst the people living on it. On the very first page, ...Read More
Ian Mond Reviews Changes in the Land by Matthew Cheney
Changes in the Land, Matthew Cheney (Lethe Press 978-1-59021-526-5, $3.00, 90pp, eb) April 2024.
If you read my 2023 Year in Review essay published in the February edition of Locus, you’ll know my favourite collection was Matthew Cheney’s The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories. I’m not going to repeat what I said about the book other than to note that while the stories tended to be grim ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews Robert J. Sawyer’s The Downloaded
The Downloaded, Robert J. Sawyer (Shadowpaw Press 978-1989398999, trade paperback, 199pp, $14.95) May 2024
It’s a testament to Robert Sawyer’s skill—and his generational wisdom—that he has created, with his latest book, a novel that is at once exuberantly old-school and utterly au courant. It reads like Greg Egan rebooting Neil R. Jones’s Professor Jameson cycle. This book exemplifies the “best of both worlds” approach that charts a viable future ...Read More
Alexandra Pierce Reviews Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland
Song of the Huntress, Lucy Holland (Redhook 978-0316321655, $19.99, 448pp, tp) March 2024.
I’ve read a lot of Greek and Roman mythology retellings recently, so it’s nice to see Celtic/ British mythology getting some love too. In Song of the Huntress, Lucy Holland (Sistersong, 2021) brings the Wild Hunt to Cornwall and Wessex in the mid-700s. This is some centuries after the Roman conquest and departure; Saxons ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Lost Ark Dreaming
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom 978-1250890757, hardcover, 192pp, $19.99) May 2024
Thrillers confined to a single stage set or venue have an admirable lineage. One has only to think of the original Die Hard film or David Morrell’s novel Creepers to provide strong examples. In SF, this approach is often conflated with the Big Dumb Object trope: let’s explore Ringworld or Rama. James Cambias’s The Scarab Mission ...Read More
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New Books Video for April 30
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2024 Hugo Voter Packet Available
The 2024 Hugo Voter Packet is available for download by members of Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention.
An announcement has been sent to all members who registered their email addresses with the convention. The packet can be downloaded from the Worldcon site in the “Hugo Voter Packet” section. The packet will be available for download until voting closes at 20:17 GMT on July 20, 2024.
While ...Read More
HWA Summer Scares
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced their Summer Scares Reading list for 2024.
Adult: Jackal, Erin E. Adams (Bantam, 2022); Such Sharp Teeth, Rachel Harrison (Berkley, 2022); This Thing Between Us, Gus Moreno (MCD x FSG Originals, 2021).
Young Adult: All These Bodies, Kendare Blake (Quill Tree, 2021); Dead Flip, Sara Farizan (Algonquin Young Readers, 2022); #MurderTrending, Gretchen McNeil (Freeform, 2018).
Middle Grade: ...Read More
World Conventions News
Iain J. Clark will design the base of the 2024 Hugo Award trophy, and Sara Felix will design the 2024 Lodestar Award trophy. Each year, the rocket-shaped Hugo Award trophy ‘‘is given a unique base design to reflect the personality of the hosting Worldcon.’’ The Lodestar trophy is also given a unique design every year. Felix previously designed the first Lodestar trophy in 2018. The designs will be revealed on ...Read More
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills
The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (Tachyon 978-1-61696-414-6, $18.95, 336pp, tp) April 2024.
It’s been interesting to watch the rehabilitation of “science fantasy” as a respectable mode of storytelling over the past few decades. Once applied loosely to everything from sword and sorcery to Vancean far futures, it was derided as a “misshapen subgenre” by Darko Suvin and a “bastard genre” by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. ...Read More
Octavia Butler Conference
The Huntington Library, which hosts the Octavia E. Butler Collection, has announced Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler, a “two-day conference [exploring] Octavia E. Butler, how we have learned from her writing, and what her archive at The Huntington can help future generations discover.”
The event will be held from May 23-24, 2024 at The Huntington in San Marino CA.
For more information, including the complete conference schedule, ...Read More