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Canadian bookstore chain Indigo Books & Music has accepted a buyout offer from Trilogy Retail Holdings and Trilogy Investments, which already owns 60% of the company’s shares. They’ll buy the remainder for C$2.50 a share. The company said, “The cash premium transaction will provide Minority Shareholders with immediate and certain value that is expected to be higher than that realizable in the foreseeable future.” The sale will likely close in ...Read More
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom 978-1250890757, $19.99, 192pp, hc) May 2024.
The idea of social stratification enforced through architecture – in other words, high-rises with the rich living at the top – has been a staple of SF imagery at least since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and it’s been extraordinarily useful as a way of exploring everything from overpopulation to Ballardian alienation to urban dystopia to – more ...Read More
Liz Bourke Reviews The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond
The Fireborne Blade, Charlotte Bond (Tordotcom 978-1-25029-031-1, $20.99, 176pp, hc) May 2024.
It’s always interesting to review a novella, and this month I have three. Or three very short novels, at least: the line blurs. Charlotte Bond’s The Fireborne Blade harks back to the adventure style of sword-and-sorcery fantasy that had its most recent great flowering (to the best of my knowledge) in the 1980s. Everything old is new ...Read More
Gabino Iglesias Reviews Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi
Small Town Horror, Ronald Malfi (Titan Books 978-1-80336-565-7, $27.99, 400pp, hc) June 2024.
It’s hard to find fresh, unique ghost stories. It’s probably even harder to find original narratives – horror, mystery, crime, whatever – in which someone is forced to go back to their hometown to face their past. In Small Town Horror, author Ronald Malfi manages to do both. At once a spooky tale about a ...Read More
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
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2024 Xingyun Awards Winners
The 15th annual Xingyun awards for Chinese science fiction were presented by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association on May 18, 2024 in Chengdu, China.
Best Novel
- WINNER: The City in the Well, Liu Yang (People’s Literature Publishing House)
- Cosmo Wings, Jiang Bo (People’s Literature Publishing House; 8-Light Minutes Culture)
- Gods of the Earth: Return of the Dead, Fenxing Chengzi (Shenzhen Publishing House; Science and Fantasy Growth
2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners
The winners of the 2024 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2023, have been announced.
French Novel
- WINNER: Du thé pour les fantômes, Chris Vuklisevic (Denoël)
- Trois battements, un silence, Anne Fakhouri (Argyll)
- Vie contre vie, Tristan Garcia (Gallimard)
- Le Tournoi des preux / Le Conte de l’assassin, Jean-Philippe Jaworski (Les Moutons Électriques)
Foreign Novel
- WINNER: Le Ministère du
Lucas and Arthur Out at PRH
Penguin Random House has announced the removal of two of its most prominent publishers: Reagan Arthur, head of Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, who ran Pantheon and Schocken, are both out in a surprise restructuring.
Lucas, at least, didn’t see it coming, posting on social media that she learned of the dismissal on Monday morning, and adding, “I have some regrets about spending the weekend working.”
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2023 Aurealis Award Winners
The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, have been announced.
Best Science Fiction Novel
- WINNER: Time of the Cat, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
- Minds of Sand and Light, Kylie Chan (HarperCollins)
- The Comforting Weight of Water, Roanna McClelland (Wakefield)
- Aliens: Bishop, T.R. Napper (Titan)
- Dronikus, Marko Newman (AndAlso)
- Traitor’s Run, Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion)
Best Science
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