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date: 2024-09-29, from: Locus Magazine
Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom 978-1-250-33026-0, $20.99, 170pp, hc) September 2024.
I seem to have found myself reading a number of haunted house novels in the last year or so, and it’s always fascinating to watch how authors still find ways to ring new changes on a template that goes back to the earliest Gothic novels. In Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker’s witty approach is to focus …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/haunt-sweet-home-by-sarah-pinsker-review-by-gary-k-wolfe/
date: 2024-09-28, from: Margaret Atwoods Substack
Right here on this website. But not for President.
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/ok-kids-you-get-to-vote
date: 2024-09-28, from: Locus Magazine
One of Our Kind, Nicola Yoon (Knopf 978-0-59347-067-1, $28.00. 272pp, hc) June 2024.
Jasmyn, her husband Kingston, and their young son Kamau are excited to move to the new all-Black community of Liberty, just outside Los Angeles in Nicola Yoon’s One of Our Kind. King’s new job and higher income landed them a sprawling home in a luxury community where everyone from the retail workers to the cops …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/one-of-our-kind-by-nicola-yoon-review-by-alex-brown/
date: 2024-09-27, from: Margaret Atwoods Substack
I haven’t been sitting on my hands…
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/on-my-motorbike
date: 2024-09-27, from: Final Draft blog
At the 79th Academy Awards, three directors stood on stage ready to reveal the Best Director Oscar. The three directors all came up in the 1970s, stretching the limits of what film could be and dazzling audiences. Those three directors were Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/what-francis-ford-coppola-can-teach-us
date: 2024-09-27, from: John August blog
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we look at at the many blood-draining Vampire stories to see how a sub-genre can continually reinvent itself in order to stay immortal. Our collection includes: Blade by David S. Goyer Buffy the Vampire […] The post Featured Friday: Vampires first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/featured-friday-vampires
date: 2024-09-27, from: Locus Magazine
Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji ed. (Comma Press 9781912697700, 160pp, £9.99, tp) July 2024.
From the point of view of a science fiction reviewer, Egypt + 100 marks an interesting development in Comma Press’s “Futures Past” series of SWANA-focused anthologies: it is the first in the series to emerge from an active and substantial science fiction tradition. In the introduction to Iraq + 100, Hassan Blassim lamented the …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/egypt-100-edited-by-ahmed-naji-review-by-niall-harrison/
date: 2024-09-27, from: Locus Magazine
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (Penguin Michael Joseph) won the 2024 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, honoring a novel in any genre “with brilliant characterization and a distinct voice that is confidently written and assuredly realized.” The winner receives a handmade glass bell and a cash prize of £2,000.
The awards are decided by team members from Goldsboro Books. For more information, see the Goldsboro Books website and announcement at The …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/casati-wins-2024-glass-bell-award/
date: 2024-09-26, from: Locus Magazine
The Alberta Book Publishing Awards have announced that Guy Immega’s novel Super-Earth Mother: The AI that Engineered a Brave New World (EDGE) is the winner of the 2024 Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction.
The Alberta Book Publishing Awards were created by the Book Publishers Association of Alberta to “celebrate the essential role Alberta book publishers play in supporting authors.” The Douglas Barbour award honors the late Canadian science fiction …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/douglas-barbour-award-2024/
date: 2024-09-26, from: Locus Magazine
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has finalized the candidates for its upcoming special election for the roles of president and secretary.
A voting link will be posted and optional paper ballots will be mailed on October 9, 2024. Ballots will be counted after October 23, 2024. …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/sfwa-special-election-candidates-announced/
date: 2024-09-26, from: Locus Magazine
Another week of the top SF, fantasy, and horror releases on our YouTube channel! Come by and give it a watch so you can keep up to date on all these fantastic new books! We really do appreciate when you show us your support by liking and subscribing! And if you’d like to find the titles, we have them all up at our Bookshop.org page: Bookshop.org/shop/locusmag!
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/new-books-video-is-up-for-9-24-24/
date: 2024-09-26, from: Locus Magazine
New Adventures in Space Opera, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Tachyon 978-1-61696-420-7, $18.95, 336pp, tp) August 2024.
Dating back more than 80 years, space opera is almost certainly the longest-running term in continuous use for a particular kind of SF – though we’ll probably never finish arguing over whether it’s a mode, a subgenre, a theme, or (in the eyes of some) a mistake. In 2003, Locus ran a special issue …Read More
date: 2024-09-25, from: Locus Magazine
Winners of the French-language Prix Aurora-Boréal were awarded on May 22, 2024 at the Congrès Boréal in Québec City, Canada.
Best Novel
Best Short Story
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/2024-prix-aurora-boreal-winners/
date: 2024-09-25, from: Final Draft blog
Many horror fans associate the name John Carpenter with the Halloween franchise and are well aware of his numerous duties on his classic films as a director, screenwriter, music composer and producer.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/screenwriting-role-models-john-carpenter-debra-hill
date: 2024-09-25, from: Locus Magazine
The United Talent Agency (UTA) and Conville & Walsh (C&W) have announced the inaugural Andromeda Award. The contest aims to “seek out and support the best new emerging science fiction and fantasy writers.”
The contest is open to anyone based in the UK or USA with a full length SF/F novel. The first-place author will be awarded $5,000, second place $3,000 and a spot in Curtis Brown Creative’s nine-week Writing …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/inaugural-andromeda-award/
date: 2024-09-25, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
Numbers and the stories told about the numbers.
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-not-falling
date: 2024-09-25, from: Locus Magazine
A Song to Drown Rivers, Ann Liang (St. Martin’s Press 978-1-25028-946-9, $32.00, 336pp, hc) October 2024.
Inspired by ancient Chinese legends, A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang is an intriguing historical fantasy novel that tempers the logic of trope-driven storytelling with a mature understanding of the futility of war. As a folkloric retelling of the tragic story of Xi Shi, one of the ‘‘Four Great Beauties’’ of …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/a-song-to-drown-rivers-by-ann-liang-review-by-archita-mittra/
date: 2024-09-25, from: Locus Magazine
Paolo Bacigalupi, Navola (Knopf 7/24) Bacigalupi returns with his first new novel in seven years, this time an epic fantasy inspired by Renaissance Florence, first in a duology about a young man from a powerful family attempting to navigate cutthroat politics and affairs of the heart. “It’s undeniably new territory for Bacigalupi, and it’s a pleasure to report that his most impressive narrative strengths have ported over intact.” [Gary K. …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/new-notable-2/
date: 2024-09-24, from: Locus Magazine
Dream Foundry, a “non-profit dedicated to bolstering the careers of nascent professionals working with the speculative arts,” has announced the winners of its 2024 contests.
Writing Contest
Art Contest
First place winners receive $1,000.
Writing judges were Valerie Valdes and C.L. Polk, and art judges were
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/2024-dream-foundry-award-winners/
date: 2024-09-24, from: Final Draft blog
Being a successful screenwriter means working hard, and Peter Dukes is testament to this. The writer of several horror movies including The Memory of the Heart, Portal, Escape Room and Tales of Horror shares his advice for how to break through in your career and most importantly stay in the game.
How did your career get started?
https://blog.finaldraft.com/screenwriter-spotlight-writing-horror-with-peter-dukes
date: 2024-09-24, from: Final Draft blog
It’s important to inspire an emotional response from people reading your screenplay for several reasons.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/inspiring-an-emotional-response-through-your-screenplay
date: 2024-09-24, from: Locus Magazine
Alkaf, Hanna: The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s (Simon & Schuster/Salaam Reads 9781534494589, $19.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 09/24/2024)
Young-adult horror novel. A highly reputable school for girls has an outbreak of screaming, first one student in the middle of class, and by the end of the day 17 girls are affected. One girl trying to save her sister, and another afflicted by screaming herself, dig into the school’s …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/new-books-24-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-24, from: Locus Magazine
Sinophagia, Xueting C. Ni, ed. (Solaris 978-1-83786-117-0, $16.99, 496pp, tp) September 2024.
Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror is a carefully curated anthology of contemporary Chinese horror. It’s a cultural fest that arrives with triggers warnings of corpses, childhood trauma, self-harm, torture, graphic violence, domestic violence, strangulation and, strangely, coercion/gaslighting – not commonly associated with horror, but typical of psychological abuse.
Translated and edited by Xueting C. Ni, Sinophagia: A …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/sinophagia-edited-by-xueting-c-ni-review-by-eugen-m-bacon/
date: 2024-09-24, from: John August blog
John welcomes back Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) to look at three stories of real people with too much money and ask, How Would This Be a Movie? Stories include strategies for dating Leonardo DiCaprio, the rise-fall-rise of inventor Palmer Luckey, and a council built to give […] The post Big Money Movies with Marielle Heller first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/big-money-movies-with-marielle-heller
date: 2024-09-23, from: Locus Magazine
TJ Klune’s Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Tor), second book in his Cerulean Chronicles, debuts strongly, ranking #1 on three of the print lists compiled here, and #3 on the fourth.
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 09.22 LAT 09.22 USAT 09.18 PW 09.23 Amz (09.23) UK: Amz UK (09.23) Canada: Amz.ca (09.23)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed
10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 100
Hardcovers …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/weekly-bestsellers-23-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-23, from: Locus Magazine
Scholar and critic Fredric Jameson, 90, died September 22, 2024 in Durham NC. Jameson was an immensely consequential figure in the world of literary theory and cultural criticism, and a lifelong devotee of SF.
Jameson was born April 14, 1934 in Cleveland OH. He attended Haverford College as an undergrad, then did graduate work at Yale. His PhD thesis was published as Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961). He …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/fredric-jameson-1934-2024/
date: 2024-09-23, from: Locus Magazine
Lightspeed 6/24 Worlds of Possibility 6/24 Reactor 6/5/24
Lightspeed ushers in June with Oyedotun Damilola Muees’s “Warning Notes from an Annihilator Machine”, which is framed as a series of messages from said Annihilator Machine to Tijani Damilare (known online as Teejay_009) concerning the approved destruction of Earth. Despite the dire message, ANM-722 actually wants to help Tijani, providing information that might help avoid the approaching mechanical apocalypse at …Read More
date: 2024-09-23, from: Locus Magazine
MICAELA ALCAINO is a book cover designer and illustrator who relocated from her home in Sydney, Australia to London, UK in 2013. Her career has been marked by significant achievements, including being named one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars in 2021 and winning the prestigious Designer of the Year title at the British Book Awards in 2022, with a subsequent nomination this year in 2024. She was also a finalist …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/spotlight-on-micaela-alcaino/
date: 2024-09-22, from: Locus Magazine
Clarkesworld 6/24
“Twenty-Four Hours” by H.H. Pak starts off the June issue of Clarkesworld on a high note. The story is beautiful and heartbreaking as a mother spends a final twenty-four hours with a programmed version of her recently deceased daughter in an effort to gain closure. The story does a wonderful job of portraying grief in its various stages and capturing the feeling of wanting to spend just a …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/clarkesworld-short-fiction-reviews-by-a-c-wise/