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date: 2024-10-06, from: Locus Magazine
Canadian fan and author FRAN SKENE, 86, died June 17, 2024. Skene was active in Vancouver fandom in the ’70s and ’80s, chairing Westercon 30 in 1977, among other conventions, and was a major part of the ‘‘Vancouver in ’84’’ Worldcon bid. She also produced fanzines, and was a guest of honor at numerous conventions. Born December 18, 1937, Skene worked as a librarian. After her retirement, she published …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/fran-skene/
date: 2024-10-06, from: Locus Magazine
No/Mad/Land, Franceso Verso (Flame Tree Press 978-1787589278, hardcover, 384pp, $26.95) September 2024
Even when deploying familiar tropes of the genre in totally au courant ways, science fiction by non-Anglo authors always reveals an idiosyncratic slant or attitude or worldview. This has been evident at least since Stanislaw Lem burst onto the English-language publishing scene, and is witnessed more recently in works from such accomplished authors as Cixin Liu, Hannu …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/no-mad-land-by-francisco-verso-review-by-paul-di-filippo/
date: 2024-10-06, from: Locus Magazine
Reactor 6/5/24 to 7/10/24 The Sunday Morning Transport 5/26/24 to 7/14/24 Nightmare 7/24
Reactor continues to present top-quality fiction. Rich Larson’s “Breathing Constellations” (June 5) is small-scale but excellent SF story revolving around a struggling human commune in Argentinian Patagonia seeking the permission of a pod of orcas to begin harvesting plankton in their waters.
In the heartwarming “Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!” (June 12) by TJ …Read More
date: 2024-10-05, from: Locus Magazine
Rebel, David Weber & Richard Fox (Baen 978-1982193607, hardcover, 496pp, $28.00) September 2024
I seem to be on a bit of a quest lately to try to acquaint myself with authors I’ve shamefully overlooked. That’s always a healthy move, I think—aligned with, but distinct from, keeping up with brand-new debut writers. I reviewed a Michael Flynn book for the first time recently in these pages (alas, only after he …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/paul-di-filippo-reviews-rebel-by-david-weber-richard-fox/
date: 2024-10-05, from: Locus Magazine
Lake of Darkness, Adam Roberts (Gollancz 978-1-39961-767-3, £22.00, 320pp, hc) July 2024.
Despite having won BSFA and Campbell Awards for his 2012 novel Jack Glass, Adam Roberts has a good case for being one of the most under-appreciated novelists in the UK – not a single Hugo or Nebula nomination in a career of more than two decades, according to the SFADB. As I and others have argued …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/lake-of-darkness-by-adam-roberts-review-by-gary-k-wolfe/
date: 2024-10-05, from: Locus Magazine
Scholar and editor H. BRUCE FRANKLIN, 90, died May 19, 2024 in El Cerrito CA. He taught one of the first university courses on science fiction literature while he was at Stanford University, and also wrote and edited numerous works of SF interest.
Howard Bruce Franklin was born February 28, 1934 in Brooklyn NY. He worked his way through college, graduating from Amherst College in 1955. He served in …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/h-bruce-franklin-1934-2024/
date: 2024-10-04, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
Death is inevitable; sometimes it’s a character!
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/219-death-is-coming-look-busy
date: 2024-10-04, from: Locus Magazine
Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, was held August 8-12, 2024 at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, Scotland. Guests of honor were artist Chris Baker; authors Ken MacLeod, Nnedi Okorafor, and Terri Windling; fan guests of honor Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer; special guests were Samantha Béart, Meganne Christian, Tanya DePass, Catherine Heymans, Tendai Huchu, and Three Black Halflings. Registration provided provisional figures of 7,300 in-person …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/glasgow-2024-report/
date: 2024-10-04, 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 how dysfunctional families are portrayed across genres, and how they use specificity to articulate the universal condition of having a weird relationship with your folks. Our collection includes: A Serious Man […] The post Featured Friday: Dysfunctional Families first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/featured-friday-dysfunctional-families
date: 2024-10-04, from: Locus Magazine
Merciless Saviors, H.E. Edgmon (Wednesday 978-1-250-85363-9, $20.00, 336pp, hc) April 2024.
In Godly Heathens, the first book in H.E. Edgmon’s duology about American teens who are actually gods from a parallel world, readers met Gem Echols from small-town Georgia, who suffers from truly horrific dreams. Gem’s best friend is Enzo, a Brooklyn teen with whom they share a long-distance (never met in person but plenty of texting, talking …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/merciless-saviors-by-h-e-edgmon-review-by-colleen-mondor/
date: 2024-10-04, from: Locus Magazine
The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award winners. The Dwarf Stars honor the best speculative poem of one to ten lines published in the previous year.
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-dwarf-star-award-winners/
date: 2024-10-04, from: Locus Magazine
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2024 Rhysling Awards for speculative poetry.
Short Poem Category
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-rhysling-award-winners/
date: 2024-10-03, from: Locus Magazine
The finalists for the Endeavour Award have been announced. The award recognizes “a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.” The finalists are:
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2023-endeavour-award-shortlist/
date: 2024-10-03, from: Locus Magazine
Week one of October and we’re happy to bring you another lovely video featuring the top new releases in the Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy genres! Stay up to date on this weeks picks by coming by to watch us on our YouTube channel!
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/new-books-youtube-video-for-10-01-24-is-available/
date: 2024-10-03, from: Locus Magazine
Termush, Sven Holm (Faber Editions 978-0-57137-915-6, £9.99, 119pp, tp) September 2022. (FSG 978-0-37461-358-7, $16.00, 128pp, tp) January 2024. Cover by Rodrigo Corral & Adriana Tonello
Sven Holm’s Termush, originally published in 1967, is as timely now as it was back then. A narrative that uses a dystopian lens to look at people and their behavior in the aftermath of an apocalypse, the novel is a short but very …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/termush-by-sven-holm-review-by-gabino-iglesias/
date: 2024-10-02, from: Interesting, a blog on writing
An updated look at sequels and cinematic universes.
https://inneresting.substack.com/p/its-franchises-all-the-way-down
date: 2024-10-02, from: Locus Magazine
The 2024 Polari Prize Shortlists have been announced via social media.
Authors and titles of genre interest include Away With Words by Sophie Cameron (Little Tiger), Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (Wednesday), and Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn (Andersen), all in the Children’s & YA category; and Killing Jericho by William Hussey (Zaffre) in the Book Category.
The prizes are given to writers born or based …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-polari-prize-shortlists/
date: 2024-10-02, from: Locus Magazine
Murmuration by Elizabeth Pike (self-published) is on the five-title shortlist for the 2024 Kindle Storyteller Award.
The award, launched in 2017, includes a £20,000 prize and “is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing” on Amazon.co.uk. There were 20 titles on the “Featured Sci Fi and Fantasy Entries” and the shortlist itself includes titles from categories “Crime, Mystery, and Thrillers” …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-kindle-storyteller-award-shortlist/
date: 2024-10-02, from: Locus Magazine
khōréō 4.1
Anna Bendiy’s ‘‘The Goddess of Loneliness and Misfortune’’ in khōréō 4.1 effectively explores healing, going back to the place you were born, and the cost of war. Bohdana returns to her war-ravaged home and calls on a goddess for help, only to discover the goddess has a bit of an attitude and intends to put Bohdana to work before she’ll get involved. ’’Child’s Tongue …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/khoreo-short-fiction-reviews-by-a-c-wise/
date: 2024-10-01, from: Locus Magazine
Finalists for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest in multiple categories.
Fiction
Nonfiction
Young People’s Literature
Translated Literature
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-national-book-awards-finalists/
date: 2024-10-01, from: Locus Magazine
The 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows have been announced for 2024, including filmmaker Sterlin Harjo of feature Mekko (2015) and TV series Reservation Dogs (2021-2023); Ling Ma, author of Severance (2018) and Bliss Montage (2022); Jason Reynolds, author of the Stuntboy children’s superhero series and YA fantasy Long Way Down (2017); and writer and disability activist Alice Wong, who had an essay in Uncanny’s “Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!” issue (2018). …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/2024-macarthur-fellowships/
date: 2024-10-01, from: Locus Magazine
Escape Pod 7/11/24 Lightspeed 7/24 Baffling 7/24
Brian Hugenbruch features in the July Escape Pod with the rather charming “A Foundational Model for Talking to Girls”. The story unfolds with a backdrop of the ruined Earth, humans surviving in orbit of their home and living very different lives. But social awkwardness is still definitely a thing, which the narrator can attest to, as he finds himself unable to …Read More
date: 2024-10-01, from: John August blog
John and Craig are on opposite sides of the world this week, so they’re revisiting an episode from 2016 to look at the many psychological barriers facing writers tackling big projects, and offer practical strategies for actually getting the work done. They also discuss the then-upcoming election (same as it ever was), and answer a […] The post Buckling Down (Encore) first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/buckling-down-encore
date: 2024-10-01, from: Locus Magazine
Ajram, Sofia: Coup de Grâce (Titan Books 9781803369624, $19.99, 144pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 10/01/2024)
Experimental horror novel in the form of a sort of CYOA novel. Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/new-books-1-october-2024/
date: 2024-10-01, from: Final Draft blog
Anton Schettini is a TV writer best known for writing sitcoms like Happy Together and Superior Donuts – and even a drama called Snap. But before he was an actual writer, he spent years working his way up the Hollywood ladder as a production assistant, writers’ assistant and script coordinator. Now Schettini has written a book about his journey to becoming a professional TV scribe where he demystifies the process of breaking into the biz and offers other writers his best advice at all stages of their careers.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/breaking-into-tv-writing-with-anton-schettini
date: 2024-10-01, from: Locus Magazine
The October 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Lev Grossman and Ananda Lima and a spotlight on The Deadlands and Psychopomp. Glasgow 2024 Worldcon is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. News covers the Dragon Awards winners, R.S.A. Garcia’s Sturgeon Award win, F&SF‘s shift to quarterly publication, the Internet Archive appeal decision, and more. H. Bruce …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/10/issue-765-table-of-contents-october-2024/
date: 2024-09-30, from: Margaret Atwoods Substack
And as usual they did not all agree. But we can live with that, eh?
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/the-people-have-spoken
date: 2024-09-30, from: Final Draft blog
These five words may not seem to go together at first glance, but they perfectly sum up the rollercoaster ride that is the new film Saturday Night. Told in real time, the film takes us back to 1975 when a determined Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) wrangles a motley crew of young comedians to change comedy television for the next 50 seasons – and beyond. I sat down with writers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan to find out how they managed to put together such a turbulent, riotous movie about this beloved NBC institution.
https://blog.finaldraft.com/saturday-night-jason-reitman-and-gil-kenan-on-telling-a-real-time-story
date: 2024-09-30, from: Locus Magazine
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/magazines-received-september-3/
date: 2024-09-30, from: Locus Magazine
The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour is open to submissions from unpublished writers of color based in the UK until January 26, 2025.
The winner will receive £4,500, one runner-up £2,500, and up to six shortlisted authors will each receive £850. All writers will also receive mentoring from one of the prize’s publishing partners: Bloomsbury, Daphne Press, Gollancz, Hodderscape, Orbit UK, Penguin Michael Joseph, …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/2025-future-worlds-prize-opens/
date: 2024-09-30, from: Locus Magazine
StokerCon 2025 has announced their Guests of Honor: Scott Edelman, Paula Guran, Adam L.G. Nevill, Joyce Carol Oates, Gaby Triana, and Tim Waggoner.
StokerCon 2025 will be held June 12-15, 2025 at the Hilton Stamford Hotel & Executive Meeting Center in Stamford CT.
For more information, see the official website.
While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or recurring donation. We rely on …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/stokercon-2025-guests-of-honor/
date: 2024-09-30, from: Locus Magazine
The winner of the 2024 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction has been announced:
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/holmwood-wins-2024-wsfa-small-press-award/
date: 2024-09-30, from: Locus Magazine
After over a year on hardcover lists, Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing is now in trade paperback (Entangled: Red Tower Books) and ranks at the top of all four print lists compiled here.
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 10.06 LAT 09.29 USAT 09.22 PW 09.30 Amz (09.30) UK: Amz UK (09.30) Canada: Amz.ca (09.30)
Items on list -x- number of lists surveyed
10×3 10×2 150 15×3 100 100 …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/weekly-bestsellers-30-september-2024/
date: 2024-09-30, from: Locus Magazine
It takes true dreamers to make dreams happen. In the case of the Future Fiction Workshop held near Chongqing, China in June 2024, those were the intrepid Italian editor Francesco Verso and Fan Zhang, dean of the newly established Fishing Fortress Science Fiction College. Francesco, who has made World SF his life’s mission, has long worked in promoting science fiction into and out of China. Fan, who now supervises no …Read More
https://locusmag.com/2024/09/future-fiction-workshop/
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/