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FairyLoot and Transworld Launch Fantasy Imprint
FairyLoot and Transworld Publishers have announced a new fantasy imprint, to launch in fall 2025. FairyLoot is a fantasy book subscription box company specializing in illustrated and deluxe editions, and Transworld is a division of Penguin Random House UK, one of the UK’s “Big Four.”
The new imprint’s name and logo will be revealed at the London Book Fair in March 2025.
The Bookseller reports:
The fantasy imprint will discover ...Read More
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Fortress Sol by Stephen Baxter: Review by Alexandra Pierce
Fortress Sol, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz 978-1-39961-461-0, £25.00, 480pp, hc). October 2024.
Fortress Sol is classic Stephen Baxter. It’s driven by big ideas: Humanity’s response to a perceived existential threat includes both dispersing to the stars and mind-boggling engineering projects. Like 2021’s Galaxias, the focus is not so much on the alien threat as on humanity’s response. There’s a relatively small cast of characters, who are engaging enough but ...Read More
The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn: Review by Abigail Nussbaum
The Shutouts, Gabrielle Korn (St. Martin’s 978-1-2503-2348-4, $29.00, 304pp, hc) December 2024.
As climate change has become an ever-growing and more insistent presence in our lives, it has also begun inflecting and informing works of fiction, whose authors imagine how the remainder of the 21st century will play out. Interestingly, it is writers coming from outside the traditional venues of SFF writing and publishing who have most readily embraced this ...Read More
Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky: Review by Russell Letson
Days of Shattered Faith, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus 978-1-03590-152-4, £22.00, 544pp, hc) December 2024. Cover by Joe Wilson.
Days of Shattered Faith, the third book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Tyrant Philosophers sequence, continues to examine the effects of the long-running, world-conquering program of the nation of Pallesand, a resolutely rationalist, religion-detesting nation determined to bring its notion of secular perfection to a world that is filled with supernatural ...Read More
Ludluda by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard: Review by Paul Di Filippo
Ludluda, Jeff Noon and Steve Beard (Angry Robot 978-1915998316, trade paperback, 400pp, $18.99) December 2024
I am happy to bring readers this exciting news: the genre known as New Weird is currently alive and kicking, despite any rumors of its moribund state, or lack of recent exemplars. The evidence? The fascinating and thrilling duology set before us, Gogmagog and Ludluda.
New Weird—with undeniably deeper roots, not to be ...Read More
Crows and Silences by Lucius Shepard: Review by Ian Mond
Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean 978-1-64524-217-8, $60.00, 520pp, hc) December 2024.
When discussing Lucius Shepard, it’s inevitable to bemoan that despite his abundant talent, his work received little mainstream recognition. I observed this when I reviewed The Best of Lucius Shepard: Volume 2, quoting an obituary of Shepard penned by Christopher Priest for The Guardian. Priest felt that Shepard’s preference for the novella and his association with ...Read More
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And the Mighty Will Fall by K.B. Wagers: Review by Liz Bourke
And the Mighty Will Fall, K.B. Wagers (Harper Voyager 978-0-06-311524-8, $19.99, 464pp, tp) November 2024.
And the Mighty Will Fall is K.B. Wagers’s tenth and latest space opera novel, the fourth book in the NeoG continuity after 2023’s The Ghosts of Trappist. And the Mighty Will Fall brings the action back to our solar system and the long-running conflict between advocates for an independent Mars and the central ...Read More
2024 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the preliminary ballot for the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
- House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland )
- I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- The Haunting of Velkwood, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- American Rapture, CJ Leede (Tor)
- Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Eynhallow, Tim McGregor (Raw Dog
Rest in Peaches by Alex Brown: Review by Alex Brown
Rest in Peaches, Alex Brown (Page Street YA 979-8-89003-070-2, $18.99, 336pp, hc) October 2024.
Get ready for another great young adult horror comedy with Rest in Peaches by Alex Brown (not me!). Quinn is about to do the biggest, most important thing she’s ever done in her whole 17 years of life. At this year’s Homecoming game, she will don a brand new Peaches the Parrot mascot costume and ...Read More
2025 Edgar Awards Nominations
Several authors and works of genre interest are among the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) 2025 Edgar Awards nominees.
Best Novel
- The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
Best First Novel
- The Mechanics of Memory, Lee Audrey (CamCat)
Best Critical/Biographical
- On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett, Ashley Lawson (Ohio State University Press)
Best Short Story
- “Cut
2025 Science + Literature Books
The National Book Foundation, together with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the selected books for the 2025 Science + Literature program. The 2025 fiction selection is science fiction novel The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead), along with two other selections in non-fiction and poetry.
The Science + Literature program, supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation, identifies three books across fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, that “deepen readers’ ...Read More