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Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK 978-1-0350-1379-1, £22.00, 448pp, hc) February 2025. (Orbit US 978-0316579025, $19.99, 416pp, tp) June 2025.

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shroud is an epic first-contact novel and delivers one of the most intriguing visions of alien/human interaction that I’ve read in many years.

The Garveneer has been tasked with deciding whether a particular solar system is worth strip-mining. Through their exploration they discover that a gas giant’s moon ...Read More

Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor 978-1250782977, 240pp, $27.99, hc) May 2025.

I think it’s safe to say, on the basis of Riot Baby and Goliath alone, that we didn’t have any idea what to expect next from the adventurous Tochi Onyebuchi. But I doubt that even his most assidu­ous readers were anticipating a hardboiled his­torical/political private-eye postcolonialist noir fantasy mystery (and even at that, I’ve probably left some stuff ...Read More

Reactor 1/13/25 The Sunday Morning Transport’s 1/5/25, 1/12/25, 1/19/25

Reactor led 2025 off with a terrific dark fantasy novelette by A.C. Wise: “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon”. Teenaged Merrow’s grandmother was once the protector of their small town but she’s dead. After the five doe-girls – similar to selk­ies but with doe rather than seal skins – are slaughtered and their radiant magic is gone, the town needs ...Read More

Diabolical Plots 1/25 GigaNotoSaurus 1/25

The January Diabolical Plots features a new story by Marissa Lingen – “The Year the Sheep God Shattered”. In it, Suvin is overseeing the annual making of gods, in which children and elderly people of the community craft gods out of clay to help prepare, protect, and inspire the village for the next year. For Bei, though, a young adult just out of ...Read More

Greenteeth, Molly O’Neill (Orbit 978-0-316-58424-1, $18.99, 320pp, tp) February 2025.

As author Molly O’Neill explains in the open­ing pages of her debut novel Greenteeth, Jenny Greenteeth has enjoyed a relatively quiet existence living in her private lake near the village of Chipping Appleby. Jenny is not human, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t a conscientious lake-dweller. ‘‘Good lake maintenance is impor­tant for fish stocks and water quality,’’ she ...Read More

We are so happy to release our seventh episode of The Storytellers, our series of Zoom-recorded author readings! Previously, we had Hannah Yang reading “A Monster in the Shape of a Boy“, and today we are happy to show Catherynne M. Valente reading Locus Award nominated novelette “Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo” . The story appeared in the 7 September 2020 issue of Strange Horizons.

Catherynne M. ...Read More

The six-title shortlists for the Jhalak Prizes have been announced. The shortlists include titles and authors of genre interest, such as My Friends by Hisham Matar (Viking) in the Prose category and Mayowa and the Sea of Words by Chibundu Onuzo (Bloomsbury) and The Boy to Beat the Gods by Ashley Thorpe (Usborne) in the Children’s & YA category.

The awards “seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in ...Read More

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of its 2025 Specialty Awards.

Mocha Memoirs Press is the recipient of the Specialty Press Award, given “to a specialty publisher whose work has substantially contributed to the horror genre, whose publications display general excellence, and whose dealings with authors have been fair and exemplary.”

The Richard Laymon President’s Award, “presented to a volunteer who has served the HWA in an ...Read More

The shortlist for the inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize has been announced. Titles, authors, and translators of genre interest include:

For this prize, PEN Presents partnered with the ...Read More

The shortlist for the 2025 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2024, has been announced.

Australian SF writer, critic, and scholar Damien Broderick, 80, died April 20, 2025 in Portugal. Broderick wrote over 70 books of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism.

Damien Francis Broderick was born April 22, 1944 in Melbourne Australia. He earned a PhD in the semiotics of fiction at Deakin University. He was a senior fellow at the University of Melbourne for many years. Later in life he lived in San Antonio TX ...Read More