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Books Reviews 

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami: Review by Gary K. Wolfe

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The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami (Pantheon 978-0593317600, $29.00, 336pp, hc) March 2025.

This may sound like an odd question, but are algorithms starting to take over the narrative func­tion that psi powers once served in SF? The idea of preventing crimes by pre-emptively arresting supposed perpetrators has been around at least since Orwell’s notion of ‘‘thoughtcrimes,’’ and in the 1950s this became the province of psioni­cally gifted folks like ...Read More

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2025 Kurd Laßwitz Preis Shortlist

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The shortlist has been announced for the 2025 Kurd Laßwitz Preis. The prize is awarded to German-language SF works published in the previous year.

Best German SF Novel

  • Der Riss, Andreas Brandhorst (Heyne)
  • Wolfszone, Christian Endres (Heyne)
  • Parts per Million, Theresa Hannig (Fischer Tor)
  • Anahita, Sven Haupt (Eridanus)
  • Lieferdienst, Tom Hillenbrand (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
  • Views, Marc-Uwe Kling (Ullstein)
  • Apeirophobia, Christian J. Meier (Hirnkost)
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2025 Jim Baen Memorial Award Finalists

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Baen Books has announced on social media the ten finalists for the 2025 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award:

  • Gustavo Bondoni
  • Jason Crawford
  • Deborah Davitt
  • Meghan Feldman
  • Ricardo Garcia
  • Trent Guillory
  • Gary Herring
  • Joseph McGow-Russell
  • Tom (T.S.) Ryker
  • Tiffany Smith

The Grand Prize winner will be featured on the Baen website. The author will be given a trophy and paid professional rates.

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News Obituaries 

Guy Thomas (1958-2025)

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Convention organizer Guy Thomas, 67, died March 13, 2025.

Guy Wayne Thomas, born February 21, 1958, discovered science fiction fandom in college, in Carbondale IL. His first science fiction convention was the 1979 NaSFiC in Louisville KY. When he moved to the Bay Area, he built new connections with the northern California science fiction community, where he was especially known for his copious knowledge of and deep appreciation for his ...Read More

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Lynne M. Thomas Steps Down at Uncanny

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Lynne M. Thomas is stepping down as co-editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Uncanny after 11 years. Her cofounder Michael Damian Thomas will continue as sole editor-in-chief starting with issue 64 and as publisher starting with Issue 67. Lynne Thomas is “shifting her focus to her day job as she works towards her rare book librarianship goals.”

Michael Damian Thomas said,

Lynne and I dreamt up and founded Uncanny Magazine together 11 ...Read More

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Awards News 

2025 Imadjinn Awards Finalists

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Finalists for the 2025 Imadjinn Awards have been announced. Categories of genre interest follow.

Best Science Fiction Novel

  • Path to Freedom, James Copley (Cannon)
  • Salvage Purgatory, Jason Cordova, Kevin Steverson & Nick Steverson (Theogony)
  • Prince Conqueror, Fred Hughes (Chris Kennedy)
  • 2028: Tomorrow Is the Day, L.R. O’Brien (Austin Macauley)

Best Fantasy Novel

  • Cursed by a Siren’s Kiss, LS Embers & Riley Hunt (self-published)
  • Chosen By
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2025 Carnegie Medals Shortlists

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The shortlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration, honoring UK books for children and young adults, have been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.

Carnegie Medal for Writing

  • Treacle Town, Brian Conaghan (Andersen)
  • The Things We Leave Behind, Clare Furniss (Simon & Schuster UK)
  • All That It Ever Meant, Blessing Musariri (Zephyr Head of Zeus)

Carnegie Medal for Illustration

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Hache Pueyo: Open the Door

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HACHE PUEYO who also writes as H. Pueyo, was born in the south of Brazil to Brazilian and Argentinian parents. As a child she lived in Barcelona, Spain and spent time in Argentina before returning to Brazil, where she lives now. She is the winner of an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction.

Pueyo began publishing short SF in 2016 and has published in Clarkes­world, F&SF, ...Read More

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Augur: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

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Augur 7.3

Augur 7.3 starts off on a high note with A.D. Sui’s “One Becomes Two”, a gor­geous and subtly eerie story. A couple married for 15 years travels to Greenland to study a mysterious sludge causing the local wildlife population to act like a single-cell organism, sharing thoughts and knowledge. The narrator is tired of existing in their spouse’s shadow and feeling their own life and ...Read More

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People & Publishing Roundup, February 2025

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MILESTONES

MEGAN CHEE is now repre­sented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.

AWARDS

EVE HILL-AGNUS won the 2024 Albertine Translation Prize for her translation of Ultramarine by MARIETTE NAVARRO (Deep Vellum), presented by the French Embassy in the US and selected by a jury.

 

BOOKS SOLD

 

STEPHEN KING will write Han­sel and Gretel, a “reimagining” of the fairy tale, with illustrations by the late MAURICE SENDAK ...Read More

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GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Small Wonders: Reviews by Charles Payseur

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GigaNotoSaurus 12/24 Lightspeed 12/24 Small Wonders 12/24

December’s GigaNotoSaurus is Sabrina Vourvou­lias’s “Dead reckoning in 6/8 time”, a story that finds Adriana remembering her mother’s stories about being a bailadora in Mexico and losing a contest to the devil himself. Which means that, now that her mother has passed, her soul is the devil’s, and that doesn’t sit well with Adriana, who determines that she will succeed ...Read More

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Waterblack by Alex Pheby: Review by Ian Mond

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Waterblack, Alex Pheby (Tor 978-1-250-81729-7, $32.00, 640pp, hc) January 2025.

Toward the end of Waterblack, in the middle of one of several appendices, the omniscient narrator, who has held our hand across three novels, tells us that the “violent intentions” of one of the novel’s key antagonists, intentions that are to “fuel a series of later events,” intentions that “would end in… success… in the matter of killing ...Read More

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New Books Video for the Week of March 11th, 2025!

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We’re excited to share our picks for the top new releases in the SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA fields this week! If you’re looking to keep up-to-date on future videos, and support what we do, come by and subscribe to our YouTube channel! We release a new video every week and we’re always looking for new books for you to add to your growing TBR pile!

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Books Reviews 

The Legacy of Arniston House by T.L. Huchu: Review by Colleen Mondor

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The Legacy of Arniston House, T.L. Huchu (Tor 978-1-250-88309-4, $29.99, 400pp, hc) November 2024. Cover by Leo Nickolls.

When I sat down the week before Christ­mas to review The Legacy of Arniston House, the latest in T.L. Huchu’s Ed­inburgh Nights series, I had all four of his books stacked up beside my computer. I began reading the series just after Thanksgiving and quickly blew through the adventures of ...Read More

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Awards News 

2024 Nebula Awards Ballot

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released the finalists for the 2024 Nebula Awards via YouTube video.

Novel

  • Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, Yaroslav Barsukov (Caezik SF & Fantasy) amazon / bookshop
  • Rakesfall, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
  • Asunder, Kerstin Hall (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK) amazon / bookshop
  • The Book of Love
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We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler: Review by Jake Casella Brookins

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We Lived on the Horizon, Erika Swyler (Atria 9781668049594, $28.99, 336pp, hc) January 2025. Cover design by Laywan Kwan.

The ingredients of Erika Swyler’s We Lived On the Horizon are familiar enough: embodied AI, a highly stratified society, a postapocalyptic city os­sifying from techno-utopia to classist nightmare. But Swyler’s combination feels fresh; the main characters here move almost, though not entirely, outside the “real” plot, the revolution planners and ...Read More

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News Publishing 

Details on the New Owners of Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been acquired by Must Read Magazines, a division of a new publishing company, Must Read Books Publishing. All editorial staff from the magazines have been retained in the acquisitions. Jackie Sherbow has been promoted to editor of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. P.L. Stevens joins the ...Read More

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New Imprint: Bloomsbury Archer

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Bloomsbury has announced a new SF/F imprint, Bloomsbury Archer, and plans for it to publish “across the constellation of speculative fiction – from fantasy and science fiction to crossover, speculative romance, and from horror to myth retellings.” The imprint’s name comes from the current Bloomsbury emblem of the Roman hunter goddess Diana, “referencing the imprint’s pursuit of the very best storytelling and new stars.”

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Awards News 

2025 ITW Thriller Awards Finalists

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International Thriller Writers has announced the finalists for the 2025 Thriller Awards. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

Best Standalone Thriller Novel

  • The Last One at the Wedding, Jason Rekulak (Flatiron)

Best Standalone Mystery Novel

  • Negative Girl, Libby Cudmore (Datura)
  • What Happened to Nina?, Dervla McTiernan (William Morrow)

Best Series Novel

  • To Die For, David Baldacci (Grand Central)
  • Shadowheart, Meg Gardiner (Blackstone)
  • Flashback,
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New Books 11 March 2025

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Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us!

New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of March 11, 2025. 

Addison, Katherine: The Tomb of Dragons (Tor 978-1250816191, $28.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 03/11/2025)

Third in the Cemeteries of Amalo series, in the same world as The Goblin Emperor. Thara Celehar must navigate investigations and intrigue after ...Read More

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Awards News 

Picard Wins SLF Illustration Award

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The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) has announced that artist Flore Picard is the winner of their 2025 Illustration of the Year. “Look for Picard’s artwork on our site, as well as future SLF newsletters, promo, and other content!”

Picard said, “In a futuristic world of glass and metal, she made herself wings out of her prison, a harness out of her shackles, and flew up to seek out the stars. ...Read More

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Books Reviews 

The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 2, edited by Allan Kaster: Review by Alexandra Pierce

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The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 2, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox 978-1-88461-276-3, $19.99, 275pp, tp) December 2024. Cover by Maurizio Manzieri.

With anthology series that focus on robots and AI, and on space and time, I was surprised to come across Infinivox and Allan Kaster doing a series about science fiction on Earth itself; it seemed too mundane. Kaster addresses this in the first line of his introduction, ...Read More

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Awards News 

2025 British Book Awards Shortlists

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The Bookseller has announced the shortlists for the 2025 British Book Awards. Titles and authors of genre interest include:

Fiction

  • James, Percival Everett (Mantle)
  • Long Island, Colm Tóibín (Picador)
  • Think Again, Jacqueline Wilson (Bantam)

Pageturner

  • Faebound, Saara El-Arifi (Harper Voyager)
  • Daydream, Hannah Grace (Simon & Schuster)
  • House of Flame and Shadow, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)

Début Fiction

  • The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley
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Frank R. Paul Awards Submissions Open

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The Frank R. Paul Awards, honoring “outstanding work in book and magazine cover art,” are open to submissions until April 15, 2025.

Awards administrator Frank Wu writes,

There are two categories: Best Magazine Cover Art, and Best Book Cover Art. Prizes include a trophy (with a 3D-printed recreation of FRP’s tiger-robot-monster from the Sept. 1935 Wonder Stories) plus $500 in each category.
Artists are encouraged to submit (to me, Frank
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Amal El-Mohtar: Obviously, There Are Fairies

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AMAL EL-MOHTAR was born December 13, 1984 in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up there, apart from two years spent in Lebanon, where her family is from. She began publishing short fiction with “The Crow’s Caw” (2006) and has published scores of stories and poems, notably Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award winner “Seasons of Glass and Iron” (2016, also a World Fantasy, Sturgeon Memorial, and Aurora Award finalist); Nebula Award ...Read More

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Cast of Wonders, Strange Horizons and Hexagon Winter: Reviews by Charles Payseur

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Cast of Wonders 12/3/24 Strange Horizons 11/18/24, 12/9/24 Hexagon Winter ’24

Alexander Hewitt defies genre horror expecta­tions in “Emily” from the December Cast of Wonders. In it, a queer couple who are trying to adopt buy an old doll in anticipation of their new family member, only for the doll to begin to exhibit some… alarming behaviors. The narrator at first attributes these spooky goings-on to her partner ...Read More

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Analog: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise

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Analog 11-12/24

“That Far, Uncharted Ocean” by Auston Haber­shaw in the November/December issue of Analog features recurring characters and a world appear­ing in previous Analog stories by the author. Amos Tambly is recruited by the Thraad, snaillike aliens, who want to win a sailing regatta but have no knowledge of boats and are afraid of the ocean. Amos agrees, but ultimately learns that the Thraad intend to wipe ...Read More

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The Storytellers: Henry Lien Reads from Peasprout Chen

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We are so happy to release our fifth episode of The Storytellers, our series of Zoom-recorded author readings! Previously, we had Daniel Abraham read ‘The Wind’. Today we are pleased to show Henry Lien reading from the first chapter of Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, the first in his middle grade series revolving around a sport of his own invention combining kung fu and figure skating: ...Read More

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New Books Video for the Week of March 4th, 2025 is Live!

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Welcome back for another exciting new books video to kick off the month of March! Come by and learn about our picks for the top new SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA releases for the week! Stay up-to-date, and support what we do, by subscribing to the YouTube channel! We hope to see you next week for another week of books you’ll be adding to your growing TBR list!

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Awards News 

2025 PEN/Faulkner Shortlist

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The five-title 2025 PEN/Faulkner shortlist for fiction has been announced, with titles and authors of genre interest, including Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (Norton) and James by Percival Everett (Doubleday).

The prize “honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year.” This year’s judges are Bruce Holsinger, Deesha Philyaw, and Luis Alberto Urrea.

The “first among equals” winner will be announced in April. The finalists and

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Bookstores News 

Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore Damaged by Floods

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Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, an independent science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror bookstore in San Diego CA, is recovering from damage caused by flooding in late February.

In a social media post on March 3, the bookstore announced that no inventory was damaged in the flood; however, the post stated that some of the store’s carpeting, drywall, and fixtures will need to be replaced. The store is currently closed to browsing ...Read More

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Awards News 

2025 Le Guin Prize open

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The 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is open to nominations. The nomination process for the prize is open to all and closes March 31, 2025. To be eligible, a title must be a “book-length work of imaginative fiction written by a single author,” published between April 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. The winner receives $25,000.

2025 judges include Matt Bell, Indrapramit Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, ...Read More

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