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,
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MEGAN CHEE is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
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.
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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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,
HarperCollins Children’s Books has announced the launch of Storytide, a new imprint for middle grade and YA books. Storytide’s slate will include fantasy titles That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller and I Killed the King by Andrea Hannah and Rebecca Mix.
VP and publisher Tara Weikum will lead the imprint. The team will also include Amy Cloud and Kristin Rens as executive editors, and Sarah Homer as editor.
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Apex Book Company is seeking submissions for a reprint anthology, ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction.
Stories must be complete reprints between 1,000 and 6,000 words, published during the 2024 calendar year. Content must be speculative and “focused on ecology, climate, the environment, conservation, the natural world, our relationship to animals and other non-human life, and related issues. A climate-crisis setting alone is not enough to qualify.”
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has posted updates in an announcement from its Board of Directors.
New Director-at-Large: Day Al-Mohamed was appointed to the board on February 1, 2025. Her first SFWA Board meeting was on February 19, and a public announcement was posted on February 22.
Nebulas personnel: Events manager Sherine Mani was announced as the Nebula Conference Project Manager. Additionally, Rebekah Postupak and ...Read More
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced their Summer Scares Reading list for 2025.
Adult Books:
Young Adult Books:
KHAN WONG is now represented by Ernie Chiara of Fuse Literary.
ETHAN LAI is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.
Authors LAURA LIPPMAN and JOHN SANFORD are the recipients of the 2025 Grand Master Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America.
PETE WOLVERTON, vice-president and executive editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group, received the Ellery Queen Award, honoring “outstanding writing teams and outstanding people ...Read More
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For 2024, the Financial Times featured several genre books across their best-of lists in various categories.
FT’s Science Fiction List (includes fantasy):
FT’s general Fiction list includes several titles
Amazon published its yearly array of lists to promote the best books of 2024, with editors’ selections in various categories. Works and categories of genre interest follow. Amazon’s top pick is followed by their list of other recommended works, alphabetized by author last name.
Science Fiction and Fantasy
We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them!
This list is compiled by the Locus editors and columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. This year we looked at 678 titles between short fiction and long fiction. Note: any one of our voting critics ...Read More
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The seventy-year-old Science Fiction Book Club, originally launched by Doubleday in 1953, has announced on its website that it will close for orders as of February, 1, 2025. The Club thanked customers for their longstanding loyalty and gave a hard date for the end of its services.
We very much appreciate your many years of loyalty, patronage, and support. After 2/1/2025, orders will no longer be processed at SFBC.com.
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The Clarion West writers’ workshop has announced a new scholarship for “trans, two-spirit, nonbinary, and other gender-expansive authors.” The Sea Star scholarship, funded by an anonymous donor, will cover full annual tuition (currently $3200) for one qualifying student per year. Clarion states:
Trans, two-spirit, nonbinary, and other gender expansive authors who continue to change and inform the landscape of speculative fiction for the better. We know that trans writers are ...Read More
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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:
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Andy Cox and Richard Wagner, who worked together on Black Static and Interzone, announced the launch of a new horror magazine, Remains. The quarterly magazine will feature all-new horror fiction, columns, and features; stories will be illustrated by Wagner, who has contributed cover and interior art for Black Static and more.
From a Facebook post via Livia Llewellyn, Cox announced:
REMAINS. 100 colour pages of new horror fiction. Smells nice. ...Read More
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Ellen Datlow is accepting submissions for her 17th Best Horror of the Year anthology, to be published by Night Shade Books and covering material appearing in 2025.
I am looking for stories and poetry from all branches of horror: supernatural, uncanny, sf horror, psychological, dark crime, terror tales, or anything else that might qualify.
This is an all reprint anthology, so I’ll only consider material published in 2025. Deadline ...Read More
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Sean Markey has announced the relaunch of Fantasy Magazine, with the first issue scheduled to publish June 1, 2025. Fantasy will be joining sibling magazine The Deadlands under the Psychopomp publishing umbrella. Sean has named Arley Sorg and Shingai Njeri Kagunda as co-Editors-in-Chief.
Fantasy Magazine will publish original short fiction, flash fiction, and poetry on a quarterly basis. Subscriptions will be available to support the magazine, which will also provide ...Read More
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MARK W. TIEDEMANN is now represented by Vaughne Hansen of the Virginia Kidd Agency.
ESPAÑA SHERIFF is the winner of the 2024 Rotsler Award for “long-time wonder-working with graphic art in amateur publications of the science fiction community,’’ announced during Loscon 50, held November 29 – December 1, 2024 at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel in Los Angeles CA. The award was established in 1998 by the ...Read More
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Diamond Comic Distributors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US court in January 2025. They have secured $41 million in financing from JP Morgan Chase bank to “fund post-petition operating expenses and ensure adequate working capital to meet its obligations to associates and suppliers.” A letter to distributors from president Chuck Parker says,
I’m writing to share one of the most challenging messages of my career.
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The 2024 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF), which “will send a European fan to the 2025 Worldcon in Seattle,” has selected its nominees and will begin voting on January 1, 2025. All votes must reach the administrators by 11.59 pm British/Irish time on April 23, 2025.
The candidates for this year are Zi Graves, Mikołaj Kowalewski, and Jan Vaněk jr. Voting is open to any individual with their donation of £3 ...Read More
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The Board of Directors of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has released a statement on the freedom of expression for writers residing in conflict areas and poor living conditions:
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in education, SFWA is restricted from political campaign intervention in particular forms. At the same time, our mission is to inform, support, promote, defend, and advocate for writers of science fiction, fantasy, and related ...Read More
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Rachel Winterbottom has joined Penguin Random House UK imprint Transworld as sci-fi and fantasy publishing director. Winterbottom is scheduled to start working in the newly created role in March 2025, reporting temporarily to managing director Kimberly Young. Winterbottom has worked as an editor for Gollancz as well as HarperVoyager UK. Young said,
Rachel brings with her a magical combination of a deep passion for the SFF genre and a genuine ...Read More
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The New York Public Library (NYPL), the Brooklyn Public Library, the Queens Public Library, and others have released their annual lists of most-borrowed books. The 2024 announcement features a list of books tabulating check outs for the combined boroughs.
On the “Citywide” list, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf) was the most checked out book for the combined boroughs of New York for 2024. Third place was ...Read More
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The Historical Novel Society (HNS) has issued a call for proposals for their 2025 conference (HNS25), open December 15, 2024 to January 15, 2025.
This year, the conference theme is ‘‘A Celebration of Historical Fiction in its Many Forms,’’ and HNS25 program chair Christopher M. Cevasco “welcomes proposals of panels, talks, and readings with a focus on historical fantasy, alternate history, time travel, steampunk, and historical horror, among other forms ...Read More
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CLIO EVANS is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI is this year’s recipient of the Forry Award for lifetime achievement in the SF field, presented by The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Miyazaki is the founder of Studio Ghibli and an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. The award, named for Forrest J Ackerman, has been given annually since 1966.
SEANAN MCGUIRE, writing ...Read More
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The New York Times published lists of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024 and the Best Horror of 2024, compiled by critics Amal El-Mohtar and Gabino Iglesias respectively.
El-Mohtar’s top ten picks are:
On December 10, 2024, the African Science Fiction Society (ASFS) released the following statement:
In light of further revelations in the case of the allegations made by Erin Cairns’ against ASFS member Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, the specific allegations of appropriation and non-disclosure have been investigated by a third party and no longer stand, and a public retraction has been made.
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The New York Times has published its list of Notable Books of 2024. Titles are selected by staff members of the New York Times Book Review.
The list includes titles of genre interest:
AudioFile magazine has published their picks for the best audiobooks of 2024 in categories including Science Fiction and Fantasy and Young Adult.
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Music and audiobook streaming service Spotify has released a list of the most popular audiobooks on their platform for 2024.
The most popular audiobook genres by Spotify listeners in 2024 were science fiction and fantasy, with romance close behind. Many of the most popular titles this year were romantasy. The top audiobooks were:
NPR has published a list of “Books We Love” in 2024, compiled by NPR journalists and associated critics. The full list of 350 books includes an extensive Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction category, with numerous other works of interest on the list as a whole.
Sci Fi, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
The Clarion Workshop in San Diego CA has announced the instructors for its 2025 session: Elizabeth Bear, Premee Mohamed, Cadwell Turnbull, Annalee Newitz, Jedediah Berry, and GennaRose Nethercott. Jac Jemc is faculty director.
The workshop will be held June 29, 2025 – August 9, 2025 at UC San Diego. Applications for the workshop opened on December 1, 2024 and close February 15, 2025.
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