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2024 Mo Siewcharran Prize Longlist
The longlist has been announced for this year’s Mo Siewcharran Prize, which “aims to nurture talent from under-represented backgrounds writing in English.” This year’s submission call was for YA and adult fantasy novels. Shortlisted entries include:
- The One Day King, Daniel Adediran
- The Devotee, H.D. Ahmed
- The Five Realms, Olivia Dean
- Porcelain and Power, Tasha Dhanraj
- The Call of the Empyrean, Robert Gardiner
- Sandstorm,
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![Colleen Mondor Reviews <b>The City of Stardust</b> by Georgia Summers Colleen Mondor Reviews <b>The City of Stardust</b> by Georgia Summers](https://cdn.statically.io/img/locusmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/locus-25-200x300.jpg)
Colleen Mondor Reviews The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
The City of Stardust, Georgia Summers (Redhook 978-0-316-56148-8, $29.00, hc, 352 pp) January 2024.
The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers blends our recognizable world, mostly through the home of the Everly family in the English countryside, with the fictional city of Fidelis, a place of academics and magic that hides a horrific truth. (And that horror really is bad; we’re talking ritual-sacrifice-of-kidnapped-children kind of bad.) Violet Everly lives ...Read More
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Gabino Iglesias Reviews Forgotten Sisters Cynthia Pelayo
Forgotten Sisters, Cynthia Pelayo (Thomas & Mercer 978-1-66251-391-6, $16.99, 303pp, tp) March 2024. Cover by Olga Grlic.
Cynthia Pelayo has made a name for herself in horror by bringing to the table a mixture of horror, crime fiction, and folklore that always contains a dash of poetry and by telling stories that invariably take place in Chicago, a city that Pelayo always turns into a character in her work. ...Read More
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews Two Vancian Novels by Wm. Michael Mott
Pulsifer: a Fable, Wm. Michael Mott (Splatterlight Press 978-1619474918, trade paperback, 306pp, $16.95) Jan 2024
Land of Ice, a Velvet Knife, Wm. Michael Mott (Splatterlight Press 978-1619474932, trade paperback, 306pp, $16.95) Feb 2024
It is very seldom—perhaps almost never—that one opens up one’s copy of the Sunday New York Times and discovers that the lead article in the Magazine section is devoted to a still-living author whose roots ...Read More
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A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Analog, khōréō, and Clarkesworld
Analog 3-4/24 khōréō 3.4 Clarkesworld 4/24
The March/April 2024 issue of Analog opens with “Enough” by William Ledbetter, wherein a graffiti artist encounters tech designed to resist tagging and report the location of artists to authorities. Working with his ex-girlfriend and her new partner, he finds a way to co-opt the tech and broadcasts a message of hope and resistance. “A Long Journey into Light” ...Read More
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews Ghost of the Neon God by T.R. Napper
Ghost of the Neon God, T. R. Napper (Titan 978-1803368115, hardcover, 128pp, $17.99) June 2024
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, and, arguably, 1984 can serve as the birthday of the cyberpunk genre as well or better than any adjacent year. I think at this point, we can cease debating about the nature of cyberpunk, its utility and whether it’s here ...Read More
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New Books, 9 July 2024
Aryan, Stephen: The Blood-Dimmed Tide (Angry Robot 9781915202864, $18.99, 400pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 07/09/2024)
Historical fantasy novel, the second in the Nightingale and the Falcon trilogy inspired by the Mongol Empire’s invasion of Persia. Kaivon, the last Persian General, is celebrating as Hulagu Khan’s dream of conquering the whole world lies in tatters. But the fight is not yet done, as Persia is still occupied by Mongol invaders. ...Read More
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Three: 1941 by David Ritter, Daniel Ritter, Sam McDonald, & John L. Coker III
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Three: 1941, David Ritter, Daniel Ritter, Sam McDonald, & John L. Coker III (First Fandom Experience 978-1-73665-965-6, $149.00, 504pp, hc) April 2024.
If someone were to tell me that a lavish 500-page coffee-table book selling for $149 is basically a microhistory describing what a bunch of people I’ve mostly never heard of were doing in 1941, I’d quite reasonably be skeptical; ...Read More
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Liz Bourke Reviews Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova
Foul Days, Genoveva Dimova (Tor 978-1-250-87731-4, $17.99, 368pp, tp) June 2024. Cover by Rovina Cai.
Foul Days is Scotland-based Genoveva Dimova’s debut novel. It mixes folklore and modernity, setting itself between the walled ghetto-city of Chernograd – where monsters roam the streets, magic is as commonplace as poverty, and in order to leave you have to pay people-smugglers to get you across the wall – and the prosperous city ...Read More
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Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Escape Pod, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Strange Horizons
Escape Pod 3/21/24, 3/28/24 Three-Lobed Burning Eye 3/24 Strange Horizons 3/18/24, 3/25/24, 4/1/24, 4/8/24
March’s Escape Pod features a unique post-catastrophe world in Pragathi Bala’s “Summitting the Moon”, which unfolds on an Earth that has experienced the Landing of the Moon, where an asteroid impact has pushed the Moon’s orbit so close to the planet that it has created a Rut and altered not only the world’s ...Read More
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Paula Guran Reviews Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle edited by George R.R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrass
Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle, George R.R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrass, eds. (Bantam 978-0-59335-783-5, 402pp, $28.00, hc) February 2024.
The Wild Cards universe is a fertile playground for writers, as its premise encourages a wide creative range. Created by George R.R. Martin, the universe departs from ours in 1946, when an alien virus arrives on Earth. Ninety percent of those who contract it die; the DNA of the ten percent ...Read More