News: The 2020 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Announced
The 2020 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award is presented to: Rick Raphael (1917-1994) According to File 770, the jury particularly cites: Raphael’s 1966 fixup novel Code…
Month: July 2020
News: 2020 Retro Hugo Award Winners for 1945 Announced
From the Hugo Awards website: The 1945 Retrospective Hugo Award winners were announced in an online ceremony produced by CoNZealand, the 78th World Science…
THE SIN IN THE STEEL by Ryan Van Loan The Fall of the Gods (Volume 1)
On the surface, Ryan Van Loan’s debut novel, The Sin in the Steel, could be seen as simply a fantasy adventure yarn with two…
News: World Fantasy Award 2020 Nominees Announced
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2019 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the virtual World Fantasy 2020 (WFC) convention,…
Summer Genre Reading Suggestions 2020
I normally put one of these articles out at SFFWorld about now. So it was a bit of a shock today to realise that…
ASHES OF THE SUN by Django Wexler (Burningblade and Silvereye#1)
A brother and sister separated at a very young age. A rebellious uprising against a strong-armed government. A post-apocalyptic world. Ancient magic and science,…
PEACE TALKS by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #16)
Peace Talks is the sixteenth novel in Jim Butcher’s best-selling Dresden Files series and finds Harry Dresden, unsurprisingly, at the center of supernatural chaos…
Doomsday Game by Gary Gibson
Doomsday Game is the third entry in Gary Gibson’s Apocalypse series. The first two books, Extinction Game (review) and Survival Game (review), were published…
THE RELENTLESS MOON by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut #3)
In The Relentless Moon, the third novel in The Lady Astronaut series, Mary Robinette Kowal picks up the story of a world shattered by…
THE KINGDOM OF LIARS by Nick Martell
A fantasy debut novel emblazoned with a quote from Brandon Sanderson atop the dust jacket sets a certain expectation. Nick Martell’s The Kingdom of…
Short Story Review: Gaze of Robot, Gaze of Bird by Eric Schwitzgebel (Issue 151 Clarkesworld)
And here’s another short story review from Clarkesworld, , courtesy of J.K.A. Short. This time it is from Issue 151, published in April 2019: …
