Guernica Magazine

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The award-winning writer on editing his first anthology, horror versus sci-fi, and the American tradition of voter suppression. The post Victor LaValle: Imagine Downton Abbey, but with Smells appeared first on Guernica.

Writing Magazine

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners on the 2021 Locus Awards in June. The Locus, are along with the Hugo Awards the most significant US awards for science fiction and fantasy. The winners were: Science Fiction Novel, Network Ef

Writing Magazine

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Tyche Books is a Canadian small-press specialising in science-fiction and fantasy anthologies, novels, and non-fiction, all available as ebooks and trade paperbacks. The editorial team ‘crave innovative stories that push the boundaries of imagination

The Writer

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All fiction is speculative to some extent, posing a “what-if” question, which serves as the premise and drives the plot. But for fantasy author Kij Johnson, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award, the specific genre of speculative fiction adds its

Writing Magazine

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Three Crows Magazine is a quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine that includes short stories, book, film, and video game reviews, as well as interviews with writers and editors of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Editor-in-chief Alex Khlo

NPR

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Literary pun purveyor Tom Gauld turns his pen to the foibles of science (and science fiction) in his new comic collection Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, inspired by his scientist grandfather.

NPR

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Bishakh Som's new comics collection is uncanny and hard to categorize — science-fictiony, mythic and humanistic, without making any particular assumptions about where humans as a species are going.

Writing Magazine

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US small press Sliced Up is looking for short stories involving menopause for a horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror. Stories, 1,000-4,000 words, must include menopause as the main plot point. Subm

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 275 pages | Hardback/ebook Editor Desirina Boskovich Publisher Abrams Image As is often the case with such things, the subtitle to this eccentric collection – The Secret History Of Science Fiction And Fantasy – is arguably a little

Edge

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We often hear complaints that games don’t reflect the real world. To a point, that’s true, but it’s an attitude that can betray snobbery towards science fiction and fantasy. These genres often address contemporary themes through allegory – for childr

SFX

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As ever, there’s tons more books we couldn’t fit in. Almost-human wolves and a living ship made of bones are among the delights of Laird Hunt’s dark fairytale in THE HOUSE IN THE DARK OF THE WOODS (out now, One). Alison Littlewood’s MISTLETOE (out no

India Today

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by Essa Hansen ORBIT ₹494 (KINDLE); 512 pages The sequel to Nophek Gloss, Azura Ghost is due to be formally published in March 2022, and marks the continuation of one of the most innovative and original contemporary space operas available today. Hans

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics/Young Animal Writer NK Jemisin Artist Jamal Campbell ISSUES 1-3 For a series largely set in the furthest reaches of space, Green Lantern rarely dabbles in the harder side of science fiction – which is what makes

Writing Magazine

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Various authors and publishers are making books and stories freely available to keep readers entertained during the pandemic. Though the magazine closed down last year, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has put all 69 issues of the scien

Writing Magazine

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Tiny Fox Press like to publish ‘engaging stories needing a great home’, usually commercial fiction, SF/fantasy, MG/YA in all genres, military and ‘the bizarre’. Currently open to submissions of novels, over 20,000 words but full length preferred, the

Writing Magazine

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Kopfkino Media is a brand new US ‘boutique publisher specializing in dark genre fiction’. The editors love horror. Their first project is an anthology, Midnight in the Dying Garden: Fairy Tales for the End of the World, a combination project consisti

Writing Magazine

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Win $500 and publication in the biannual Black River Chapbook Competition for unpublished chapbooks, 16-36 pages. Chapbooks may be poems or prose of any kind or combination. Individual pieces within the chapbook may be previously published, but not t

Literary Hub

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In 2019, climate change continues to wreak devastating havoc on the planet. Cyclone Idai—a storm of exceptional power that was intensified by climate change—has to-date left more than 700 people dead in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. And across the

Writing Magazine

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Starry Eyed Press is a new international publisher of science fiction and fantasy for all ages. The editorial team currently seek submissions of science fiction novels, novellas ‘and short reads for all ages’. Check out the website and read their det

Writing Magazine

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Raven Canticle Press is a US speciality press with an editorial team which ‘focuses on limited run and small press horror, fantasy, and science fiction genre fiction’. The press focuses on high-quality fiction and limited run content, and works with

The Advocate

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Isaac Fellman, author of The Two Doctors Górski and, under his pretransition first name, The Breath of the Sun, won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror for the latter. An archivist at a queer historical societ

Literary Hub

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In his poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a prophetic inquiry, one that questioned a society in which Black people continually faced racial injustice, even though the nation’s ideals were supposedly predi

SFX

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RELEASED 9 JUNE Publisher Rebellion Writers Unknown, Alec Worley Artists Blas Gallego, DaNi, Andrea Bulgarelli The original Black Beth story is a real anomaly: a swords and sorcery adventure published 12 years after it was completed, in British horro

Writing Magazine

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Goldsmiths Press, which aims to revive and regenerate the traditions and values of university press publishing through the innovative use of print and digital media, has a new science fiction imprint called Gold SF. It is ‘dedicated to discovering an

SFX

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Leiber’s father (also Fritz) was a successful actor, most notably playing Franz Lizst in Universal’s Phantom Of The Opera (1943). The book was expanded from The Pale Brown Thing, first published in the Jan/Feb 1977 editions of Fantasy And Science Fic

Literary Hub

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Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction, I picture an endlessly rising (and falling) dough that will never become bread. Each “rise” is celebrated but ephemeral, exi

Journal of Alta California

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What is science fiction? The question is trickier than it appears. For all the clichés, the sweeping futuristic sagas, it remains (like all literature) an exploration of inner, as opposed to outer, space. The best, or most resonant, science fiction i

Writing Magazine

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For many of us, 2020 is not a year that we’re going to recall with a great deal of fondness – in fact, I’ll bet that most people will be pretty glad to see this one vanish in the rear-view mirror. But as one year ends another begins, and with that co

Guardian Weekly

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By Alastair Reynolds Reynolds is best known as an author of hard science-based space operas, yet his latest novel begins on board a ship sailing up the coastline of Norway in the early 19th century. The mystery deepens as the same group of people, on

Writing Magazine

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Established in December 2021, Bag of Bones Press aims to ‘champion and publish budding writers of horror and dark fiction who may not have had a traditional or formal education in the literary arts’. Submission calls are open to anyone and everyone T