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Clay Wins 2024 GUFF
Kat Clay has won the 2024 Going Under Fan Fund (GUFF), intended to send one fan from Australasia to Glasgow 2024, the 82nd Worldcon. Ian Nichols was the other nominee. There were 81 votes counted. The fund is currently administered in Europe by Alison Scott and in Australasia by Simon Litten.
For more information, see the GUFF website.
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Niall Harrison Reviews Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang
Jumpnauts, Hao Jingfang (trans. Ken Liu) (Saga 978-1-53442-211-7, 368pp, $18.99). March 2024.
Deep in the bowels of Hao Jingfang’s Jumpnauts, an alien guide reveals to the human protagonists that what defines civilisational progression, from their elevated perspective, is ‘‘the capacity for information exchange.’’ The development of writing, which allows information to be transmitted widely in space and time, was the necessary precondition to reach the ‘‘zeroth rank’’ of ...Read More
Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom 978-1-25076-704-2, $20.99, 224pp, hc) April 2024.
Like Chekhov’s famous gun, it seems to be an unstated principle among writers as diverse as Robert Ludlum and Octavia E. Butler that a character suffering from total amnesia in the first act is in for some world-shaking revelations by the third. The same is true of P. Djèlí Clark’s The Dead Cat Tail ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu
A View from the Stars, Cixin Liu (Tor 978-1250292117, hardcover, 224pp, $27.99) April 2024
Most authors segregate their fiction from their non-fiction, compiling the two classes of work into separate collections. I always recall one exception I read as a teen, a minor Frederik Pohl volume titled Digits & Dastards, which featured two essays along with the stories. And I suppose that Harlan Ellison’s inclusion of long anecdotal ...Read More
Jake Casella Brookins Reviews Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi
The Truth of the Aleke, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom 978-1-2508-4905-2, $24.99, 112pp, hc) March 2023. Cover by Alyssa Winans.
Among the more fascinating things that Moses Ose Utomi seems to be doing with his Forever Desert series is looking at how worldviews change with experience. The protagonist of The Lies of the Ajungo, a young teenage boy, cut through the titular deception with a heroic self-sacrifice. Generations later, ...Read More
Paul Di Filippo Reviews In Universes by Emet North
In Universes, Emet North (Harper 978-0063314870, hardcover, 240pp, $26.99) April 2024
I never would have predicted that the fantastika genre would be graced in 2024 with a novel that resonated so vibrantly with two classics from the 1970s: Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time. And yet that is precisely the vibe that I feel confident in proclaiming emanates from Emet ...Read More
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Liz Bourke Reviews Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas
Cascade Failure, L.M. Sagas (Tor 978-1-25087-125-1, $17.99, 416pp, tp) March 2024.
Clearly this is the month for me to discuss debut novels. Cascade Failure is the first novel from L.M. Sagas: a science fiction adventure in the high-octane tradition. Stories set in futures ruled by soulless corporations have multiplied in recent years, perhaps as the naked greed of unfettered capitalism has grown more blatant since the decade-defining financial crash ...Read More
Kaguya Sci-Fi Contest Winners
Japanese science fiction website VirtualGorillaPlus (VG+) has announced the winners of its 2021 Kaguya Sci-Fi Contest, judged by Kanata Inoue, Tatsuya Isogami, Hakka Kishitani, and Mahiro Saeki.
- Grand Prize: “Magic Ball”, The Carrier of Violence and Ruin
- Readers’ Prize: “The Multiverse Scavenger Hunt race, which was held in the afternoon of the Jonan Elementary School Sports Day”, Dainei Makino
- Judge’s Special Prize: “Screams”, Noe Itokawa
Winners were chosen from 381 ...Read More
2024 Aurora Awards Ballot
The 2024 Aurora Awards ballot for works by Canadians has been announced. The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. The top five nominated works were selected, with additional works included when there was a tie for fifth place.
Best Novel
- The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield (HarperVoyager)
- Bad Cree, Jessica Johns (HarperCollins Canada)
- Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Moon of
Jake Casella Brookins Reviews The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey 978-1-9848-2070-9, $28.99, 432pp, hc) February 2023.
Robert Jackson Bennett’s previous fantasy works – The Divine Cities and Founders trilogies – were immensely and somewhat unexpectedly delightful for me. I don’t often seek out fantasy series anymore. So, when I encounter an author who writes the kind of fun, propulsive work that kept my teenage self scouring the shelves for the next ...Read More
Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Fiyah, Flash Fiction Online, GigaNotoSaurus, and Diabolical Plots
Fiyah 1/24 Flash Fiction Online 1/24 GigaNotoSaurus 1/24 Diabolical Plots 1/24
The first Fiyah of 2024 is unthemed, but as guest editor Nelson Rolon describes, that doesn’t mean certain motifs and elements didn’t end up running through most or all of the pieces – most engaged with death and what comes after. In N. Romaine White’s “D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion)”, a group of vampires meet to ...Read More