Author Archives: mataglap

The list of eligible novellas for 2016 is necessarily short, and filtering through the various recommendations it’s hard to find consensus at any level.  The Nebulas picked 5 of their 6 nominees from tor.com, which means they were only available in book form, and the sixth was from F&SF.  Locus agreed with 4 of the […]

“Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan” by Maggie Clark, Analog “All that Robot Shit” by Rich Larson, Asimov’s “Project Empathy” by Dominica Phetteplace, Asimov’s “Lazy Dog Out” by Suzanne Palmer, Asimov’s “The Visitor from Taured” by Ian R. MacLeod, Asimov’s “Openness” by Alexander Weinstein, Beloit Fiction Journal “In Skander, for a Boy” […]

Novel All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan) Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga) The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor) Novella Runtime, S.B. Divya (Tor.com Publishing) The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing) The Ballad […]

Jonathan Strahan has announced the table of contents for his The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 11. Here is the table of contents for this year: “Two’s Company”, Joe Abercrombie (Sharp Ends) “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan (Tor.com) “Seasons of Glass and Iron”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit wood) “Mika […]

Gardner Dozois has posted the Table of Contents for his latest year’s best collection. THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL COLLECTION, Edited by GARDNER DOZOIS TERMINAL, Lavie Tidhar TOURING WITH THE ALIEN, Carolyn Ives Gilman PATIENCE LAKE, Matthew Claxton JONAS AND THE FOX, Rich Larson PRODIGAL, Gord Sellar KIT: Some Assembly Required, Kathe Koja […]

Another good list for 2015 SF novels: Finalists for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award: •The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit/Knopf) •Europe at Midnight, Dave Hutchinson (Rebellion) •Radiomen, Eleanor Lerman (The Permanent) •Luna: New Moon, Ian McDonald (Gollancz/Tor) •Galapagos Regained, James Morrow (St. Martin’s) •Going Dark, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island/Saga) •The Book of Phoenix, […]

Since the finalists for Retro-Hugo are less depressing, let’s spend a little time delving into them: The best place to see where these works have been published is on ISFDB. I confess to having never heard of Kallocain, but my knowledge of Swedish dystopian novels of the 1940’s is minimal.  Wondering if it will be […]

For those who sit around thinking, “What if they gave out Hugos for work published in 1940?” here’s what a modest group of voters came up with for nominations.  More info at http://midamericon2.org/home/hugo-awards-and-wsfs/1941-retro-hugo-finalists/ BEST NOVEL Gray Lensman by E.E. “Doc” Smith (Astounding Science‐Fiction, Jan 1940) The Ill‐Made Knight by T.H. White (Collins) Kallocain by Karin […]

BEST NOVEL Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Orbit) The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher (Roc) The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow) Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Del Rey) BEST NOVELLA Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com) The Builders by Daniel Polansky (Tor.com) Penric’s Demon by […]

This looks like a pretty good subset of the best short fiction of 2015, chosen by the award committee.  Winners will be announced at Worldcon: “And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead”, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15) “The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 10/15) “The New Mother”, Eugene Fischer (Asimov’s […]