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Novel The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK) Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan) Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing) Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)   Novella Fire Ant, Jonathan P. Brazee (Semper Fi) The […]

▪ Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton) ▪ Emergence, C.J. Cherryh (DAW) ▪ Chercher La Femme, L. Timmel Duchamp (Aqueduct) ▪ Europe at Dawn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris UK) ▪ Shelter, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris US; Solaris UK) ▪ Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel (Saga) ▪ The Calculating Stars, Mary […]

Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK) Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga) Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton) Pride and Prometheus, John Kessel (Saga) The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor) Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK) […]

“Dreadful Young Ladies”, Kelly Barnhill (Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories) “Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows) The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing) “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again”, Zen Cho (B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, 11/31/18) “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, P […]

The 2019 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced: Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing) The Body Library, Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) 84k, Claire North (Orbit) Alien Virus Love Disaster, Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer) Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman (Europa) Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, Vandana Singh (Small Beer)

Vengeful, V.E. Schwab Iron Gold, Pierce Brown Vox, Christina Dalcher Only Human, Sylvain Neuvel Red Clocks, Leni Zumas The Night Masquerade, Nnedi Okorafor Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey Artificial Condition, Martha Wells The Oracle Year, Charles Soule Head On, John Scalzi Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers Star Wars Thrawn: Alliances, Timothy Zahn Severance, […]

I searched on several other sites and tried to consolidate all the suggestions I could find for works first published in 1942, either personal recommendations or annotations from multiple anthologies.  Probably a better shot at picking the nominees here than in the regular Hugos. Novel: After an Age, by Eando Binder (Amazing Stories, Nov) The […]

These aren’t necessarily the best books of the year, and I’m skewed towards SF anyway, but I would consider these the ones by better known authors with a lot of advance interest that mostly lived up to their expectations and that I would want to read anyway: Provenance, by Ann Leckie Raven Stratagem, by Yoon […]

Here’s the table of contents for the next best-of anthology from Jonathan Strahan, due in April.  I added more details on the locations and tried to categorize between novelettes and short stories but on a few there wasn’t enough info so they just went to short story by default.  So far there isn’t any confirmation […]

Since this book doesn’t come out until July, plenty of time to find most of these in their original publications.  I’ve attempted to categorize by length but a few of them don’t have enough info online to make that determination so I just guessed. Novella The Martian Job, Jaine Fenn (NewCon Press) The Proving Ground, […]