#BSFA winner

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EXCESSION - Iain M. Banks (1996)

People change. It must have been 2008 when I started reading fiction again, and Iain Banks’ Culture series became among the first things I devoured. Excession was my favorite of the series back then, and I decided it was time to reread it – hopefully to be entertained and awed again, and, at the very least, to take a long, hard look in the mirror of time. For those unfamiliar with Banks & the…

[desdasiwrites]

I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. 

– Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War

[nkjemisin]

Me, scrolling tumblr reading a good strike for screenwriters thread

Also me: HUGO THREE TIME AWARD WINNER AND FAMOUS AUTHOR NK JEMISIN?!?

LOL. Well, yeah. I wrote a script last year (before the strike) for "The Fifth Season" film that Sony/Tristar is currently developing, so I'm now qualified to join the WGA. (Haven't done it yet bc of the strike, but I will when I can.) And even if I weren't qualified, writers are writers, and I'm always gonna show solidarity with my fellow creatives when they're fighting The Man.

(ID: A rainy sidewalk. N. K. Jemisin stands in the foreground holding a picket sign that reads WRITERS GUILD ON STRIKE! Handwritten underneath: Book Writers Stand for WGA. Jemisin is wearing shorts and a black shirt that reads "PENCILS THE F*CK DOWN". In the background are several other people carrying picket signs, text blurry.)

Also. ::cough:: It's, uh. Five Hugos. 😅

(ID: Photo of a glass trophy cabinet. Visible are 5 Hugos, a Nebula, and the top of a BSFA.)

[gollancz]

The 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist has been announced - and Gollancz has two titles!!!

THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE by Aliette de Bodard

Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association award for Best Novel, WINNER of the BSFA award for Best Cover, this sweeping sapphic space opera can now add another award nod to the list. It's a stunning romance between a sentient pirate spaceship and the woman she marries in order to find out who killed her first wife. TorDotCom compared the dynamics to that of classic gothic novels, Tasha Suri said it was "so romantic I may simply perish". Inspired by Vietnamese culture, and the famous Chinese pirate Ching Shih, it's the sort of book that will make you go feral with delight.

PLUTOSHINE by Lucy Kissick

Winner of the inaugural Working Class Writers' Prize, PLUTOSHINE was written while Lucy Kissick completed her PhD, looking at the composition of Martian lakes by recreating them in a lab and extrapolating how they interacted with the atmosphere. This novel takes her knowledge of planetary atmospherics and geology and blends them with a thrilling story about terraforming, colonisation, and the impacts on everyone involved.

We're so so delighted to be the publishers of two of the three women shortlisted for the 2023 prize, and that they represent the diverse voices that Gollancz is striving to champion!

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The winners of this year's BSFA Awards will be announced at Conversation 2023. The BSFA Awards ceremony is free to attend by all members of Eastercon. See you there!

Here are the shortlists, including works by two of our wonderful Guests of Honour - Adrian Tchaikovsky and @tkingfisher Best Artwork

Alyssa Winans, Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard, Gollancz

Manzi Jackson, Cover of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Macmillan

Chris Baker, Cover of Shoreline of Infinity 32, Shoreline of Infinity

Vincent Sammy, Cover of Parsec 4, PS Publishing

Miguel Co, Cover of Song of the Mango and Other New Myths, Ateneo De Manila UP

Jay Johnstone, Cover of The Way the Light Bends, Luna Press Publishing

Best Fiction for Younger Readers

T. Kingfisher, Illuminations, Argyll Productions

Frances Hardinge, Unraveller, MacMillan Children's Books

Kate Dylan, Mindwalker, Hodder and Stoughton

Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns, Hodder and Stoughton

Juno Dawson, Her Majesty's Royal Coven, Harper Voyager

Vanessa Len, Only A Monster, Hodder and Stoughton

Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Margaret K. McElderry Books

Best Short Fiction

Or Luca, ‘Luca’, Luna Press Publishing

Aliette de Bodard, ‘Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances’, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

Rick Danforth, ‘Seller's Remorse’, Hexagon Magazine, Issue 11

Adrian Tchaikovsky, ‘Ogres’, Rebellion

Neil Williiamson, ‘A Moment of Zugzwang’, ParSec #4

Best Novel

Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Last Chances, Head of Zeus

Aliette de Bodard, The Red Scholar's Wake, Gollancz

Adam Roberts, The This, Gollancz

Gareth Powell, Stars and Bones, Titan Books

EJ Swift, The Coral Bones, Unsung Stories

Best Non-Fiction,

Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, Doubleday

Maureen Kincaid Speller, The Critic and the Clue: Tracking Alan Garner's Treacle Walker  http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/the-critic-and-the-clue-tracking-alan-garners-treacle-walker/

Fiona Moore, Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros, Edward Elgar Publishing

Wole Talabi and the ‘ASFS, Preliminary Observations from an Incomplete History of African SFF’ , https://www.sfwa.org/2022/06/01/preliminary-observations-incomplete-history-african-science-fiction-fantasy/

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki , ‘Too Dystopian For Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer's Perspective’, https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/too-dystopian-for-whom-a-continental-nigerian-writers-perspective/

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Audiobook Review: Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell

From the multi BSFA award-winner comes a stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure. A brand-new series for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie.Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and…

[clairesrousseau]

Catching up on sci-fi, fantasy & fandom news from May & June! #booktubeSFF Ways You Can Help: https://ift.tt/3cedgtX BLM: https://ift.tt/2ZUYMwq Bail Funds: https://ift.tt/2U04DNw The Marshall Project: https://ift.tt/2UIWugT The Carl Brandon Society: http://carlbrandon.org/ FIYAH Literary Magazine: https://ift.tt/2BzhdNp Anathema: Spec from the Margins: https://ift.tt/2Noibi6 ColorOfChange: https://ift.tt/2UyuQmH ALL OF THE LINKS Black Creators Speaking Up: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaEPgOUUxik12TyHR3CHZU6BbyTAeCS2p Black Booktubers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz1aECHUN0DR2-8otiw5OzcpVK3W-lcIZ #PublishingPaidMe: https://twitter.com/hashtag/PublishingPaidMe Systemic Bias in Publishing https://ift.tt/2BgZLNk NYT Bestseller List: https://ift.tt/3h5g7ZT Silvia Moreno Garcia: https://twitter.com/eddieschneider/status/1270092255706132486?s=20 Open Letter to the OTW: https://ift.tt/31dwZZ1 OTW Statement on Racism: https://ift.tt/2ZaVtzg BOOKS The Storygraph: https://ift.tt/31aQq4J Wayfarers #4 by Becky Chambers book https://ift.tt/2tvAhWP Simon Snow #3 by Rainbow Rowell https://twitter.com/rainbowrowell/status/1262493662375706632 YA novel by Charlie Jane Anders https://ift.tt/2Z6kN9J New Rebecca Roanhorse book, Tread of Angels https://twitter.com/roanhorsebex/status/1260220494432870405?s=21 New Aliette de Bodard book, Fireheart Tiger https://ift.tt/2XPxrKK Freya Marske Debut, A Marvellous Light https://ift.tt/3ak4oCh Lee Mandelo Debut, Summer Sons https://ift.tt/35dndWF Assassin’s Orbit by John Appel https://ift.tt/2YuYIT0 Nghi Vo When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain Cover Reveal https://ift.tt/2xhTUFS Nghi Vo Two Upcoming Books https://ift.tt/3hu3gAy Cover for The Midnight Bargain by CL Polk https://ift.tt/2KfT6Ew Cover for The Factory Witches of Lowell by CS Malerich https://ift.tt/2TYlWP4 AWARDS Clarke Award Shorlist https://twitter.com/clarkeaward/status/1273567269487087616?s=21 Nommo Awards Longlist https://ift.tt/31exLoE Nebula Award Winners https://ift.tt/2ADey4O BSFA Awards Winners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RO2uB3E-U0 FILM & TV New Star Wars series https://ift.tt/2Kup9Ao New Star Wars film https://ift.tt/3c3PdPg Leverage Reboot https://ift.tt/3bvaSj9 Percy Jackson Adaptation https://twitter.com/rickriordan/status/1261008593077374977?s=21 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Adaptation https://ift.tt/2A54eCE Lockwood & Co, Molly Southbourne and City of Brass Adaptations https://ift.tt/2Tit87Z Elizabeth Bear Covenant Adaptation https://ift.tt/2xzYCiz MCU Movies Delayed https://ift.tt/3aya9w5 FANDOM JKR Goes full on TERF: https://ift.tt/2AJLNDB Why TERFs have no place in Feminism https://ift.tt/2B4kcwv Jackson Bird on JKR Transphobia https://ift.tt/3g0fu2x ConZealand Platform Announcement https://ift.tt/2CwCEPo Virtual SDCC will be free https://ift.tt/3fdyqug Tropes Pins, the AU Pin Set https://ift.tt/30LRzzi MUSIC Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com by Claire Rousseau

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Congratulations to Arthur Clarke Award-Winner @AnneCharnock on her short story ‘All I Asked For’ being shortlisted for Best Short Story in the @BSFA Awards 2020 published as part of @FCC_UK series, “Fictions: Health and Care Reimagined” edited by @KeithBrooke

‘All I Asked For’ can be read here (Art by Vincent Chong)

The BSFA’s full press release announcing the entire shortlist is here

[sfcrowsnest]

British Science Fiction Association award winners 2020 (news). Looks like some fine winners among the latest BSFA awards - including Juliet E McKenna – The Green Man’s Foe (Wizard’s Tower Press); Emma Newman – Atlas Alone (Gollancz); Gareth L Powell – Fleet of Knives (Titan Books); Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin (Tor); Tade Thompson – The Rosewater Insurrection (Orbit).

[goodtobegeeking]

British Science Fiction Association award winners 2020 (news). Looks like some fine winners among the latest BSFA awards - including Juliet E McKenna – The Green Man’s Foe (Wizard’s Tower Press); Emma Newman – Atlas Alone (Gollancz); Gareth L Powell – Fleet of Knives (Titan Books); Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin (Tor); Tade Thompson – The Rosewater Insurrection (Orbit).

[bormgans]

EUROPE IN WINTER - Dave Hutchinson (2016)

EUROPE IN WINTER – Dave Hutchinson (2016)

I read Europe in Autumn in 2016, and Europe at Midnight in 2017. I enjoyed them both a lot – Autumn was even one of my favorite reads that year, back when I read a book each week. But for some reason Europe in Winter has been lying on my TBR for nearly 5 years. I really can’t tell you why: I simply was drawn more to other books each time I needed to pick a new read. The appeal of a review like…

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free eBook] The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson [Award-Winning Horror Fantasy]

The Murders of Molly Southbourne by British author Tade Thompson is the 1st novella in the Molly Southbourne series of horror with science fiction & fantasy elements, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Macmillan's Tor Books.

This is their secondary featured free eBook of the Month Club offer for June (previously a bonus collection was given out to celebrate Pride Month). This won the 2018 NOMMO Award for African Speculative Fiction in the Best Novella category, and was also a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Horror and the British Fantasy Society Award, and is being offered to help promote the upcoming 2nd novella, The Survival of Molly Southbourne, expected in July.

The story stars a teenaged girl who all her life has been struggling to survive every day against murderous identical clones that are automatically created whenever she bleeds, who are intent on destroying her in turn forcing her to try to destroy them, as she begins to question her very existence and whether or not she is actually the original, or yet another clone pitted against her many duplicate selves.

Offered through June 28th until just before midnight Eastern Time, available DRM-free to Canada & US only directly from the publisher.

Free for a limited time directly via @ the publisher's dedicated promo page (DRM-free ePub & Mobi bundle officially available in Canada & US only due to geographic restrictions, requires newsletter signup with valid email address)

You can also follow their upcoming readalong discussions for this book via the dedicated blog tag @ Tor.com and read the original announcement over at their blog.

Description Every time Molly Southbourne bleeds a murderer is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction.

The rule is simple: don’t bleed.

For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she’s been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction.

Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she’ll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks just like her?

Experience the horror of Tade Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southbourne, a finalist for the 2017 BSFA Award, the 2017 Shirley Jackson Award, and winner of the 2018 Nommo Award for Best Novella!

[risingshadownet]

Review: Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell

Gareth L. Powell's Fleet of Knives was published by Titan Books in February 2018. Information about Gareth L. Powell: Gareth is the author of five science-fiction novels and two short story collections. His third novel, Ack-Ack Macaque, book one in the Macaque Trilogy, was the winner of the 2013 BSFA novel award. He lives in Bristol, UK. Find him on Twitter @garethlpowell. Click here to visit his official website. Information about Fleet of Knives: From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series. The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew follow a distress call from the human starship Lucy’s Ghost, whose crew have sought refuge aboard an abandoned generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race. However, the enormous vessel contains deadly secrets of its own. The Marble Armada calls for recovered war criminal Ona Sudak to accompany its ships as it spreads itself across the Human Generality, enforcing the peace with overwhelming and implacable force. Then Sudak’s vessel intercepts messages from the House of Reclamation and decides the Trouble Dog has a capacity for violence which cannot be allowed to endure. As the Trouble Dog and her crew fight to save the crew of the Lucy’s Ghost, the ship finds herself caught between chaotic alien monsters on one side, and on the other, destruction at the hands of the Marble Armada. REVIEW: FLEET OF KNIVES BY GARETH L. POWELL Read More ... https://www.risingshadow.net/articles/reviews/935-review-fleet-of-knives-by-gareth-l-powell

[gollancz]

Gollancz in the 2023 Locus Awards!

Locus magazine announced the finalists for their 2023 awards earlier this week, and we are GIDDY to see some of our books in such distinguished company!

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

The Red Scholar's Wake, Aliette de Bodard

Achingly romantic, beautifully imagined, this space opera with a sapphic love story at the centre involves pirates, sentient space ships, and is heavily influenced by Chinese and Vietnamese culture.

Eversion, Alastair Reynolds

Clever, complex, and twisty, this phenomenal book is cinematic in scope, examining selfhood, agency and identity into an adventure story that wraps around itself to pull you along into something special.

BEST FIRST NOVEL

The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (published by our buddy imprint W&N)

Described as 'David Mitchell meets Arrival', this literary wonder explores the dangers, and necessities, of communicating with a new species - you might not like what they have to say, but can you risk not finding out? (you are also Not Prepared for how neon this bad boy is in real life good lord)

BEST PUBLISHER

Gollancz

We're always excited to be nominated for awards! Particularly now as we ramp up to our 100th anniversary and are putting together big plans over the next few years to celebrate! We love what we do, and love working with readers and authors to do it well.

BEST ARTIST

Charles Vess

Charles is a phenomenal artist, and it's great he's getting this recognition. If you've seen our stunning Ursula K. Le Guin illustrated hardbacks, that's Charles' work.

We're also delighted to see some of our authors nominated in other categories too, including Wole Talabi for Best Novelette ("A Dream of Electric Mothers") and the BSFA award-winning "Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances" by Aliette de Bodard for Best Novel.

Congratulations to everyone who is nominated, can't wait to see the winners!

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All members of Conversation 2023 (online and on site) can vote in the BSFA Awards (follow the link to the voting form). The voting deadline is noon tomorrow and the awards ceremony is at 6pm tomorrow in Queens.

[clairesrousseau]

In this episode of #Genrewise, we've got a lot of exciting book announcements as well as convention news, publishing Drama and maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed... KATE BISHOP?! ALL OF THE LINKS AWARDS BSFA Awards Winners http://bit.ly/2UwEF1k Kitschies Awards Winners http://bit.ly/2Xe2FYW Best Translated Books Longlist http://bit.ly/2G4IEx7 Eisner Nominations http://bit.ly/2IKy7uu BOOKS Tor’s new horror imprint Nightfire http://bit.ly/2KtkIIZ Uncanny staff changes http://bit.ly/2Va27qy Apex hiatus http://bit.ly/2UEQEyI Far Sector by NK Jemisin https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1115965521588097026?s=21 Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by HG Parry https://twitter.com/hg_parry/status/1114626800934477824 Losing Gravity by Kameron Hurley https://twitter.com/kameronhurley/status/1119297662375866368?s=21 Tor.com Novellas http://bit.ly/2FYSfFt http://bit.ly/2KIQTod http://bit.ly/2Gu86ft http://bit.ly/2V3w3DY FANDOM Glasgow 2024 announcement http://bit.ly/2V9ijbu Dublin 2019 Hugo Co-presenters https://twitter.com/Dublin2019/status/1118544899832340480 https://twitter.com/Dublin2019/status/1118545152006610944 FILM/TV Hawkeye series http://bit.ly/2VBRUiO Iain Glen as Bruce Wayne http://bit.ly/2VF7hqv Picard series casting http://bit.ly/2GQxlJi MIB: International Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lJwV7ZIIk IRL Dublin2019 Airbnb update http://bit.ly/2Va2aTg CopyPasteCris lawsuit http://bit.ly/2GOKkuV SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: http://bit.ly/2BEXzvz Ko-Fi: http://bit.ly/2QN9mT7 FIND ME ON Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/clairerousseau Instagram: http://bit.ly/2BELPJy Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2QQ1H6C MUSIC Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com by Claire Rousseau