#Jim Baen

[famousdeaths]

Jim Baen was an American writer and educator, best known as founder of Scouting magazine Boys' Life, which served as a platform to promote values like character development, teamwork, and community service.

Link: Jim Baen

[thetorturedmusesdept]

Plotting Call - Valentines Masquerade

Below the cut is a plotting call/starter call for the Valentines Masquerade Ball, as well as my muses outfits/dates/vibes for the night! Since all my threads are so new I won't be dropping any, so for this event I'll be capping at 3 starters per character for now! Please reply to this post with who you'd like as a pair for a thread, or message me on discord! Thank you :)

Megara

Megara's outfit Blind Date: Zash Baen (Alexis' muse.) Megara was convinced to sign up for a blind date by... someone. She is not thrilled to be on a date, and may do a bit of complaining throughout the night. And lots of drinking. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 3/3 (Zash/mischiefxmuses, Sha Hualing/mvsicinthedvrk, Junwoong/devilsmenu)

Jim Hawkins

Jim's outfit Blind Date: Penelope Featherington (Dee's muse.) Jim signed up for a blind date mostly to appease his mother. But, since he is a gentleman and was raised to treat women right, he will be arriving with a corsage for her and will try to give her a great night. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 2/3 (B.E.N/youllalwaysbemyporcelain, Lidia/rcvcrics)

Lilo Pelekai

Lilo's outfit Blind Date: Dani Dennison (Aria's muse.) Lilo has mixed feelings about Valentine's Day in general as well as having a blind date. On one hand, she's excited to actually technically have a date for Valentines. On the other, she is very very nervous about making a good impression. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 3/3 (Stitch/youllalwaysbemyporcelain, Xie Lian/mvsicinthedvrk, Dani/grcycosmcs)

Minako Aino

Minako's outfit Blind Date: Akhiro/Daken (Maria's muse.) Minako is so excited to have a blind date! She's a little nervous since romance never seems to work out for her, but she's going to try to make the best impression and have a good time! Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 1/3 (Usagi/drvcxrys)

Elizabeth Comstock

Elizabeth's outfit Blind Date: Cho Chang (Atlas' muse.) Elizabeth has never been on a date before so she is understandably nervous, but also excited! She hopes that no matter what they will have a fun time. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 1/3 (Jester/circleofstarrs)

Louise Belcher

Louise's outfit Blind Date: Max Baker (B's muse.) Louise mainly signed up for a blind date as a joke. She doesn't see it as a real date so much as someone she can rope into doing some mischief with. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaosStarters: 2/3 (Wei Wuxian/mvsicinthedvrk, Urumi/devilsmenu)

Phoebe Buffay

Phoebe's outfit Date: None Phoebe will be going solo, just looking to have fun and maybe meet some new people! She's excited to dance and chit chat with people all night. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 3/3 (Rachel/youllalwaysbemyporcelain, Tohru/drvcxrys, Monica/nightwhispcrs)

Shaggy Rogers

Shaggy's outfit Blind Date: Lumine (Kasey's muse) Shaggy is really mostly there for the food. But he can be persuaded to hit the dance floor after a drink or two. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 1/3 (Cindy Moon/wndrstruck)

Vanessa Shelly

Vanessa's outfit Blind Date: Bash De Poitiers (Sammy's muse) Vanessa is attending so that she can meet people and get to know them, maybe make some friends. She's going to be a little on alert because of her job as an officer never truly leaving her mind. But she'll mostly be trying to enjoy herself. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 1/3 (Charlotte/mischiefxmuses)

Alice Kingsleigh

Alice's outfit Blind Date: Berlioz O'Malley (Ellie's muse) Alice, ever curious, is of course attending with excitement. She wants to dance and meet new people and have a magical night. She's excited to have a date as well! Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 1/3 (Ellie/circleofstarrs)

Mary Jane Watson

Mary Jane's outfit Blind Date: Ethan Mckinnon (Moon's muse) Mary Jane is attending in order to get her mind off of the whole "Peter Parker is here in DC but it's not her Peter Parker" thing. She also signed up for a blind date mainly to hopefully make a friend here. She will most likely be trying not to watch Peter with his MJ and will be looking for distractions. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 3/3 (Peter/wvsteria, Felicia/devilsmenu, Charlie Dalton/nightwhispcrs)

Alcina Dimitrescu

Alcina's outfit Date: None Alcina is going so that she can asses DC and it's inhabitants, mainly. Also to keep an eye on her daughters. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaosStarters: 3/3 (Cass/wvsteria, Alastor/mischiefxmuses, Daniela/mcrcki)

Jennifer Check

Jennifer's outfit Date: None Jennifer is going so that she can maybe possibly find a yummy boy to eat. But also she just wants to have fun. Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaosStarters: 2/3 (Needy/wvsteria, Victoria/mrcki)

Abigail

Abigail's outfit Date: None Abigail is attending for a good time tbh! She loves herself a town celebration and a masquerade definitely sounds like fun! Possible Plots: drinking || dancing || general chatting || exploring the museum || people watching || snacking in the corner || flirting || looking for an out || chaos Starters: 0/3

[thehorrortree]

Deadline: April 30th, 2024 Prizes: The GRAND PRIZE winner will be published as the featured story on the Baen Books main website and paid at industry-standard rates for professional story submittals. The author will also receive a handsome engraved award and a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. SECOND place winner will receive a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. THIRD place winner will receive a prize package containing $300 of free Baen Books. Theme: Any form of fantasy Baen Books is excited to announce the eleventh annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award. The award recognizes the best original adventure fantasy short story in the style of fantasy greats like Mercedes Lackey, Larry Correia, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Elizabeth Moon, Andre Norton, Brandon Sanderson, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Weber. Contest Rules Write and submit a short story of no more than 8,000 words. It must be a work of fantasy, though all fantasy genres are open, e.g. epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, contemporary fantasy, etc. No entry fee. But only one submission per person...we suggest your best one! No reprints (i.e. the story must be unpublished). All entries must be original unpublished works in English. Plagiarism, poetry, song lyrics, settings and/or characters from published gaming worlds or another author’s works of fiction will not be considered. Any AI-generated stories will be automatically disqualified. E-mail submissions only. Send entries as .RTF attachments to: baenfantasyaward@baen.com Please put BFAA SUBMISSION in the subject line when sending a contest entry and BFAA QUESTION in the subject line for questions to the contest administrator. Please include the following in the body of your email: the title of the work the author's name, address, and telephone number an approximate word-count The manuscript should be a RTF attachment, in standard manuscript format, and should be titled and numbered on every page, but the author's name MUST BE DELETED to facilitate fair judging. Click here for our standard manuscript format guidelines. Employees of Baen Books and Staff of Dragon Con are not eligible. Previous Grand Prize winners are not eligible (previous second and third place winners are eligible). Contest opens for submissions on January 15th, 2024 at 12:01am EST. (Entries sent before that date will be deleted unread.) Contest closes for submissions April 30th, 2024 at 11:59pm EDT. What We Want to See Adventure fantasy with heroes you want to root for. Warriors either modern or medieval, who solve problems with their wits or with their weapons—and we have nothing against dragons, elves, dwarves, castles under siege, urban fantasy, damsels in distress, or damsels who inflict distress. What We Don’t Want to See Political drama with no action, angst-ridden teens pining over vampire lovers, religious allegory, novel segments, your gaming adventure transcript, anything set in any universe not your own, "it was all a dream" endings, or screenplays. Judges Entries will be judged by Baen editorial staff. Prizes The GRAND PRIZE winner will be published as the featured story on the Baen Books main website and paid at industry-standard rates for professional story submittals. The author will also receive a handsome engraved award and a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. SECOND place winner will receive a prize package containing $500 of free Baen Books. THIRD place winner will receive a prize package containing $300 of free Baen Books. Finalists will be announced no later than July 1st, 2024 Winners will be notified no later than July 21st, 2024. (Only the winners will be notified.) The winners will be officially announced during the Baen Traveling Roadshow at Dragon Con, in Atlanta, Georgia. (We would prefer the winners attend the convention, but it is not required.) Submission Checklist All identifying information (author's name, address, email) has been removed from the manuscript and manuscript file name.

Manuscript is an .RTF file and in standard manuscript format with title and page number on every page. Guidelines for manuscript formatting can be found here. Author’s name, address, email, and phone number are included in the body of the email. Please note all times for submission deadlines are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)! Via: Baen.

[jamesdavisnicoll]

Adventures in Impractical SF: Five Stories Featuring Space Travel Using Constant Acceleration

No, _you're_ the person compelled to find excuses to reference Bussard Ramjets and other dubious examples of stupendous propulsion.

[grison-in-space]

Replies are shut off on your 1632 post but I thought I'd toss this out there for you anyway: baencd

It has the first 9 books in the 1632 verse = the first 5 Grantville Gazettes and a whole bunch of Eric Flint's other works as well.

ah--yes, I didn't link that in part because I thought it was still displaying the Vorkosigan books after Lois McMaster Bujold requested that folks not. (She has since withdrawn her books from the scheme, and I know Baen has dialed back on the free ebooks thing substantially in the past, oh, ten years or so especially since Jim Baen died.)

It is not, though, and I don't know of any of the remaining authors listed or their estates complaining or requesting removal.

(I also recommend the Vorkosigan books highly, fwiw; I just recommend folks either buy 'em or get them from the library.)

[rithebard]

Tomorrow at 7pm pt;  #ChattingWithSherri welcomes back #awardwinningwriter; #ElaineMidcoh; http://tobtr.com/12308149 #interview #wotf 

[sistahscifi]

For us, every story in Africa Risen was magical. In A Dream Of Electric Mothers by Wole Talabi, a woman consults a supercomputer containing the memories of her countryfolk to determine whether to go to war. Our protagonist also finds that the political is often personal as they mediate on the advise of the super computer.

WOLE TALABI is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s, @Lightspeed, F&SF and several other places. He has edited three anthologies: Africanfuturism (2020, nominated for the Locus Award), Lights Out: Resurrection (2016) and These Words Expose Us (2014). He has been a finalist for several awards including the prestigious Caine Prize, the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Nommo Award which he won in 2018 and 2020. His collection Incomplete Solutions (2019), is published by Luna Press. He likes scuba diving, elegant equations and oddly shaped things.

We have copies of Africa Risen signed by @ShereeReneeThomas, @PenPrice, and @AuthorZKnight. Link in bio: @sistahscifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/signed-africa-risen-a-new-era-of-speculative-fiction. Better yet, check it out from your local #library!!

Reposted @sfwa_inc

CELEBRATING WRITING EXCELLENCE at #NEBULAS2023: This tweet celebrates Wole Talabi, whose A Dream Of Electric Mothers is a finalist in the Novelette category. The novelette was published in the Africa Risen anthology. Congrats, Wole!

#WoleTalabi #ShereeReneeThomas #AfricaRisen #SistahScifi #Africanfuturism

@Tordotcom

[the25centpaperback]

Destinies Spring 1980, edited by Jim Baen, cover by Vincent Di Fate (1980)

The back cover of this edition of the Destinies series of paperback SF anthologies handily reprints Vincent Di Fate's front cover painting minus the text.

[jamesmurualiterary]

Wole Talabi is Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award 2022 finalist

Wole Talabi is Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award 2022 finalist

Wole Talabi is a finalist of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award 2022 announced on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. The Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, organised by Baen Books in partnership with the National Space Society, was first launched in 2007. It has been awarded to realistic hard science fiction about what can be achieved in space exploration in the next few decades, ranging from the…

[70sscifiart]

I’m not sure I understand how the space helmet reflection works in David Cherry’s 1988 cover to Jim Baen’s ‘New Destinies, Volume VI’. How is a black hole both in the background and the reflection? Are there two?

[kellylor]

Ok, I knew a thread on recommendations for fans of the Vorkosigan series was always going to be slightly disappointing. Lots of suggestions along the lines of “if what you like about the series is x, here are some other books like that” where x ends up being 5 or 6 different interesting things these books do. But what I want is more books that do most of those things, not one at a time! The combination is what makes them so special and good and of course, also unmatched. 

But what I did not expect was fuckin recommendations for Piers Anthony and Larry Niven. I assumed “thoughtful treatment of women as actual humans” was a baseline expectation for readers of Lois McMaster Bujold, but then I remember Jim Baen liked her books enough to publish them, and that they sold well enough to the typical Baen reader that he kept publishing her, and I guess..clueless sexist jerkbags just slide over the feminism? I can see how there’s usually enough going on plot-wise to distract you. Maybe they skip the parts where Cordelia talks the way I skim space battles. 

I did, at least, feel extremely validated when LMB herself showed up to recommend The Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, perhaps the only series other than the Vorkosigan books to bring me as much pleasure on repeated rereadings for as long. There are some definite parallels I can see, on at least a couple of dimensions, if not all of them. The problem of course is I’ve already read them all. 

Anyway I did see several recommendations for books by Dorothy Dunnett from people who did not also recommend crap, so, I guess I should get on those.  

[bookcoverbasics]

A Few Words from Baen Books

Baen Books is one of the nation’s largest and most important publishers of science fiction. It was founded in 1983 by Jim Baen. Since 2006 the publisher and editor-in-chief has been Toni Weisskopf. As Jim Baen had done before her, Toni also acts as the company’s art director. She presents here her thoughts about the importance of a book’s cover as well as some excellent advice for aspiring artists. Now over to you, Toni---

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Cover design is a beautiful marriage of yin and yang---you want the design to be interesting and aesthetically pleasing, but you also know that the cover is the primary sell piece for the book, so commercial considerations must be taken into account: which is to say the typography must be legible. :) At Baen we believe wholeheartedly that the cover art sets the tone and mood for the book, and thus illustration is important to what we do and to our brand recognition, and why we invest the money in commissioned covers. We love the playful interaction between artist and writer and reader, and think that it helps make our unique genre what it is. The whole point of commissioning an artist is to get their interpretation as well as the original text---so too much interference with an illustrator can often result in derailing that very independence of vision you want. I call Baen's cover genre "romantic realism." The early 20th century illustrators would be at home with Baen. As it is, the early 21st century illustrators are doing simply amazing work for us, and I think their art will live for the ages. We don't have a lot of turnover in our stable of artists, but we are always looking for new visions. There's an artdirector@baen.com address for portfolios, and I'm always happy to talk to artists at conventions (whenever we get conventions back).  I am brutally focused on full-color illustration, though, so while I personally appreciate a wide range of art, when I'm wearing my professional art director beret, full-color illustration all I'm interested in, and then only the kind of art that would work as a Baen cover.

[jamesdavisnicoll]

Destinies Aug – Sept ​’79 (Destinies, volume 4) edited by Jim Baen

In which I am nostalgic about an old magazine and the store from which i bought it.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

We get it, he’s gay.

You know how the Hardy Boys books had to reintroduce Frank (smart one) and Joe (impulsive one) at the start of every book, just in case you’re a new reader?

I’ve been rereading the Raj Whitehall series, and it’s funny how I now notice there’s some reference to one particular character being openly (mostly) gay in literally every scene he appears in*.

Please note that even his boyfriend, who is ALSO a main cast member, doesn’t have it emphasized to that degree. Or for that matter, their girlfriend.

Come to think, the interracial polyamorous relationship** is the most prominent relationship besides that of Raj himself and his wife. And he looks the other way as she uses her body to manipulate other men, to her husband’s benefit.

I might not even have noticed if I didn’t read Drake’s intro to The Reaches and infer that he might be left-leaning.

Uh oh. This isn’t one of those ‘the co-author is being horny on page” things, is it? Because you don’t really see this kinda stuff in Drake’s other books I’ve read. There’s some diversity, but not Diversity™.

Not the first time I’ve read a Baen book and wondered if I should give the writer and his typewriter a little privacy.

* Or it feels like it.

** I am not making that up. In general, this is a very diverse series, for all that the tech level is based on, idk, the 19th century?

The dude is married, by the way, and his wife doesn’t really mind him catting around. The girlfriend is his acknowledged mistress, and he claimed her kid as his heir, even though he doesn’t know if it’s his.

PS: There’s a very minor character who’s a lesbian. In the current book I’m reading, The Anvil, she appears on screen for literally one scene, and awkwardly alludes to the fact that she’s not into men, a fact established in a previous book.

What’s strange is that there was a better opening in that scene, since the target she’s being sent to make contact with is a lady. Just go ‘not my type’. Or ‘just my type. If I wasn’t married.’ Or ‘just my type, before I settled down.’

Or heck, don’t bring it up at all. You don’t have to explain all the character details about a character every time they appear, >Jim Butcher’s advice notwithstanding<. The Hardy Boys Casefiles books didn’t always allude to the fact that Joe lost his girlfriend in a car bomb.

[rithebard]

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018

Locus Magazine has published its annual Locus Award finalists, a shortlist of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past calendar year. I rely on this list to find the books I've overlooked (so. many. books.). This year's looks like a bumper crop.

Now that the finalists have been announced, Locus subscribers and others can cast their votes; the awards will be presented in Seattle during a weekend-long event that runs June 28-30, MC'ed by Connie Willis.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)

Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)

Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)

Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

FANTASY NOVEL

Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)

Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)

Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)

Ahab’s Return, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)

The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)

The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)

Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)

Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

HORROR NOVEL

In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)

Unlanguage, Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)

We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)

Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)

The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)

The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)

Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)

The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)

Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)

The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)

The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)

Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)

Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)

The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)

Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)

Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)

Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)

FIRST NOVEL

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)

Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)

Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)

The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Annex, Rich Larson (Orbit US)

Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)

Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

NOVELLA

The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)

The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)

“Umbernight“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 2/18)

Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)

Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)

The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon)

Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“The Donner Party”, Dale Bailey (F&SF 1–2/18)

“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)

“No Flight Without the Shatter“, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)

The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)

“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections“, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)

“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)

“Queen Lily“, Theodora Goss (Lightspeed 11/18)

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth“, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com 9/19/18)

“Quality Time”, Ken Liu (Robots vs Fairies)

“How to Swallow the Moon“, Isabel Yap (Uncanny 11–12/18)

SHORT STORY

“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington“, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)

“The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs Fairies)

“STET“, Sarah Gailey (Fireside 10/18)

“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)

“Cuisine des Mémoires”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“Firelight“, Ursula K. Le Guin (Paris Review Summer ’18)

“The Starship and the Temple Cat“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)

“Mother of Invention“, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)

“The Court Magician“, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)

ANTHOLOGY

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)

The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)

Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

The Underwater Ballroom Society, Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis, eds. (Five Fathoms)

The Future Is Female!, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)

COLLECTION

The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)

Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)

An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)

How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)

Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)

The Future Is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Starlings, Jo Walton (Tachyon)

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

MAGAZINE

Analog

Asimov’s

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Clarkesworld

F&SF

Fireside

Lightspeed

Strange Horizons

Tor.com

Uncanny

PUBLISHER

Angry Robot

Baen

DAW

Gollancz

Orbit

Saga

Small Beer

Subterranean

Tachyon

Tor

EDITOR

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Ellen Datlow

Gardner Dozois

C.C. Finlay

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Sheila Williams

Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

Galen Dara

Julie Dillon

Leo & Diane Dillon

Bob Eggleton

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

Charles Vess

Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)

Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017), Gardner Dozois (ReAnimus)

Strange Stars, Jason Heller (Melville House)

Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon (Tin House)

Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility, Alexis Lothian (NYU Press)

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (Bodleian Library)

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)

None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin J. Robertson (University of Minnesota Press)

An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)

ART BOOK

Yoshitaka Amano, Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy, Florent Gorges (Les Éditions Pix’n Love 2015; Dark Horse)

Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)

John Howe, A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins UK)

Jeffrey Alan Love, The Thousand Demon Tree (Flesk)

Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State (Fria Ligan ’17; Skybound)

Shaun Tan, Cicada (Lothian; Levine ’19)

Charles Vess, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)

Michael Whelan, Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan (Baby Tattoo)

Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, & Sam Witwer (Ten Speed)

Lisbeth Zwerger, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (Levine)

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