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Magical stories unfurl with marvelous subtlety in Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS

In a STARRED review, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY praises Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS.

Magical stories unfurl with marvelous subtlety in this delightful collection from Klages.

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Queer characters appear often, warmly included without any fuss. The emotional impact of the stories is carefully managed in a way that’s meant to sweep readers up, not knock them down. The tie that binds these works together is humanity, lovingly and quietly explored no matter the genre. 

BIBLIOPHIBIAN INC. enjoys the collection.

I was really interested to read more of Klages’ work after reading PASSING STRANGE. I think I’ve read one or two short stories before — one of the stories in here was definitely familiar — but I hadn’t consciously connected the author to them, if that makes any sense. Klages is a careful writer, as her afterword shows: she moves the words around until they’re just right, pays attention to pace and rhythm and all of that. It works: her stories are all readable and all seem to fit perfectly within the form.

It’s a good collection of stories, and I also enjoy the fact that there’s a section included on where each story came from and giving more details. There were one or two bits I hadn’t noticed about the stories, which is always fun to learn.

If you enjoy short stories, this is definitely a good collection; if you enjoy Ellen Klages’ work, doubtless you know what you’re in for. Either way, PASSING STRANGE is also worth a look…

Rating: 4/5

Photo: Scott R. Kline

Bridget McKinney at SF BLUESTOCKING is excited about the book.

After about a week-long reading slump (mostly due to getting stuck on a title I didn’t like but that had a concept too good for me to quit it right away), I just started an ARC of WICKED WONDERS by Ellen Klages (out May 2 from Tachyon Publications). I’ve only read the first story, but I’m already really excited about the rest. 

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

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WOMEN SWEEP THE HUGOS, I LOVE IT

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/11/16127310/2017-hugo-awards-n-k-jemisin-science-fiction-fantasy-books

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WHAT COULD I POSSIBLY TYPE HERE??

From The Verge:  Women swept nearly every category at the 2017 Hugo Awards

by Andrew Liptak @AndrewLiptak  Aug 11, 2017, 3:31pm EDT

Here’s the full list of nominees and winners (in bold) for 2017’s Hugo Awards:

BEST NOVEL

The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Death’s End by Cixin Liu

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

BEST NOVELLA

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

This Census-Taker by China Miéville

BEST NOVELETTE

The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon

Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock

The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan

The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde

Touring with the Alien by Carolyn Ives Gilman

You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong

BEST SHORT STORY

Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press)

The City Born Great by N. K. Jemisin

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong

Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander

That Game We Played During the War by Carrie Vaughn

An Unimaginable Light by John C. Wright

BEST RELATED WORK

Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

“The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda

Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze

Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa

Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher

Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks

The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONGFORM

Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve

Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller

Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig

Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi

Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards

Stranger Things, season 1, created by the Duffer Brothers

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORTFORM

The Expanse: ���Leviathan Wakes,” written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough

Black Mirror: “San Junipero,” written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris

Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio,” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette

Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik

Game of Thrones: “The Door,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender

Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping

BEST EDITOR – SHORTFORM

Ellen Datlow

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Sheila Williams

BEST EDITOR – LONGFORM

Liz Gorinsky

Vox Day

Sheila E. Gilbert

Devi Pillai

Miriam Weinberg

Navah Wolfe

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

Julie Dillon

Galen Dara

Chris McGrath

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Sana Takeda

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews

Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander

GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith

Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff

The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James

BEST FANZINE

“Lady Business,” edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan

“Castalia House Blog,” edited by Jeffro Johnson

“Journey Planet,” edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood

“nerds of a feather, flock together,” edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry

“Rocket Stack Rank,” edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong

“SF Bluestocking,” edited by Bridget McKinney

BEST FANCAST

Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan

Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams

Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch

The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist

BEST FAN WRITER

Abigail Nussbaum

Mike Glyer

Jeffro Johnson

Natalie Luhrs

Foz Meadows

Chuck Tingle

BEST FAN ARTIST

Elizabeth Leggett

Ninni Aalto

Vesa Lehtimäki

Likhain (M. Sereno)

Spring Schoenhuth

Steve Stiles

BEST SERIES

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey

The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire

The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER

Ada Palmer

Sarah Gailey

J. Mulrooney

Malka Older

Laurie Penny

Kelly Robson

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The Hugo finalists are out, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology you can check out many of them for free and from the comfort of this very web browser. Here are links to the novelette, short story, publications, and other Hugo finalists that are available online. 

Best Novelette 

The Art of Space Travel, by Nina Allan

The Tomato Thief, by Ursula Vernon 

Touring With the Alien, by Carolyn Ives Gilman 

You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay, by Alyssa Wong 

Best Short Story 

The City Born Great, by N.K. Jemisin 

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, by Alyssa Wong

Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies, by  Brooke Bolander 

That Game We Played During the War, by Carrie Vaughn 

Related Content

The Women of Harry Potter series, by Sarah Gailey 

Best Semiprozine 

Beneath Ceaseless Skies 

GigaNotaSauraus

Strange Horizons 

Uncanny Magazine 

The Book Smugglers 

Best Fanzine 

Castalia House Blog

Journey Planet

Lady Business 

Nerds of a feather, flock together

Rocket Stack Rank

SF Bluestocking

The Coode Street Podcast

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2017 Hugo Award finalist announced

Best Novel

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders check the library : https://goo.gl/HJ3YKu

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers check the library : https://goo.gl/oVCEIP

Death’s End by Cixin Liu  download the ebook : https://goo.gl/3YDwKM

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee  check the library : https://goo.gl/p5eooA

The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin  check the library : https://goo.gl/TvFNpU

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer 

Best Novella 

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson 

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire  check the library : https://goo.gl/H4SIYd

Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold 

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

This Census-Taker by China Miéville  check the library : https://goo.gl/zqmWk6 | Download the ebook : https://goo.gl/9FCm9X

Best Novelette

Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock

“The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan 

“The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde

“The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon 

“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman

“You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong

Best Short Story

“The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin

“A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong 

“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander 

“Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar 

“That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn 

“An Unimaginable Light” by John C. Wright

Best Related Work

The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher check the library : https://goo.gl/yf29oF

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 

The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman check the library : https://goo.gl/c51s8q

“The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gaile available online : http://www.tor.com/tag/women-of-harry-potter/

Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

Best Graphic Story

Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze 

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda  check the library : https://goo.gl/CIUaFP

Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa  check the library : https://goo.gl/uBYW7Q

Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher check the library : https://goo.gl/Yzw5YD

Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks  check the library : https://goo.gl/05n1hk

The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta  check the library : https://goo.gl/xDTSNm

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form 

Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve

Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller 

Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig 

Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi 

Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards 

Stranger Things, Season One, created by the Duffer Brothers

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form

Black Mirror: “San Junipero”, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris 

Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette

The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough

Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik

Game of Thrones: “The Door”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender

Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping 

Best Editor – Short Form

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Ellen Datlow

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Sheila Williams

Best Editor – Long Form

Vox Day

Sheila E. Gilbert

Liz Gorinsky

Devi Pillai

Miriam Weinberg

Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist

Galen Dara

Julie Dillon

Chris McGrath

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Sana Takeda

Best Semiprozine

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews

Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander

GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith

Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff

Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky

The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James

Best Fanzine

“Castalia House Blog”, edited by Jeffro Johnson

“Journey Planet”, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood

“Lady Business”, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan

“nerds of a feather, flock together”, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry

“Rocket Stack Rank”, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong

“SF Bluestocking”, edited by Bridget McKinney

Best Fancast 

The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan

Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace

Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams

Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch

The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist

Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

Best Fan Writer

Mike Glyer

Jeffro Johnson

Natalie Luhrs

Foz Meadows

Abigail Nussbaum

Chuck Tingle

Best Fan Artist 

Ninni Aalto

Alex Garner

Vesa Lehtimäki

Likhain (M. Sereno)

Spring Schoenhuth

Mansik Yang

Best Series 

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone 

The Expanse by James S.A. Corey  check the library : https://goo.gl/BPqw2h

The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire check the library : https://goo.gl/pRAJ0l

The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch  check the library : https://goo.gl/GIdO7V

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik  check the library : https://goo.gl/c1cOrM | Download the ebooks : https://goo.gl/eN4Zar

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold  check the library : https://goo.gl/sHAx1C

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

Sarah Gailey

J. Mulrooney 

Malka Older (check the library : https://goo.gl/rCgf0x)

Ada Palmer 

Laurie Penny (check the library : https://goo.gl/wx7yfm)

Kelly Robson 

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Best Novel (2078 ballots)

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Books / Titan Books) A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton / Harper Voyager US) Death’s End by Cixin Liu (Tor Books / Head of Zeus) Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris Books) The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books) Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Tor Books)

Best Novella (1410 ballots)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing) The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing) Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency) A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing) This Census-Taker by China Miéville (Del Rey / Picador)

Best Novelette (1097 ballots)

Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock (self-published) “The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan (Tor.com, July 2016) “The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing, May 2016) “The Tomato Thief” by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2016) “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2016) “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine, May 2016)

Best Short Story (1275 ballots)

“The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin (Tor.com, September 2016) “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com, March 2016) “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies” by Brooke Bolander (Uncanny Magazine, November 2016) “Seasons of Glass and Iron” by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press) “That Game We Played During the War” by Carrie Vaughn (Tor.com, March 2016) “An Unimaginable Light” by John C. Wright (God, Robot, Castalia House)

Best Related Work (1122 ballots)

The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley (Tor Books) The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (Blue Rider Press) Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood) The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman (William Morrow / Harper Collins) “The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com) Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)

Best Graphic Story (842 ballots)

Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze (Marvel) Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda (Image) Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel) Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher (Image) Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks (Image) The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Marvel)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form (1733 ballots)

Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve (21 Laps Entertainment/FilmNation Entertainment/Lava Bear Films) Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Marvel Entertainment/Kinberg Genre/The Donners’ Company/TSG Entertainment) Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig (Columbia Pictures/LStar Capital/Village Roadshow Pictures/Pascal Pictures/Feigco Entertainment/Ghostcorps/The Montecito Picture Company) Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi (Fox 2000 Pictures/Chernin Entertainment/Levantine Films/TSG Entertainment) Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards (Lucasfilm/Allison Shearmur Productions/Black Hangar Studios/Stereo D/Walt Disney Pictures) Stranger Things, Season One, created by the Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment/Monkey Massacre)

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form (1159 ballots)

Black Mirror: “San Junipero”, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris (House of Tomorrow) Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette (BBC Cymru Wales) The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”, written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough (SyFy) Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik (HBO) Game of Thrones: “The Door”, written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender (HBO) Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes)

Best Editor – Short Form (951 ballots)

John Joseph Adams Neil Clarke Ellen Datlow Jonathan Strahan Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Sheila Williams

Best Editor – Long Form (752 ballots)

Vox Day Sheila E. Gilbert Liz Gorinsky Devi Pillai Miriam Weinberg Navah Wolfe

Best Professional Artist (817 ballots)

Galen Dara Julie Dillon Chris McGrath Victo Ngai John Picacio Sana Takeda

Best Semiprozine (857 ballots)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James

Best Fanzine (610 ballots)

“Castalia House Blog”, edited by Jeffro Johnson “Journey Planet”, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood “Lady Business”, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan “nerds of a feather, flock together”, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry “Rocket Stack Rank”, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong “SF Bluestocking”, edited by Bridget McKinney

Best Fancast (690 ballots)

The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman

Best Fan Writer (802 ballots)

Mike Glyer Jeffro Johnson Natalie Luhrs Foz Meadows Abigail Nussbaum Chuck Tingle

Best Fan Artist (528 ballots)

Ninni Aalto Alex Garner Vesa Lehtimäki Likhain (M. Sereno) Spring Schoenhuth Mansik Yang

Best Series (1393 votes)

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone (Tor Books) The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Orbit US / Orbit UK) The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire (DAW / Corsair) The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch (Gollancz / Del Rey / DAW / Subterranean) The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (Del Rey / Harper Voyager UK) The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (937 ballots)

Sarah Gailey (1st year of eligibility) J. Mulrooney (1st year of eligibility) Malka Older (2nd year of eligibility) Ada Palmer (1st year of eligibility) Laurie Penny (2nd year of eligibility) Kelly Robson (2nd year of eligibility)

First comment: the new voting system has been at least partially successfully gamed by the Rabid Puppies. We have more work to do

2017 HUGO AWARD FINALISTS The following are image captures from the Worldcon75/Helsinki Worldcon video announcement: Text via Tor.com Best Novel (2078 ballots)

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November 1: The Beginning

So, I’m lowkey doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I’m not writing a book and may not write any fiction at all, to be honest. As anyone who follows my work at SF Bluestocking probably knows, I’ve been struggling for months with depression and the lack of productivity that tends to come along with that. The last few weeks have seen some improvement, and I’ve been keeping up with regular, time-sensitive-ish work like television reviews, but I’ve fallen far behind on book reviews and having managed to get out a Gormenghast post in months. I feel better every week, but in spite of my repeated optimism about returning to a level of productivity closer to where I’d like to be, I’ve been stuck and not making much progress at all.

So, NaNoWriMo feels like a perfect opportunity to try and get back on track. I’m not going to be putting too much pressure on myself, but it’s not uncommon for me to churn out 2-4k words in a day depending on what I’m writing about, so getting through the 1670 or so per day required to hit 50k by the end of November feels very doable.The key thing, for me, is going to be writing every single day. That’s the habit I’d like to get back into, and I’m hoping just forcing myself to do it as part of a big communal event will be just what I need to get myself back into gear.

[leenalikitalo]

So Much Happening - Part 1: Reviews

Oh gosh, so much has happened during the past month or so that I don’t even know where to begin!

Reviews? Yes, let’s start with those! I’ve been floating above the clouds because The Five Daughters of the Moon has received an overwhelmingly positive reception!

- Barnes & Noble review

- Tor.com review

- SF Bluestocking review

- Geekly Inc review

- NYJB review

The Daughters was also one of Amazon SF&F Editor’s August picks! And there’s a review up in September Locus Magazine.

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The 75th World Science Fiction Convention (commonly known as WorldCon) is being held this weekend in Helsinki, Finland. The convention is where the annual Hugo Awards are presented, and today, the convention announced the latest recipients. This year, women almost completely swept the Hugo Awards, taking home the top prizes for literature in the science fiction community. That’s particularly notable, given how the awards have been increasingly recognizing works from female and minority creators. The trend prompted a counter-movement from two group of fans, the self-described “Sad Puppies,” and their alt-right equivalents, the “Rabid Puppies.” These groups gamed the awards and forced a slate of nominees onto the Hugo ballot in 2015, prompting widespread backlash within the wider genre community. Another award, the Dragon, faced similar issues earlier this week when several authors asked to pull their nominations over concerns about Puppy interference and the award’s integrity. This year’s sweep by female creators seems to be a strong repudiation of anti-diversity groups. 2017 also marked the year the ceremony earned its own award: a representative from the Guinness Book of World Records certified that the Hugos are the longest-running science fiction awards ever. The Best Novel Hugo went to N.K. Jemisin, for The Obelisk Gate, a novel set in the midst of a magical apocalypse. It’s also the sequel to The Fifth Season, which took home the same award last year. Her next novel, and final installment of the trilogy, The Stone Sky, is out next week. Image: Orbit Books Here’s the full list of nominees and winners (in bold) for 2017’s Hugo Awards: BEST NOVEL The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers Death’s End by Cixin Liu Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer BEST NOVELLA Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson This Census-Taker by China Miéville BEST NOVELETTE The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex by Stix Hiscock The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde Touring with the Alien by Carolyn Ives Gilman You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong BEST SHORT STORY Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, Saga Press) The City Born Great by N. K. Jemisin A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander That Game We Played During the War by Carrie Vaughn An Unimaginable Light by John C. Wright BEST RELATED WORK Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer) The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman “The Women of Harry Potter” posts by Sarah Gailey BEST GRAPHIC STORY Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous, written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa Paper Girls, Volume 1, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher Saga, Volume 6, illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man, written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONGFORM Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer based on a short story by Ted Chiang, directed by Denis Villeneuve Deadpool, screenplay by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, directed by Tim Miller Ghostbusters, screenplay by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, directed by Paul Feig Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, directed by Theodore Melfi Rogue One, screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, directed by Gareth Edwards Stranger Things, season 1, created by the Duffer Brothers BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORTFORM The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes,” written by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, directed by Terry McDonough Black Mirror: “San Junipero,” written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio,” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Ed Bazalgette Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Miguel Sapochnik Game of Thrones: “The Door,” written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, directed by Jack Bender Splendor & Misery [album], by Clipping BEST EDITOR – SHORTFORM Ellen Datlow John Joseph Adams Neil Clarke Jonathan Strahan Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas Sheila Williams BEST EDITOR – LONGFORM Liz Gorinsky Vox Day Sheila E. Gilbert Devi Pillai Miriam Weinberg Navah Wolfe BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST Julie Dillon Galen Dara Chris McGrath Victo Ngai John Picacio Sana Takeda BEST SEMIPROZINE Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James BEST FANZINE “Lady Business,” edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan “Castalia House Blog,” edited by Jeffro Johnson “Journey Planet,” edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood “nerds of a feather, flock together,” edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry “Rocket Stack Rank,” edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong “SF Bluestocking,” edited by Bridget McKinney BEST FANCAST Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist BEST FAN WRITER Abigail Nussbaum Mike Glyer Jeffro Johnson Natalie Luhrs Foz Meadows Chuck Tingle BEST FAN ARTIST Elizabeth Leggett Ninni Aalto Vesa Lehtimäki Likhain (M. Sereno) Spring Schoenhuth Steve Stiles BEST SERIES The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone The Expanse by James S.A. Corey The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER Ada Palmer Sarah Gailey J. Mulrooney Malka Older Laurie Penny Kelly Robson

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/11/16127310/2017-hugo-awards-n-k-jemisin-science-fiction-fantasy-books

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The stories in Ellen Klages’ WICKED WONDERS just sit right in their strangeness

With less than a month until publication, excitement mounts for Ellen Klages WICKED WONDERS.

Photo: Scott R. Kline

On BOOKSTALKER BLOG, Lolly K Dandeneau enjoys the collection.

I enjoyed the originality of this collection. So many lyrical/magical stories try too hard, just throwing in weird happenings for the sake of being weird. Not so here. They aren’t outlandish in the telling-they sit just right in their strangeness.

Joe Sherry at NERDS OF A FEATHER, FLOCK TOGETHER is looking forward to the book.

Ten years ago Ellen Klages published her debut collection PORTABLE CHILDHOODS with Tachyon and it was wonderful and delightful and a treat to read. WICKED WONDERS marks the second collection from Klages and I can't wait to read it!

SF BLUESTOCKING includes the volume on their Spring Reading List.

Klages’ Tor.com novella, PASSING STRANGE, was wonderful, so I’m looking forward to checking out more of her short fiction.

For more info on WICKED WONDERS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on  PORTABLE CHILDHOODS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Emily Netterfield

Cover design by Eleanor Farrell

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Reading Links 5/2/17

Reading Links…5/2/17

Traci Kenworth

  Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF:

http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/within-the-sanctuary-of-wings/ Voice is the reason to read this series.

http://www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/sins-of-empire/ Familiar characters and fantastic plot.

http://www.fantasybookcafe.com/2017/04/women-in-sff-month-bridget-mckinney-from-sf-bluestocking/Some…

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CENTRAL STATION is quietly enthralling and subtly ingenious

More acclaim for Lavie Tidhar’s compelling CENTRAL STATION.

For ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION (January/February 2017), Paul Di Filippo praises the book.

In his quietly enthralling and subtly ingenious CENTRAL STATION (Tachyon Publications, trade paperback, $15.95, 288 pages, ISBN 978-1616962142), Lavie Tidhar has grabbed ahold of one of SF’s more potent tropes to power his narrative, and it’s a vibrant motif that has gone somewhat underused of late: the doings at a thriving, exotic spaceport or starport. 

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A lot happens in the tale, rendered in juicy neologistic language, plenty to keep us interested, and personal arcs reach satisfying climaxes. But I still would call the whole novel “plotless” in the sense that no master narrative—especially nothing with cosmic consequences—dominates. In this sense, the book recalls a few other similar genre experiences, such as Disch’s 334 and maybe some slice-of-life portions from Ian McDonald’s THE DERVISH HOUSE, as well as the Brian Aldiss story “Working in the Spaceship Yards.”

Larded with Easter eggs to Simak and Dick, William Burroughs and Frank Herbert, Futurama and Miéville, this quietly extravagant tale charts small-scale but impactful affairs of the hearts, minds and souls of its cast with tender empathy.

Photo: Kevin Nixon. © Future Publishing 2013

SF BLUESTOCKING includes the title among The Best Of 2016: Novels.

I hate to say that what attracted me to this title first was its gorgeous cover, but it’s true. It’s got such a wonderfully retro feel to it with its monochromatic color scheme and phallic rockets and towers, I just knew it would be a book I would want to have on my shelf. It was a pleasant surprise to find out that the innards of CENTRAL STATION were every bit as enchanting as its outside.

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While the book isn’t as entirely cohesive as it might have been if it was written on purpose rather than cobbled together from earlier short fiction, Tidhar has nonetheless successfully arranged numerous slices of life into an overall pleasing composition that paints a compelling picture of a possible future.

CENTRAL STATION is best book of the year according to VAL’S RANDOM COMMENTS.

Everything about this book is strange. It's is something between a collection and a novel but not quite a fixup either. The setting is unusual and the meandering plot is perhaps even more so. It is firmly grounded in science fiction though, with lots and lots of references to the classics in the genre. I would not be surprised to see this one end up on the Nebula shortlist.

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

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John W. Campbell Award winner CENTRAL STATION by Lavie Tidhar is a Kindle Daily Deal for Wednesday, July 3.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner

2018 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award Winner

2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shortlist

2016 British Science Fiction Award, Longlist

2017 Geffen Award nominee, Best Translated Science Fiction Book

NPR Best Books of 2016

Amazon Featured Monthly Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016

2016 Locus Recommended Reading List

Winner, 2016 British Science Fiction Award Best Cover Illustration – Sarah Anne Langton

Nomination, Chesley Award, Best Cover Illustration – Sarah Anne Langton

2017 British Fantasy Society – Shortlist for Best Artist – Sarah Anne Langton

“Tidhar scatters brilliant ideas like pennies on the sidewalk.” —NPR Books

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.

When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.

Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change.

At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive … and even evolve.

An NPR Books Best Book of 2016

A Tor.com Best Book of 2016

An io9 SF, Fantasy, and Horror Book That Will Blow Your Mind

An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book

A Publishers Weekly Staff Pick

A Bookskill Recommended Book

An SF Bluestocking Best of 2016

A Kirkus 2016 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy pick

A Tor.com Five Mosaic Novels You Should Read

Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016

A UK Guardian Best SF & Fantasy Book of 2016

Best Science Fiction Books Top 10 of 2016

Featured review on the Reading Envy podcast

Featured Interview in the Jewish Telegraph

[STAR] “World Fantasy Award–winner Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming) magnificently blends literary and speculative elements in this streetwise mosaic novel set under the towering titular spaceport. In a future border town formed between Israeli Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa, cyborg ex-soldiers deliver illicit drugs for psychic vampires, and robot priests give sermons and conduct circumcisions. The Chong family struggles to save patriarch Vlad, lost in the inescapable memory stream they all share, thanks to his father’s hack of the Conversation, the collective unconscious. New children, born from back-alley genetic engineering, begin to experience actual and virtual reality simultaneously. Family and faith bring them all back and sustain them. Tidhar gleefully mixes classic SF concepts with prose styles and concepts that recall the best of world literature. The byways of Central Station ring with dusty life, like the bruising, bustling Cairo streets depicted by Naguib Mahfouz. Characters wrestle with problems of identity forged under systems of oppression, much as displaced Easterners and Westerners do in the novels of Orhan Pamuk. And yet this is unmistakably SF. Readers of all persuasions will be entranced.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

[STAR] “… a fascinating future glimpsed through the lens of a tight-knit community. Verdict: Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming;The Violent Century) changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” —Library Journal, starred review

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

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Get Lavie Tidhar’s award winning CENTRAL STATION for only $1.99!

John W. Campbell Award winner CENTRAL STATION by Lavie Tidhar is a Kindle Daily Deal for Tuesday, December 4. 

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner

2018 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award Winner

2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shortlist

2016 British Science Fiction Award, Longlist

2017 Geffen Award nominee, Best Translated Science Fiction Book

NPR Best Books of 2016

Amazon Featured Monthly Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016

2016 Locus Recommended Reading List

Winner, 2016 British Science Fiction Award Best Cover Illustration – Sarah Anne Langton

Nomination, Chesley Award, Best Cover Illustration – Sarah Anne Langton

2017 British Fantasy Society – Shortlist for Best Artist – Sarah Anne Langton

“Tidhar scatters brilliant ideas like pennies on the sidewalk.” —NPR Books

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.

When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.

Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change.

At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive . . . and even evolve.

An NPR Books Best Book of 2016

A Tor.com Best Book of 2016

An io9 SF, Fantasy, and Horror Book That Will Blow Your Mind

An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book

A Publishers Weekly Staff Pick

A Bookskill Recommended Book

An SF Bluestocking Best of 2016

A Kirkus 2016 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy pick

A Tor.com Five Mosaic Novels You Should Read

Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016

A UK Guardian Best SF & Fantasy Book of 2016

Best Science Fiction Books Top 10 of 2016

Featured review on the Reading Envy podcast

Featured Interview in the Jewish Telegraph

[STAR] “World Fantasy Award–winner Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming) magnificently blends literary and speculative elements in this streetwise mosaic novel set under the towering titular spaceport. In a future border town formed between Israeli Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa, cyborg ex-soldiers deliver illicit drugs for psychic vampires, and robot priests give sermons and conduct circumcisions. The Chong family struggles to save patriarch Vlad, lost in the inescapable memory stream they all share, thanks to his father’s hack of the Conversation, the collective unconscious. New children, born from back-alley genetic engineering, begin to experience actual and virtual reality simultaneously. Family and faith bring them all back and sustain them. Tidhar gleefully mixes classic SF concepts with prose styles and concepts that recall the best of world literature. The byways of Central Station ring with dusty life, like the bruising, bustling Cairo streets depicted by Naguib Mahfouz. Characters wrestle with problems of identity forged under systems of oppression, much as displaced Easterners and Westerners do in the novels of Orhan Pamuk. And yet this is unmistakably SF. Readers of all persuasions will be entranced.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

[STAR] “. . . a fascinating future glimpsed through the lens of a tight-knit community. Verdict: Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming; The Violent Century) changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” —Library Journal, starred review

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

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Get Lavie Tidhar’s brilliant CENTRAL STATION for only $1.99!

CENTRAL STATION, Lavie Tidhar’s fascinating glimpse of the future, is a Kindle Daily Deal for Friday April 21.

For today only, the ebook is available for just $1.99!

An NPR Best Book of 2016

A Tor.com Best Book of 2016

An NPR Summer Reading Choice

A 10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book of 2016 So Far (Flavorwire – June)

A May 2016 My Bookish Ways Must Read in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

A Kirkus Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Books You’ll Want to Read in May

An io9 May Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Book That Will Blow Your Mind

An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of May

A Publishers Weekly Staff Pick

A Bookskill Recommended Book

An SF Bluestocking Best of 2016

A Kirkus 2016 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy pick

A Tor.com Five Mosaic Novels You Should Read

Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016

A Guardian Best SF & Fantasy Book of 2016

Featured review on the Reading Envy podcast

Featured Interview in the Jewish Telegraph

[STAR] “World Fantasy Award–winner Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming) magnificently blends literary and speculative elements in this streetwise mosaic novel set under the towering titular spaceport. In a future border town formed between Israeli Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa, cyborg ex-soldiers deliver illicit drugs for psychic vampires, and robot priests give sermons and conduct circumcisions. The Chong family struggles to save patriarch Vlad, lost in the inescapable memory stream they all share, thanks to his father’s hack of the Conversation, the collective unconscious. New children, born from back-alley genetic engineering, begin to experience actual and virtual reality simultaneously. Family and faith bring them all back and sustain them. Tidhar gleefully mixes classic SF concepts with prose styles and concepts that recall the best of world literature. The byways of Central Station ring with dusty life, like the bruising, bustling Cairo streets depicted by Naguib Mahfouz. Characters wrestle with problems of identity forged under systems of oppression, much as displaced Easterners and Westerners do in the novels of Orhan Pamuk. And yet this is unmistakably SF. Readers of all persuasions will be entranced.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

[STAR] “. . . a fascinating future glimpsed through the lens of a tight-knit community. Verdict: Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming; The Violent Century) changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” —Library Journal, starred review

“It is just this side of a masterpiece — short, restrained, lush — and the truest joy of it is in the way Tidhar scatters brilliant ideas like pennies on the sidewalk.” —NPR Books

“A marvellous, multi-faceted story that flows gently from one character to another like an intimate private tour of Tel Aviv and the spaceport at its centre.” —SF Crowsnest

“A fantastic mosaic novel.” —New York Review of Science Fiction

For more info about CENTRAL STATION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and image by Sarah Anne Langton