3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (146+ words) Bean Books, an independent publisher of military science fiction and fantasy, has announced the creation of a new short story award, named in honor of the author David A. Drake. The reward is in addition to their currently sponsored awards, the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (139+ words) locusmag.com Clive Barker and Joyce Carol Oates have been announced as the recipients of the 2026 World Fantasy Awards for Lifetime Achievement, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field. The final ballot for the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (124+ words) The Mythopoeic Society announced the 2026 Mythopoeic Awards winners during Mythcon 54, held July 24-27, 2026 in Weatherford OK. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Young Adult Literature Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (209+ words) The Mulai, Munir Hachemi, tr. Julia Sanches (Fitzcarraldo Editions 978-1804272732, £12.99, 176pp, tp) June 2026; (Coach House Books 978-1-55245-519-7, $18.95, 184pp, tp) July 2026. while writing a text, someone may draw a word in a completely novel way, only for this word to be instantly incorporated into the…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1127+ words) locusmag.com I’m not certain of the origin of the phrase “What is the exact nature of the catastrophe?”, although it has to be said, having spent a few days immersed in the epistemically unstable world of M. John Harrison’s…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (247+ words) The Dark 3/26, 2/26 The Sunday Morning Transport 1/18, 2/22, 3/1,3/15 Adventitious 4/26 Reactor 3/18, 3/25 Recommended Stories “Hunger”, Michael Kelly (The Dark 2/26) “Let the Waters Bring Forth Swarms of Living Creatures, and Birds That Fly Above the Earth Across the Expanse of Sky”, PH Lee (TSMT 2/22/26) “Cutting…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1243+ words) Locus Online Do you prefer your fantasy on the silly side? Do you enjoy watching two emotionally constipated dorks try to convince them­selves they aren’t lusting after each other? Do you like weird little girls who are too smart…...

3+ mon, 14+ hour ago   (259+ words) Ode to the Half-Broken, Suzanne Palmer (DAW 978-0756419585, hardcover, 416pp, $29.00) May 2026. There is a dirty, skinny dog with matted black-brown fur sitting in the room’s doorway. The line of lights along its head, the blocky shape of an implant at its throat,…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (145+ words) The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour has announced its eight-title shortlist for short fiction: A Song of Shir'ja, Harps Aujla Zonbi, Zarah Elouis-Ro Crooked Straits, Olivia Ho One Thousand and One Wishes, Rakan Khashman…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (232+ words) The shortlist for the 39th annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, celebrating the best science fiction novel published in the UK, has been announced. For four decades, our Clarke judges have whittled hundreds of books down to shortlists and then to the books…...