It’s Locus‘s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!
Don’t miss it! Locus staff Arley Sorg recommends Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernandez, Sara Rivera, eds: A brilliant assortment of original stories and poetry showcasing important themes by interrogating ideas of utopia.
Read Arley’s full review at Lightspeed. …Read More
Welcome to Locus‘s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!
For your next favorite book, Locus reviewer Alex Brown says: Eden Royce’s latest work of literary brilliance, Psychopomp & Circumstance, is a quiet story of grief, regret, and hope…. One of the most interesting choices Royce made was setting this story in an alternate history version of post-Civil War South Carolina. Freedom is a major theme of the book, freedom that …Read More
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf) has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
The prize is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace. The winners were announced in September and will be honored at a gala in Dayton OH on November 8-9, 2025. Akbar and Sunil Amrith, the winner in the non-fiction category, each …Read More
Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage (Tor) won this year’s the Crawford Award, presented at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando FL on March 22, 2025. The award jury received 59 submissions from over 30 publishers, by authors from 20 different countries. Eleven of the submitted novels were translations. Judges were Brian Attebery, Eddie Clark, Candas Jane Dorsey, Mimi Mondal, and Yilin Wang.
The administrator was …Read More
It’s the week of 11/19/2024 and we’ve got a terrific new week of releases to tell you all about, so come on by if you’re looking to add to your TBR pile! Also, why not support what we do and subscribe to the channel, it’ll keep yourself up-to-date on our weekly content and all the top new SF, Fantasy, and Horror releases slated to hit shelfs! …Read More
Barack Obama announced his 2024 Summer Reading List, saying, I’ve read some great books over the last few months and wanted to share some of my favorites. Works and authors of genre interest include The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader), James by Percival Everett (Doubleday), The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead), and Beautiful Days by Zach Williams (Doubleday).
For the complete list, see his …Read More
The ten-title shortlist of the 2024 YA Book Prizeincludes a number of titles of genre interest, including:
The YA Book Prize is awarded to a YA title written by an author living in the UK or Ireland. The shortlist is selected by a team at The Bookseller and …Read More
The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour has announced its winner and runner up:
The Huntington Library, which hosts the Octavia E. Butler Collection, has announced Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler, a two-day conference [exploring] Octavia E. Butler, how we have learned from her writing, and what her archive at The Huntington can help future generations discover.
The event will be held from May 23-24, 2024 at The Huntington in San Marino CA.
For more information, including the complete conference …Read More
The New York Public Library announced its five Young Lions Fiction Award finalists for 2024, including House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Flatiron Books), Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon), and Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books).
The $10,000 prize is awarded each spring to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories by a panel of …Read More
Nominees for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards have been announced, including several authors and titles of genre interest.
eDUNNIT Award
H.R.F. Keating Award
Last Laugh Award
The 13-title longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been announced, and includes The Silver Bone, Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (MacLehose) and Crooked Plow, Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz (Verso)
The award is given every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. The £50,000 prize is divided equally among the author and translator(s). Shortlisted authors …Read More
Here are the 2023 Hugo Award voting statistics from the Chengdu Worldcon! The committee has 90 days to provide the voting and nomination stats, and have said the nomination numbers will follow later within that time frame.
We had hoped to get the write up of how the voting played out into the current issue of Locus (Dec/Jan issue) but they came in too late to make the deadline. We …Read More
Greetings from beyond the paywall! We have been posting new content monthly on our Patreon Archive Feed- scans of vintage Locus and audio clips from author interviews and more – and wanted to share a little of what that feed looks like by making some of our earlier posts public. Check out this post with the entire issue 130 of Locus.
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Here’s a highlight from our 2022 Recommended Reading list: the anthology Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology, edited by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H.D. Hunter & LP Kindred, out from Android Press.
From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers:
When a desperately mundane woman borrows clothing from her mother, a soucouyant goes searching for her skin. A Nigerian parent climbs mountains to heaven to steal …Read More
Greg Bear died November 19, 2022, after complications from a heart surgery. Doctors discovered he had suffered a number of strokes during the procedure, and a week after the surgery, in accordance to his directive, he was taken off life support.
Bear was the author of over 50 novels and almost as many works of short fiction, for which he won two Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards and many …Read More
The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) has selected the late author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) as this year’s recipient of the Forry Award for lifetime achievement in the SF field. Butler was a major figure in the field who won three Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, and a MacArthur Genius Grant, among many other honors.
The award, named for Forrest J Ackerman and given annually since 1966, was presented …Read More
The 2021 Ladies of Horror Readers’ Choice results have been announced. The top ten winners are:
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) has opened submissions for the Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award for emerging authors who use science fiction to address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination until December 1, 2022.
Applicants must send a 200-word statement with background & goals in writing SF and a 4,000-word maximum writing sample addressing Indigenous perspectives to Professor Grace L. Dillon at dillong@pdx.edu. For more information, …Read More
Australian author and editor AIKI FLINTHART died February 1, 2021, just over a year after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis. After the diagnosis, she reached out to her favorite writers for stories, and created anthology Relics, Wrecks & Ruins (2021) before she passed. She was also the author of novels Shadows Wake (2018) and Blackbirds Sing (2019), the Kalima Chronicles fantasy series, the Ruadhan Sidhe urban fantasy series, and children’s …Read More
The An Post Irish Book Awards have announced their 2021 shortlist, featuring writing across 20 categories. The awards celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible. Each year it brings together a vast community passionate about books – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise the very best of Irish writing talent.
Titles and authors of genre interest follow.
Eason Novel of the …Read More
HarperCollins has announced reorganization plans for the recently acquired Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. They will have four imprints, which will see ”see increased focus and investment, with the majority of acquiring editors remaining in place.” Mariner will publish most of the adult books, and will absorb Custom House. The Clarion and Versify imprints will retain their names as part of the new Clarion Group. Graphic novels from the Etch imprint will …Read More
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