The winner of the 2022 Dell Magazines Award For Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing was announced on February 6. The award goes to the best unpublished and unsold science fiction or fantasy short story submitted by a … Continue reading
The winners of the Asimov’s 35th Annual Readers’ Awards Poll have been announced. Emily Hockaday says a future awards event to celebrate the 2020 and 2019 winners will be held when it’s safe to do so. BEST NOVELLA Take a … Continue reading
The top choices for Asimov’s 35th Annual Readers’ Awards Poll are online. There are links that will allow you to read all the finalists. The winners chosen by readers will be revealed at a later date. BEST NOVELLA Maelstrom by … Continue reading
The winner of the 2021 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Winner: Jazmin Collins, Arcadia University, for, “My Gardening Journal: Tales from a Psychic Gardener.” First Runner-up: Samuel Owens, the University of Chicago, … Continue reading
By JJ: To assist Hugo nominators, listed below are the editors of more than 1,000 short form works published for the first time in 2020. Note that all of the works labeled “novella”, “novelette”, and “short story” are eligible in … Continue reading
The winner of the 2020 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing was announced on February 10. Winner: Rona Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for “Imitation Game” First Runner-up: Cyrus Lloyd, Vanderbilt University, for “The … Continue reading
The finalists for this year’s Sidewise Awards have been revealed. The winners will be announced on-line on October 15. Short Form Rick Wilber: “The Secret City,” Asimov’s, 9/10, 2018 Oscar (Xiu) Ramirez and Emmanuel Valtierra, Codex Valtierra, 2018 Long Form … Continue reading
DAY ONE By Chris M. Barkley: After a brutal and taxing trans-Atlantic transit on Monday, my partner Juli and I were able to obtain our membership badges fairly easily Tuesday morning. Yesterday was mainly spent getting used to our surroundings … Continue reading
(1) DISCONTINUED NEXT ROCK. Matt Keely tries to diagnose the reasons for “Such Abnormal Activity: On ‘The Best of R. A. Lafferty’” in the LA Review of Books. …Hidden powers that hold and wield esoteric knowledge recur throughout the hundreds … Continue reading
Editor Rich Horton has released the list of stories in The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019 Edition. “The Spires” by Alec Nevala-Lee (Analog, 3-4/18) “The Unnecessary Parts of the Story” by Adam-Troy Castro (Analog, 09-10/18) ”A Witch’s Guide … Continue reading