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2020 Bram Stoker Award Winner
The Horror Writers Association have announced the 2020 Bram Stoker Award winners. The winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel is:
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Gallery/Saga Press)
Our congrats to Stephen Graham Jones and all the nominees.
- The Deep by Alma Katsu (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- Devil’s Creek by Todd Keisling (Silver Shamrock Publishing)
- Malorie by Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
See the complete list of winners in all categories at Locus.
What do you think of this result?
The Best of World SF Giveaway Winners!
The Best of World SF giveaway is over and it’s time to announce our winners! We assigned each entry a number then used a random number generator to pick out five names:
- Sonia Oldrini
- Steven Arellano Rose
- Marian D Moore – @EzekielsOldest
- Jim Harris – @JimHarris28
- L. Raymond
If you are one of our lucky winners please send your mailing address to “info at worlds without end dot com” so we can get these books in the mail for you!
Many thanks to Lavie Tidhar and Head of Zeus for making the contest possible. If you did not win, never fear – The Best of World SF will be released on June 1, 2021 and is available for pre-order now.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our retweet contest! Until next time, read on.
Book Giveaway: The Best of World SF: Volume 1 Edited by Lavie Tidhar
Head of Zeus is back with a new contest! This time we have 5 hardcover copies of The Best of World SF: Volume 1 edited by Lavie Tidhar to give away. That’s right, you can win it before you can even buy it on June 1. This contest is open to US and UK residents only — unfortunately, we cannot mail the prizes elsewhere.
To enter, all you have to do is re-tweet this tweet:
Retweet for your chance to win! For details click https://t.co/JSixFbDguy. US and UK entries only. @lavietidhar, @HoZ_Books pic.twitter.com/oDIZvHpo6i
— WorldsWithoutEnd (@WWEnd) May 14, 2021
…or comment here in the blog. Do both and double your chances! It’s about as easy as we can make it. We’ll have a random drawing from our re-tweeter pool and announce the winners next Friday, May 21, so tweet away and don’t forget to check back next week to see if you’ve won!
The Best of World SF: Volume 1
edited by Lavie Tidhar
Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.
The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.
They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, proving the old adage false. From Ghana to India, from Mexico to France, from Singapore to Cuba, they draw on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the face of the genre one story at a time.
Prepare yourself for a journey through the wildest reaches of the imagination, to visions of Earth as it might be and the far corners of the universe. Along the way, you will meet robots and monsters, adventurers and time travelers, rogues and royalty.
In The Best of World SF, award-winning author Lavie Tidhar acts as guide and companion to a world of stories, from never-before-seen originals to award winners, from twenty-three countries and seven languages. Because the future is coming and it belongs to us all.
Stories:
- ‘Immersion’ by Aliette de Bodard
- ‘Debtless’ by Chen Qiufan
- ‘Fandom for Robots’ by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
- ‘Virtual Snapshots’ by Tlotlo Tsamaase
- ‘What The Dead Man Said’ by Chinelo Onwualu
- ‘Delhi’ by Vandana Singh
- ‘The Wheel of Samsara’ by Han Song
- ‘Xingzhou’ by Yi-Sheng Ng
- ‘Prayer’ by Taiyo Fujii
- ‘The Green Ship’ by Francesco Verso
- ‘Eyes of the Crocodile’ by Malena Salazar Macia
- ‘Bootblack’ by Tade Thompson
- ‘The Emptiness in the Heart of all Things’ by Fabio Fernandes
- ‘The Sun From Both Sides’ by R.S.A. Garcia
- ‘Dump’ by Cristina Jurado
- ‘Rue Chair’ by Gerardo Horacio Porcayo
- ‘His Master’s Voice’ by Hannu Rajaniemi
- ‘Benjamin Schneider’s Little Greys’ by Nir Yaniv
- ‘The Cryptid’ by Emil H. Petersen
- ‘The Bank of Burkina Faso’ by Ekaterina Sedia
- ‘An Incomplete Guide…’ by Kuzhali Manickavel
- ‘The Old Man with The Third Hand’ by Kofi Nyameye
- ‘The Green’ by Lauren Beukes
- ‘The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir’ by Karin Tidbeck
- ‘Prime Meridian’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- ‘If At First You Don’t Succeed’ by Zen Cho
Reviews:
“‘This excellent anthology proves editor Tidhar’s assertion that science fiction should no longer be thought of as ‘white, male, and American’ with 26 exemplary stories from 21 countries … Worthwhile both as a survey of international sci-fi and on a story-by-story level, this wonderful anthology should be a hit with any sci-fi fan.” — Publishers Weekly
“Although science fiction imagines diverse, imaginative, and frightening futures, genre anthologies rarely achieve the brilliant range and diversity of voices of The Best of World SF: Volume 1 … The anthology brings a fresh, revolutionary perspective in that its selections are intentionally curated to suggest that the horizon is both closer and brighter than Western readers might think. Vital and exciting, The Best of World SF blows the blast panels off the dusty, well-worn tropes of popular science fiction and lets in a dazzling burst of lunar light.” — Foreword
“Tidhar gives a cheerful, fannish introduction to the stories, drawn from 26 countries on five continents, and encompassing a dizzying range of tones and approaches.” — The Times
2021 Aurora Awards Finalists
The 2021 Aurora Awards finalists have been announced, celebrating the “best works and activities done by Canadians in 2020.” The nominees in the Best Novel category are:
- Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- A Connecticut Gumshoe in King Arthur’s Court by Randy McCharles (Tyche Books)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Random House Publishing Group)
- The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer (Red Deer Press)
- A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong (KLA Fricke)
The Aurora site has the list of finalists in all categories.
Our congrats to all the nominees. What do you think of this list? Anything there look good to you?
The Sword Falls Giveaway Winners!
The Sword Falls giveaway is over and it’s time to announce our winners! We assigned each entry a number then used a random number generator to pick out five names:
- Red Bird – @rubylorikeet
- Al – @herne2000
- MrTester – @MrTeste75740273
- Daniel Zhang – @Dantastic_
- Jason Powell
If you are one of our lucky winners please send your mailing address to “info at worlds without end dot com” so we can get these books in the mail for you!
Many thanks to A. J. Smith and Head of Zeus for making the contest possible. If you did not win, never fear – The Sword Falls is available for purchase right now.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our retweet contest! Until next time, read on.
2021 Locus Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2021 Locus Awards have been announced. Here they are for the novel categories:
- Machine by Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
- Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
- Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott (Tor)
- Agency by William Gibson (Berkley; Viking UK)
- The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor; Solaris)
- War of the Maps by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US & UK)
- The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
- Network Effect by Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
- Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe (Tor)
- The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie (Orbit US; Gollancz)
- The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris)
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK)
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow (Redhook; Orbit)
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US & UK)
- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (Tordotcom)
- The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix (Tegen Books; Allen & Unwin; Gollancz)
- The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk (Erewhon)
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga; Solaris)
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor; Titan UK)
- Devolution by Max Brooks (Del Rey; Century)
- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (Morrow)
- Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD x FSG Originals)
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan)
- The Deep by Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)
- The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Saga)
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
- The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada (New Directions)
- Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan)
- Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker (Tordotcom)
- The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi (Wednesday)
- The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke (Erewhon)
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (McElderry; Simon & Schuster UK)
- Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray; Titan)
- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
- A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (Tor Teen)
- Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José Older (Scholastic)
- Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents)
- A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (Del Rey; Titan)
- The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Del Rey; Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood (Tor; Tor UK)
- Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
- Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
- Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne (Tor)
- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Orbit US & UK)
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads)
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick; Walker UK)
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Morrow)
For the complete list of noms in all categories check out the official press release from Locus. Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend. Our congratulations to all the nominees!
What do you think of these lists? Any surprises? Any favorites?
