1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (263+ words) Touch Me, Addison Heimann's "bisexual alien sex horror comedy" (his words), proceeds about as one would expect from the preview " hip-hop dance routines, full-frontal tentacles, creepy housekeeper, all fairly standard " until the first head explodes, around the one-hour mark. Then…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (166+ words) A rare science fiction novel debuts prominently on lists this week: James S. A. Corey's The Faith of Beasts (Orbit), second in the authors' series The Captive's War, ranking as high as #7 at both New York Times and Publishers Weekly. The table…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (162+ words) The Los Angeles Times has announced the winners of their 46th annual Book Prizes. Winners of genre interest, and other titles and authors of genre interest in those categories, include: Science Fiction/Fantasy WINNER: Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster) The Buffalo…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (799+ words) " " " Anonymous, ed. , an Other Nemesis (Meercat Press 2/26) Four notable SF poets " Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon, and Maxwell I. Gold " offer 55 dark speculative poems linked by four themes (The Colonizers, Primal Sources, Nameless Others, and Crooked Ontologies), with each…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago  (161+ words) UK-based publisher Bloomsbury has announced plans "to streamline its structure for future growth," after doubling its sales in four years, more than doubling its profits in 2023-2024, and increasing headcount from 738 to 1, 238 in five years. The plans include cutting about 55 roles…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (154+ words) The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has announced the five finalists for the Best Novel category of the Prometheus Awards, honoring thematically pro-liberty works published in 2025. Storm-Dragon, Dave Freer (Raconteur) amazon / bookshop War By Other Means, Karl K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven) amazon…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (296+ words) For more information, see the Worldcon website. Best Novel (1, 153 ballots cast for 555 nominees) Best Novella (807 ballots cast for 172 nominees) Best Novelette(414 ballots cast for 144 nominees) Best Short Story (507 ballots cast for 549 nominees) Best Series (687 ballots cast for 185 nominees) Best Graphic…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (1075+ words) Visit our bookshop. org page to purchase this week's new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Fantasy anthology, part of the Myths, Gods & Immortals series. All-new stories from contemporary authors reimagine the character of Odysseus and the entities…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (246+ words) The most prominent genre debut this week is Devney Perry's Rites of the Starling (Entangled: Red Tower Books), ranking in the top 10 on the four print lists compiled here (Publishers Weekly seems to have confused the title, but not the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (200+ words) Writer award winners were Thomas R. Eggenberger, Zach Poulter, S. J. Stevenson, Kathleen Powell, Thomas K. Slee, Brenda Posey, Mike Strickland, Michael T. Kuester, Elina Kumra, Joseph Sidari, Mark Mc Waters, and Dorothy de Kok." Illustrator award winners were Art Ikuta, Amuri Morris, Roddy Taylor,…...