1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (122+ words) The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland CA. The World Fantasy Awards finalists are: Special Award – Professional Special Award – Non-Professional…...

3+ week, 6+ 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (216+ words) WisCon 48 locusmag.com WisCon 48 was held May 21-25, 2026, and was conducted com­pletely online. Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed were guests of honor. Programming included panels, solo presentations, and readings, with an array of items on SF/F and horror…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (137+ words) The 13-title longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize has been announced, with works and writers of genre interest including: The End of Everything, M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail) Helen of Nowhere, Makenna Goodman (Coffee House) Switzy, Emma Cline (Random House) The shortlist…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (903+ words) Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Science fantasy novel. Ysira Natkis escaped death and brought back something that could change the fate of her civilization, and now she…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (772+ words) The Traveler, Joseph Eckert (Tor 978-1-250-42855-4, $28.99, 384pp, hc) June 2026. The very title of Joseph Eckert's The Traveler, whose narrator finds himself involuntarily yanked forward in time in ever-increasing intervals, raises the sort of definitional nitpicking beloved of many SF readers. In this…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (256+ words) The Franchise, Thomas Elrod (Tor 978-1-25040-658-3, $28.99, 368pp, hc) May 2026. “…everyone is in character all of the time. We can place cameras and microphones all over, like a reality show. But the characters won’t ever see them. They will never know. And then…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1768+ words) ELEANNA CASTROIANNI is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary. ERIN LATIMER, CORAL ALE­JANDRA MOORE, and J.C. SNOW are now represented by JABberwocky Literary Agency. ROBERT J. SAWYER will be writer-in-residence at Calgary’s Alexandria Writers’ Centre So…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (912+ words) Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Bontrager, Megan: The Sea Hides Its Dead (Orbit US/Run For It 978-0316588010, $19.99, 368pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 07/14/2026) Horror novel. Grad student Caro joins…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (190+ words) Simon & Schuster has announced that Atria Gallery Group will relaunch the Pocket Books imprint as a core romance imprint that will also publish “additional genres including romantic thrillers, dark romance, and horror.” Anh Schluep, who is joining Atria Gallery, will…...