#Carolyn Ives Gilman

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"I'm sorry," the alien said. "You've got to understand how hard it is for me, to live in a gendered world. I have to be so careful. Sexuality is always present, with you. It never leaves your minds. It's as if you exist in a cloud of pheromones I can't sense, but only guess at. I have to be on my guard all the time, thinking of hidden meanings, body language, and innuendoes. I can never assume I understand you, never take anything at face value. It all has to go through a gender-filter in my brain. I wish I could get away from it, just be able to relax, be in a completely nonsexual situation, just for a day. I don't suppose I'll ever be able to, for the rest of my life...."

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from "Halfway Human" by Carolyn Ives Gilman

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10 LGBTQIA+ Books from Around the World

In honour of Pride this June here is a list of ten books that show it’s a very queer world.

 Amora Stories by Natalia Borges Polesso, translated by Julia Sanches

From Brazilian writer Natalia Borges Polesso, Amora is a collection of many vignettes around wlw, from teenage first times to wizened women together for decades, running the gamut of tragedy to triumph.

 La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea, translated by Lawrence Schimel

A notable book in several ways, La Bastarda by bisexual feminist Trifonia Melibea is the first novel by a woman from the Equatorial Guinea translated to English. A short YA novel told in the perspective of budding lesbian 16-year-old Okomo who faces a lot. Yet a story that is ultimately uplifting.

  Dark Soul by Aleksandr Voinov

Originally created for an erotic piece around guns, Dark Soul by England based emigrant German author Aleksandr Voinov is a mafioso title that stacks up content warnings like its body count. While also offering several characters that are not straight or monogamous. Including one holding a special place in my memory, the genderfluid, hypersexual, and pansexual Silvio Spadaro.

  The Diesel by Thani Al-Suwaidi, translated by William M. Hutchins

Equated as a piece of shock fiction to great buzz and controversy, originally published in 1994 but not available and largely ignored in the Emirates for a decade, The Diesel by Thani Al-Suwaidi is a curious achingly little book like the folklore it sits with endures. Taking its name from the nonbinary protagonist and narrator, from a village in the northernmost Emirate, who in this coming-of age story becomes a popular and subversive entertainer in the vein of mukhannathun.

  Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault

A treat of a fantasy queerplatonic novel from a Québécoise author Baker Thief plays with not only romantic tropes but English and French. Claude/Claire (bigender aromantic) bakes by day and steals gems, what are actually witches’ souls, by night. While Adèle (biromantic demisexual) a cop, that was just unceremoniously transferred because of her tendency to try and root out corruption wherever it lies, has made it her mission to apprehend the masked thief.

 Fin & Rye & Fireflies by Harry Cook

Set in Australia Fin & Rye & Fireflies begins with Fin, (gay) a teen new to town after he was outed and his conservative religious parents uproot the family moving closer to a “therapy camp” (i.e., the conversion sort). Still Fin develops a crush on Rye (gay) who has lived in the seaside hamlet his whole life. Along with Fin quickly making fast friends with other queer teens. This YA novel dedicated by the celebrity author to all the LGBTQIA+ love stories he wishes he read as a young gay kid, channeling a little of cult musicals too, is likely to bring all the feels.

  Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman

American author Carolyn Ives Gilman in 1998 made a striking debut with the science fiction novel Halfway Human. When an unprecedented and genderless visitor from the currently closed off planet of Gammadis lands in one of the clinics on the moon Capella Two after a suicide attempt, xenologist Val is called in. A unique opportunity she finds much more than one could first imagine as the patient named Telda begins to share its story. This is one of my favourite novels in the genre, if not in general of all time. Nominated for awards, even today a reader might see why this was such a buzzed about book. Themes examining gender, class, exploitation, and capitalism continue to resonate. (FYI, please consult the content notes provided in the link.)

 The Kiss Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer, translated by Kenneth Dakan

A bit of a semi-retirement project for author Mehmet Murat Somer, the Hop-Çiki-Yaya mystery series crafted to a bit of a different beat first began publishing in Turkey in the early 2000s. In The Kiss Murder, a feisty trans drag queen protagonist, styled in old Hollywood fashion Audrey Hepburn in particular, tries to the find the murderers of one of the girls from their club.

  Herculine Barbin translated by Richared McDougall

French intersex figure Herculine Adélaïde Barbin sadly committed suicide in 1868. Still, a life not only inspiring the date of Intersex Solidarity Day on November 8th, leaving behind a memoir that has also been the basis for adaptations on both stage and film. The English edition comes with an introduction by Michel Foucault and other added material.

 Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas

Tentacle by Rita Indiana from the Dominican Republic is a subversive and award-winning cli-fi novel. The main character described in the original title, (La mucama de Omicunlé) Acilde is a maid and sex worker desiring to get a dramatic expensive drug for a sex change. And as it happens also prophesied as the male saviour in a traditional Afro-Caribbean religion. This one book I still haven’t come to a complete assessment of. Tentacle is writing likely worth the dive but, just as beautiful as sea anemones are, there are those that pack a powerful sting.

BONUS: For comic lovers I also have posts on LGBTQ+ characters in comics from the 21st Century and LGBTQ+ characters in comics from the 20th Century

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From “The Cartesian Theatre” by Robert Charles Wilson.

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Short Stories I Read Recently, Part 6

Min/L.M. Montgomery-Rev. Allan Telford is stuck up. Min is a jerk. What a lovely couple they’ll make. 1/5

Every Piece (Is Sacred)/Hunter Ligore-A gay couple picks up the pieces of people scattered by war. Tw: gore, guns, bombs 1.5/5

Exile’s End/Carolyn Ives Gilman-An artifact of indescribable and irreplaceable beauty created by an “extinct” culture has been the basis of another culture’s origin stories. The race who created the artifact has survived on a distant world and has sent a representative to reclaim it, throwing everything into question.

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[Free eBook] Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman [Award-Nominated LGBT+ Science Fiction]

Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman, a recipient of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, is a self-contained anthropological science fiction novel in her The Twenty Planets setting, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Phoenix Pick Press.

This is their featured Free eBook of the Month for July, and was originally published in 1998 by HarperCollins' Avon Eos imprint. This placed 2nd on the Locus Awards list for Best First Novel, as well as garnering a nomination for the Otherwise (formerly known as the Tiptree) Award, and has been likened to the late Ursula K. Le Guin's gender-exploring classic The Left Hand of Darkness. There's also a tie-in discount offer for two other award-nominated novellas in the same universe.

The novel takes place in a future galactic setting of loosely affiliated worlds mostly settled by forms of humanity which have taken different paths. This story focuses on a refugee from an isolated planet which has evolved asexual individuals known as “blands” who are an oppressed servant class, gradually uncovering the tale of their hidden society's shocking secrets with the help of an expert in alien cultures.

Offered free through July and probably until August 2nd (the freebie generally rotates on the first Tuesday of every month), available directly from the publisher's website.

Currently free @ the publisher's dedicated promo page (DRM-free ePub & Mobi bundle, requires newsletter signup with valid email, follow the instructions on the page to reset the suggested price in the cart to $0.00)

There's also a tie-in offer for two other self-contained novellas exploring different worlds in the same universe, for just $1.99 for a bundle of both: Arkfall (a Nebula Award-nominee originally published in the Magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy and reprinted in Year's Best SF 14 edited by Cramer & Hartwell) & The Ice Owl (nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula, and reprinted in four different “Best of” science fiction anthologies)

Description Tedla is a 'bland,' an asexual class of people that exist only to serve their fellow beings. Val is an expert on alien cultures but has never seen a bland before.

They come together after Tedla is found light-years away from its home planet—alone, isolated and suicidal. Val's mission is to help Tedla recover. But the more she learns about the beautiful alien being, the more she discovers about the torment Tedla and its kind suffer on their planet.

Little does the rest of the universe know of the hidden world of the blands, a world that hides shocking secrets and unspeakable crimes.

Halfway Human is a mesmerizing look at an intricately created alien world which is strange and distant, yet hauntingly familiar.

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The Hugo finalists are out, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology you can check out many of them for free and from the comfort of this very web browser. Here are links to the novelette, short story, publications, and other Hugo finalists that are available online. 

Best Novelette 

The Art of Space Travel, by Nina Allan

The Tomato Thief, by Ursula Vernon 

Touring With the Alien, by Carolyn Ives Gilman 

You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay, by Alyssa Wong 

Best Short Story 

The City Born Great, by N.K. Jemisin 

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, by Alyssa Wong

Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies, by  Brooke Bolander 

That Game We Played During the War, by Carrie Vaughn 

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Hugo Novelette Reading

Reading the novelette category of the Hugo shortlist is a little bit less simple than reading the novellas because two of the stories are not available for free online (the Stix Hiscock and the Fran Wilde). I'm going to wait until the Hugo packet comes out for the Wilde and I'm not sure that I'll get through/bother with all of the Hiscock when it comes. I'll probably glance at the opening. We'll see. “The Art of Space Travel”, by Nina Allan (Tor.com, July 2016)

This story is about a woman who works in a hotel near Heathrow, which happens to be the hotel the group of astronauts going to Mars will stay at before departing. The bulk of the story deals with her feelings surrounding space travel, which is inextricably tied up with her family history, especially her mother. The major emotional journeys for the protagonist, Emily, are her search for her father — whose identity she doesn't know — and her mother's illness, caused by proximity to space travel. It's not a bad story, but nothing very much happens in it. We get a bit of a sense for a future in which a large mission is being attempted for the second time, but not much else about the future world is revealed. Emily's emotional journey isn't boring, but neither is it thrilling. The most interesting bits, for me, were about what happened to her mother. Mind you, part of the point there is that no one really understands her illness in full, so it's not really a plot thread with a resolution. I enjoyed "The Art of Space Travel", but I didn't love it. I am hoping that I will enjoy some of the other novelettes more. The Jewel and Her Lapidary, by Fran Wilde (Tor.com, May 2016)

My first impress of of this novelette was that it had too much world building for a relatively short story. In retrospect, if someone had told me up front that it was a novella, I probably would not have felt that way. This is a story about the fall of a royal family and the gem-based magic they used to keep their people safe and maintain peace. The story opens with a coup and mass murder, which should have been exciting but was bogged down a little with the explanation of how the gems worn by the Jewels and controlled by lapidaries works. I found myself rereading part of the opening, trying to get it straight. That said, "The Jewel and Her Lapidary" wasn't bad, but it didn't grab me very strongly and it didn't wow me. I did feel affected by the ending, but it took me several days to read this not very long story, a sign of my generally lukewarm interest. I expect that others might feel differently (and obviously enough people loved this story to nominate it), so your mileage may vary. “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, by Alyssa Wong (Uncanny Magazine, May 2016) This was a gothic western, I think is the best way to describe it. In terms of feel, it reminded me of the Pretty Deadly comics, although the actual story is quite different. "You'll..." is about a darkly magical orphan boy, his best friend, and the crappy situation the both of them live in. And death and the desert. It's written in second person, but not jarringly so. I am, however, curious as to why the author made that choice — it didn't seem integral to the story like the use of second person does in John Chu's "Selected Afterimages of the Fading" (in Defying Doomsday), for example. Westerns aren't really my thing, but this story didn't bore me or feel like it was dragging, so I expect it will ultimately rank well on my ballot. “The Tomato Thief”, by Ursula Vernon (Apex Magazine, January 2016) This is another story set in the American west, which is really very coincidental of my reading order. The protagonist of this one is an old lady, not entirely human or unmagical, who is very keen on her tomato plants. And then someone steals her nice tomatoes and she acquires a mission. "The Tomato Thief" is much more plainly written than the other Hugo stories I've read so far. I wasn't a huge fan of the style, but it didn't grate or offend me either. The story itself wasn't bad but, as with all the novelettes so far, I didn't love it either. My guess is it will rank in the middle somewhere for me. “Touring with the Alien”, by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2016)

Another disappointing story. It had promise, from the first few sentences, but the main premise is no longer that original (except, why did the aliens only visit the US? This fact is stated but never addressed) and the secondary premise was interesting but not explored in enough depth. A shockingly egregious quarantine violation near the end really annoyed me and wasn't even used to show something interesting about character, like I half-expected. The story wasn't badly written aside from the lack of depth mentioned above. But it clearly annoyed me too much for me to vote it very highly. Alas. I suspect I was also disappointed that the tour with the alien took place on Earth rather than in space. Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, by Stix Hiscock (self-published) Pass, after some indecision.

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A disappointing novelette shortlist, all in all. The short stories were a stronger category. I didn't hate any of these either, and actually I found them all to be of similar quality which does make ranking harder. That said, “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay” was my top contender since it was well-written and so forth, even if I didn't love the subject matter. Then it's close between "The Art of Space Travel" and "The Tomato Thief", followed by "The Jewel and Her Lapidary", then "Touring with the Alien". But this category really did feel like much of a muchness.

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best read of 2021

an unkindness of ghosts, rivers solomon

the umbrella country, bino a. realuyo

the memory police, yoko ogawa

annie john, jamaica kincaid

the bluest eye, toni morrison

lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

a passage north, anuk arudpragasam

on fragile waves, e. lily yu

men in the sun and other palestinian stories, ghassan kanafani

dear friend, from my life i write to you in your life, yiyun li

the undressing, li-young lee

my lesbian experience with loneliness, kabi nagata

story of your life, ted chiang

emergency skin, n.k. jemisen

the hour of the star, clarice lispector

melting clocks series, eloghosa osunde

exile's end, carolyn ives gilman

a dead djinn in cairo, p. djeli clark

attending to technology, alan jacobs

the translator, at low tide, vajra chandrasekera

a delicate architecture, catherynne m. valente

rib, yukimi ogawa

when you meet the monster, anoint its feet, bayo akomolafe

muhammads in gaza, lena khalaf tuffaha

forum on biospheres of war: a discussion on the rights of future generations, ghassan abu-sittah, jehan bseiso, jasbir k. puar, francesco sebregondi, and helga tawil souri

we are built to forget, meredith hall

10 observations on lullabies, ted gioia

like fig trees in winter, zeyn joukhadar

the world is unknown, carolyn lazard

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PRIDE MONTH 2021 FLAG SHIRTS!

Day 21- Agender Flag

“I’m perfectly natural the way I am. Why can’t you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with a gender?”

~Carolyn Ives Gilman “Halfway Human”

*just to clarify, being agender means that you identify as having no gender; they don’t identify as being either male or female, or having no gender identity. It is NOT like being Neutrois, genderqueer, or any of the neutral nonbinary classifications

(I hope this is correct! If not, PLEASE let me know, and I’ll fix it! Thank You!!!😖)

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Hey! Do you have a favorite science-fiction book or author?

So I know you said “a” favorite, but I’m going to ignore that, just so you know. Lol

Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman

This book literally changed my world-view and just completely blew my mind. I can see how it wouldn’t be for everyone, but I love the writing style, the characters, the messages, the concept– everything. I need to read it again.

Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace

This one wonderfully crosses genres and is such a fascinating concept with another wonderful writing style.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

A recent read, and I absolutely loved it. The world-building is so immersive and real and the story is wonderful, too.

Medusa Uploaded by Emily Davenport

Another recent read. I’m usually not big on political intrigue stories, but this one has such wonderful characters, world-building, and sci-fi aspects I couldn’t help but love it.

The Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane

I didn’t put these in any particular order, but I did save the closest to my heart for last. A perfect blend of sci-fi and fantasy, characters I love, magic with rules, battles between good and evil, aliens, space travel, redemption, a writing style I’d love to be able to emulate– it has it all! And I will never stop recommending this series.

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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

There once was a pleasure planet called Risa…. Sorry, wrong sci fi series. There was a planet called Artemis. If a person had money and could get there it was quite the experience. Then war came for the universe and it went from being an experience to being a myth.

The story is about Dane, an archeologist looking for this lost planet, and, then, apparently finding it, and also crashing on it. He meets a huntress named Adara and her puma Sand Shadow. And that’s when the journey to find tech so that he can get off the planet starts (with Adara’s help), and, he finds that there’s not only danger from the planet, but others looking for what he’s looking for who don’t have good motivations at all.

This is the first book in a series, and, I loved the world building that happened. And, the story definitely made me want to read the second book too (always a good thing).

You may like this book If you Liked: The Beast Master by Andre Norton, A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias, or Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Artemis Awakening by Jane Lindskold

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The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018

Locus Magazine has published its annual Locus Award finalists, a shortlist of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past calendar year. I rely on this list to find the books I've overlooked (so. many. books.). This year's looks like a bumper crop.

Now that the finalists have been announced, Locus subscribers and others can cast their votes; the awards will be presented in Seattle during a weekend-long event that runs June 28-30, MC'ed by Connie Willis.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager US; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

If Tomorrow Comes, Nancy Kress (Tor)

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller (Ecco; Orbit UK)

Embers of War, Gareth L. Powell (Titan US; Titan UK)

Elysium Fire, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Orbit US)

Red Moon, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Unholy Land, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

FANTASY NOVEL

Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch (DAW; Gollancz)

Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett (Crown; Jo Fletcher)

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Tor)

Deep Roots, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)

Ahab’s Return, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss (Saga)

The Mere Wife, Maria Dahvana Headley (MCD)

The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Argyll Productions)

Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Macmillan)

Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer (John Joseph Adams)

HORROR NOVEL

In the Night Wood, Dale Bailey (John Joseph Adams)

Unlanguage, Michael Cisco (Eraserhead)

We Sold Our Souls, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)

Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)

The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam; Bantam Press UK)

The Outsider, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)

The Listener, Robert McCammon (Cemetery Dance)

Cross Her Heart, Sarah Pinborough (HarperCollins UK/Morrow)

The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow; Titan UK)

Tide of Stone, Kaaron Warren (Omnium Gatherum)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

The Gone Away Place, Christopher Barzak (Knopf)

The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Hot Key)

The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Freeform; Gollancz)

Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Random House)

Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)

Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)

The Agony House, Cherie Priest & Tara O’Connor (Levine)

Half-Witch, John Schoffstall (Big Mouth House)

Impostors, Scott Westerfeld (Scholastic US; Scholastic UK)

Mapping the Bones, Jane Yolen (Philomel)

FIRST NOVEL

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt; Macmillan)

Semiosis, Sue Burke (Tor)

Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)

The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)

The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Annex, Rich Larson (Orbit US)

Severance, Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)

Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga)

Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

NOVELLA

The Black God’s Drums, P. Djèlí Clark (Tor.com Publishing)

The Tea Master and the Detective, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean)

“Umbernight“, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Clarkesworld 2/18)

Black Helicopters, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)

Time Was, Ian McDonald (Tor.com Publishing)

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)

The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts (Tachyon)

Artificial Condition, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)

The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

NOVELETTE

“The Donner Party”, Dale Bailey (F&SF 1–2/18)

“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear (Twelve Tomorrows)

“No Flight Without the Shatter“, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com 8/15/18)

The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander (Tor.com Publishing)

“The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections“, Tina Connolly (Tor.com 7/11/18)

“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan (An Agent of Utopia)

“Queen Lily“, Theodora Goss (Lightspeed 11/18)

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth“, Daryl Gregory (Tor.com 9/19/18)

“Quality Time”, Ken Liu (Robots vs Fairies)

“How to Swallow the Moon“, Isabel Yap (Uncanny 11–12/18)

SHORT STORY

“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington“, Phenderson Djèlí Clark (Fireside 2/18)

“The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford (Robots vs Fairies)

“STET“, Sarah Gailey (Fireside 10/18)

“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies“, Alix E. Harrow (Apex 2/6/18)

“Cuisine des Mémoires”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N.K. Jemisin (How Long ’til Black Future Month?)

“Firelight“, Ursula K. Le Guin (Paris Review Summer ’18)

“The Starship and the Temple Cat“, Yoon Ha Lee (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/1/18)

“Mother of Invention“, Nnedi Okorafor (Future Tense)

“The Court Magician“, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 1/18)

ANTHOLOGY

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)

The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Worlds Seen in Passing, Irene Gallo, ed. (Tor.com Publishing)

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, N.K. Jemisin & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)

Robots vs Fairies, Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe, eds. (Saga)

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Infinity’s End, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

The Underwater Ballroom Society, Tiffany Trent & Stephanie Burgis, eds. (Five Fathoms)

The Future Is Female!, Lisa Yaszek, ed. (Library of America)

COLLECTION

The Tangled Lands, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell (Saga)

Brief Cases, Jim Butcher (Ace; Orbit UK)

An Agent of Utopia, Andy Duncan (Small Beer)

How Long ’til Black Future Month?, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

The Dinosaur Tourist, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)

Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)

All the Fabulous Beasts, Priya Sharma (Undertow)

The Future Is Blue, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Starlings, Jo Walton (Tachyon)

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale, Jane Yolen (Tachyon)

MAGAZINE

Analog

Asimov’s

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Clarkesworld

F&SF

Fireside

Lightspeed

Strange Horizons

Tor.com

Uncanny

PUBLISHER

Angry Robot

Baen

DAW

Gollancz

Orbit

Saga

Small Beer

Subterranean

Tachyon

Tor

EDITOR

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Ellen Datlow

Gardner Dozois

C.C. Finlay

Jonathan Strahan

Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Sheila Williams

Navah Wolfe

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

Galen Dara

Julie Dillon

Leo & Diane Dillon

Bob Eggleton

Victo Ngai

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

Charles Vess

Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster)

Sense of Wonder: Short Fiction Reviews (2009-2017), Gardner Dozois (ReAnimus)

Strange Stars, Jason Heller (Melville House)

Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, Ursula K. Le Guin & David Naimon (Tin House)

Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility, Alexis Lothian (NYU Press)

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, Catherine McIlwaine, ed. (Bodleian Library)

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee (Dey Street)

None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, Benjamin J. Robertson (University of Minnesota Press)

An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000, Jo Walton (Tor)

ART BOOK

Yoshitaka Amano, Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography – Beyond the Fantasy, Florent Gorges (Les Éditions Pix’n Love 2015; Dark Horse)

Spectrum 25: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)

John Howe, A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins UK)

Jeffrey Alan Love, The Thousand Demon Tree (Flesk)

Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State (Fria Ligan ’17; Skybound)

Shaun Tan, Cicada (Lothian; Levine ’19)

Charles Vess, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, Ursula K. Le Guin (Saga)

Michael Whelan, Beyond Science Fiction: The Alternative Realism of Michael Whelan (Baby Tattoo)

Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, Michael Witwer, Kyle Newman, Jon Peterson, & Sam Witwer (Ten Speed)

Lisbeth Zwerger, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling (Levine)

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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 622

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 622

Short story: We Will Be All Right by Carolyn Ives Gilman, from Lightspeed magazine, May 2018. Recommended.

Poem: Mom Betty Addresses the Nature of Proportion by Eileen K. Tabios, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from May 2018. Recommended.

Essay: Tugrha of Suleiman the Magnificent, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from September 2010. Highly Recommended.