- 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards
The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 15 at Readercon 32 in Quincy, Massachusetts. The juried award is given for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. NOVEL [TIE] NOVELLA NOVELETTE SHORT FICTION SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION EDITED … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 7/15/23 I Went Looking For A Scroll And All I Found Was This Lousy Jetpack
(1) IT WON’T BE FREE. “Steven Soderbergh is releasing a surprise sci-fi series starring Michael Cera next week” and EW tries to find out why. Steven Soderbergh is no stranger to experimentation. In 2006, he released Bubble simultaneously on cable and in theaters … Continue reading
- T. Kingfisher Wins 2023 Manly Wade Wellman Award
The 2023 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy winner was announced at ConGregate 9 on July 15 in Winston-Salem, NC. The award is presented by the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation. 2023 Manly Wade Wellman Award Winner Kingfisher’s novel, also a finalist … Continue reading
- 2023 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
The 2023 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award honoree is Josephine Saxton. The selection was announced this weekend at Readercon 32. The 2023 jury consisted of Ann VanderMeer, Steven H Silver, Richard Horton, and Grant Thiessen, who gave these reasons for their choice: The Cordwainer … Continue reading
- The Twilight Zone: An Element Of Time
PREFACE By Steve Vertlieb: Rod Serling’s iconic, landmark television series The Twilight Zone, premiered over the CBS Television Network on Friday night, October 2, 1959. The program featured the brilliant literary poetry of its creator, as well as the writings … Continue reading
- Denise Kitashima Dutton Reviews “Diana Malouf’s Ococoa”
Review by Denise Kitashima Dutton: Every so often an unexpected, and very welcome, treat shows up in my mailbox, courtesy of Cat, who’s constantly on the lookout for new chocolate-related review opportunities. This time around it was a box of … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 7/14/23 Knock, Knock! Who’s There? Cthul.
(1) BUTLER’S NEW YORK PREMIERE. The New York Times interviews Toshi Reagon, co-creator of an opera based on Parable of the Sower. “Apocalypse Nowish: Singing the Prophetic Warnings of Octavia Butler”. … It was the novel’s urgency, and the need … Continue reading
- 2023 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award Finalists
The six finalists for this year’s Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award have been announced. The Award is given out yearly to retailers who have done an outstanding job of supporting the comic art medium both in the industry at large … Continue reading
- Lis Carey Review: Ursula Vernon’s Digger Unearthed: The Complete Tenth Anniversary Collection
Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Complicated-Tunnels is hard at work, as any sensible wombat would be, when she accidentally tunnels through into an unfamiliar cave system. When she can’t get out the way she came in, she keeps going, hoping to find the closest way … Continue reading
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