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This novella, currently available only in audio, is a tight, exciting thriller, blended with emotional nuance and plenty of food for thought. In the near future, we have become a world of lotus eaters. The global government provides an income to everyone, so no one has to work. Na­nites keep everyone young and healthy, and even edit one’s perceptions so that everyone’s sensory experiences can be tailored to personal preferences, known as themes (just like the preferences you set on your co...

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The awards are presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). The shortlists will be announced on March 18, 2021, and winners will be announced June 16, 2021 in a ceremony at the British Library in London, UK. Winners receive £500 worth of books to donate to local libraries, a golden medal, and a £5,000 Colin Mears Award cash prize. For more information, including full lists, see the CILIP website. While you are here, please take a moment to support Lo...

(Tor 978-1-250-17466-6, $25.99, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, Feb 16, 2021) Near-future thriller/SF novel. Scientist Evelyn Caldwell’s husband is having an affair with her own cloned replica. Clones don’t seem quite as popular these days as they were back in the 1970s and ’80s, when we were treated on a fairly regular basis to stories about celebrity clones, spare-parts clones, hazardous-duty clones, doppelganger clones, identity-crisis clones, cheap-labor clones, ominous repla...

Connie Willis has been awarded the 2021 Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award, which “recognizes a member of SFWA who best exemplifies the ideal of service to his or her fellow members.” Willis has volunteered for mentorship roles in SFWA as well as the Emergency Medical Fund (EMF) and the Nebula Awards Rules committees. SFWA president Mary Robinette Kowal said: Connie Willis is one of my favorite people. She’s been a tireless volunteer for SFWA for decades with clear, compassionat...

Graham Sleight (2015) by Francesca Myman Publishing lead-times being what they are, the extraordinary events of 2020 largely weren’t reflected in the books that came out in the year – or at least, not intentionally. I managed to read a good deal of thought-provoking SF and fantasy this year, but some books seemed even more relevant than expected because of the pandemic-shuttered world they emerged into. How posterity will view them – let alone how it’ll view the books that’ll doubtles...

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We live in monstrous times. Nevertheless, I sometimes find myself wanting not to escape but to symbolically confront the plagues of cruelty, craziness, and consequences (unintended or otherwise) that the last century (or the last week) has visited upon us. Neal Asher’s confrontations tend to distance and displace the monstrous, to locate it in a future far enough away to have solved most of the problems that bedevil us now. His Polity setting, like Iain M. Banks’s Culture, imagines a materi...

3 – Coronavirus Edition: In November, the virus continued to affect books sales, with our bookstores surviving with limited to no foot traffic, mail orders, and curbside pick-ups. On the hardcover list, two new releases leapfrogged to the top, with Brandon Sanderson’s Rhythm of War (book four of The Stormlight Archive) clinching the top spot, followed by Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline’s sequel to Ready Player One. Our new runner-up was The Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter (Orbit US),...

Set in an alternate 1983, this standalone from Garth Nix blends aspects of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere with Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. Susan’s mother has always been very vague on any information about Susan’s father, so when she turns 18, the young woman resolves to go to London and look for him herself. Once there, Susan discovers that any number of in­imical magical creatures, as well as bespelled criminals, have taken a dangerous interest in her. Thankfully, she gains both ...