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Going back to the country’s independence in 1816, Argentina has been a rich source of genre and genre-adjacent fic­tion. Most will be aware of Jorge Luis Borges – the father of magical realism – but there’s also Silvina Ocampo, Carlos Gardini, and An­gélica Gorodischer, whose 1979 mosaic novel Trafalgar was finally translated into English in 2013 thanks to Small Beer Press. The last few years have seen a resurgence in contemporary Argentine speculative fiction, with writers such as ...

0Shares I think it’s fair to say that when you’re thinking of the champions and iconic authors within the YA space, you have to mention David Levithan. His books—co-authored with some of well-known YA authors—are modern classics, also leading to adaptations and earning him well-deserved awards. Be More Chill, his latest creative endeavor, is a graphic novel adaptation of Ned Vizzini’s novel, Be More Chill and illustrated by Nick Bertozzi. It is a fabulous, prescient graphic novel se...

Washington STEAM Multilingual Academy (WSMA) in Pasadena CA announced a new science fiction writing contest named in honor of alumnus Octavia E. Butler. Last year, the school renamed its library after Butler as well. Librarian Natalie Daily said, It’s the idea of [Butler] representing a very, unique way of integrating science and the arts, and bringing that to the world and her award-winning writing. And we want to inspire our students to have a love of reading and writing as she had, and kin...

Alix E. Harrow was born November 9, 1989 in Idaho and grew up in Colorado and Kentucky. She went to Berea College at age 16, graduating in 2009 with a degree in history. She worked various jobs, including as a research assistant, cashier, housekeeper, instructional designer, and migrant farmworker, before earning a master’s in history at the University of Vermont. She taught history at Eastern Kentucky Univer­sity before becoming a full-time writer. Harrow lives in Kentucky with her husband ...

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Author and publisher Storm Constantine, 64, died January 14, 2021 following a long illness. She was best known as the author of the Wraeththu series, and as the publisher of Immanion Press, founded in 2003, which published her own work and that of other authors including Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, and Brian Stableford. Born October 12, 1956 in Stafford, England, Constantine attended art school in the 1970s, and worked in the music business in the ’80s and ’90s, managing bands. Storm Cons...

Some 70 years or so after the events of Wonder Woman, 1984 finds the titular hero (Gal Gadot) whiling away her time curating artifacts and impressing mortals with her beauty and charm. She seems to be keeping a low profile, at least until struggling entrepreneur Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) acquires an ancient magical device and threatens to destroy the world in his quest for ultimate power. Wonder Woman must find a way to stop him, while also defeating the fairly random friend turned foe, Barb...

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Jason Sizemore Jason Sizemore is the founder of Apex Pub­lications, which publishes books and also produced Hugo Award finalist Apex Maga­zine (formerly Apex Digest ) from 2005-2019, when the journal went on hiatus. The magazine has now been reborn, and Sizemore talked to us a bit about the history and future of the project. After going on hiatus in 2019, Apex is coming back. Tell us about why you shut down, and why the time is right to return. In late 2018, I experienced some serious heal...

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