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(1) CHENGDU WORLDCON PROMO VIDEO UNVEILED. “Chasing Dreams for the Future_Worldcon” on YouTube. A two-and-a-half minute video was released today on various platforms, including the official con site. It features animated characters, against imagery based on a variety of SF works, and also references prior Worldcons. (2) CHENGDU WORLDCON ROUNDUP. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] No reference

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Author Becky Chambers returns to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in We’re thrilled to share an excerpt below, along with an interview with Becky Chambers! *** Tor.com: What is the Wayfarers series about, and when and where do those books take place? Becky Chambers: The Wayfarers series is about everyday people living within a fantastic, intergalactic future. I built a very...

Author Becky Chambers returns to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in We’re thrilled to share an excerpt below, along with an interview with Becky Chambers! *** Tor.com: What is the Wayfarers series about, and when and where do those books take place? Becky Chambers: The Wayfarers series is about everyday people living within a fantastic, intergalactic future. I built a very...

Contemporary life is a busy thing, full of demands and schedules and deadlines and destinations. The same holds true in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer universe, where a cadre of sapient species are part of an intergalactic civilization called the Galactic Commons (GC, for short) with its own rules, expectations, and inequities. It’s natural for those in the GC—just like it’s natural for us humans on Earth—to get lost in the day-to-day of one’s own life and the immediate stressors and conc...

Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense o...

February Is Here With an Avalanche of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Share Filed to:apocalyptic and post apocalyptic fiction What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo (Image: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. February may be the shortest month, but the book gods are not ...

From time to time, humanity’s powers of kidding itself have produced short-lived crops of deluded optimists. Half a century ago, for example, young people not yet reconciled to grim reality pushed back at society’s constraints… Free love! Communes! Bold hairstyle choices suitable for those who have not yet experienced male pattern baldness! Unsurprisingly, hippiedom and the counterculture leaked into science fiction, with various degrees of optimism. Here are five examples.   This book i...