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(1) 4 YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] SF book lovers had an hour of delight on BBC Radio 4 last Sunday with two half-hour programmes. First up there was Open Book that saw a led discussion of a panel of three authors that looked at artificial intelligence (AI) in their work as well

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 2020, Bloomsbury Piranesi is a fantasy novel of the literary bent, by the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. This n...

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. What is it? Piranesi is the long awaited second novel by Susanna Clarke of Jonathan Stra...

Charles Vess’s award-winning illustration work includes The Ladies of Grace Adieu, Peter Pan and George R. R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords. Recent releases include Seven Wild Sisters and NYT bestsellers Blueberry Girl and Instructions (with Neil Gaiman). Vess has won the World Fantasy Award twice, the Chesley Award, and his Ballads series...

I was on not one but two award juries in 2020. I told myself it was reasonable because there was a lot of overlap in the potential nom­inee pools, so it wouldn’t be that much extra reading. I didn’t count on 2020 being a year of unusual strain and psychic deterioration, which increased the difficulty of reading, thinking, making critical judgments, and re­ally doing anything that required executive function. Still, I got through my mountains of books, and even found some comfort (or, at...