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With 10 nominees in each category, someone could theoretically win with just a little more than 10% of the vote.

Singer/Activist Janelle Monae teams up with four other SFF writers for an Afrofuturistic expansion of her 2018 album Dirty Computer with "The Memory Librarian!"

What effect will the Recording Academy's decision to jump from eight to 10 nominees in each of the Big Four categories have on who wins?

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer, to David Pomerico at Harper Voyager. The collection of short fiction will build upon the world that she created in 2018’s Dirty Computer. That album features plenty of science fiction imagery, and along with it, Monáe released a 48-minute “emotion picture” that depicted this dystopian cyberpunk world, following a woman named Jane 57821, who works to escape from the systems that govern society. Publishers Weekly notes that Monáe is collaborating with a handful of other writers that builds on that world, and that it will “h...

In a seven-figure, two-book preempt,  Sarah Cantin at St. Martin’s Press bought Bloomsbury UK assistant editor  Jessica George’s debut novel,  Maame. George was represented by  Michelle Brower at Aevitas Creative Management, working on behalf of  Jemima Forrester at U.K.-based David Higham Associates. The book, St. Martin’s said, follows a 20-something British Ghanaian woman in London who is navigating “family conflict, dating, unfulfilling work, roommates who aren’t quite friends, grief, and cultural differences in the wake of a personal tragedy.” The novel was compared, ...