The Year in Review 2023 by Gary K. Wolfe
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In 2023 we (only) published four books and I'm happy to see three of them are on the Locus Recommended Reading list. The one title missing is Ayize Jama-Everett's series capper Heroes of an Unknown World—at least The Last Count of Monte Cristo, his great Afrofuturist graphic novel, is listed. As ever, congratulations to everyone
Catch up note on a best of list I missed: Sarah Pinsker's collection Lost Places was selected as one of Book Riot's 20 of the Best Fantasy Books of 2023. It's a good, solid, wide-ranging list, and I completely agree with the write-up for Sarah's book: "All SFF fans should be reading Sarah Pinsker, and this
Thank you, Vanessa Armstrong, for this news story about Small Beer on Tor.com. The article led to a small flood of men emailing manuscript submissions and queries, showing that no matter how clear a headline is ("Small Beer Press Is Halting New Publications" is very clear), some people don't think it applies to them. I'm
Sarah Pinsker's Lost Places gets lovely review in Dan Kois's list of Slate's 10 Best Books of 2023. How to explain what’s so graceful about this collection of fantasy stories by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Pinsker? . . . Every story is surprising, delightful, and very human, and left me excited to read more