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chantireviews · 22 days

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2023 Winners CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs). Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other…

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guardian-angle22 · 2 years

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Ming-Na Wen | Accepting The Saturn Award for Best Actress in a Streaming Series for her work as Fennec Shand in The Book of Boba Fett

#ming-na wen #ming na wen #star wars #star wars cast #the book of boba fett cast #the saturn awards 2022 #i butchered her speech down a little bit to fit (7 gifs is already a lot) but it was so good and i loved it so much #she's so stunning and so relatable in her nerdiness #a true scifi nerd queen #i just love her so much #my gifs

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hedgehog-moss · 1 year

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do you ever read scifi or fantasy in french? i am trying to read more sff that was originally published not in english but it's not easy to find 💀

I do! It’s not my favourite genre but one of my friends loves it so I read a bunch of SFF books every year ahead of her birthday to try and find a gift for her. I’m glad I do this because it’s allowed me to discover N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy which was amazing, and I don’t know if I would have picked it up otherwise!

Here are some French-language authors I’ve read or plan to read (unfortunately English translations are few and far between :( I bolded the names for which I found English translations—if you read in another language you can check out the non-bolded authors, there are often translations available in other languages long before English ones)

When it comes to classics you've got Pierre Boulle (Planet of the Apes of course; also Garden on the Moon, which is (deservedly imo) less known), Jacques Spitz (La Guerre des mouches—it was translated but not into English), René Barjavel (The Ice People, Ravage, Future Times Three—I read them a long time ago but I remember them as very sexist even by French classic standards), Bernard Lenteric (La nuit des enfants rois), Alain Damasio (La Horde du Contrevent—maybe too recent to be a classic but it’s everywhere. I was surprised to find no English translation!), Bernard Werber (I feel like he rehashes the same 3 ideas again and again but some of his earlier stuff was fun), Alexandre Arnoux (Le règne du bonheur), Jules Verne of course, Stefan Wul (Oms en série which was adapted into the film La Planète sauvage—Fantastic Planet in English. I like the film better!) And some I haven’t read: Georges-Jean Arnaud, Serge Brussolo (I liked his Peggy Sue series when I was in middle school but it spooked me so much I haven’t dared to pick up any of his SFF for adults, like Les semeurs d’abîmes), Élisabeth Vonarburg.

Newer authors: Estelle Faye (L’arpenteuse de rêves, Un éclat de givre—I tend to like her worldbuilding more than her plots); Sandrine Collette (The Forests—if you count speculative fiction as SFF) (I didn’t like it at all personally but others might), Jean-Philippe Jaworski (I really liked Janua Vera; didn't like Gagner la guerre but it was mainly because I have a low tolerance for rape scenes in fantasy books) (he’s about to be translated into English according to his editor), Stéphane Beauverger (Le déchronologue)

More authors I haven't yet read: Pierre Pevel (The Cardinal's Blades—I've been told it's "17th century Paris with dragons"), Romain Lucazeau (Latium), Laurent Genefort (Lum’en), Christian Charrière (La forêt d’Iscambe), Roland Wagner (La saison de la sorcière), Aurélie Wellenstein (Mers Mortes—I love the synopsis for this one), Magali Villeneuve (La dernière Terre, trilogy)

And non-French, non-anglo SFF authors: Maryam Petrosyan (my review of the Gray House last year was that I understood maybe 1/3 of it but I liked it anyway!), Hao Jingfang (haven’t read her yet), Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (idem), Jaroslav Melnik (I’ve read Espace lointain (originally Далекий простір) but didn’t like it much), Andreas Eschbach (The Carpet Makers), Walter Moers (I read The City of Dreaming Books back when I was still learning German and found it very charming), Liu Cixin (I loved The Three-Body Problem but The Dark Forest was so sexist it made me not want to pick up the third volume), Lola Robles (El informe Monteverde, translated as Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist), Elaine Vilar Madruga (Fragmentos de la Tierra Rota), Tatiana Tolstaya (The Slynx), Karin Tidbeck (Amatka), Emmi Itäranta (Memory of Water, The Moonday Letters), Angélica Gorodischer (I’ve read Kalpa Imperial and found it only so-so but it always takes me a while to warm up to characters or a setting so I struggle with short story collections. I’ll still give Trafalgar a try) Also my favourite fantasy book as a kid was Michael Ende’s Neverending Story, I was obsessed with it. I re-read it in the original German a few years ago and it was still great.

#ask #book recs #i feel like sff has long had a poor reputation in france. like it's seen as 'not real literature'#not necessarily by readers but by literary awards and mainstream outlets that promote books #the genre doesn't get a lot of attention from those so it's hard for authors to become well-known #it's often seen as a genre for kids and teenagers—i know i had an easier time finding sff books by french authors when i was younger #scifi for primary school kids like christian lamblin's le survivant or philippe ebly's space operas in bibliothèque verte #or sff for middle school kids: the peggy sue series; linus hoppe by a-l bondoux; more recently the nuées series by nathalie bernard #but yeah in the adult sff aisle of nonspecialised bookshops it's mostly anglo authors + always the same handful of french ones

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rockislandadultreads · 6 months

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2023 Hugo Award Winners

Introducing the 2023 Hugo Award Winners! For more information about this science fiction award, visit their website here.

Best Novel: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.

Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.

On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.

Best Novella: Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company.

There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.

It isn't as friendly as Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. And it isn't as safe.

When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her Home for Wayward Children, she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn't save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster.

She will soon discover that not all doors are welcoming...

Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Travis Baldree

Legends and Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1)

After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.

The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success — not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.

But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed.

Stay tuned for...

Bookshops and Bonedust (prequel to Legends & Lattes series publishing on November 7th!)

Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.

Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.

What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.

Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.

#hugo awards #science fiction #scifi #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

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kammartinez · 2 months

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#books #science fiction #scifi #fantasy #sff #hugo awards

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desdasiwrites · 11 months

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I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

– Martha Wells, All Systems Red

#book quote of the day #martha wells #all systems red #murderbot #scifi books #space #robots #novella #humorous literature #award winning books #book quotes #book recommendations

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lambdalibrary · 2 years

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Unknown Number

[Image ID: A section of Unknown Number by Blue Neustifter, stylized as a text message conversation. It reads, and I am taking the author's own image ID here, "Them: does breaking physics to talk to yourself in another timeline sound like a “happy person” kinda thing to do You: no, I got that much You: I mean what are you going to do now You: you said I was the first one to do it, right You: how many of us have you talked to? Them: you’re the sixth" End ID.]

Trigger Warnings

Self harm, deadnaming (putting this here just to be safe, but all mentions are redacted), some mentions of transphobia/transmisogyny, also tagging just to be safe but i can see the beginning of this story especially with the formatting being paranoia inducing

Summary

Unknown Number is a science fiction short story, presented as a series of text messages between I guess you would say the narrator or the protagonist and an unknown number. Said unknown number happens to be the narrator from another timeline, breaking through to talk to other of their other selves, to figure out if any of them really figured out what they were feeling their whole lives.

Links

The entire story as well as the author's Twitter can be found here

The author's itch.io page where you can find her other writing

This story has also been nominated for a Hugo Award, and the rest of the short story and novella entries and some other science fiction can be found here

Thoughts

So I literally just stumbled upon this story like an hour ago and realized I needed to share it here immediately. It's very short and reads even faster because of the text message format, so please take some time to read some emotional trans sci fi and maybe pass it along. This is a very worthwhile read, especially if you're trans, if you've ever wondered what would be different if you figured it out sooner, if you were able to transition sooner, if you've dwelled on that a little too much.

I think a lot of trans people have made art and fiction talking to themselves, its a common theme for obvious reasons, but it usually happens to be them reflecting on their younger selves, reassuring them one day they'll figure it out. Unknown Number is somewhat similar thematically, but what I find interesting is that both Gabys in this story are middle aged, and while they may talk about the dysphoria they experienced as a child, they're both at the same phase in their life and only one has seemingly figured it all out, leading unknown number Gaby to seek the same reassurance usually given to a younger version of a trans person in one of these stories. I think that phrasing is kind of clunky but I'm pointing it out because I think its a good rebuke against the idea that there's some kind of unspoken deadline for transitioning, that at one point you will be "too old" and that's just not true, which is exactly what this story is about and what Gaby points out to well, herself.

#bookblr #scifi #scifi books #transgender #trans women #trans fiction #hugo awards #lgbt #lgbtq #unknown number #blue neustifter #lesbian #wlw

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rsagarcia · 1 year

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Delighted I've made the long list for the Locus Awards this morning!

For the first time, I'm in the novella & short story categories in the same year. 'Bishop's Opening' in Clarkesworld for Best Novella & '12 Things a Trini Should Know Before Travelling to a Back-In-Times Fete(TM)' in Strange Horizons for Best Short Story.

The Death in the Mouth anthology up for Best Original Anthology includes my story 'A Bonfire in the Night'.

Congratulations to everyone listed!

#scifi #sff #books #speculative fiction #my writing #novella #books and literature #romance #polyamorous #clarkesworldmagazine #locus magazine #locus recommended reading list #locus awards

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kamreadsandrecs · 1 month

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#books #science fiction #scifi #sff #fantasy #hugo awards #book recs

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threeravenspublishing · 1 year

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Dragon Awards, Open calls, and new things coming!

April came and went, and now we’re already through the first week of May! This year is flying by, at least for me. What’s keeping you occupied these days? Gardening? Mowing and weeding? Time in the pool if you’re close enough to the equator? As for me, I’ve got writing to get done! Shared worlds, worlds of my own, anthology submissions… There’s enough on the stack to keep a writer off the…

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chantireviews · 3 months

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The 2023 FINALIST CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs). Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other…

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thechrysalisbrewproject · 2 years

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BREW Readers' Choice Awardee for August 2022: "Homecoming" (Book 2 of the "Projects" Series) by Jude Austin

"Homecoming" - the second instalment of the "Projects" Series by multi-award-winning author Jude Austin - is August 2022's BREW Readers' Choice Award winner. #TheChrysalisBREWProject #awardwinner #writerslift #BookTwitter #WritingCommunity #bookawards

“Homecoming” – the second instalment of the “Projects” Series by multi-award-winning author Jude Austin – is August 2022’s BREW Readers’ Choice Award winner. Know more about the BREW Readers’ Choice Award by clicking this link. More about the author View the book on Amazon.com View the book on Amazon.com.au Featured Book: “Homecoming” (Book 2 of the “Projects” Series) by Jude Austin…

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#award winning book #books and life #featured #featured book #genetic engineering #science fiction #science fiction realism #scifi realism

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barbwritesstuff · 5 months

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The Goodreads Choice awards has happened. It included a 'romantasy' category and no 'graphic novel' category. I take that as permission to make up my own ridiculous genres as I tell you about what I read in 2023.

Obviously, 2023 is not finished yet, but I'm doing a reading challenge at my library, so I don't think I'll be reading stuff I want to read for the rest of the year. Just stuff my librarian friend thinks its funny to make me read.

I've read 65ish books. Here are the highlights sorted into easy and normal groups.

Scifi books in which the main character spends 99% of the book wandering around a horrifying cave:

I enjoyed both of these, but Piranesi was a joy to read.

Vampires:

Empire of the Vampire was wild. House of Hunger was horny. Dowry of Blood was both of those things.

Ace books:

Disclaimer: I didn't actually like Loveless or Let's Talk About Love very much but I know a lot of people did, so I thought I'd include them here.

Vanilla surprised me because I don't normally like poetry but it was really good. Heartbreaking, but good.

Memoirs by people way too young to write memoirs:

All of which were funny!

Books about white people being shitty to Asian (specifically Chinese) people in the entertainment industry with ambiguous endings and a huge amount of research into the industry on blast:

Yellowface is for you if you like Hbomberguy's latest video. Seriously, those two go together like a fine wine and a good cheese. The Whitewash was also fantastic and so under appreciated.

Books that made me want to quit my job and become a ridiculous but stylishly dressed criminal:

Seriously. Rogues included a step by step guide on how to become a wine forger... and I was tempted.

HISTORY:

Okay, so Babel isn't really history, in that it's actually a magical dark academia, but it's tied into historical events, and made me look up some history, so I think it counts. The wager was the most exciting history book I've ever read. I was so invested in the lives and deaths of these silly scurvy-ridden seamen.

There are other books I read and enjoyed but I can't think of funny categories to put them into, so you don't get to hear about them.

Anyway. That's it. Read books.

Also, get a library card if you can. I practically live at my local library and have learnt so much from reading.

Here's last year's post if you want more books...

#book recs #reading #bookish

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fandomsandfeminism · 4 months

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Oof yall. The 2023 Hugo controversy has gotten much, much worse.

The Hugo's are another big Scifi/Fantasy book award, basically only second in prestige to the Nebulas. It's held by WorldCon, so who runs the awards changes each year- its handled by whatever group is doing the con.

And in 2023, it was held in China. And at the time, the finalist list took FOREVER to come out, and when it did, Babel (which had won the Nebula and Locus awards already) wasn't even nominated. Which everyone thought was *suspicious*

And NOW the actual nomination ballot data has come out. And not only do some of the counts... seem.....weird. BUT we've found out that not only Babel, but also Xiran Jay Zhao (who wrote the Chinese Yugioh book lol), and Sandman were disqualified late in nomination for being "ineligible" with no explanation for WHY.

The obvious explanation is Chinese censorship, either for the queer content, though other queer works were still included (including Legends and Lattes and Nona the Ninth), or some other political themes. Kuang and Zhou have content in their books that the Chinese government might not...love. but I dunno why Sandman got snubbed then? This is all speculation, but since the people actually running 2024 WorldCon are refusing to answer questions, what should we think? Neil Gaiman apparently tried to get answers and was basically brushed off.

And people are piiiiiiiissed

Mostly, I feel bad for T Kingfisher, who won Best Novel at the Hugo's for Nettle and Bone. Nettle and Bone was a great book! And now this win is always going to have this sheen of ick on it.

#hugos #2023 hugo awards #hugo awards #rf kuang #babel an arcane history #xiran jay zhao #t kingfisher #neil gaiman

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kammartinez · 2 months

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#nebula awards #books #publishing #science fiction #scifi #sff

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desdasiwrites · 1 year

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– Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars

#book quote of the day #mary robinette kowal #the calculating stars #scifi books #alternate history #astronauts #lady astronaut #Elma York #beautiful cover #50s #nebula award winner #hugo award winner #locus award winner #book quotes

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