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August 30, 2017

The excellent NEW VOICES OF FANTASY is a hot new release

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized b&n sci-fi & fantasy blog, bookish, camille andre, denise harwood, elizabeth story, jacob weisman, joel cunningham, peter s beagle, Publishers Weekly, review, the new voices of fantasy

Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman’s THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY ranks as one of the best books of the week.

Peter S. Beagle (photo: Rina Weisman) and Jacob Weisman

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY mentions the invaluable collection among their PW Picks: Books of the Week, August 28, 2017.

This excellent anthology showcases up-and-coming speculative fiction writers, many of whom have received award nominations and critical attention to support their status as future influencers of the genre. The anthology opens with Alyssa Wong’s Nebula-winning “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” a gripping story of creatures who walk among humans and feed on ugliness. The stories vary in tone: Amal El-Mohtar’s “Wing” is lyrical, A.C. Wise’s “The Practical Witch’s Guide to Acquiring Real Estate” is gently humorous, and Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch” is haunting. Some, such as E. Lily Yu’s beautiful “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees,” eschew the well-worn Western setting that is the English-language-fantasy default; others, such as Brooke Bolander’s “Tornado’s Siren,” thoughtfully embrace their American and European settings. Fantasy legend Beagle and Tachyon publisher Weisman have provided a valuable snapshot of SF/F’s newest generation of writers.

BOOKISH includes the incredible book in This Week’s Hottest Releases: August 20 — August 26.

Admit it: It’s fun finding out about great new authors before any of your friends know about them. You get to look in-the-know, and you get to smile smugly every time one of your friends picks up a book you’ve recommended. If you’re with us, then THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, with stories chosen by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman, is sure to set you on the right course. There’s an incredible range of subgenres in this volume, with stories from authors like Alyssa Wong and Carmen Maria Machado, and it’s sure to whet your appetite for a fall full of fantasy.

Joel Cunningham at B&N SCI-FI & FANTASY BLOG features the collection as part of This Week’s New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books: 10,000 Chances, Superhumans, and Giant Space Bugs.

Celebrating the new voices in fantasy that will define the future of the genre, Beagle assembles an impressive roster of 19 authors who will introduce the unaware to the Next Big Things. The list of authors includes many you’ll recognize from awards ballots over the past few years: Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Usman T. Malik, Ursula Vernon, and many others. The tone, subject matter, and precise sub-genres change from story to story, and the end result is a varied and entertaining anthology with something for every reader—and one that will likely introduce every reader to at least one great new voice.

Denise Harwood discusses THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY on her video Review of New Releases in August 2017.

For more info about THE NEW VOICES OF FANTASY, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Camille André

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

July 25, 2017

Nalo Hopkinson’s FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS delivers some of her best work

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized book riot, casey stepaniuk, denise harwood, falling in love with hominids, helsingin yliopiston, nalo hopkinson, octavia butler, old habits, worldcon

At BOOK RIOT, Casey Stepaniuk includes Nalo Hopkinson in 5 Science Fiction
and Fantasy Women of Color Authors to Read after Octavia Butler.

I personally think both of her short story collections SKIN FOLK and FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS are the very best work she’s done, but her novels such as THE SALT ROADS and SISTER MINE are also AMAZING and ranging from Afro-Caribbean mythological urban fantasy set in Toronto and magical historical tales of Black queer women in different eras and places in the world. In her short stories you’ll find topics like future sex toys who have a life of their own, lesbian/genderqueer erotica set in a brothel, body swapping, zombies who only morph when they hit puberty, and time-travelling art historians taking over the bodies of children in the past. Every time I read new Nalo Hopkinson work I am blown away by the sheer inventiveness of the concepts she comes up with. I feel astounded that the ideas even came from a human being’s brain, they are that ingenious.

Photo: David Findlay

Denise Harwood discusses FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS on her video blog.

The Finnish HELSINGIN YLIOPISTON SCIENCE FICTION KLUB is reading Hopkinson’s “Old Habits.”

On Thursday July 27th at 7 pm we have our PRE-WORLDCON reading group, in which we discuss stories by Worldcon’s guests of honour: Nalo Hopkinson, Walter Jon Williams and Johanna Sinisalo.

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From Nalo Hopkinson, we chose ”Old Habits” (2011), since a Finnish translation of this story was conveniently published in the latest issue of Tähtivaeltaja magazine. In English, ”Old Habits” has been published in Hopkinson’s short story collection FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS (2015) as well as in a few earlier anthologies.

For more information on FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Chuma Hill

Design by Elizabeth Story