Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin Dying for You by Jenny Frame Harsh Reality by Elle E. Ire What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher BOYS, BEASTS & MEN by Sam J. Miller Bite Me! (You Know I Like It) by Fae Quin Cougar Woods by Tiana Warner All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
They’re bright, they’re colorful, and they’re doing the meaningful work of ensnaring a potential reader’s eye. These are the boldest and most original book covers of the year, as selected by BookPage’s designer.
Sam J. Miller’s debut collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN ranks among the best books of the year according to Lee Mandelo at Tor.com and without comment from the staff of Outwrite Magazine. In an interview with Reads Rainbow, Nathan Tavares includes the collection among his desert island books. Miller, himself, is interviewed on The Coode Streetpodcast.
In the realm of short fiction BOYS, BEASTS & MEN by Sam J. Miller was released over the summer season: a long-anticipated first collection! The stories inside “weave together two fictional lineages: the tradition of political queer sf, and the tradition of weird gay art,” to powerful and provocative ends.
The Coode Street Advent Calendar rolls into the fifth day, and this time Gary takes a little time to chat with the wonderful Sam J. Miller about his new novella, Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy, and his short story collection, BOYS, BEASTS & MEN. There’s also, no doubt, some holiday chat with books and such being recommended.
The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.
R. B. Lemberg
Hannu Rajaniemi
Jacob Weisman
Lavie Tidhar
Photo by Barbera Bella
READS RAINBOW cites 5 Reasons To Read R. B. Lemberg’s forthcoming THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES. Here’s three of them:
The worldbuilding is incredibly intriguing, and detailed, so that you will find yourself just wanting to read more and more of the world. Good thing this is an entire 12 novella series, then!
The writing is gorgeous and evocative and you will feel as though you are really in the world.
It’s got a fun and creative magic system, one of the most inventive we’ve read.
Peter Flom for MEDIUM praises Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman‘s THE NEW VOICES OF SCIENCE FICTION. Flom singles out “Mother Tongues” by S. Qiouyi Lu, “Our Lady of the Open Road” by Sarah Pinsker, “A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience TM” by Rebecca Roanhorse, “Openness” by Alexander Weinstein, and “Utopia, LOL?”by Jami Wahls.
All the stories are well written, but in any such collection, each reader will like some stories more than others.
Via Twitter, The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction announced the finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, which includes Lavie Tidhar’s “New Atlantis“. Congrats to Lavie and all the honorees.
Good, solid, science fiction space opera. Baddies and goodies, an interesting universe and a problem to solve. Life and Death in space with well-drawn characters and challenges to overcome.
Big enough to tell the whole story, not to big to be cumbersome or hard-to-handle.
Science fiction as it should be written.
Cover art by Thomas Canty Design by Elizabeth Story
