R. B. Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING, the first novel set in their popular Birdverse mythos, is a finalist for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award (SCKA) Best Fantasy Novel. Winners will be announced this autumn.

The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards has been running since 2018. Created by a group of enthusiastic and dedicated science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction readers, it celebrates the best in genre fiction every year, while acknowledging the subjectivity of our choices. Any traditionally published work may be nominated, but the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards aim to look beyond bestsellers and major publishers to champion titles written by marginalised authors and/or published by independent presses.

WHAT WE ARE

FANTASY FINALISTS

• R B Lemberg, THE UNBALANCING (Tachyon Publications)
• Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water (Del Rey)

SCIENCE FICTION FINALISTS

• Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath (Tor.com)
• Ray Nayler, The Mountain In The Sea (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

BLURRED BOUNDARIES FINALISTS

• Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost (Simon & Schuster)
• Lorraine Wilson, The Way The Light Bends (Luna Press)

NOVELLA FINALISTS

• Stewart Hotston, The Entropy Of Loss (NewCon Press)
• Sam A Miller, Kid Wolf And Kraken Boy (Solaris Books)

SHORT FICTION FINALISTS

• Tobi Ogundiran, The Lady Of The Yellow-Painted Library (in Africa Risen, Tor.com)
• Leora Spitzer, This Excessive Use Of Pickled Food (Khoreo)