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Finalistas del premio Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial

Aquí os traigo los finalistas del premio Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial de este año, a la mejor ciencia ficción en formato corto.

  • “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue,” Charlie Jane Anders. Boston Review: Global Dystopias, Octubre 2017.
  • “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” Tobias S. Buckell. Cosmic Powers, ed. John Joseph Adams. Saga Press.
  • “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine,” Greg Egan. Asimov’s, Noviembre/Diciembre 2017.
  • “Sidewalks,” Maureen McHugh. Omni, Noviembre 2017.
  • “The Martian Obelisk,” Linda Nagata. Tor.com, Julio 2017.
  • “The Secret Life of Bots,” Suzanne Palmer. Clarkesworld, Septiembre 2017.
  • “And Then There Were (N-One),” Sarah Pinsker. Uncanny Magazine, Marzo 2017.
  • “A Series of Steaks,” Vina Jie-Min Prasad. Clarkesworld, Enero 2017.
  • “Fandom for Robots,” Vina Jie-Min Prasad. Uncanny Magazine, Septiembre 2017.
  • “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience,” Rebecca Roanhorse. Apex, Agosto 2017.
  • “We Who Live in the Heart,” Kelly Robson. Clarkesworld, Mayo 2017

¡Enhorabuena a los nonimados!

 

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Portada de The Consuming Fire

Hoy os traigo la portada de la que será continación de la nominada al Hugo The Collapsing Empire. Se titulará The Consuming Fire y promete más diversión de esa a la que nos tiene acostumbrados Scalzi.

Y la sinopis:

The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional pathway between the stars, is disappearing, leaving planets stranded. Billions of lives will be lost—unless desperate measures can be taken.

Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures. But it’s not quite that easy. There are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth—or an opportunity for them to ascend to power. And while Grayland prepares for disaster, others prepare for civil war. It’s a war that will take place in the halls of power, centres of industry and altars of worship as much as between spaceships. Nothing about this power struggle will be obvious or straightforward… and all of human civilization is at stake.

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Finalistas premios Locus 2018

Ya conocemos a los finalistas de los premios Locus de esta año. La lista es bastante larga, pero aquí os la traigo.

Novela de ciencia ficción

Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Head of Zeus)
The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
Luna: Wolf Moon, Ian McDonald (Tor; Gollancz)
Seven Surrenders, Ada Palmer (Tor; Head of Zeus)
New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi (Tor US; Tor UK)
Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD; HarperCollins Canada; Fourth Estate)

Novela de fantasía

The Stone in the Skull, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga)
The House of Binding Thorns, Aliette de Bodard (Ace; Gollancz)
The Ruin of Angels, Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing)
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Knopf; riverrun)
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Delirium Brief, Charles Stross (Tor.com Publishing; Orbit UK)
Horizon, Fran Wilde (Tor)

Novela de terror

Ill Will, Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Universal Harvester, John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Scribe UK)
After the End of the World, Jonathan L. Howard (Dunne)
Food of the Gods, Cassandra Khaw (Abaddon US; Abaddon UK)
The Night Ocean, Paul La Farge (Penguin Press)
The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
Red Snow, Ian R. MacLeod (PS)
Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough (Flatiron; HarperCollins UK)
Mormama, Kit Reed (Tor)
Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris US; Solaris UK)

Novela juvenil

Tool of War, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House)
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury USA)
Chalk, Paul Cornell (Tor.com Publishing)
Buried Heart, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan; Amulet)
Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic; Allen & Unwin; Piccadilly)
Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
Shadowhouse Fall, Daniel José Older (Levine)
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Fickling UK)

Primera novela

The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Del Rey)
The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager US)
Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor)
Winter Tide, Ruthanna Emrys (Tor.com Publishing)
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss (Saga)
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK 2018)
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Random House; Bloomsbury)
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon (Akashic)
Amatka, Karin Tidbeck (Vintage)

Novella

In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey (Tor.com Publishing)
Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com Publishing)
“And Then There Were (N-One)“, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 3-4/17)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells, (Tor.com Publishing)
The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)
The Red Threads of Fortune, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing)

Novelette

“Children of Thorns, Children of Water“, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“The Hermit of Houston”, Samuel R. Delany (F&SF 9-10/17)
“Come See the Living Dryad“, Theodora Goss (Tor.com 3/9/17)
“The Worshipful Society of Glovers“, Mary Robinette Kowal (Uncanny 7-8/17)
“Extracurricular Activities“, Yoon Ha Lee (Tor.com 2/15/17)
“The Hidden Girl”, Ken Liu (The Book of Swords)
“The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids”, Seanan McGuire (Black Feathers)
“Wind Will Rove”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 9-10/17)
“The Lamentation of Their Women“, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 8/24/17)
“Waiting on a Bright Moon“, JY Yang (Tor.com 7/12/17)

Relato corto

“Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue“, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
“Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
“Persephone of the Crows”, Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s 5-6/17)
“Fire.”, Elizabeth Hand (Fire.)
“Dear Sarah”, Nancy Kress (Infinity Wars)
“The Martian Obelisk“, Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/19/17)
“Fandom for Robots“, Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Uncanny 9-10/17)
“Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM“, Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
“Starlight Express”, Michael Swanwick (F&SF 9-10/17)
“Carnival Nine“, Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/17)

Antología

Cosmic Powers, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
The Book of Swords, Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; HarperCollins UK)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Bookburners, Max Gladstone, ed. (Saga)
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean)
The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)
Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe)

Colección

Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com Publishing)
The Overneath, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (Norton; Bloomsbury)
Strange Weather, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon)
Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories, Naomi Kritzer (Fairwood)
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America)
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne M. Valente (Saga)

Magazine

Analog
Asimov’s
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld
F&SF
File 770
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Tor.com
Uncanny

Editorial

Angry Robot
Baen
DAW
Gollancz
Orbit
Saga
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tachyon
Tor

Editor

John Joseph Adams
Neil Clarke
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
C.C. Finlay
Jonathan Strahan
Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Sheila Williams
Navah Wolfe

Artista

Kinuko Y. Craft
Galen Dara
Julie Dillon
Bob Eggleton
Gregory Manchess
Victo Ngai
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan

No ficción

Sleeping with Monsters: Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Liz Bourke (Aqueduct)
In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1, 1957-1969, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
The Invention of Angela Carter, Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press US; Chatto & Windus 2016)
Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction, James Gunn (McFarland)
Iain M. Banks, Paul Kincaid (University of Illinois Press)
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal, eds. (Twelfth Planet)
Not So Good a Gay Man, Frank M. Robinson (Tor)
Don’t Live for Your Obituary, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, Nat Segaloff (NESFA)
J.G. Ballard, D. Harlan Wilson (University of Illinois Press)

Libro artístico

The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History, Douglas Ellis, Ed Hulse & Robert Weinberg, eds. (IDW)
Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
Paul Kidby, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Imaginarium (Gollancz)
Jeffrey Alan Love, Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor, and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Candlewick Studio)
Gregory Manchess, Above the Timberline (Saga)
Syd Mead, The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist, Craig Hodgetts (Titan)
Jean-Baptiste Monge, Celtic Faeries: The Secret Kingdom (Goblin’s WAY)
Wendy Pini, Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, Richard Pini (Flesk)
Omar Rayyan, Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti (Donald M. Grant)
James Wyatt, The Art of Magic: The Gathering: Kaladesh (Viz)

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!

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Ganadores de los premios Kitschies 2017

Ya conocemos los ganadores de los premios Kitschies de este año, ya en su octava edición. Aquí teníais los nominados.

The Red Tentacle (Novela)

Jurado : Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Leila Abu El Hawa, Joshua Idehen, Ewa Scibor-Rylska, y Alasdair Stuart.

  • The Rift de Nina Allan (Titan)

The Golden Tentacle (Primera novela)

Jurado : Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Leila Abu El Hawa, Joshua Idehen, Ewa Scibor-Rylska, y Alasdair Stuart

  • Hunger Makes the Wolf, de Alex “Acks” Wells (Angry Robot)

The Inky Tentacle (Portada)

Jurado : Dapo Adeola, Sharan Dhaliwal, Jet Purdie, y Stuart Taylor

  • The History of Bees de Maja Lunde, diseñado por Jack Smyth y S&S Art Department (Scribner)

¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores!

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Nuevas portadas para ediciones en tapa dura de Gollancz

Son libros que ya han alcanzado la categoría de clásicos en el género, pero nunca está de más ver qué nuevas portadas se han diseñado para novelas estupendas como Wise Man’s Fear; Hero of Ages; Last Argument of Kings o Republic of Thieves.


¿Qué os parecen? Para mí, demasiado minimalistas y con un mínimo spoiler incluso.

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Ganadores de los premios Sir Julius Vogel 2018

Ya sabemos quiénes han sido los ganadores de los premios Sir Julius Vogel de este año. Son los siguientes:

Mejor novela

Hounds of the Underworld, de Dan Rabarts y Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Mejor novela juvenil

The Traitor and the Thief, de Gareth Ward (Walker Books Australia)

Mejor novella/novelette

Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, de Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright Books)

Mejor relato corto

“Crimson Birds of Small Miracles” de Sean Monaghan, publicado en Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Jan/Feb 2017.

Mejor colección

Mariah’s Prologues, de Grace Bridges

Mejor producción

Mistlands, de Laya Rose https://tapas.io/series/Mistlands

Mejor arte

Portada de Teleport, de Kate Strawbridge

Mejor presentación dramática

The Changeover, dirigida por Stuart McKenzie y Miranda Harcourt, producida por Emma Slade (Firefly Films)

Mejor nuevo talento

Gareth Ward

Premios aficionados

Mejor arte aficionado

John Toon, por dibujos  en Phoenixine y el libro de la convención 2017 LexiCon.

Mejor producción aficionada

Libro de la convención 2017 LexiCon, producido por Darusha Wehm

Mejor escritor aficionado

Jo Toon por Pass the Rules (producido en Phoenixine)

Servicios al fandom

Jan Butterworth

Servicios a la ciencia ficción, fantasía y terror

Darian Smith

¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores!

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Portada de Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart

No sé si alegrarme con la noticia, pero habrá que dar una nueva oportunidad al autor. Aquí os traigo la portada de la nueva novela de ciencia ficción (no cómica, habrá que hacer hincapié en este hecho, porque la experiencia anterior es francamente mejorable).

Esta es la sinopsis:

An alien AI has been sent to the solar system as representative of three advanced species. Its mission is to save the Earth’s ecosystem – and the biggest threat to that is humanity. But we are also part of the system, so the AI must make a choice. Should it save mankind or wipe it out? Are we worth it?

The AI is all-powerful, and might as well be a god. So it sets up some conditions. Violence is now impossible. Large-scale destruction of natural resources is impossible. Food and water will be provided for those who really, truly need them. You can’t even bully someone on the internet any more. The old way of doing things is gone. But a certain thin-skinned US president, among others, is still wedded to late-stage capitalism. Can we adapt? Can we prove ourselves worthy? And are we prepared to give up free will for a world without violence?

And above it all, on a hidden spaceship, one woman watches. A science fiction writer, she was abducted from the middle of the street in broad daylight. She is the only person the AI will talk to. And she must make a decision.

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Portada de Empire of Silence

Se ha desvelado la portada de Empire of Silence, la primera novela de Christopher Ruocchio, que promete ser cuando menos llamativa.

Esta es la sinopsis:

Meet Hadrian Marlow.

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war.

On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives–even the Emperor himself–against Imperial orders.

But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.

Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fighting a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

La portada es obra de Patrick Knowles.

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Portada de Thin Air

Aquí os traigo la portada de Thin Air, la nueva novela de Richard K. Morgan. Se trata de un thriller de corrupción y secuestros situada en Marte, que saldrá a la venta el 9 de octubre.

Aquí la sinopsis:

An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Jegede, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Jegede is abducted, and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected. And soon Hakan discovers the heavy price he may have to pay to learn the truth.

La portada es un poco convencional, pero una novela de Richard Morgan siempre es algo que celebrar.