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Finalistas de los premios World Fantasy 2018

Se han dado a conocer los nombres de los finalistas de los premios World Fantasy 2018, son los siguientes:

Novela

  • The City of Brass de S. A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
  • Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymir de John Crowley (Saga Press)
  • The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter de Theodora Goss (Saga Press)
  • Spoonbenders de Daryl Gregory (Bond Street Books CA/Knopf US/Riverrun UK)
  • The Changeling de Victor LaValle (Spiegal & Grau)
  • Jade City de Fonda Lee (Orbit)

Ficción larga (de 10000 a 40000 palabras)

  • The Teardrop Method de Simon Avery (TTA Press)
  • In Calabria de Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
  • Mapping the Interior de Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
  • Passing Strange de Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
  • The Black Tides of Heaven de JY Yang (Tor.com)

Ficción corta (menos de 10000 palabras)

  • “Old Souls” de Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
  • “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” de Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex Magazine, Aug. 2017)
  • “The Birding: A Fairy Tale” de Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons, Dec. 18, 2017)
  • “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” de Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2017)
  • “Carnival Nine” de Caroline Yoachim (Beneath Ceasless Skies, May 11, 2017)

Antología

  • The New Voices of Fantasy, editado por Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (Tachyon Publications)
  • Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, editado por Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
  • The Book of Swords, editado por Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/Harper Voyager UK)
  • The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, editado por Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
  • The Best of Subterranean, editado por William Schafer (Subterranean Press)

Colección

  • Wicked Wonders de Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications)
  • Her Body and Other Parties de Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
  • Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers de Tim Powers (Baen Books)
  • Tender de Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
  • The Emerald Circus de Jane Yolen (Tachyon Publications)

Artista

  • Gregory Manchess
  • Victo Ngai
  • Omar Rayyan
  • Rima Staines
  • Fiona Staples

Premio especial profesional

  • Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, y Danel Olson por Writing Madness (Centipede Press)
  • C. C. Finlay, como editor de F&SF
  • Irene Gallo, por la dirección artística de Tor Books y Tor.com
  • Greg Ketter, por DreamHaven Books
  • Leslie Klinger, por The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright Publishing Corp.)

Premio especial no profesional

  • Scott H. Andrews, por Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
  • Justina Ireland y Troy L. Wiggins, por FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
  • Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali y Jen R Albert, por PodCastle
  • Ray B. Russell y Rosalie Parker, por Tartarus Press
  • Lynne M. Thomas y Michael Damian Thomas, por Uncanny Magazine

Premio a toda una vida

  • Charles de Lint
  • Elizabeth Wollheim

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!

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Ganador del premio Prometheus 2018

Ya se ha anunciado el ganador del premio Prometheus de este año, se trata de:

The Powers of the Earth, de Travis Corcoran

Con esta sinopsis:

The Powers of the Earth(Morlock Publishing), the first volume in The Aristillus Series, is set in a near-future ungoverned lunar settlement, developed while Earth leaders ignored and denied its existence. The settlement struggles to retain its independence from Earth’s invading force in Corcoran’s panoramic story about people carrying on their lives in liberty. Corcoran’s novel is both a tribute to Robert Heinlein’s classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and a re-examination of its assumptions about how such a lunar colony would function, and what kinds of people would live there.

No os voy a engañar, no me suena ni el libro ni el autor. ¿Conocéis esta obra?

También se ha elegido el siguiente relato para formar parte del Prometheus Hall of Fame:

“With Folded Hands …” del Gran Maestro Jack Williamson (1947 relato corto)

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Portada de City of Ghosts

V.E. Schwab ha publicado en su cuenta de twitter la que será portada para el Reino Unido de City of Ghosts.

Aquí tenéis la sinopsis:

Cassidy Blake’s parents are The Inspectres, a (somewhat inept) ghost-hunting team. But Cass herself can REALLY see ghosts. In fact, her best friend, Jacob, just happens to be one.

When The Inspectres head to ultra-haunted Edinburgh, Scotland, for their new TV show, Cass—and Jacob—come along. In Scotland, Cass is surrounded by ghosts, not all of them friendly. Then she meets Lara, a girl who can also see the dead. But Lara tells Cassidy that as an In-betweener, their job is to send ghosts permanently beyond the Veil. Cass isn’t sure about her new mission, but she does know the sinister Red Raven haunting the city doesn’t belong in her world. Cassidy’s powers will draw her into an epic fight that stretches through the worlds of the living and the dead, in order to save herself

 

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Libro gratis: Rocket Fuel

Para celebrar su décimo aniversario, la gente de Tor.com ha creado un libro con los artículos más interesantes publicados en su blog y lo ha dejado disponible para su descarga gratuita. El título del libro es Rocket Fuel, con la portada que anexo y los contenidos que podéis ver a continuación:

Prefacio – Bridget McGovernUnder the Covers with a Flashlight: Our Lives as Readers – Emily Asher-Perrin
Sometimes, Horror is the Only Fiction That Understands You – Leah Schnelbach
The Bodies of the Girls Who Made Me: Fanfic and the Modern World – Seanan McGuire
Writing Women Characters as Human Beings – Kate Elliott
Meet My Alien Family: Writing Across Cultures in Science Fiction – Becky Chambers
So How Does a Centaur Eat, Anyway? – Judith Tarr
Fantasy, Reading, and Escapism – Jo Walton
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (and Why You Should Read It) – Leigh Butler
Robert Jordan: The American Tolkien – Michael Livingston
The Trial of Galadriel – Jeff LaSala
Good Idols: Terry Pratchett & the Appropriate Hug – Lish McBride
Orwell and the Librarian, a Love Story – Alex Brown
Beloved: The Best Horror Novel the Horror Genre Has Never Claimed – Grady Hendrix
The Peril of Being Disbelieved: Horror and the Intuition of Women – Emily Asher-Perrin
What Rape Apologists Need to Learn From Jessica Jones – Natalie Zutter
In Defense of Villainesses – Sarah Gailey
Queering SFF: Writing Queer—Languages of Power – Brit Mandelo
Sleeps With Monsters: There’s A Counter In My Head – Liz Bourke
Apologize to No One: V for Vendetta is More Important Today Than it Ever Was – Emily Asher-Perrin
Five Books about Loving Everybody – Nisi Shawl
Safe as Life: A Four-Part Essay on Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle – Brit Mandelo
The Complete American Gods Mix Tape – Bridget McGovern
Rewatching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: “Far Beyond the Stars” – Keith R.A. DeCandido
The POC Guide to Writing Dialect In Fiction – Kai Ashante Wilson
Homecoming: How Afrofuturism Bridges the Past and the Present – Tochi Onyebuchi
Nobody Gets Mad About Hamlet Remakes: Why Superheroes Are the New Cultural Mythology – Ryan Britt
Sowing History: A Gardener’s Tale – Ursula Vernon
Not Saving the World? How Does That Even Work? – Jo Walton
Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Defies Genre – Gabrielle Bellot
Soon I Won’t Know What the Future Looks Like – Chris Lough
Bouncy Prose and Distant Threats: An Appreciation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s (or Sorcerer’s) Stone – Mari Ness
Joy, Sorrow, Regret, and Reassurance: The Singular Beauty of The Last Unicorn – Bridget McGovern
One Day You Wake Up and You Are Grown: Fairyland and the Secrets of Growing Up – Molly Templeton
Preparing Myself for Death with Joe Versus the Volcano – Leah Schnelbach

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Portada de Ancestral Night

Aquí os traigo la que será portada de Ancestral Night, la nueva novela de Elizabeth Bear.

El diseño es de Tomás Almeida.

Esta es la nota de prensa:

Cutting edge ideas and amazing characters in an SF novel that announces the arrival of multi-award winning Elizabeth Bear to the Gollancz list.

A wild, big-ideas space opera that will appeal to fans of Iain M. Banks, Peter F. Hamilton and Al Reynolds from a John W. Campbell and multiple Hugo award winning author.

Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law…
usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence–with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big–just once–to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human–and alien–vessels.

A wild adventure across an imagined cosmos where every FTL journey creates its own mini-universe. A universe that is just waking up to the knowledge that a long-dead, hugely powerful alien species may still be around. Knowledge that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into war.

Tiene buena pinta, ¿verdad?

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Tor.com publicará una novella de Gareth Powell

Tor.com ha anunciado al adquisición de una novella de Gareth Powell, titulada Ragged Allice.

De momento hay pocos datos sobre el libro, pero mirad que frase más intrigante para ir abriendo boca:

A small Welsh town. A string of murders. And a detective who can literally see the evil in people’s souls.

La sinopsis:

Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of Pontyrhudd. As soon as she was old enough, she ran away to London and joined the police. Now, fifteen years later, she’s back in her old hometown to investigate what seems at first to be a simple hit-and-run, but which soon escalates into something far deadlier and unexpectedly personal—something that will take all of her peculiar talents to solve.

Ragged Allice se sale y mucho de su estilo habitual, más humorístico con Ack-Ack Macaque. Siento curiosidad por esta obra, ¿y vosotros?

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Ganador del premio John W. Campbell Memorial 2018

Ya conocemos al ganador del premio John W. Campbell de este año la novela  The Genius Plague de David Walton.

La ceremonia de entrega tuvo lugar el día 22 de junio y el jurado dijo esto:

Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss established the award to honor the late editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine (now Analog), and continue his efforts to encourage writers to produce their best work. Many consider Campbell – who edited the magazine and guided its authors from 1937 until his death in 1971 – the father of modern SF.

El jurado estaba formado por Gregory Benford, Sheila Finch, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul Kincaid, Christopher McKitterick , Pamela Sargent , and Lisa Yaszek.

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Nominados a los premios British Fantasy 2018

Ya conocemos a los nominados a los premios British Fantasy de este año. Son los siguientes:

Mejor antología

2084, ed. George Sandison (Unsung Stories)
Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2, ed. Steve Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
Imposter Syndrome, ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth (Dark Minds Press)
New Fears, ed. Mark Morris (Titan Books)
Pacific Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir (Fox Spirit)

Mejor artista

Ben Baldwin
Jeffrey Alan Love
Victo Ngai
Daniele Sera
Sophie E Tallis
Sana Takeda

Mejor audio

Anansi Boys (de Neil Gaiman, adaptado por Dirk Maggs para Radio 4)
Brave New Words podcast (Ed Fortune y Starburst Magazine)
Breaking the Glass Slipper podcast (Lucy Hounsom, Charlotte Bond & Megan Leigh)
Ivory Towers (de Richard H Brooks, dirigido por Karim Kronfli para 11th Hour Audio Productions)
PseudoPod podcast (Alasdair Stuart y Escape Artists)
Tea & Jeopardy podcast (Emma & Peter Newman)

Mejor colección

Norse Mythology, de Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
Strange Weather, de Joe Hill (Gollancz)
Tanith by Choice, de Tanith Lee (Newcon Press)
Tender: Stories, de Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
You Will Grow Into Them, de Malcolm Devlin (Unsung Stories)

Mejor cómic

Bitch Planet Vol 2: President Bitch, de Kelly Sue DeConnick, Taki Soma & Valentine de Landro (Image)
Grim & Bold, de Joshua Cornah (Kristell Ink)
Monstress, Vol. 2, de Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
Tomorrow, de Jack Lothian & Garry Mac (BHP Comics)
The Wicked + The Divine Vol 5: Imperial Phase Part 1, de Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Mejor novela de fantasía (Premio Robert Holdstock)

Age of Assassins, de RJ Barker (Orbit)
The Court of Broken Knives, de Anna Smith Spark (HarperVoyager)
The Ninth Rain, de Jen Williams (Headline)
Under the Pendulum Sun, de Jeanette Ng (Angry Robot)

Mejor película / producción televisiva

Black Mirror, Series 4, de Charlie Brooker (Netflix)
Get Out, de Jordan Peele (Universal Pictures)
The Good Place, Season 1, de Michael Schur (Netflix)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, de Rian Johnson (Lucasfilm)
Stranger Things, Season 2, de Matt & Ross Duffer (Netflix)
Twin Peaks: the Return, de Mark Frost & David Lynch (Sky Atlantic)
Wonder Woman, de Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg & Jason Fuchs (Warner Bros.)

Mejor novela de terror (Premio August Derleth)

Behind Her Eyes, de Sarah Pinborough (Harper Collins)
The Boy on the Bridge, de MR Carey (Orbit)
The Changeling, de Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
The Crow Garden, de Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books)
Relics, de Tim Lebbon (Titan Books)

Mejor editorial independiente

Fox Spirit
Grimbold Books
Newcon Press
Salt Publishing
Unsung Stories

Mejor magazine

Black Static, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
Grimdark Magazine, ed. Adrian Collins
Interzone, ed. Andy Cox (TTA Press)
Shoreline of Infinity, ed. Noel Chidwick

Mejor recién llegado (Premio Sydney J Bounds)

RJ Barker, por Age of Assassins (Orbit)
SA Chakraborty, por The City of Brass (HarperVoyager)
Ed McDonald, por Blackwing (Orion)
Jeanette Ng, por Under the Pendulum Sun (Angry Robot)
Anna Smith Spark, por The Court of Broken Knives (HarperVoyager)

Mejor no ficción

Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. FT Barbini (Luna Press)
Gingernuts of Horror, ed. Jim Mcleod
Luminescent Threads, ed. Alexandra Pierce & Mimi Mondal (12th Planet Press)
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, de Ursula K Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction, de Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, de Maura McHugh (Electric Dreamhouse Press)

Mejor novella

Brother’s Ruin, de Emma Newman (Tor.com)
Cottingley, de Alison Littlewood (Newcon Press)
The Murders of Molly Southbourne, de Tade Thompson (Tor.com)
Naming the Bones, de Laura Mauro (Dark Minds Press)
Passing Strange, de Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
A Pocketful of Crows, de Joanne Harris (Gollancz)

Mejor relato corto

“The Anniversary,” de Ruth EJ Booth (en Black Static #61) (TTA Press)
“Four Abstracts,” de Nina Allan (en New Fears) (Titan Books)
“Illumination,” de Joanne Hall (en Book of Dragons) (Kristell Ink)
“The Little Gift,” de Stephen Volk (PS Publishing)
“Looking for Laika,” de Laura Mauro (en Interzone #273) (TTA Press)
“Shepherd’s Business,” de Stephen Gallagher (en New Fears) (Titan Books)

¡Enhorabuena a los ganadores!

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Portada de Dragon Heart

Hoy os traigo una noticia que me hace muchísima ilusión, porque Peter Higgins es un autor que me gusta mucho pero al que creo que se conoce poco, por estos lares y por otros.

Así que cuando me encontré por casualidad la noticia de la publicación de su siguiente novela, la alegría fue doble.Lo único malo es que no sale hasta enero del 2019 y la espera se me va a hacer larga.

Esta es la sinopsis:

As they fight their way across a dying land, Shay and Cass will do anything to keep their daughter, Hope, alive. The family faces unimaginable dangers as they try to stay together, and stay alive, long enough to reach safety. But when the heart of a dragon starts to beat in Hope’s chest, they fear they’ll lose her to a battle they can’t possibly help her win . . .

La portada de Dragon Heart es de James Nunn.