Lecturas de ciencia ficción y fantasía
El 11 de septiembre se publicará State Tectonics, la esperada finalización de la trilogía Centenal Cycle de Malka Older.
Tras la rompedora Infomocracy y la algo más convencional Null States, tengo sincera curiosidad por ver qué es de esta última entrega. Así que mientras esperamos, aquí os traigo la portada.
Empiezan a conocerse los nominados y finalistas de los premios de género de este año. En esta ocasión os traigo los australianos premios Aurealis.
Mejor ficción infantil
How to Bee, Bren MacDibble (Allen & Unwin)
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, Jaclyn Moriarty (Allen & Unwin)
The Shop at Hoopers Bend, Emily Rodda (HarperCollins Australia)
The Exile, Jo Sandhu (Penguin Random House Australia)
Accidental Heroes, Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
Nevermoor, Jessica Townsend (Hachette Australia)
Mejor novela gráfica
Action Tank, Mike Barry (Mike Barry Was Here)
Changing Ways book 3, Justin Randall (Gestalt)
Dungzilla, James Foley (Fremantle Press)
Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts, Craig Phillips (Allen & Unwin)
Home Time, Campbell Whyte (Penguin Random House Australia)
Tintinnabula, Margo Lanagan & Rovina Cai (ill.) (Little Hare)
Mejor relato juvenil
“One Small Step”, Amie Kaufman (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia)
“I Can See the Ending”, Will Kostakis (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia)
“Competition Entry #349”, Jaclyn Moriarty (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia)
“First Casualty” Michael Pryor (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia)
Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
“Oona Underground”, Lili Wilkinson (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia)
Mejor relato de terror
“Reef”, Kat Clay (SQ Mag 31, IFWG Publishing Australia)
“Outside, a Drifter”, Lisa L Hannett (Looming Low, Dim Shores)
“Angel Hair”, Deborah Sheldon (Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, IFWG Publishing Australia)
“The Endless Below”, Alfie Simpson (Breach Issue #02)
“Old Growth”, J Ashley Smith (SQ Mag 31, IFWG Publishing Australia)
“On the Line”, J Ashley Smith (Midnight Echo 12, Australasian Horror Writers Association)
Mejor novela corta de terror
The Mailman, Jeremy Bates (Ghillinnein Books)
Hope and Walker, Andrew Cull (Vermillion Press)
“Grind”, Michael Grey (Pacific Monsters, Fox Spirit Books)
“The Stairwell”, Chris Mason (Below The Stairs – Tales from the Cellar, Things In The Well)
“No Good Deed”, Angela Slatter (New Fears 1, Titan Books)
“Furtherest”, Kaaron Warren (Dark Screams Volume 7, Cemetery Dance)
Mejor relato corto de fantasía
“Hamelin’s Graves”, Freya Marske (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #69)
“The Curse is Come Upon Me, Cried”, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories, autopublicado)
“The Little Mermaid, in Passing”, Angela Slatter (Review of Australian Fiction Vol 22 Issue 1)
“Duplicity”, J Ashley Smith (Dimension6 #11)
“The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz”, Marlee Jane Ward (Feminartsy)
“Oona Underground”, Lili Wilkinson (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia).
Mejor novela corta de fantasía
The Book Club, Alan Baxter (PS Publishing)
“Remnants”, Nathan Burrage (Dimension6 #11, Coer de Lion)
“The Cunning Woman’s Daughter”, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (The Silver Well, Ticonderoga Publications)
In Shadows We Fall, Devin Madson (autopublicado)
“Braid”, Kirstyn McDermott (Review of Australian Fiction Vol 24 Issue 1)
Humanity for Beginners, Faith Mudge (Less Than Three Press)
Mejor relato corto de ciencia ficción
“The Missing Years”, Lyn Battersby (Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #66)
“A Little Faith”, Aiki Flinthart (Like a Woman, Mirren Hogan)
“Cards and Steel Hearts”, Pamela Jeffs (Lawless Lands: Tales from the Weird Frontier, Falstaff Books)
“One Small Step”, Amie Kaufman (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia)
“Conversations with an Armoury” Garth Nix (Infinity Wars, Solaris)
“Hurk + Dav”, Arthur Robinson (Breach Issue #01)
Mejor novela corta de ciencia ficción
“This Silent Sea”, Stephanie Gunn (Review of Australian Fiction Vol 24 Issue 6)
“I Can See the Ending”, Will Kostakis (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology, HarperCollins Australia)
“The Wandering Library”, DK Mok (Ecopunk!, Ticonderoga Publications)
“Island Green”, Shauna O’Meara (Ecopunk!, Ticonderoga Publications)
Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body, Simon Petrie (Peggy Bright Books)
Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)
Mejor colección
The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales, Peter M Ball (Brain Jar Press)
The Silver Well, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (Ticonderoga Publications)
Beneath the Floating City, Donna Maree Hanson (self-published)
Singing My Sister Down and Other Stories, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories, Tansy Rayner Roberts (autopublicado)
Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Publishing Australia)
Mejor antología
Midnight Echo #12, Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Anthony Ferguson (eds.) (Australasian Horror Writers Association)
The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene (eds.) (Ticonderoga Publications)
Dimension6: Annual Collection 2017, Keith Stevenson (ed.) (coeur de lion publishing)
Infinity Wars, Jonathan Strahan (ed.) (Rebellion/Solaris)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11, Jonathan Strahan (ed.) (Rebellion/Solaris)
Mejor novela juvenil
In The Dark Spaces, Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)
Ida, Alison Evans (Echo, Bonnier Publishing Australia)
Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
This Mortal Coil, Emily Suvada (Puffin UK)
Psynode, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)
The Undercurrent, Paula Weston (Text Publishing)
Mejor novel de terror
Aletheia, J S Breukelaar (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Who’s Afraid Too?, Maria Lewis (Hachette Australia)
Soon, Lois Murphy (Transit Lounge)
Mejor novela de fantasía
Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor Books)
Gwen, Goldie Goldbloom (Fremantle Press)
Cassandra, Kathryn Gossow (Odyssey Books)
Godsgrave, Jay Kristoff (HarperCollins Publishers)
Gap Year In Ghost Town, Michael Pryor (Allen & Unwin)
Wellside, Robin Shortt (Candlemark & Gleam)
Mejor novela de ciencia ficción
Closing Down, Sally Abbott (Hachette Australia)
Terra Nullius, Claire G Coleman (Hachette Australia)
Year of the Orphan, Daniel Findlay (Penguin Random House Australia)
An Uncertain Grace, Krissy Kneen (Text Publishing)
From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)
Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Skyhorse)
¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!
Seanan McGuire continuará su exitosa serie Wayward Children con una nueva entrega que verá la luz en enero de 2019. El título será In an Absent Dream y, continuando con el estilo creado, se podrá leer fuera de orden.
Los pocos datos que se saben son:
It tells the tale of Lundy, a very serious young girl, who walked through a door when she was eight, and walked back when her quest was finished. Though it wasn’t to be the only time she walked through and experienced the Goblin Market, where Fair Value determines not only how much you give for something, but also how much is taken from you…
And if Lundy ended up paying more than she expected? Well, that’s Fair Value, too.
Pero no solo esto, también se ha confirmado la existencia de una quinta entrega, que se titularía Come Tumbling Down.
En Tor.com se ha publicado cuál será la portada de la próxima antología de Kat Howard, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone.
Los contenidos son:
Aquí la sinopsis:
In these sixteen exquisite stories Kat Howard deftly weaves in and out of the countries of myth and hagiography to write the lives of women untold and unexplored.
A woman being written into her boyfriend’s fiction is at first flattered to be his muse, but then finds her real life literally consumed and overtaken by his. A desperate young woman makes a prayer to the Saint of Sidewalks, but the miracle she receives isn’t what she expected. A painter spies a naked man, crouched by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, transform into a beautiful white bird and decides to paint him, and becomes involved in his curse. Jeanne, a duelist and a sacred blade for God and Her holy saints, finds that the price of truth is always blood. And in the novella “Once, Future” Howard reimagines the Arthurian romance on a modern college campus as a story that is told, and told again, until the ending is right.
Mundane and magical, profane and reverent, romantic and uncompromising, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone journeys into the liminal spaces of contemporary fiction and unfurls them.
Se han dado a conocer los nominados a los premios Nebula de este año, y nos alegra ver algunos de los libros que hemos comentado y recomendado por aquí. Esta es la lista (con enlaces para leer online en caso de ser posible y reseña de haberla):
¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!
La SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) ha nombrado a Peter S. Beagle Gran Maestro por sus contribuciones a la literatura de género.
La presidenta de la asociación, Cat Rambo, declaró:
Peter Beagle’s work has been the gateway for multitudes of fantasy readers, but also writers as well, including myself. His work shines a light on the human heart and its beauties even when that heart is flawed and wanting, showing how that beauty arises from such imperfect conditions. Beagle unquestionably belongs among the greats, and I count it a privilege to invite him to be the next SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.
Aquí os traigo la lista de nominados a los premios BSFA del 2017, cuyos ganadores se darán a conocer a finales de marzo.
Mejor novela
Nina Allan – The Rift (Titan Books)
Anne Charnock – Dreams Before the Start of Time (47North)
Mohsin Hamid – Exit West (Hamish Hamilton)
Ann Leckie – Provenance (Orbit)
Mejor relato
Anne Charnock – The Enclave (NewCon Press)
Elaine Cuyegkeng – “These Constellations Will Be Yours” (Strange Horizons)
Greg Egan – Uncanny Valley (Tor.com)
Geoff Nelder – “Angular Size” (en ‘SFerics 2017’ editadop or Roz Clarke y Rosie Oliver, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform)
Tade Thompson – The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Tor.com)
Mejor no ficción
Paul Kincaid – Iain M. Banks (University of Illinois Press)
Juliet E McKenna – The Myth of Meritocracy and the Reality of the Leaky Pipe and Other Obstacles in Science Fiction & Fantasy (en Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction editado por Francesca T Barbini, Luna Press)
Adam Roberts – artículo en blog Wells at the World’s End 2017 (Wells at the World’s End blog)
Jurado Shadow Clarke Award – The 2017 Shadow Clarke Award blog (The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy). Los jurados del 2017 Shadow Clarke : Nina Allan, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Victoria Hoyle, Vajra Chandrasekera, Nick Hubble, Paul Kincaid, Jonathan McCalmont, Megan AM.
Vandana Singh – “The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement” (Strange Horizons)
Mejor arte
Geneva Benton – Sundown Towns (portada Fiyah Magazine #3)
Jim Burns – portada The Ion Raider de Ian Whates (NewCon Press)
Galen Dara – ilustración para ‘These Constellations Will Be Yours’ de Elaine Cuyegkeng (Strange Horizons)
Chris Moore – portada ‘The Memoirist’ de Neil Williamson (NewCon Press)
Victo Ngai – ilustración para ‘Waiting on a Bright Moon’ de JY Yang (Tor.com)
Marcin Wolski – portada ‘2084’ editado por George Sandison (Unsung Stories)
¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!
Ya tenemos aquí la portada de City of Ghosts, el nuevo libro de Victoria Schwab. Dentro de su línea habitual con este nombre, se trata de una obra YA.
Esta es 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.
Poco a poco, me voy volviendo adicta al trabajo de Adrian Tchaikovsky, así que siempre es una buena noticia la publicación de algo nuevo por su parte. Pero si además viene de la mano de Tor.com y es de ciencia ficción, la alegría es mayor.
El 17 de julio se publicará The Expert System’s Brother, con esta estupenda portada, obra de Raphael Lacoste; diseñado por Christine Foltzer.
A distant planet. A game turned sour. A technological fight for survival.
After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn’t understand, searching for meaning. He soon discovers that the life he thought he knew is far stranger than he could even possibly imagine.
Can an unlikely saviour provide the answers to the questions he barely comprehends?
Ya sabemos cuál será la portada de The Queen of Crows, la segunda entrega de la trilogía Sacred Throne (sobre la primera, The Armored Saint ya os hablé ayer). El libro se publicará en octubre. La portada es obra de Tommy Arnold con diseño de Christine Foltzer,
