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2026 WSFA Small Press Award Finalists
Finalists for the 2026 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction have been announced:
- Not a Fish , Andrew Dykstal (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/12/25)
- Half Life , Stephen Harper (Skull X Bones)
- The Last Mardi Gras , Raven Jakubowski (DreamForge Anvil6/1/25)
- The Teleporting Disaster Fairy , Rati Mehrotra (Uncanny 11-12/25)
- Blackrock , R.M. Olson (Skull X Bones)
- Billionaire’s Tears …Read More
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Clarkesworld 5/26: Review by A.C. Wise
Clarkesworld 5/26
The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods by Louis Inglis Hall in the May issue of Clarkesworld is a bittersweet and painful story with a strong voice that does a nice job of creating a larger world around the margins without bogging down the narrative. It’s told from the point of view of part of a Smart House, communicating with another part – a light switch – encouraging …Read More
Heaven’s Graveyard by Grace Curtis: Review by Niall Harrison
Heaven’s Graveyard, Grace Curtis (DAW 978-0-75641-984-4, $22.00, 368pp, tp) June 2026. Cover by Aled Thompson.
Grace Curtis’s Heaven’s Graveyard is a novel whose protagonist is in love with the past. The somewhat whimsically named Coda Canalluny, known familiarly as Cod, first read Ashan Myths for Children when she was just nine years old, and fell in love with the adventures from her world’s mythic era, when humans contended with gods …Read More
That Which Feeds Us by Keala Kendall: Review by Colleen Mondor
That Which Feeds Us, Keala Kendall (Random House 979-8-217-11796-3, $20.99, 352pp, hc) May 2026.
Subtitled A Hawaiian Gothic , Keala Kendall’s That Which Feeds Us is a dark thriller with a supernatural twist that is steeped in aspects of Hawaii’s most devastating history. It begins with twin 19-year-old sisters Lehua and Ohia, who are Native Hawaiian but were raised in Arizona. The sisters, once exceedingly close, never knew their father, …Read More
Apex #153 and Uncanny #70: Review by Paula Guran
Apex #153
Uncanny #70
Apex Magazine #153 is full of goodies. The rich world of Claire Jia-Wen‘s The Bathhouse for Long Life is decidedly not our own, but the challenges faced by its women resonate with reality, even if the solutions do not. Aijira, after a thousand years, has inherited the bathhouse containing the springs of conception and abortion from her spider-demon mother. There are two tales here, and …Read More
I Know a Place by Nat Cassidy: Review by Gabino Iglesias
I Know a Place, Nat Cassidy (Shortwave Publishing 979-8-89732-016-5, $21.99, 512pp, tp) May 2026. Cover by Alan Lastufka.
Nat Cassidy’s I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, the author’s first collection, brings together Rest Stop, a novella also published by Shortwave Publishing a couple of years ago (and which I reviewed for Locus), and 11 other horror stories to deliver a wildly entertaining showcase of Cassidy’s storytelling …Read More
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New Book Releases Video: August 18, 2026
Looking for something new to add to your reading list? Our August 18, 2026 new releases roundup takes a look at the latest Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult books hitting shelves this week.
From expansive futuristic adventures and richly crafted fantasy settings to eerie horror stories and compelling YA novels, this week’s releases offer plenty of exciting options for every kind of speculative fiction reader. We’ve gathered a …Read More
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New Book Releases Video: August 11, 2026
Ready to discover your next great read? Our August 11, 2026 new releases roundup brings together a fresh selection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult novels arriving on shelves this week.
Whether you’re in the mood for sprawling sci-fi adventures, immersive fantasy worlds, dark and unsettling horror, or engaging YA stories, there’s plenty to explore in this week’s lineup. We’ve highlighted some of the most noteworthy new titles …Read More
New Book Releases: Aug 11, 2026
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us!
Afifi, Nadia: A Fugitive’s History of the Known Universe (Flame Tree Press UK 978-1787589483, $26.95, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 08/11/2026)
SF novel. Azad is being hunted across the galaxies by the Vitruvian Authorities because he exposed the dark past of his world. Azad and his team need to team …Read More
2026 Aurora Awards Winners
The winners of the 2026 Aurora Awards for works by Canadians were announced in an online awards ceremony on August 9, 2026, hosted by Elizabeth May Anderson and Mark Leslie Lefebvre.
Best Novel
- WINNER: The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine, Robert J. Sawyer (Shadowpaw) amazon / bookshop
- A Shift of Time, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) amazon / bookshop
- Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett …Read More
2026 Prix Rosny Aîné Winners
The winners for the 2026 Prix Rosny Aîné have been announced. The prize is awarded to SF novels and short stories written in French and published in print in 2025.
Best Novel
- WINNER: Sintonia, Audrey Pleynet (Belial)
- La Dernière Tentation de Judas, Phillipe Battaglia (Atalante)
- Echos Stellaires, David Bry (Flueve Eds)
- Aatea, Anouck Faure (Argyll)
- Soma, Floriane Soulas (R. Laffont)
Best Short Story
- WINNER: Les …Read More
2026 SFRA Awards
TheScience Fiction Research Association (SFRA) has announced the 2026 winners of its annual book awards.
The SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship
- Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.
The SFRA Innovative Research Award
- Growth, Resource, Population: The GRP Triangle in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction by Female Writers. , Regina Kanyu Wang (SFRA Review Summer ’25)
Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service
- Patrick Sharp
