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2026 Seiun Awards Winners
Hellcon, the 64th Japan Science Fiction Convention, has announced the winners of the 2026 Seiun Awards (the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Awards), honoring the best original and translated works published last year in Japan.
Best Translated Novel
- WINNER: Eversion, Alastair Reynolds, tr. Naoya Nakahara (Tokyo Sogensha)
- WINNER:Babel, R.F. Kuang, tr. Yoshimichi Furusawa (Tokyo Sogensha)
- The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks, tr. Yasuko Kawano …Read More
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To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose: Review by Maya C. James
To Ride a Rising Storm, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey 978-0-59349-830-9, $20.00, 444pp. tp) January 2026. Cover by Ryan Pooman.
In To Ride a Rising Storm, book two of the Nampeshiweisit series, Anequs has just completed her first year at the Kuiper Academy with honors, having successfully managed coursework, casual racism, less casual imperialism, and a failed assassination attempt. As one of only two Native people in the mostly Anglish (English) …Read More
The Recollections by Christopher Priest: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
The Recollections, Christopher Priest (Briardene 978-1-7385617-4-2, £15.00, 334pp, tp) April 2026.
Briardene Books is a British imprint which has lately been publishing collections of work by some of our most intelligent and readable SFF critics – Paul Kincaid, Abigail Nussbaum, and Niall Harrison – but their newest title, Christopher Priest’s The Recollections, is something a bit different. Completed largely by Priest before his death in 2024 and compiled in final …Read More
Wormwood by Terry Dowling: Review by Alexandra Pierce
Wormwood, Terry Dowling (Drugstore Indian Press 978-1-80394-554-5, £14.99, 270pp, tp) March 2026. Cover by Nick Stathopoulos.
Terry Dowling has been publishing fiction since the early 1980s – almost my entire lifetime; his first novel, Clowns at Midnight: A Tale of Appropriate Fear, was published in 2010. His largest body of work is the cycle of stories featuring Tom Rynosseros, but this year PS Publishing is reprinting the collection Wormwood (originally …Read More
The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Shin’ichirō Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, tr. Jeffrey Angles: Review by Ian Mond
The Luminous Fairies and Mothra, Shin’ichirō Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, tr. Jeffrey Angles (University of Minnesota Press 978-1-51792-001-2, $19.95, 115pp, tp) January 2026.
Climate change and AI (or automation) were probably not top of mind when Shin’ichirō Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta co-authored The Luminous Fairies and Mothra for the Asahi Weekly Supplement in 1961. But, as translator Jeffrey Angles persuasively argues in his terrific afterword to the …Read More
PodCastle and Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Review by Maria Haskins
PodCastle 1/27/26, 2/10/26
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/5/26
One of the January stories at PodCastle is Last Word by Toshiya Kamei, part of a flash fiction extravaganza on the theme things left unsaid. It’s the story of Lira and Maeve, two friends who are now the only remaining speakers of Kaelan, a language of sea spray and mountain shadow. It’s a language that captures things that cannot be said in …Read More
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New Books Video: Releases of the Week! May 26, 2026
Get ready for another week of incredible new reads as Locus spotlights the latest Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult releases hitting shelves the week of May 26th, 2026! From highly anticipated adventures to chilling tales and imaginative worlds, this lineup is filled with books readers won’t want to miss. We’ve rounded up some of the biggest and most exciting releases to help you discover your next favorite addition …Read More
Lalana Dararutana AKA Piper J. Drake (1976-2026)
Lalana Dararutana, 49, died May 18, 2026. She had cervical cancer.
Dararutana was born September 15, 1976 in Syracuse NY. In her childhood she was a caregiver to her younger sister and brother. She began publishing books in her thirties after attending a writing conference in 2009. As an author, Dararutana went by Piper J. Drake and PJ Schnyder and published many works of fantasy, paranormal, and SF romance. She …Read More
2026 British Fantasy Awards Shortlists
The British Fantasy Society (BFS) has announced the shortlists for the 2026 British Fantasy Awards:
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
- A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit)
- The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
- Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (self-published)
- Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree)
- Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)
- Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Tor US; Titan UK)
Best Horror Novel …Read More
New Book Releases: May 26, 2026
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Banerjee, Anindita & Vint, Sherryl: Reactionary Worldbuilding (MIT Press 978-0262053679, $90.00, 434pp, formats: paperback, 5/26/2026)
Non-fiction collection with in-depth examination of the process of worldbuilding, and its connection to ideology. Includes apocalyptic reenactments, alternative histories, conspiracy theories, and more.
Frost, Jeaniene: A Curse of Beasts …Read More
Weekly Bestsellers, 25 May 2026
Matt Dinniman’s A Parade of Horribles (Ace), eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, debuts strongly, ranking in the top five of all four print lists compiled here, and at #1 on two of them. Seven other Dinniman titles rank on one or more lists this week, three of them on the NY Times fiction hardcover list.
Other debuts this week are books by Shannon Chakraborty, Dani Francis, …Read More
