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Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF Under New Ownership locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Go, read, and for those who can nominate for awards, nominate. But everyone do the first two.

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A frustrating novel. Part of me wants to be generous and say its conception of the US future has simply been overtaken by events (technological events more than political; either way not anyone's fault), but even in another timeline I think it would still feel rather superficial, or Real Year 1995.

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Mechanize My Hands to War by Erin K. Wagner.: Review by Niall Harrison locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Starters: Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi; The Deluge by Stephen Markley; The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

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A Granite Silence by Nina Allan: mesmerising and mystifying in equal measure; come for the crime, stay for the autofiction, be glad you're not the one who had to decide whether there's enough SF to justify covering it in Locus.

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“PRIVATE RITES is a book about people being shaped: by the “natural” and “artificial” environments around them, by their families, by their histories.” @niallharrison’s review of @JuliaArmfield locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Which American writers have written most interestingly about American futures so far this decade?

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Private Rites by Julia Armfield: Review by Niall Harrison locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Tchaikovksy's Alien Clay is a very smart SF yarn, and on reading it I thought this was especially - and most consistently - true in its take on monstrosity. Fortunate for me, then, that Mangham's We Are All Monsters was on hand to help me think about how we 'do' science and how we imagine monsters.

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The Year in Review 2024 by Jake Casella Brookins locusmag.com/2025/02...

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This is on the @BSFA longlist, and I think anyone who is voting for the shortlists (deadline end of Feb) should read it and consider it

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I find this review a bit odd, particularly the discussion of agency, which gets tangled up in unnecessary discussion of a "rule" that I don't even think the reviewer actually agrees with in the first place www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Check out @NussbaumAbigail’s review of THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88 (@gautambhatia88.bsky.social), a novel which “successfully marries old school SFnal approaches with pressing political issues.” locusmag.com/2025/02...

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The Year in Review 2024 by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Just arrived, one of my most anticipated books of the first half of the year.

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Seems like one to look out for: "Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space [...] uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place" fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/02/giad...

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“GLIFF is an excitingly unusual science fiction novel… I can’t think of many other authors with a voice strong enough to simply render pre-existing reader expectations of a genre moot.” @niallharrison reviews new work from Ali Smith locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Huh, @bigechoscifi.bsky.social rides again www.bigecho.org

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Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata: a good novel with which to stress-test one's belief that human mores and morals are social and not biological

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"It’s the possibility of multiple meanings that is freeing; more than that, the impossibility of a single meaning in any sufficiently free society."

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Gliff by Ali Smith: Review by Niall Harrison locusmag.com/2025/02...

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Further acclaim for @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social's Track Changes: it is on this year's @locusmag.bsky.social Recommended Reading list! locusmag.com/2025/02/2024...

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The next Briardene Book is Colourfields by Paul Kincaid, out in April! An exploration of SF as seen by critics, historians, and biographers, you can pre-order through our shop now: briardenebooks.uk/shop/

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Where The Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler: skilful, compelling, a little too enthusiastic about burning it all down for my taste.

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So sorry to read today that Michael Dirda, long-time @washingtonpost.com book critic and past guest of Eating the Fantastic, has stepped away from his weekly reviewing. After 47 years at Book World, he felt it was time. But the straw which broke the camel's back? Sigh. Donald Trump. wapo.st/4aNZyxX

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Explore @niallharrison’s review of UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD by Hiromi Kawakami: “The power and the pain of the novel lies in its ability to bridge between humanity as an abstract and humanity as a characteristic...” locusmag.com/2025/02...

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