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2026 Branford Boase Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2026 Branford Boase Award for children’s books has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest includeGloam by Jack Mackay (Viking Books for Young Readers US; Rock the Boat UK) [amazon / bookshop] and Augmented by Kenechi Udogu (Faber & Faber Children’s) [amazon / bookshop].
The Boase award is given annually to the author of an outstanding debut novel for children. The author and editor of …Read More
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PodCastle, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Tasavvur: Review by Maria Haskins
PodCastle 1/20/26
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/5/26
Tasavvur Winter ’26
Jay Kang Romanus‘s The One Who Carries Abinakhee Has Died in PodCastle is set on a planet covered in oceans where the only habitable land exists on the backs of giant turtles called Great Ones. The story takes place after one of the Great Ones has died, when everyone living in the community on the dead creature’s back must …Read More
Augur 8.3: Review by A.C. Wise
Augur 8.3
Leave Your Skins by the Shore by Natasha King in Augur 8.3 is full of lovely imagery and writing. Blue makes a mutually beneficial deal with the sirens who live just off the shore of their town, feeding them the hunter who comes to kill their young for the bounty in exchange for becoming one of them. Rocky Mountain Gothic by Ev Datsyk is a fairytale-like story …Read More
Adventitious, Reactor, and The Dark: Review by Paula Guran
Adventitious 1
Reactor (11/19/25, 1/14/26)
The Dark #147 & #148
Adventitious is a new bimonthly publication that describes itself as an intelligently mischievous literary magazine for the curious and unclassifiable. It seeks to publish fiction that’s as thoughtful as it is surprising, and to do it with style, respect, and a great sense of nonsense. One might also apply the word quirky as well. Most of the stories …Read More
Red Star Rebels by Amie Kaufman: Review by Colleen Mondor
Red Star Rebels, Amie Kaufman (Knopf 979-8-217-02901-3, $19.99, 288pp, pb) February 2026.
Red Star Rebels by Amie Kaufman is that rarest of YA titles: a science fiction novel set in space! In the first pages, Hunter Graves has arrived at Pax, the United Nations base on Mars, with a plan to travel out to visit his family in their nearby private compound. Meanwhile, Cleo is hiding out on Pax, where …Read More
There’s an Alien in My Pocket: Josh Pearce Reviews Touch Me
Touch Me, Addison Heimann’s bisexual alien sex horror comedy (his words), proceeds about as one would expect from the preview – hip-hop dance routines, full-frontal tentacles, creepy housekeeper, all fairly standard – until the first head explodes, around the one-hour mark. Then things get pretty weird.
The film centers around roommates Joey (Olivia Taylor Dudley) and Craig (Jordan Gavaris), two unemployed 30-somethings who spend their days self-medicating and avoiding …Read More
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New Books Video: Releases of the Week! April 28, 2026
It’s that time once again-Locus is back with a brand-new roundup of standout releases across Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult for April 28, 2026! This week delivers another exciting batch of fresh titles arriving on shelves, and we can’t wait to share them with you. Whether you’re hunting for your next unforgettable read or adding even more books to your ever-growing TBR list, you’re in the perfect spot. …Read More
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LA Times Book Prize Winners
The Los Angeles Times has announced the winners of their 46th annual Book Prizes.
Winners of genre interest, and other titles and authors of genre interest in those categories, include:
Science Fiction/Fantasy
- WINNER:Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster)
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- The Death of Mountains, Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
- Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow)
- Esperance, Adam Oyebanji (DAW)
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New & Notable, April 2026
Anonymous, ed., anOther Nemesis (Meercat Press 2/26) Four notable SF poets – Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon, and Maxwell I. Gold – offer 55 dark speculative poems linked by four themes (The Colonizers, Primal Sources, Nameless Others, and Crooked Ontologies), with each author offering multiple poems for each, an approach that interrogates the ways cultures, language, information, and the lack therof are used as means …Read More
2026 Ditmar Awards Preliminary Ballot
The preliminary ballot for the 2026 Ditmar Awards for Australian SF has been announced.
Best Novel
- Veil, Jeff Clulow (Third Eye) amazon / bookshop
- Honeyeater, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- When Dark Waters Burn, Zena Shapter (Midnight Sun) amazon
- The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan) amazon / bookshop
- Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (HarperCollins) amazon / bookshop
Best Novella or Novelette
- Cinder House, Freya Marske …Read More
New Books Video: Releases of the Week! April 21, 2026
It’s that time again, Locus is back with another exciting roundup of standout new releases across the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult genres! This week brings another fresh wave of incredible new titles slated to hit shelves, and we’re absolutely thrilled to share them with you. Whether you’re searching for your next great read or just looking to grow your TBR pile, you’re in the right place! We …Read More
2026 Aurora Awards Ballot
The 2026 Aurora Awards ballot for works by Canadians has been announced. The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. The top five nominated works were selected, with additional works included when there was a tie for fifth place.
Best Novel
- A Shift of Time, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) amazon / bookshop
- Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) …Read More
