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Interview with Carla E. Dash, author of Monsters and Other Tales of Humanity
Carla E. Dash is a mom, a gamer, a teacher, a person who manages to keep a moderate number of plants alive, and the author of Monsters and Other Tales of Humanity, a collection of speculative fictions stories about how terrifying and how heroic individuals can be when untethered from relationships. What inspired you to […] More
BookRiot: 5 Great SFF Small Press Story Collections
These older sci-fi and fantasy collections from small presses are some of the best in the genre!
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Playlist for Dheepa R. Maturi’s Eco-Thriller 108
by Dheepa R. Maturi I’ve heard that, sometimes, you have to write the story you want to read. And I wanted to read a hopeful climate thriller about stopping an environmental disaster before it happens, not surviving it after the fact. In 108: an Eco-Thriller, Bayla learns she has an ancient ability that can avert […] More
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Locus Magazine: 2025 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2025 Locus Awards on June 21, 2025, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Authors Sarah Gailey and Tochi Onyebuchi were…
Foreword Reviews: 2024 INDIES Winners
Foreword Reviews Announces Winners of the 2024 INDIES Book of the Year Awards / TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan: June 05, 2025—Foreword Reviews announces the winners of its INDIES Book of the Year Awards today. These awards celebrate the outstanding…
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Interview with Jane Mondrup, author of Zoi
Jane Mondrup is the author of the science fiction novel Zoi, published by Spaceboy Books in June 2025. It is a first contact story in which the alien is a cell-like, space-dwelling creature. The core idea comes from biology, while the story also plays with concepts like the nature of consciousness, self vs. other, and […] More
Excerpt from Jen Michalski’s All This Can Be True
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Jen Michalski’s All This Can Be True, which releases on June 3, 2025 with Keylight Books. For fans of Modern Lovers and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a tender queer romance about one woman’s rediscovery of choice, hope, and wild love in the wake of her husband’s […] More
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Playlist for Zander Hatch’s Rose Island
By Zander Hatch My debut novel, Rose Island, follows former Marine Jake Harper and his team of clandestine operators sent on a rescue mission to a mysterious island where they must battle mercenaries and survive an approaching hurricane. I love movies and when I write I imagine what it would look like on the big […] More
Winners announced Indie Book Awards 2025
Australian independent booksellers have announced DUSK by ROBBIE ARNOTT (Picador Australia) as the best book from the last year, and the winner of the Indie Book Awards 2025 Book of the Year. The Book of the Year is voted by independent booksellers across the country from the six category winners. Bookseller judge Claire Leyton from Paperchain Bookstore Manuka (ACT) described Arnott’s book: “From the very beginning I was captivated by the language and story. Robbie paints this beautifully vivid
Kathe Koja shares her SKIN playlist
By Kathe Koja SKIN is a novel that loves sound: the wrench and clang of metal, the hiss of water hitting iron, the murmurs and shrieks of an audience, the whisper of blood on the knife. So of course it needs a suitable playlist. Inspired by a reader’s question during the Meerkat Press launch, here’s […] More












