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Autonomous

*Autonomous* features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent scientist who has styled herself as a Robin Hood heroine fighting to bring cheap drugs to the poor, Jack’s latest drug is leaving a trail of lethal overdoses across what used to be North America—a drug that compels people to become addicted to their work.

On Jack’s trail are an unlikely pair: an emotionally shut-down military agent and his partner, Paladin, a young military robot, who fall in love against all expectations. *Autonomous* alternates between the activities of Jack and her co-conspirators, and Joe and Paladin, as they all race to stop a bizarre drug epidemic that is tearing apart lives, causing trains to crash, and flooding New York City.
Ellen Datlow

**Ellen Datlow**

Publisher: Various

2017 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine*, Night Shade Books
* *Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales*, Pegasus Books
* *Haunted Nights* (with Lisa Morton), Blumhouse Books / Anchor Books
* *Mad Hatters and March Hares*, Tor Books

2016 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eight*, Night Shade Books
* *Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror*, Tachyon Publications
* *Children of Lovecraft*, Dark Horse

Other 2017 Editing:

* *Mapping the Interior*, by Stephen Graham Jones (novella), Tor.com

Various short stories at Tor.com, including:

* "The Martian Obelisk" by Linda Nagata
* "These Deathless Bones" by Cassandra Khaw
* "Bourbon, Sugar, Grace" by Jessica Reisman
* "Sweetlings" by Lucy Taylor
* "Dark Warm Heart" by Rich Larson
* "Excerpts from a Film (1942-1987)" by A.C. Wise
* "The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)" by Matthew Kressel
* "Come See the Living Dryad" by Theodora Goss
* "A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson
Equipment

## Melee Weapons

Melee Weapons are the batons, blades, and other objects used to wound others.

## Light Armour

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* Non-Newtonian Foam
* Light Polymer Plating
* Hex-mail
* Light Alloy Plating
* L.A.A.

## Heavy Armour

Heavy Armour is the modern equivalent of knightly plate mail. It's bulkier, and takes a lot more strength to wear but the protective benefits are unmatched by any other (Success= DMG Reduction/ Fail = Half Reduction)

* Dense Polymer Plating
* Composite Plating
* Heavy Alloy Plating
* Dense Metal Plating

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Blade Runner 2049

**Blade Runner 2049**

(imdb)

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Written by: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, based on characters from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick

Produced by: 16:14 Entertainment, Alcon Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Stereo D, Thunderbird Films, Torridon Films, Warner Bros.

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Harrison Ford

Release date: 6 October 2017

Summary: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
La Belle Sauvage

Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of *La Belle Sauvage*) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them, a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua...
Winter Tide

After attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.

The government that stole Aphra's life now needs her help. FBI agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets from Miskatonic University, secrets that could turn the Cold War hot in an instant, and hasten the end of the human race.

Aphra must return to the ruins of her home, gather scraps of her stolen history, and assemble a new family to face the darkness of human nature.
Geneva Benton

Portfolio

Illustration "Regal"Illustration "Ronin"Illustration "Slow Day At The Flower Shop", Cover for *Arsenika*, Spring 2017Illustration "Reach For The Stars"Illustration "Prickly"Cover for *Fiyah #4*, Autumn 2017 (Fiyah Literary Magazine)Cover for *Fiyah #1*, Winter 2017 (Fiyah Literary Magazine)Cover for *Fiyah #2*, Spring 2017 (Fiyah Literary Magazine)Cover for *Fiyah #3*, Summer 2017 (Fiyah Literary Magazine)
Attack on Titan season 2

Title: *Attack on Titan* (season 2)

Chief Director: Tetsurō Araki

Director: Masashi Koizuka

Series Composition (head writer): Yasuko Kobayashi (based on a manga by Hajime Isayama)

Studio: Wit Studio

Released: April-June 2017

Summary (from Anime News Network): Eren Jaeger swore to wipe out every last Titan, but in a battle for his life he wound up becoming the thing he hates most. With his new powers, he fights for humanity's freedom facing the monsters that threaten his home. After a bittersweet victory against the Female Titan, Eren finds no time to rest—a horde of Titans is approaching Wall Rose and the battle for humanity continues.

Legal streams:

* Crunchyroll (Americas, UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
* VRV (US)
* AnimeLab (Australia, New Zealand)
* Wakanim (Canada, France, Belgium, Monaco, Switzerland, Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, Nigeria, Sénégal, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique)
* VVVVID (Italy)
* Anime on Demand (German-speaking Europe)
* bilibili (Asia)
* FUNimation (Dub for US, Canada, UK, Ireland)
The First American

The Ithra tribes of wild men are plagued and raided for slaves by the insectoid Slagborn and the reptilian Dryth. Tyur, a hunter and warrior of the Ithra leaves his people in pursuit of his stolen love, Vara, and revenge when Dryth raiders abscond with many of tribe's women.

The Dryth live in the hot equatorial regions where no man could survive. Tyur seeks the aid of a sorcerer who can change him so that he could endure the journey to the city of the Dryth and rescue Vara from the clutches of the strange reptilians.
Tommy Arnold

Tommy Arnold's website

ISFDB bibliography

### 2017 work:

Cover for *Evil Is a Matter of Perspective* edited by Adrian Collins and Mike Myers (Grimdark Magazine, April)Cover for *Horizon* by Fran Wilde (Tor, September)Cover for *Killing Gravity* by Corey J. White (Tor.com, May)Cover for *Shadowborn* by David Dalglish (Orbit, November)Cover for *The Guns Above* by Robyn Bennis (Tor, May)
Neptune's Trident

Read the story

Human society has collapsed after an invasion by alien beings that infect people; their illness is more like an opening to a different reality. Attempts to deal with the invasion were violent, cruel, and futile, but now survivors are left scavenging among ruins. The story follows Caitlin, living with her partner Steph (who's infected) on the coast of Argyll; Caitlin's brother was lost along with the submarine he served in during the final deployment. Charles Payseur sums it up as "a rather strange and slow story about the world after the end of the world, after the deathblow but before the last breath has passed between chapped lips."

Review: Charles Payseur
Neil Clarke

**Neil Clarke**

Publisher and Editor: (isfdb)

* *Clarkesworld Magazine*, 12 issues
* *Clarkesworld Podcasts*, 12 episodes
* *Forever Magazine*, 12 issues

2017 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2*, Night Shade Books
* *Galactic Empires*, Night Shade Books
* *More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity'**, Night Shade Books*
* *Clarkesworld Magazine: A 10th Anniversary Anthology* (with Sean Wallace), Prime Books

2016 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1*, Night Shade Books

2014 Anthologies Edited:

* *Upgraded*, Wyrm Publishing
Song of the Current

Author: Sarah Tolcser

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Publication Date: June 2017

Review: Kirkus Reviews "Caro's description of her boat home, the Cormorant, will make even readers unfamiliar with sailing feel as though they belong on the water with her. Tolcser blends the right amount of epic fantasy, sea voyage, and romance for a rollicking, swashbuckling adventure."

Caroline Oresteia is destined for the river. Her father is a wherryman, as was her grandmother. All Caro needs is for the river god to whisper her name, and her fate is sealed. But at seventeen, Caro may be too late.

So when pirates burn ships and her father is arrested, Caro volunteers to transport mysterious cargo in exchange for his release. Secretly, Caro hopes that by piloting her own wherry, the river god will finally speak her name.

But when the cargo becomes more than Caro expected, she finds herself caught in a web of politics and lies. With much more than her father's life at stake, Caro must choose between the future she knows, and the one she could have never imagined.
The Broken Earth

2017 Eligible Work: The Stone Sky

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe.

For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

**The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated *The Fifth Season.***

**The Broken Earth Trilogy:**

*The Fifth Season **(Hugo Award, Best Novel 2016)***

*The Obelisk Gate **(Hugo Award, Best Novel 2017)***

*The Stone Sky*

**Broken Earth** **Short Story**:

*Stone Hunger* (Clarksworld, July 2014)
The Divine Cities

**by Robert Jackson Bennett**

Eligible Publication: *City of Miracles* (Divine Cities #3) (excerpt), Broadway Books / Jo Fletcher Books, May 2017

Reviews:

* Publishers Weekly (Starred)
* Kirkus
* Carol Siewert, Book Reviews Forever

*Revenge. It’s something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing.*
*So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do — and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara’s killers deserve.*

*Yet as Sigrud pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, he begins to fear that this battle is an unwinnable one. Because discovering the truth behind Shara’s death will require him to take up arms in a secret, decades-long war, face down an angry young god, and unravel the last mysteries of Bulikov, the city of miracles itself. And — perhaps most daunting of all — finally face the truth about his own cursed existence.*

*City of Stairs* (Divine Cities #1) (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2), Broadway Books / Jo Fletcher Books, September 2014

*The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy.*

*Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov's oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country's most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem—and that Bulikov's cruel reign may not yet be over.*

*City of Blades* (Divine Cities #2) (excerpt), Broadway Books / Jo Fletcher Books, January 2016

*The city of Voortyashtan was once the domain of the goddess of death, war, and destruction, but now it’s little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to try to find a Saypuri secret agent who’s gone missing in the middle of a mission, but the city of war offers countless threats: not only have the ghosts of her own past battles followed her here, but she soon finds herself wondering what happened to all the souls that were trapped in the afterlife when the Divinities vanished. Do the dead sleep soundly in the land of death? Or do they have plans of their own?*
18if: "And Now There Are None", episode 7

Series: *18if*

Episode: #7, "And Now There Are None"

Writer: Kōichi Chigira

Director: Kōichi Chigira

Studio: GONZO

Release date: August 18, 2017

Legal streams:

* Crunchyroll (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
* VVVVID (Italy)
* bilibili (Asia)
* FUNimation (Dub for US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
Prey of Gods

**From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes *The Prey of Gods,* a
 fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale
both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science
fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor.**

In South
Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life
easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable
energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling
coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the
genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there.
Yes—the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is,
if they can survive the present challenges:

*A new hallucinogenic drug sweeping the country . . .*

*An emerging AI uprising . . .*

*And
 an ancient demigoddess hellbent on regaining her former status by
preying on the blood and sweat (but mostly blood) of every human she
encounters.*

It’s up to a young Zulu girl powerful enough to
destroy her entire township, a queer teen plagued with the ability to
control minds, a pop diva with serious daddy issues, and a politician
with even more serious mommy issues to band together to ensure there’s a
 future left to worry about.

Fun and fantastic, Nicky Drayden
takes her brilliance as a short story writer and weaves together an
elaborate tale that will capture your heart . . . even as one particular
 demigoddess threatens to rip it out.

Amazon
Goñi Montes

Goñi Montes' website

Behance

ISFDB bibliography

### 2017 Work

Illustration "Tamiel" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration for "The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter" by Sam J. Miller (Tor.com Publishing, October 18)Cover for *The Ruin of Angels* by Max Gladstone (Tor.com Publishing, September)Illustration "My Sister, the Dungeon Master" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration for "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow (Tor.com Publishing, August 30)
The Split Worlds

**by Emma Newman**

Eligible Publication: ***All Good Things*** (Split Worlds #5) *(excerpt)*, Diversion Books, June 2017

*Beautiful and nuanced as it is dangerous, the manners of Regency and Victorian England blend into a scintillating fusion of urban fantasy and court intrigue.*

*Between Mundanus, the world of humans, and Exilium, the world of the Fae, lies the Nether, a mirror-world where the social structure of 19th-century England is preserved by Fae-touched families who remain loyal to their ageless masters. Born into this world is Catherine Rhoeas-Papaver, who escaped it all to live a normal life in Mundanus, free from her parents and the strictures of Fae-touched society. But she was dragged back to an arranged marriage, along with all the high society trappings it entailed, and has spent her time there working to make things better for the women in Nether*

*Amidst death, deceit, and the fight for freedom, friendships are tested, families are destroyed, and heroes are forged as the battle to control the Split Worlds rages to its climatic conclusion.*

***Between Two Thorns*** (Split Worlds #1), Angry Robot, February 2013

***Any Other Name*** (Split Worlds #2), Angry Robot, May 2013

***All Is Fair*** (Split Worlds #3), Angry Robot, September 2013

***A Little Knowledge*** (Split Worlds #4), Diversion Books, August 2016
Ruin of Angels

The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place. Dead deities litter the surrounding desert, streets shift when people aren’t looking, a squidlike tower dominates the skyline, and the foreign Iskari Rectification Authority keeps strict order in this once-independent city―while treasure seekers, criminals, combat librarians, nightmare artists, angels, demons, dispossessed knights, grad students, and other fools gather in its ever-changing alleys, hungry for the next big score.

Priestess/investment banker Kai Pohala (last seen in *Full Fathom Five*) hits town to corner Agdel Lex’s burgeoning nightmare startup scene, and to visit her estranged sister Lei. But Kai finds Lei desperate at the center of a shadowy, and rapidly unravelling, business deal. When Lei ends up on the run, wanted for a crime she most definitely committed, Kai races to track her sister down before the Authority finds her first. But Lei has her own plans, involving her ex-girlfriend, a daring heist into the god-haunted desert, and, perhaps, freedom for an occupied city. Because Alikand might not be completely dead―and some people want to finish the job.
Harold W. McCauley

### 1942 work:

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Stoneskin

**Stoneskin**, by KB Spangler

Tembi Moon is a young girl from the slums of Adhama who finds herself selected by the Deep, a vast alien presence that has conceived a sort of fondness for humanity despite not understanding them very well. As she grows up learning to be a Witch - one of the people who can convince the Deep to teleport huge amounts of cargo across interstellar distances, and thereby serve as the basis for galactic civilization - she discovers that the universe is far more complex than she had thought. And she had already thought it was pretty complex to begin with.

https://kbspangler.com/books/

http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/a-restless-spirit-on-an-endless-flight

http://www.rebeccademarest.com/a-delightful-change-of-pace/

http://fleen.com/2017/09/21/unfortunate-happenstances/
K. B. Wagers

### **K.B. Wagers**

Eligibility: Second Year

Works:

* *Behind The Throne* (The Indranan War #1), Orbit, August 2016 *(excerpt)*
* *After The Crown* (The Indranan War #2), Orbit, December 2016 *(excerpt)*
* *Beyond The Empire* (The Indranan War #3), Orbit, November 2017 *(excerpt)*

Reviews:

* Publishers Weekly (starred review)
* New York Times
* Kirkus Reviews

Website

Facebook

Twitter
Iain M. Banks (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)

The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's *Consider Phlebas* helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense intellectual engagement while Banks's mainstream books vaulted him to the top of the Scottish literary scene.

Paul Kincaid has written the first study of Iain M. Banks to explore the confluence of his SF and literary techniques and sensibilities. As Kincaid shows, the two powerful aspects of Banks's work flowed into each other, blurring a line that critics too often treat as clear-cut. Banks's gift for black humor and a honed skepticism regarding politics and religion found expression even as he orchestrated the vast, galaxy-spanning vistas in his novels of *The Culture*.

In examining Banks's entire SF oeuvre, Kincaid unlocks the set of ideas Banks drew upon, ideas that spoke to an unusually varied readership that praised him as a visionary and reveled in the distinctive character of his works. Entertaining and broad in scope, *Iain M. Banks* offers new insights on one of the most admired figures in contemporary science fiction.

*Paul Kincaid has done an admirable job with this book, presenting us with the first really comprehensive survey of Banks' work across all his literary modes. Insightful, detailed, fair-minded, as generous as it is bracingly honest, it's a work that demands the attention of anyone with a real interest in this much-beloved author.* — **Alastair Reynolds, author of *Poseidon's Wake***

*A thorough, focused, and very useful study of the works of Iain Banks... with the M and without the M!* — **Gwyneth Jones, author of *Life***

*A warmly appreciative yet acutely critical survey, clear, concise, and well-judged.* — **Ken MacLeod, author of *The Corporation Wars: Insurgence***
City of Miracles

*(excerpt)* (mouseover and click to turn pages)

Reviews:

* Publishers Weekly (Starred)
* Kirkus
* Carol Siewert, Book Reviews Forever

*Revenge. It’s something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing.*

*So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do — and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara’s killers deserve.*

*Yet as Sigrud pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, he begins to fear that this battle is an unwinnable one. Because discovering the truth behind Shara’s death will require him to take up arms in a secret, decades-long war, face down an angry young god, and unravel the last mysteries of Bulikov, the city of miracles itself. And — perhaps most daunting of all — finally face the truth about his own cursed existence.*
David Palumbo

David Palumbo's website

DeviantArt

Wikipedia

ISFDB bibliography

### 2017 work:

Cover for *Joe Golem: Occult Detective—The Outer Dark #1* (Dark Horse Books, May)Cover for *Joe Golem: Occult Detective—The Outer Dark #2* (Dark Horse Books, June)Cover for *Joe Golem: Occult Detective—The Outer Dark #3* (Dark Horse Books, July)Cover for *Cold Counsel* by Chris Sharp (Tor.com, February)Cover for *Binti: Home* by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com, January)Illustration for "Cursed Minotaur" card for Magic: The Gathering set *Amonkhet* (Wizards of the Coast, April)Illustration for "Glory-Bound Initiate" card for Magic: The Gathering set *Amonkhet* (Wizards of the Coast, April)Illustration for "Trespasser's Curse" card for Magic: The Gathering set *Amonkhet* (Wizards of the Coast, April)
Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme

Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme's website

DeviantArt

Wikipedia

ISFDB bibliography

### 2017 work:

Illustration "Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration "Bloodbourne/The Killing Moon" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration "Asylum Visitor" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration "Lucifer" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration "The Blood Blade" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Deharme1.jpgIllustration "The Mist and the Ravens" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Cover for *Redder Than Blood* by Tanith Lee (Orbit Books, February)Cover for *Dark Exodus* by Thomas E. Sniegoski (Ace Books, February)Cover for *Bane and Shadow* by Jon Skovron (Orbit Books, February)
Richard Anderson

Richard Anderson's website

ArtStation

ISFDB bibliography

### 2017 work:

Cover for *Skullsworn* by Brian Staveley (Tor, April)Wraparound cover for *The Broken Heavens* by Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot, November)Cover for *Losing Heart Among the Tall* by A. M. Dellamonica (Tor, 2017)Cover for *River of Teeth* by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com, May)Cover for *Taste of Marrow* by Sarah Gailey (Tor.com, September)Cover for *Kings of the Wyld* by Nicholas Eames (Orbit, February)Cover for *The Stone in the Skull* by Elizabeth Bear (Tor, October)Cover for *The Dinosaur Princess* by Victor Milán (Tor, August)
Fallow

Agar grows up in a community of Anabaptist conscientious objectors who have fled from Earth to another planet, barely habitable, where they live in hardship. They watch the Earth from afar expecting to find that the rest of humanity has destroyed itself. After Agar's sister Temar gets a job in the command center, the mysterious Castle, Agar begins to realize the price of the community's choices.

Also recommended by: Brit Mandelo, Sara Rauch
Sunwake, in the Lands of Teeth

The story is set on a world with a dog-like native species and human visitors, told from the point of view of one of the former. Rulii, who is in an anomalous position as the liaison between his oppressed tribe and the ruling one, and between Aurel and humans, is thrown into a crisis when the humans' translator disappears before a crucial meeting with the king.

Also recommended by: Miss Navigator
Children of Air

"Children of Air," by Gabriela Santiago.

*You should call your mother. Don’t mind the children of air; they will amuse themselves. There are many mice in the walls with which they can amuse themselves, and rats, and cockroaches. Stop them if they get too close to your bookcase, though; we can see that you have the entire Hunger Games trilogy, and we’ve heard there’s a lot of violence in those books.*
Hexagrammaton

"Hexagrammaton" is a science fiction novelette by Hanuš Seiner, translated from Czech by Julie Nováková, published by Tor.com in May 2017. The synopsis says: "Each man has a measure of luck given by destiny, but not a drop more. Has the luck of an unusual guide responsible for the passage of visitors into the deep buried bellies of alien ships just run out? His newest client, a young woman named Janita, proves to be a member of the resistance carrying in her body an alien civilization’s gift to humanity. Will either of them become the devil’s martyr? One story gives life to another, waiting all along…"

Reviewer Charles Payseur called it "a beautiful story that changes with each reading, with each new interpretation, and it’s an amazing experience".

Maria Haskins said: "Mathematics, genetic reprogramming, fear, loneliness, a longing to explore the universe… All I can say is: read it. It’s a trippy, disorienting story that is well worth savouring."

It was selected by Rich Horton for*The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition*.
An Unkindness of Magicians

There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city’s magicians’ power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.

In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney—a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn’t want to help the system, she wants to destroy it.

Sydney comes from the House of Shadows, which controls the magic with the help of sacrifices from magicians.
Wonder Woman (2016-) Vol. 1: The Lies

Heroic. Iconic. Unstoppable. Armed with her Lasso of Truth and imbued with the power of the gods themselves, Princess Diana of Themyscira-known to the world as Wonder Woman-is one of the greatest superheroes in history.

But who is she…really? Not even Wonder Woman herself knows for sure. Diana’s links to both the Amazons and the Gods of Olympus have been severed. Her memories are a tangle of contradictions that even her lie-detecting lasso cannot untangle.

To solve the riddle of her origin, she must embark on her greatest quest of all: finding a way back to her vanished home. To get there, she must team up with her greatest enemy, the feral beast-woman, Cheetah. Will this unlikely alliance shine the light of truth on Diana’s darkest secrets, or bury them-and her-forever?
Sample Best Novel

**Sample Best Novel by Sample Author**

Published by Sample Publisher, month 2017

Series if applicable

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The Furthest Station

There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. But now there's a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something.

Enter PC Peter Grant junior member of the Metropolitan Police's Special Assessment unit a.k.a. The Folly a.k.a. the only police officers whose official duties include ghost hunting. Together with Jaget Kumar, his counterpart at the British Transport Police, he must brave the terrifying the crush of London's rush hour to find the source of the ghosts.

Joined by Peter's wannabe wizard cousin, a preschool river god and Toby the ghost hunting dog their investigation takes a darker tone as they realise that a real person's life might just be on the line.

And time is running out to save them.

With this new novella, bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch has crafted yet another wickedly funny and surprisingly affecting chapter in his beloved Rivers of London series.
House of Binding Thorns

As the city rebuilds from the onslaught of sorcery that nearly destroyed it, the great Houses of Paris, ruled by Fallen angels, still contest one another for control over the capital.

House Silverspires was once the most powerful, but just as it sought to rise again, an ancient evil brought it low. Phillippe, an immortal who escaped the carnage, has a singular goal—to resurrect someone he lost. But the cost of such magic might be more than he can bear.

In House Hawthorn, Madeleine the alchemist has had her addiction to angel essence savagely broken. Struggling to live on, she is forced on a perilous diplomatic mission to the underwater dragon kingdom—and finds herself in the midst of intrigues that have already caused one previous emissary to mysteriously disappear....

As the Houses seek a peace more devastating than war, those caught between new fears and old hatreds must find strength—or fall prey to a magic that seeks to bind all to its will.
Sheila Gilbert

**Sheila Gilbert**

Publisher: DAW Books

2017 Novels Edited:

* *The Brightest Fell* by Seanan McGuire [October Daye #11]
* *To Guard Against the Dark* by Julie E. Czerneda (Clan Chronicles Reunification #3)
* *Terminal Alliance* by Jim C. Hines (Janitors of the Apocalypse #1)
* *Alien Education* by Gini Koch (Kitty Katt #15)
* *Defiant* by Dave Bara (Lightship Chronicles #3)
* *Nimbus* by Jacey Bedford (Psi-Tech #3)
* *Silverwolf* by Jacey Bedford (Rowankind #2)
* *The Imposters of Aventil* by Marshall Ryan Maresca [Maradaine #3]
* *The Holver Alley Crew* by Marshall Ryan Maresca [Streets of Maradaine #1]
* *The Rebel* by Gerald Brandt (San Angeles #3)
* *Reaping the Aurora* by Joshua Palmatier (Erenthrall #3)
Human

Human is the last tale of The Final Fall of Man. You're strongly advised to start from Eejit and work your way through, but what do we know? We've never read the series starting from here. Maybe it's fantastic this way. Maybe this is the only way it makes sense. That's the thing about reading - you never really know, do you?

In this last gripping instalment of the 8-book Final Fall of man series, all the questions are answered and all the mysteries revealed, and then even bigger questions and mysteries turn out to somehow be hiding behind them, but that's always the way, with questions and mysteries. There are some surprises in store and some heartache too, but if you've made it this far I guess you're pretty tough. And if you really are starting with this book ... well, good luck. Wear a helmet. Have fun.

If you’re going to go out on a song, make it a beautiful, beautiful song. And if you can’t do that, well – make it deafening.

Captain First Grade Çrom Skelliglyph cordially invites you to the Final Fall of Man.

Join the crew of the Astro Tramp 400 as she flies out.

One last time.
Julia Rios

**Julia Rios**

Editor, *Fireside Magazine* from September 2017, 4 issues

Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press

2016 Anthologies Edited:

* *Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2015* (with Alisa Krasnostein)
* *Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014* (with Alisa Krasnostein)

2015 Anthologies Edited:

* *Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013* (with Alisa Krasnostein)

2014 Anthologies Edited:

* *Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories* (with Alisa Krasnostein)
Jeff Sturgeon

'Adrift' acrylic on aluminum, 18" by 24" Last Cities of Earth'Lost City of Lyonesse' acrylic on aluminum 18" by 24" Last Cities of EarthWestercon 71 Program Cover acrylic on aluminum 16" by 20"'Enigma on Talos 3' acrylic on aluminum 16" by 20"'Morning Vista' 8" by 10" acrylic on canvas'Alien Ruins Near Stellar Anomally' acrylic on aluminum 16" by 20"'Battle For Brittain' Acrylic on Aluminum 18" by 24" Last Cities of Earth'Nawlins' acrylic on aluminum 18" by 26" Last Cities of Earth'Shanghai' acrlic on aluminum 22" by 30" Last Cities of Earth
Books of the Raksura

**by Martha Wells**

Eligible Publication: *The Harbors of the Sun* (Books of the Raksura #5) (excerpt), Night Shade Books, July 2017

*A former friend has betrayed the Raksura and their groundling companions, and now the survivors must race across the Three Worlds to rescue their kidnapped family members. When Moon and Stone are sent ahead to scout, they quickly encounter an unexpected and potentially deadly ally, and decide to disobey the queens and continue the search alone. Following in a wind-ship, Jade and Malachite make an unlikely alliance of their own, until word reaches them that the Fell are massing for an attack on the Reaches, and that forces of the powerful Empire of Kish are turning against the Raksura and their groundling comrades.*

*But there may be no time to stage a rescue, as the kidnapped Raksura discover that their captors are heading toward a mysterious destination with a stolen magical artifact that will cause more devastation for the Reaches than anything the lethal Fell can imagine. To stop them, the Raksura will have to take the ultimate risk and follow them into forbidden territory.*

*The Cloud Roads* (Books of the Raksura #1), Night Shade Books, February 2011

*The Serpent Sea* (Books of the Raksura #2), Night Shade Books, January 2012

*The Siren Depths* (Books of the Raksura #3), Night Shade Books, December 2012

*The Edge of Worlds* (Books of the Raksura #4), Night Shade Books, February 2016

*Stories of the Raksura Vol 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud*, Night Shade Books, September 2014

*Stories of the Raksura Vol 2: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below* , Night Shade Books, June 2015
Knitter

In a world almost like ours, inscrutable beings called "knitters" make and unmake parts of the world with a stroke of their needles. Unmade things vanish from memory as well as existence—except that for unknown reasons, one person may remember. The story follows a married couple, who are happy, except for being haunted by a feeling that their life might be different—what if they had children, for example? *Did* they have children?
Provenance

Title: Provenance

Author: Ann Leckie

Publisher: Orbit

Publication date: September 28, 2017

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright.

A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.

Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world, before they are lost to her for good.
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Author: Grady Hendrix

Publisher: Quirk Books

Publication Date: Sep 19, 2017

*Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and ’80s . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. It’s an affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of two iconic decades, complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles. You’ll find familiar authors, like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, and many more who’ve faded into obscurity. Plus recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.*

Reviews: Washington Post, AV Club, New York Times

Interview: NPR
Edd Cartier

### 1942 work:

He Didn't Like Cats (1942)Medusa (1942)The Shoes (1942)The Sunken Land (1942)Census Taker (1942)The Ghost of Me (1942)Step Into My Garden (1942)The Bargain (1942)Https://www.collectorshowcase.fr/images2/intunknown3 4208.jpgThe Wisdom of the East (1942)The Hag Séleen (1942)Https://i1.wp.com/sfmagazines.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/UNK194212i4x600.jpg?w=434
Peter Darling

***Peter Darling*** by Austin Chant

Less Than Three Press, February

After Peter Pan returned from Neverland, he found himself being crushed by a family who expected him to be their good daughter Wendy. In desperation, at age 20, he returns to Neverland. The Lost Boys aren't happy to see him, but Captain Hook, who's been bored since he left, is overjoyed. The two rivals duel until they begin to realize that they're kindred spirits. Their growing closeness helps them deal with the heartbreaks that drove both of them to take refuge in a world of imagination.

Also recommended by: Shira Glassman, Xen Sanders, Sara and Alex
Unsong

*Unsong*, by Scott Alexander

Self-published online at unsongbook.com; concluded May 2017.

*“I AM BUSY. I AM TRYING TO FIX CONTINENTAL DRIFT.”*

*“I…didn’t know it was broken.”*

*Uriel’s face became more animated, his speech faster.*

*“IT HAS BEEN BROKEN FOR FIVE WEEKS AND FIVE DAYS. I THINK IT BROKE WHEN I RELOADED NEW ZEALAND FROM A BACKUP COPY, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHY. MY SYNCHRONIZATION WAS IMPECCABLE AND THE CHANGE PROPAGATED SIMULTANEOUSLY ACROSS ALL SEPHIROT. I THINK SOMEBODY BOILED A GOAT IN ITS MOTHER’S MILK. IT IS ALWAYS THAT. I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO DO IT, BUT NOBODY LISTENS.”*
Chris McGrath

Chris McGrath's website

ArtStation

Wikipedia

ISFDB bibliography

### 2017 work:

Cover for *Breach of Containment* by Elizabeth Bonesteel (Harper Voyager, October)Cover for *Raining Fire* by Rajan Khanna (Pyr, July)Cover for Archangel by Margaret Fortune (DAW, March)Cover for *Boss Fight: The Twenty-Sided Sorceress, Volume Two* by Annie Bellet (Saga Press, January)Cover for *Hungry Ghosts* by Stephen Blackmoore (DAW, February)Cover for *The Brightest Fell* by Seanan McGuire (DAW, October)
InCryptid

Magic for Nothing, InCryptid #6

Improbable, adjective:
1. Not very likely to happen; not probable.
2. Probably not a very good idea anyway.
3. See also “bad plan.”

As the youngest of the three Price children, Antimony is used to people not expecting much from her. She’s been happy playing roller derby and hanging out with her cousins, leaving the globe-trotting to her older siblings while she stays at home and tries to decide what she wants to do with her life. She always knew that one day, things would have to change. She didn’t think they’d change so fast.

Annie’s expectations keep getting shattered. She didn’t expect Verity to declare war on the Covenant of St. George on live television. She didn’t expect the Covenant to take her sister’s threat seriously. And she definitely didn’t expect to be packed off to London to infiltrate the Covenant from the inside…but as the only Price in her generation without a strong resemblance to the rest of the family, she’s the perfect choice to play spy. They need to know what’s coming. Their lives may depend on it.

But Annie has some secrets of her own, like the fact that she’s started setting things on fire when she touches them, and has no idea how to control it. Now she’s headed halfway around the world, into the den of the enemy, where blowing her cover could get her killed. She’s pretty sure things can’t get much worse.

Antimony Price is about to learn just how wrong it’s possible for one cryptozoologist to be.
Hugo Nominees 2018 Wiki

## Welcome to the Hugo Nominees 2018 Wiki

Making a list of eligible Hugo Award works for the 2018 awards. If you're looking for eligible works published during 2018, you'll find them here.

A similar, predating project is Renay's excellent Hugo Spreadsheet of doom. Be sure to check it out as well!

## Let's Nominate

In order for more people to vote in the Hugos, let's make a list of eligible works and people, with links to read where available. This isn't meant to be a database of everything in genre over a year, as that would be unmanageable, but if you read or see something that you think is worthy of an award, by all means add it! The rules for each category can be found on the category page, and you can read them in full in the WSFS constitution.

But first, a short video illustrating how to add works or people:

The Categories

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

Best Series

Best Related Work

Best Graphic Story

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long form)‏

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short form)

Best Editor (Short Form)‏‎

Best Editor (Long Form)‏‎

Best Professional Artist

Best Professional Artist - 1943 Retro Hugos

Best Semiprozine‏‎

Best Fanzine

Best Fancast‏‎

Best Fan Writer‏‎

Best Fan Artist

Best YA Novel (Not a Hugo)

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer‏

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The Prisoner of Limnos

In this sequel novella to "Mira's Last Dance", Temple sorcerer Penric and the widow Nikys have reached safety in the duchy of Orbas when a secret letter from a friend brings frightening news: Nikys's mother has been taken hostage by her brother's enemies at the Cedonian imperial court, and confined in a precarious island sanctuary.

Their own romance still unresolved, Nikys, Penric, and of course Desdemona must infiltrate the hostile country once more, finding along the way that family relationships can be as unexpectedly challenging as any rescue scheme
Chronicles of the Kencyrath

**by P.C. Hodgell**

Eligible Publication: ***The Gates of Tagmeth*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #8) *(excerpt)*, Baen, August 2017

*Jame Knorth’s nature. Literally. She is the avatar of a god known as That-Which-Destroys, the god of chaos and ruin. Yet Jame is also a noblewoman within an ancient race, and the designated heir of her twin brother Torisen Knorth, High Lord of the Kencyrath. Jame’s people are fleeing, world by world, from a terrible enemy that has pursued them through a multitude of universes. Its name is Perimal Darkling.*

*Obeying instructions from her brother, Jame sets out with a force of Southron warriors to reestablish the long-fallen castle keep of Tagmeth. By Jame’s side is Lyra, a devious Kencyrath noble girl who is determined not to be forced into a marriage with a man she despises. Jame’s old friends Mark and Brier Iron-thorn stand with her, as well: Marc, steward and organizer of Jame’s household and Brier, the only captain under her command wholly sworn to support Jame no matter the cost. Jame finds more allies in the forest surrounding the ancient keep where the wild people of the woodlands, the Merikit, hold court. And Jame’s adopted mother, Gran Cyd, matriarch and queen of the Merikit, may once again provide the voice of calm that Jame requires to survive her own tempestuous nature.*

*Jame sets about establishing Tagmeth as an outpost against the gathering power of Perimal Darkling. But Tagmeth hides a secret, a gateway to a mystery that may save this world from eternal darkness—or plunge it to destruction and ruin all the sooner. It is up to Jame to find her way through Perimal Darkling’s traps, and to come to terms with the god of pandemonium and destruction within her who grows stronger every day. If she succeeds it may be that Perimal Darkling can finally be defeated after eons of fear and flight. And if she fails, yet another world will fall to darkness forever.*

***God Stalk*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #1), Argo/Athenaeum, September 1982

***Dark of the Moon*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #2), Argo/Athenaeum, October 1985

***Seeker's Mask*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #3), Hypatia Press, 1994

***To Ride a Rathorn*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #4), Meisha Merlin, September 2006

***Bound in Blood*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #5), Baen, March 2010

***Honor's Paradox*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #6), Baen, December 2011

***The Sea of Time*** (Chronicles of the Kencyrath #7), Baen, May 2014