recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Basic Sequence of Play

This is Auroras basic sequence of play for each Time Interval:

* NPR movement orders
* Check Conditional Orders: If any conditions are met, immediately create the associated order at the top of the order list.

Movement Phase

* Fleets Move: Including Orbiting Fleets, Normal Fleets and Escorting Fleets in that order.
* Fighter Groups Move\Reload (remaining rearm time is reduced)
* Monsters Move (including all non-NPR Computer Opponents)
* Missile Salvos move: Including intercept, point blank point defence and damage allocation\planetary bombardment.
* Sensor Update (all sensors are checked for new contacts)

*End of Movement Sub-pulses*

* Check Primary Special Orders (If a fleet has no move orders, its primary special orders are checked )
* Check Secondary Special Orders ( If a fleet still has no move orders, its secondary special orders are checked )
* Damage Control takes place

Fire Phase

* Shields are recharged
* Point Defence in area mode is assigned targets. (After automatic area fire there is automatic AMM launches)
* All ships fire (or launch missiles), including NPRs/Spoilers, before all energy weapon damage is assessed.
* Planets launch missiles
* Fighters launch missiles
* Combat results from energy weapons are applied

*End of Fire Phase*

* Boarding combat

Construction Cycle

* Population Growth
* Check Available Workers: The distribution of workers within all populations is checked and any shortages affect efficiency.
* Orbital Movement
* Check Life Pods: any lifepods that have exhausted their endurance are removed.
* Comet Motion
* Provide Foreign Aid
* Update Wealth
* Update Trade
* Maintenance Check
* Update Sol System Disaster,
* Resource Extraction
* NPR Population Planning
* Shipyard Activity (improving shipyards)
* Shipbuilding
* Ground Unit Training
* Genetic Modification
* Production (construction, fighter, ordnance factories)
* Research Projects
* Missile Geo Survey
* New Ships for Shipping Lines Checked
* Check for New Shipping Lines
* Check for New Civilian Mining Colonies
* Check for expansion of CMC
* Crew Training
* Unrest Update
* Update to Political Status of Occupied Colonies
* Mass Drivers
* Recovery from Ruins
* Update Teams
* Reduce Radiation
* Readiness Recovery
* Combat Load Fatigue
* Check Crew Morale
* Ground Combat
* Update List of Systems that need sensor checks
* Diplomacy
* Check Commander Health
* Check Commander Assignments
* Check Fuel
* Reduce Danger Ratings
* NPR Colony Creation
* Update Industrial Reactivation
* Wormhole Moves

*End of Construction Cycle*

* Update Time
* Update Economics, Events and System Map if loaded.
Angel, Monster, Man

Angel, Monster, Man by Sam J. Miller

Published: *Nightmare Magazine*, January

Reviews: Nerds of a Feather, SFRevu, Tangent Online,Quick Sip Reviews

Word Count: 11335

Description (by Sam Tomaino at SFRevu): "It's 1987 and three gay artists are the last survivors of the AIDS plague. The fellow members of their coffee kvetch are dead and there is no Hemingway for this Lost Generation. So they make one up and call him Tom Minniq. They cobble him together from fragments of unknown dead artists. But Tom Minniq takes on a life of his own, manifesting differently for each of the three men in the ways indicated by the title. It turns into an alternate history..."
File 770 - Withdrawn from Consideration

File 770

Edited by Mike Glyer

* Speculative Fiction Awards News
* Book Reviews and Author Interviews
* Convention News and Updates
* News and Trailers for Genre-related Movies and TV Shows
* *In Memoriam* Tributes
* Coverage of Fandom Controversies
* Genre Publishing Industry News
* SFF History and Remembrances
* Space and Technology News
* Assorted Whimsy

File 770 Fanzine: File 770 #166
Borderline

*Borderline* by Mishell Baker *(excerpt)*

Published by Saga Press, March 2016

Series: The Arcadia Project #1

*A year ago, Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she’s sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia Project: a secret organization that polices the traffic to and from a parallel reality filled with creatures straight out of myth and fairy tales.*

*For her first assignment, Millie is tasked with tracking down a missing movie star who also happens to be a nobleman of the Seelie Court. To find him, she’ll have to smooth-talk Hollywood power players and uncover the surreal and sometimes terrifying truth behind the glamour of Tinseltown. But stronger forces than just her inner demons are sabotaging her progress, and if she fails to unravel the conspiracy behind the noble’s disappearance, not only will she be out on the streets, but the shattering of a centuries-old peace could spark an all-out war between worlds.*

*No pressure.*
Donato Giancola

Donato Giancola

### 2016 work:

Illustration "Beren and Luthien in the Court of Thingol and Melian" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration "Vesuvius" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration "Promethean Costs" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Cover for *The Gospel of Loki* by Joanne M. Harris (Saga Press, June)Cover for *Einstein's Shadow* by Allen M. Steele (Asimov's Science Fiction, January)Cover for *Treachery's Tools* by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor Books, October)Illustration "Empathy" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)
* Illustration "Chiron: The Mentor" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)
Runtime

*Runtime* by S. B. Divya *(excerpt)*

Published: Tor.com May 2016

Reviews:

* Bridget McKinney, *SF Bluestocking*
* Angela Blackwell, *Bull Spec*
* Ricky L. Brown, *Amazing Stories*
* Wayne Simmons

*The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg’s Tour de France. Rich thrill-seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and top-of-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the elements in a day-long race across the Sierra Nevada.*

*Marmeg Guinto doesn’t have funding, and she doesn’t have support. She cobbled her gear together from parts she found in rich people’s garbage and spent the money her mother wanted her to use for nursing school to enter the race. But the Minerva Challenge is the only chance she has at a better life for herself and her younger brothers, and she’s ready to risk it all.*
Government Types

Each empire is ruled by a **government** of a specific type; the different systems of governance provide different gameplay advantages. You can choose your government type while setting up a new game, and which you can freely switch between while in the game itself.

## Government types

There are 38 different types of government. The government type that you choose while setting the game up will determine how many tech points you start with, which can be used either by checking the "Assign starting tech points automatically" option on the create game screen, or they can be used as guidelines when giving yourself research with the SpaceMaster Mode. Your starting government type also effects your starting installation proportions, and government modifiers.

## Government Modifiers

The choice of government type effect the six modifiers listed bellow:

* Xenophobia: A rating from 1-100, showing the fear of other races or governments.
* Diplomacy: A rating from 1-100, showing the ability to persuade other races. This is used to offset the Xenophobia of another race.
* Militancy: A rating from 1-100, showing the likelihood this race will choose military force to achieve its goals.
* Expansionism: A rating from 1-100, showing the desire of this race to increase its territory.
* Determination: A rating from 1-100, showing the determination of this race to proceed with a chosen course of action despite setbacks.
* Trade: A rating from 1-100, showing the willingness to trade with other races and to establish/allow trading posts.
Quantum Night

Title: Quantum Night

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Publisher: Ace

Release Date: March 01, 2016

*Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously—a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.*

*Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible—change human nature—before the entire world descends into darkness.*
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Title: Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Author: Nathalia Holt

Publisher: Hachette / Little, Brown and Company

Publication Date: April 2016

**The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.**

**In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.**

For the first time, *Rise of the Rocket Girls*
tells the stories of these women--known as "human computers"--who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, *Rise of the Rocket Girls*
 offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading.
Ninefox Gambit

*Ninefox Gambit* by Yoon Ha Lee

Published by Solaris Books, June 2016

Series: The Machineries of Empire #1

Publisher's description:

To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.

Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.

Cheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress.

The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao–because she might be his next victim.
C.A. Hawksmoor

Name: C.A. Hawksmoor

Eligibility: Second Year

Works (also see website)

* *The Stone Garden*, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2016
* Trigger Point *published by The Future Fire in March 2015*
* Y Brenin *published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies in February 2015*  (Was available in Up and Coming)
* Shadow Boy and the Little Match Girl *published by the Future Fire in September 2013*
* Murder on the Laplacian Express *published by Interzone in September 2015*  (Was available in Up and Coming)
* The Weed Wife *published by Fox Spirit for ‘The Girl at the End of the World Vol. 2’ in January 2014*
* The Labyrinth of Thorns *published by Interzone in January 2014*
Deep Space Tracking Station

## Function

**Deep Space Tracking Stations** are installations that provide high-powered passive EM and thermal sensors to a colony. Each tracking station adds a linear amount to the colony's passive sensor strength equal to the racial planetary sensor strength.

Tracking stations can be deployed on empty colonies in strategic locations to provide passive sensor coverage of locations such as warp points and enemy colonies. A colony consisting of just tracking stations is categorized as a *Listening Post*. Tracking stations do not require population to operate, allowing a listening post to have a small thermal and EM signature.
Freefall

*Freefall* is a webcomic by Mark Stanley.

It starts out as broad comedy but develops a deeper story about what it means to be human, featuring three characters who technically aren't (Florence is an uplifted animal, Sam is an extraterrestrial, and Helix is a robot) while still being very funny.

The update of July 11, 2016 announces itself as "the end of chapter one", meaning that everything up to that point constitutes a single eligible story unit that starts here and ends here.
Tommy Arnold

Tommy Arnold

### 2016 work:

Cover for *Updraft* by Fran Wilde (new edition) (Tor Books, September)Cover for *Cloudbound* by Fran Wilde (Tor Books, September)Cover for "The Jewel and Her Lapidary" by Fran Wilde (Tor.com, May)Cover for "First Kill" by Jennifer Fallon (Tor.com, October; *Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes)Cover for *Fireborn* by David Dalglish (Orbit Books, November)Cover for "A Taste of Honey" by Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, October)"Glimmer Of Genius" card for Magic The Gathering set *Kaladesh* (Wizards of the Coast, September)"Static Orb" card for Magic The Gathering set *Kaladesh* (Wizards of the Coast, September)
* Cover for *Patchwerk* by David Tallerman (Tor.com, January)
* Cover for *The Rise of Io* by Wesley Chu (Angry Robot, October)
* Cover for *Two's Company* by Joe Abercrombie (Tor.com, January)
Jesus Has Forgiven Me, Why Can't You?

**Title:** Jesus Has Forgiven Me, Why Can't You?

**Author:** Betsy Phillips

**Published:** *The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,* July/August 2016

*Finally he got fed up. "Betsy, Jesus has forgiven me. Why can't you?"*

Did Jesus fuck you, Larry? Because if not, I don't think Jesus and I are in the same boat here. *I didn't say that, because I'm not that clever that quickly, but when I thought of it twenty minutes after I hung up on him, believe me, I was tempted to call him back and get it out there.*

*But here's the thing. Jesus and I go way back. I've known him since I was a kid, since my dad works for His Dad. So I was like, well, if Jesus is running around forgiving Larry for doing me and his wife wrong, I want to know why.*
Ghostbusters

(IMDB)

Director: Paul Feig

Written by: Katie Dippold and Paul Feig

Produced by: Columbia Pictures

Starring: Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig,

*Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.*
Lee Harris

Editor, 2016 Short Stories:

* *Small Wars* by Matt Wallace (Tor.com, January 2016)
* *There Will Always Be a Max* by Michael R. Underwood (Tor.com, April 2016)

Editor, 2016 Novellas, Tor.com Publishing

* *Every Heart a Doorway* by Seanan McGuire
* *Nightshades* by Melissa F. Olsen
* *Lustlocked* by Matt Wallace
* *Pride's Spell* by Matt Wallace
* *The Lost Child of Lychford* by Paul Cornell
* *Forest of Memory* by Mary Robinette Kowal (Note, revised from 2014 work)
* *Patchwerk* by David Tallerman
* *A Song for No Man's Land* by Andy Remic
* *Return of Souls* by Andy Remic
* *Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution* by Michael R. Underwood
* *The Emperor’s Railroad* by Guy Haley
* *The Ghoul King* by Guy Haley

Editor, Magazine: Hub Magazine (involvement as Editor all pre-2016)

Eligibility: Confirmed. His past editorship of Hub Magazine meets the general requirement of at least 4 magazine issues, and many of the works (above) that he edited were collected, making him the co-editor of 5 collections in 2016 (Tor.com Bundle 1, Bundle 2... Bundle 5) - all available from Amazon.com and other retailers...

It has also been pointed out that the Tor.com Novellas essentially constitute an anthology series. Certainly Harris has edited a sufficient number of 2016 Novellas to qualify as an anthology.

Personal website
Penric and the Shaman

*Penric and the Shaman* by Lois McMaster Bujold

Published Spectrum Literary Agency, June 2016

*In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in “Penric’s Demon”, Penric is a divine of the Bastard’s Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine agrees to send Penric, in his role as sorcerer, to*
accompany a “Locator" of the Father’s Order, assigned to capture Inglis, a runaway shaman charged with the murder of his best friend. However, the situation they discover in the mountains is far more complex than expected. Penric’s roles as sorcerer, strategist, and counselor are all called upon before the end.

Reviews: SFRevu, James Nicoll Reviews, RocketStackRank, Bibliosanctum
The Dispatcher

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi

Published by Audible Studios, October 2016

*One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.*

*Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those*

*whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge a supposed wrong.*

*It's a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it's too late...before not even a Dispatcher can save him.*
The Bridge of Dreams

The Bridge of Dreams by Gregory Feeley

Published: Clarkesworld April 2016

Word Count: 10,434 words (per Clarkesworld)

Reviews: Jonathan Strahan @SFEditorsPicks, Rocket Stack Rank, Tangent

Description (from Rocket Stack Rank): "After centuries of solitude at his post on Pluto, Heimdallr has come to fear that humanity is extinct. Then he receives a summons from the inner solar system."
Rise

A dystopian future, where mans attempt to create artificial intelligence has spun wildly out of control leading to a war between man and machine.
Director: David Karlak

Writers: Patrick Melton (screenplay), Marcus Dunstan (screenplay)
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Sarah Dumont, Rufus Sewell...

Running time: 5 mins

Watch:

https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/03/25/rise/
Uncanny Magazine

Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas

   About:

A 2016 Hugo Award winner, 2016 Parsec Award winner and World Fantasy Award finalist, *Uncanny Magazine*is
 an online Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine featuring passionate
SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a
deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture.  Each issue
contains intricate, experimental stories and poems with verve and
imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs, from
writers of every conceivable background. *Uncanny*believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you *feel*.

Co-edited by Hugo Award-winner Lynne M. Thomas and Hugo Award-nominee
 Michael Damian Thomas, each issue contains new and classic speculative
fiction, podcasts, poetry, essays, art, and interviews. *Uncanny*‘s contributors range from the award-winning leading voices of the field to exciting, emerging talents. Numerous pieces from *Uncanny Magazine* have been awards’ finalists and have been included in Year’s Best anthologies.
Behind The Throne

Title: *Behind The Throne* (excerpt)

Author: K.B. Wagers

Series: The Indranan War #1

Publisher: Orbit Books

Publication Date: August 2016

Reviews:

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

*Hailimi Bristol escaped from the suffocating court life of Indrana at the age of 19 and changed the course of her life. She became a universally feared gunrunner and, eventually, captain of her own ship. Twenty years later, though, her life is turned upside down by the death of her best friend and lover, the destruction of her ship, and her own effective kidnapping by Royal Trackers tasked with bringing her home. But why? After twenty years?*

*Because Princess Hailimi Bristol is the only remaining heir to the Indranan throne.*

*Her sisters have been killed and her mother is ill. Is it a plot by Indrana’s enemies to restart the war that killed her father? Or is it a cabal of men from within Indrana’s own matriarchal society seeking to change centuries of rule by women? For on Indrana, men are second to women and not all are as accepting of that as they seem.*

*Caught in a whirlwind of plots and assassination attempts, poor Hail longs for the “simple life” of running guns and smuggling. But she can’t run back to that old life. For if she runs away again, Indrana will enter an unnecessary war with the neighboring kingdoms, millions will die, and the Bristol name will disappear forever.*
Plutona

*Plutona* by Jeff Lemire

Published by Image Comics, July 2016. Collects Plutona #1-5, the last of which was published in June 2016.

"Five kids discover the body of the world's greatest super hero, Plutona, in the woods after school one day. This discovery sends them on a dark journey that will threaten to tear apart their friendship and their lives."

Reviews: Vox
Ordnance Factory

Template:Infobox installation

## Function

**Ordnance Factories** are installations that allow production of missiles, drones and buoys.

An ordnance factory produces the racial ordnance production rate per year modified by the planetary and sector governor's Factory Production bonus and require 50,000 civilians each to operate.

Formula: (Racial Ordnance Production Rate) \* (Sector Governor Factory Production Bonus \* 0.25) \* (Planetary Governor Production Bonus)

## Operation

Factories are managed on the **Industry** tab of the Economics Screen (F2 at the main menu).

### New Projects

Select *Missiles* on the Construction Options dropdown menu. Fighters and the remaining options are constructed by Fighter Factories and Construction Factories respectively.

Once an item is selected, you can choose the number to construct along with the percentage of industry to devote to the project. If a higher percentage is chosen than is available, the project will enter the queue and will begin when a enough industry has been freed up to meet the percentage requirements.

### Current Projects

Clicking on an existing project allows you to change the requested number of items and percentage of industry at anytime. Attempted to set the total percentage of industry used will display an error dialog notifying you of this.

Current projects can also be cancelled, paused or moved into the queue. Paused projects do not release their industry for other projects, so move them into the queue if additional industry is required.

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Note:  Selected a new project, then clicking on an existing project and
finally back on the new project will result in the focus still being granted
to the existing project. To correct, pick a different new project and then
back to what you want to build.

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### Shutting Down

Ordnance factories can be mass-shutdown via the Civilian / Ind Status tab of the Economics screen. This will immediately shutdown all ordnance production and remove any Wealth costs associated with the production. Shutting down in this way will require a 6-month warm-up time to restart production.

Production can also be shutdown on a project by project basis by project basis which has the same effect without incurring the 6-month restart delay (?)

## Misc

Ordnance Factories require the standard 25,000 tons of cargo space (5 cargo holds), similar to most installations.

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Military Academy

Template:Infobox installation

## Function

**Military Academies** are installations that provide the trained crew members and officers for your ships and ground forces along with your civilian administrators and lead scientists. A military academy trains five leaders per year and 1000 crew members divided by your current crew training level (which can range from 1 to 5). Multiple academies on the same planet scale linearly and leaders are gained throughout the year (more academies means less time between new leaders). Leader types are randomly chosen, with naval officers being the most common choice.

### Shutting Down

Military academies cannot be shut down.

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Hidden Figures

(imdb)

Directed by: Theodore Melfi

Written by: Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly

Produced by: Levantine Films, Chernin Entertainment, Fox 2000 Pictures

Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, and Kevin Costner

*As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.*

Reviews roundup at Rotten Tomatoes
The Lie Tree

*The Lie Tree* by Frances Hardinge

Published in the UK by Macmillan, May 2015; in the US by Amulet Books, April 2016

*Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy—a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men. But inside, Faith is full of questions and curiosity, and she cannot resist mysteries: an unattended envelope, an unlocked door. She knows secrets no one suspects her of knowing. She knows that her family moved to the close-knit island of Vane because her famous scientist father was fleeing a reputation-destroying scandal. And she knows, when her father is discovered dead shortly thereafter, that he was murdered.*

*In pursuit of justice and revenge, Faith hunts through her father’s possessions and discovers a strange tree. The tree bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, delivers a hidden truth. The tree might hold the key to her father’s murder—or it may lure the murderer directly to Faith herself.*
The Obelisk Gate

Title: The Obelisk Gate (excerpt)

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Series: Broken Earth Trilogy

Publication Gate: August 2016

Reviews:

* NPR
* Publisher's Weekley (starred review)
* Barnes and Noble
* Kirkus
* Book Smugglers
* Tor.com
* James Nicoll

***THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.***

The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.

It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.

The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.
Conventional Industry

Template:Infobox installation

## Function

**Conventional Industry** (CI) are multipurpose installations that act as a combination of Construction Factories, Mines, and Fuel Refineries. They are, however, quite inefficient, with each CI equivalent to 1/10 each of Factories and Mines, and 1/20 of a Refinery. CI cannot be built, but are provided at the beginning of a Conventional Start game instead of other industry. CI can be upgraded one for one to any of Construction Factory, Fighter Factory, Fuel Refinery, Mine, or Ordnance Factory for 1/6 the cost of a new facility. CI cannot be moved.

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Iona Sharma

Eligibility: Second Year

Works:

* *Flightcraft*, in Luna Station Quarterly #25, March 2016
* *Quarter Days*, in GigaNotoSaurus, December 2015
* *Alnwick*, in Middle Planet, July 2015 (Was also available in Up & Coming)
* *Archana and Chandni* in Betwixt #8, July 2015 (Was also available in Up & Coming)
* *Nine Thousand Hours*, in Strange Horizons, April 2015
* *Ur*, in Expanded Horizons, November 2014
* *One-Day Listing*, in Goldfish Grimm’s Spicy Fiction Sushi, July 2014
Dread Empire’s Fall

Series: Dread Empire’s Fall / The Praxis

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Eligible Publication: *Impersonations* (excerpt), Tor.com, October 2016

*Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity's home world.*

*Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn't want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And all that is before someone tries to kill her.*

*If she's going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own.*
Arkady Martine

Name: Arkady Martine

Eligibility: Second Year

Works (partial list, see website for more):

**2015**

* “City of Salt”, *Strange Horizons* (16 March 2015)
* “Adjuva”, *Lakeside Circus* (Year Two, Issue One)
* “When the Fall Is All That’s Left”, *Apex Magazine* 77
* “The Demon Vivienne Explains Volitional Geography”, *Through the Gate* 8

**2016**

* “How the God Auzh-Aravik Brought Order to the World Outside the World”, *Strange Horizons* (18 January 2016)
* “Contra Gravitatem (Vita Genevievis)”, *Lackington’s* 9 (Architectures)
* “Abandon Normal Instruments”, *Mithila Review* 2
* “Ekphrasis”, in *An Alphabet of Embers*
* “All the Colors You Thought Were Kings”, *Shimmer* 31
* “Fear Death By Water”, *Unlikely Observances (Unlikely Story* 12.5)
Shoreline of Infinity

Shoreline of Infinity is a Scotland based science fiction magazine which publishes short stories, original artwork, SF poetry book reviews, articles, columns, interviews - and puzzles. Stories are by new and well-known writers, and it positively encourage first-time writers.

Started in 2015, Shoreline of Infinity publishes quarterly in print, epub, mobi and PDF formats, and has a busy website for supplementary content.

The magazine prides itself on being accessible to all readers of science fiction, new readers and old hands alike. As was reviewed on Amazing Stories:

> "For hardcore members of fandom looking for some fresh insights on “what if,” and for those casual readers intent on just taking a leisurely peek at the genre, ***Shoreline of Infinity*** is a smart place to start."
>
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- Amazing Stories

Shoreline of Infinity also runs the Event Horizon - live science fiction events in Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland, again giving an opportinity new writers and well-known writers alike. Events have featured Ken MacLeod, Jane Yolen, Charles Stross, for example. Mixing music, readings, films, performances, Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon aims to bring science fiction to life.

Editor/Editor-in-Chief/co-founder: Noel Chidwick

Art Director/co-founder: Mark Toner

Deputy Editor/Poetry Editor: Russell Jones

Reviews Editor: Iain Maloney

Assistant Editor: Monica Burns
Kelet (Brom)

## Kelet

**Khan Kelet Ronin Yang** ist der aktuelle König der Oni und der jüngere Bruder von Prinz Aziz. Sozial erkennt er auch die Chronos-Drillinge als seine älteren Geschwister an, Misako als seine jüngere Schwester. Er verkörpert den Teufel und ist quasi unsterblich, er und Aziz wurden allerdings noch als Erwachsene von ihrem leiblichen Vater misshandelt und geschlagen.

## Magie und Kampf

Spontan und rotzfrech, macht er eigentlich alles zur Waffe, was er in die Finger bekommt. Und selbst wenn er im Kampf getötet wird, steht er kurz darauf wieder auf, als sei nichts geschehen. Seine dominanten Dunkelelemente sind unbekannt, er kämpft eher mit Waffen als Magie.

## Aussehen und Kleidung

Als Kelet trägt er eher braune Farben als das Oni-typische schwarz. In der Öffentlichkeit hat er zusätzlich seine Maske, die er bei Nichtgebrauch als Halstuch trägt. Dazu trägt er auch privat seinen roten Strohhut, ebenfalls Kelet-Kleidungsvorschrift. Je nach Stimmung und Notwendigkeit lässt er sich auch mit Flügeln sehen, mit denen er allerdings nicht fliegen kann.

## Trivia

* Vor Misakos Geburt war er der Jüngste der Yang-Chronos-Geschwister.
* Er ist Trommler und spielt die Begleittrommel seines Bruders Krux.
* Wäre Kodokuna unbescholten geblieben dadurch Aziz nicht verbannt, hätte Kelet keine reelle Chance auf den Thron gehabt.
Version Control

*Version Control* by Dexter Palmer

Published by Pantheon, February 2016

*Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a “time machine”) has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine.*

Reviews: Kirkus, NPR, Publishers Weekly
David Palumbo

David Palumbo

### 2016 work:

Cover for *Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection* by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books, November)Illustration "Moon Children" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Cover for *Snakewood* by Adrian Selby (Orbit Books, March)Cover for *Salem's Lot* by Stephen King (Cemetery Dance Publications, April)Illustration for *Summer of Night* by Dan Simmons (Subterranean Press, January)Illustration for "Welcome to the Fold" card for Magic The Gathering set *Shadows over Innistrad* (Wizards of the Coast, April; *Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)
* Illustration for *Keep Mars Weird* by Neal Pollack (47North, January)
* Cover and illustrations for *This Year's Class Picture* by Dan Simmons (Subterranean Press, March)
The Last Days of New Paris

*The Last Days of New Paris* by China Miéville

**Published:** Del Rey, August 2016

**Reviews:** NPR, Tor.com, Kirkus

*1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer—and occult disciple—Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.*

1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts—and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.

But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties—to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.
The Geek Feminist Revolution

*The Geek Feminist Revolution* by Kameron Hurley

Published by Tor, May 2016

*The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley.*

*The book collects dozens of Hurley’s essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including “We Have Always Fought,” which won the 2014 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution also features several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.*

*Unapologetically outspoken, Hurley has contributed essays to The Atlantic, Locus, Tor.com, and elsewhere on the rise of women in genre, her passion for SF/F, and the diversification of publishing.*
Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two Strings is an animated fantasy.

Production company: Laika

Written by: Marc Haimes and Chris Butler

Produced by: Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner

Starring: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara, George Takei, and Matthey McConaughey

*Kubo is a young boy who must find his father's magical armor so he can fight evil spirits.*
Too Like The Lightning

**"Too Like The Lightning," by Ada Palmer**

**Published:** Tor Books, May 2016.

**Series:** Terra Ignota, Book #1.

*You must forgive me my ‘thee’s and ‘thou’s and ‘he’s and ‘she’s, my lack of modern words and modern objectivity. It will be hard at first, but whether you are my contemporary still awed by the new order, or an historian gazing back at my Twenty-Fifth Century as remotely as I gaze back on the Eighteenth, you will find yourself more fluent in the language of the past than you imagined; we all are.*
Vorkosigan Saga

Series: Vorkosigan Saga

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Eligible Publication: *Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen* (excerpt), Baen, January 2016

*Three years after her famous husband’s death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he’d never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his career.*

*Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor’s key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission of inquiry, into a mystery he never anticipated – his own mother.*

*Plans, wills, and expectations collide in this sparkling science-fiction social comedy, as the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules, and Miles learns that not only is the future not what he expects, neither is the past.*
This Census-Taker

**Reviews:** NPR, The Telegraph, The Guardian

**Description**:

*For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville.*

*In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He tries—and fails—to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape.*

*When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over.*

*But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether?*

*Filled with beauty, terror, and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity.*

**Word Count:** Over 30k words (Source: Subterranean Press)
Paula Arwen Owen

Paula Arwen Owen

###  **2016 Professional work:**

Cover for *Clockwork Phoenix 5* edited by Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium, April)Cover for *Temnaya and the House of Books* by Catherynne M. Valente (Mythic Delirium, August)Cover for *The Occultation* by Laird Barron (Mythic Delirium, August)Illustration for "How I Saved Athens from the Stone Monsters" by Erik Jensen in *Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History* edited by Mikki Kendall and Chesya Burke (Crossed Genres, November)

###  **2016 Fan work:**

Illustration for "Salt and Cement and Other Denials" by Sara Saab (Lackington's, February)Illustration "Quest for Fire"Illustration for editor Mike Allen's websiteIllustration "Innocence of Place"Illustration "Unraveling"Cover for *The Serpent in the Throat, and Other Pagan Tales* edited by Rebecca Buchanan (Asphodel Press, February)Cover for *Les Cabinets des Polytheistes: An Anthology of Pagan Fairy Tales, Fables, and Nursery Rhymes* edited by Rebecca Buchanan (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, April)
Moana

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Directed by: Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker, Chris Williams

Written by: Jared Bush

Produced by: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

Featuring the voices of: Auli'i Cravalho (Moana), Dwayne Johnson (Maui), Rachel House (Gramma Tala, Temuera Morrison (Chief Tui), Jemaine Clement (Tamatoa)

*Moana Waialiki is a sea voyaging enthusiast and the only daughter of a chief in a long line of navigators. When her island's fishermen can't catch any fish and the crops fail, she learns that the demigod Maui caused the blight by stealing the heart of the goddess Te Fiti. The only way to heal the island is to persuade Maui to return Te Fiti's heart, so Moana sets off on an epic journey across the Pacific. The film is based on stories from Polynesian mythology.*
A Taste of Honey

*A Taste of Honey* by Kai Ashante Wilson

**Published:** Tor.com publishing, Oct. 25 2016

Word count: c35,000

*Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.*

*Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin to the royal family and son of the Master of Beasts, has more mortal and pressing concerns. His heart has been captured for the first time by a handsome Daluçan soldier named Lucrio. in defiance of Saintly Canon, gossiping servants, and the furious disapproval of his father and brother, Aqib finds himself swept up in a whirlwind romance. But neither Aqib nor Lucrio know whether their love can survive all the hardships the world has to throw at them.*
Romancing the Inventor

"Romancing the Inventor" by Gail Carriger

Publication Date: November 1, 2016

Imogene Hale is a lowly parlour maid with a soul-crushing secret. Seeking solace, she takes work
 at a local hive, only to fall desperately in love with the amazing lady inventor the vampires are keeping in the potting shed. Genevieve Lefoux is heartsick, lonely, and French. With culture, class, and the lady herself set against the match, can Imogene and her duster overcome all odds and win Genevieve's heart, or will the vampires suck both of them dry?
Cosmere / Mistborn

Series: Cosmere / Mistborn

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Eligible Publication: *The Bands of Mourning* (first 6 chapters) (novella), Tor/Gollancz, January 2016

*The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set.*

Eligible Publication: *Secret History*, Dragonsteel Entertainment, January 2016

Eligible Publication: *Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection*, Gollancz/Tor Books, 2016
Julie Dillon

Julie Dillon

### 2016 work:

"Power Surge", Cover for *Clarkesworld #113* (February)Cover for *Beyond the Stars: A Planet Too Far* edited by Ellen Campbell and Patrice Fitzgerald (Astral Books, March 2016)"Hierophant", Cover for *Clarkesworld #112* (January)Cover for *Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History* edited by Mikki Kendall and Chesya Burke (Crossed Genres, November)"Archangel", Cover for *The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016* (Prime Books, July)Cover for *Beyond the Stars: At Galaxy's Edge* edited by Ellen Campbell and Patrice Fitzgerald (Astral Books, August 2016)Cover for *The Brimstone Deception* by Lisa Shearin (Ace Books, January)
Gardner Dozois

Publisher: Various

2016 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection*, St. Martin's Griffin
* *Mash Up*, Titan Books

2015 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection*, St. Martin's Griffin
* *Old Venus* (with George R. R. Martin), Titan Books
Downfall of the Gods

*Downfall of the Gods* by K.J. Parker

Tor.com, March 31, 2016

Publisher's description: *If you visit the Temple and ask nicely for forgiveness, you might get it—assuming you aren’t Lord Archias and you haven’t killed the Goddess’s favorite musician, Lysippus. But even goddesses are expected to follow certain rules, and as much as she wants to punish Lord Archias it seems her troublesome, all-powerful father forbids it. So the Goddess will just have to get around that by forgiving Lord Archias if he can manage some simple—or, rather, seemingly impossible—tasks. A Goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.*

*And in* Downfall of the Gods *that means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the argumentative Lord Archias on an epic quest to save his soul…and get her own way. As the Goddess and her mortal charge make their way across the world to the Land of the Dead, a host of divine surprises await them. Could what they find at the end be the downfall of the gods themselves? Only time will tell.*
Goñi Montes

Goñi Montes

### 2016 work:

Illustration for "There Will Always Be a Max" by Michael R. Underwood (Tor.com, April)Illustration for "Chains" by A. J. Hartley (Tor.com, June)Illustration "Kingmaker" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Illustration for "Small Wars" by Matt Wallace (Tor.com, January)Illustration for "Burned Away" by Kristen Simmons (Tor.com, September)Variant Cover for *Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #0* (BOOM Studios, March)"Illustration West 54" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Cover/Illustration for "Three Points Masculine" by An Owomoyela (Lightspeed Magazine, May)Illustration "What Is Photoshop?" (*Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)
Rovina Cai

Rovina Cai's Website

### 2016 work:

Illustration "In Search of Flowers" (Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by John Fleskes)Illustration "The Silmarillion" (Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by John Fleskes)Illustration "Black Hole: Devourer" (Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by John Fleskes)Illustration for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" by Alyssa Wong (Tor.com, March)Illustration for "The Maiden Thief" by Melissa Marr (Tor.com, January)Illustration for "Tom, Thom" by K.M. Ferebee (Tor.com, February)Illustrated scene for Seanan McGuire's *Every Heart a Doorway* (Tor.com, April)Illustrated scene for Seanan McGuire's *Every Heart a Doorway* (Tor.com, April)Illustrated scene for Seanan McGuire's *Every Heart a Doorway* (Tor.com, April)