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A Song for a New Day

A Song For A New Day

In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world--her music, her purpose--is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law.

Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery--no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she'll have to do something she's never done before and go out in public. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won’t be enough.
For He Can Creep

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics believing God has commissioned him to write The Divine Poem. But years earlier, he made a bargain with Satan and the devil has come to collect his due--a poem that will bring about the apocalypse.

Saving Smart's soul, and the rest of the world, falls to Jeoffry, the poet's demon-fighting cat and a creature of cunning Satan would be a fool to underestimate...
The Disappearance of John M. Ford

The Disappearance of John M. Ford by Isaac Butler

**An article at Slate has the happiest ending possible.**

A journalist searches for the works of the late John M. Ford, finds out how and why they came to be so utterly unavailable after his death, and in doing so clears up (as much as possible) years of rumour and misunderstanding and connects the author's family with his editors so that everything will be returned to print.
Self-Storage Starts with the Heart

*You’ll notice how the commercials never mention the price. They’ve all got some lab-coated guy with chiseled cheekbones spouting dumbed-down drivel about how emotions have wavelengths, the same as light or sound, which are reflected and absorbed by the objects around us. How this discovery has the potential to revolutionize your life. Yes, you, the one glued to your screen at three a.m., binging YouTube videos.*

The story is available online here.
Fast Color

*Fast Color* is a 2018 American superhero film directed by Julia Hart from a screenplay by Hart and Jordan Horowitz. It stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint, Saniyya Sidney, Christopher Denham, and David Strathairn.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Ruth, a woman with supernatural powers on the run from law enforcement and scientists who want to study and control her.
Sky Tears

**Author: Mike Adamson**

Synopsis: A young drone technician accepts a job on a frontier colony world but is marked by his experience for life as he witnesses the planet’s most closely-guarded secret – and becomes its willing keeper.

Released as one of the short stories in Alien Dimensions Science Fiction Anthology Series Issue #17
Navah Wolfe

*Ancestral Night* by Elizabeth Bear, Saga Press, March 5 2019

*Nest of the Monarch* by Kay Kenyon, Saga Press, April 16 2019

*The Twisted Ones* by T. Kingfisher, Saga Press, October 1 2019

*A Choir of Lies* by Alexandra Rowland, Saga Press, September 10 2019

*The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl*, Saga Press, October 1 2019

*This Is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Saga Press, July 16 2019 (novella)

*The Deep* by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes, Saga Press, November 5 2019 (novella)

Note: Navah Wolfe is no longer with Saga Press, but is eligible for the 2020 Hugo Award for her work while at Saga Press.
Sweetypies

**Sweetypies** are a race native to Pure Heart Valley. They resemble of a variety of "cute" animals, such as cats, dogs, and rabbits. Sweetypies also somewhat have abnormal features and body proportions (For example, most Sweetypies only have 4 fingers).

## Members

### Regular

BennyCamilleChester NutzChubbumClark LockjawCluckinsFarmer BunGaryKetchupKevinLuckyMail MoleMarionMuffinsOl' BluePennyPinkyRhett the ChefScoopsSlim PiggunsVic
### Recurring

Bait-Shop BubGuardsHoneyJaybirdPlippyQuintonSloth Smith
### Non-Recurring

Big Thumb PeteDr. CuddlestienChett the RefToddDim
## Trivia

* Based on this tweet, Parker Simmons stated that most animals that resemble those from the real world aren't Sweetypies.
Hugo Award Nominees 2020 Wiki

## Welcome to the Hugo Nominees 2020 Wiki

This wiki is a handy place to collect recommendations for 2019 works which are eligible for a Hugo Award in 2020!

If you're looking for recommendations from last year, the 2019 wiki is right here.

This wiki is run by Ziv (aka Standback or @QuiteVague).

This wiki is a fan effort, entirely unofficial, and is not associated with or endorsed by the Hugo Awards, WSFS, or Worldcon.

Hugo Nominees Wiki originally moderated by Didi Chanoch. A similar, predating project is Renay's excellent Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom.

## 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 -- that would be impossible to manage or navigate -- but if you read or see something that you think is worthy of an award, by all means add it!

This will make it a lot easier to remember what pieces you liked, in what categories -- and lets you share recommendations with others!

The rules for each category can be found on the category page. You can read them in full in the WSFS constitution.

Here's a short video illustrating how to add works or people:

## 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 Semiprozine‏‎

Best Fanzine

Best Fancast‏‎

Best Fan Writer‏‎

Best Fan Artist

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

Astounding Award for Best New Writer‏
Steven Universe: Change Your Mind

"Change Your Mind" is the season five finale of the American animated television series *Steven Universe*; a 44-minute four-part episode, it is counted as the 29th to 32nd episodes of the season and as the 157th to 160th episodes of the series overall. The only 44-minute episode of the series, it was directed by Joe Johnston, Kat Morris and Liz Artinian, and written and storyboarded by Johnston, Morris, Lamar Abrams, Miki Brewster, Danny Cragg, Hilary Florido, Ian Jones-Quartey, Christine Liu, Jeff Liu, Katie Mitroff, Paul Villeco, and series creator and executive producer Rebecca Sugar.

The conclusion of the original storyline conceived by Sugar when developing Steven Universe, the episode serves as the culmination of the ongoing story arcs developed during the show's first five seasons, most notably the Crystal Gems' conflict with the Gem Homeworld and the healing of the monstrous corrupted Gems encountered throughout the series. It also features the debut of new designs for most of the main characters and several previously unseen fusions. In "Change Your Mind", Steven must reunite with the Crystal Gems and open the eyes of the three Diamonds to the dysfunctionality of their family dynamic.

Officially promoted under the alternative title "Steven Universe: Battle of Heart and Mind", the episode premiered on Cartoon Network on January 21, 2019.
Desdemona and the Deep

In *Desdemona and the Deep*, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of luxury. Below are goblins, mysterious kingdoms, and an entirely different hierarchy.
Moonrise

“Truer, but also darker.” This is the real origin story behind America’s decision to go to the moon. The story we learn starts with Sputnik, then President Kennedy’s challenge, and ends with triumph: an American flag on the lunar surface. But in the 50 years that have passed since the moon landing, as the records of scientists and science-fiction writers and policymakers have been revealed, a wilder story has begun to emerge.

“Moonrise” is a Washington Post narrative-nonfiction podcast that digs into the nuclear arms race of the Cold War, the transformation of American society and politics, and -- most importantly -- the influence of science fiction, to unearth what really drove us to the moon. Join journalist Lillian Cunningham over 12 episodes as she uncovers a story that has so much to reveal about the dreams and nightmares, the fantasies and realities, of being human on this Earth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/moonrise

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moonrise/id1469151663
Perihelion Summer

"Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun is about to enter the solar system.

Matt and his friends are taking no chances. They board a mobile aquaculture rig, the Mandjet, self-sustaining in food, power and fresh water, and decide to sit out the encounter off-shore. As Taraxippus draws nearer, new observations throw the original predictions for its trajectory into doubt, and by the time it leaves the solar system, the conditions of life across the globe will be changed forever."

At 41,810 words, this technically falls into the Best Novel category, but could also apply to Best Novella, using the 20% rule.
Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark

*She wasn't the first to observe and draw the germinative animalcules inside a man's seed. But as with any field that did not serve the greater goal of abatement, studies into reproduction had fallen by the wayside. And Anell intended, after all, to do more than merely observe and draw. This way lay greatness, the kind that could not be scraped out of a lifetime's long work tacking minutes onto the sunset days of her head of House.*

The story is available online here.
Staff

The **Staff** is composed of people who work for [[Cozy Penguin Wiki|Cozy Penguin]. The team consists of Admins, Developers, and Moderators.

Admins watch over the staff team and community dealing with the bigger issues of the game. Developers are the ones that make Cozy Penguin possible by programming parties and fixing bugs. Moderators keep the community and servers safe by moderating the game and discord server.
Tiny Toad

**Tiny Toad** is a frog with robotic limbs and a cybernetic right eye. He is the leader of the Thicket Thieves.

## History

In "Breakup", Tiny Toad and his underlings Bullmozer, Ratracer, and Badgerclops attacked what they saw as a helpless traveler. However, their intended victim proved more than a match for them, Tiny Toad fled with Bullmozer and Ratracer, leaving Badgerclops behind.
Middlegame

Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.

Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.

Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.

Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.

Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.
David Curtis

**Website**

**2019 Eligible Works:**

Cover for *Silver in the Wood* by Emily Tesh (Publ: Tor.com, June 2019)Cover for *Crier's War* by Nina Varela (Publ: Quill Tree, Oct 2019)Cover for *Before I Disappear* by Danielle Stinson (Publ: Feiwel & Friends, July 2019)Cover for *The Similars* by Rebecca Hanover (Publ: Sourcebooks Fire, Jan 2019)
The Merciful Crow

**A future chieftain.**

Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime.

**A fugitive prince.**

When Crown Prince Jasimir turns out to have faked his death, Fie’s ready to cut her losses—and perhaps his throat. But he offers a wager that she can’t refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he’ll protect the Crows when he reigns.

**A too-cunning bodyguard.**

Hawk warrior Tavin has always put Jas’s life before his, magically assuming the prince’s appearance and shadowing his every step. But what happens when Tavin begins to want something to call his own?
Catfishing on Catnet

**How much does the internet know about YOU?**A thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks.

Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t lived anyplace longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet—a social media site where users upload cat pictures—a place she knows she is welcome. What Steph*doesn’t* know is that the admin of the site, CheshireCat, is a sentient A.I.

When a threat from Steph’s past catches up to her and ChesireCat’s existence is discovered by outsiders, it’s up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save her.

A surprising, heartfelt near-future YA thriller by award-winning author Naomi Kritzer, whose short story “Cat Pictures Please” won the Hugo Award and Locus Award and was a finalist for the Nebula.
Hanabi Akada

**Hanabi Akada** is a character who represents the 1st album, Kill 'Em All.
Hanabi refers by everyone that she is "playing with fire", because of her fiery powers and attacks during the day or everyday.

She is super fired up, bright, cheerful, and pokes herself on the walls for insistance.

She likes fire, fuel, matter, and energy.

 She despises milk.
Terminalia

Death is the frontier that we all must cross, it is more forbidding than the surface of the moon, and a space suit will not protect you. Still explorers are always drawn to frontiers. IN 1905, in London, plans were being made for a return journey to the borderlands of death, even though the technology was experimental and unproven.

https://seanmcmullen.net.au/terminalia/
Marion

**Marion** is an athletic yellow horse inhabitant of the Valley.

## Appearance

She has yellow fur, although her mane and tail are slightly more pale. She has an athletic physique with prominent abdominals, and she usually wears a blue top and pants. She is all muscular all over her body.

## Personality

In comparison to the majority of Sweetypies, Marion is more headstrong and bold. She enjoys smoothies and flexing her muscles.

Although mostly strong, Marion can still be cowardly when dangers arise, such as when the valley is being invaded by monsters or worse, the Sky Pirates. She is also gullible, easily falling for Rufus and Reggie's scam in Outfoxed.

## Abilities

**Hammering**: She has a wooden hammer and practices with it at night.

## Episode Appearances

* "I Love You Mao Mao" (debut)
* "Mao Mao's Bike Adventure"
* "Enemy Mime"
* "Outfoxed"
* "Legend of the Torbaclaun"
* "The Truth Stinks"
* "Captured Clops"
* "Mao Mao's Nakey"
* "The Perfect Couple"
* "Zing Your Heart Out"

## Trivia

* Marion wanted to take Rufus' hand in marriage as she states around the beginning of Outfoxed. We're not entirely sure if she actually meant this, though.
* Revealed in "Mao Mao's Bike Adventure" she spent last night at the gym practicing her hammering and in the episode "Mao Mao's Nakey" she can be seen carrying a gym bag with Ketchup walking beside her.
* Parker Simmons revealed that Marion has an unnamed younger brother, seen in The Perfect Adventure.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/parkerrsimmons/status/1259537008206077954
Honey

**Honey** is a female character who made her debut in the episode "Ultraclops". She is one of the magic technicians of the castle, and the apprentice of Camille.

## Appearance

She is a small squirrel, and wears a yellow conical hat and a tunic that covers her feet.

## Personality

She is shown to be a little shy and does not like talking in public, only whispering to her teacher whatever she needs to say.

In spite of her bashfulness, she is actually knowledgeable, knowing more about hygiene than Camille.

## Abilities

**Magic:** She develops and builds magic artifacts with her teacher.

### Items and Equipment

* **Growth Amulet:** A amulet that permits growth to the size of a giant, and can be used by anyone with only a press to the gem. It is shaped like a heart. It's not necessary wear the amulet to maintain the size but it's needed to return to normal size.

## Trivia

* From what is seen in the episode "Sick Mao", she appears to have more knowledge of medicine and sickness than her teacher Camille.
* She appeared in "Ultraclops", "Enemy Mime", "Sick Mao", "Legend of the Torbaclaun", "Fright Wig" and "The Perfect Couple" making it a total of over 6 appearances in 6 episodes of *Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart*.
* Her species is a flying squirrel stated by Parker Simmons in a Tumblr post.

## Episode Appearances

* "Ultraclops" (debut)
* "Sick Mao"
* "Legend of the Torbaclaun"
* "Fright Wig"
Dave's Head

Author: Suzanne Palmer

Synopsis: Cassie takes care of her uncle, a former smart animatronics engineer now suffering dementia, and his animatronic dinosaur named Dave, who thinks he's a real dinosaur. When Dave suggests a road trip the consequences may end up costing everyone more than they can afford.

Link: Dave's Head
Yumeko Shinkai

**Yumeko Shinkai** is a character who represents Hardwired... To Self-Destruct as her album.

Yumeko is very polite, dreamy, and knowledgeable. She is soft-spoken and tries to meet in best to everyone.

Her crush is Masaru Yamamoto.

She hates Hanabi Akada.

She loves dreams, magic, and fantasy.

She dislikes sadness, bad luck, and punishments.
Cirsova Magazine

Website: www.cirsova.wordpress.com

Publisher: Cirsova Publishing

Qualifying Issues:

Cirsova Vol.2 No.1 (Spring 2019)

Cirsova Summer Special 2019

Cirsova Vol.2 No. 2 (Fall 2019)

Note: Cirsova Magazine of Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction rebranded as Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense in 2019; publication was uninterrupted and the Magazine has released 13 issues since 2016.
Cog

"**Five robots. One unforgettable journey. Their programming will never be the same.**

***Wall-E* meets *The Wild Robot* in this middle grade instant classic about five robots on a mission to rescue their inventor from the corporation that controls them all.**

Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for “cognitive development,” and he was built to learn.

But after an accident leaves him damaged, Cog wakes up in an unknown lab—and Gina, the scientist who created and cared for him, is nowhere to be found. Surrounded by scientists who want to study him and remove his brain, Cog recruits four robot accomplices for a mission to find her.

Cog, ADA, Proto, Trashbot, and Car’s journey will likely involve much cognitive development in the form of mistakes, but Cog is willing to risk everything to find his way back to Gina."

Goodreads
The Afterward

It has been a year since the mysterious godsgem cured Cadrium’s king and ushered in what promised to be a new golden age. The heroes who brought the gem home are renowned in story and song, but for two fellows on the quest, peace and prosperity do not come easily.

Apprentice Knight Kalanthe Ironheart wasn't meant for heroism this early in life, and while she has no intention of giving up the notoriety she has earned, her reputation does not pay her bills. With time running out, Kalanthe may be forced to betray not her kingdom or her friends, but her own heart as she seeks a stable future for herself and those she loves.

Olsa Rhetsdaughter was never meant for heroism at all. Beggar, pick pocket, thief, she lived hand to mouth on the city streets until fortune--or fate--pulled her into Kalanthe's orbit. And now she's quite reluctant to leave it. Even more alarmingly, her fame has made her recognizable, which makes her profession difficult, and a choice between poverty and the noose isn't much of a choice at all.

Both girls think their paths are laid out, but the godsgem isn't quite done with them and that new golden age isn’t a sure thing yet.

In a tale both sweepingly epic and intensely personal, Kalanthe and Olsa fight to maintain their newfound independence and to find their way back to each other.
Lolip Kamimoto

**Lolip Kamimoto** is a character who represents Load, and the related friend of Reika Mikan.
Lolip is a *genki girl* who has the same personality with Sayori, who is also clumsy. She is known as the ball of sunshine, and typically is the youngest Album-tan after Mayumi Minamoto.

She loses intelligence from time to time, including Reika's maturity to the others.

 Her frilly type is the only element who has found during the anime.
Do Not Look Back, My Lion

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #270, "Dreams of Atlantis," by Flavio Bolla

A story of fighting against a broken society, or possibly for it.

Read it here.

*Eefa is running from the city of Xot, from the Emperor and her ceaseless war-making, from her own sacred duties as a healer and a husband, from her near-daughters and near-son. From her wife. It is a terrible, cowardly thing to do, but not as terrible or cowardly as staying where she was.*
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

A documentary film by Arwen Curry exploring the life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin.

Had an extremely limited release in 2018; there is an outstanding proposal to extend its eligibility by one year.

Arrangements are in progress for the film to be shown at Worldcon in Dublin in August, and the film will be broadcast in the U.S. on *PBS American Masters* in October 2019.

Website: https://worldsofukl.com/

Trailer: https://youtu.be/AqH3nqXqlgs

Eligibility Extension: http://file770.com/extending-the-worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin/
Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom

"Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a new story published in Ted Chiang's collection *Exhalation*. The story is about a future technology called “prisms.” “In colloquial terms, the prism created two newly divergent time lines … and it allowed communication between the two.” The ability to talk to one’s doppelgänger in an alternate time line has a massive and complex impact on society and individuals, including an epidemic of existential crises: “Many worried that their choices were rendered meaningless because every action they took was counterbalanced by a branch in which they had made the opposite choice.” The story follows Nat, who works at a prism rental shop called SelfTalk, and Dana, a therapist who specializes in treating the various pathologies that arise from the new technology. The intersection of the two women’s lives leads to a captivating and fateful ethical dilemma.
Becoming Superman

**Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman!**

**“J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.”   -- Max Brooks (*World War Z*)**

**For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to forge multiple careers in movies, television and comics.  Yet there’s one story he’s never told before: his own.**

In this dazzling memoir, the acclaimed writer behind *Babylon 5*, *Sense8,*Clint Eastwood’s *Changeling* and Marvel’s *Thor* reveals how the power of creativity and imagination enabled him to overcome the horrors of his youth and a dysfunctional family haunted by madness, murder and a terrible secret.

Joe's early life nearly defies belief. Raised by damaged adults—a con-man grandfather and a manipulative grandmother, a violent, drunken father and a mother who was repeatedly institutionalized—Joe grew up in abject poverty, living in slums and projects when not on the road, crisscrossing the country in his father’s desperate attempts to escape the consequences of his past.

To survive his abusive environment Joe found refuge in his beloved comics and his dreams, immersing himself in imaginary worlds populated by superheroes whose amazing powers allowed them to overcome any adversity. The deeper he read, the more he came to realize that he, too, had a superpower: the ability to tell stories and make everything come out the way he wanted it. But even as he found success, he could not escape a dark and shocking secret that hung over his family’s past, a violent truth that he uncovered over the course of decades involving mass murder.

Straczynski’s personal history has always been shrouded in mystery. *Becoming Superman* lays bare the facts of his life: a story of creation and darkness, hope and success, a larger-than-life villain and a little boy who became the hero of his own life.  It is also a compelling behind-the-scenes look at some of the most successful TV series and movies recognized around the world.
Hero's Code

The **Hero's Code** is a book passed down from generations to generations in the Mao clan, which first appeared in "Sugar Berry Fever". It is used for teaching a person how to become a hero.

## Trivia

* This book forbids a Mao clan member from eating Cobbler.
* "The Perfect Couple" revealed that this book is stored inside Mao Mao's stomach.
Such Thoughts Are Unproductive

*The woman whom I sometimes believed to be my mother flickered. Once. Twice. Her face—smiling—froze in a cloud of pixels, while her arm—the wide, emphatic gestures that were as much a marker of her identity as the color of her eyes or her fingerprints—swept the screen, leaving blue eddies, whirlpools of information. Then silence, but her mouth moved, leaving a flesh-colored smudge across the top half of her head.*

*“You’ve cut out again,” I said.*

The story is available online here.
The Gutter Prayer

**A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.**

The city has always been. The city must finally end.

When three thieves - an orphan, a ghoul, and a cursed man - are betrayed by the master of the thieves guild, their quest for revenge uncovers dark truths about their city and exposes a dangerous conspiracy, the seeds of which were sown long before they were born.

Cari is a drifter whose past and future are darker than she can know.

Rat is a Ghoul, whose people haunt the city's underworld.

Spar is a Stone Man, subject to a terrible disease that is slowly petrifying his flesh.

Chance has brought them together, but their friendship could be all that stands in the way of total armageddon.
Star Wars Memories: My Time in the (Death Star) Trenches

"Craig Miller was the original Director of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm, working on "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back". As part of that, he was a publicist, a writer, an editor, and a producer. He wrote press material and articles, created and ran the Official Star Wars Fan Club, oversaw a staff who opened and responded to the seeming tons of fan mail the films received, worked with licensees, created a telephone publicity stunt that accidentally shut down the state of Illinois’ phone system... This isn’t another ‘making of’ book with the same stories and information that have appeared in other books and countless magazine articles. It’s a book of stories you haven’t heard before; an insider’s look from someone who, himself, is a fan and found the whole experience joyful and exciting. These stories are told in a way that brings you in and makes you feel like you were there.”
Move The World

A story from *Better Worlds*, The Verge's science fiction project about hope.

Read it here.

Illustration by Zoë van Dijk

*The thing that had caught her clothes was a lever, like a walking stick, that was connected to something she couldn’t see. It was as scarred, scratched, and dirty as any other part of the Blocks, but the free end shone as if polished by every hand that passed it, bright yellow metal emerging from a blackish-green patina. On its side were the inscribed words:*

*WELCOME TO THIS PERFECT WORLD*
Metallic Arisa

**Metallic Arisa** is a character who is known as the 3rd Album-tan, and represents ***The Black Album**.*
Arisa is brave and loyal, and might be a goofball at times. She is mature, knowledgeable, and caring to her younger sister, Mikiko.

Her favorite song is Nothing Else Matters, and loves to make it a theme at times.

She likes macrome, computer science, and mathematics.

She despises vegetables, peanuts, and candy.

 She secretly likes songs by her secret favorite album, Master of Puppets.
Shadowmancy

On a mountain that does not exist, there is a school where they teach the impossible.

From his first day at the Academy, things are difficult for Quay.
Though he has surrendered his name, like every other acolyte at the
magical school, Quay is the son of a disgraced professor, and he finds
that his father’s old enemies are already lined up against him–while the
 professor’s own faction is just as suspicious. Quay refuses to take a
side, but as his powers grow it becomes apparent that the damaged young
boy may prove a greater threat than his father ever was.
Deep in the Library of Shadows, Quay finds a way to survive his father’s treacherous legacy, but the price is high indeed.
Absolute Book, The

Taryn Cornick believes
that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her
own ill-conceived revenge. She has chosen to live a life more
professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that
 threaten libraries – insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and
uncaring

. The book is a success, but not all of the attention it brings
her is good.

There are questions about a fire in the library at
Princes Gate, her grandparents’ house, and about an ancient scroll box
known as the Firestarter. A policeman, Jacob Berger, has questions about
 a cold case. There are threatening phone calls. And a shadowy young man
 named Shift appears, bringing his shadows with him. Taryn, Jacob, Shift
 – three people are driven towards a reckoning felt in more than one
world.

*The Absolute Book* is an epic fantasy, intimate in
tone. A book where hidden treasures are recovered; where wicked things
people think they’ve shaken from their trails find their scent again. A
book about beautiful societies founded on theft and treachery, and one
in which dead sisters are a living force. It is a book of journeys and
returns, set in London, Norfolk, and the Wye Valley; in Auckland, New
Zealand; in the Island of Apples and Summer Road of the Sidhe; at Hell’s
 Gate; in the Tacit with its tombs; and in the hospitals and train
stations of Purgatory.
All Of Me

F&SF Mar/Apr 2019

Isabel del Mar is a mermaid who thought she’d found a prince, but instead found a new world of Hollywood glamor and abusive human sharks.

Mermaids can create copies of themselves by cutting off bits of their own body — and that’s exactly what the original Isabel has done; built herself an empire of glamour using discarded bits of herself.

A very weird story, and typically of Benedict, sharp and haunting as well.

Links:

* Issue on Goodreads
* Issue on Kindle
* Issue on Weightless Books

*My real history is an open secret, whispered between insiders but never publicly acknowledged, like any other bit of Hollywood gossip. This one has an eating disorder; that one’s gay; this one hosts sleepovers with underage costars at his house; that one’s a mermaid. It’s not a big deal.*
A Bird, a Song, a Revolution

*Before the flute is a flute, it is a bird. This is the first act of magic. This is the first lesson the girl learns, when the world is still young and shaggy-coated with lingering winter. Sometimes things can be other things. An axehead hides in a chunk of flint. Before it is a meal, a mammoth is a squealing calf tagging along behind its mother. A fox is a white spirit barking curses until an arrow finds it and turns it into a friend that shields your ears from the wind’s teeth.*

The story is available online here.
Kitra

# Kitra – A YA Space Adventure

By Gideon Marcus

Stranded in space: no fuel, no way home… and no one coming to help.

From the pen of Hugo Finalist Gideon Marcus comes the found-family, YA Space Adventure you’ve been waiting for:Nineteen-year-old Kitra Yilmaz dreams of traveling the galaxy like her Ambassador mother. But soaring in her glider is the closest she can get to touching the stars — until she stakes her inheritance on a salvage Navy spaceship.

On its shakedown cruise, Kitra’s ship plunges into hyperspace, stranding Kitra and her crew light years away. Tensions rise between Kitra and her shipmates: the handsome programmer, Fareedh; Marta, biologist and Kitra’s ex-girlfriend; Peter, the panicking engineer; and the oddball alien navigator, Pinky.

Now, running low on air and food, it’ll take all of them working together to get back home.

With illustrations by Lorelei E. Marcus

ISBN: 978-1-951320-02-7

Categories: All Ages, Science Fiction

(Goodreads page)

((eligible for Lodestar as well; author eligible for Astounding))
Dragon Pearl

Thirteen-year-old Min comes from a long line of fox spirits. But you'd never know it by looking at her. To keep the family safe, Min’s mother insists that none of them use any fox-magic, such as Charm or shape-shifting. They must appear human at all times.

Min feels hemmed in by the household rules and resents the endless chores, the cousins who crowd her, and the aunties who judge her. She would like nothing more than to escape Jinju, her neglected, dust-ridden, and impoverished planet. She’s counting the days until she can follow her older brother, Jun, into the Space Forces and see more of the Thousand Worlds.

When word arrives that Jun is suspected of leaving his post to go in search of the Dragon Pearl, Min knows that something is wrong. Jun would never desert his battle cruiser, even for a mystical object rumored to have tremendous power. She decides to run away to find him and clear his name.

Min’s quest will have her meeting gamblers, pirates, and vengeful ghosts. It will involve deception, lies, and sabotage. She will be forced to use more fox-magic than ever before, and to rely on all of her cleverness and bravery. The outcome may not be what she had hoped, but it has the potential to exceed her wildest dreams.
Akami Hisakata

**Akami Hisakata** is a character who is the last, and also part of the Hisakata sisters. She is the youngest among Akira Hisakata and Akari Hisakata.

Akami is a lively, cheerful, and a clumsy girl who is considerate towards others. Unlike her sisters, Akira and Akari, she is the happiest and girliest among them.

She loves her sisters a lot, whatever when they happen in real times.
Humanized Table-senpai

***Humanized Table-Senpai*** is a fanon OC who is considered to be the second joined character of the second season of Metallica Paradise.
It is uncommon that why Table-Senpai is a table nor a female.

She has a strong and strict personality, and seems to be good at puzzles. She even talks with putting table sounds and glass sounds, and table breaks and glass breaks when angry.

She is the only teacher who is keeping carefully about the memes and parodies, and she wipes out the dirt of all the tables around the world.

She dislikes any kind of fuel.
A Handful of Sky

*In the darkness of the shop, the unfurled fabric of the sky glowed too brightly to look at directly. She had to put her monocle’s sun lens down whenever she got close to it. When her gloved fingers slid over it she had no doubt that it was the smoothest surface she’d ever touched.*

The story is available online here.
Timeline

This is a list of all the years that happened during the history and arcs of *Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart*.

## Past events

### 10 years Before Mao Mao

* Shin Mao was born
	+ Though it's was unknown how was he born, If his parents are desceased or not.
* Jim Jim was born
* The Mao Clan Arc began.
* Shin Mao has married Mao Mao's Mother. Which he dored 5 daughters, and a single son.
* Mao Mao was born. ("Small").

### 30 years Before Mao Mao

* several sisters of the Mao Clan were born.
* Adorabat was born on a cave.
* During a ceremony, Shin Mao gave his daughters the Golden Weapons, including Mao Mao who has given him a sword. ("Weapon of Choice").
* Adorabat's Mother, Soanara dies while corrupting rocks and gets killed by the Cave Dragon. ("Adoradad")
* Badgerclops wanted to create funny inventions. But he was disliked and mocked from his brothers and sisters. ("Badge-a-fire Explosion").
* Mao Mao was dropped off in a Japanese-liked village and founds a Strave-dog and calls him Bao Bao. ("Lonely Kid").

### 50 years Before Mao Mao

* Shin Mao has given His son hero clothes (that are green), so He can travel with them ("Mao Mao's Nakey").
* While Mao Mao and Bao Bao were traveling, they found a room of lost gold, But only way was Mao Mao loses his Dog and Tail ("Bao Bao's Revenge").
* Mao Mao has met Tanya Keys since they became partners, but they got seperet and now they are enemies.
Metallica Paradise

***Metallica Paradise*** is a series which is based by the original wiki, MetalliPara.

In case that you said this article is in work in progress.

Oh fudge in fuel please no

The header, which says *That's because nothing else matters.*The background.The members: featuring fanon characters planning for season 2, humanized Fuel-chan, humanized Table-senpai, Chizuru, Metari, Kanako, Satori Uehara, and Metallic Mikiko.
The Hard Tomorrow

Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working—or "working"—on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants—kale, tomatoes—to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the end times come, which, given their fragile democracy strained under the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war, doesn’t seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is her best friend Gabby, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler, an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy notions of reality.

Told with tenderness and care in an undefined near future, Eleanor Davis's The Hard Tomorrow blazes unrestrained, as moments of human connection are doused in fear and threats. Her astute projections probe at current anxieties in a cautionary tale that begs the question: What will happen after tomorrow?
Masaru Yamamoto

**Masaru Yamamoto** is a character who is known as the 1st male Album-tan. He is the boyfriend and true friend of Yumeko Shinkai.

Unlike the other albums, Masaru only loves Yumeko. He can do anything to protect her.

Masaru is cold-hearted, and a loyal friend. He is very helpful to Yumeko a lot especially his dreams to become Yumeko's partner.

He likes Yumeko through the years.

He dislikes dying, dust, and corruption.
Komachi Minaminoha

**Komachi Minaminoha** is a fanon character. She is also known as the 1st OC who becomes an unidentified new album of the paradise.

Her surname, "Minaminoha", means " of the south school". Unique, huh? UwU

Komachi is officially a creator, just like Kanako.

Komachi is also obsessed with metal, just like Kinzoku Natsume.

She is also revealed that she loves the series, Metallica Paradise, because she loves funny moments, but despises sad scenes.

Her favorite album is Ride the Lightning (Satori Uehara).
Manaka Shirabe

**Manaka Shirabe** is a character who represents Death Magnetic as her album.

Manaka is the only album who remains silent. She can't talk, but can only learn by sign language.

Manaka is motherly, and the most mature album alongside Reika Mikan, Humanized Table-senpai, Metallic Mikiko, and Metallic Arisa.

She likes Reika by secret.

She seems to be intelligent by having to learn by anyone else's morals.
MetallicBlue2

**Note: This is my last and 3rd joke OC.**

***MetallicBlue2*** is a living thing which is known as the master of non-albums, idols, and more.

She is strict, intelligent, and the most responsible of the group. Otherwise, she does argue with MetallicBlue and MetallicBlue+, after all, they are friends sincerely.

She is also non-binary and can be single.

Her favorite album is HARDWIRED TO SELF-DESTRUCT. SO WHAT??? HAHAHAHAHAHA

Her favorite single is DREAM NO MORE AHAHAHAHAHAHA

FREAK AND THE LAST IS SHE LIKES PUPPETS MORE THAN ALBUMS AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA YEETER THAN USUAL

well that's all for my joke OC, uwu

PLEASE DO NOT TERRORIZE AND DO NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY OKAY???
Kagami Metari

—Kagami Metari's permission to Kagami Chizuru on her final day with Metari
**Kagami Metari** is a mirrored character who is the ancestor of Metari Genkino, and the twin of Kagami Chizuru.

Her hair is on the right side, tied.

Kagami Metari is very girly, cheery, and bright, but can be very blunt at times. And also, she despised metal as well.

Like Metari, she acts mature, but Kagami Metari has troubles about acting on her age. She can be a little childish about her twin and everyone else.
Kagami Maika

—Kagami Maika's answer to Maika Shikane's inspired line
**Kagami Maika** is Maika Shikane's ancestor. She is a talented author, creator, and storyteller.

Maika is a mature, smart, and a resourceful girl. She can make any story happen using her mind and dreams.

Maika always loves her real self and talks with her a lot.
Akari Hisakata

**Akari Hisakata** is a character who is part of the Hisakata sisters. She is also known as Akira Hisakata's younger sister and middle sibling.

Akari is a friendly, shy, and an imaginative girl who loves her sisters one at a time. She thinks intelligent at times, just like Akira.

Her favorite subjects are science, physical education, and biology.

She dislikes math, calculus, and some others like literature, trigonometry, and geometry (now she likes it at times).
Metari Genkino

**Metari Genkino** is a canon character from Metallica Paradise. She is also known as Chizuru Genkino's younger sister, who is more intelligible and mature than her.

Her favorite songs are Mundo and Malaya.

Unlike Chizuru, she dislikes metal, that's the reason why she doesn't like the genre because she listens to OPM instead and her personality is cold.

She also seems to be very intelligent for learning more about Metallica as well.

 She also has the fact, for being embarrassed easily by her sister.
Kingdom of Copper, The

Nahri’s life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. Now, Nahri must forge a new path for herself. But even as she embraces her heritage and the power it holds, she knows she’s been trapped in a gilded cage, watched by a king who rules from the throne that once belonged to her family—and one misstep will doom her tribe..

Meanwhile, Ali has been exiled for daring to defy his father. Hunted by assassins, adrift on the unforgiving copper sands of his ancestral land, he is forced to rely on the frightening abilities the marid—the unpredictable water spirits—have gifted him. But in doing so, he threatens to unearth a terrible secret his family has long kept buried.

And as a new century approaches and the djinn gather within Daevabad's towering brass walls for celebrations, a threat brews unseen in the desolate north. It’s a force that would bring a storm of fire straight to the city’s gates . . . and one that seeks the aid of a warrior trapped between worlds, torn between a violent duty he can never escape and a peace he fears he will never deserve.
Satori Uehara

**Satori Uehara** is a character who is known as the 2nd Album-tan, after Mayumi Minamoto. She represents Ride the Lightning, the album of Metallica.
Satori is a considerate and friendly girl who is sometimes romantic towards everyone. Always gotten close to Mayumi, she gets emotional easily. She is highly intelligent and has the same quality with the humanized Table-senpai.

She likes fuel, snow, lightning, and rain.

 She despises black metal, other genres, and cotton candy.
MetallicBlue+

**Note: She is also my 2nd joke OC.**
***MetallicBlue+*** is an updated version of MetallicBlue.

She appears only in shampoo form, in case that she is a meme. Like MetallicBlue, she is also an impossible master.

HER ALBUMS ARE NOTHING GUYS

HER FAVORITES ARE NOT ONLY THAT, ONLY THE BLACK ALBUM SHE LIKES IS THE BEST

YEETER

SHE LIKES SHAMPOOS AND MEMES

 SHE DESPISES DREAMS!!! GEE EVERYDAY I SHOULD MAKE IT UNTIL 20TH PAGE COMES LOL
Manabu Mishou

**Manabu Mishou** is a mysterious silhouette who is known as Nikkou Mishou's younger sister.

Manabu is a caring, intelligent, and a shy girl who often gets bullied by Metallic Arisa except some others. She is referenced as the special student who got high honors, better than Arisa nor to Metallic Mikiko.

Manabu loves her brother Nikkou very much. He comforts her all the time to make her feel confident to deal with Arisa.
MetalliPara Fanon Wiki

Welcome to the wiki, it is about the fan characters who met connected with their own dreams!

* Visit the Japanese version for details! UwU

*About MetalliPara Fanon, it is a fanon series based on the original wiki. It is very interesting how the fanon OC's experience their life to become a fulfilled musician like them. Their influences will go to their amazing thoughts, and reach the future!*

* Please do not edit without permission from my article OC's who are protected by notice. But if you will, you are **blocked**!
* Please do not use adult content, foul language, and bad words. This fan wiki is for everyone.
* Do not **terrorize** comments about articles and memes.
* And now, do not leave a ban! <3

― Every MetalliPara members, albums, and fanon OC's
MetalliPara Fanon Wiki is where you can share the connections of musical influences with the fan fiction characters joined in Metallica Paradise, and also, the band members will help to see what's on!
When you didn't know what OC to draw, just search any anime girl picture (or non-MetalliPara member photo) to your matching color. When you see a non-fanon, that means you can't edit some of my characters of the members.
If you need help, contact me/Pastel Metallica if you want! :)
Kanako Kanayama

**Kanako Kanayama** is a character from Metallica Paradise. She is also known as Maika Shikane's close friend, and also, Kanako likes Maika as her childhood friend.
Kanako is officially a creator, but is shy that she is talented and creative at making arts.

She is also a bassist, and tries to hide her big secret from her mother by hiding, and is revealed that she dedicated to her father when he died since Kanako was 7 years old.

Kanako is close to her friend, Maika, and reunited when their past comes through them.

Kanako is great at dancing, twisting, and has a mystery gesture, when she twists her hands.

 However, it is not appeared in the anime yet.
Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island

### Title

Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island

### Pub date

May 2019

Remember being in school and writing bibliographies for your papers? Nibedita Sen spins that academic exercise into true horror in her new short story.

"Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island" is a finalist for the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.

The story is available online here.
Akira Hisakata

**Akira Hisakata** is a character who is the oldest of the Hisakata sisters.

Akira is a levelheaded, intelligent, and a responsible girl who acts mature at times to her sisters. She is fond at making experiments and is talented, but her favorite subjects are math and computer science.

Akira loves her sisters a lot, especially when they have problems.