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Depth

Title: *Depth*

Author: Lev AC Rosen

Publisher: Regan Arts

Publication Date: April 28, 2015

*When the polar ice caps melted, America’s East Coast became an underwater graveyard—except for New York City. Today, a million people make their home among the skyscrapers poking through the ocean waves. A million people who like to live by their own rules—including Simone Pierce, one of the best private investigators in the city.*

*It starts out as a routine surveillance job: cheating husband, attractive blonde.  Something feels off, though, and when the husband turns up floating in the water with a hole in him, the cops like Simone for the murder.  If she can just find the blonde, she’ll clear her name, but instead she stumbles onto a strange network of power brokers and art collectors, all looking for a treasure that can’t possibly exist. As she struggles to find the murderer, Simone is only sure of one thing: she can’t trust anybody, not even herself, because the city she grew up in might have more secrets than even she knows.*
Bones & All

*Bones & All*, by Camille DeAngelis

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publication Date: March 10, 2015

*Maren Yearly doesn’t just break hearts, she devours them.*

*Since she was a baby, Maren has had what you might call "an issue" with affection. Anytime someone cares for her too much, she can’t seem to stop herself from eating them. Abandoned by her mother at the age of 16, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds more than she bargained for along the way.*

*Faced with love, fellow eaters, and enemies for the first time in her life, Maren realizes she isn’t just looking for her father, she is looking for herself. The real question is, will she like the girl she finds?*
Archangel

Title: Archangel

Author: Marguerite Reed

Publisher: Arche Press

Publication Date: May 12, 2015

*The Earth is dying, and our hopes are pinned on Ubastis, an untamed paradise at the edge of colonized space. But such an influx of people threatens the planet's unstudied ecosystem — a tenuous research colony must complete its analysis, lest humanity abandon one planet only to die on another.*

*The Ubasti colonists barely get by on their own. To acquire the tools they need, they are relegated to selling whatever they can to outside investors. For xenobiologist Vashti Loren, this means bringing Offworlders on safari to hunt the specimens she and her fellow biologists so desperately need to study.*

*Haunted by the violent death of her husband, the heroic and celebrated Lasse Undset, Vashti must balance the needs of Ubastis against the swelling crush of settlers. Vashti struggles in her role as one of the few colonists licensed to carry deadly weapons, just as she struggles with her history of using them. And when she discovers a genetically engineered soldier smuggled onto the surface, Vashti must face the nightmare of her husband's murder all over again. Standing at the threshold of humanity's greatest hope, she alone understands the darkness of guarding paradise.*
Invisible 2

*Invisible 2: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F*, edited by Jim C. Hines. May 2015.

19 essays on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author Aliette de Bodard.

Most essays are also available to read online.

Full table of contents:

* Introduction, by Aliette de Bodard
* "Breaking Mirrors," by Diana M. Pho
* "I'm Not Broken," by Annalee Flower Horne
* "Next Year in Jerusalem," by Gabrielle Harbowy
* "I am Not Hispanic, I am Puerto Rican," by Isabel Schechter
* "No More Dried Up Spinsters," by Nancy Jane Moore
* "False Expectations," by Matthew Thyer
* "Text, Subtext, and Pieced-Together Lives," by Angelia Sparrow
* "Parenting as a Fan of Color," by Kat Tanaka Okopnik
* "Alien of Extraordinary Ability? by Bogi Takács
* "Accidental Representation," by Chrysoula Tzavelas
* "Discovering the Other," by John Hartness
* "Lost in the Margins," by Sarah Chorn
* "Too Niche," by Lauren Jankowski
* "Fat Chicks in SFF," by Alis Franklin
* "Not Your Mystical Indian," by Jessica McDonald
* "Exponentially Hoping," by Merc Rustad
* "Colonialism, Land, and Speculative Fiction: An Indigenous Perspective," by Ambelin Kwaymullina
* "Nobody's Sidekick: Intersectionality in Protagonists," by SL Huang
* "The Danger of the False Narrative," by LaShawn Wanak
* Afterword, by Jim C. Hines
* Reading List
It Brought Us All Together

It Brought Us All Together

Author: Marissa Lingen

Published in *Strange Horizons*, 13 July 2015

Description, from Lois Tilton [Locus]: "This must be considered YA, as it takes place in the obligatory setting of an American high school. The narrator, Andrea, is pretty level-headed, albeit with a slight case of denial, insisting to herself that she really is quite all right and not devastated by the deaths of her parents from one of the many mycological plagues. This is mainly to avoid the obsessive and stifling over concern that plagues the high school. She is aware that she will actually become quite all right once she escapes that place, but in the meantime she’s adopted a set of emotional survival protocols:

> Minimize contact. Keep everything friendly, but arm’s length. Never do a group project with the same person twice unless the teacher assigns it. Always accept social media connections at the shallowest level, but never let it go deeper. At lunch, sit with the same people each week but different people each day, so you’re not the weird loner, but you’re still not someone who gets asked personal questions.
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Find Me

*Find Me* by Laura van den Berg

Publication: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2015 (US); Del Rey, June 2015 (UK)

*Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. When Joy's immunity gains her admittance to a hospital in rural Kansas, she sees a chance to escape her bleak existence. There she submits to peculiar treatments and follows seemingly arbitrary rules, forming cautious bonds with other patients--including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel.*

*As winter descends, the hospital's fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child. On the road in a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself.*
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan

Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan, by Ian McDonald

Published in *Old Venus* [Bantam Books, March 2015]

Description, by Sam Tomaino in *SFRevu*: "Our initial narrator here is Maureen N. Gellard, the grand-niece of Ida Granville-Hyde aka Ida Countess Rathangan, whose papercut art is valued beyond all measure. Her prints are anthologized in many books, including fifteen editions of the *Botanica Veneris*, based on the fauna of Venus. Now, her last journal and papercuts, detailing her only trip to Venus (where she disappeared), have come into the possession of her grand-niece, who presents them without further comment. Ida's unique voice adds immeasurably to her journey across Venus, looking for her brother, Arthur, who had absconded with the family jewel (and her dowry) the Blue Empress, on the eve of her marriage to the wastrel Baron of Rathangan. On her journey, she learns of her brother's sins and crimes, (described as a gambler, a thief, a murderer, and a seducer, by someone who likes him). She eventually finds him and his story (and hers) comes to a surprising end."
Christopher Jones

Founding artist for CONvergence in Minneapolis, has also done other pieces of Doctor Who and other fan art.

Some recent examples:

http://blog.christopherjonesart.com/my-2016-hugo-eligible-fan-art/

http://blog.christopherjonesart.com/convergence-2015-guest-of-honor-badges/

http://gallery.christopherjonesart.com/index.php?cat=6

http://www.christopherjonesart.com/
Blerds on Nerds

Blerds on Nerds

We're a weekly podcast of pure nerd geekdom with an overdoes of black nerd bliss! We discuss the past week's highlights in technology, movies, gaming, and comics while reliving our geek roots with 'Blast from the Past' and paying homage to Black Nerds that have or are paving the road for us. Pop in some headphones, relax, and #SpreadtheNerd with us!
Bone Gap

*Bone Gap* by Laura Ruby

Published by Balzer + Bray, March 2015

Publisher's description: *Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps*—*gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand new life. That’s just how things go, the people said. Who are you going to blame?*

*Finn knows that’s not what happened with Roza. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. But the searches turned up nothing, and no one believes him anymore. Not even Sean, who has more reason to find Roza than anyone, and every reason to blame Finn for letting her go.*
Castle Hangnail

*Castle Hangnail* by Ursula Vernon

Publisher: Dial Books, April 2015

*When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail’s doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle’s minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite. (The minions are used to tall, demanding evil sorceresses with razor-sharp cheekbones.) But the castle desperately needs a master or else the Board of Magic will decommission it, leaving all the minions without the home they love. So when Molly assures them she is quite wicked indeed (So wicked! REALLY wicked!) and begins completing the tasks required by the Board of Magic for approval, everyone feels hopeful. Unfortunately, it turns out that Molly has quite a few secrets, including the biggest one of all: that she isn’t who she says she is.*
Ginga

Ginga

By Daniel José Older

Published in Tor.com

Publication date: 5/20/2015

Publisher's description: "Between her obscenely muscular new capoeira teacher, her crush going off with a new girl in their favorite park, and trigonometry homework, Kia figures she has enough going on without some creepy ghost causing car crashes and hit-and-runs in her neighborhood. Carlos Delacruz, the half-dead half-resurrected soulcatcher for the New York Council of the Dead, would love to keep her out of it, but things don’t usually go the way he intends. From the world of Daniel José Older’s immensely popular Bone Street Rumba series."
Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!

12 episodes, ran January-March 2015.

Available for (free, legal) viewing at:

* Crunchyroll (worldwide except Asia)
* FUNimation (US, Canada)
* AnimeLab (Australia, New Zealand)
* Viewster (US, UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Australia, New Zealand)

**Director:** Shinji Takamatsu

**Series Composition** (head writer, approximately): Michiko Yokote

**Studio:** Diomedea

ANN Encyclopedia entry
Broken Dolls

*Broken Dolls* by Tyrolin Puxty

Published by

Series: Broken Dolls #1

*Ella doesn't remember what it's like to be human; after all, she's lived as a doll for thirty years. She forgets what it's like to taste, to breathe...to love.*

*She watches the professor create other dolls, but they don't seem to hang around for long. His most recent creation is Lisa, a sly goth. Ella doesn't like Lisa. How could she, when Lisa keeps trying to destroy her?*

*Ella likes the professor's granddaughter though, even if she is dying. It's too bad the professor wants to turn Gabby into a doll, depriving her of an education...depriving her of life.*

*With time running out and mad dolls on the rampage, Ella questions her very existence as she unearths the secrets buried in her past; secrets that will decide whether Gabby will fall to the same fate...*
Alexandra Erin

Alexandra Erin

For her Sad Puppy book reviews

and LiveTweets of reading Vox Day's "SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police"

and her parody spoof of that book, "John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular: How SJWs Always Lie About Our Comparative Popularity Levels"

and related content
Hugo Nominees 2016

## Welcome to the Hugo Nominees 2016 Wiki

Making a list of eligible Hugo Award works for 2016. If you want to add work you deem worthy for the 2017 Hugos, that's in the new wiki.

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

## Let's nominate

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

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

Best Novel

Best Novella

Best Novelette

Best Short Story

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

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer‏

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Ariah

Title: Ariah

Author: B.R. Sanders

Publisher: Zharmae

Publication Date: 5/28/2015

Goodreads link

Synopsis:

Ariah's magical training has been interrupted. Forced to rely on a mentor, Dirva, who is not who he claims to be, and a teacher who is foreign and powerful, Ariah is drawn into a culture wholly different from the elven one that raised him.

As his friendship with Dirva's brother blossoms into a surprising romance, and he slowly learns how to control the dangerous magic in his blood, life finally appears to be coming together for Ariah—but love and security are cut short by a tyrannical military empire bent on expanding its borders.

War, betrayal, passion, and confusion follow Ariah as his perilous journey leads him beyond the walls of the Empire, and into unfamiliar territory within himself. Along the way, he’ll discover just how much he’s willing to give up to find his place in the world, and he’ll learn what it means to sacrifice himself for freedom—and for love.
2015/04/22: Godzilla 2 en 2018, secuela de Gareth Edwards

News ha comenzado a preparar todo para Godzilla 2.

Esta noticia actuará como un resumen de los detalles que van surgiendo en la secuela de Godzilla (2014) de Legendary Pictures y Warner Bros ... y lo que es un camino largo que será hasta el año 2018. Y se ha dicho que los próximos monstruos que reaparecerán son: Rodan, Mothra y Ghidorah, quienes curiosamente, aparecieron en la película de 1964 Daikaiju Ghidorah, the three-head monster. También sabíamos que Gareth Edwards volvería a dirigir otra entrega, debido a la popularidad que habría tenido Godzilla en 2014.
Las últimas noticias nos da una fecha para la película: 08 de junio 2018. Eso será más de cuatro años desde la última película, que es mucho tiempo para una secuela, aunque eso ya se esperaba ya que Edwards está dirigiendo los Star Wars spin off que se estrenará en 2016. Además, Max Borenstein, quien escribió Godzilla (2014) y va a escribir el guión de la próxima película de la Isla Calavera, ha sido escogido para crear el guión de la segunda película de Godzilla de Legendary Pictures y Warner Bros. Y debido a esta noticia, en un sitio famoso han aparecido algunas imágenes sobre lo que sería esta película. Dicho esto, deseamos toda la suerte a Edwards para que haga una gran secuela del Rey de los Monstruos: ¡Godzilla!
Muere el grande del Arte de Godzilla Noriyoshi Ohrai

Tokio. EFE Noriyoshi Ohrai, uno de los más destacados ilustradores nipones arte y posters de Godzilla y responsable de la cartelería de la trilogía original de Star Wars , falleció a los 79 años en un hospital de la prefectura de Miyazaki (suroeste) debido a una neumonía, informaron medios japoneses.

El artista, nacido en 1935 en la localidad de Akashi, en la prefectura de Hyogo, al oeste del país asiático, murió este martes, indicó el perfil oficial del autor en Facebook.

Sus primeros trabajos se centraron en la ilustración de libros y anuncios para periódicos.

En 1974 abrió su propio estudio en la localidad de Miyazaki, la ciudad natal de su mujer, donde se había mudado un año antes descanse en paz Noriyoshi gracias por darnos unos posters increibles y asombrosos a Godzilla el Rey de los Monstruos
Forsaken

Title: *Forsaken*

Author: Kelley Armstrong

Series: Otherworld Stories #13.5

Publisher: Subterranean Press

Publication Date: January 31, 2015

Length: 40,000 words

*Three years after being named Alpha of the North American pack, Elena Michaels is in London battling for respect from the British pack. When it becomes apparent she won’t get it, she heads home, expecting a much-needed rest on her family vacation, only to discover a battle brewing of a very different kind.*

*One of her eight-year-old twins has disappeared, and all evidence points to Malcolm Danvers. It seems as if the psychotic former Pack member they’ve been tracking for the past year has brought the fight to them, setting the bait he knows Elena can’t afford to ignore.*
Inhuman Garbage

Title: "Inhuman Garbage"

Author: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Published: Asimovs March 2015

*Finalist in the Asimov’s 30th Annual Readers’ Award Poll*

*Selected for three different 2015 "Year’s Best" anthologies*

Sam Tomaino at *SFRevu* said:

*This is part of Rusch's Retrieval Artist series but seems entirely independent of it. I did not check through my files for previous stories in this series but had no trouble following this. As far as I knew, all these characters were just being introduced, and I had no problem following them. Detective Noelle DeRicci is called in when the body of a woman is discovered on a waste crate in Armstrong, the largest dome on the Moon. She interviews the owner of the waste container company that sends the waste to the Growing Pits to be made into compost. Even the owner, who we do not see again is fully realized. The coroner she has summoned identifies the body as Somja Mycenae, who works as a nanny to a local crime boss named Luc Deshin. Noelle interviews him and he tells her he had let her go that day because she was not affectionate enough with his infant son. Things take off from there and the point of view shifts around to Deshin (who is a sympathetic character), the coroner, DeRicci's superior, etc. We get some surprising revelations in a story rich with intrigue mixed with science fiction and police procedural. Rusch is so good at this sort of thing. This will be on my Hugo Short List for Novella next year.*
Cassandra

Cassandra by Ken Liu

Publication: *Clarkesworld*, March 2015

Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "A superhero story. The narrator discovers that she has a sort of precognitive power: through touch, she can hear the future thoughts of individuals who will commit acts of lethal abuse. The first time, she doesn’t know what to do, does nothing, and later sees the murder reported on the news, the murder she believes she could have stopped. And it keeps happening. She thinks that perhaps the official superhero [she calls him Showboat] can help, but he disregards her warnings. So she takes matters into her own hands.... "
JY Yang

Second year of Campbell eligibility.

Website

Selected stories:

* “Storytelling for the Night Clerk”; *Strange Horizons*, June 16, 2014
* “Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points”; *Clarkesworld*, September 2014
* “Tiger Baby”; first published in *The Belly of the Cat* (Math Paper Press, Singapore, 2013); reprinted in *Lackington’s*, Winter 2015
* “Red Is the Colour of Mother Dirt”; *Athena’s Daughters, Vol. 2*  (Silence in the Library publishing, May 2015)
* “A Sister’s Weight in Stone”; *Apex*, May 2015
* “Letter from an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife”; *Lightspeed* (Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue), June 2015
* “A House of Anxious Spiders”; *The Dark*, August 2015
* “Temporary Saints”; *Fireside Magazine*, October 2015
* “Song of the Krakenmaid”; *Lackington’s*, Fall 2015
All That Outer Space Allows

**Title**: All That Outer Space Allows (Apollo Quartet #4)

**Author**: Ian Sales

**Publisher**: Whippleshield Books (www.whippleshieldbooks.com )

**Publication Date**: April 27th, 2015.

**ISBN (paperback)**: 978-0-99314172-0

**ISBN (ebook)**: 978-0-99314174-4

It is 1965 and Ginny Eckhardt is a science fiction writer. She’s been published in the big science fiction magazines and is friends with many of the popular science fiction authors of the day. Her husband, Walden, has just been selected by NASA as one of the New Nineteen Apollo astronauts… which means Ginny will be a member of the Astronaut Wives Club.

Although the realities of spaceflight fascinate Ginny, her gender bars her from the United State space programme. Her science fiction offers little in the way of consolation—but perhaps there is something she can do about that…

Covering the years 1965 to 1972, when Walden Eckhardt lifts-off aboard Apollo 15 as the mission’s lunar module pilot, this is Ginny’s life: wife, science fiction writer, astronaut wife… because that is ALL THAT OUTER SPACE ALLOWS.
Game Not Over

Game Not Over

 By Ron Friedman

Published in: Galaxy's Edge

Publication Date: 01/15

Description, by Sam Tomaino [SFRevu]: "Sheda is a "she-daemon" in Gehenom. She is all-powerful. But she finds herself and her assistant, Esh, summoned by Nakam, the Lich Emperor of Sham-Rahok. He wants her to find out why his realm and those of others have been invaded of late by ""adventurers...paladins, warriors, rangers, clerics" and an elf-maiden he has captured. You might guess what is going on but Sheda, Esh, and Naham are not pleased when they find out about their world. Sheda has an idea, though. "
Doctor of the Dead

Doctor of the Dead

 Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg (**Doc of the Dead**; Zombiemania; Zombies in Popular Media, University of Baltimore), world renowned zombie scholar and author, talks about zombies in all their guises from **Ash vs. Evil Dead** to **The Walking Dead** to the history of zombie cinema and much more! Board up the windows and doors, make sure you have plenty of ammo and canned goods, and join Arnold and author and game designer Scott Woodard (**ParaNorman**, The Sixth Gun RPG) every week for living dead laughs and creepy corpse-ridden commentary!
Alice

Title: *Alice*

Author: Christina Henry

Publisher: Ace

Publication Date: August 4, 2015

*In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside.*

*In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn’t remember why she’s in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood…*

*Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago.*

*Only something else has escaped with her. Something dark. Something powerful.*

*And to find the truth, she will have to track this beast to the very heart of the Old City, where the rabbit waits for his Alice.*
A Planet for Rent

Title: *A Planet for Rent*

Author: Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez)

Translator: David Frye

Publisher: Restless Books

Publication date: March 10, 2015

*The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice.*
Court of Fives

*Court of Fives* by Kate Elliott

Published by Little, Brown, August 2015

Series: Court of Fives #1

Publisher's description: *Jessamy’s life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But away from her family, she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for the Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom’s best competitors.*

*Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an improbable friendship between the two Fives competitors—one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy—causes heads to turn. When Kal’s powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes’s family apart, she’ll have to test her new friend’s loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.*
Guided By the Beauty of Their Weapons

Guided By the Beauty of Their Weapons: An Analysis of Theodore Beale and His Supporters, by Phil Sandifer

"Right. It’s probably about time to collect all the issues and discussion of the 2015 Hugo Awards into one big post that is, at least in terms of what I have to say, a definitive take on it. A long read, to be sure, but one that will hopefully manage to cover everything important and give a clear sense of the issues and their implications.

One note that is probably worth making before we begin - I am writing this with the assumption of a basically sympathetic audience who have heard bits of the disturbing story, but who aren’t clear on the whole picture. It’s meant to be persuasive to people who are, broadly speaking, left-leaning (or at least not far-right) fans of intelligent and literary science fiction, and who are not generally of the opinion that there was ever anything badly wrong with the Hugo Awards. This is not to say “someone who agrees absolutely with the Hugo Awards,” as such a person presumably does not exist, awards being like that, but it is to say “someone who thinks the Hugo Awards have gone to generally reasonable selections over the past five years.”

Correspondingly, it is not expected to be in the least bit persuasive to people who think Theodore Beale to be an intelligent and respectable figure worth taking seriously. It is not an attempt to argue with them. For reasons that will I think become clear as the post goes on, I do not think arguing with them is a particularly worthwhile pursuit."
Covenant's End

Title: *Covenant's End*

Author: Ari Marmell

Publsher: Pyr

Publication Date: 2/3/2015

Series: Widdershins (#4)

*The thief Widdershins and her own "personal god," Olgun, return to their home city of Davillon after almost a year away. While Shins expects only to face the difficulty of making up with her friends, what she actually finds is far, far worse. Her nemesis, Lisette, has returned, and she is not alone. Lisette has made a dark pact with supernatural powers that have granted her abilities far greater than anything Widdershins and Olgun can match.*

*Together, Widdershins and Olgun will face enemies on both sides of the law, for Lisette's schemes have given her power in both Davillon's government and its underworld. For even a slim chance, Shins must call on both old friends*—*some of whom haven't yet forgiven her*—*and new allies.*

*Even with their help, Widdershins may be required to make the hardest sacrifice of her life, if she is to rid Davillon*—*and herself*—*of Lisette once and for all.*
Flex

Flex

by Ferrett Steinmetz

Publisher: Angry Robot

Released: March 2015

ISBN: 978-0-85766-460-0

e-Book ISBN: 978-0-85766-461-7

Available for order through your local bookstore or Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Flex-Mancer-Ferrett-Steinmetz-ebook/dp/B00JNPF4BS/ref=sr\_1\_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440729373&sr=1-1&keywords=Flex

In the world of Flex, Magic comes from being obsessed with something enough that your obsession can change reality.
Beyond: Our Future in Space

*Beyond: Our Future in Space* by Chris Impey, published by W.W.Norton in April 2015.

Impey's history of the space race and speculations about its future includes references to SF writers throughout. The non-fiction book also features an original SF short story by the author, fragments of which introduce each section. See reviews in *The New York Times*, *Times Higher Education*, NPR, and *The Wall Street Journal*.
Entanglements

"Entanglements" by David Gerrold

*The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction*, May-June 2015

Description, by Sam Tomaino (SFRevu): "A semi-autobiographical tale in which David, our narrator, receives a gift on his 70th birthday from "Pesky Dan Goodman": "a parellelicon... a quantum resonator... a quawkie talkie". It allows David access to alternate versions of his world, alternate versions of himself, alternate stories he wrote in those versions."
Hit

*Hit* by Delilah S. Dawson

Published by Simon Pulse, April 2015

Publisher's description: *The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that we were bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card application. Now, after a swift and silent takeover that leaves 9-1-1 calls going through to Valor voicemail, they’re unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country.*

*Patsy didn’t have much of a choice. When the suits showed up at her house threatening to kill her mother then and there for outstanding debt unless Patsy agreed to be an indentured assassin, what was she supposed to do? Let her own mother die?*

*Patsy is forced to take on a five-day mission to complete a hit list of ten names. Each name on Patsy's list has only three choices: pay the debt on the spot, agree to work as a bounty hunter, or die. And Patsy has to kill them personally, or else her mom takes a bullet of her own.*

*Since yarn bombing is the only rebellion in Patsy's past, she’s horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that most of the ten people on her list aren't strangers. Things get even more complicated when a moment of mercy lands her with a sidekick: a hot rich kid named Wyatt whose brother is the last name on Patsy's list. The two share an intense chemistry even as every tick of the clock draws them closer to an impossible choice.*
City of Salt

Title: City of Salt

Author: Arkady Martine

Published: Strange Horizons, 16 March 2015

Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "This is an aftermath story, where we begin in the ruins of past events and hope to learn what came to pass. Which turns out, as it often the case, to have been sorcery misused. There were once a king, his mage, and his general, who refused to serve the evil they raised."
Baahubali: The Beginning

Title: *Baahubali: The Beginning*

Director: S.S. Rajamouli

Writing credits: Vijayendra Prasad (story), S.S. Rajamouli (screenplay), C.H. Vijay Kumar (Telugu dialogue), Ajay Kumar (Telugu dialogue), Madhan Karky (Tamil dialogue), Manoj Muntashir (Hindi dialogue)

Release date: 9 July 2015

Running time: 159 minutes

IMDB listing

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Secondary-world superhero fantasy/special effects epic based in Indian mythology
Charlotte

13 episodes, ran July-September 2015.

Available for (free, legal) viewing at:

* Daisuki (territories not clear)
* Crunchyroll (Americas, UK, Ireland)
* Wakanim (Canada, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)
* Aniplex (US)
* AnimeLab (Australia, New Zealand)
* Viewster (United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Iran, UAE, Turkey)
* peppermint anime (Germany, possibly other German-speaking countries)

**Series director:** Yoshiyuki Asai

**Script:** Jun Maeda

**Studio:** P.A. Works

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Gold Fame Citrus

Title: Gold Fame Citrus

Author: Claire Vaye Watkins

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Publication Date: September 1, 2015

Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. With the Central Valley barren, underground aquifer drained, and Sierra snowpack entirely depleted, most “Mojavs,” prevented by both armed vigilantes and an indifferent bureaucracy from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to internment camps. In Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon, two young Mojavs—Luz, once a poster child for the Bureau of Conservation and its enemies, and Ray, a veteran of the “forever war” turned surfer—squat in a starlet’s abandoned mansion. Holdouts, they subsist on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise.

The couple’s fragile love somehow blooms in this arid place, and for the moment, it seems enough. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, the thirst for a better future begins. They head east, a route strewn with danger: sinkholes and patrolling authorities, bandits and the brutal, omnipresent sun. Ghosting after them are rumors of a visionary dowser—a diviner for water—and his followers, who whispers say have formed a colony at the edge of a mysterious sea of dunes.

Immensely moving, profoundly disquieting, and mind-blowingly original, Watkins’s novel explores the myths we believe about others and tell about ourselves, the double-edged power of our most cherished relationships, and the shape of hope in a precarious future that may be our own.
China Mieville: Critical Essays

Title: China Mieville: Critical Essays

Editors: Caroline Edwards & Tony Venezia

Publisher; Gylphi Limited

Publication Date: December 1, 2015

*Since the publication of his first novel in 1998, China Miéville has distinguished himself as one of the most exciting and inventive writers working in any genre in contemporary British fiction. The author of nine novels and two short story collections to date, as well as comics script-writing, numerous critical works on science fiction, and legal scholarship, Miéville is a critically acclaimed writer who has also achieved popular success.*

The chapters in this collection respond to the range of interests that have shaped Miéville's fiction from his influential role in contemporary genre debates, to his ability to pose serious philosophical questions about state control, revolutionary struggle, regimes of apartheid, and the function of international law in a globalised world. This collection demonstrates how Miéville's fictions offer a striking example of contemporary literature's ability to imagine alternatives to neoliberal capitalism at a time of crisis for leftist ideas within the political realm.
Althean Mystic Arts Guild Wikia

## The Althean Mystic Arts Guild

The Althean Mystic Arts Guild is a player-run organisation which aims to bring more to roleplay magic at Swordcraft. It was founded with the help of the most experienced mages from each Swordcraft Warband.

The Guild works off a system comprised of different ranks and schools.

Ranks are symbolic of how powerful a mage is in their chosen type of magic, and are earned individually per school. This means that even if you master one form of magic, you won't be able to cast spells from another school without first studying it.

Ranks can be earned through being taught new spells, roleplay and rituals. This will generally take place at Quest or another special event. Ranks are assigned by a senior mage in the given school, overseen by that school's Archmage.

## The Schools of Magic

The Guild consists of six schools of magic, they are Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Necromancy and Transmutation.

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Carry On

*Carry On*, by Rainbow Rowell

Publication date: October 2015

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Publisher's description:

*Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.*

*That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a* complete git*, but he's probably right.*

*Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here—it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.*

Carry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow *is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story—but far, far more monsters.*
Kangaroo (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)

The **Kangaroo** is one of the True Blue Team in addition to an Ostrich, Cheetah, Elephant, and Hippopotamus from *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*. He wrestles the Hyena from the Dirty Yellow Team with his feet after the Hyena lands on him. After the Hippopotamus lands on the Crocodile from the Dirty Yellow Team's tail, his fake teeth come out and end up chomping the Kangaroo's tail.
In the Shadow of Iyanibi

**In the Shadow of Iyanibi**, by Eugene Odogwu

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Publisher: Brittle Paper

Publication Date: Jan. 12, 2015 (Part 1), Jan. 26, 2015 (Part 2), Feb. 9, 2015 (Part 3)

*A story about a brave and gifted girl named Ihumbi, who is swept up in a series of frightful encounters involving the search for a missing sister in a forest of deep, dark shadows.*

*The three-part tale follows the confrontation between young Ihumbi and Urunma—a forest-dwelling demigoddess always hungry for the souls of lost children. Urunma is a mother’s worst nightmare and a child’s greatest fear. Preying on a child’s desire for sweet and colorful things, she steals the souls of children lost in the forest and holds them in enchanted captivity.*
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings

***Not Eligible: Actually published in January 2016; see author's statement***

Title: *Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings*

Author: Diana Pavlac Glyer

Illustrator: James A. Owen

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Publication Date: December 8, 2015 January 2016

*An inspiring look at the Inklings and their creative process*

 *C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other's work-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing? How does creative collaboration enhance individual talent? And what can we learn from their example?*

 *Featuring original illustrations by James A. Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford, and a seat at their table at the Eagle and Child pub. It shows how encouragement and criticism made all the difference in The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other books written by the members of their circle. You'll learn what made these writers tick, and more: inspired by their example, you'll discover how collaboration can help your own creative process and lead to genius breakthroughs in whatever work you do.*
Finn Fancy Necromancy

Title: *Finn Fancy Necromancy*

Author: Randy Henderson

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

Publication Date: 10-Feb-2015

Locator:

Publisher's description: *Finn Gramaraye was framed for the crime of dark necromancy at the age of 15, and exiled to the Other Realm for twenty five years. But now that he's free, someone—probably the same someone—is trying to get him sent back. Finn has only a few days to discover who is so desperate to keep him out of the mortal world, and find evidence to prove it to the Arcane Enforcers. They are going to be very hard to convince, since he's already been convicted of trying to kill someone with dark magic.*

*But Finn has his family: His brother Mort who is running the family necrotorium business now, his brother Pete who believes he's a werewolf, though he is not, and his sister Samantha who is, unfortunately, allergic to magic. And he's got Zeke, a fellow exile and former enforcer, who doesn't really believe in Finn's innocence but is willing to follow along in hopes of getting his old job back.*
Fantasy Literature

Fantasy Literature [1] is Hugo-eligible in the category of Best Fanzine. Since 2007, the bloggers at Fantasy Literature have been committed to bringing you thoughtful, high-quality reviews, columns and news items about science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In the past two years, we’ve branched out to incorporate a larger social media presence, more author interviews, TV and film reviews, and special interest columns on topics like writing and comics. Our diverse global staff include bloggers from the US, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and Portugal. Our New Zealand correspondent won a national Best Fan Writer award in 2014. Between the 20 active reviewers writing for Fantasy Literature, five are academics, three are lawyers, two are editors, and all are active, engaged SFF fans. We love the field, and we love a lively discussion! If you enjoy our columns and reviews, consider nominating us. Check us out here! [2]
Cuckoo Song

*Cuckoo Song* by Frances Hardinge

Published by Pan Macmillan, May 2014 (UK); Amulet Books, May 2015 (US)

Publisher's description: *When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry, her sister seems scared of her, and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. In a quest to find the truth she must travel into the terrifying underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her family*—*before it's too late . . .*
Corsair

Title: *Corsair*

Author: James L. Cambias

Publisher: Tor

Publication Date: May 5, 2015

*In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself, and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a military job after graduating. Nearly ten years later, David is setting himself to become a billionaire by working in the shadows under a multiplicity of names for international thieves, and Elizabeth works in intelligence preventing international space piracy. With robotic mining in space becoming a lucrative part of Earth's economy, shipments from space are dropped down the gravity well into the oceans. David and Elizabeth fight for dominance of the computer systems controlling ore drop placement in international waters. If David can nudge a shipment 500 miles off its target, his employers can get there first and claim it legally in the open sea. Each one intuits that the other is their real competition but can't prove it. And when Elizabeth loses a major shipment, she leaves government employ to work for a private space company to find a better way to protect shipments. But international piracy has very high stakes and some very evil players. And both Elizabeth and David end up in a world of trouble.*
Fred Clark

Fred Clark from Slacktivist, for Best Fan Writer. In addition to his long-running deconstruction of the Left Behind works, he's a SF fan in general and will often use Terry Pratchett or Buffy to help make points. An example: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/06/07/sex-and-marriage-and-sin-part-1/
An Evolutionary Myth

An Evolutionary Myth by Bo-Young Kim, translated by Gord Sellar and Jihyun Park. First English publication in May 2015 issue of *Clarkesworld.*

Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "Historical fantasy set in a fratricidal era of the Korean kingdom, with the universal theme that as the king does, so goes the kingdom. The current king does not do well at all, being a megalomaniac tyrant. The kingdom, accordingly, is afflicted by drought and the people are suffering, which puts them in hope of a hero come to deliver them. Our narrator happens to be a surviving son of the previous king, and he has good reason to suspect his tyrant uncle will seek his life. Seeking anonymity and concealment, he ruminates on the nature of evolution."
A Legend of the Future

Title: A Legend of the Future

Author: Agustín de Rojas

Translator: Nick Caistor

Publisher: Restless Books

Publication Date: June 23, 2015

*A morally profound chamber piece, A Legend of the Future is a critique of morality. It takes place inside a spaceship after a crash takes place during a failed mission to Titan, one of the Saturn moons. The journey home forces the crew to face its innermost fears while coexisting with each other in a state of desperation. This mesmerizing novel, recalling Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: Space Odyssey, is a roman a clef about the intense pressures—economic, ideological, psychological—inside Socialist Cuba.*
Court Bindings

Title: Court Bindings

Author: Karalynn Lee

Published In: *Beneath Ceaseless Skies* #176 (June 25th 2015)

Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "A princess who has a powerful magical gift of binding animals to do her will. “You do not mean to be cruel to all the animals you practice upon, but you are.” The narrator who says this is her bodyguard, who doesn’t like the idea of the unwanted attention this skill might draw in the court, where assassination plots are rife and the queen is unpopular. The princess soon learns how to use her gift on people, until the time comes when she must confront her destiny."
And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead

"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead" by Brooke Bolander, published in *Lightspeed Magazine* Feb. 2015

 Description, by Amal El-Mohtar [Tor.com]: "A no-holds-barred pulp action cuss-fest .... In the far-future there are fully synthetic humans grown for grunt-work and war: “The children of wires and circuits aren’t worth a tinker’s fuck compared to the children of real flesh and bone, so far as the world’s concerned,” observes Rhye, our foul-mouthed, gun-slinging protagonist. Seriously injured after a prize fight, she’s taken in by Rack, who helps her up and offers her a place to stay. Rack and Rhye make a great team: he’s cool, quiet, a brilliant security specialist, while she’s fierce, blazing, loud, angry. Mostly Rack looks after Rhye, cleaning her wounds and not judging her life choices—but when a mob deal goes sour, it’s up to Rhye to save both their lives by diving through circuitry and bodiless space to find Rack and the third party he was hired to extract....."
Chapelwood

Title: *Chapelwood*

Author: Cherie Priest

Publisher: Roc

Publication Date: September 1, 2015

Series: The Borden Dispatches #2

Publisher's description: *Birmingham, Alabama is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consumed the minds and hearts of its populace. A murderer, unimaginatively named “Harry the Hacker” by the press, has been carving up citizens with a hatchet. And from the church known as Chapelwood, an unholy gospel is being spread by a sect that worships dark gods from beyond the heavens.*

*This darkness calls to Lizzie Borden. It is reminiscent of an evil she had dared hoped was extinguished. The parishioners of Chapelwood plan to sacrifice a young woman to summon beings never meant to share reality with humanity. An apocalypse will follow in their wake which will scorch the earth of all life.*

*Unless she stops it…*