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Red White and Who: The Story of Doctor Who in America

### Author

Steven Warren Hill & Jennifer Adams Kelley, Nicholas Seidler, and Robert Warnock, with Janine Fennick and John Lavalie

### Pub date

August 21, 2017

Every American DOCTOR WHO fan has a story to tell, and fans of the iconic British television show love to tell stories. All of them, from the casual to the obsessed, will happily regale others with the tale of how and when they discovered the greatest science fiction media franchise ever. Most early American fans first met the Doctor in the early 1980s, nearly twenty years after the show began in 1963…but the story of DOCTOR WHO in America—a complex and fascinating journey into pop culture—stretches much further back.

In this book you’ll find the rich history of everything DOCTOR WHO in the USA—from American TV Guide listings of Canadian broadcasts in 1965, through the Dalek movies, the early struggles of the Public Broadcasting System, the BBC sales attempts, the official debut on American television in 1972, the explosion in popularity among US viewers in 1979, the twentieth anniversary celebration in 1983, the conventions, the books, the merchandise, the fan clubs, the video releases, the games, the USA Tour, and every imaginable fan activity including cosplay, fan films and audios, PBS pledge drive volunteering, websites, podcasts, and much more, to the new heights of success, popularity, and fandom participation in the 21st century. It’s an enlightening and entertaining journey for everyone who admires DOCTOR WHO…and not just for American fans, but devotees around the globe.

Think you know everything there was to know about our favorite Time Lord and his history? Get ready to discover a “New New World” in RED WHITE AND WHO: THE STORY OF DOCTOR WHO IN AMERICA!
Best Professional Artist - 1943 Retro Hugos

The work on which the nominees are judged must class as “professional”, where the publication either

1. provided at least a quarter the income of any one person, or
2. was owned or published by any entity which provided at least a quarter the income of any of its staff and/or owner

"Professional" works include covers and interior art published in:

* Traditionally-published books
* SFWA-Qualified Markets
* Work published by the professional publications listed at the bottom of this page (Prozines)
Thelma

Directed by Joachim Trier. First released in Norway in September, 2017. US release in November, 2017.

*Thelma, a shy young student, has just left her religious family in a small town on the west coast of Norway to study at a university in Oslo. While at the library one day, she experiences a violent, unexpected seizure. Soon after, she finds herself intensely drawn toward Anja, a beautiful young student who reciprocates Thelma’s powerful attraction. As the semester continues, Thelma becomes increasingly overwhelmed by her intense feelings for Anja – feelings she doesn’t dare acknowledge, even to herself – while at the same time experiencing even more extreme seizures. As it becomes clearer that the seizures are a symptom of inexplicable, often dangerous, supernatural abilities, Thelma is confronted with tragic secrets of her past, and the terrifying implications of her powers.*

Reviews: Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle
The Doctor Who Novelisations

Eligible publication: *Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet* by Douglas Adams and James Goss, BBC Books (January 2017)

162 novels based on televised Doctor Who stories have been published since 1964, plus another two released in audio format only, and another four due out in the course of 2018.

All of the Classic Who television stories have been officially adapted as novels, apart from two late Dalek stories, and so has the 1996 TV movie. Four 11th Doctor stories were published as novels in Australia in 2011. Another four New Who stories are to get the novelisation treatment in 2018. The qualifying work published in 2017 is an adaptation of Douglas Adams' 1978 script for The Pirate Planet, completed by James Goss.

Completists might argue that the list below could have included novels based on audio Doctor Who plays and scripts that were prepared for television but never produced, which were fitted into the Target and BBC series of publications, or indeed novelisations of the Sarah Jane Smith spinoff series (the 1981 one-off story, and 16 of the 2007-2011 episodes).

Even more broadly, we could simply look at Doctor Who books as a whole as an eligible category, including the Annuals, the Virgin New Adventures and Missing Adventures, the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, Past Doctor Adventures and New Series Adventures, the Telos novellas and many more which either had or lacked official sanction.

However, the novelisations are a concrete and discrete phenomenon. They were crucially important for a generation of fans, and have recently had a mini-renaissance with the adaptation of two Douglas Adams scripts by James Goss (Adams himself being an important sf figure in his own right).

Therefore, only the novels which were based on TV episodes are listed here. The last four, to be published in 2018, obviously do not affect the eligibility of the series as a whole for the 2018 Hugos.
PodCastle

PodCastle

Editors: Jen R. Albert & Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali

Assistant Editor: Setsu Uzume

Host: Setsu Uzume

About: PodCastle is a weekly fantasy podcast producing audio performances of fantasy short fiction, including all the sub-genres of fantasy. PodCastle launched on 1 April 2008 as part of Escape Artists, Inc. with Rachel Swirsky as founding editor and Ann Leckie as assistant editor. PodCastle pays their authors professional rates for original fiction.
Into The Drowning Deep

Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy.

Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost.

Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves. But the secrets of the deep come with a price.
Hubert Rogers

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The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

*The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy pits utopian anarchists against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic."*

*Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and witnesses a protector spirit ― in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer ― begin to turn on its summoners. She and her new friends have to act fast if they’re going to save the town ― or get out alive.*

Review:Publishers Weekly
Queen's Thief

Eligible Publication: *Thick As Thieves* (The Queen's Thief #5), Greenwillow Books, May 2017.

*Deep within the palace*
of the Mede emperor, in an alcove off the main room of his master’s
apartments,. Kamet minds his master’s business and his own. Carefully
keeping the accounts, and his own counsel, Kamet has accumulated a few
possessions, a little money stored in the household’s cashbox, and a
significant amount of personal power. As a slave, his fate is tied to
his master’s. If Nahuseresh’s fortunes improve, so will Kamet’s, and
Nahuseresh has been working diligently to promote his fortunes since the debacle in Attolia.

A
 soldier in the shadows offers escape, but Kamet won’t sacrifice his
ambition for a meager and unreliable freedom; not until a whispered
warning of poison and murder destroys all of his carefully laid plans.
When Kamet flees for his life, he leaves behind everything—his past, his
 identity, his meticulously crafted defenses—and finds himself woefully
unprepared for the journey that lies ahead.

Pursued across
rivers, wastelands, salt plains, snowcapped mountains, and storm-tossed
seas, Kamet is dead set on regaining control of his future and
protecting himself at any cost. Friendships—new and
long-forgotten—beckon, lethal enemies circle, secrets accumulate, and
the fragile hopes of the little kingdoms of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis
hang in the balance.

*The Thief* (The Queen's Thief #1), Greenwillow Books, 1996.

*The Queen of Attolia* (The Queen's Thief #2), Greenwillow Books, 2000.

*The King of Attolia* (The Queen's Thief #3), Greenwillow Books, 2006.

*A Conspiracy of Kings* (The Queen's Thief #4), Greenwillow Books, 2010.
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"Serving Fish", Cover for *People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination* edited by Nisi Shawl (Positronic Publishing, June)Cover for *Amberlough* by Lara Elena Donnelly (Tor Books, February)Illustration for "Waiting on a Bright Moon" by JY Yang (Tor.com, July)
River of Teeth

**Sarah Gailey's wildfire debut *River of Teeth* is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls "preposterously fun."**

In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.

Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two.

This was a terrible plan.

Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of *his*revenge.
Alasdair Stuart

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Featured posts:

* *The Best Continuation of The Terminator Saga Has Already Happened: The Sarah Connor Chronicles*
* *It’s Time for Doctor Who to Change Television History for the Better*
* *The Moral Compass of Battlestar Galactica: Remembering Richard Hatch*
* All Tor.com work
* All Pseudopod host essays
My Favorite Thing is Monsters

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
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### 2017 Work

Cover for *Miranda and Caliban* by Jacqueline Carey (Tor Books, February)Cover for *The Book of Esther* by Emily Barton (Tim Duggan Books, August)Illustration "Rebirth" (*Spectrum 24: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art*, edited by John Fleskes, November)Cover for *Dear Sweet Filthy World* by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press, March)
Shade, the Changing Girl (2016-) Vol. 1: Earth Girl Made Easy

Loma Shade may be from another planet, but she’s still like every other twenty something who feels that their life is going nowhere fast. Bored out of her mind, her solution is to drop out of school, dump her boyfriend and leave her homeworld of Meta behind—courtesy of the infamous “madness coat” of renegade poet Rac Shade, which is not so much a garment as it is a multidimensional gateway.

 After stealing the coat and astrally projecting herself across space, Loma ends up in the body of Megan Boyer, an Earth girl who seems to have it all: youth, beauty and a conveniently damaged brain. Following her “miraculous” recovery, however, Loma finds there’s just one problem with being Megan: Everyone hates her. She was a bully who terrorized her enemies and her friends alike, and now Loma’s stuck with the consequences.

 To make matters worse, back on Meta there are dark forces that want Rac’s dangerously valuable coat for their own nefarious purposes, and they’re closing in on Loma’s vulnerable physical body. At the same time, the primal madness that the coat channels is slowly, irresistibly eroding Loma’s equally vulnerable soul.

 With two new lives to live, can this Changing Girl survive either one without losing her mind?
An Enchantment of Ravens

**A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie**
courts—even as she falls in love with a faerie prince—in this gorgeous
bestseller that’s “an ideal pick for fans of Holly Black, Maggie
Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor” (*Publishers Weekly*, starred review).

Isobel
 is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients such as the sinister
fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to
paper, or do other things that human can do otherwise they will crumble to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible
thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. But when she receives
her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—she makes a terrible
mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes—a weakness that could cost
 him his life.

Furious, Rook spirits her away to his kingdom to
stand trial for her crime. But something is seriously wrong in his
world, and they are attacked from every side. With Isobel and Rook
depending on each other for survival, their alliance blossoms into
trust, then love—and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws.
Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as
an artist to fight the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft
represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia
of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the
power to make them feel.!

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Burn Out

*Stella, a space mechanician, has broken down and ended on a desert planet. While she is in despair, a little girl appears out of nowhere. Following the child into a tunnel, in the depths of the planet, she discovers a big cave full of objects that belonged to her, reminding her the dreams she has left behind.*

Réalisateur/Director: Cécile CARRE

Production: GOBELINS, l'école de l'image: Moïra Marguin, mmarguin@gobelins.fr

Sélections :

* Spark Animation (Canada, Vancouver) > Runner Up - Student Film Award
* Guelph film festival (Ontario, Canada)
* Festival international Paris Court Devant - 13ème édition (France, Paris)
* Epic ACG Fest (USA, Albany)
* Aniwow (Chine, Pékin) > The Jingood Best Character Animation in Short Animation award
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler

**Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler**, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal

Read "The Patterns Around Octavia Butler", editor Alexandra Pierce's behind-the-scenes story of creating this anthology.

Excerpted essay: "The Butler Effect" by Kathleen Kayembe

Excerpted essay: "A Letter to Octavia Butler" by Nisi Shawl

*Luminescent Threads* celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour.

Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships, her complex treatment of race and identity, and her impact on feminism and women in Science Fiction. Follow the luminescent threads that connect Octavia E. Butler and her body of work to the many readers and writers who have found inspiration in her words, and the complex universes she created.

Contributors include Rasha Abdulhadi, Raffaella Baccolini, Moya Bailey, Steven Barnes, Michele Tracy Berger, Tara Betts, Lisa Bennett Bolekaja, Mary Elizabeth Burroughs, K Tempest Bradford, Cassandra Brennan, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Stephanie Burgis, Christopher Caldwell, Gerry Canavan, Joyce Chng, Indra Das, L Timmel Duchamp, Sophia Echavarria, Tuere TS Ganges, Stephen R Gold, Jewelle Gomez, Kate Gordon, Rebecca J Holden, Tiara Janté, Valjeanne Jeffers, Alex Jennings, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Kathleen Kayembe, Hunter Liguore, Karen Lord, ZM Quỳnh, Asata Radcliffe, Aurelius Raines II, Cat Rambo, Connie Samaras, Nisi Shawl, Jeremy Sim, Amanda Emily Smith, Cat Sparks, Elizabeth Stephens, Rachel Swirsky, Bogi Takács, Sheree Renée Thomas, Jeffrey Allen Tucker, Brenda Tyrrell, Paul Weimer, Ben H Winters, K Ceres Wright, and Hoda Zaki.

Luminescent Threads also includes reprints of articles that have appeared in various forums, such as SF Studies, exploring different aspects of Butler’s work; it also includes a reprinted interview with Butler herself.

*Luminescent Threads is an inspiring and creatively produced outlet for those who have been influenced by one of the pillars of the science fiction canon. This book is not only for fans of Octavia Butler, but also for fans of science fiction in general, and for those interested in learning how the genre has gotten to where it is today, especially with the rise to prominence of so many female and diverse authors. As a reader, a writer, a woman, a person of color and a lifelong fan of Octavia Butler, I’d definitely recommend it.* - Alison Akiko McBain, Mithila Review

*...reading Luminescent Threads has changed the ways in which I view Butler – reading the contributors’ letters to her struck a chord in me. Here I was looking within people’s lives, understanding how an author has had so much influence in the way they have lived and loved. It has been an exhilarating experience to know Butler through people whose lives she has touched, and who found refuge in her complex universes.* - Deya, Bookriot
The Runabout

(The Diving Universe #6) (42,677 words) (excerpt)

*A good thing about this story is that you don't really have to be familiar with the series to understand what is going on. Rusch skillfully weaves in the details you need. It is so good, it will make you want to read the other stories.* -- Sam Tomaino, SFRevu

*A graveyard of spaceships, abandoned by the mysterious Fleet thousands of years earlier. Boss calls it “The Boneyard.” She needs the ships inside to expand her work for Lost Souls Corporation. Yash Zarlengo thinks the Boneyard will help her discover if the Fleet still exists.*

*Boss and Yash, while exploring the Boneyard, discover a small ship with a powerful and dangerous problem: The ship’s active anacapa drive.*

*To escape the Boneyard, Boss must deal with the drive. Which means she’ll have to dive the ship on limited time and under extremely dangerous conditions. And she can’t go alone.*
The Refrigerator Monologues

Title: The Refrigerator Monologues

Author: Catherynne M. Valente

Publisher: Saga Press

Publication date: June 6, 2017

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics

From the *New York Times* bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who’s ever been “refrigerated”: comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero’s storyline will progress.

In an entirely new and original superhero universe, Valente subversively explores these ideas and themes in the superhero genre, treating them with the same love, gravity, and humor as her fairy tales. After all, superheroes are our new fairy tales and these six women have their own stories to share.
Scifi Scifi Scifi

## Scifi Scifi Scifi Podcast

Hosts: Barry, Kevin, and Stephen

The Scifi Scifi Scifi Podcast (or SF3) reviews and discusses a fantasy, science fiction, or speculative fiction book on a (mostly) weekly basis with an occasional interview as well. The 67th episode was released at the end of 2017. Find episodes at http://scifiscifiscifi.libsyn.com/

The 2017 episodes include:

* Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
* Crooked by Austin Grossman
* Daemon by Daniel Suarez
* The Elementals by Michael McDowell
* Version Control by Dexter Palmer
* The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
* vN: The First Machine Dynasty by Madeline Ashby
* 2017 Hugo Nominations
* Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
* Arcadia by Iain Pears
* Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
* The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
* A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
* Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
* Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
* Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
* A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
* The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
* Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
* Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
* 2017 Hugo ballot picks
* You by Lev Grossman
* Company Town by Madeline Ashby
* episode 50 special: look back at our favorites
* Interview with Meg Elison
* The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
* The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
* Arkwright by Allen Steele
* Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
* The Necronomicon, short story collection by H. P. Lovecraft
* Null States by Malka Older
* We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
* Paradox Bound by Peter Clines
* The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
* The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
* The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
* Artemis by Andy Weir
* Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
* Replay by Ken Grimwood
* The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Okja

Directed and written by Bong Joon Ho. First screened May 19, 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival. General release on Netflix on June 28, 2017.

*For 10 idyllic years, young Mija has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja - a massive animal and an even bigger friend - at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when a family-owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image obsessed and self-promoting CEO Lucy Mirando has big plans for Mija's dearest friend. With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission, but her already daunting journey quickly becomes more complicated when she crosses paths with disparate groups of capitalists, demonstrators and consumers, each battling to control the fate of Okja...while all Mija wants to do is bring her friend home.*

Reviews: New York Times, New Yorker, The Atlantic, NPR
Summer in Orcus

**Summer in Orcus**, by Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher); free web serial published in 2016, collected illustrated version published by Sofawolf in 2017.

https://sofawolf.com/products/summer-in-orcus

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32182098-summer-in-orcus

* **“It’s Wes Craven meets L. Frank Baum, or Narnia for those of us who thought Narnia smiled without showing enough of its teeth.”** *--KB Spangler, author of Digital Divide*
* **"Summer’s mother is way too protective, and kind of damaged, and achingly human in a way that ends up doing a lot of harm while trying to do the exact opposite."** --Kathryn Adams on Pixelated Geek (March 28, 2017)
* **“It's a story about being scared and tired and lost, and about making friends, and doing the things one can do rather than learning how to be a completely different person.”** --Russ Allbery on eyrie.org (January 26, 2017)
* **“This is for everyone who hasn't forgiven Aslan, or Glinda, but understands now what was really happening."** --Sigrid Ellis on Goodreads (September 22, 2016)
Lee Harris

**Lee Harris**

Editor, Tor.com Publishing's Novella line

2017 Novellas edited:

* *All Systems Red*, by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #1)
* *Down Among the Sticks and Bones*, by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #2)
* *Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day*, by Seanan McGuire
* *Idle Ingredients*, by Matt Wallace (Sin du Jour #4)
* *Greedy Pigs*, by Matt Wallace (Sin du Jour #5)
* *Gluttony Bay*, by Matt Wallace (Sin du Jour #6)
* *Acadie*, by Dave Hutchinson
* *Binti: Home*, by Nnedi Okorafor (Binti #2)
* *Brother’s Ruin, by Emma Newman* (Industrial Magic #1)
* *Weaver’s Lament, by Emma Newman* (Industrial Magic #2)
* *A Long Day in Lychford*, by Paul Cornell (Lychford #3)
* *Buffalo Soldier*, by Maurice Broaddus

2017 Short Stories edited:

* *"Persephone"* by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com, March 2017)

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The Seer

They say he fed the heads of their enemies to a chained dragon. And mixed potions by the light of a caged fairy. No one could say with certainty where he was born, but they blamed that foreign place for his heathen upbringing. He rode on the wind and spoke to trees and could transform himself into any creature at all. And, of course, kill a man with a thought. Immortal was he, so the whispers swore, powerful and with the gift of Sight that let him see not only into a man's soul, but the future, the past and everything in between. So they say...

But beyond the myth? The people of Edenshire knew one concrete truth. Bronan the Druid would lay down his life for them.

The last line of defence against despot King Barry the Red, Bronan must fight a battle for their survival and with himself. Only a man despite all his powers, he flounders in indecision. An old hurt says he broke his own honour. And so unworthy, his visions hold only the flames of destruction.

He's damned. But without him, Edenshire is doomed.

While wrestling his demons, he champions for Land, Goddess and a righteous cause along with the orphaned Princess Brigit. And ends up a wanted man. Barry wants him dead and the aging honour guard alongside him - irksome reminders of their well-loved former King Manfred. Whose stolen throne Barry bathes in innocent blood.

While the Goddess waits for justice.

They have one hope. He must reveal a magical trust from the time of Brigit's father. Because without it?

Sorcerous fury, righteous vengeance and Bronan's sacred oak grove won't save them.
Paula Guran

**Paula Guran**

Publisher: Various

2017 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017*, Prime Books
* *The Mammoth Book of the Mummy*, Prime Books
* *Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries & Lore*, Prime Books
* *Swords Against Darkness*, Prime Books
* *New York Fantastic*, Night Shade Books

2016 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas 2016*, Prime Books
* *The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2016*, Prime Books
* *Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold*, Night Shade Books
* *Street Magicks*, Prime Books
* *The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction*, Robinson/Running Press
The Dark Birds

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Reviews: Quick Sip Reviews, Rocket Stack Rank, Featured Futures, Maria Haskins

*Vernon weaves together strands of fairytale and reality into something hauntingly strange and dark, and completely unique. Sisters who disappear, a mother changing their names, babies born and (maybe) buried, a father lurking below the floor…*
Foz Meadows

Blog: Shattersnipe: Malcontent & Rainbows

Featured posts:

* New York Literary Magazine: A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Dear Abbie: An Open Letter
* Writing Women: Thoughts
* YA Discourse: Witch vs Vulture
* Writers, Entitlement, Snark – Oh, My!
* Movie Thoughts: SF, Pulp & Grit
* Westworld: (De)Humanising the Other
Barbary Station

Adda and Iridian are newly-minted engineers, but in a solar system wracked by economic collapse after an interplanetary war, an engineering degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Desperate for gainful employment, they hijack a colony ship, planning to join a pirate crew at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space.

But when they arrive at Barbary Station, nothing is as they expected. The pirates aren’t living in luxury — they’re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station’s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station’s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents. And it shoots down any ship that tries to leave, so there’s no way out.

Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the security system suffered explosive decapitation, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds.

There’s a glorious future in piracy…if they can survive long enough.
The Final Fall of Man

**by Andrew Hindle**

Eligible Publication: *Human* (The Final Fall of Man #8), CreateSpace, January 2017

*In the Thirty-Ninth Century, great men and women of the human race strode among the stars and trod the jewelled thrones of the universe under their sandal’d feet.*

*Well, they weren’t wearing sandals, they were mostly wearing spacesuits because that was just plain common sense. And there weren’t really any jewelled thrones as such – not as far as anyone knew – so much as dusty ice-balls and emptiness and some algae in a couple of places. But human beings went out there and stepped in that algae, and then tracked it back into their starship airlocks and then looked around behind themselves as they walked on through into their recreation areas and said “oh damn, was that me?”*

*Yes, human beings did that.*

*And sometimes the algae turned out to be highly contagious or flesh-eating or toxic or fecund beyond terrestrial comprehension, and sometimes those human beings who had brought it on board their starships all died in graphic, horrible ways. And sometimes the emptiness turned out to be not quite so empty, and those human beings who had blundered into it had all their things taken away from them or were never heard from again.*

*And sometimes the ice turned out to have terrifying alien monsters capable of perfectly impersonating their hapless prey frozen inside just waiting to be dug out and thawed for some reason, and those human beings seemed to be okay but you never could be quite sure about them again after that.*

*But these incidents were rare, and there were always more human beings. Making more human beings was one of human beings’ all-time favourite things to do. It was basically the cornerstone of their entire civilisation.*

*So they spread, and as a species – with a little help from their friends – they survived. And they prospered and flourished. And they were noble and poetic and fearless and, occasionally, they were colossal bastards. But, in those final years of the human race, they mostly got it right.*

*The swan song of homo sapiens sapiens was sweet and sad and, if not harmonious, then at least glorious. If you’re going to go out on a song, as a rather famous entertainer once said, make it a beautiful, beautiful song. And if you can’t do that, well – make it deafening.*

*Yes, in the Thirty-Ninth Century, great men and women of the human race strode among the stars.*

*Also, these guys were there.*

*Eejit* (The Final Fall of Man #1), CreateSpace, November 2014

*Drednanth* (The Final Fall of Man #2), CreateSpace, March 2015

*Bonshoon* (The Final Fall of Man #3), CreateSpace, June 2015

*Fergunakil* (The Final Fall of Man #4), CreateSpace, October 2015

*Blaran* (The Final Fall of Man #5), CreateSpace, February 2016

*Molran* (The Final Fall of Man #6), CreateSpace, June 2016

*Damorak* (The Final Fall of Man #7), CreateSpace, October 2016

*Human* (The Final Fall of Man #8), CreateSpace, January 2017
Eartha

*Eartha*, written and illustrated by Cathy Malkasian

Published by Fantagraphics, March 2017

2017 Ignatz Award nominee

*For a thousand years, the unfinished dreams—sex fantasies, murder plots, wishful thinking—from the City Across the Sea came to Echo Fjord to find sanctuary. Emerging from the soil, they took bodily form and wandered the land, gently guided by the fjord folk. But recently they've stopped coming, and Eartha wants solve the mystery. Without thought or hesitation—the city isn’t on any map, or in anyone’s memory—she ventures into the limitless waters, hoping to find the City.*

Reviews: NPR, Comics Beat

Interview: Seattle Review of Books
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## 2017 Fan Artist Work:

"We Will All be Eaten in the End", program book cover and t-shirt design for Continuum 13, the 2017 Australian National ConventionCover for *Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation* edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (Upper Rubber Boot Books, August)Commission "Francoise and Berith" based on *The House of Binding Thorns* by Aliette de BodardCommission "Madeleine" based on *The House of Binding Thorns* by Aliette de BodardCover for *GlitterShip Year 1: a Queer Science Fiction & Fantasy Podcast Zine*Commission "Thuan of the Dragon Kingdom" based on *The House of Binding Thorns* by Aliette de Bodard
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### 2017 work:

Cover for *"Temporary Duty Assignment* by A.E. Ash (Book Smugglers, August)Cover/Illustration for "The Worldless" by Indrapramit Das (*Lightspeed Magazine*, March)Cover for *Keeper of the Dawn* by Dianna Gunn (Book Smugglers, April)Cover/illustration for "Tongue" by Ashok K. Banker (*Lightspeed Magazine*, August)Cover/Illustration for "The Law of Conservation of Data" by John Grant (*Lightspeed Magazine*, July)Cover/Illustration for "Longing for Stars Once Lost" by A. Merc Rustad (*Lightspeed Magazine*, October)
Katherine Arden

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER**

“Stunning . . . will enchant readers from the first page. . . . with an irresistible heroine who wants only to be free of the bonds placed on her gender and claim her own fate.”**—*Publishers Weekly* (starred review)**

“Utterly bewitching . . . a lush narrative . . . an immersive, earthy story of folk magic, faith, and hubris, peopled with vivid, dynamic characters, particularly clever, brave Vasya, who outsmarts men and demons alike to save her family.”**—*Booklist* (starred review)**

“Arden’s supple, sumptuous first novel transports the reader to a version of medieval Russia where history and myth coexist.”***—Kirkus* *Reviews* (starred review)**

“Radiant . . . a darkly magical fairy tale for adults, [but] not just for those who love magic.”***—Library Journal***

A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's *Uprooted*, Erin Morgenstern's *The Night Circus*, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, *The Bear and the Nightingale* spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.

At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind--she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.

After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa's stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed--this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse's most frightening tales.
The Stars Are Legion

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution.  As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion.

Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation - the only person capable of boarding the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan's new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion's gravity well to the very belly of the world.

Zan will soon learn that she carries the seeds of the Legion's destruction - and its possible salvation. But can she and her ragtag band of followers survive the horrors of the Legion and its people long enough to deliver it?

In the tradition of *The Fall of Hyperion* and *Dune*, *The Stars are Legion* is an epic and thrilling tale about tragic love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre's most celebrated new writers.
Ann VanderMeer

**Ann VanderMeer**

2017 Editing

Various short stories at Tor.com, including:

* "This World Is Full of Monsters", by Jeff VanderMeer
* "The Lamentation of Their Women", by Kai Ashante Wilson
* "The Library of Lost Things", by Matthew Bright
* "Waiting on a Bright Moon", by JY Yang
* "Red", by Ramsey Shehadeh
* "Hexagrammaton", by Hanuš Seiner
* "Mental Diplopia", by Julianna Baggott
* "Ecdysis", by Julianna Baggott
* "The Greenest Gecko", by Ploy Pirapokin
* "The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island", by Julianna Baggott

2016 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Big Book of Science Fiction* (with Jeff VanderMeer), Vintage Press

2015 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Bestiary*, Centipede Press
* *Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology* (with Jeff VanderMeer), PM Press

2013 Anthologies Edited:

* *The Time Traveler's Almanac* (with Jeff VanderMeer), Head of Zeus/Tor Books
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Cover for *Vanguard* by Jack Campbell (Ace, May)Cover for *All Systems Red* by Martha Wells (Tor.com, May)Cover for *The Fortress at the End of Time* by Joe M. McDermott (Tor.com, January)Cover for *The Seven* by Peter Newman (Harper Voyager UK, April)Cover for *The Tiger's Daughter* by K. Arsenault Rivera (Tor Books, October)
Akata Warrior

## Akata Witch

### Series

Sequel to Akata Witch

A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was
inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her
magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a
dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the
terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit
older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to
unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.

Eventually,
Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her
Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit
face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible
 to the mysteries town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle
 to save humanity.

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Raven Stratagem

War. Heresy. Madness.

Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic technologies and resurrected by the hexarchate to put down a heretical insurrection, has possessed the body of gifted young captain Kel Cheris.

Now, General Kel Khiruev’s fleet, racing to the Severed March to stop a fresh incursion by the enemy Hafn, has fallen under Jedao’s sway. Only Khiruev’s aide, Lieutenant Colonel Kel Brezan, appears able to shake off the influence of the brilliant but psychotic Jedao.

The rogue general seems intent on defending the hexarchate, but can Khiruev – or Brezan – trust him? For that matter, can they trust Kel Command, or will their own rulers wipe out the whole swarm to destroy one man?

Yoon Ha Lee’s critically acclaimed Machineries of Empire trilogy continues with *Raven Stratagem*.
Saga of Tanya the Evil

Title: *Saga of Tanya the Evil*

Director: Yutaka Uemura

Series Composition (head writer): Kenta Ihara (based on books by Carlo Zen)

Studio: NUT

Released: January-March 2017

Summary (from Anime News Network): Tanya Degurechov used to be one of Japan's elite office workers, but because of a wrathful god, was reborn as a little girl. She has blonde hair, blue eyes, and nearly transparent white skin, and she flies through the air and mercilessly strikes down her opponents. She speaks with a young girl's lisp and commands the army. Tanya prioritizes optimization and career advancement above all, and she will become the most dangerous entity among the Imperial Army's sorcerers.

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* Crunchyroll (worldwide except Asia)
* FUNimation (Dub for US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

**Star Wars: The Last Jedi**

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Directed by: Rian Johnson

Written by: Rian Johnson, based on characters created by George Lucas

Produced by: Lucasfilm, Ram Bergman Productions, Walt Disney Pictures

Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Laura Dern

*Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order.*
Saga, Vol. 7

From the worldwide bestselling team of FIONA STAPLES and BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, “The War for Phang” is an epic, self-contained SAGA event! Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience.

Collects issues 37 through 42.
Sword and Laser

## Sword and Laser Podcast

Hosted by Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont

Sword and Laser is a book club podcast that covers one book a month, generally alternating between Fantasy (Sword) and SF (Laser) selections, along with general discussions of SF & Fantasy. It's web site is http://swordandlaser.com/

Books covered in 2017 were:
A Face Like Glass

In the underground city of Caverna, the world’s most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare—wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as she slits your throat. On the surface, the people of Caverna seem ordinary, except for one thing: Their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to express (or fake) joy, despair, or fear—at a steep price. Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. Neverfell’s expressions are as varied and dynamic as those of the most skilled Facesmiths, except hers are entirely genuine. And that makes her very dangerous indeed.
Paper Girls, Vol. 3

The multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning series from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, as newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac, and Tiffany finally reunite with their long-lost friend KJ in an unexpected new era, where the girls must uncover the secret origins of time travel…or risk never returning home to 1988. Collects PAPER GIRLS #11-15
Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.

This is the story of what happened first…

Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.

Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.

They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted.

They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and *choices*.
The Eccentric Family 2

Title: *The Eccentric Family 2*

Director: Masayuki Yoshihara

Series Composition (head writer): Ryō Higaki (based on a novel by Tomihiko Morimi)

Studio: P.A. Works

Released: April-June 2017

Summary (from Crunchyroll): Shimogamo Yasaburo has the blood of a mystical racoon-like creature - a tanuki - but has the ability to transform into a human. He lives a playful life in Kyoto, where humans, tanuki, and tengu live side-by-side. Yasaburo and his family finally come to terms with their father’s death, reconciling with human and tengu alike. However, the son of Yasaburo's teacher returns to the city after a century abroad, stirring up a world of trouble for everyone in Kyoto’s mystical underbelly.

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* Crunchyroll (worldwide except Asia, French-speaking, and German-speaking territories)
* ADN (France, DOM-TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco)
A Work of Art is a Refuge and Resistance

A Work of Art is a Refuge and Resistance by Dawn Xiana Moon

Published in Uncanny Magazine. Excerpt:

> When I was five, I moved countries for the first time.
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