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This year's Hugo Award winners are in:
Best Novel: The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey)
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Best Novel: Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW)
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The Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2024 goes to The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to fall in love with a 19th-century polar explorer, author Kaliane Bradley has the book for you. The Ministry of Time is a delightfully playful twist on the time-travel romance, with elements of workplace comedy, roommate drama, espionage, and temporal physics. Stay tuned: It's also Bradley's debut novel.
This year's Hugo Award winners are in:
Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tor)
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Best Novel: The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
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The Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2023 goes to In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune.
With its skillful mix of fantasy and science fiction elements, T.J. Klune's innovative novel brings the core concepts of the Pinocchio legend into the notional environs of the 21st century and beyond. Androids! Anxieties! Found families! Klune has an intuitive feel for this kind of modern mythmaking, bringing contemporary resonance to this classic tale.
This year's Hugo Award winners are in:
Best Novel: Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher (Tor)
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Best Novel: Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager)
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The Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2022 goes to Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.
A literary science fiction achievement exploring themes of time travel, lunar colonization, and early 1900s Vancouver Island. Mandel's accomplishment demonstrates her skill in mapping new territories in 21st-century speculative fiction, building on her previous acclaimed novel Station Eleven.
This year's Hugo Award winners are in:
Best Novel: A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor)
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Saloa by Toby Weston returns to the universe of Singularity's Children, set a century further into the future. When Koro warrior Leimeie receives a message from her long-dead husband, she and her aspirant must break with their Klan to embark on an 11-billion-kilometre rescue mission. The journey from the Second Belt through the Golden Lands to ancient, decadent Earth is an odyssey where human nature proves the most perilous enemy. Universe-building comparable to Banks' Culture series, with not a word wasted.
This year's Nebula Award winners are in:
Best Novel: A Master of Djinn, P. Djeli Clark (Tor.com Publishing)
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This year's Hugo Award winners are in:
Best Novel: Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
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The Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2021 goes to Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
Engineer-turned-novelist Andy Weir is on a crazy run. Best career switch ever? Project Hail Mary, concerning a resourceful astronaut and an extinction-level event, is Weir's third nomination and his third win. As with his previous books The Martian and Artemis, Project Hail Mary is further evidence that old-school hard science fiction is back. Quantum physics! Chemistry! Exobiology! Aerodynamics! It actually is rocket science.
Hi guys, this is JC, one of the guys here at Lobsterbooks, and today I’m going to talk to you about SpaceX.
I’m not the most knowledgeable when it comes to science, but this has never stopped me from dreaming of the future. It does mean I’m not someone who has a formal background or a deep understanding of the science behind some of those far-out sci-fi ideas. I figure there must be others out there in the same boat. In this series, I plan to expand my knowledge and I’d be happy if you’d want to come along for the ride!
This week: What’s the Big Deal with the SpaceX Starship?
JC here from Lobster Books. Join me on a new adventure...
I’m not the most knowledgeable when it comes to science, but this has never stopped me from dreaming of the future. It does mean I’m not someone who has a formal background or a deep understanding of the science behind some of those far-out sci-fi ideas.
I figure there must be others out there in the same boat.
In this series of short articles, I plan to expand my knowledge and I’d be very happy if you’d want to come along for the ride!
This year's Nebula Award winners are in:
Best Novel: Network Effect, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
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The Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2020 goes to To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini.
Author Christopher Paolini earns his first Goodreads Choice Award with this sustained gaze into the future of humankind. While scouting an as-yet-uncolonized planet, scientist Kira Navarrez discovers an alien relic that will change the fate of Earth and its colonies. A resounding critical and commercial success, Paolini's innovative story brings delightful new twists to the venerable first contact sci-fi template.
ReImagination by Toby Weston brings the Singularity's Children series to its epic conclusion. The 21st century is reaching middle age. Installations orbit the Earth and synthetic intelligences rule the digital. The Thalassocracy of New Atlantis lies shattered, reeling from multiple atomic strikes. A gripping thriller that ties up loose ends while asking the biggest question of all: can a vision for a better world survive contact with human nature?
This year's Hugo Award winners are in:
Best Novel: A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)
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This year's Nebula Award winners are in:
Best Novel: A Song for a New Day, Sarah Pinsker (Berkley)
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The Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2019 goes to Recursion by Blake Crouch.
An inventive story exploring technology, time travel, and memory. The narrative incorporates research-based science and presents an oddly compelling explanation for that phenomenon we call deja vu.
This year's Hugo Award winners are in:
Best Novel: The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
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The Goodreads Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction 2018 goes to Vengeful by V.E. Schwab.
The celebrated author achieved her inaugural victory in this category with the second installment of her Villains series, which explores the dark narrative of would-be superheroes transfixed by dangerous experiments and the advantages of post-death life.
Conflict by Toby Weston is the third instalment of the Singularity's Children series, and the stakes have never been higher. Cold wars are growing hot as governments lash out at what they don't understand. The fast-paced action ricochets between neon-stained riots of urban flesh and idyllic tropical islands where humans and their BugNet companions have built a pan-species utopia. Positioned between Stephen Baxter's dystopia and Iain M. Banks' Culture series, this is science fiction at its most ambitious.
Disruption by Toby Weston takes the Singularity's Children series deeper into an action-packed world of haves and have-nots. A vivid alternate future filled with Buddhist commandos, stolen Femto-tech, AI Sages, and Quantum Consciousness. Winner of a 2018 Readers' Favorite Honorable Mention in Science Fiction, this is a sequel that expands the world in every direction while keeping the human story front and centre.
Denial by Toby Weston launches the Singularity's Children series with a vision of the near future that feels uncomfortably plausible. In a world where debt, conflict, and inequality are pushing civilisation toward collapse, Weston weaves together multiple storylines that take the reader from a post-internet, post-collapse world deep into a wildly post-human future. Intelligent, challenging, and compellingly hard to put down.
