We are kicking off the 2026 #LocusAwards with our annual virtual readings series! We'll host #CarrieVaughn & #TeresePierre reading on Thurs May 28 from 6-7PM PDT

You can buy virtual tickets, or hybrid tickets that grant you virtual AND in-person access!
locusmag.com/awards26

We are kicking off the 2026 #LocusAwards with our annual virtual readings series! We'll host #CarrieVaughn & #TeresePierre reading on Thurs May 28 from 6-7PM PDT

You can buy virtual tickets, or hybrid tickets that grant you virtual AND in-person access!
locusmag.com/awards26

We are kicking off the 2026 #LocusAwards with our annual virtual readings series! We'll host #CarrieVaughn & #TeresePierre reading on Thurs May 28 from 6-7PM PDT

You can buy virtual tickets, or hybrid tickets that grant you virtual AND in-person access!
locusmag.com/awards26

As a mail subscriber to #AsimovsScienceFiction magazine, I get a vote in their 2025 reader's awards. It was fun to go back and re-read my favourite stories for the year to decide my rankings:

Best Novella:
1. Quantum Ghosts, #NancyKress
2. The Chronolithographer's Assistant, #SuzannePalmer
3. Spare Parts for the Mind, #GregEgan

Best Novelette:
1. Most Things, #RichLarson
2. On the Night Shift, #ZoharJacobs
3. The Fight Goes On, #HarryTurtledove

Best Short Story:
1. Catch a Tiger in the Snow, #RayNayler
2. Lolo's Last Run, #EMKerkman
3. Woolly, #CarrieVaughn

Best Poem:
1. I Try to Explain the Concept of Teeth to My Alien Roommate, #RachelLinton

Best Cover:
1. July/August, #MaurizioManzieri (attached image)

- My subscription started after the Jan/Feb issue, so that got snubbed.
- For all that print #SciFi magazines are now extremely marginal commercially and culturally, this one at least still attracts some pretty great material (mixed in, admittedly, with some so-so stuff) including by veteran greats of the genre - Kress and Turtledove are still producing amazing work in their mid-late 70s!
- I found the Novella section hardest to trim down to 3, with narrow cuts for stories by T.R. Napper, Ted Kosmatka, and John Kessel.
- It was a great year for pets in SF stories, or maybe as a dog- and cat-lover I'm just sucker for them. I found a place in my heart for Lolo, Magritte, Goobler the miniature woolly mammoth, Sponge, and of course, the tiger in the snow!

Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 12 copies of Carrie Vaughn's Discord's Apple, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lusnls6nvc23

#KindleBookGiveaway #CarrieVaughn #DiscordsApple

A beautiful story by Carrie Vaughn.

Between Above and Below - Lightspeed Magazine

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/between-above-and-below/

> Next war, the angel decided, he was going to sit out. Before the dust settled, before hosts rose and fell depending on their actions and inclinations, he fled. Cowardice, maybe. More like pragmatism, he rationalized.

#carrievaughn

📚 Clarkesworld Issue 213 edited by Neil Clarke: Favorites this month from S.B. Divya, Carrie Vaughn, and Luc Diamant. …

Read the rest: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2024/06/05/%f0%9f%93%9a-clarkesworld-issue-213-edited-by-neil-clarke/ (#CarrieVaughn #Clarkesworld #LucDiamant #NeilClarke #SBDivya)