Finalistas premios Theodore Sturgeon

Se han dado a conocer los finalistas de los premios Theodore Sturgeon, a la mejor ficción corta del año. Aquí os los traigo con sus correspondientes enlaces en caso de estar disponibles online.

“And You Shall Know Her By The Trail Of Dead,” Brooke Bolander. Lightspeed, Feb 2015.

“The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred,” Greg Egan. Asimov’s, Dec 2015.

“The New Mother,” Eugene Fischer. Asimov’s, Apr/May 2015.

“Folding Beijing,” Hao Jingfang, traducido por Ken Liu. Uncanny Magazine, Jan/Feb 2015.

“Emergence,” Gwyneth Jones. Meeting Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan. Solaris.

“Damage,” David D. Levine. Tor.com, 21 Jan 2015.

“The Game of Smash and Recovery,” Kelly Link. Strange Horizons, 17 Oct 2015.

“Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan,” Ian McDonald. Old Venus, eds. G.R.R.Martin y Gardner Dozois. Bantam Books.

“Our Lady of the Open Road,” Sarah Pinsker. Asimov’s, Jun 2015.

“The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill,” Kelly Robson. Clarkesworld, Feb 2015.

“Gypsy,” Carter Scholz. Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015.

“Avery Cates: The Walled City,” Jeff Somers. Kindle edition, Jun 2015

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!

Adaptación de Daryl Gregory para la televisión

La nueva novela de Daryl Gregory, titulada Spoonbenders, contará con una adaptación televisiva.

De la obra se dice:

Spoonbenders is the story of the Amazing Telemachus Family, who became famous for their magic and mind-reading act before the magic disappeared one night on live TV. Years later, Matty, the grandson of patriarch Teddy Telemachus, rediscovers a little of the magic and then must stay one step ahead of the CIA, the Mafia and the magic debunker out to show they are frauds. The manuscript is said to evoke the work of Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem.

Aunque todavía es pronto para hacer comentarios, me alegro un montón por Daryl, que no puede ser más majo.

Contenidos de The best science fiction and fantasy of the year Vol. 10

Jonathan Strahan ha dado a conocer los relatos que comprondrán su antología The best science fiction and fantasy of the year Vol. 10. Pronto os podré ofrecer mi opinión sobre ella.

Aquí están los relatos (en orden alfabético):

“City of Ash”, Paolo Bacigalupi
“The Heart’s Filthy Lesson”, Elizabeth Bear
“The Machine Starts”, Greg Bear
“The Winter Wraith”, Jeffrey Ford
“Black Dog”, Neil Gaiman
“Jamaica Ginger”, Nalo Hopkinson & Nisi Shawl
“Drones”, Simon Ings
“Emergence”, Gwyneth Jones
“Dancy vs. the Pterosaur”, Caitlin R. Kiernan
“Another Word for World”, Anne Leckie
“The Game of Smash and Recovery”, Kelly Link
“The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn”, Usman T. Mailk
“Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan”, Ian McDonald
“Little Sisters”, Vonda McIntyre
“Calved”, Sam J. Miller
“Ghosts of Home”, Sam J. Miller
“The Deepwater Bride”, Tamsyn Muir
“The Empress in Her Glory”, Robert Reed
“A Murmuration”, Alastair Reynolds
“Oral Argument”, Kim Stanley Robinson
“Water of Versailles”, Kelly Robson
“Capitalism in the 22nd Century”, Geoff Ryman
“The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club”, Nike Sulway
“The Lily and the Horn”, Catherynne Valente
“Blood, Ash, Braids”, Genevieve Valentine
“Kaiju maximus®: ‘So Various, So Beautiful, So New’”, Kai Ashante Wilson
“Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, Alyssa Wong

Portada de Slipping

Me he llevado una grata sorpresa al enterarme de que en agosto se publicará Slipping, una colección de relatos de Lauren Beukes.

Aquí os traigo la sinopsis y la portada:

In her edgy, satiric debut collection, award-winning South African journalist and author Lauren Beukes (The Shining Girls, Moxyland) never holds back. Nothing is simple and everything is perilous when humans are involved: greed, corruption, struggle, and even love (of a sort).

A permanent corporate branding gives a young woman enhanced physical abilities and a nearly-constant high

Recruits lifted out of poverty find a far worse fate collecting biohazardous plants on an inhospitable world

The only adult survivor of the apocalypse decides he will be the savior of teenagers; the teenagers are not amused.

slipping

Se anuncia Spoils of War

Adrian Tchaikovsky ha anunciado la publicación de Spoils of War, una colección de relatos situados en el universo de su serie Tales of the AptShadows of the Apt (gracias a @mertonio por el aviso). Se trata de una recopilación de historias ya publicadas y algunas nuevas.

Estos son los contenidos:

To Own the Sky
Ironclads
Spoils of War
Camouflage
The Shadows of Their Lamps
The Dreams of Avaris
The Prince
Shadow Hunters
Sword and Circle
Idle Hands
An Old Man in a Harsh Season
Brass Mantis

Premios Mythopoeic 2016

Ya se han dado a conocer los nominados de los premios Mythopoeic de este año. Son los siguientes:

Premio Mythopoeic Fantasía para literatura adulta

Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest (Little, Brown)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant (Knopf)
E.K. Johnston, A Thousand Nights (Disney-Hyperion)
Naomi Novik, Uprooted (Del Rey)
Daniel José Older, Shadowshaper (Arthur A. Levine Books)

Premio Mythopoeic Fantasía para literatura infantil

Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus (Dial)
Robert Beatty, Serafina and The Black Cloak (Disney-Hyperion)
Sarah Beth Durst, The Girl Who Could Not Dream (Clarion Books)
Terry Pratchett, Tiffany Aching Series: Wee Free Men; Hat Full of Sky; Wintersmith; I Shall Wear Midnight; The Shepherd’s Crown (HarperCollins)
Ursula Vernon, Castle Hangnail (Dial Books)

Premio Mythopoeic Scholarship en Inklings Studies

Verlyn Flieger, ed. The Story of Kullervo de J.R.R. Tolkien (HarperCollins, 2015)
Grevel Lindop , Charles Williams: The Third Inkling (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
Alistair E. McGrath, C. S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Tyndale House, 2013)
Abigail Santamaria, Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)
Christopher Tolkien, ed., Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together with Sellic Spell by J.R.R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, 2014)

Premio Mythopoeic Scholarship en estudios de mitos y fantasía

Stefan Ekman, Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings (Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2013)
Daniel Gabelman, George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity (Baylor University Press, 2013)
Melanie Keene, Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain (Oxford Univ., Press, 2015)
Heather O’Donoghue, English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History (Oxford Univ. Press, 2014)
Jamie Williamson, The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!

Dangerous Vision en Radio 4

Me encuentro en ScifiBulletin una noticia interesante. Radio 4 emitirá audiodramas con tramas mezclando clásicos de la ciencia ficción y novedades.

Algunos de los actores que trabajarán en estas producciones son Tim McInnerny (Blackadder), Tamsin Greig (Green Wing), Anton Lesser (Game of Thrones) y Catrin Stewart (Doctor Who, Misfits).

La primera entrega fue el 22 de mayo con una versión de Un mundo feliz, adaptado por Jonathan Holloway, y dirigido por David Hunter.

Este es el acceso directo a Radio 4.