Day: October 16, 2013

Karin Tidbeck’s “August Prima” online

Lightspeed Magazine has published “August Prima”, the short story which won an Honorable Mention in the short form at the 2013 SF&F Translation Awards online for free. You can find it here. Karin Tidbeck, the Swedish author who wrote it, is also featured in the magazine’s Author Spotlight. GO read that and then the rest […]

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Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker prize, awarded for fiction in English, was won yesterday by the Canadian born New Zealand author, Eleanor Catton, for her novel The Luminaries. It has nothing to do with science fiction, but has found its way to my blog nonetheless. For three reasons: New Zealand was one of the countries I visited […]

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