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March 13, 2017
NEWS: COSMIC POWERS Advance Review Copy Giveaway on Goodreads (thru March 21)
We’re doing a Goodreads giveaway for my new anthology COSMIC POWERS! Enter for a chance to win an advance review copy ahead of publication.
February 8, 2017
NEWS: RETROGRADE by Peter Cawdron Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just acquired a new SF novel by Peter Cawdron. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:
Peter Cawdron’s RETROGRADE, about an international colony of astronauts on Mars, who have been prepared for every eventuality of living on another planet except one: What happens when disaster strikes Earth?, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Fall 2017 (World).
January 25, 2017
NEWS: Two Stories from WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? Make the Preliminary Stoker Awards Ballot
Two stories from my anthology What the #@&% is That? (co-edited with Douglas Cohen)—“Only Unclench Your Hand” by Isabel Yap and “The Bad Hour” by Christopher Golden—made the Preliminary Stoker Awards ballot for best Short Fiction. A huge congrats to them both for the honor! You can find the full slate of what made the preliminary ballot at horror.org. The final ballot will be announced February 23, and the the Stoker Awards themselves will be presented at StokerCon 2017, which is being held in Long Beach, CA, April 27-30.
To celebrate this fact, we’ve made both of the stories available for free to read online. Visit the anthology’s FREE READS page to see all of the material from the anthology we have available for free to read online.
January 23, 2017
NEWS: MACHINE LEARNING: NEW AND COLLECTED STORIES and SAND by Hugh Howey Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books* for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just acquired two new books by Hugh Howey. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:
NYT bestseller Hugh Howey’s MACHINE LEARNING: NEW AND COLLECTED STORIES, a short story collection including three stories set in the world of WOOL and two never-before-published tales, plus fifteen additional stories collected together for the first time, for publication in Fall 2017, and print rights to indie-published novel SAND, for publication in Spring 2017, to John Joseph Adams at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency (NA).
SAND is a reissue of one of Hugh’s indie-published novels; MACHINE LEARNING is an original, never-before-published book (Hugh’s first such book).
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* If you missed the news, here’s the Locus and PW reports on the launch of John Joseph Adams Books. Our first three books, Beacon 23, Shift, and Dust by Hugh Howey are out now. Otherwise, thus far I acquired two books in a new series by Carrie Vaughn, two books in a new series by Molly Tanzer, and two books by debut author Bryan Camp.
January 10, 2017
REVIEW: “Anthologies of such high quality are rare gems.” —New York Journal of Books, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?
“The wide range of styles, genres, and themes in What the #@&% Is That? make it perfect for finding a new favorite author or discovering upcoming voices in fiction. The three stories mentioned [in our review] are from three newer writers, yet they are some of the strongest and most original in the collection. Anthologies of such high quality are rare gems.” —New York Journal of Books, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? [review]
January 9, 2017
NEWS: Hugo Awards Nomination Period Now Open + Free Stuff for Worldcon Members
This year’s Hugo Awards nomination period is now open. The 2017 Hugo Awards will be presented in Helsinki, Finland during Worldcon 75 (Aug. 9-13, 2017). Nominations close on March 17, 2017 at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Anyone who is a voting member of the 2016, 2017, or 2018 Worldcons by January 31, 2017 is eligible to nominate. You may nominate only once, regardless of how many of those three Worldcons you are a member. [Become a member of Worldcon 75.]
Nominations may be submitted through the online ballot. If you’re registered (or once you register) Worldcon 75 will send you a link via email that will allow you to vote. (There’s no PIN system this year.)
To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2016. I’ve included the Destroy special issues here, though on those I was only publisher (not editor).
Most of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2016 is available online (and also much of the 2016 original fiction is available as a podcast).
Most of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2016 is available online (and also much of the 2016 original fiction is available as a podcast).
Selected stories from Fantasy’s POC Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue are available online.
Selected stories from What the #@&% is That? are available online.
Selected stories from Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 are available online.
If you are planning and eligible to vote for the Hugos this year, if you email me proof of your Worldcon membership (i.e., your name is listed on the Worldcon website as an attending member, or the email confirmation or receipt you received when you purchased your membership, etc.) I would be happy to make some additional 2016 material I edited available to you in digital format.
After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2016 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with. Everything is sorted into their proper Hugo categories. In the interest of clarity (and to avoid the confusion that perhaps I’ve left something off the list by accident), I’ve listed some items that are ineligible and have them struckthrough to indicate their ineligibility.
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Novellas, Novelettes, & Short Stories
To aid you in sorting through the voting categories, I’ve color-coded the stories in the following spreadsheets (Novelette: blue | Short Story: black). They’re also all sorted by word count, longest to shortest.
Editor, Short-Form
John Joseph Adams ( Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 , What the #@&% is That? , Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine)
Nalo Hopkinson (Lightspeed‘s POC Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue)
Kristine Ong Muslim (Lightspeed‘s POC Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue)*
Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Nightmare‘s POC Destroy Horror! Special Issue)
Daniel José Older (Fantasy‘s POC Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue)
Karen Joy Fowler (co-editor w/JJA: Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 )
Douglas Cohen (co-editor w/JJA: What the #@&% is That? )
* Not eligible due to not meeting the minimum lifetime requirement of having edited at least four magazine issues, anthologies, or collections.
Editor, Long-Form
John Joseph Adams, John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)*
*I’m not eligible in this category yet; I will be in 2018.
Professional Artist
Mike Mignola, What the #@&% is That?
Galen Dara, Lightspeed covers: [1] [2]
Reiko Murikami, Lightspeed covers: [1][2][3]; Nightmare covers: [1]
Elizabeth Leggett, Lightspeed covers: [1][2]
Christopher Park, Lightspeed covers: [1][2]
Sam Schechter, Lightspeed covers: [1][2]
Goñi Montes, Lightspeed covers: [1]
Victoria Ying—A Good Home by Karin Lowachee
Alan Bao—Salto Mortal by Nick T. Chan
Pugletto—Fifty Shades of Grays by Steven Barnes
Sonia Liao—Wilson’s Singularity by Terence Taylor
Melanie Ujimori—The Red Thread by Sofia Samatar
Odera Igbokwe—Double Time by John Chu
Tanna Tucker—Hiranyagarbha by Kevin Jared Hosein
Emily Osborne—Fantasy cover: [1]; Black, Their Regalia by Darcie Little Badger
Reimena Yee—The Things My Mother Left Me by P. Djèlí Clark
Ana Bracic—gezhizhwazh by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Kimberly Wengerd—A Diet of Worms by Valerie Valdes
Maggie Chiang—Wish You Were Here by Nadia Bulkin
Saïna Six—Cruel Sistah by Nisi Shawl
Semiprozine
Lightspeed Magazine *
Nightmare Magazine *
* Now considered “professional” by Hugo rules; no longer eligible in the semiprozine category.
Best Related Work
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (Season Seven), hosted by David Barr Kirtley, produced by John Joseph Adams (Season Seven, consisting of episodes 183-236, released in 2016) [Episode List] [iTunes]
People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Manifesto by Nalo Hopkinson, Kristine Ong Muslim, Nisi Shawl, Grace L. Dillon, and Sunil Patel, or any of the other individual nonfiction articles or essays published in any of the 2016 POC Destroy special issues. A complete list of these can be found at the following links: [PDSF] [PDH] [PDF].
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (1st Year Eligibility)**
Brian K. Hudson
Dayo Ntwari
Ishi Karki
Kevin Jared Hosein
Matthew Bailey
Teresa Naval
Tristina Wright
Gavin Pate
Rose Hartley
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2nd Year Eligibility)**
Taiyo Fujii
Felicia Davin
Joseph Allen Hill
Jessica Yang
Sequoia Nagamatsu
Kate Galey
Emil Ostrovski
Stephen Cox
Charles Payseur
Gabby Reed
Eliza Gauger
Gabrielle Friesen
S.R. Mastrantone
Nicole Feldringer
Chris Kluwe
Gabriela Santiago
Jilly Dreadful
Naru Dames Sundar
Nin Harris
Valerie Valdes
** Note: For Campbell Eligibility, I did some research to try to verify that these folks were all eligible, but I can’t be 100% sure; if anyone knows that any of these folks are NOT eligible, please let me know. (Likewise please let me know if I missed including anyone eligible that I published on this list.)
December 21, 2016
REVIEW: “An impressive and intriguing array of twenty authors [who] are some of the most talented, versatile and imaginative practitioners of sf/f/h today.” —Intergalactic Medicine Show, on BASFF 2016
“An impressive and intriguing array of twenty authors [who] are some of the most talented, versatile and imaginative practitioners of sf/f/h today.” —Intergalactic Medicine Show, on BASFF 2016 [review]
REVIEW: “Brings a unique, refreshing perspective to this curated collection of the year’s best sci-fi and fantasy short stories [that] offer[s] up some of modern genre’s best writing and most intriguing ideas.” —Barnes & Noble, on BASFF 2016; Editor’s Pick
“Brings a unique, refreshing perspective to this curated collection of the year’s best sci-fi and fantasy short stories [that] offer[s] up some of modern genre’s best writing and most intriguing ideas.” —Barnes & Noble, Editor’s Pick as one of The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Collections and Anthologies of 2016 [review]
REVIEW: “Old and new favorites trying to break new and bizarre ground here, making it an incredibly enjoyable read from the dedication page (“For Cthulhu…”) on.” —Barnes & Noble, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT; Editor’s Pick as one of The Best Science Fiction &
“Old and new favorites trying to break new and bizarre ground here, making it an incredibly enjoyable read from the dedication page (“For Cthulhu…”) on.” —Barnes & Noble, on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT; Editor’s Pick as one of The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Collections and Anthologies of 2016 [review]
December 19, 2016
REVIEW: “If you derive any sort of pleasure from the grotesque, the fanciful, the freakish and unnatural, buy this book.” —IGMS on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT?
“If you derive any sort of pleasure from the grotesque, the fanciful, the freakish and unnatural, buy this book.” —IGMS on WHAT THE #@&% IS THAT? [review]
