Eugen Bacon's Blog, page 3
February 17, 2024
February 9, 2024
Danged! 2024 Philip K Dick Award Nominee!
Oh. Wow. Danged Black Thing by Apex Book Company has made the final ballot of the 2024 Philip K Dick Award!
December 18, 2023
SERENGOTTI! Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – FICTION shortlist!
Superbly inventive and original, Serengotti is a shimmering, screeching ride from the very opening pages. The confidence and raw energy of the narration makes this an addictive read as it hurtles through one day in the life of Ch’anzu where everything falls apart and catalyses hir move to an African diasporic community set in rural Australia. Nothing is safe or predictable, in this uniquely imaginative, gutsy story of haunting, displacement and simmering violence. This novel brims with the joy of playing with language and storytelling itself, even as it delves deep into traumatic legacies, love, family and the art of survival. —judges’ report, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Available Now! Texture of Silence – Illustrated prose poetry
An ardent and confronting illustrated collection of prose poetry in a call and response from the collaborating author and artist. Darkly beautiful and subversive text that works for and against itself in rich tellings and artworks of othering, climate change, mis/identity, loss, belonging, migration, hybridity, ancestry, clairvoyance, futurism, consternation and hope.
Texture of Silence broadcasts the vision of master conjurers who see through walls of time and language, dismantling as they do assumed realities. —Dominique Hecq, award-winning poet
November 27, 2023
Bloomsbury Academic acquires Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction!
Thrilled to announce that Bloomsbury Academic has acquired Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, edited by Eugen Bacon, with an introduction by award-winning author Suyi Okungbowa. Acquired by Amy Martin, Literary Studies, Bloomsbury Academic. Sold by Jennie Goloboy, Donald Maass Literary Agency.
The vibrant and approachable book is part of the Black Literary and Cultural Expressions, and engages with difference—featuring stimulating chapters by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Cheryl S. Ntumy, Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Nerine Dorman, Nuzo Onoh, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Stephen Embleton, Suyi Okungbowa, Tobi Ogundiran and Xan van Rooyen.
The book contributes to knowledge by negotiating genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice by Afrodecendant peoples.
Also by Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD: Writing Speculative Fiction
October 30, 2023
Exclusive Interview: “Secondhand Daylight” Authors Eugen Bacon & Andrew Hook
Read the interview“Early one morning I was cycling along Marriott’s Way where I live in Norwich, UK, which is a cycleway that follows the path of a disused railway line. It’s very leafy and tree-lined, and the sunlight channeled through the trees to the extent that it both illuminated but also obliterated the surroundings…” Read more
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October 26, 2023
Happy Release Day! Secondhand Daylight. Available Now!
For all the time travel shenanigans, the story is deceptively clean and simple, brimming with both nostalgia and heart. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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Secondhand Daylight is a thrilling science fiction novel about the serendipity of being in the right place at the right time. FOREWORD REVIEWS
October 3, 2023
Short story in Shirley Jackson Award finalist anthology
Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
– includes my World Fantasy Finalist story ‘The Devil Don’t Come With Horns’.
September 1, 2023
Foreword Book of the Year – winner! MAGE OF FOOLS
Mage of Fools, an Afrofuturistic dystopian novel by Meerkat Press, is a silver winner (science fiction) in the Foreword Book of the Year awards!
May 30, 2023
Ltd edition signed hard case novella bundle – sale!
A bundle of four signed limited edition hardbacks consisting of four standalone novellas by four outstanding authors. Includes Ivory’s Story (shortlisted for a BSFA Award). In the streets of modern day Sydney a killer stalks the night, slaughtering innocents, leaving bodies mutilated. A black woman detective out to stop the killings and save the life of the man she loves. She must first reach deep into her past, uncover secrets of her heritage, break a demon’s curse, and unify two worlds.Order Ivory’s Story novella bundle
