Eugen Bacon's Blog, page 6
March 18, 2022
Danged Black Thing – Australian Shadows Awards Finalist!
The shortlist of the Australian Shadows Awards is out, and I am thrilled to see my black collection Danged Black Thing by Transit Lounge Publishing is on it. Congratulations to all finalists!
Playlist for Mage of Fools!
What do Ed Sheeran, Sona Jobarteh, Lil Nas X, Whitney Houston, ABBA and ItsYaba have in common? The playlist for my Afrofuturistic dystopian novel, Mage of Fools. Find out more on Largehearted Boy.
Mage of Fools – Playlist on Largehearted Boy
March 14, 2022
March 1, 2022
Tor.com weighs in on Mage of Fools
“Dystopian states can abound with magic just as easily as they can with science. In Eugen Bacon’s novel Mage of Fools, a dictator has made use of uncanny abilities to devastate the environment. The novel’s protagonist must find a way to end their reign using suppressed literature and the possibility of a better life for all. (March 15, 2022; Meerkat Press)”
February 28, 2022
Danged Black Thing, Saving Shadows – BSFA Finalists!
I’d like to thank the British Science Fiction Association and its voting members for shortlisting in the #BSFAAwards2022 my books Danged Black Thing (Best Art: Kara Walker and Peter Lo) – Transit Lounge Publishing and Saving Shadows (Best Art: beautifully illustrated by Elena Betti) – NewCon Press. Congratulations to Luna Press Publishing, and all fellow contributors, for Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, in which my essay (‘Worldbuilding in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi’) is published. Congratulations to Maria Spada, the cover artist ofThe Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, in which I have a story (‘Baba Klep’), and to the editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, together with all fellow contributors of this wonderful anthology. I am honoured to stand alongside friends and peers in the #BSFAAwards2022 shortlist.
February 15, 2022
2022 Otherwise Honor List
Congratulations to the 2022 Otherwise Fellows and honorees. So grateful to make the honor list for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. The Otherwise Award encourages the promotion and expansion of gender.
January 25, 2022
RecordedBooks acquires audio rights for Mage of Fools!
“Gorgeously told . . . Through poetic, fast-paced narration, Bacon draws readers into her dangerous and exciting world to showcase the power of stories, art, and individualism.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
January 21, 2022
BSFA Awards Longlist: Saving Shadows, Danged Black Thing, ‘Failing Name!’
Congratulations to fellow nominees on the 2021 British Science Fiction Awards longlist. Stoked to see more works by people of colour. Grateful to see my collections Danged Black Thing (cover art), Saving Shadows (cover art), and ‘‘ (short fiction with Seb Doubinsky). Full BSFA Awards longlist.
January 18, 2022
Locus Magazine – Eugen Bacon: Agent of Change
“If I started then, those years back, writing my kind of stories now, I probably would not have been as widely published, because my stories are quite bold. I write for myself first – it’s that curiosity, that exploration – and maybe publishers and editors might have been nervous about those stories. But now, because I’m already widely published and people have seen my range of writing, they’re more open to giving a different kind of story a go. Also now, with Black Lives Matter, there’s a certain appetite opening – we’re not quite there yet, but there’s an appetite for more Black stories, and that is encouraging.” Read interview on Locus Magazine
January 10, 2022
Cover reveal! An Earnest Blackness
Critical perspectives on blackness, Afrofuturism, colonialism, historicity, and (mis)recognition… exploring the untapped possibilities of speculative fiction.
