DANGED BLACK THING, Otherwise Honor List!

My collection Danged Black Thing by Transit Lounge Publishing has made the honor list of the 2021 Otherwise Award – one of the biggest globally recognised genre awards.

This little stunner also made Honorable Mention, Foreword Indies Awards, Finalist Aurealis Award, Finalist Australian Shadows Awards, Finalist British Science Fiction Association Awards. This is what the Otherwise judges had to say:

Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon

This sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work takes the reader to near-future dystopic states where the body and tech and magic are all intertwined, twisted, and pulled from the earth. Myths are born and undone from the quotidian and later broken down through a candid and unafraid voice. —Ana Hurtado

Congratulations to the joint winners Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki and Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon, and the extraordinary list of nine works:

•    A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus
•    Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
•    The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
•    Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
•    Deep and Darkest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
•    Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
•    She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
•    The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum
•    Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Danged Black Thing has a US release by Apex Book Company this 2023.