The Adelaide Fan Review

The winners of the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction have been announced.

Novel

• WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga Press)
• The Daughters of Block Island, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Every Version Ends in Death, Aliya Chaudhry (Haunt)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• The Militia House, John Milas (Henry Holt & Company)
• Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt (Nightfire)

Novella

• WINNER: To the Woman in the Pink Hat, LaToya Jordan (Aqueduct)
• Broken Paradise, Eugen Bacon (Luna Press Publishing)
• Getting by in Tligolian, Roppotucha Greenberg (Arachne)
• The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire)
• Sleep Alone, J.A.W. McCarthy (Off Limits)
• Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris (Stelliform)

See Locus magazine for the full list of awards

From reactormag: Previously, in Doctor Who news, it was announced that current companion Ruby Sunday would have only one season of adventures in the TARDIS before being replaced by a new, unnamed companion played by Varada Sethu (Andor). Radio Times noted, at the time, that Gibson would still be on the show, but in a smaller role.

That’s not quite the case. Sethu is joining the show as the Doctor’s second companion, with Gibson also staying on board. There’s even a cute picture of the whole season-two gang, looking very happy and like they might invite you over for drinks if they like your vibe.

We invite people to read the nominees for short stories and novelettes and discuss which is best, and which is likely to win a Hugo.

Note: many of these were published in online magazines, and are still available for reading on the web

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Yes, an interesting new animated series. From the minds of executive producers J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Matt Reeves (The Batman), and Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series) comes a brand new animated series for the Dark Knight and releasing on Prime Video this summer with Batman: Caped Crusader.

There’s a new series of Orphan Black, set 25 years after the original. The new series Orphan Black: Echoes stars Krysten Ritter as Lucy.
The episode begins with Lucy, disoriented as she wakes up to talk to a scientist played by Keeley Hawes. She can’t remember anything and eventually escapes the room, finding a lab with computer-printed body parts. “You were created. You were printed from a high-resolution scan using a very complex process,” Hawes’ scientist tells her. “It’s a new technology. It’s the fourth-dimensional printing of human tissue.”
Lucy escapes, and seems to have found a new life two years later. Unfortunately, she is found by the scientist, who apparently has links to the clones in Orphan Black.

The series is off to a good start.

List of all winners at https://locusmag.com/2024/05/2023-aurealis-award-winners/
The winners of the 2023 Aurealis Awards, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, have been announced.

Best Science Fiction Novel

• WINNER: Time of the Cat, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)

• Minds of Sand and Light, Kylie Chan (HarperCollins)
• The Comforting Weight of Water, Roanna McClelland (Wakefield)
• Aliens: Bishop, T.R. Napper (Titan)
• Dronikus, Marko Newman (AndAlso)
• Traitor’s Run, Keith Stevenson (coeur de lion)

Best Fantasy Novel

• WINNER: The Will of the Many, James Islington (Text)

• Shadow Baron, Davinia Evans (Orbit / Hachette)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)
• Of Knives and Night-blooms, Tansy Rayner Roberts (self-published)
• The Blood-Born Dragon, J.C. Rycroft (BattleWarrior)
• How to be Remembered, Michael Thompson (Allen & Unwin)