The Shortlist for the 2026 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The shortlist for the 2026 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The awards will be presented as part of the 2026 Fantasycon, October 9-11 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Best Anthology

• Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, edited by J S Fields, William C Tracy, Heather Tracy (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
• Blood in the Bricks, edited by Neil Williamson, NewCon Press
• This Way Lies Madness, edited Dave Jeffery, Lee Murray, Flame Tree Press
• Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski (Bad Hand Books)

Best Artist

• Jenni Coutts
• Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
• Vincent Chong
• Ben Baldwin
• Kelly Chong

Best Audio (Fiction)

• The Shape of Monsters, CL Hellisen, Omari Douglas (Audible Originals)
• The Tiny Bookcase
• Podcastle
• Pseudopod

Best Audio (Non-Fiction)

• Breaking The Glass Slipper
• Fantasy Book Swap
• Uncanny
• The Folklore Podcast

Best Collection

• Dark Crescent, Lyndsey Croal (Luna Press)
• Call And Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock Press)
• Wolf’s Path, Joyce Chng (Atthis Arts)
• Who Will You Save, Gareth Powell (Titan Books)
• Into Wrack and Ruin, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth (Phantasmagoria Books)

Best Fantasy Novel (The Robert Holdstock Award)

• Daughters of Nicnevin, Shona Kinsella (Flame Tree Press)
• Magic, Maps, and Mischief, David Green (Independently Published)
• A Song of Legends Lost, M H Ayinde (Orbit)
• The Outcast Mage, Annabel Campbell (Orbit)
• Grave Empire, Richard Swan (Orbit)
• Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods (Titan Books)

Best Horror Novel (The August Derleth Award)

• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Tor Nightfire)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Titan Books)
• Hungerstone, Kat Dunn (Manilla Press)
• The Needfire, MK Hardy (Solaris)
• Lionhearts, Dan Howarth (Northern Republic Press)
• Black Flame, Gretchen Felker-Martin (Titan Books)

Best Independent Press

• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press
• Black Shuck Books
• Newcon Press

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Ginger Nuts of Horror
• Remains
• Phantasmagoria
• Strange Horizons
• Mythaxis Magazine

Best Newcomer

• M H Ayinde, A Song of Legends Lost (Orbit)
• Annabel Campbell, The Outcast Mage (Orbit)
• Ana Sun, Futures to Live By (NewCon Press)
• M K Hardy, The Needfire (Solaris)

Best Non-Fiction

• Writing The Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction, Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst (Dead Ink Books)
• Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other, Eugen Bacon (Strange Horizons)
• Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution, Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke (Routledge India)
• The Full Lid, Alasdair Stuart, edited by Marguerite Kenner
• Britain’s Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals, Mark Norman (National Trust Books)
• The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media: The Nature of Fantasy, Kevan Manwaring (Routledge)

Best Novella

• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Arcadia)
• Walking A Wounded Land, Andrew Knighton (Wizard’s Tower Press)
• Fate’s Bane, C L Clark (TorDotCom)
• The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabres Publishing)

Best Short Story

• “Godzilla As A Young Man Named Mike”, E M Faulds (Podcastle)
• “Shadow Jack”, C L Hellisen (Giganotosaurus)
• “No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be The End of Everything”, LJ McMenemy (Hiding Under the Leaves anthology, The Slab Press)
• “Down Street, James Bennett” (Blood in the Bricks anthology, NewCon Press)

Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation have announced the finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

The winners will be announced May 30, 2026, at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Berkeley, California.

Science Fiction Novels

• The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)
• Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor)
• When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)
• All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra)
• Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
• The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)

 

Fantasy Novels

• The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz)
• The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK)
• A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
• The Everlasting, Alix E Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)
• Hemlock & Silver, T Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK)
• Katabasis, RF Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK)
• The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor)

Horror Novels

• The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK)
• Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire)
• King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK)
• The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK)
• It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen)
• The Crimson Road, AG Slatter (Titan UK)
• The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

 

Young Adult Novels

• The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK) [SF]
• Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H]
• Costumes for Time Travelers, AR Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK) [F]
• The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK) [H]
• The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen) [H]
• Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House) [F]
• Sky on Fire, EK Johnston (Dutton) [F]
• Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) [SF]
• I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper) [F]
• They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H]

First Novels

• A Song of Legends Lost, MH Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) [F]
• Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It) [H]
• When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK) [H]
• Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK) [SF]
• Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie) [SF]
• Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK) [SF]
• North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object) [H]
• Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK) [F]
• Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) [SF]
• Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK) [F]

Translated Novel

• On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) [SF]
• The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H]
• The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H]
• Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF]
• The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H]
• Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF]
• Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F]
• Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK) [SF]
• Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail) [SF]
• The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK) [F]

Novellas

• The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)
• The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
• What Stalks the Deep, T Kingfisher (Nightfire)
• Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)
• Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
• Making History, KJ Parker (Tordotcom)
• Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)
• Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
• A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)

Novelettes

• “The Witch and the Wyrm,” Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
• “Barnacle,” Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25)
• “Uncertain Sons,” Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• “The Tin Man’s Ghost,” Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25)
• “The Millay Illusion,” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25)
• “When He Calls Your Name,” Catherynne M Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25)
• “The Twenty-One Second God,” Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25)
• “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon,” AC Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
• “Phantom View,” John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25)

Short Stories

• “Secret Night,” Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day)
• “In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
• “In My Country,” Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
• “Wire Mother,” Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25)
• “The Shape of Stones,” Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25)
• “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead,” Sam J Miller (Nightmare 10/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key,” Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Landline,” Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25)
• “Missing Helen,” Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25)
• “Woolly,” Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25)

Anthology

• The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America)
• Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
• Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)
• The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
• We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)
• Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)
• The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)

Collection

• Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
• Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)
• Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon)
• Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
• Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R Kiernan (Subterranean)
• The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A McKillip (Tachyon)
• One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
• The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
• Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)
• A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood)

Magazine

• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• Fiyah
• khōréō
• Lightspeed
• Reactor
• Strange Horizons
• Uncanny Magazine

Publisher

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Del Rey
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Orbit
• Pan Macmillan / Tor UK
• Saga
• Solaris
• Tachyon

Editor

• John Joseph Adams
• Scott H. Andrews
• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Dave Ring
• Jonathan Strahan
• Bogi Takács
• Wendy N Wagner
• Fran Wilde & Julian Yap
• Sheila Williams

Artist

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Galen Dara
• Bob Eggleton
• Kathleen Jennings
• Alan Lee
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

Illustrated and Art Books

• The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown)
• Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls)
• Starling House, Alix E.Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean)
• Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK)
• Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive)
• The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)
• Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle)
• Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (as Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US)
• Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts)
• Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press)

Non-Fiction

• The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM)
• Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD)
• Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene)
• Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton)
• Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E Butler, Susana M Morris (Amistad)
• Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press)
• Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay)
• Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
• Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon)
• Octavia E Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press)

Winners of the 53rd Annual Saturn Awards Announced

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films have announced the winners of the 53rd annual Saturn Awards. 

The Saturn Awards are dedicated to honouring the finest in genre entertainment in film, television and home entertainment.

The winners were revealed on March 8 2026.

Film

Best Science Fiction Film

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th Century Studios / Lightstorm)

Best Fantasy Film

• Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)

Best Horror Film

• Frankenstein (Netflix)

Best Cinematic Film Adaptation

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Marvel Studios / Walt Disney Studios)

Best Thriller Film

• Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Action / Adventure Film

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures)

Best Actor in a Film

• Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Best Actress in a Film

• Elle Fanning, Predator: Badlands

Best Supporting Actor in a Film

• Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein

Best Supporting Actress in a Film

• Sigourney Weaver, Dust Bunny

Best Younger Performer in a Film

• Jack Champion, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Film Direction

• James Cameron, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Film Screenwriting

• James Cameron, Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Visual / Special Effects

• Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Eric Saindon, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Film Music

• Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross), Tron: Ares

Best Film Production Design

• Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis, The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Best Film Make-Up

• Mike Hill, Megan Many, Frankenstein

Best Film Editing

• Michael P Shawyer, Sinners

Best Film Costume

• Kate Hawley, Frankenstein

Best Independent Film

• Dust Bunny (Roadside Attractions / Lionsgate)

Best International Film

• Sisu 2: Road to Revenge (Screen Gems / Sony Pictures)

Best Animated Film

• Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney Studios)

Best International Animated Film

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (Crunchyroll / Sony Pictures)

Television

Best Science Fiction Television Series

• Andor (Lucasfilm)

Best Fantasy Television Series

• Outlander (Starz / Sony Pictures Television)

Best Horror Television Series

• It: Welcome to Derry (HBO / Warner Bros. Television)

Best New Genre Television Series

• Pluribus (Sony Pictures Television / Apple)

Best Action /Adventure Television Series

• Duster (Bad Robot / Warner Bros. Television)

Best Thriller Television Series

• Dexter: Resurrection (Showtime / Paramount+)

Best Superhero Television Series

• Peacemaker (Warner Bros. Television / DC Studios)

Best Television Presentation or Limited Series

• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)

Best Animated Television Series or Event

• Predator: Killer of Killers (Hulu / 20th Century Studios)

Best Actor in a Television Series

• Diego Luna, Andor

Best Actress in a Television Series

• Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus

Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series

• Stellan Skarsgård, Andor

Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series

• Karolina Wydra, Pluribus

Best Guest Star in a Television Series

• Dave Dastmalchian, Dexter: Resurrection

Best Younger Performer in a Television Series

• Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Home Media

Best Classic Film Home Media Release

• Frailty (Lionsgate Home Video)

Best 4K Home Media Release

• Wicked (Universal)

Best Home Media Collection Release

• The Pink Panther Peter Sellers Comedy Collection (Kino Lorber)

Best Television Home Media Release

• Chucky: The Complete Series (Universal)

SPECIAL AWARDS

The Dr. Donald A Reed Founder's Award (in recognition of individuals who have made significant, pioneering contributions to genre entertainment:

• George Lucas

The Robert Forster Artists Award (in honour of an innovative trailblazer for their body of work and impact on the entertainment industry):

• Terry Matalas 

The George Pal Memorial Award (in recognition of its groundbreaking impact on sci-fi and fantasy):

• Aliens

The Saturn Hall Of Fame Award:

• Star Trek

The Spotlight Award:

• The Boys

The Visionary Award:

• Christopher McQuarrie

The Lance Reddick Legacy Award (celebrating performers who serve as true goodwill ambassadors in the industry):

• Titus Welliver 

Winners of the 2025 British Fantasy Awards announced

The winners of the 2025 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• Masquerade, OO Sangoyomi (Forge Books)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• My Darling Dreadful Thing, Johanna van Veen (Poisoned Pen Press)

Best Novella

• The Last to Drown, Lorraine Wilson (Luna Press)

Best Short Fiction

• Loneliness Universe, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny Magazine)

Best Collection

• Elephants in Bloom, Cecile Cristofari (Newcon Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• ParSec

Best Audio Work

• Breaking the Glass Slipper

Best Independent Press

• Flame Tree Press

Best Artist

• Kelly Chong

Best Anthology

• Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books)

Best Non-Fiction

• Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters, Sacha Coward (Unbound)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Frances White, for 'Voyage of the Damned' (Penguin Michael Joseph)

The Aldiss Award for endeavours in literature and gaming, specifically around world building

• Rogba Payne, for 'The Dance of Shadows'

Winners of the 2025 Locus Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation have announced the winners of the 2025 Locus Awards.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexander Boldizar (Clash) 

FANTASY NOVEL

• A Sorceress Comes to Call, T Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)

HORROR NOVEL

• Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire; Titan UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia UK)

NOVELLA

• What Feasts at Night, T Kingfisher (Nightfire)

NOVELETTE

• "By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars", Premee Mohamed (Strange Horizons 6/9/24)

SHORT STORY

• "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole", Isabel J Kim (Clarkesworld 2/24)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Black Girl Survives in This One, Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J Fennell, eds. (Flatiron)

COLLECTION

• Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

MAGAZINE

• Clarkesworld

PUBLISHER

• Subterranean Press

EDITOR

• Neil Clarke

ARTIST

• Charles Vess

NON-FICTION

• Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon, ed. (Bloomsbury Academic)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• The Last Unicorn, Peter S Beagle, art by Tom Kidd (Suntup)

SPECIAL AWARD 2025: Celebrating Excellence in Genre

• Ignyte Awards

Artist Spotlight: The Art Of . . . Sam Wolfe Connelly

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Sam Wolfe Connelly.

Winners of the 52nd Annual Saturn Awards Announced

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films have announced the winners of the 52nd annual Saturn Awards. 

The Saturn Awards are dedicated to honouring the finest in genre entertainment in film, television and home entertainment.

The winners were revealed on February 2 2025.

FILM

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM:

• Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)

BEST FANTASY FILM:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST HORROR FILM:

• Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE FILM:

• Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)

BEST THRILLER FILM:

• Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM:

• Late Night with the Devil (IFC Films/Shudder)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

• Godzilla Minus One (Toho International)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• The Wild Robot (Universal/Dreamworks Animation)

BEST ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario (A24)

BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Demi Moore, The Substance (Mubi)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Hugh Jackman, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Rebecca Ferguson, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A FILM:

• Jenna Ortega, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST FILM DIRECTION:

• Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)

BEST FILM SCREENWRITING:

• Longlegs, Osgood Perkins (Neon)

BEST VISUAL / SPECIAL EFFECTS:

• Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salacombe, Gerd Nefzer) (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST FILM MUSIC:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Danny Elfman (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN:

• Dune: Part Two, Patricia Vermette (Warner Bros./Legendary)  

BEST FILM MAKE-UP:

• The Substance, Pierre-Olivier Persin (Mubi)

BEST FILM EDITING:

• Deadpool & Wolverine, Dean Zimmerman & Shane Reid (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)

BEST FILM COSTUME DESIGN:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Colleen Atwood (Warner Bros. Pictures)

TELEVISION

BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES:

• Fallout (Amazon)

BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES:

• House of the Dragon (MAX)

BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES:

• From (MGM+)

BEST ACTION / THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES:

• Cobra Kai (Netflix)

BEST ADVENTURE TELEVISION SERIES:

• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES:

• Agatha All Along (Marvel Studios/Disney+)

BEST TELEVISION PRESENTATION:

• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)

BEST GENRE COMEDY TELEVISION SERIES

• Ghosts (CBS)

BEST ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES:

• Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Disney+/Lucasfilm)

BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Colin Farrell, The Penguin (Max)

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Rosario Dawson, Ahsoka (Lucasfilm/Disney+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Antony Starr, The Boys (Amazon)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Cristin Milioti, The Penguin (Max)

BEST GUEST STAR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Mark Hamill, The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Xolo Maridueña, Cobra Kai (Netflix)

HOME VIDEO

Best 4K Home Media Release:

• Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)

Best Film Home Media Release Collection:

• Batman 85th Anniversary Collection (Warner Home Video)

Best Classic Film Home Media Release:

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KL Studio Classics)

Best Television Home Media Release:

• Star Wars: Andor - The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

SPECIAL AWARDS

The Dan Curtis Legacy Award (in recognition of its outstanding contribution to superhero storytelling):

• Superman & Lois (The CW)

The Robert Forster Artists Award:

• Hiroyuki Sanada 

The George Pal Memorial Award (in recognition of its groundbreaking impact on sci-fi and fantasy):

• Back To The Future

The Spotlight Award:

• Fallout 

The Lifetime Achievement Award:

• William Shatner

The Lance Reddick Legacy Award:

• Laurence Fishburne 

2024 Saturn Award Nominees Announced

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films have revealed the nominees for the 2024 Saturn Awards. 

The Saturn Awards are dedicated to honouring the finest in genre entertainment in film, television and home entertainment.

The winners will be announced on February 2 2025.

FILM

BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM:

• Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate Films)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
• Megalopolis (Lionsgate Films/American Zoetrope)
• Venom: The Last Dance (Sony Pictures/Marvel)

BEST FANTASY FILM:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Sony Pictures)
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary)
• My Old Ass (Amazon/MGM)
• Poor Things (Searchlight)
• Wonka (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST HORROR FILM:

• Abigail (Universal Pictures)
• Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• The First Omen (20th Century Studios)
• In a Violent Nature (IFC Films)
• Longlegs (Neon)
• A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount Pictures)
• Smile 2 (Paramount Pictures)

BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE FILM:

• Argylle (Apple Films/Universal Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• The Fall Guy (Universal Pictures)
• Fly Me to the Moon (Apple Films/Columbia Pictures)
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Lionsgate Films)
• Twisters (Universal Pictures)

BEST THRILLER FILM:

• Blink Twice (Amazon/MGM)
• Civil War (A24)
• Saltburn (Amazon/MGM)
• Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Speak No Evil (Universal Pictures)
• Wolfs (Apple Films)

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM:

• Dream Scenario (A24)
• Late Night with the Devil (IFC Films/Shudder)
• MaXXXine (A24)
• The Substance (Mubi)
• Thelma (Magnolia Pictures)
• The Thicket (Tubi Movies)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

• The Animal Kingdom (Magnet Releasing)
• Godzilla Minus One (Toho International)
• Kill (Lionsgate Films)
• Monkey Man (Universal Pictures)
• Oddity (IFC Films)
• Society of the Snow (Netflix)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS)
• Despicable Me 4 (Universal/Illumination Entertainment)
• Inside Out 2 (Pixar/Walt Disney Studios)
• Kung-Fu Panda 4 (Universal/Dreamworks Animation)
• Spy x Family Code: White (Crunchyroll)
• Transformers One (Paramount Pictures)
• The Wild Robot (Universal/Dreamworks Animation)

BEST ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Tom Blyth, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds Snakes (Lionsgate Films)
• Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario (A24)
• Timothée Chalamet, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• David Dastmalchian, Late Night with the Devil (IFC Films/Shudder)
• Kyle Gallner, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)

BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Willa Fitzgerald, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Demi Moore, The Substance (Mubi)
• Lupita Nyong’o, A Quiet Place – Day One (Paramount Pictures)
• Winona Ryder, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Naomi Scott, Smile 2 (Paramount Pictures)
• June Squibb, Thelma (Magnolia Pictures)
• Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM:

• Josh Brolin, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Austin Butler, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Nicolas Cage, Longlegs (Neon)
• Willem Dafoe, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Hugh Jackman, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• David Jonsson, Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• Owen Teague, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM:

• Emma Corrin, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• Rebecca Ferguson, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Barbara Hershey, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Juliette Lewis, The Thicket (Tubi Movies)
• Margaret Qualley, The Substance (Mubi)
• Cailee Spaeny, Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• Zendaya, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A FILM:

• Freya Allan, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
• McKenna Grace, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Sony Pictures)
• Kaylee Hottle, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Calah Lane, Wonka (Warner Bros Pictures)
• Jenna Ortega, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Alisha Weir, Abigail (Universal Pictures)
• Rachel Zegler, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate Films)

BEST FILM DIRECTION:

• Fede Álvarez, Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
• Wes Ball, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
• Tim Burton, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Shawn Levy, Deadpool & Wolverine (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• J.T. Mollner, Strange Darling (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)
• Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One (Toho International)

BEST FILM SCREENWRITING:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• Dune: Part Two, Denis Villenueve, Jon Spaihts (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazak (Toho International)
• Longlegs, Osgood Perkins (Neon)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver (20th Century Studios)
• Strange Darling, JT Mollner (Miramax/Majenta Light Studios)

BEST VISUAL / SPECIAL EFFECTS:

• Alien: Romulus (TBD) (20th Century Studios)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Angus Bickerton, James Brennan-Craddock, Neal Scanlan, Stefano Pepin) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine (TBD) (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salacombe, Gerd Nefzer) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Godzilla Minus One (Masaki Takahashi, Tatsuiji Nojima, Kiyokk Shubuya, Takashi Yamazaki) (Toho International)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, TBD) (20th Century Studios)
• Twisters (TBD) (Universal Pictures)

BEST FILM MUSIC:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Danny Elfman (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two, Hans Zimmer (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Dario Marianelli (Sony Pictures)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, James Newton Howard (Lionsgate Pictures)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, John Paesano (20th Century Studios)
• Smile 2, Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Paramount Pictures)

BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN:

• Alien: Romulus, Naaman Marshall (20th Century Studios)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Matt Scruton (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Ray Chan (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two, Patricia Vermette (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Longlegs, Danny Vermette (Neon)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Daniel T Dorrance (20th Century Studios)

BEST FILM MAKE-UP:

• Alien: Romulus (TBD) (20th Century Studios)
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Neal Scanlan, Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener) (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two (Donald Mowat and TBD) (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Longlegs (Felix Fox, Madelaine Hermans) (Neon)
• Smile 2 (TBD) (Paramount Pictures)
• The Substance (TBD) (Mubi)

BEST FILM EDITING:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Jay Prychidny (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Civil War, Jake Roberts (A24)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Dean Zimmerman & Shane Reid (Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two, Joe Walker (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Eliot Knapman & Margaret Sixel (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Strange Darling, Christopher Robin Bell (Miramax/Magenta Light Studios)

BEST FILM COSTUME:

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Colleen Atwood (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Deadpool & Wolverine, Graham Churchyard & Mayes C. Rubeo (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios)
• Dune: Part Two, Jacqueline West (Warner Bros./Legendary)
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Alex Fortes & Ruth Myers (Sony Pictures)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Trish Summerville (Lionsgate Pictures)
• Wonka, Lindy Hemming (Warner Bros. Pictures)

TELEVISION

BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES:

• 3 Body Problem (Netflix)
• Ahsoka (Lucasfilm/Disney+)
• The Ark (Syfy)
• Dark Matter (Apple TV+)
• Fallout (Amazon)
• Star Trek: Discovery (CBS Studios)

BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES:

• Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix)
• For All Mankind (Apple TV+)
• House of the Dragon (MAX)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon)
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney+)
• The Spiderwick Chronicles (Roku Channel)

BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES:

• Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
• Creepshow (Shudder)
• Evil (CBS Studios)
• From (MGM+)
• Grotesquerie (FX)
• Teacup (Peacock)
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)

BEST ACTION / THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES:

• Bosch: Legacy (Amazon Freevee)
• Cobra Kai (Netflix)
• Found (NBC)
• High Potential (ABC)
• Presumed Innocent (Apple TV+)
• True Detective: Night Country (Max)
• Tulsa King (Paramount+)

BEST ADVENTURE TELEVISION SERIES:

• La Brea (NBC/Universal)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Amazon)
• Reacher (Amazon)
• Shōgun (FX)
• Sugar (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES:

• Agatha All Along (Marvel Studios/Disney+)
• The Boys (Amazon Prime)
• Loki (Marvel Studios/Disney+)
• The Penguin (MAX)
• Superman & Lois (Warner Bros. Television)
• The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

BEST TELEVISION PRESENTATION:

• Apartment 7A (Paramount+)
• Don’t Move (Netflix)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
• Fargo (FX)
• Ripley (Netflix)
• Salem’s Lot (Max)
• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)

BEST GENRE COMEDY TELEVISION SERIES

• Chucky (Syfy/Universal)
• Ghosts (CBS)
• Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
• Resident Alien (Syfy)
• Ted (Peacock)
• What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES:

• Batman: Caped Crusader (Amazon Prime)
• Gremlins: The Wild Batch (Max)
• Kaiju No. 8 (Crunchyroll)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (CBS Studios)
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Disney+/Lucasfilm)
• X-Men ’97 (Disney+/Marvel Studios)

BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Colin Farrell, The Penguin (Max)
• Walton Goggins, Fallout (Amazon)
• Jon Hamm, Fargo (FX)
• Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
• Harold Perrineau, From (MGM+)
• Norman Reedus, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)
• Kurt Russell & Wyatt Russell, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon (Max)
• Rosario Dawson, Ahsoka (Lucasfilm/Disney+)
• Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country (Max)
• Danai Gurira, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
• Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along (Marvel/Disney+)
• Melissa McBride, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)
• Ella Purnell, Fallout (Amazon)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Matt Berry, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Lamorne Morris, Fargo (FX)
• Aaron Moten, Fallout (Amazon)
• Matt Smith, House of the Dragon (Max)
• Antony Starr, The Boys (Amazon)
• Henry Thomas, The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
• Brandon Scott Jones, Ghosts (CBS)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Jennifer Connelly, Dark Matter (Apple TV+)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fargo (FX)
• Pollyanna McIntosh, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AMC)
• Cristin Milioti, The Penguin (Max)
• Elizabeth Saunders, From (MGM+)
• Anna Sawai, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV+)
• Rebecca Wisocky, Ghosts (CBS)

BEST GUEST STAR IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Mark Hamill, The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
• Matthew Jeffers, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Lived (AMC)
• Martin Kove, Cobra Kai (Netflix)
• Kyle MacLachlan, Fallout (Amazon)
• Andrea Martin, Evil (CBS Studios)
• Aubrey Plaza, Agatha All Along (Marvel/Disney+)
• Ke Huy Quan, Loki (Marvel/Disney+)

BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A TELEVISION SERIES:

• Zackary Arthur, Chucky (Syfy/Universal)
• Hannah Cheramy, From (MGM+)
• Cameron Crovetti, The Boys (Amazon)
• Rhenzy Feliz, The Penguin (Max)
• Joe Locke, Agatha All Along (Marvel/Disney+)
• Xolo Maridueña, Cobra Kai (Netflix)
• Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)

HOME VIDEO

Best 4K Home Media Release:

• Conan the Barbarian (Arrow Video)
• Crimson Peak (Arrow Video)
• The Crow (Paramount)
• Face Off (KL Studio Classics)
• The Monster Squad (KL Studio Classics)
• Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)

Best Film Home Media Release Collection:

• Batman 85th Anniversary Collection (Warner Home Video)
• Nature Run Amok Collection (Kino Cult)
• OSS-117 Five Film Collection (KL Studio Classics)
• Republic Pictures Horror Collection (KL Studio Classics)
• Rocky: Ultimate Knockout Collection (Warner Home Video)
• Sci Fi Chillers Collection (KL Studio Classics)

Best Classic Film Home Media Release:

• I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim (Criterion Collection)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KL Studio Classics)
• The Lady Killers (KL Studio Classics)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (Warner Home Video)
• Repo Man (The Criterion Collection)
• Reptilicus (Vinegar Syndrome)

Best Television Home Media Release:

• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: The Complete Series (MPI)
• Columbo: The Return (KL Studio Classics)
• Farscape: The Complete Series (25th Anniversary Edition (Shout)
• Interview with the Vampire (Season 2) (RLJ Entertainment)
• La Brea: The Complete Series (Universal)
• Star Wars: Andor – The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards announced

The winners of the 2024 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• Talonsister – Jen Williams (Titan)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)

Best Novella

• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar – Indra Das (Subterranean Press)

Best Short Fiction

• The Brazen Head of Westinghouse – Tim Major (IZ Digital)

Best Collection

• Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic – Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Audio Work

• The Tiny Bookcase – Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell

Best Independent Press

• Flame Tree Press

Best Artist

• Asya Yordonova

Best Anthology

• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele (Picador)

Best Non-Fiction

• Writing The Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst (Dead Ink)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Teika Marija Smits, for “Umbilical” (Newcon Press) & “Waterlore” (Black Shuck Books)

Legends Of FantasyCon Award

• Debbie Bennett

The Karl Edward Wagner Award for outstanding contribution to the genre

• Ramsey Campbell

Artist Spotlight: The Art Of . . . Rich Davies (Turksworks)

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Rich Davies (Turksworks).

Winners of the 2024 Dragon Awards Announced

The winners of the 2024 Dragon Awards have been announced.

The Dragon Awards are a program of fan-chosen awards to recognize outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy literature, comics, gaming and filmed entertainment, and was introduced as part of Dragon*Con’s 30th Anniversary celebration in 2016.

Winners were announced during 'Dragon Con', September 1 2024.

Best Science Fiction Novel

• Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)

• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel

• Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S Dawson

Best Alternate History Novel

• All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris

Best Horror Novel

• Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Best Illustrative Book Cover

• Of Jade and Dragons by Kelly Chong

Best Comic Book / Graphic Novel

• Monstress by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet

• Fallout, Amazon Prime Video

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie

• Dune: Part Two, directed by Denis Villeneuve

Best Digital Game

• Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios

Best Tabletop Game

• D&D The Deck of Many Things, Wizards of the Coast

Artist Spotlight: The Art Of . . . Reynold Brown

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Reynold Brown.

#CoolArt: 'Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn' print by Juan Carlos Ruiz Burgos through Moor-Art Gallery

'Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn' by Juan Carlos Ruiz Burgos.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" offset lithograph print on 330gsm Fedrigoni archival stockprint paper, with Sideshow emboss seal, in a numbered limited edition of 150 for £54.99, with Moor-Art Gallery certificate of authenticity.

On sale Friday August 30 at 6pm UK through Moor-Art Gallery.

Shortlist For The 2024 British Fantasy Awards Announced

The shortlist for the 2024 British Fantasy Awards have been announced by the British Fantasy Society.

The Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
• At Eternity’s Gates – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• Beyond Sundered Seas – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi (Daw Books)
• Talonsister – Jen Williams (Titan)

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel

• A House with Good Bones – T Kingfisher (Titan)
• Boys in the Valley – Philip Fracassi (Orbit)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones (Titan)
• How to Sell a Haunted House – Grady Hendrix (Titan)
• Looking Glass Sound – Catriona Ward (Viper)
• One Life Left – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)

Best Novella

• The Darkness in the Pines – David Green (Eerie River Publishing)
• The Last Day and the First – Tim Lebbon (PS Publishing)
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar – Indra Das (Subterranean Press)
• They Shut Me Up – Tracy Fahey (PS Publishing)
• Thornhedge – T Kingfisher (Titan)
• Untethered Sky – Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)

Best Short Fiction

• Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities – Shona Kinsella (Great British Horror 8)
• The Brazen Head of Westinghouse – Tim Major (IZ Digital)
• The Pilfered Quill – Rachel Rener & David Green (From the Arcane)
• The Ripe Fruit in the Garden – CA Yates (Great British Horror 8)
• Turn Again, O My Sweetness – CA Yates (At the Lighthouse)

Best Collection

• A Curious Cartography – Alison Littlewood (Black Shuck Books)
• Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic – Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow Publications)
• No Happily Ever After – Phil Sloman
• No One Will Come Back for Us – Premee Mohamed (Undertow Publications)
• The House on the Moon – Georgina Bruce (Black Shuck Books)
• Under my Skin – KJ Parker (Subterranean Press)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Hellebore
• Interzone / IZ Digital
• khōréō 
• Occult Detective Magazine
• Shoreline of Infinity

Best Audio Work

• Cast of Wonders (Escape Artists)
• The Penumbra Podcast – Harley Takagi Kaner, Kevin Vibert, Ginny D’Angelo, Alice C. LeBeau, Noah Simes
• PodCastle (Escape Artists)
• PseudoPod (Escape Artists)
• Simultaneous Times Podcast (Space Cowboy Books)
• The Tiny Bookcase – Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot
• Black Shuck Books
• Eibonvale Press
• Flame Tree Press
• Luna Press Publishing
• Newcon Press

Best Artist

• Jenni Coutts
• Vince Haig
• David Rix
• Asya Yordonova

Best Anthology

• At the Lighthouse, ed. Sophie Essex (Eibonvale Press)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, ed. Wole Talabi (Android Press)
• Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk (Vintage)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele (Picador)
• Something Peculiar: Great British Horror 8, ed. Steve J Shaw (Black Shuck Books)
• The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy, eds. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Titan) 

Best Non-Fiction

• Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror – Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts – Delyth Badder & Mark Norman (Calon)
• The Full Lid – Alasdair Stuart, ed. Marguerite Kenner
• Writing the Future, eds. Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst (Dead Ink)

The Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer

• Moniquill Blackgoose, for “To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” (Del Ray)
• Vajra Chandrasekera, for “The Saint of Bright Doors” (Tordotcom)
• Hannah Kaner, for “Godkiller” (HarperVoyager)
• Charlotte Langree, for “Fractured: Tales of Flame and Fury” (Clarendon House Publications)
• Em X Liu, for “The Death I Gave Him” (Solaris)
• Teika Marija Smits, for “Umbilical” (Newcon Press) & “Waterlore” (Black Shuck Books)

Artist Spotlight: The Art Of . . . Randy Ortiz

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Randy Ortiz.

Winners of the 2024 Locus Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation have announced the winners of the 2024 Locus Awards.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

FANTASY NOVEL

• Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

HORROR NOVEL

• A House with Good Bones, T Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)

FIRST NOVEL

• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)

NOVELLA

• Thornhedge, T Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)

NOVELETTE

• “The Rainbow Bank”, Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus 8/23)

SHORT STORY

• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”, P Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23)

ANTHOLOGY

• Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)

COLLECTION

• White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)

MAGAZINE

• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• Tor

EDITOR

• Neil Clarke

ARTIST

• John Picacio

NON-FICTION

• Space Crone, Ursula K Le Guin (Silver)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

SPECIAL AWARD 2024: Fostering Excellence in Craft & Career

• Jeanne Cavelos and the Odyssey Writing Workshop

#CoolArt: 'The Evil Dead' prints by Phantom City Creative through Bottleneck Gallery

'The Evil Dead' by Phantom City Creative.

Officially licensed 36" x 24" screen print, in a numbered Regular edition of 200 for $60; a numbered Variant edition of 100 for $70; and a 3D lenticular PLEX print with flip effect, on 4mm polystyrene in a limited edition of 50 for $200, with numbered COA with BNG hologram of authenticity.

On sale Wednesday June 12 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

Regular Edition

Winners of the 2024 Nebula Awards Anounced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the winners of this year’s Nebula Awards for works first published in 2023, along with contenders for the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards.

Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards were announced on June 8 at the 2024 Nebula Conference in Pasadena, California.

 

Novel

• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)

Novella

• “Linghun,” Ai Jiang (Linghun)

Novelette

• “The Year Without Sunshine,” Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)

Short Story

• “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200,” RSA Garcia (Uncanny 7-8/23)

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)

Game Writing

• Baldur’s Gate 3, Adam Smith, Adrienne Law, Baudelaire Welch, Chrystal Ding, Ella McConnell, Ine Van Hamme, Jan Van Dosselaer, John Corocran, Kevin VanOrd, Lawrence Schick, Martin Docherty, Rachel Quirke, Ruairí Moore, Sarah Baylus, Stephen Rooney, Swen Vincke (Larian Studios)

Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Barbie, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach (Warner Bros., Heyday Films, LuckyChap Entertainment)

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

• Susan Cooper

The SFWA Infinity Award

• Tanith Lee

The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

• Jennell Jaquays

The Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award

• James Hosek

#CoolArt: Exclusive New prints by Jason Edmiston at Monsterpalooza 2024

Exclusive new prints by Jason Edmiston available during Monsterpalooza, at the Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA, May 31 - June 2 2024.

'Eyes Without A Face'
9" x 5" giclee prints in limited editions for $25 each.

'Vincent Price: Master Of Menace'
5" x 7" gicleé print, in a limited edition of 50 for $20.

Other prints and original art also available.

2024 Locus Awards Finalists for Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature Announced

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation have announced the finalists for the 2024 Locus Awards.

The Locus Awards are presented to winners of the Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

The winners will be announced June 22 2024.

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu (Tordotcom)
• A Fire Born of Exile, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz; JAB Books)
• Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow (Tor; Ad Astra)
• Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott (Ad Astra; Tor)
• Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)
• Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit US; Tor UK)
• System Collapse, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis (Del Rey)

FANTASY NOVEL

• To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose (Del Rey)
• The Keeper’s Six, Kate Elliott (Tordotcom)
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey; Orbit UK)
• Dead Country, Max Gladstone (Tordotcom)
• The Water Outlaws, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom; Solaris UK)
• Paladin’s Faith, T. Kingfisher (Argyll)
• He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor; Mantle)
• My Brother’s Keeper, Tim Powers (Baen; Ad Astra)
• City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Ad Astra)
• Witch King, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)

HORROR NOVEL

• Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga; Titan UK)
• A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland; Sphere)
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley; Titan UK)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• A House with Good Bones, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
• Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
• Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)

YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• Promises Stronger Than Darkness, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan UK)
• The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, Lorraine Avila (Levine Querido)
• Damned If You Do, Alex Brown (Page Street)
• A Song of Salvation, Alechia Dow (Inkyard)
• The Library of Broken Worlds, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic; Magpie UK)
• The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, Garth Nix (Tegen; Gollancz)
• Into the Light, Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
• Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday; Magpie UK)
• The Siren, the Song, and the Spy, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)

FIRST NOVEL

• Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)
• The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud (Saga; Titan UK)
• The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom)
• Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou (Razorbill; Penguin UK)
• These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Godkiller, Hannah Kaner (Harper Voyager UK; Harper Voyager US)
• The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, Wole Talabi (DAW; Gollancz)
• Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom; Orbit UK)
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs (Morrow; Century)

NOVELLA

• The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill (Tordotcom)
• The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das (Subterranean)
• “Linghun”, Ai Jiang (Linghun)
• The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)
• Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Titan UK)
• Rose / House, Arkady Martine (Subterranean)
• Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire (Tor)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• The Lies of the Ajungo, Moses Ose Utomi (Tordotcom)
• Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)

NOVELETTE

• “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata”, P. Djèlí Clark (The Book of Witches)
• “John Hollowback and the Witch”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Book of Witches)
• I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave)
• “The Year Without Sunshine”, Naomi Kritzer (Uncanny 11-12/23)
• “Prince Hat Underground”, Kelly Link (White Cat, Black Dog)
• “At Every Door a Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)
• “The Rainbow Bank”, Uchechukwu Nwaka (GigaNotoSaurus 8/23)
• “One Man’s Treasure”, Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “Six Versions of My Brother Found Under a Bridge”, Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 9-10/23)
• “On the Fox Roads”, Nghi Vo (Tor.com 10/31/23)

SHORT STORY

• “A Soul in the World”, Charlie Jane Anders (Uncanny 3-4/23)
• “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub”, P. Djèlí Clark (Uncanny 1-2/23)
• “The Mausoleum’s Children”, Aliette de Bodard (Uncanny 5-6/23)
• “Suppertime”, Tananarive Due (New Suns 2)
• “Window Boy”, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 8/23)
• “Reckless Eyeballing”, N.K. Jemisin (Out There Screaming)
• “The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
• “Those Hitchhiking Kids”, Darcie Little Badger (The Sunday Morning Transport 4/2/23)
• “Stones”, Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld 9/23)
• “There’s a Door to the Land of the Dead in the Land of the Dead”, Sarah Pinsker (The Deadlands 6/23)

ANTHOLOGY

• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7, Neil Clarke, ed. (Night Shade)
• Christmas and Other Horrors, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan UK)
• The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis, eds. (Caezic)
• Never Whistle at Night, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., eds. (Vintage)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023, R.F. Kuang & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)
• Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House; Picador)
• New Suns 2, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris UK)
• The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, Wole Talabi, ed. (Android)
• The Best of World SF: Volume 3, Lavie Tidhar, ed. (Ad Astra)

COLLECTION

• The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
• Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell (Apex)
• The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Tananarive Due (Akashic)
• White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link (Random House; Ad Astra)
• No One Will Come Back For Us, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• Jackal, Jackal, Tobi Ogundiran (Undertow)
• Skin Thief, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
• Lost Places, Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer)
• The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean)
• The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

MAGAZINE

• Analog
• Asimov’s
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Clarkesworld
• F&SF
• FIYAH
• khōréō
• Strange Horizons
• Tor.com
• Uncanny

PUBLISHER

• Angry Robot
• DAW
• Gollancz
• Neon Hemlock
• Orbit
• Small Beer
• Subterranean
• Tachyon
• Tor
• Tordotcom

EDITOR

• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
• Arley Sorg & Christie Yant
• Jonathan Strahan
• Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
• Sheree Renée Thomas
• E. Catherine Tobler
• Ann VanderMeer
• Sheila Williams

ARTIST

• Brom
• Rovina Cai
• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Julie Dillon
• Bob Eggleton
• Abigail Larson
• John Picacio
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan
• Alyssa Winans

NON-FICTION

• The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History, Jack Dann (Bloomsbury Academic)
• 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, Kevin Jon Davies, ed. (Unbound UK)
• Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir, M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail; Saga 2024)
• All These Worlds, Niall Harrison (Briardene)
• 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street Publishing)
• Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin (Silver)
• Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color, Chinelo Onwualu, ed. (Hydra House)
• A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, Maureen Kincaid Speller (Luna Press Publishing)
• Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God, Robert Charles Wilson (Pitchstone)
• Being Michael Swanwick, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Fairwood)

ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK

• The Culture: The Drawings, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, Ray Bradbury, adapted by Al Feldstein, art by Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Wallace Wood, et al. (Fantagraphics)
• The Pen & Ink Drawings of Tony DiTerlizzi, Tony DiTerlizzi (self-published)
• Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume Three, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Spectrum Fantastic Art)
• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Dian Hanson, ed., art by Frank Frazetta (Taschen)
• The Last Count of Monte Cristo, Ayize Jama-Everett, art by Tristan Roach (Megascope)
• Voyaging, Volume One: The Plague Star, George R.R. Martin, art and adaptation by Raya Golden (Ten Speed Graphic)
• Thalamus, Volumes 1 & 2: The Art of Dave McKean, Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
• Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe (Abrams)
• Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures, Kevin M. Strait & Kinshasha Holman Conwill, eds. (Smithsonian)