New Issue of the Jewish Mexican Literary Review!
The Jewish Mexican Literary ReviewThe Jewish Mexican Literary Review, the eccentric literary magazine I edit with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, now has a new special issue! Check it out. Cover art: Judithe...
View ArticleCentral Station
Author copies of this beauty have at last arrived – aren’t they gorgeous!
View ArticleLocus Recommended Reading List
The annual Locus Recommended Reading List is out! And it has a nice showing for my work from 2016: Novels – Science Fiction Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon) Non-Fiction Art and War: Poetry, Pulp...
View ArticleThe Book of Swords
George R.R. Martin has the lowdown on Gardner Dozois’ new anthology, The Book of Swords (which you can pre-order on Amazon now). Gardner asked me for a new Gorel of Goliris story (last seen in the...
View ArticleThe Old Dispensation
Rejoice! The story I modestly like to call the world’s first Jewish space opera is now live and free to read! The Old Dispensation is now online at Tor dot com, though you can also buy the...
View ArticleSpanish cover for A Man Lies Dreaming
Kailas Editorial are releasing A Man Lies Dreaming (un hombre Sueña despierto) in Spain in March, and they’ve just revealed the cover! Here it is!
View ArticleCentral Station up for BSFA Award for Best Cover Art
Congratulations to Sarah Anne Langton, whose exceptional cover for Central Station is nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Artwork! Sarah and I are hard at work on a new art project – hopefully show...
View ArticleDeepcon 18
I will be Guest of Honour at this year’s Deepcon 18 in Italy. I’m told I should already start dieting in preparation! The convention takes place in the small town of Fiuggi – the artist Michelangelo...
View ArticleA Man Lies Dreaming out in Spain
A Man Lies Dreaming is officially out in Spain today! Published by Kailas Editorial as Un hombre sueña despierto, it is translated by Puerto Barruetabeña Díez, and available everywhere (here’s the...
View ArticleShira!
My Hebrew story שירה (Shira) is published today in both its Hebrew original and the English translation in Samovar, a new magazine for translated speculative fiction. You can read it in Hebrew or...
View ArticleFrench Edition of A Man Lies Dreaming
The French edition of A Man Lies Dreaming, Quand un Homme Rêve, is published this week by Terra Nova. It was translated by Benoît Domis. You can pick it up from Fnac or Amazon or all good bookshops!
View ArticleMelon Hong Kong
Next week, I’m jetting off to Hong Kong to attend the Melon Hong Kong Festival, a new event to discuss Chinese and Western science fiction. Alongside myself there will be US writers like Charlie Jane...
View ArticleCentral Station wins BSFA Best Artwork Award
Pleasantly surprised last night to find out Sarah Anne Langton won the BSFA Award for Best Artwork for her cover of Central Station! Go Sarah! It really is a stunning cover – it’s based off the...
View ArticleThe Violent Century out in Poland!
The Violent Century is out this week in Poland from MAG, in their hardcover “feast of imagination” series (in which Osama was published previously). It was translated by Grzegorz Komersk. Exciting!
View ArticleUS Paperback Release Day for A Man Lies Dreaming!
My fabulous publishers in the US, Melville House, have just released the paperback edition of A Man Lies Dreaming! Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Best British Fiction, shortlisted...
View ArticleCentral Station nominated for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award
So the news (waaay too early yesterday morning!) came that Central Station is on the shortlist for the Clarke Award. This was very unexpected, and the first time I’ve been nominated for the Clarke....
View ArticleThe Simulacra
Ocassionally I like to post short fiction here that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. The following is an alternate history in which Donald Trump won the US presidency. This story appeared last week in...
View ArticleCentral Station is a Locus Award Finalist
Turns out Central Station is (very unexpectedly!) a finalist for the Locus Award! To paraphrase Nelson Algren, “Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. And never...
View ArticleCentral Station a John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalist
Central Station has been nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year. Which is very nice! A full list of the nominees is here.
View ArticlePolish Central Station
Forthcoming in hardcover from Zysk in July. Some more Polish news in the works…
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