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When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift (Arcadia) Amazon / Bookshop has won the 2026 annual Arthur C. Clarke Award. Swift receives £2,025 and an engraved bookend. Other finalists were: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman (Dandy House US; Michael Joseph

The Associazione World SF Italia announced the winners of the 2026 Premio Ernesto Vegetti, an Italian SF award. Novel WINNER: Mai verrà la notte, Mariangela Cerrino (Tabula Fati) La grande insurrezione, Claude Francis Dozière (Tabula Fati) Un compagno e t

SF/F fan and bookseller Dave Nee, 73, died August 6, 2026 of an apparent heart attack. David Chin-Kuo Nee was born in 1953. He attended high school in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1974, he co-founded

Sarah Beth Durst's Sea of Charms (Bramble), third in The Spellshop series, debuts in the top 10 on three lists. Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 08.16 LAT 08.09 USAT 08.02 PW 08.10 Amz (08.10) UK: Amz UK (08.10) Canada: Amz.ca (08.10) Items on list -x-

Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week's new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Afifi, Nadia: A Fugitive's History of the Known Universe (Flame Tree Press UK 978-1787589483, $26.95, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 08/11/2026) SF

John Crowley, 83, died August 8, 2026. John William Crowley was born December 1, 1942 in Presque Isle ME, where his father, a doctor and captain in the Army Air Corps, was stationed. The family moved several times until settling in Indiana in 1953. He ear

The winners of the 2026 Aurora Awards for works by Canadians were announced in an online awards ceremony on August 9, 2026, hosted by Elizabeth May Anderson and Mark Leslie Lefebvre. Best Novel WINNER: The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine, Robert J. Sa

The winners for the 2026 Prix Rosny Aîné have been announced. The prize is awarded to SF novels and short stories written in French and published in print in 2025. Best Novel WINNER: Sintonia, Audrey Pleynet (Belial) La Dernière Tentation de Judas, Philli

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