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Aug 26, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | E. C. Barrett |Non-FictionA Hugo Award |Gautam Bhatia |Angela Liu

Emmett Nahil’s novel, From the Belly, tells the story of Isaiah Chase, a sailor on a whaling vessel in a fantasy world in which there are gods above and below, seers are punished by death, and supernatural forces seek vengeance for the horrors of an industry built on violence and greed. Isaiah has only been aboard the misnamed ship, Merciful, for six months, having fled home after his father was hanged for the crime of being able to see the future.

Sep 25, 2023 | news.cornell.edu | E. C. Barrett

Credit: MacArthur Foundation/CC BY-NC 4.0 Around CornellNews directly from Cornell's colleges and centers N. K. Jemisin, award-winning fantasy author and critic, will give the Bartels World Affairs Lecture on Wednesday, October 4, at 5:30 p.m. in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium. The campus community is invited to join an in-person livestream watch party in Klarman Hall and attend a reception and book signing with Jemisin in the Groos Family Atrium after the event.

May 19, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | E. C. Barrett |Eugenia Triantafyllou |Stephanie Chang |Electra Pritchett

Olivie Blake’s Alone With You in the Ether (Tor Books, 2022) is a messy, vulnerable story about two unusual people meeting, falling in love, and figuring out how their love can survive contact with the world—and their own troubled pasts. Blake is the author of the best-selling fantasy Atlas Series, which she self-published along with three other novels, including Ether.

Feb 22, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | E. C. Barrett |Fiona Lu |Holly Day |Kim Harbridge

Anne K. Yoder’s debut novel, The Enhancers, tells the story of three teen girls navigating life in the dystopian near-future town of Lumena Hills. Organized around the Lumena Corp pharmaceutical plant and the drugs it produces, the town is flush with pills that can do everything from enhance brain structures and decrease unpleasant feelings to erase memories which the swallower (or the pharmaceutical company) wish to be forgotten.