Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
It’s that time of year again! The Arthur C. Clarke Shortlist has been announced and, love it or hate it, the magic of the shortlist is always the debate it sparks. So are your favourites of the year on...
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Readers’ Choice: Alan Dean Foster’s Icerigger
As noted yesterday, it is a time of changes for SF Gateway (hmm . . . catchy title for a book . . .). Author of the Week is now Author of the Month, as noted yesterday, and the other bog change is that...
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Readers’ Choice: Lord Valentine’s Castle
OK, there’s probably no point denying it. This week has been a bit of a Robert Silverberg love-in. We’ve had Tales of Majipoor as New Book of the Week and the magnificent Dying Inside as SF Masterwork...
View ArticleA Special Readers’ Choice: Shambleau and Others
This week’s Readers’ Choice is Shambleau and Others by C. L. Moore, one of the greats of early days of modern science fiction and, along with Leigh Brackett, one of the first women to break into the...
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Readers’ Choice: Joe Haldeman’s Mindbridge
This week’s Readers’ Choice is Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman, which was recommended by one of SF Gateway‘s stalwart Twitter correspondents, @tanj666. It was he, you might remember, got out of the blocks...
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Readers’ Choice: Cordwainer Smith’s The Rediscovery of Man
This week’s Readers Choice, which comes to us from SF Gateway forum member, The Star Plunderer, is Cordwainer Smith‘s The Rediscovery of Man. Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever...
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Readers’ Choice Winners for March and April
So, you’ve all heard the saying ‘time flies’, right? Well, there’s a second aspect of that saying that seems to be becoming more and more applicable: time flies – and occasionally the flight leaves...
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Readers Choice: The Forever War
Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel. Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel. Winner of the Ditmar Award for international SF. Winner of the Locus Award for best SF novel. Regularly cited in...
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Readers Choice Winner for August
Our August Readers’ Choice picks could be described as defining the yin and yang of science fiction – indeed, it’s almost possible to divide them straight down the middle and portray them as a battle...
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Readers Choice Winner for September
September’s Readers’ Choice picks were a mixed bag – the only thing they really had in common was that each was one of our readers’ favourites. We’ve seen submissions from the post-apocalyptic humanity...
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VERNON SUBUTEX ONE shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
We are delighted that Vernon Subutex One, by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018. Vernon Subutex One is the first title in...
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A Year of Adventurous Reading: a decade of MacLehose Press
MACLEHOSE PRESS TURNS TEN WITH A YEAR OF ADVENTUROUS READING Introducing a year-long promotion, aiming to inspire bookshops, libraries and readers to make discoveries in international fiction, and...
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Daša Drndić 1946 – 2018
We are very sad to share the news that our dear friend and author, Daša Drndić, died last night in Rijeka. She was a bold and uncompromising writer, and a leading figure in Croatia and the former...
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An interview with Mattias Berg, author of THE CARRIER
On the day we publish The Carrier, we are delighted to bring you this interview with Mattias Berg, discussing the book, his inspirations and the many issues raised by this highly original thriller....
View ArticleWin a luxury cornish hamper
Terms & Conditions This is a prize draw for 1 person to win a copy of Kate and Clara’s Curious Cornish Craft Shop (PB) and a Classic Cornish Hamper. To enter comment on The Little Book Cafe’s...
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The real-life history behind The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits…
To celebrate the publication of The Slaughterman’s Daughter, we asked author Yaniv Iczkovits to tell us about the real-life history behind his sprawling historical epic. Growing up in Israel, I...
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Two Trilogies to be Imminently Concluded
At MacLehose Press, we like trilogies. The Millennium Trilogy leaps to mind, obviously. Jakob Ejersbo's Africa Trilogy is perhaps a little less well known. I'm not entirely convinced that Jon Kalman...
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Jin Yong Among the Fantasy Greats
We were delighted to discover overnight that A Hero Born, Volume I of Legends of the Condor Heroes has been included on TIME Magazine's list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. The list was...
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All the Luck for All the Lives . . .
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy is included on a strong shortlist for this year's International Dublin Literary Award, alongside, among others, novels that have already won the Booker...
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Oliver Norek: Above All Else, I Owe You Honesty
Former police officer, million-copy bestseller and a key writer on the hit T.V. series Spiral, Olivier Norek is France's hottest new crime export. His first novel in English, The Lost and the Damned is...
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