Традиционный «Locus Awards Weekend», планировалось провести с 26 по 28 июня 2020 г. в Сиэтле (штат Вашинтон). Мероприятие было перенесено в интернет из-за пандемии коронавируса.
Страна: США
Место проведения: Виртуальная конференция "Locus Awards Weekend"
Дата проведения: 27 июня 2020 г.
Claire North0.0 A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K.
South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William.
William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and mountains. And if it catches him, the person he loves most in the world will die.
Gripping, moving, and utterly thought-provoking, this novel proves once again that Claire North is one of the most innovative voices in modern fiction.
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone3.9 Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That’s how war works. Right?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
P. Djèlí Clark3.7 The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark’s short fiction, where humans live and work alongside otherworldly beings; the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities handles the issues that can arise between the magical and the mundane. Senior Agent Hamed al-Nasr shows his new partner Agent Onsi the ropes of investigation when they are called to subdue a dangerous, possessed tram car. What starts off as a simple matter of exorcism, however, becomes more complicated as the origins of the demon inside are revealed.
Becky Chambers4.2 At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life.
A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed. Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening.
Тед Чан4.3 В недалёком будущем квантовая механика и компьютерные технологии открыли человечеству параллельную реальность. И давняя мечта знать, что уготовила тебе и всему миру судьба, если бы ты выбрал однажды другой путь, стала явью.
Саад З. Хоссейн4.4 Проспав четыре тысячи лет, Великий Джин Повелитель Вторника просыпается в мире, где человечество укрылось в закрытых городах, и повсюду рыскают враждебные наниты (нано-роботы), уничтожающие все живое. Направившись в ближайший к пещере город – Катманду, Повелитель Вторника, на удивление, не стер его в порошок. И даже нашел общий язык с местным ИИ, заставив последнего, в конечном итоге, пересмотреть принципы социальный организации городского населения.
Риверс Соломон3.6 Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.
К. С. Э. Куни0.0 In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below.
On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of luxury. Below are goblins, mysterious kingdoms, and an entirely different hierarchy.
A goblin market narrative that’s also a steep drop into an uncanny, richly painted underworld, C.S.E. Cooney combines 1920s luxury with deeply felt questions of identity and justice that strike at the heart of who we are, human or otherwise.
For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead. Her followers will quiver, her enemies rejoice.
But in one tavern, deep in rebel territory, her greatest enemy drowns her sorrows. Lady Han raised a movement that sought the Protector's head, yet now she can only mourn her loss. She remembers how it all began, when the Protector was young, not yet crowned, and a desperate dancing girl dared to fall in love with her.
Тед Чан3.8 Археолог, успешно доказавшая факт сотворения Господом Богом Земли и человечества, оказывается перед кризисом веры из-за ошеломляющего открытия другого ученого.
Шевонн Кэрролл4.2 Знаменитый поэт и переводчик XVIII века Кристофер Смарт провёл в лечебнице Святого Луки около семи лет. Там он и написал одно из самых знаменитых своих произведений — религиозную поэму «Возвеселитесь во Агнце». Но лишь один отрывок стал по-настоящему популярным — стихотворение, посвящённое коту Смарта по имени Джеффри. Не меняя судьбы поэта, Шиван Кэрролл превратила историю Кристофера Смарта в грустноватый, но оптимистичный рассказ.
Сара Пинскер0.0 Жанна Грегори поселяется в домике на холме, в отдалении от людей, дабы сосредоточиться на написании очередного успешного детектива. Но уже на следующее утро вырубается свет и она вынуждена спуститься вниз к дому арендодателя за помощью. То, что она находит там, больше похоже на одну из сцен из её детективного романа. В попытке разгадать, что же там произошло, Жанна неожиданно сталкивается с совершенно невероятным явлением, которое заставляет пересмотреть в ином свете всю её жизнь.
