#HappyBookBirthday to Kristine Smith's CODE OF CONDUCT, hard #SF available again from Book View Cafe. And the series intro has an intro price. :)

Intrigue, genetics, betrayal, great alien race--this book launched Kris and snagged her an Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

#HardSF #GeneticManipulation #AstoundingAward @bookstodon #bookstodon

*The aliens called her Kièrshia. Toxin.*

https://bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announces-code-of-conduct-by-kristine-smith/

Not sure who to vote for in the #AstoundingAward category on the #HugoAward ballot? Check out the roundups on my blog, which focus on short fiction authors and link out to some of their work.

https://aphowell.com/tag/astounding2023/

E.M. Linden likes books, caffeine, and cool birds. Sample some of her online work: "The Projectionists," "Completely Safe and Totally Human Midwinter Holiday Tips," and "One Syllable, Rhymes with Sin."

https://thedeadlands.com/issue-13/the-projectionists/
https://flashpointsf.com/2022/12/16/completely-safe-and-totally-human-midwinter-holiday-tips/
https://www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/djinn

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

K. Lynn Harrison has been an educator, bookseller, and barista, while also engaging writing, drawing, painting, and ballroom dancing. Check out "Note to a Hypoxic Delusion" in Daily Science Fiction and the sprawling site Reprobate Typewriter.

https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/space-travel/k-lynn-harrison/note-to-a-hypoxic-delusion
https://reprobatetypewriter.com/

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Grace P. Fong is a Chinese-American writer, artist, and narrative designer. Her artwork won an Ignyte Award and she's been nominated for the Best Fan Artist Hugo; her short fiction won an award from the FIYAH x Levar Burton Reads context. Sample her short fiction online: "For Want of Milk," "Girl Oil," and "The Toll of the Snake."

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/for-want-of-milk/
https://www.tor.com/2022/02/22/girl-oil-grace-p-fong/
https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-toll-of-the-snake/

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Lyndsey Croal co-founded the Edinburgh Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers and has a background in climate and nature policy. Her pile of published short fiction includes "First Blood," "(Un)Censored," "The Last Call of the Deep," and "Patchwork Girls."

https://crowcrosskeys.com/2023/03/18/first-blood-lyndsey-croal/
https://www.inspiringfiction.com/post/un-censored-by-lyndsey-croal
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/the-last-call-of-the-deep-lyndsey-croal/
https://darkmattermagazine.shop/blogs/issue-012/patchwork-girls

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Renan Bernardo lives in Rio de Janeiro and writes in English and Portugese. His short fiction includes "The Eight Hundred Legs of the Rio-Niterói Bridge," "The Walking Mirror of the Soul," "Look to the Sky, My Love," "A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity," and "The Small Shop of Me."

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https://podcastle.org/2022/05/31/podcastle-737-the-eight-hundred-legs-of-the-rio-niteroi-bridge/
https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-walking-mirror-of-the-soul/
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/look-to-the-sky-my-love-renan-bernardo/
https://escapepod.org/2022/11/17/escape-pod-863-a-shoreline-of-oil-and-infinity/
https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/future-societies/renan-bernardo/the-small-shop-of-me

A.D. Sui competed on the Canadian National Fencing Team, earned a PhD in Health Promotion, and writes a lot. Try "The War Moves Forward by a Meter" (Every Day Fiction), "Banquet of the Shooting Stars" (Etherea), "BFFs" (If There's Anyone Left Vol. 3), and "Toronto Isn't Real and Other Metropolitan Anomalies" (Augur).

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https://everydayfiction.com/the-war-moves-forward-by-a-meter-by-a-d-sui/
https://ethereamagazine.com/product/etherea-magazine-13/
https://www.amazon.com/If-Theres-Anyone-Left-3-ebook/dp/B0BKVG8WJX
https://www.augurmag.com/toronto-isnt-real-and-other-metropolitan-anomalies/

Rick Danforth lives in Yorkshire, works as a Systems Architect, and practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. His short fiction includes "A Date to Memoir" (Translunar Travelers Lounge), "Don't Forget Your Goat" (Etherea), and the BSFA finalist "Seller's Remorse" (Hexagon).

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2022/08/15/a-date-to-memoir-by-rick-danforth/
https://ethereamagazine.com/goat/
https://hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-11-winter-2022/

Wen Wen Yang is a first generation Chinese American from the Bronx. Some of her short publications include "The Huli Jing of Chinatown," "The Magical Sow," "Minor Magics of Chinatown," and "Skin Anomalies."

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https://zooscape-zine.com/huli-jing-of-chinatown/
https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-magical-sow/
https://factorfourmag.com/minor-magics-of-chinatown-by-wen-wen-yang/
https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/wenwenyang

Hey! I have some more authors to shout about! They write SF/F/H and are in their first or second year of eligibility for the #AstoundingAward!

If you're nominating, ballots are due April 30th. Check out some of the new writers in this thread and on my blog.

https://aphowell.com/2023/01/25/some-astounding-award-eligible-writers/

Belated addition! Ariel Marken Jack lives in Nova Scotia, curates #sfstoryoftheday, and writes about short fiction for Fusion Fragment.

https://pseudopod.org/2022/04/22/pseudopod-807-the-bleak-communion-of-abandoned-things/
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/sister-silkie-siren-shark/
https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/what-is-owed-and-what-can-never-be/

#AstoundingAward #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SFF #ShortFiction @shortsff @shortstory

Eris Young is the fiction editor of Shoreline of Infinity, the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, and author of books on the ace, nonbinary, and genderqueer experience. A number of their stories can be found for free online reading or listening, including "Deal," "The Archivist," and "Superfine."

https://escapepod.org/2021/01/28/escape-pod-769-deal/
https://theselkie.co.uk/eris-young/
https://www.metastellar.com/fiction/superfine/

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Ursula Whitcher is a mathematician, knitter, game designer, poet, and SCAdian whose short fiction includes "The Last Tutor," "The Association of Twelve Thousand Flowers," and "The Spirits of Cabassus."

https://www.asimovs.com/store/
https://www.cossmass.com/stories/the-association-of-twelve-thousand-flowers/
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-228-spirits-cabassus-ursula-whitcher

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Tehnuka is an Aotearoa New Zealand volcanologist whose stories include "Stains of Home," "Fortune Favors the Parrot," and "Clutch. Stick. Shift."

https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/tehnuka
https://writingquarter.com.au/competitions/the-writing-quarter-march-2021-competition-winner/
https://mermaidsmonthly.com/2021/07/20/clutch-stick-shift/

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Kiran Kaur Saini is an award-winning Punjabi-American writer of films and fiction, and paddler of kayaks. Check out "Your Tomorrow Clothes" and "Coiffeur Seven."

https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/34.1-winter/spring-2022/your-tomorrow-clothes/
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/coiffeur-seven/

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Reed Mingault engages in various arts and crafts. "The Scribe's Garden" was a winnder of the Cast of Wonders flash fiction contest, and fans of worldbuilding and lichen may enjoy "Everything was perfect on a utopian island nation... until the invasive hallucinogenic lichen arrived."

https://www.castofwonders.org/2021/05/cast-of-wonders-452-little-wonders-29-flash-fiction-contest-winners/
https://stone-soup.ghost.io/building-beyond-mossing-around/

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Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class Scottish writer of poetry and short fiction, some of which is collected in Turducken. "The Immortal Game," "Them at Number Seventy-Four," and "Hindbrain."

https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/the-immortal-game/
https://pseudopod.org/2022/03/25/pseudopod-803-them-at-number-seventy-four/
https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-12/

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C. E. McGill is a once and current Scot, an academic interdisciplinarian and two-time finalist for the Dell Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. Their first novel, Our Hideous Progeny, is out later this year, and you can read "Things to Bring, Things to Burn, Things Best Left Behind" and "Passengers" now.

https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/things-to-bring-things-to-burn-things-best-left-behind/
http://www.strangeconstellations.com/?page_id=501

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Nic Lipitz is a Brooklyn-based writer of science fiction and humor. Check out "The Office Drone."

https://future-sf.com/fiction/the-office-drone/

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