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Ignyte Award
The Ignyte Awards are an annual literary award for the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror works and achievements of the previous year. Established in 2020 by writers L. D. Lewis and Suzan Palumbo as an off-shoot of '' FIYAH Literary Magazine'', the awards aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the speculative fiction Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, na ... genre, and are presented in 15 categories spanning fiction, non-fiction and community service. Trophies are awarded to winners at FIYAHCON, an annual speculative fiction convention focused on black, indigenous and people-of-color perspectives in the genre. The Ignyte Awards are part-juried and part-public vote: finalists are selected by the convention committee, and winners are then determined in an onlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darcie Little Badger
Darcie Little Badger (born 1987) is an author and an Earth scientist. As an author, she specializes in speculative fiction, especially horror, science fiction and fantasy. Further, as a Lipan Apache, she develops her stories with Apache characters and themes. She has also added her voice to Indigenous Futurisms, a movement among Native artists and authors to write science fiction from their historical and cultural perspectives. At the same time, some of her works feature characters who reconfirm the presence and importance of LGBTQ+ community-members. Family and education Darcie Little Badger was born Darcie Erin Ryan to Patrick Ryan, an English professor, and Hermelinda Walking Woman, the webmaster of the Lipan Apache Tribe (also known as the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas). After graduating with honors from Pleasant Grove High School in Texarkana, Texas, she attended Princeton University in New Jersey, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Geosciences. Little Badger graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon
Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company Amazon or Amazone may also refer to: Places South America * Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river * Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries * Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin Elsewhere * 1042 Amazone, an asteroid * Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, US People * Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress * Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon" Art and entertainment Fictional characters * Amazon (Amalgam Comics) * Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer * Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters * The Amazon, a ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emergency Skin
''Emergency Skin'' is a science-fiction novelette written by N. K. Jemisin. The story was first published by Amazon Original Stories as part of the ''Forward'' short fiction collection in September 2019. The story was well received, and it was awarded a Hugo Award, an Audie Award (for the audiobook), and an Ignyte Award in 2020. Plot The unnamed protagonist lives on an exoplanet colony that was founded when the collapse of life on Earth (called Tellus in the story) was deemed inevitable. He, like all other lower-class people in the colony, has a synthetic body rather than skin, which is reserved for the colony's "Founders" and other elite. Aided by a collective AI implanted in his brain, he is sent on a mission to Tellus to retrieve cell cultures that the Founders need to continue synthesizing skin. However, when he arrives there, he discovers that it is not the lifeless husk he was led to believe, and that he is far from the first of his kind to come there on a cell culture mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tochi Onyebuchi
Tochi Onyebuchi (born October 4, 1987) is a Nigerian American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer. His novella, '' Riot Baby'', received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the World Fantasy Award in 2021. He is known for incorporating civil rights and Afrofuturism into his stories and novels.Krantz, Rachel. (2021, November 8). "Freedom Writer," ''Publishers Weekly'', ''268'' (45): 37-38. via EBSCO, accessed June 23, 2022. Early life Onyebuchi was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. His parents were Nigerian Igbo immigrants Elizabeth Ihuegbu and Nnamdi Onyebuchi, who was a restaurant manager. His first name means "praise God" in Igbo. His family lived in New Britain, Connecticut, until 1998, when his father died at aged 39. His family then moved to Newington, Connecticut, to a mostly white neighborhood. He attended the Choate Rosemary Hall school in Wallingford, Connecticut. He says, "Growing up as the son of Nigerian immigrant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riot Baby
''Riot Baby'' is a science fiction novella written by Nigerian-American author Tochi Onyebuchi published in 2020. Plot Ella Jackson is a young girl with clairvoyance and telekinetic powers, which she calls her "Thing". Her younger brother Kevin “Kev” is born during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Ella’s powers grow as she ages; she has seizure-like episodes that cause furniture to fly around and harm nearby onlookers. After almost accidentally killing her mother, Ella disappears. Kev is convicted of attempted robbery and incarcerated at Rikers. Ella visits him regularly via astral projection. In a prison riot, Kev realizes that he may also be developing telekinetic powers. Kev’s mother dies while he is imprisoned. He considers suicide but changes his mind, eventually becoming a counselor for other suicidal inmates. After eight years of imprisonment, Kev is released on parole and decides to move back West. Ella becomes increasingly angry with the violence and racial discrimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar (born 13 December 1984) is a Canadian poet and writer of speculative fiction. She has published short fiction, poetry, essays and reviews, and has edited the fantastic poetry quarterly magazine ''Goblin Fruit'' since 2006. El-Mohtar began reviewing science fiction and fantasy books for the ''New York Times Book Review'' in February 2018. She has worked as a creative writing instructor at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. In 2018 she also served as a host on Brandon Sanderson's creative writing podcast ''Writing Excuses'' for Season 13. Personal life El-Mohtar was born in Ottawa, Ontario to a family of Lebanese descent. She grew up in Ottawa, with the exception of two years spent in Lebanon beginning when she was six years old. She is married and lives in Ottawa. Awards and honors El-Mohtar has also received the Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem in 2009, 2011 and 2014. Selected works El-Mohtar's full bibliography includes an extensive list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone (born May 28, 1984) is an American fantasy author. He is best known for his 2012 debut novel ''Three Parts Dead'', which is part of ''The Craft Sequence'', his urban fantasy serial ''Bookburners'', and for co-writing ''This Is How You Lose the Time War''. Gladstone is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied Chinese. He has worked in China, including as a teacher in a rural area of Anhui from 2006 to 2008, and as a translator for a car magazine. In 2013, Gladstone was a finalist for the 2012 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Career ''The Craft Sequence'' Gladstone's first novel, ''Three Parts Dead'', was published by Tor Books on October 2, 2012, to positive reception. It was followed by ''Two Serpents Rise'' in 2013, ''Full Fathom Five'' in 2014, ''Last First Snow'' in 2015, and ''Four Roads Cross'' in 2016, all part of his ''Craft Sequence''. Publication of the ''Craft Sequence'' has moved to Tor.com. The sixth novel, ''Ruin of Angels'', was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is How You Lose The Time War
''This Is How You Lose the Time War'' is a 2019 science fiction epistolary novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It was first published by Simon and Schuster. It won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction, the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 20192019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced at , published February 20, 2020; retrieved February 20, 2020 and the 2020 . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eden Royce
Eden Royce is a black gothic horror writer from Charleston, South Carolina. She references the local Gullah-Geechee culture in her writing. As a short story writer her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, as well as two collections of her work. She is also known for writing articles and reviews. In 2016 Royce was awarded the Diverse Worlds Grant by The Speculative Fiction Foundation. She is married and living in Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ..., England. Bibliography ; Collections * Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror (2015) * Spook Lights II: Southern Gothic Horror (2017) ; Anthologies * Forever Vacancy: A Colors in Darkness Anthology (2017) with Mya Lairis and Kenya Moss-Dyme ; Short fiction * 9 My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Root Magic
''Root Magic'' is a children novel by Eden Royce. It is her novel-length debut set in South Carolina. The first edition was published by Walden Pond Press an imprint of HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Cor ... in 2021. References 2021 American novels American historical fiction HarperCollins books {{2020s-child-hist-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claribel A
Claribel, Clarabelle, Clarabell or Clarabel may refer to: People *Claribel (1864-1929), one of the Cone sisters, socialites and noted art collectors *Claribel Kendall (1889-1965), American mathematician *Clarabelle C. B. Lansing, flight attendant and sole fatality in the Aloha Airlines Flight 243 accident *Claribel Medina (born 1961), Puerto Rican actress *Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830-1869), English poet and composer of ballads and hymns under the pseudonym Claribel *Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), pseudonym of Nicaraguan poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (born 1924) Fictional characters * Clarabelle Cow, a cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks *Clarabell the Clown, the human partner of Howdy Doody * Clarabel, from The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. Awdry and the related ''Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends'' television series *Claribel, mentioned but not seen in Shakespeare's '' The Tempest'' * Clarabel Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |