JASON REYNOLDS sold first adult novel The Mouthless God and Jesus Number Two to Kathy Belden at Scribner via Elena Giovinazzo of Pippin Properties. JULIETTE WADE sold Inheritors of Power, Spirits of Power, and Evolution of Power in the Broken Trust series to Sheila Gilbert at DAW via Kristopher O’Higgins of Scribe Agency.īRADLEY BEAULIEU sold the Precipice Trilogy, about humans and dragons in an alliance against an evil empire, to Betsy Wollheim at DAW via Russell Galen of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency. Moreau and a third book to Tricia Narwani at Del Rey via Eddie Schneider of JABberwocky Literary Agency.ĭEREK KÜNSKEN‘s The Quantum War and The Quantum Temple, continuing his Quantum Evolution series, sold to Michael Rowley at Solaris via Kim-Mei Kirtland of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA sold noir A Dangerous Eagerness The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, a reimagining of H.G. SEANAN McGUIRE sold Seasonal Fears, a companion novel to Middlegame, to Lee Harris at Tor.com Publishing via Diana Fox of Fox Literary.ĪRKADY MARTINE‘s post-apocalyptic Prescribed Burn and a second book resold to Bella Pagan at Pan Macmillan UK via DongWon Song of Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Film rights sold to MGM, with Phil Lord & Chris Miller to direct and Ryan Gosling to star, produced by Amy Pascal of Pascal Pictures, Ken Kao of Arcadia, and Aditya Sood of Lord Miller. STEPHEN KING sold Later to Charles Ardai at Hard Case Crime.ĪNDY WEIR‘s SF thriller Project Hail Mary sold to Julian Pavia at Ballantine via David Fugate of LaunchBooks Literary Agency. GIDEON & JANICE MARCUS of Galactic Journey received the first Space Cowboy Award, “for support and excellence in the field of science fiction,” presented by Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree CA. The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation presents the award for “outstanding achievement in science fiction and fantasy novels written by North Carolina authors.” WILLIAMS‘s A Fall in Autumn (Falstaff) won the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award, announced July 27, 2020.

Beagle (by Rina Elson Weisman)Īuthor and editor MIKE ASHLEY won the Munsey Award, presented by PulpFest “to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community.” He received a fine art print by David Saunders as his award (sent through the mail since PulpFest 2020 was canceled). This year’s judges were Barry Malzberg and Robert J.

RICK RAPHAEL (1919-1994) is the winner of the 2020 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors.

Judges were Jean-Luc Fromental, Rick Klaw, Guy Lawley, Michael Moorcock, Linda Steele, Lili Sztajn, and Brandy Whitten. BEAGLE won the Jack Trevor Story Memorial Prize/Prix du Goncourt, which includes a memorial cup and $500, which must be spent “in a week to a fortnight” (in honor of Story’s reply to a bankruptcy judge who asked where his money went: “You know how it is, judge.

The Almost Queen by Alys Murray