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Two Solaris titles shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize!

We’re beyond delighted to share the exciting news that The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed and The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera are both shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!

In its third year, The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is an annual $25,000 cash prize awarded to a writer for a single work of speculative fiction. This year’s panel, who will choose the winner from the ten shortlisted books, includes Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, Ken Liu, and Carmen Maria Machado. The winner will be announced on 21st October 2024—Ursula K. Le Guin’s birthday.

This is the first award nomination for The Siege of Burning Grass, and another award nomination for The Saint of Bright Doors, which has already won a Crawford, Locus, and Nebula Award. We couldn’t be happier for both authors and their tremendous novels.

You can check out the entire shortlist here!

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Revealing the cover for The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed

void ascendant cover reveal

Have you heard the news? There’s a third book in the Beneath the Rising series!

The Void Ascendant will be third and final book in the series by Locus and Aurora awards finalist Premee Mohamed, coming in March 2022.

If that wasn’t exciting enough, we are delighted to reveal the incredible cover for The Void Ascendant below.

The Void Ascendant
Cover by James Paul Jones.

Seven years ago, the last survivor of Earth crashed through uncountable dimensions and fetched up in a strange new world. Now Nick Prasad owes his life and livelihood to the royal family that employs him as a prophet, even though they are servants of the Ancient Ones who destroyed his home.
When a long-expected war breaks out, he’s eager to help organize troops and supplies… until he’s approached by a spy who claims to possess a secret that could end the reign of the Ancient Ones forever. The first step is jailbreaking a god who’s probably been locked up a little too long (and that’s the easy part).
Nick must choose between joining a fragile resistance founded on secrets and lies, or revealing it to the enemies he’s sworn to serve. But if everything works, there might be a chance to free the entire multiverse from the grasp of the Ancient Ones… both past and future.

The Void Ascendant is out 1 March 2022 in paperback, eBook, and audiobook.