First up this month: congratulations to Adam Roberts, whose review collection Rave and Let Die won this year's BSFA Award for Non-Fiction.
New books: Sofia Samatar's new novel The Winged Histories (a companion to A Stranger in Olondria) is out in ebook form and, any day now, as a physical artefact. Ken Liu's first (and much-anticipated) collection The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories is out from Saga: Amal El-Mohtar expressed her admiration for NPR. It includes 14 stories from the last decade plus one new piece. Joanne Merriam edited The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Book, including stories by Alicia Cole, James Dorr, Ursula Pflug, Sonya Taaffe, and others. Mike Allen's collection The Spider Tapestries is out; "Allen’s pairing of individualistic suffering and cosmic hugeness evokes a lyrical friction between dread and wonder", says Publishers Weekly. Malcolm Cross has self-published his novel Dog Country, in the same milieu as his SH story "Pavlov's House" from a couple of years ago. Susan J. Bigelow's novel Broken is out fro Book Smugglers Publishing, with sequels to follow later in the year. L.S. Johnson's collection Vacui Magia: Stories is out from Traversing Z Press. Lavie Tidhar's A Man Lies Dreaming got a US edition from Melville House. Mary Robinette Kowal's novella Forest of Memory is out from Tor.com. And last but not least, Angels of the Meanwhile is a benefit anthology to help with Elizabeth McClellan's medical expenses, and is available for preorder now.
Plenty of new stories for you to read: Rich Larson has had a busy month, with "Sparks Fly" in Lightspeed, "Seawall" in AE, and "Lotto" in the new Interzone, where you can also find stories by Michelle Ann King and E. Catherine Tobler. Carmen Maria Machado's "The Old Women Who Were Skinned" can be found in the Ochre issue of Fairy Tale Review. Natalia Theodoridou contributed a Future to Nature: "Ajdenia". A. C. Wise's "Seven Cups of Coffee" is in the March Clarkesworld. Ann VanderMeer's anthology The Bestiary includes Vandana Singh's "Yashantariksh", Amal El-Mohtar's "Weialalaleia", Dean Francis Alfar's "Enkantong-bato", Rochita Loenen-Ruiz's "The Liwat'ang Yawa and the Litok-litok", and more. At Tor.com, you can read Carrie Vaughn's "That Game We Played During the War" and Karin Tidbeck's "Listen". Kelly Jennings' "Down the Twisting Alleyways" appeared in The Sockdolager. Sarah Pinsker's "The Mountains His Crown" appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies' March science fantasy special. D. K. Latta's "Pssst! Have You Heard ... The Rumour?" is in Tesseracts Nineteen, with a superhero theme. Aliya Whiteley's "The Librarian" can be found in Bourbon Penn. Octavia Cade's "The Sea Bank of Svalbard South" can be found at Metaphorosis. Jose Iriarte's "The Curse of Giants" was in Daily SF. The latest Shimmer includes Rachael K. Jones' "Indigo Blue". The third season of Daniel Ausema's steampunk serial Spire City is underway. Virginia M. Mohlere's "The Heart of a River" can be found in Wax & Wane: A Gathering of Witch Tales. And last but not least, Margaret Killjoy's "Invisible People" appeared, in translation, in the German magazine Visionarium.
A relatively light month for new poems, but the latest Star*Line includes several poems by David C. Kopaska-Merkel, plus work by Deborah P. Kolodji, Sandra J. Lindow, and others. Akua Lezli Hope's "Lost Streets" appeared in Silver Blade's Winter 2016 edition. Alexandra Seidel's "Deep Sea Mermaid Fishing" appeared in Mythic Delirium. Peg Duthie's postcard poem "Token" appeared in First Class Lit. Sara Norja's "Witch's Lens" is in Polu Texni. James Dorr's "On the Other Hand" can be found in the current edition of the BSFA's writing magazine Focus. And Jessy Randall has a new "Diagram Poems" weekly feature at Maudlin House.
And as ever, some non-fiction to finish. Ada Hoffmann's essay "Worldbuilding About, Through, and With Autism" appeared at Disability in Kidlit. Orrin Grey's essay "But is it Scary?", discussing horror that isn't necessarily meant to be frightening, appeared in Nightmare. Adam Morgan is one of the founders of The Chicago Review of Books, which covers all sorts of material, including SF.