6/11/07: Peter S. Beagle has been nominated for the 2007 Mythopoeic Award for The Line Between. He previously received the Mythopoeic Award for his novel, The Folk of the Air

6/9/07: Publishers Weekly gives Portable Childhoods a starred review: "...superior writing skill and a wide range in an impressive short story collection."

5/24/07: Booklist is impressed by the lineup in Year's Best Fantasy 7: "...a who's-who-and-cool in contemporary fantasy." (Ray Olson)

5/14/07: James Patrick Kelly and Peter S. Beagle have received 2007 Nebula Awards for Burn and "Two Hearts," a novelette from The Line Between. These are the first Nebulas for both authors. Congrats, guys - you done real good.

4/02/07: Booklist likes Ellen, they really like her, and Portable Childhoods too: "Klages creates wonder-filled and beautiful worlds in her short stories, making this a tremendously satisfying collection." Tangent's review, and SF Revu's take are equally complimentary.

3/30/07: Sci Fi Weekly compares Carol Emshwiller to Gene Wolfe and John Crowley, and grades The Secret City an A. Read the rest.

3/11/07: Locus features a Gary Wolfe review of The Fate of Mice: "elegantly crafted short fiction"

3/10/07: A Fine and Private Place gets a lovely pre-publication review from The Agony Column: "What distinguishes this novel, aside from like being first on the block with the speaking to the dead deal, is Beagle's gorgeous prose."

3/09/07: Julie Phillips is the National Book Critics Circle Award winner for James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. It's a very good time to reread Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, the New York Times-hailed "definitive Tiptree collection," and the Tiptree Award anthologies 1, 2, and 3.

3/07/07: SF Site gives a featured review of The Secret City: "The Secret City is yet another strong late work from one of our treasures." Carol will be reading with the inimitable Lou Anders at the upcoming KGB event.

3/03/07: It's a Publishers Weekly starred review for The Fate of Mice: "Spanning the past 20 years of Palwick's career, the eight previously published and three new stories in this outstanding collection." Read the full review. And the Montreal Gazette is almost unstinting in its praise of the collection, saying it has "a powerful and complex utopian streak...displays a keen intelligence and a fierce imagination."

1/14/07: Ellen Klages is the winner of the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for The Green Glass Sea. The award is presented to a children's or young adult book published in English by a U.S. publisher and set in the Americas.

1/10/07: The preliminary Nebula ballot has been announced. (OK, it was announced a couple of days ago. It's been busy.) James Patrick Kelly has been pre-nominated in the novella category for Burn and Peter Beagle has been pre-nominated in the novelette category for "Two Hearts" from The Line Between.

1/09/07: Congrats to Nina Kiriki Hoffman for her Philip K. Dick Award nomination for Catalyst. The PKD award is given for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. This is Nina's first nomination.

12/19/06: Booklist lauds The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: "A dozen award-winning and short-listed pieces probe the boundaries of sexual identity in today's world and in imaginatively rendered futures...both entertaining and thought-provoking."

11/20/06: SciFi.com has selected Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology as one of its twelve 2006 Holiday Gift Picks: "Decide for yourself by slipping into short stories that are superb..." Read more.

11/17/06: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction gives eloquent praise to Peter Beagle and The Line Between: "His joy in writing, like a light behind the page, shows through every word, every sentence, every line."

11/15/06: Green Man Review extols Catalyst's charm, "a sensual story of tactile discovery, adolescent exploration, and alien communication...teems with sexuality, texture, growth, change, and discovery." Read more.

11/03/06: The Agony Column gives a pre-publication shoutout to The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Read it here.

10/26/06: SciFi.com grades Catalyst an "A": "a book that's rich and palpable, as well as being gonzo in the best sense...a short, sharp shock, delivering plenty for the money." Read it here.

10/12/06: Library Journal recommends Year's Best Fantasy 6, "the 23 stories in this collection represent the cream of the crop of short fantasy published in 2005."

10/02/06: SF Crowsnest calls Catalyst "A fascinating read." Read the full review here.

9/7/06: Booklist gives a starred review to Nina Hoffman's Catalyst: "...Hoffman knew when she'd achieved perfection."

9/01/06: Publishers Weekly gives a starred review to Year's Best Fantasy 6: "Hartwell and Cramer (The Ascent of Wonder) present 23 fantastic stories in this brilliant anthology, the first trade paperback installment of their popular Year's Best series." The rest ishere.

8/20/06: The 8/20 front page of the New York Times Book Review, reports: "There is just one great collection of Tiptree's fiction still in print, Itzkoff said. The book is called Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, from Tachyon Publications." Check out the full review here.

8/17/06: Publishers Weekly on Catalyst: "This weird novel of alien contact from Stoker-winner Hoffman (A Fistful of Sky) careens like a pinball among the bumpers of science fiction, young adult literature and softcore porn." Sounds like a good read to us...

8/12/06: SF Site extensively reviews two new Tachyon titles: Feeling Very Strange and The Line Between. Read the review for Feeling Very Strange and the review for The Line Between.