Marjorie Liu

Image: Lucasfilm, Tordotcom, and 20th Century StudiosIt’s that time of year again: Chengdu Worldcon has released the full list of nominees for this year’s Hugos, the premiere science fiction and fantasy awards ceremony highlighting the best in books, film, TV, and criticism in genre material.What Drew John Boyega Back Into Sci-Fi? | io9 InterviewThis year marks the 81st WorldCon, the traditional home of the Hugo Awards winners ceremony, taking place this year in Chengdu, China between October 18 to 22. More than 25,000…

Clementine, by Tillie WaldenImage: Image Comics | Tillie WaldenThe Eisner Awards, one of the most prestigious comic awards currently awarded in the United States, has announced its 2023 nominees. Much like last year, Image and DC publishing once again netted the most nominations, but this year Image has more nods: 20 (plus six shared) and DC with 11 (plus five shared). While the award is given out at San Diego Comic-Con, people and art from across the world are represented.Getty Images Wants AI to Stop Copying ThemImage…

Image: Abrams ComicArtsIf you’ve read Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s award-winning, New York Times-bestselling fantasy comic Monstress, you know two things. First, it’s an incredibly rich world as epic as Game of Thrones but even more imaginative, and second, it is gorgeous. Now Liu and Takeda have combined their immense talents again for a new comic trilogy called The Night Eaters, about an immigrant mother who forces her adult children to clean up the house across the street only to spend the night battling supernatural…

Image: TorAs io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders acted as Toastmasters during the Hugo awards ceremony at Chicon, the 80th World Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, they were also awarded with some Hugos of their very own!Other notable winners included Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace, which is the second novel in her Teixcalaan series, and the second in the series to win a Hugo. The first book, A Memory Called Empire, won in 2020. Another big winner was publisher Tor, which published…