The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes out now, and book trailer!

South African author (and Apex Book of World SF 2 contributor) Lauren Beukes's hotly-anticipated new novel, The Shining Girls, is now out! And here is the trailer!

Tuesday Fiction: “Case Notes of a Witchdoctor” by Nick Wood

Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Nick Wood. Nick is a South African writer, currently resident in London, UK. Nick has published a YA SF book in South Africa entitled The stone chameleon, as well as about a dozen short stories in venues such as Infinity Plus, Interzone, PostScripts, Albedo One and AfroSF. He has also...

Tuesday Fiction: “Poison” by Henrietta Rose-Innes

Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Henrietta Rose-Innes. Henrietta is a South African fiction writer based in Cape Town. Her most recent novel, Nineveh, was published by Random House Struik in 2011, following two previous novels, Shark's Egg and The Rock Alphabet, and a collection of short stories, Homing. Her short stories have appeared in various...

Interview with Joan De la Haye

Joan De La Haye writes horror and some very twisted thrillers. She invariably wakes up in the middle of the night, because she’s figured out yet another freaky way to mess with her already screwed up characters.Joan is interested in some seriously weird shit. That’s probably also one of the reasons she writes horror. Hi...

South African writer Sarah Lotz sells new novel to Hodder

South African author Sarah Lotz has signed a major new deal with UK publisher Hodder. We have previously reported on Sarah selling her Deadlands novels (zombies in South Africa!) to Constable & Robinson, and reprinted her story Maun of the Dead. She also contributed to our 2011: South African SF/F in Review. Congratulations, Sarah! From...

Read Lauren Beukes’ “Branded” From the Apex Book of World SF 2!

Over at io9, we have Lauren Beukes's short story, Branded, available to read - one of the 26 stories now available in The Apex Book of World SF 2. Check it out and consider buying the anthology - direct from the publisher or via Amazon or Amazon UK! We were at Stones, playing pool, drinking, goofing...

Tuesday Fiction: “Morrie and the Grand Potato” by Tom Learmont

Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Tom Learmont. Tom was born in the Golden Age of Science Fiction – to grow up in Scotland and Rhodesia, filled with “sensawunda” from reading H.G. Wells, Theodore Sturgeon and James Blish. He scraped a degree and taught for a few years. Then he bought a typewriter, commenced living by...

Indiegogo: South Africa’s first Science Fiction & Horror Anthology

I'm temporarily taking over the blog while Mr. Tidhar is away. First up this week is the crowd-funded Something Wicked Science Fiction & Horror Anthology Volume One, which aims to be South Africa's first Science Fiction & Horror Anthology. It's attempting to raise $5,870 and there's only six days left before the campaign ends. Here's...

Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now Coming to UK

South African writer (and World SF Blog contributor) Charlie Human has been sitting on this news for a while (and so have we!) but, well, here's the official announcement: Charlie’s debut novel APOCALYPSE NOW NOW, plus an untitled follow-up, has sold to Jack Fogg at Century for a very healthy five-figure sum in a deal negotiated by John...

Lily Herne novels coming to the UK

I was delighted to find out yesterday that Lily Herne's novels, Deadlands and Death of a Saint, published in South Africa by Penguin, have been picked up at the London Book Fair by Constable & Robinson, under their Corsair imprint, for UK and Commonwealth publication in 2013. Herne is a pseudonym of author Sarah Lotz (who, together with...