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Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014 Now Available!

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Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014 Now Available!

The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014 is now available in ebook and print formats from Twelfth Planet Press, Amazon (and Amazon Australia and Amazon UK), or your favorite bookseller. This second volume in the Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction series collects 21 stories with teen protagonists, all originally published in 2014: “Left Foot, Right” by Nalo Hopkinson –from Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link, editor “Selfies” by Lavie Tidhar –from Tor.com “The Vitruvian Farmer” by...

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Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 Honourable Mentions List

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Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 Honourable Mentions List

The following is a list of stories we found worthy for the Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013, but didn’t include in our final selection. Some of them were discounted due to being more middle grade or adult than YA according to our definition of YA. Others were very good but didn’t end up in our final list for various reasons including having chosen a similar story already to wanting to select stories from a wide variety of fiction venues. The honourable mentions list is in alphabetical order according to author’s last name.  ...

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Kaleidoscope Reader Poll Results and Awards Eligibility

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Kaleidoscope Reader Poll Results and Awards Eligibility

The Kaleidoscope reader poll results are in! While lots of stories got a little love, the runaway top three were “Walkdog” by Sofia Samatar, “Cookie Cutter Superhero” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, and “The Truth About Owls” by Amal El-Mohtar. Thanks for casting your votes! We decided to run this poll partly in order to figure out which ones to include in our 2014 volume of the Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. We were totally at a loss as to how to choose favorites out of this collection because we...

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Vote for your favourite Kaleidoscope story!

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Hello, Kaleidoscope Readers! Happy New Year! We’d love to hear about your favourite Kaleidoscope story. Please vote for the one you like best in the poll below. We’ll keep this poll open until the end of January, 2015. Which is your favourite Kaleidoscope story? “Cookie Cutter Superhero” by Tansy Rayner Roberts “The Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon” by Ken Liu “The Legend Trap” by Sean Williams “End of Service” by Gabriela Lee “Chupacabra’s Song” by Jim C. Hines...

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Kaleidoscope at Readercon and LonCon

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Kaleidoscope at Readercon and LonCon

Kaleidoscope is having a busy couple of months. Next weekend we’ll be at LonCon and having a Kaleidoscope launch party! The party will be on Friday afternoon from 1:30 to 2:30 in the Book Launch section of the Library at ExCel. Please come and say hello! We’ll have Kaleidoscope stickers that you can put on your badge (or anywhere else you like), and copies of the book will also be available at the con. The very first books arrived at Julia’s house just in time for Readercon, so contributors who were attending Readercon...

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Kaleidoscope Round up on LAUNCH DAY

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It’s launch day! Yay! We’ve sent out all the backer copies of Kaleidoscope now, so if you backed the Pozible and are expecting an ebook or print book, but don’t have one, please send an email to kaleidoscope@twelfthplanetpress.com. Here’s a collection of links to interviews and essays about Kaleidoscope that have gone up on the web for our launch: Julia is over at Diversity in YA today talking about how the Kaleidoscope project came about and what diverse storytelling means to her. As a bisexual Mexican-American woman,...

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Enter our Goodreads Giveaway!

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Enter our Goodreads Giveaway!

Goodreads Book Giveaway Kaleidoscope by Julia Rios Giveaway ends August 20, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to...

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Book Smugglers and a Giveaway!

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Julia and Alisa talk about their favourite stories in Kaleidoscope and why they love them over at the Book Smugglers today. Head on over and enter the Giveaway to win one of two copies.    

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Our first review!

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We’re excited to see our very first review of Kaleidoscope! Tehani Wessely, publisher at FableCroft, included the following in her review: Kaleidoscope is one of the best anthologies I have read for a very long time. It’s not just the concept, which is both necessary and overdue; it’s not just the stories, which are engaging and beautiful and thoughtful and brilliant; it’s not just the way the authors explore science fiction and fantasy from perspectives all too frequently unseen in fiction; it’s all of these things, and that it seems...

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Kaleidoscope Cover Reveal and Table of Contents!

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Kaleidoscope Cover Reveal and Table of Contents!

We’re very excited to be able to share our cover design by Amanda Rainey, and the Kaleidoscope table of contents! Table of contents (in alphabetical order by author’s last name): “Welcome” by William Alexander “Double Time” by John Chu “Celebration” by Sean Eads “The Truth about Owls” by Amal El-Mohtar “Vanilla” by Dirk Flinthart “Careful Magic” by Karen Healey “Chupacabra’s Song” by Jim Hines “Ordinary Things” by Vylar Kaftan...

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