The 2012 Hugo Awards nominations are out, and amongst the typical gritty fantasy and zombie apocalypse novels are Jo Walton's Among Others, which sounds genuinely intriguing.

2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner Redwood and Wildfire, by Andrea Hairston, is about a hoodoo woman who migrates from backwoods Georgia north to modern Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.

It's more Random Book News: Harry Potter series now available as ebooks. Previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut novella on Amazon. RIP Adrienne Rich. New nonfiction on China's Boxer Rebellion and its relevance today. And more ...

Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, is here! The publication date that is. Squee! Yes, her dark fiction is squee worthy.

A stunning speculative fiction debut -- and a refreshing change from spaceships and swords -- is Karen Lord's novel Redemption in Indigo.