The awards just keep coming! Earlier this week, Locus announced the winners and finalists for the Analog Analytical Laboratory Awards and the Asimov’s Readers awards. We’re excited to celebrate Mary Soon Lee and Adam-Troy Castro for being shortlisted for AnLab awards, and to keep celebrating Mary Soon Lee for having two poems make it to finalists for the Asimov’s Readers’ awards!
“To Fight the Colossus” by Adam-Troy Castro was a finalist in the AnLab awards for the category of Best Novella. This novella came out in the July/August 2023 edition, and is now available to read for free online! Adam-Troy Castro’s 26 books to date include four Spider-Man novels, three novels about his profoundly damaged far-future murder investigator Andrea Cort, and six middle-grade novels about the adventures of that very strange but very heroic young boy Gustav Gloom. You can find Adam’s darker short fiction for adults in his collection, Her Husband’s Hands And Other Stories. Adam’s works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and the Seiun (Japan), and have been nominated for eight Nebulas, three Stokers, and two Hugos. He lives in Florida with his wife Judi and either three or four cats, depending on what day you’re counting and whether Gilbert’s escaped this week.
Mary Soon Lee‘s poem “What Xenologists Read” was also a finalist, for the category of Best Poems, and first appeared in the November/December 2023 edition of Analog.
In the Asimov’s Reader’s awards Best Poems category, Mary Soon Lee also filled two of the five spots with her poems “Sphinx“, from the September/October 2023 edition, and “The Treachery of Images“, from March/April 2023.
Mary Soon Lee is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. She won the Rhysling Award and the Elgin Award, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Her work has appeared in a wide range of venues, including Atlanta Review, Cider Press Review, American Scholar, Spillway, and Rosebud, as well as award-winning fiction and fantasy magazines Lightspeed, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Analog. Before she took up writing, she had a more analytical background, with degrees in mathematics and computer science from Cambridge University and an MSc in astronautics and space engineering from Cranfield University. Born and raised in London, she has called the United States home for twenty years.
Our heartiest congratulations to both Adam and Mary!