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Edition 12 (2018)

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Winners

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An original short-story anthology that pits two classic motifs, robots and fairies, against each other. It plays with the border between science fiction and fantasy while refreshing both modes of imagination.

It turns the absurdly serious question of robots versus fairies into a game of invention.

384 pages
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Navah Wolfe Winner

An original short-story anthology that pits two classic motifs, robots and fairies, against each other. It plays with the border between science fiction and fantasy while refreshing both modes of imagination.

It turns the absurdly serious question of robots versus fairies into a game of invention.

384 pages
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Catriona Ward Winner

Centered on the bond between Eve and Dinah, girls raised inside a sealed community on a remote Scottish island, the novel explores violence, control, and the pull of the wider world. Its gothic atmosphere is marked by the distortions of faith and power.

Inside a closed community, friendship and control become unsettlingly entangled.

288 pages
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Tom Cox Winner

A collection of short stories steeped in nature, folklore, and uncanny shadows, it finds unease and shifting imagination in rural landscapes. The book draws on the author’s long-standing love of weird fiction.

It draws out the strange beneath the stillness of the landscape and turns it into stories.

272 pages
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Set in a snowbound forest, the journey of an ex-detective searching for a missing couple exposes the distortions of language and the violence of capitalism. It is a short but dense novella where fairy tale and detective fiction intersect.

In fairy-tale form, it traces love, loss, and the cruelty of capitalism.

128 pages
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Through the strange arrival of astronauts falling from the sky, the story brings an extraordinary disturbance into the life of an aging couple. Realistic detail is threaded with a quiet, science-fictional sense of estrangement.

It looks at an alien presence slipping into daily life with quiet humor and unease.

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Priya Sharma Winner

Built around love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality, sixteen stories move between the uncanny and the modern macabre. It is a dense horror collection where mythic atmosphere and bodily sensation coexist.

Myth and flesh, terror and beauty, all resonate within a single volume.

288 pages
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