Track Changes is on the Locus Recommended Reading List and BSFA Longlist

In all the uproar of this past weekend, it has probably been easy to miss that both the Locus Recommended Reading List (which compiles the recommendations of the magazine's staffers and contributors) and the BSFA longlists (from which the shortlist and eventual winners of the BSFA award will be selected) were published. I'm pleased to report that Track Changes, my collection of reviews, has been chosen to appear on both lists' respective non-fiction categories.

The BSFA award is voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association. Voting for the shortlists will conclude on February 28th. The Locus Recommended Reading List is used as a primer for the Locus poll, which is open to subscribers of the magazine as well as non-subscribers (though the latter's votes count for half). The poll will be open until April 15th.

Track Changes was also mentioned by several of the contributors to Locus's 2024 in review. Graham Sleight calls is "a long-overdue collection of reviews and essays by a critic who's gratifyingly unwilling to put up with less than the best", and Ian Mond writes:
What better way to end my "Year in Review" than to recognise the work of critic extraordinaire Abigail Nussbaum and the publication of Track Changes: Selected Reviews. If anything, this was the most important and inspiring book I read this year because it deals with a topic I'm fully invested in: the art of criticism and writing meaningful, intelligent, and eclectic reviews. The 58 pieces featured in Track Changes are a masterclass on how to construct an argument, tease apart a work of art, place that work in its social and political context, and do it with wit and heart. Nussbaum is one of the best of us, a critic whose passion for the genre is infectious.
Track Changes: Selected Reviews is available for purchase, in paperback and ebook editions, at the Briardene Books shop and on Amazon (US, UK). Briardene have recently announced their next book, Paul Kincaid's Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, which collects essays discussing efforts to systematize and categorize the genre. Colourfields will launch at this year's Eastercon convention, which will be held in April in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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