A shortlist has been released for the $25,000 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which is given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction, and "is intended to recognize those writers Ursula spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech--realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now." The winner, chosen by a panel of authors, will be named on October 21. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom Publishing)
Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston (Tordotcom Publishing)
Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson (Saga Press)
The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Feminist Press)
The West Passage by Jared Pechaček (Tordotcom Publishing)
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom Publishing)
North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher (Neon Hemlock)
Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins (Sourcebooks Landmark)