With the publication of issue #47 the German science fiction magazine Exodus celebrates its 20th year. Exodus is, along with InterNova’s mother magazine Nova, the leading German science fiction magazine, with a slightly different concept than Nova, always including a poetry section and with a focus on science fiction and fantastic art by artists from the German language area. Issue #47 presents thirteen new short stories by new and established writers such as Peter Schattschneider, Norbert Stöbe and Wolf Welling and a portfolio by Ingo »Krimalkin« Lohse.

The jury of the Deutsche Science Fiction Preis (German Science Fiction Award), one of the most prestigious German science fiction awards, bestowed by the largest German science fiction club SFCD, has just announced this year’s winners: in the novel category to Nils Westerboer for Athos 2643 (Klett-Cotta Hobbit-Presse) and in the story category to Aiki Mira for »Die Grenze der Welt« (Exodus 44).

Israeli science fiction writer Guy Hasson, one of InterNova‘s longest and most frequent collaborators, has recently announced that his latest book The Forgotten Girl, the first novel in his Lost in Dreams series, will be published within the next weeks. It is his first self-published book and will be for now only available in e-book format on Amazon. Lost in Dreams is an adventerous and imaginative saga about a girl who is raised in the dreams of her father.

InterNova #2, a theme issue about contemporary science fiction from Greece, has perhaps been the most noted issue since the relaunch of our magazine so far. Our friends from the Science Fiction Club of Athens have surprised readers with the remarkably high literary quality of their stories.

It seems that the gems of the Greek science fiction production are more and more recognized on the other shore of the Atlantic Ocean too. As veterans of the science fiction field know, the Nebula Awards, the genre’s most prestigious literary awards, bestowed by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, have for many decades been exclusively reserved for writers from the English speaking world, until the ban has finally been broken by French writer Aliette de Bodard in 2012. Nonetheless, it’s still a rare achievement that two Greek writers have been nominated for Nebulas in recent years: Eugenia Triantafyllou with “The Giants of the Violet Sea” (Uncanny, September/October 2021) for best novella in 2022 and Natalia Theodoridou with “The Prince of Salt and the Ocean’s Bargain” (Uncanny, September 2022) for best novelette this year, the latter also for best game writing with her work on Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires.

Greek writers have also been present in English language print and online media: Natalia Theodoridou with “In April, the Dead” in Khoreo and “Moons We Can Circumnavigate in One Day, or the Space Probe Love Story” in Lightspeed ; InterNova author Antony Paschos with “Born in ’84” in James Gunn’s Ad Astra, “Three Stars to Guide a 32-bit Ghost” in ZNB Presents; “Pinebark” in Penumbric and “A Fair Exchange” at Bards and Sages; Avra Margariti with “Death Comes for the Sword Virgins” in Strange Horizons; Madalena Daleziou with “To Give Moon Milk to A Lover” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and “Under the Mountain’s Shadow” in Tree and Stone; Christine Lucas with “Last Call: Acheron” in Kaleidotrope and Eugenia Triantafyllou with “Salt Water” at Tor.com.