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Eugen Bacon

Bacon, Eugen

Birth place: Tanzania

70 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
August 2017 |5 Essay Ray Bradbury: His Writings and Legacy Aurealis, August 2017
September 2017 65 Short Fiction A Mage's Prophecy Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, September 2017
September 2017 129 Interview New Writers Unearthed: An Interview with Kris Ashton Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, September 2017
September 2017 41 Interview New Writers Unearthed: An Interview with Steve Case Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, September 2017
September 2017 139 Review Year of the Orphan Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, September 2017
October 2017 |6 Essay Crossing Genre: Exemplars of Literary Speculative Fiction Aurealis, October 2017
November 2017 |5 Short Fiction Alice Breach, November-December 2017
January 2018 |1 Short Fiction Wanderlust AntipodeanSF, January 2018
February 2018 |3 Short Fiction Surfing on Neptune Breach, February 2018
April 2018 26 Short Fiction Battleline Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 2018
April 2018 |7.1 Review Thirteen Wicked Tales Aurealis, April 2018
June 2018 |5 Essay What Is AfroSF? Aurealis, June 2018
July 2018 |7.2 Review Dying and Other Stories Aurealis, July 2018
July 2018 |2 Short Fiction Snow Metal Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2018
October 2018 |1 Short Fiction Five-Second Button AntipodeanSF, October 2018
November 2018 |7 Essay Aurealis Recommended Reading 2018 Aurealis, November 2018
November 2018 |9 Review Catching Teller Crow Aurealis, November 2018
November 2018 |10 Review The Old Knowledge and Other Strange Tales Aurealis, November 2018
February 2019 Review Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren Aurealis, February 2019
May 2019 |28 Short Fiction Apocalypse AntipodeanSF, May-July 2019
May 2019 |11 Short Fiction Cloned AntipodeanSF, May-July 2019
May 2019 Essay Writing and Reading Speculative Fiction Aurealis, May 2019
June 2019 Essay Chilling Out with Emmet O'Cuana Aurealis, June 2019
June 2019 |6 Short Fiction Claiming T-Mo (excerpt) Nightmare Magazine, June 2019
July 2019 Interview Chilling Out with Victoria "V E" Schwab Aurealis, July 2019
July 2019 |11.1 Review Claiming T-Mo Lightspeed, July 2019
August 2019 Interview Chilling Out with Director Chris Grace—Thrones! The Musical Parody Aurealis, August 2019
October 2019 |7 Interview Chilling Out with Kura Carpenter Aurealis, October 2019
December 2019 |2 Short Fiction The Day Chivalry Died AntipodeanSF, December 2019
February 2020 Interview Chilling Out with Lian Hearn Aurealis, February 2020
April 2020 |8 Essay The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction Aurealis, April 2020
August 2020 Essay Dark Fiction Aurealis, August 2020
September 2020 |5 Review Claiming T-Mo Strange Horizons, 7 September 2020
September 2020 Interview Writers Unearthed: Eugen Bacon Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, September 2020
November 2020 |15 Review Ivory's Story Black Static 77, November-December 2020
February 2021 Essay Remembering Aiki Flinthart Aurealis, February 2021
March 2021 Interview Chilling Out with Andrew Hook Aurealis, March 2021
May 2021 |1 Short Fiction When the Water Stops The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2021
June 2021 Essay On Slipstream: A Personal View Aurealis, June 2021
August 2021 |9 Interview Author Spotlight: Eugen Bacon and Seb Doubinsky Fantasy Magazine, August 2021
August 2021 |1 Short Fiction The Failing Name Fantasy Magazine, August 2021
November 2021 |6 Poem Unfinished Fantasy Magazine, November 2021
February 2022 Essay Africa: Men and Gods Aurealis, February 2022
May 2022 |8 Short Fiction Simbiyu and the Nameless Apex Magazine, May 2022
October 2022 |3 Poem A Hanging Rope SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading, October 2022
October 2022 17|17.1 Review Saving Shadows Star*Line, Fall 2022
January 2023 |12 Essay The Radical Nature of Slipstream Fiction Apex Magazine, January 2023
March 2023 Essay Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction Aurealis, March 2023
July 2023 Short Fiction The Alphabet of Pinaa: An AI Reinvents Zerself on an Inhabited Moon IZ Digital, 18 July 2023
July 2023 |2 Essay Tribute: Nick Wood (1961-2023) Omenana, July 2023
September 2023 |10 Short Fiction Memories of the Old Sun Apex Magazine, September 2023
January 2024 |9 Short Fiction The Enduring Apex Magazine, January 2024
February 2024 |1 Short Fiction A Good Ball Simultaneous Times Podcast, February 2024
August 2024 42 Poem Hot Enough to Collapse Galaxy Science Fiction, August 2024
September 2024 |15 Interview Interview with Authors Eugen Bacon and Clare E. Rhoden Apex Magazine, September 2024
September 2024 |2 Short Fiction Kizimbani Apex Magazine, September 2024
November 2024 |6 Review A Place Between Waking and Forgetting Strange Horizons, 4 November 2024
January 2025 |10 Review Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions Strange Horizons, 27 January 2025
March 2025 |7 Short Fiction Ne'za's Yearning Omenana, March 2025
March 2025 |4 Essay Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other Strange Horizons, 24 March 2025
March 2025 86 Short Fiction Unlimited Data Worlds of If, March 2025
April 2025 42 Poem Momentum Vitae SpecPoVerse, #1, April 2025
April 2025 |16 Essay Perfection, and the Bridges Between Apex Magazine, April 2025
May 2025 |1.1 Short Fiction Black Witch, Snow Leopard Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, 30 May 2025
June 2025 |30 Review A Place Between Waking and Forgetting Interzone, June 2025
June 2025 |10 Review Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction Strange Horizons, 30 June 2025
June 2025 |16 Interview Eugen Bacon Converses with Pippa Goldschmidt Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2025
June 2025 |17 Essay So You Have Been Commissioned to Write a Story... Shoreline of Infinity, Summer 2025
September 2025 |11 Review Novic Lightspeed, September 2025
October 2025 |7 Short Fiction The Water Runner Apex Magazine, October 2025

30 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2018 Collection Dying and Other Stories Eugen Bacon
2018 Collection Thirteen Wicked Tales Eugen Bacon & E. Don Harpe
2019 Novel Claiming T-Mo Eugen Bacon
2019 Nonfiction Writing Speculative Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches Eugen Bacon
2020 Collection Black Moon Eugen Bacon
2020 Collection Hadithi & The State of Black Speculative Fiction Eugen Bacon & Milton Davies
2020 Chapbook Ivory's Story Eugen Bacon
2020 Collection The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories Eugen Bacon
2021 Collection Danged Black Thing Eugen Bacon
2021 Collection Saving Shadows Eugen Bacon
2021 Collection Speculate: A Collection of Microlit Eugen Bacon & Dominique Hecq
2022 Nonfiction An Earnest Blackness Eugen Bacon
2022 Collection Chasing Whispers Eugen Bacon
2022 Anthology Fission #2: Volume 1 Eugen Bacon & Gene Rowe
2022 Anthology Fission #2: Volume 2 Gene Rowe & Eugen Bacon
2022 Novel Mage of Fools Eugen Bacon
2023 Chapbook Broken Paradise Eugen Bacon
2023 Anthology Fission #3 Eugen Bacon & Gene Rowe
2023 Anthology Languages of Water Eugen Bacon
2023 Novel Secondhand Daylight Eugen Bacon & Andrew Hook
2023 Novel Serengotti Eugen Bacon
2023 Collection Texture of Silence: An Illustrated Collection of Prose Eugen Bacon
2023 Anthology The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon & Milton Davis
2024 Collection A Place Between Waking and Forgetting Eugen Bacon
2024 Nonfiction Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction Eugen Bacon
2024 Anthology Fission #4 Eugen Bacon & Gene Rowe
2025 Anthology Fission #5 Gene Rowe & Eugen Bacon
2025 Chapbook Novic Eugen Bacon
2025 Chapbook The Nga'phandileh Whisperer Eugen Bacon
2026 Anthology SauĂști Terrors Eugen Bacon & Stephen Embleton & Cheryl Ntumy

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and collections. She's a British Fantasy Award winner, a Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in other awards. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the Otherwise Fellowships for 'doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction'. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a 'sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work', and was a 2024 Philip K Dick Award nominee. Eugen's creative work has appeared worldwide, including in Apex Magazine, Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Year's Best African Speculative Fiction.

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