Posted on June 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Sierra Greer's novel Annie Bot, about a robot girlfriend whose human boyfriend abuses her, has won this year's Arthur C Clarke Award; the prize honors the best science fiction novel published in the UK (The Guardian).
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The Orwell Prize winners have also been announced: Victoria Amelina, who was working on Looking at Women Looking at War when she was killed during the war in Ukraine, was chosen as the nonfiction recipient, while Donal Ryan received the fiction nod for Heart, Be at Peace (The Guardian).
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Fred Espenak, an astrophysicist known as Mr. Eclipse for his extensive coverage — including several books — about eclipses, died June 1 at age seventy-three (The New York Times).
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P. Adams Sitney, an avant-garde film scholar whose book Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde is considered the leading study of that genre, died June 8 at age eighty (The New York Times).
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Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that while AI startup Anthropic likely violated copyright law in how it obtained books to train its tool, the use of copyrighted material — when sourced properly — to train AI falls under fair use (404 Media).
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