ZNAK SAGITE — više od fantastike — edicija, časopis, knjižara...

Žiri u sastavu Mihaela Marija Perković (predsjednica žirija), Petra Bulić, Tihomir Macek, Irena Rašeta, Davor Šišović i Monika Tresk te Žarko Radulović, Ivana D. Horvatinčić i Tatjana Jambrišak kao rezervni članovi, odlučio je o ovogodišnjim dobitnicima nagrade SFERA, jedine žanrovske nagrade u Hrvatskoj, za djela objavljena tijekom protekle godine. And the winners are ...

    * najbolja minijatura: Zoran Janjanin, Quare desperamus? (Treća stvarnost, Pučko otvoreno učilište, Pazin, 2009.)
    * najbolja kratka priča: Milena Benini, Plesati zajedno pod polariziranim nebom (Priče o dinosaurima, Pučko otvoreno učilište, Pazin, 2009.)
    * najbolja priča: Zoran Vlahović, Svaki put kad se rastajemo ... (Ubiq 5, Mentor, Zagreb, 2009.)
    * najbolji roman: Damir Hoyka, Xavia (VBZ, Zagreb, 2009.)
    * najbolji roman za djecu: Ivana D. Horvatinčić, Pegazari (Knjiga u centru, Zagreb, 2009.)
    * najbolja drama: Tanja Radović, zbirka drama Ledeno doba (Meandar, Zagreb, 2009.)
    * najbolja ilustracija u boji: Tomislav Tikulin, ilustracija naslovnice Staklene knjige kradljivaca snova Gordona Dahlquista (Algoritam, Zagreb, 2009.)

Potpuni WTF za Xaviju...

Shirley Jackson Nominees

Nominees for the third annual Shirley Jackson Award, presented for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic, have been announced. The winners will be announced at Readercon 21 in Burlington, MA, the weekend of July 8.

Novel

    * Big Machine, by Victor LaValle
    * Last Days, by Brian Evenson
    * The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters
    * The Owl Killers, by Karen Maitland
    * The Red Tree, by Caitlin R. Kiernan
    * White is for Witching, by Helen Oyeyemi

Novella

    * The Language of Dying, by Sarah Pinborough
    * Midnight Picnic, by Nick Antosca
    * "Sea-Hearts," by Margo Lanagan
    * Shrike, by Quentin Crisp
    * Vardøger, by Stephen Volk
    * The Witnesses are Gone, by Joel Lane

Novelette

    * "Catch Hell," by Laird Barron
    * "Each Thing I Show You Is a Piece of My Death," by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer
    * "Lonegan's Luck," by Stephen Graham Jones
    * "Morality," by Stephen King
    * The Night Cache, by Andy Duncan

Short Story

    * "The Crevasse," by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
    * "Faces," by Aimee Bender
    * "The Jacaranda Smile," by Gemma Files
    * "The Pelican Bar," by Karen Joy Fowler
    * "Procedure in Plain Air," by Jonathan Lethem
    * "Strappado," by Laird Barron

Single-Author Collection

    * Everland and Other Stories, by Paul Witcover
    * Fugue State, by Brian Evenson
    * Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, by Robert Shearman
    * There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
    * Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, by Kevin Wilson
    * Zoo, by Otsuichi

Edited Anthology

    * Apparitions, edited by Michael Kelly
    * British Invasion, edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James A. Moore
    * Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson
    * Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow
    * Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow

http://twitpic.com/1g4bk7

Quote from: Neil Gaiman
I was just awarded the Kurt Vonnegut literature award. Photo by Daniel Axler.

2010 Locus Awards Finalists

The top five finalists in each category of the 2010 Locus Awards have been announced. Winners will be presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27, 2010. Tickets are still available.

Science Fiction Novel

    * The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Subterranean; Tor)
    * Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
    * Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
    * Galileo's Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra)
    * Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Fantasy Novel

    * The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
    * Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
    * Drood, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
    * Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
    * Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)

First Novel

    * The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
    * The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
    * Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
    * Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
    * Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)

Young-Adult Novel

    * The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon)
    * Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
    * Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic; Scholastic UK)
    * Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury; Allen & Unwin Australia)
    * Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Novella

    * The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
    * "Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
    * "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
    * Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
    * "Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless)

Novelette

    * "By Moonlight", Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
    * "It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
    * "First Flight", Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
    * "Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/3/09)
    * "The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)

Short Story

    * "The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
    * "An Invocation of Incuriosity", Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)
    * "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
    * "Going Deep", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)
    * "Useless Things", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse Three)

Magazine

    * Analog
    * Asimov's
    * Clarkesworld
    * F&SF
    * Tor.com

Publisher

    * Baen
    * Night Shade
    * Pyr
    * Subterranean
    * Tor

Anthology

    * Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
    * The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)
    * The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
    * Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean)
    * Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

Collection

    * We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
    * Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
    * Wireless, Charles Stross (Ace, Orbit UK)
    * The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)
    * The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)

Editor

    * Ellen Datlow
    * Gardner Dozois
    * David G. Hartwell
    * Jonathan Strahan
    * Gordon Van Gelder

Artist

    * Stephan Martinière
    * John Picacio
    * Shaun Tan
    * Charles Vess
    * Michael Whelan

Non-fiction/Art Book

    * Powers: Secret Histories, John Berlyne (PS)
    * Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
    * Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)
    * This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
    * Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess, Charles Vess (Dark Horse)

Author Blog Awards 2010

The Winners!

We've had an unbelievable response to the nominations and voting stages with thousands of readers and writers supporting their favourite author blogs.

The results of the author blog awards were announced at the London book fair 2010. Congratulations to the Winners and a bit thank you to everyone who voted.

The winners come in three categories:

Best published author blog
Winner: Emily Benet emilybenet.blogspot.com
Runners-up: Cleolinda Jones cleolinda.livejournal.com & Jackie Morris drawingalineintime.blogspot.com

Best author microblog
Winner: Neil Gaiman twitter.com/neilhimself
Runner-up: Richard Jay Parker twitter.com/bookwalter

Best unpublished author blog
Winner: Sam Starbuck copperbadge.livejournal.com
Runner-up: Jane Alexander exmoorjane.blogspot.com

Everyone who voted will have the chance to win something from our fantastic selection of prizes. We'll notify you shortly if you were a winner. You can see more information about the prizes on our prizes page


THE AIM OF THE AUTHOR BLOG AWARDS

There are over 10,000 published and unpublished authors blogging to readers, writers and industry professionals. Despite huge loyal followings and a remarkable wealth of new content, many readers remain unaware of these blogs.

The Author Blog Awards is brought to you by CompletelyNovel and aims to honour the best blogs by both published and unpublished writers. They will recognise the writers who use their blogs to connect with readers in the most imaginative, engaging and inspiring ways. At the same time we hope to attract new audiences to these blogs and help readers find out more about the authors they love...and new authors too.

Blogs are a great, affordable means for any writer to reach their audience directly – so we want to recognise the best of them!

Čajna dobi Artura Č Klarka treći put u karijeri. Svaka čast!

China Miéville has become the first author to win the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award on three separate occasions.

His novel The City & The City (Macmillan) was one of six novels shortlisted for the Award, the UK's premier prize for science fiction literature.

Speaking after the announcement China Miéville said:

'This has been a truly fantastic shortlist: it's been a huge honour to be on it, shortlists being probably the most important aspect of any award. And now after all that is the astonishment of hearing that my book won. I couldn't be more moved by and grateful for the honour the judges have done this book."

china_video.wmv

Chair of the Judges Paul Billinger, said:

"Having now chaired the judging meetings for a number of years I keep expecting that just once the choice of winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award will be clear and obvious: but not this year. The decision was incredible close but in the end The City and the City just came out ahead."

Tom Hunter, administrator for the Arthur C. Clarke Award added:

"The reaction to this year's shortlist has been amazing, and the discussion so genuinely impassioned. What's pleased me most has been the fact that every book shortlisted this year has had it's camp of enthusiastic advocates, and I don't think there's been a list that's been a tougher call than this for many a year.

"I delighted with this result for China. The City & The City is a brilliant book by one our greatest writers, in any genre, and a fantastic result for the Arthur C. Clarke Award."

China Miéville has previously won the Award with Perdido Street Station in 2001 and Iron Council in 2005.

Authors Pat Cadigan and Geoff Ryman have also both won twice in the Award's twenty-four year history.

This year's six shortlisted titles were selected from a long list of forty-one eligible submissions put forward by seventeen different publishing houses and imprints.

The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.

The winner receives a prize of £2010 along with a commemorative engraved bookend.

The judging panel for the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award were Chris Hill and Jon Courtenay Grimwood for the British Science Fiction Association, Francis Spufford and Rhiannon Lassiter for the Science Fiction Foundation and Paul Skevington for the science fiction news website SF Crowsnest.com. Paul Billinger represented the Arthur C. Clarke Award as the Chair of Judges.

Award Administrator Tom Hunter and editor of SFX Magazine David Bradley, media partners of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, presented the prize in front of a full house of publishers, authors and members of the science fiction community at a special award ceremony held on the opening night of the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival: www.sci-fi-london.com

2009 Shirley Jackson Award Shortlist

— posted Friday 30 April 2010 @ 2:26 pm PDT

The 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced. The awards are presented for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction.

Novel

    * Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland)
    * The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
    * Big Machine, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau)
    * The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte)
    * White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese)
    * The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead)

Novella

    * Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca (Word Riot)
    * Shrike, Quentin S. Crisp (PS)
    * "Sea-Hearts", Margo Lanagan (X6)
    * The Witnesses are Gone, Joel Lane (PS)
    * The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (PS)
    * Vardøger, Stephen Volk (Gray Friar)

Novelette

    * "Catch Hell", Laird Barron (Lovecraft Unbound)
    * The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS)
    * "each thing i show you is a piece of my death", Gemma Files & Stephen J. Barringer  (Clockwork Phoenix 2)
    * "Lonegan's Luck", Stephen Graham Jones (New Genre 6)
    * "Morality", Stephen King (Esquire)

Short Story

    * "The Crevasse", Dale Bailey & Nathan Ballingrud (Lovecraft Unbound)
    * "Strappado", Laird Barron (Poe)
    * "Faces", Aimee Bender (The Paris Review, Winter '09)
    * "The Jacaranda Smile", Gemma Files (Apparitions)
    * "The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3)
    * "Procedure in Plain Air", Jonathan Lethem (The New Yorker 10/26/09)

Single-Author Collection

    * Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
    * Zoo, Otsuichi (Haikasoru)
    * There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
    * Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
    * Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, Kevin Wilson (Harper Perennial)
    * Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS)

Edited Anthology

    * Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
    * Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
    * British Invasion, Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, & James A. Moore, eds. (Cemetery Dance)
    * Apparitions, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow Publications)
    * Exotic Gothic 3, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash Tree)

The awards will be presented at Readercon 21 in Burlington, Massachusetts, July 8-11, 2010, with guest of honor Nalo Hopkinson hosting.

Jel' taj Mjevil zaista valja, ili je u pitanju hajp?

U pitanju je hajp... ali opravdani  Doduse, znam i ljude kojima je bio dosadan. Bezi od jedine prevedene knjige u nas. Inace, The City & The City se potpuno razlikuje od svega sto je do tada napisao tako da ne znam koliko bi, samo on, bio relevantan za procenu njegovog lika i dela.

Oto Oltvanji o Mievilu i "Gradu i gradu"
http://www.otooltvanji.com/?p=361

Zvuchi to dosta dobro...verovatno cu ga overiti.

Prevode generalno izbegavam kada su u pitanju jezici koje znam, tako da mi ovde u sluchaj dolaze samo originalna izdanja.

Pa nije da će neko ovde da ga objavi :/

Best Fannish Cat 

May 4th, 2010
This year's Australian NatCon, held in conjunction with Aussiecon 4, will be a lighthearted affair. As you might guess from the name, Dudcon, they are not taking themselves very seriously. They will, of course, present the Ditmar Awards, but alongside that they have resurrected a legendary Australian fan award: Best Fannish Cat.

According to their website, the rules of the award are as follows:

   1. Only financial members of Dudcon III (49th Australian National SF Convention) are eligible to nominate for this award and may nominate up to three different nominees.
   2. Only financial members of Dudcon III (49th Australian National SF Convention) are eligible to vote for this award.
   3. Nominees must be natural members of the species Felis Catus.
   4. Nominees must be resident in Australia at the time of nomination.
   5. Nominees must be alive at the time of nomination.
   6. Nominators may be asked to substantiate the "Fannish" aspect of the nominee. Ownership by or association with fans would ordinarily be sufficient.
   7. This rule intentionally left blank.
   8.
   9. All decisions of the award committee will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

In the spirit of our Recommendation Lists we invite persons owned by fannish cats who qualify for nomination to link to pictures of their owners in comments below. LOLcat captions are optional.

SFWA has announced that this year's Nebula Awards ceremony will be streamed live over the Internet. Coverage begins at 7:00 pm EDT on Saturday, May 15 and can be found at http://sfwa.org/nebula-awards-live-broadcast. Our congratulations to SFWA on this excellent innovation.

Uh, EDT je UTC -4, zači to je kod nas u... 12?

Sta ga znam, ja sam, za divno cudo, prespavao

Nebula Awards Results

The 2009 Nebula Awards (the Nebulas are dated for the nominal year of publication, not the year of presentation) were presented tonight at a ceremony at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The ceremony was streamed live over the internet, and despite a few technical glitches, it was great to be able to watch the ceremony as it happened. According to UStream, at least 158 people watched the live stream. The awards announced tonight were:

Novel

   * The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books, Sep09)

Novella

   * The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean Press, Jun09)

Novelette

   * "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" – Eugie Foster (Interzone, Feb09)

Short Story

   * "Spar" – Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Oct09)

The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

   * " District 9" Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Tri-Star, Aug09)

Andre Norton Award

   * The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – Catherynne M. Valente (Catherynne M. Valente, Jun09)

Joe Haldeman was inducted as Damon Knight Grand Master by Connie Willis. Neil Barret Jr. was recognized as Author Emeritus. Other Awards previously announced were also presented, as detailed in the official announcement.

Vrlo dobro! Yay za Ket Valente i Baćigalupija!

"Spar" – Kij Johnson

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/


Uh, sad se setih da sam čitao to... cela priča je maratonska sesija ružnog jebanja...

Uf, kad to tako kazes, ruzno zvuci. Odlicna je prica, maestralne egzekucije. Doduse jedna od onih kojima treba bar 2 citanja.

Jeste kako ti kažeš ali jeste i kako ja kažem

jeste kako melkor kaze...steta sto nije i kako ti kazes, bila bi jos bolja

The 2010 Prix Aurora Awards winners were announced at Keycon 27, held May 21-23, 2010 in Winnipeg, Canada.

Best Novel in English:
Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)

Best Novel in French:
Suprématie, Laurent McAllister (pen name of Jean-Louis Trudel & Yves Meynard) (Bragelonne)

Best Short-Form Work in English:
"Pawns Dreaming of Roses", Eileen Bell (Women of the Apocalypse)

Best Short-Form Work in French:
"Ors blancs", Alain Bergeron (Solaris #117)

Best Work in English (Other):
Women of the Apocalypse, Eileen Bell, Roxanne Felix, Billie Milholland, & Ryan McFadden (Absolute Xpress)

Best Work In French (Other):
Solaris, Joël Champetier, ed.

Artistic Achievement:
Steel Whispers cover, Dan O'Driscoll (Bundoran)

Fan Accomplishment (Fanzine):
WCFSAZine, R. Graeme Cameron, ed.

Fan Accomplishment (Organization):
Filk Hall of Fame, David Hayman

Fan Accomplishment (Other):
Astronomy Lecture at USS Hudson Bay, Ray Badgerow

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/05/bacigalupi-wins-2010-compton-crook-award/

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society  has announced that Paolo Bacigalupi is the winner of the 2010 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award for The Windup Girl (Night Shade).

The award will be presented at Balticon 44, where Bacigalupi will receive an award plaque and check for $1,000 on May 28, 2010, during the convention's opening ceremonies.

Finalists were Dying Bites, by D.D. Barant (St. Martin's), Soulless, by Gail Carriger (Orbit), and Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer, by Jonathan L. Howard (Doubleday). Selection is by vote of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society membership.



http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/05/2010-theodore-sturgeon-memorial-award-finalists/

The finalists for the 2010 Theodore Sturgeon Award have been announced:

    * "Things Undone", John Barnes (Baen's Universe 12/09)
    * "This Wind Blowing, and this Tide", Damien Broderick (Asimov's 4-5/09)
    * "As Women Fight", Sara Genge (Asimov's 10-11/09)
    * "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
    * "Blood Dauber", Ted Kosmatka & Michael Poore (Asimov's 12/09)
    * "Cockatrice", Tanith Lee (Fantasy Magazine 10/09)
    * Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
    * "Her Voice in a Bottle", Tim Pratt (Subterranean Winter '09)
    * "True Fame" Robert Reed (Asimov's 4-5/09)
    * "The Death of Che Guevara", Lewis Shiner (Subterranean Fall '09)
    * "Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com)
    * "The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)

Kij Johnson, a juror, has removed her story from consideration. The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, to be held July 16-18, 2010 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Književnik Đorđe Milosavljević dobitnik je nagrade "Isidora Sekulić" za roman "Đavo i mala gospođa", u izdanju beogradske "Lagune", saopštio je žiri.

Sidewise Award Finalists

The finalists for this year's Sidewise Awards (for works of alternate history) are as follows:

Short Form

    * Paul Di Filippo, "Yes, We Have No Bananas," Eclipse 3, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Night Shade Books
    * Alastair Reynolds, "The Fixation," The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 3, George Mann (ed.), Solaris
    * Chris Roberson, "Edison's Frankenstein," Postscripts 20/21
    * Bruce Sterling, "Black Swan," Interzone (April 2009)
    * Sarah Zettel, "The Persistence of Souls," The Shadow Conspiracy, Phyllis Irene Radford & Laura Anne Gilman (eds.), Book View Café

Long Form

    * Robert Conroy, 1942, Ballantine

In the announcement email Steven H Silver notes that there is only one finalist in the Long Form category, but adds that No Award is a legal option for the jury. The people who will make that decision are: Stephen Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Stu Shiffman, Kurt Sidaway, and Steven H Silver.

2010 Locus Awards Winners

— posted Saturday 26 June 2010 @ 3:25 pm PDT

The 2010 Locus Awards winners were announced at the annual Science Fiction Awards Weekend, held June 25-27, 2010 in Seattle, WA. The Awards were covered live, and a full report will appear in the August issue.

Best SF Novel:

    * Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel:

    * The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

Best First Novel:

    * The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Young Adult Book:

    * Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Best Novella:

    * The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette:

    * ''By Moonlight'', Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)

Best Short Story:

    * ''An Invocation of Incuriosity'', Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

Best Anthology:

    * The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)

Best Collection:

    * The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)

Best Non-Fiction Book/Art Book:

    * Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)

Best Artist:

    * Michael Whelan

Best Editor:

    * Ellen Datlow

Best Magazine:

    * The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Best Book Publisher:
    * Tor

A Genre Like Any Other


It is Booker Prize season again, and therefore time for wailing and gnashing of teeth around the blogosphere.

First up, if you want to see the long list, it can be found here.

And now the controversy. Last year, you may remember, Kim Stanley Robinson complained about the lack of recognition for his type of novel, and Booker judge John Mullan made a complete ass of himself by saying that the award didn't look at science fiction because SF is, "bought by a special kind of person who has special weird things they go to and meet each other." Unsurprisingly, a few noses were put out of joint.

This year the chairman of the judges, Andrew Motion, has tried to head off any discussion by insisting that, despite the apparent lack of SF on the list, the jury did not "consciously" exclude it. That, of course, is exactly the same argument put forward by people defending all-white-male award lists. It is the "I'm not racist/sexist/etc., it is just that the books by white men are better than anything else" argument.

Motion compounds this with a foray into victim politics. According to The Guardian he said, "the Man Booker prize was an award for literary fiction and there were plenty of prizes for crime and sci-fi."

That, of course, is as clear an admission as you can get that the Booker is not a general award for the "best" books of the year, but actually a very specific award for a very specific type of book: "literary fiction".

Remember, the whole point of genre is that it is a marketing tool aimed at helping readers find "more like this". Books are identified as belonging to a genre if they have common tropes, a small subset of expected plot structures, and generally are predictable. People whose reading is confined to a particular genre are people who don't like reading outside of their comfort zone. Clearly Motion is one of those people.

Exactly how a "literary fiction" novel is identified is not clear, though I'm sure that Motion will know one when he sees one, just as Damon Knight did for SF. Anecdotally such books have been about middle-aged university professors with unhappy marriages who have affairs, and indeed sex seems to be an important trope as Motion bemoans the lack of it in this year's potential nominees. The important point, however, is that "literary fiction" is not defined by being well written, it is defined by the fact that it conforms to the expectations of the literary fiction genre. A book that is well written, but does not conform to the expectations of "literary fiction" is, in Motion's eyes, not a potential Booker candidate.

On the other side of the fence, Paul Graham Raven argues that we in the SF ghetto should not care if Motion and his pals don't read our books. Indeed, we should worry if they did, because if they outside world ever finds out what we are up to, and starts to like it, our art will be horribly polluted by their attention.

This is exactly the same argument I am used to hearing from the crusties at Worldcon. "Don't pay any attention to the likes of Dragon*Con and Comic-Con," they wail, "if the sort of people who attend those events came to Worldcon our little club would be ruined, ruined I tell you!"

There's a certain type of person who likes living in a ghetto, who likes having exclusive interests that few other people share. Often such people feel better if the outside world despises them, because it makes them feel even more special. And if that's what they want to do, fine, but they shouldn't expect everyone else with similar interests to want to stay in the ghetto with them. After all, for the writers (and publishers) there is money at stake; lots of it.

Of course popular culture has already invaded the science fiction ghetto. For the most part SF outsells literary fiction very nicely thank you. SF&F books can often be found on the NYT best seller lists. Sometimes they are by big names such as Rowling, Pratchett and Gaiman; in other cases they are franchised works such as the Star Wars novels (some of which are written by favorite authors of mine such as Karen Traviss and Sean Williams). So it is, I think, ridiculous to argue that SF would come to any further harm by being associated with the Booker.

What that association would do, however, is improve the sales prospects of some of the best writers in our field. Because while the Booker judges might think that their prize is only for that small subset of books that they identify as "literary", the media and the book trade treat it as a prize for the best book of the year. Books that make the long list can expect a huge bump in sales, and the winner is guaranteed a print run in the millions.

That is why the Booker matters. If Motion and his pals want to have an award just for the sort of books that they like, that's fine by me, but they have no right to claim that their little genre is any better than anyone else's genre, and the media and book trade should not treat them as if it is.

The funny thing is, of course, that last year the Booker went to an historical novel, Wolf Hall, which is most definitely not a work in the literary fiction genre. Furthermore, this year there's at least one other apparent historical fiction book on the long list. Except that, as I noted a few days ago, it is actually the first book in a trilogy of novels about immortality, with at least one immortal character in it. So despite Mr. Motion's protestations, the Booker judges do have an SF novel on the list. It must have been the lack of talking squid that confused them.

http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=9200

Quote from: Amanda Robin on 29-07-2010, 10:01:08
Because while the Booker judges might think that their prize is only for that small subset of books that they identify as "literary", the media and the book trade treat it as a prize for the best book of the year.

Tu je, valjda, poenta.

pa, valjda bi trebala biti, ali đavo ga zna gde je zapravo.
Sećam se jedne rasprave o istoj temi u kojoj je jedan baja mrtav-ladan izjavio kako je suludo očekivati da za respektabilnu nagradu mogu/trebaju konkurisati knjige sa ritardiranim naslovnicama kakve se već u žanru mogu naći. 

A onda tu bude i stoički getoiziranih mišljenja kao što je ovo:

Booker Prize longlist snubs genre fiction (again); should we give a damn?
Paul Raven @ 28-07-2010

It's that time of year once again where Britain's booklovers (and others around the world) get to see and discuss the longlist of nominations for the prestigious Booker Prize. And, as is traditional, there's a complete lack of genre fiction on it; cue much kvetching from the genre fiction scene. (Like we need an excuse, right?)
At the risk of sounding contrarian, I really don't think it matters. Sure, there's the argument that genre titles and authors would benefit from the prestige and exposure, but in response I'd say you can't miss what you've never had, and Dan Brown's certainly not suffering from lack of acclaim by juried prizes (more's the pity).

What we love to read just isn't widely appreciated; perhaps it could be (if we assume that the sort of person who consciously chooses "literary" fiction over any other sort is no more picky or prejudiced than someone who consciously expresses a preference for "genre" fiction, and that they would be influenced toward something they previously turned their noses up at because of an award nomination, which are pretty big assumptions, not to mention ones that probably wouldn't wash if you reversed the polarity of the preferences in question), but it's not. And while I'd love for the authors I most enjoy to be rich, successful and still cranking out great books, I really struggle to care that they're not on that list.
As a cautionary parable, I'd point out that this reminds me of the way I and my fellow thrash metal fans at college used to bemoan the lack of mainstream exposure and appreciation for our chosen genres. If only people had the opportunity and encouragement give this stuff a chance, they'd be able to appreciate the musicianship, give the imagery and symbolism a chance to sink in properly, understand that there's more to it than studs, leather and album covers with demons on them. Wind forward a decade an a half, and we got our wish: MTV and daytime radio is full of watered-down imitations and knock-offs of authentic and innovative rock and metal music, enthusiastically and uncritically consumed by people to whom it's nothing more than three minute chunks of momentary audio diversion. And so the subgenres move on and progress, continuing to develop new ideas (or new takes on old ideas, perhaps), pushing at the boundaries of expectation and possibility, and selling their work to a handful of thousand people worldwide; meanwhile, mass-market cookie-cutter product makes millions for middlemen and elevates talentless hacks to superstar status, simultaneously providing a whole new bunch of tired cliches for everyone outside your fandom to assume must apply to everything within it.

Be careful what you wish for, in other words; an explosion of public recognition for the obscure cultural product you love rarely works out the way you want it to. And every time we moan that prizes like the Booker don't recognise the genius that resides within our ghetto, we confirm the opinion we assume that they hold of us: provincial geeks with marginal interests and a persecution complex. We wear the bruised vanity of the snubbed underdog like sackcloth and ashes, and it does us a disservice far greater than being passed over by a prize that – by its own implications and history, if not outright admission – is just as focussed on a small (if ill-defined) set of aesthetic criteria as our own in-ghetto awards.

Let it go, people. Let it go.

http://futurismic.com/2010/07/28/booker-prize-longlist-snubs-genre-fiction-again-should-we-give-a-damn

Mythopoeic Awards Announced
July 11th, 2010 by Kevin

As reported by File 770, The winners of the 2010 Mythopoeic Awards were announced at Mythcon 41 in Dallas today. They are as follows:

Adult Literature: Jo Walton, Lifelode (NESFA Press)

Children's Literature: Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown)

Inklings Studies: Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Myth & Fantasy Studies: Marek Oziewicz, One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott Card (McFarland, 2008)

Alexei Kondratiev Student Paper Award: Michael Millburn, "Art According to Romantic Theology: Charles Williams' Analysis of Dante Reapplied to J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Leaf By Niggle'"

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works in 2009 has been announced. The awards will be presented in Columbus OH, October 28-31, 2010.  Nominees are:

Novel

    * Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)
    * The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
    * The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey)
    * Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)
    * In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey)

Novella

    * The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
    * "The Lion's Den", Steve Duffy (Nemonymous Nine: Cern Zoo)
    * The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS)
    * "Sea-Hearts", Margo Lanagan (X6 )
    * "Everland", Paul Witcover (Everland and Other Stories)

Short Story

    * "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said", Richard Bowes (F&SF 12/09)
    * "The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
    * "A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, or, A Lullaby", Helen Keeble (Strange Horizons 6/09)
    * "Singing on a Star", Ellen Klages (Firebirds Soaring)
    * "The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale", Paul Park (Postscripts 20/21: Edison's Frankenstein )
    * "In Hiding", R.B. Russell (Putting the Pieces in Place)
    * "Light on the Water", Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy 10/09)

Anthology

    * Poe,  Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
    * Songs of The Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean/Voyager)
    * Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash-Tree)
    * Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
    * American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, Peter Straub, ed. (Library of America)
    * The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (Tachyon)

Collection

    * We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
    * Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
    * There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
    * Northwest Passages, Barbara Roden (Prime)
    * Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS)
    * The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (PS /Tor)

Artist

    * John Jude Palencar
    * John Picacio
    * Charles Vess
    * Jason Zerrillo
    * Sam Weber

Special Award – Professional

    * Peter & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
    * Ellen Datlow for editing anthologies
    * Hayao Miyazaki for Ponyo
    * Barbara & Christopher Roden for Ash-Tree Press
    * Jonathan Strahan for editing anthologies
    * Jacob & Rina Weisman for Tachyon Publications

Special Award – Non-Professional

    * John Berlyne for Powers: Secret Histories
    * Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, & Sean Wallace for Clarkesworld
    * Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons
    * John Klima for Electric Velocipede
    * Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw, and Eric M. Van for Readercon
    * Ray Russell & Rosalie Parker for Tartarus Press

The Life Achievement Awards will be released in the coming weeks in a separate announcement.

Ceremonija dodele nagrade HUGO počinje po srpskom vremenu u nedelju 5.12. u 12.00 (tačno u podne) (u Melburnu je tad 8 uveče, ako nekog zanima). Nemaju video link nego nešto malo čudnije, rekao bih: TRANSKRIPT dešavanja i govora u realnom vremenu.

Pratite na http://www.thehugoawards.org/2010/09/hugo-award-ceremony-live-coverage/ — možda se smiluju pa puste i video.


A nominovani su:

Best Novel
(699 Ballots)

    * Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
    * The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
    * Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
    * Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
    * Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)
    * The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Novella
(375 Ballots)

    * "Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
    * The God Engines, John Scalzi (Subterranean)
    * "Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit)
    * Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
    * "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days; Pyr, Gollancz)
    * The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette
(402 Ballots)

    * "Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/09)
    * The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
    * "It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three; Night Shade Books)
    * "One of Our Bastards is Missing", Paul Cornell (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three; Solaris)
    * "Overtime", Charles Stross (Tor.com 12/09)
    * "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast", Eugie Foster (Interzone 2/09)

Best Short Story
(432 Ballots)

    * "The Bride of Frankenstein", Mike Resnick (Asimov's 12/09)
    * "Bridesicle", Will McIntosh (Asimov's 1/09)
    * "The Moment", Lawrence M. Schoen (Footprints; Hadley Rille Books)
    * "Non-Zero Probabilities", N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld 9/09)
    * "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)

Best Related Book
(259 Ballots)

    * Canary Fever: Reviews, John Clute (Beccon)
    * Hope-In-The-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees, Michael Swanwick (Temporary Culture)
    * The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction, Farah Mendlesohn (McFarland)
    * On Joanna Russ, Farah Mendlesohn (ed.) (Wesleyan)
    * The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of SF Feminisms, Helen Merrick (Aqueduct)
    * This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)

Best Graphic Story
(221 Ballots)

    * Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Written by Neil Gaiman; Pencilled by Andy Kubert; Inked by Scott Williams (DC Comics)
    * Captain Britain And MI13. Volume 3: Vampire State Written by Paul Cornell; Pencilled by Leonard Kirk with Mike Collins, Adrian Alphona and Ardian Syaf (Marvel Comics)
    * Fables Vol 12: The Dark Ages Written by Bill Willingham; Pencilled by Mark Buckingham; Art by Peter Gross & Andrew Pepoy, Michael Allred, David Hahn; Colour by Lee Loughridge & Laura Allred; Letters by Todd Klein (Vertigo Comics)
    * Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
    * Schlock Mercenary: The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse Written and Illustrated by Howard Tayler

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
(541 Ballots)

    * Avatar Screenplay and Directed by James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox)
    * District 9 Screenplay by Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell; Directed by Neill Blomkamp (TriStar Pictures)
    * Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)
    * Star Trek Screenplay by Robert Orci & Alex Kurtzman; Directed by J.J. Abrams (Paramount)
    * Up Screenplay by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter; Story by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, & Thomas McCarthy; Directed by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter (Disney/Pixar)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
(282 Ballots)

    * Doctor Who: "The Next Doctor" Written by Russell T Davies; Directed by Andy Goddard (BBC Wales)
    * Doctor Who: "Planet of the Dead" Written by Russell T Davies & Gareth Roberts; Directed by James Strong (BBC Wales)
    * Doctor Who: "The Waters of Mars" Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
    * Dollhouse: "Epitaph 1″ Story by Joss Whedon; Written by Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon; Directed by David Solomon (Mutant Enemy)
    * FlashForward: "No More Good Days" Written by Brannon Braga & David S. Goyer; Directed by David S. Goyer; based on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer (ABC)

Best Editor, Long Form
(289 Ballots)

    * Lou Anders
    * Ginjer Buchanan
    * Liz Gorinsky
    * Patrick Nielsen Hayden
    * Juliet Ulman

Best Editor, Short Form
(419 Ballots)

    * Ellen Datlow
    * Stanley Schmidt
    * Jonathan Strahan
    * Gordon Van Gelder
    * Sheila Williams

Best Professional Artist
(327 Ballots)

    * Bob Eggleton
    * Stephan Martiniere
    * John Picacio
    * Daniel Dos Santos
    * Shaun Tan

Best Semiprozine
(377 Ballots)

    * Ansible edited by David Langford
    * Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
    * Interzone edited by Andy Cox
    * Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi
    * Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal

Best Fan Writer
(319 Ballots)

    * Claire Brialey
    * Christopher J Garcia
    * James Nicoll
    * Lloyd Penney
    * Frederik Pohl

Best Fanzine
(298 Ballots)

    * Argentus edited by Steven H Silver
    * Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
    * CHALLENGER edited by Guy H. Lillian III
    * Drink Tank edited by Christopher J Garcia, with guest editor James Bacon
    * File 770 edited by Mike Glyer
    * StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith

Best Fan Artist
(199 Ballots)

    * Brad W. Foster
    * Dave Howell
    * Sue Mason
    * Steve Stiles
    * Taral Wayne

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
(356 Ballots)

    * Saladin Ahmed
    * Gail Carriger
    * Felix Gilman *
    * Seanan McGuire
    * Lezli Robyn *

*(Second year of eligibility)

A total of 864 nomination ballots were cast.

jebote, ova Nensi Kres već 15 godina stalno nešto dobija, stvarno mi bre nije jasno gde ode američki ukus za SF...

Svecka Akademija Naučne Fantastike i Umetnosti.
Bizmis ali fer...

Quote from: Boban on 04-09-2010, 23:23:23
jebote, ova Nensi Kres već 15 godina stalno nešto dobija, stvarno mi bre nije jasno gde ode američki ukus za SF...

Reče jedini izdavač na celom prostoru bivše SFRJ koji ju je objavio.

Ne da nisam pratio prenos, nego sam potpuno zaboravio (Sivkin rođendan je danas pa smo bili u pripremama ).


Hugo Awards 2010 - Ceremony Intro - A Review Of 2009


Ali, evo rezultata:

Presented at: Aussiecon 4, Melbourne, Australia, September 2-6, 2010

Toastmaster: Garth Nix

Base design: Nick Stathopoulos with laser etching by Lewis Morley and incorporating the Aussiecon 4 logo by Grant Gittus

Awards Administration: Vincent Docherty, Kate Kligman


    * Best Novel: TIE: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK); The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
    * Best Novella: "Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless; Ace, Orbit)
    * Best Novelette: "The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2; Eos)
    * Best Short Story: "Bridesicle", Will McIntosh (Asimov's 1/09)
    * Best Related Book: This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
    * Best Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
    * Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films)
    * Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who: "The Waters of Mars" Written by Russell T Davies & Phil Ford; Directed by Graeme Harper (BBC Wales)
    * Best Editor Short Form: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
    * Best Editor Long Form: Ellen Datlow
    * Best Professional Artist: Shaun Tan
    * Best Semiprozine: Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
    * Best Fan Writer: Frederik Pohl
    * Best Fanzine: StarShipSofa edited by Tony C. Smith
    * Best Fan Artist: Brad W. Foster

And the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (presented by Dell Magazines): Seanan McGuire

Tok dodele može da se prati na linku koji sam prehodno postavio.

http://nosf.net/2010/dodijeljene-britanske-fantasy-nagrade/

Quote
Britansko udruženje za fantasy, British Fantasy Society, dodijelilo je na netom završenom FantasyConu svoje godišnje nagrade, koje dodjeljuju još od 1971. godine. Tko je sve bio nominiran pogledajte ovdje, a evo i tko su ovogodišnji dobitnici ...

    * Najbolji roman – fantasy nagrada August Derleth: Conrad Williams: One
    * Najbolja pripovijetka: Sarah Pinborough: The Language of Dying
    * Najbolja kratka priča: Michael Marshall Smith: What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night
    * Najbolja antologija: Stephen Jones (ur.): The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
    * Najbolja zbirka: Robert Shearman: Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical
    * Najbolji mali nakladnik: TELOS PUBLISHING
    * Najbolji strip: Neil Gaiman i Andy Kubert: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
    * Najbolji umjetnik: Vincent Chong, za naslovnice The Witnesses Are Gone i The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20
    * Najbolja feljtonistika: David Langford: Ansible
    * Najbolji časopis: Murky Depths, urednik Terry Martin.
    * Najbolji TV-uradak: Doctor Who, glavni scenarist Russell T. Davies
    * Najbolji film: Let the Right One In, režija Tomas Alfredson
    * Najbolji novi autor – nagrada Sydney J. Bounds: Kari Sperring za Living with Ghosts
    * Posebna nagrada Karl Edward Wagner: Robert Holdstock, prošle godine preminuli autor prilično slavnog Mythago Wooda.

Za znatiželjne, dodajmo još da se pobjednici ovdje određuju putem glasova članova BFS-a, FantasyCona 2009. i FantasyCona 2010, osim nagrade Sydney J. Bounds, koju dodjeljuje sudačka komisija i nagrade Karl Edward Wagner, koju dodjeljuju odbori BFS-a i FantasyCona 2010.

A ako vam se čini čudnim što većinu imena na ovom popisu ne poznajete (ako ih ne poznajete), nije zgorega znati kako je BFS u velikoj mjeri naklonjen hororu kao podžanru fantasyja, te će ova vijest, vjerojatno, više značiti čitateljima strave i užasa nego onima koji su orijentirani na "čisti" fantasy.

The 2010 Emperor Norton Awards winners are:

    * Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett (Abrams Image)
    * Trina Robbins, for her career in comics

The awards are given for "extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason," in memory of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico. Two awards are presented, one to a single work of science fiction, fantasy, or horror, or to an author in these genres; the second to any creation, creator, or service relating to those genres. Norton judges are Richard Lupoff, Alan Beatts, and Jacob Weisman. Winners were announced at the Tachyon Publications Anniversary Party, held September 19, 2010 at Borderlands Books in San Francisco.

QuoteMeet Boilerplate, the world's first robot soldier—not in a present-day military lab or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of "preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations," Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla.

You say you've never heard of Boilerplate before? That's because this book is the fanciful creation of a husbandand-wife team who have richly imagined these characters and inserted them into accurate retellings of history. This full-color chronicle is profusely illustrated with graphics mimicking period style, including photos, paintings, posters, cartoons, maps, and even stereoscope cards. Part Jules Verne and part Zelig, it's a great volume for a broad range of fans of science fiction, history, and robots.

Dodijeljene nagrade Artefakt

Nagrada za najbolji roman za djecu, po izboru djece iz čitalačkog kluba Čarobna kućica Gradske knjižnice Rijeka: Ivana Delač Horvatinčić, Pegazari

Nagrada publike za najbolje izdano djelo u 2009. godini, po izboru posjetitelja portala Fantasy Hrvatska: Darko Macan, 42 / Čitaj i šalji dalje

Nagrada za djelo do 10 kartica duljine (žiri u sastavu: Tamara Crnko, Dajana Šalinović, Edi Labor i Hrvoje Beljan): Zoran Janjanin, Quare desperamus? (zbirka Treća stvarnost)

Nagrada za djelo od 10 do 100 kartica duljine (žiri u sastavu: Jure Maleš, Igor Rendić, Antonija Mežnarić i Danijel Bogdanović): Zoran Vlahović, Svaki put kad se rastajemo ... (Ubiq 5)

Nagrada za djelo dulje od 100 kartica (žiri u sastavu: Mirko Grdinić, Alen Kapidžić, Vedran Vivoda i Marko Jagešić): Damir Hoyka, Xavia

Quote from: Amanda Robin on 29-07-2010, 10:01:08
It is Booker Prize season again, and therefore time for wailing and gnashing of teeth around the blogosphere.

First up, if you want to see the long list, it can be found here.

And now the controversy. Last year, you may remember, Kim Stanley Robinson complained about the lack of recognition for his type of novel, and Booker judge John Mullan made a complete ass of himself by saying that the award didn't look at science fiction because SF is, "bought by a special kind of person who has special weird things they go to and meet each other." Unsurprisingly, a few noses were put out of joint.

Pre par dana China Mieville imao je high noon diskusiju sa Mullanom povodom ovih desavanja koja je Amanda prijavila. Okrsaj se odigrao na Cheltenham Literary Festivalu, pa koga zanima nek progugla malo.

The World Fantasy Awards winners for works in 2009 were announced at an awards banquet on Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 1 p.m.

Novel

    * The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey)
    * Blood of Ambrose, James Enge (Pyr)
    * The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
    * Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)
    * In Great Waters, Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey)

Novella

    * "Sea-Hearts", Margo Lanagan (X6 )
    * The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
    * "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said", Richard Bowes (F&SF 12/09)
    * "The Lion's Den", Steve Duffy (Nemonymous Nine: Cern Zoo)
    * The Night Cache, Andy Duncan (PS)
    * "Everland", Paul Witcover (Everland and Other Stories)

Short Story

    * "The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
    * "A Journal of Certain Events of Scientific Interest from the First Survey Voyage of the Southern Waters by HMS Ocelot, As Observed by Professor Thaddeus Boswell, DPhil, MSc, or, A Lullaby", Helen Keeble (Strange Horizons 6/09)
    * "Singing on a Star", Ellen Klages (Firebirds Soaring)
    * "The Persistence of Memory, or This Space for Sale", Paul Park (Postscripts 20/21: Edison's Frankenstein)
    * "In Hiding", R.B. Russell (Putting the Pieces in Place)
    * "Light on the Water", Genevieve Valentine (Fantasy 10/09)

Anthology

    * American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, Peter Straub, ed. (Library of America)
    * Poe,  Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
    * Songs of The Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Subterranean/Voyager)
    * Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash-Tree)
    * Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
    * The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, Gordon Van Gelder, ed. (Tachyon)

Collection (tie)

    * There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
    * The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (PS /Tor) (ovo nije greska, nereseno je)
    * We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
    * Fugue State, Brian Evenson (Coffee House)
    * Northwest Passages, Barbara Roden (Prime)
    * Everland and Other Stories, Paul Witcover (PS)

Artist

    * Charles Vess
    * John Jude Palencar
    * John Picacio
    * Jason Zerrillo
    * Sam Weber

Special Award – Professional

    * Jonathan Strahan for editing anthologies
    * Peter & Nicky Crowther for PS Publishing
    * Ellen Datlow for editing anthologies
    * Hayao Miyazaki for Ponyo
    * Barbara & Christopher Roden for Ash-Tree Press
    * Jacob & Rina Weisman for Tachyon Publications

Special Award – Non-Professional

    * Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons
    * John Berlyne for Powers: Secret Histories
    * Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, & Sean Wallace for Clarkesworld
    * John Klima for Electric Velocipede
    * Bob Colby, B. Diane Martin, David Shaw, and Eric M. Van for Readercon
    * Ray Russell & Rosalie Parker for Tartarus Press

Elem, nisam uspela da nađem topik o Aleksandru Novakoviću, pa stavljam ovu yellowcab vest ovde:


Nagrada V.B.Z. za roman "Vođa"Aleksandra Novakovića

Izdavačka kuća V.B.Z. sa sedištem u Zagrebu, saopštila je da je nagradu za najbolji neobjavljen roman 2010. dodelila Aleksandru Novakoviću iz Beograda za knjigu "Vođa".

Odluku je doneo žiri u čijem su sastavu Miljenko Jergović (predsednik), Zoran Ferić, Julijana Matanović, Strahimir Primorac i Vladimir Arsenijević.

Napomenuvši da je reč o najvećoj i najvrednijoj nagradi u regionu, V.B.Z. je najavio da će ona, u iznosu od 100.000 kuna, Novakoviću biti uručena sutra na svečanosti u  Kongresnom centru Zagrebačkog velesajma.

"Roman "Vođa" strašna je priča o svim našim zločinima i o svim našim zločincima kojih je bilo u prošlosti, ima ih i danas, a biće ih i u budućnosti. Taj kratki roman univerzalna je priča o zlu koja ne poznaje granice, koja je jednako razumljiva svuda", navedeno je o knjizi Noakovića, rođenog 1975. godine u Beogradu.

Diplomirani istoričar i dramaturg, maistar nauka o dramskim umetnostima iz oblasti studija pozorišta, piše romane, drame, aforizme, pesme i kratke priče. Trenutno radi na doktoratu iz oblasti studija pozorišta.

Novaković je dobitnik više nagrada, među kojima i nagrade Josip Kulundžić za izuzetan uspeh na polju dramaturgije (2004), Vibove nagrada (2001) i nagrade Zlatna kaciga (1997).

Nagradu V.B.Z. treći put je osvojio autor iz Srbije. Prethodno su je dobili Jelena Marković 2003. za roman "Escajg za teletinu" i Predrag Crnković 2008. za roman "Beograd za pokojnike".


http://yc.rs/sr/magazine/vesti/ostalo/story/2411/Nagrada+V.B.Z.+za+roman+%22Vo%C4%91a%22Aleksandra+Novakovi%C4%87a+.html

Hm, interesantna tišina od strane auditorijuma koji je Aleksandra (i za manje nagrađivano delo) zvao na promociju...  

(No dobro, ne bi bilo prvi put da talenat plati cenu političke nepodobnosti...  )

Moja reakcija na vest je bila: Aleksandar "Keltska priča" Novaković? Zev...

Moram da priznam da ti ne razumem primedbu, ma kako se trudio.

Quote from: Mica Milovanovic on 16-11-2010, 20:23:34
Moram da priznam da ti ne razumem primedbu, ma kako se trudio.

"Keltska priča" mi je bila toliko slaba da mi je svaka dalja vest o autoru iste nezanimljiva.

Nisam tebi rekao nego Lidiji. Tvoju primedbu sam sasvim dobro razumeo.

Na Konkursu Lazara Komarčića, Aleksandar Novaković je osvojio 36. mesto. Čovek koji nije u stanju da napiše 2 pričice, nije u stanju da napiše roman.
Tvrdim da on nije napisao taj roman. Roman je napisao neko drugi, po narudžbini, a Novaković je samo uzeo malo para, ne tamo nekih 13.000 jevara, da bi glumio pisca i posejao konfuziju među naivčinama.
Žao mi je, ali mislim da je izuzetno naivan svako ko je poverovao u ovu idijotsku "istinu"...
Ovo je očigledno čisti politički projekt.