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The finalists for the 2012 Hugo Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all.


The Hugo Awards have been given since 1953, and every year since 1955, by the annual World Science Fiction Convention (the "Worldcon"). The first Worldcon occurred in New York City in 1939, and Worldcons have been held annually since then except during World War II. This year's Worldcon is LoneStarCon 3 and will be held in San Antonio, Texas from August 29 through September 2.


This year's Guests of Honor are Ellen Datlow, James Gunn, Willie Siros, Norman Spinrad, Darell K. Sweet, with special guests Leslie Fish and Joe R. Lansdale, and toastmaster Paul Cornell.


Hugo Award finalists are selected by members of the previous Worldcon and of the upcoming one; winners are selected by members of the upcoming one. All Attending and Supporting members of LoneStarCon 3 can vote on the final ballot. For more information about voting in the Hugo Awards, or becoming a member of LoneStarCon 3, please click here.

Best Novel

   
• 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Blackout by Mira Grant (Orbit)
• Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi (Tor)
• Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (DAW)

Best Novella

   
• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
• The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon Publications)
• On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard (Immersion Press)
• San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant (Orbit)
• "The Stars Do Not Lie" by Jay Lake (Asimov's, Oct-Nov 2012)

Best Novelette

   
• "The Boy Who Cast No Shadow" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Postscripts: Unfit For Eden, PS Publications)
• "Fade To White" by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld, August 2012)
• "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" by Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity, Solaris)
• "In Sea-Salt Tears" by Seanan McGuire (Self-published)
• "Rat-Catcher" by Seanan McGuire (A Fantasy Medley 2, Subterranean)

Best Short Story

   
• "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld, June 2012)
• "Mantis Wives" by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, August 2012)
• "Mono no Aware" by Ken Liu (The Future is Japanese, VIZ Media LLC)

Note: category has 3 nominees due to a 5% requirement under Section 3.8.5 of the WSFS constitution.

Best Related Work

   
• The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Edited by Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge UP)
• Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them Edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Sigrid Ellis (Mad Norwegian Press)
• Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who Edited by Deborah Stanish & L.M. Myles (Mad Norwegian Press)
• I Have an Idea for a Book... The Bibliography of Martin H. Greenberg Compiled by Martin H. Greenberg, edited by John Helfers (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)
• Writing Excuses Season Seven by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler and Jordan Sanderson

Best Graphic Story

   
• Grandville Bête Noire written and illustrated by Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse Comics, Jonathan Cape)
• Locke & Key Volume 5: Clockworks written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
• Saga, Volume One written by Brian K. Vaughn, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
• Schlock Mercenary: Random Access Memorabilia by Howard Tayler, colors by Travis Walton (Hypernode Media)
• Saucer Country, Volume 1: Run written by Paul Cornell, illustrated by Ryan Kelly, Jimmy Broxton and Goran Sudžuka (Vertigo)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

   
• The Avengers Screenplay & Directed by Joss Whedon (Marvel Studios, Disney, Paramount)
• The Cabin in the Woods Screenplay by Drew Goddard & Joss Whedon; Directed by Drew Goddard (Mutant Enemy, Lionsgate)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro, Directed by Peter Jackson (WingNut Films, New Line Cinema, MGM, Warner Bros)
• The Hunger Games Screenplay by Gary Ross & Suzanne Collins, Directed by Gary Ross (Lionsgate, Color Force)
• Looper Screenplay and Directed by Rian Johnson (FilmDistrict, EndGame Entertainment)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

   
• Doctor Who: "The Angels Take Manhattan" Written by Steven Moffat, Directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)
• Doctor Who: "Asylum of the Daleks" Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)
• Doctor Who: "The Snowmen" Written by Steven Moffat, Directed by Saul Metzstein (BBC Wales)
• Fringe: "Letters of Transit" Written by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Akiva Goldsman, J.H.Wyman, Jeff Pinkner. Directed by Joe Chappelle (Fox)
• Game of Thrones: "Blackwater" Written by George R.R. Martin, Directed by Neil Marshall. Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (HBO)

Best Editor, Short Form

   
• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Stanley Schmidt
• Jonathan Strahan
• Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form

   
• Lou Anders
• Sheila Gilbert
• Liz Gorinsky
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden
• Toni Weisskopf

Best Professional Artist

   
• Vincent Chong
• Julie Dillon
• Dan Dos Santos
• Chris McGrath
• John Picacio

Best Semiprozine

   
• Apex Magazine edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Jason Sizemore and Michael Damian Thomas
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies edited by Scott H. Andrews
• Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Jason Heller, Sean Wallace and Kate Baker
• Lightspeed edited by John Joseph Adams and Stefan Rudnicki
• Strange Horizons edited by Niall Harrison, Jed Hartman, Brit Mandelo, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Abigail Nussbaum, Sonya Taaffe, Dave Nagdeman and Rebecca Cross

Best Fanzine

   
• Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
• The Drink Tank edited by Chris Garcia and James Bacon
• Elitist Book Reviews edited by Steven Diamond
• Journey Planet edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Emma J. King, Helen J. Montgomery and Pete Young
• SF Signal edited by John DeNardo, JP Frantz, and Patrick Hester

Best Fan Writer

   
• James Bacon
• Christopher J Garcia
• Mark Oshiro
• Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Steven H Silver

Best Fan Artist

   
• Galen Dara
• Brad W. Foster
• Spring Schoenhuth
• Maurine Starkey
• Steve Stiles

Best Fancast

   
• The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)
• SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester, John DeNardo, and JP Frantz
• SF Squeecast, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, Catherynne M. Valente (Presenters) and David McHone-Chase (Technical Producer)
• StarShipSofa, Tony C. Smith

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

   
• Zen Cho
• Max Gladstone
• Mur Lafferty
• Stina Leicht
• Chuck Wendig

Prvo:

Quote from: Melkor on 31-03-2013, 04:04:27

This year's Guests of Honor are Ellen Datlow, James Gunn, Willie Siros, Norman Spinrad, Darell K. Sweet, with special guests Leslie Fish and Joe R. Lansdale, and toastmaster Paul Cornell.

Hej, hej! Odlično!




Drugo:

Quote from: Melkor on 31-03-2013, 04:04:27

Best Short Story

   
• "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld, June 2012)
• "Mantis Wives" by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, August 2012)
• "Mono no Aware" by Ken Liu (The Future is Japanese, VIZ Media LLC)

Note: category has 3 nominees due to a 5% requirement under Section 3.8.5 of the WSFS constitution.

Ove tri priče pokupile više od 90% glasova? Sam dobro shvatio? 

Valjda. Voleo bih da u svakoj kategoriji bude samo tri nominacije, za svaku nagradu

U medjuvremenu, na sever, severozapadu:

The winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award was announced last night at Norwescon 36 in SeaTac, Washington.

Winner: Lost Everything – Brian Francis Slattery (Tor)



Special Citation: Lovestar – Andri Snær Magnason (Seven Stories)



What do you think of the result? Have you read either of these books or any of the other nominees?

   
• Blueprints of the Afterlife – Ryan Boudinot (Black Cat)
• Harmony (alt.human) – Keith Brooke (Solaris)
• Helix Wars – Eric Brown (Solaris)
• The Not Yet – Moira Crone (UNO)
• Fountain of Age: Stories – Nancy Kress (Small Beer)

Cheryl Morgan: Kako to da i 1994. nije bilo samo tri nominovanih za nagradu Hugo (u kategoriji kratkih priča)

via Cheryl's Musings

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/31/seanan-mcguire-hugo-awards-shortlist?INTCMP=SRCH

QuoteAmerican author Seanan McGuire has been shortlisted a record-breaking five times for this year's Hugo awards, America's most prestigious science fiction prize.

(Seanan McGuire == Mira Grant)

http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/503741.html

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Those of you with keen eyes may have noticed my name a time or two. So here are my firsts for this year:


First woman to appear on the ballot four times in fiction categories alone.
First person to appear on the ballot five times in a single year.
First person to appear on the ballot with a purely self-published work ("In Sea-Salt Tears," Best Novelette nominee).


Here are some other fun facts: this is the first time Sheila Gilbert, my editor at DAW, or Chris McGrath, who is responsible for the October Daye covers (as well as many, many more) have appeared on the Hugo ballot. As of this year's ballot, every novella or novel-length work in the Newsflesh series has appeared on the Hugo ballot. I have essays in two of the works in Best Related Work. Urban fantasy in any form rarely makes award ballots, and I have two October Daye-universe novellas on this ballot.


Fringe is on the ballot for the first time ever this year. So is Mark Oshiro of Mark Reads, which is just amazing. The whole ballot is amazing.


I have eaten nothing but ice cream today. I have cried a lot.


I am grateful and honored and terrified and fragile and amazed, because this ballot represents the best of 2012 in a very concrete way. I see so many works there that blew my mind, and I look forward to experiencing the rest.


Thank you so much. I will try very hard not to let you down.

Dodeljene 01.04. al' stalno zaboravljam da ih okacim

The BSFA Awards are sponsored by the British Science Fiction Association and drawn up from the most popular titles selected by members of the BSFA. Those members join attendees of Eastercon to cast votes on the winners. This year Eastercon 64, known as EightSquaredCon, and is taking place in Bradford, England, UK from the 29th of March to the 1st of April.
Here are the 2012 winners and nominees.
   
Best Novel:

   
• Winner: Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus)
• Empty Space: a Haunting by M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
• Intrusion by Ken Macleod (Orbit)
• 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)

Best Short Story:

   
• Winner: "Adrift on the Sea of Rains" by Ian Sales (Whippleshield Books)
• "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #69)
• "The Flight of the Ravens" by Chris Butler (Immersion Press)
• "Song of the body Cartographer" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Phillipines Genre Stories)
• "Limited Edition" by Tim Maughan (1.3, Arc Magazine)
• "Three Moments of an Explosion" by China Mieville (Rejectamentalist Manifesto)

Best Artwork:

   
• Winner: Blacksheep for the cover of Adam Roberts' Jack Glass (Gollancz)
• Ben Baldwin for the cover of Dark Currents (Newcon Press)
• Dominic Harmon for the cover of Eric Brown's Helix Wars (Rebellion)
• Joey Hifi for the cover of Simon Morden's Thy Kingdom Come (Jurassic London)
• Si Scott for the cover of Chris Beckett's Dark Eden (Corvus)

Best Non-Fiction:

   
• Winner: The World SF Blog, Chief Editor Lavie Tidhar
• "The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit" by Karen Burnham (Rocket Science, Mutation Press)
• "The Widening Gyre" by Paul Kincaid (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
• The Shortlist Project by Maureen Kincaid Speller

Check out the BSFA website for more details.

I kad vec citam Guardian

The shortlist for the Arthur C Clarke award:
Nod by Adrian Barnes (Bluemoose)
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus)
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann)
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller ((Headline)
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)

Mostly female judges overlook women in choice of contenders for UK's pre-eminent science fiction prize
   

   
•   Alison Flood   
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 April 2013 10.28 BST

Tomorrow's worlds ... The planetary system around the sun-like star HD 10180.  Photograph: L Calcada/AP  Reinforcing science fiction's image as a boys club  the UK's most prestigious prize for the genre, the Arthur C Clarke award,  has announced an all-male shortlist – for only the second time in its history.

The six books in the running for the Arthur C Clarke – a mix of titles by major SF writers Kim Stanley Robinson and Ken MacLeod with lesser known debuts – follow an all-male shortlist for the reader-decided British Science Fiction Association prize, which was won earlier this week by Adam Roberts for Jack Glass.

Roberts failed to make the cut for the Clarke award, however, pushed out by Robinson's story of an inhabited solar system 300 years in the future, 2312, Scottish award-winner MacLeod's dystopian vision of a London where genetic defects can be wiped from unborn children, Intrusion, and Nick Harkaway's acclaimed Angelmaker, a whirlwind race to save the world from a 1950s doomsday machine. Canadian author Adrian Barnes, published by tiny press Bluemoose, is in the running for Nod, in which humanity's sudden inability to sleep has devastating consequences, Chris Beckett for Dark Eden, where the incestuous descendants of two stranded astronauts try to make a life for themselves on a far flung planet, and Peter Heller for the post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars, set in a world destroyed by the flu pandemic.

"This is a fascinating and complex shortlist that demands repeated attention and thoughtful interpretation. Shortlisting six books from a potential list of 82 eligible submissions is no easy task by any critical standard," said the prize's director Tom Hunter.

Hunter said he was "very conscious" of the prize's male line-up, and pointed to the fact that four of the award's five judges were female – Juliet E McKenna, Ruth O'Reilly, Nickianne Moody and Liz Williams. He also highlighted that both 2012 and 2011's Clarke awards were won by female authors – Lauren Beukes for Zoo City, and Jane Rogers for The Testament of Jessie Lamb – and that of the 82 books submitted for the award, just 16 were written by women, and one by a woman and man team.

"We are all aware of the issues and broader conversations in the industry about gender parity, but when you look at the books coming in and the strength of the authors, all the judges were operating from the point of picking the best books," said Hunter. "That has to be made their priority, rather than selecting on gender."

The Clarke award was established in 1987 following a grant from Clarke himself, and the only other time it has had an all-male shortlist was in 1988. Female authors to miss out on this year's shortlist include Mira Grant – who, under her two writing names, was nominated for five Hugos at the weekend – Sarah Pinborough, Cherie Priest and G Willow Wilson. But major male names also failed to make the running: former winner China Miéville, Alastair Reynolds, M John Harrison, John Scalzi and Iain M Banks.

"It's a great shortlist," said Hunter of the books selected. "I think it's really strong, interesting and challenging. I really like it."
But Niall Harrison, editor-in-chief of speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons, said the all-male line-up was "frustrating", adding that "you couldn't ask for a much clearer illustration of the strengths and weaknesses of SF publishing in the UK," where science fiction by women has mostly been found in young adult and mainstream imprints, rather than adult genre publishers. "The shortlist includes stylistically and conceptually ambitious science fiction well worth reading; but it's frustrating that the judges had to make their selections from such a homogeneous pool of authors," said Harrison.

But Harrison felt that things were "looking up in 2013, thanks to newer imprints like Del Rey UK and Jo Fletcher Books, bringing in writers like Karen Lord, Stephanie Saulter, Kameron Hurley and EJ Swift".

The winner of this year's Clarke award will be announced on 1 May, when he will take home a cheque for £2,013.

The finalists for the 2013 Ditmar Awards, given by members of the Australian National Science Fiction Convention for professional and fan works by Australians, have been announced:Best Novel

   
• Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
• Suited (The Veiled Worlds 2), Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
• Salvage, Jason Nahrung (Twelfth Planet Press)
• Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
• The Corpse-Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot)

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The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the finalists for the 2013 Prometheus Award, recognizing pro-freedom novels published in the last year:The finalists are:
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prometej i arktik rajzing... hesus vept & dajd. 

Robert J. Sawyer has announced the short list for the first Lifeboat to the Stars Award.  The award is being presented to the best work of science fiction of any length published in 2011 or 2012 contributing to an understanding of the benefits, means, and difficulties of interstellar travel.  The first winner will be announced at 2013 Campbell Conference in Lawrence, KS the weekend of June 13-16 and includes a $1,000 prize.

   
• Tau Ceti, by Kevin J. Anderson and Steve Savile
• Bowl of Heaven, by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
• "Twenty Lights to `The Land of Snow'," by MIchael Bishop
• "A Country for Old Men," by Ben Bova
• "Lucy," by Jack McDevitt
• Blue Remembered Earth, by Reynolds, Alastair
• "The First Day of Eternity," by Domingo Santos (translated by Stanley Schmidt)

For more information about the Lifeboat Foundation...
For more information about the Campbell Conference...

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers have announced the nominees for this year's Scribe Awards, honoring the best in tie-in writing.  The awards will be presented at a ceremony in July at Comic-Con in San Diego.

Original Novel

   
• Star Trek: Rings of Time, by Greg Cox
• Tannhäuser: Rising Sun, Falling Shadows, by Robert T. Jeschonek
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations Book 1: The Persistence of Memory, by David Mack
• Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, by Ari Marmell
• Pathfinder: City of the Fallen Sky, by Tim Pratt
• Dungeons and Dragons Online: Skein of Shadows, by Marsheila Rockwell
• Mike Hammer: Lady, Go Die!, by Mickey Spillane & Max Collins

Adapted Novel

   
• Clockwork Angels, by Kevin J. Anderson
• Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, by Greg Cox
• Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (YA novelization), by Stacia Deutsch
• Poptropica: Astroknights Island, by Tracey West

Audio

   
• Dark Shadows: The Eternal Actress, by Nev Fountain
• Dark Shadows: Dress Me in Dark Dreams, by Marty Ross
• Doctor Who: Companion Chronicles: Project Nirvana, by Cavan Scott & Mark Wright

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The finalists for the Aurora AWard, celebrating the best in Canadian fiction (in both English and French), have been announced :
 
 
Best Novel – English

   
• Destiny's Fall by Marie Bilodeau, Dragon Moon Press
• Food for the Gods by Karen Dudley, Ravenstone Books
• Healer's Sword: Part 7 of the Okal Rel Saga by Lynda Williams, EDGE
• The Silvered by Tanya Huff, DAW Books, Inc.
• Thunder Road by Chadwick Ginther, Ravenstone Books
• Triggers by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada

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The winners of the Ditmar Awards have been announced!

   
• NOVEL: Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• NOVELLA OR NOVELETTE: "Sky", Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
• SHORT STORY: "The Wisdom of Ants", Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld 12/12)
• COLLECTED WORK: Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet)
• ARTWORK: Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Midnight and Moonshine (Ticonderoga)
• FAN WRITER: Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth
• FAN ARTIST: Kathleen Jennings, for body of work including "The Dalek Game" and "The Tamsyn Webb Sketchbook"
• FAN PUBLICATION: The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
• NEW TALENT: David McDonald
• WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW: Tansy Rayner Roberts, for "Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let's Unpack That." (Tor.com)

Proglašeni dobitnici Nagrada SFERA!
Čestitamo Aleksandru Žiljku, uredniku Ubiqa, na čak dvjema SFERAMA u glavnim kategorijama: roman godine (Irbis) i kratka priča ("Srneći but s lisičicama, uz njega teran") te našoj suradnici Petri Mrduljaš za SFERU u kategoriji eseja/teorije (knjiga "Prstenovi koji se šire: junačka potraga u djelima J. R. R. Tolkiena" - izdao ALGORITAM)

Dobitnici ovogodišnjih nagrada su:
za minijaturu - Vesna Kurilić ,,Priča supružnika"
za kratku priču – Aleksandar Žiljak, ,,Srneći but s lisičicama, uz njega teran"
za priču David Kelečić, ,,Imago ultima"
za roman - Aleksandar Žiljak, ,,Irbis"
za roman za djecu –  Norma Šermet-Mikulčić, ,,Adrijanin vrt"
za crno-bijelu ilustraciju – Korina Hunjak, za ,,Loki" (iz Eridana, br.13);
za ilustraciju u boji – Mario Rosanda, ilustracija naslovnice ,,Priče o vinu"
u kategoriji teorije – Petra Mrduljaš, ,,Prstenovi koji se šire: Junačka potraga u djelima J. R. R. Tolkiena"

Ovo svi znamo pa niko da pribelezi 

2013 Winner



Chris Beckett has become the twenty-seventh winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel, Dark Eden.

The award ceremony was held at a special celebratory event hosted by the Royal Society, London, and introduced by a panel on near-future science chaired by editor-in-chief of SFX Magazine, Dave Bradley.

A full video of the evening can be watched on the Royal Society's website here.

Set on Eden, a distant alien planet with no natural light source, the book follows the story of The Family. The 532 descendents of the planet's original discoverer's who crash-landed generations ago and are still waiting for Earth to find them again and take them home.

Speaking for the award, Chair of the Judges Andrew M. Butler said:

"The judges worked incredibly hard and we enjoyed lengthy, informed, discussions about the strengths of first the submitted books and then the shortlisted books."

"Dark Eden fuses rich biological and sociological speculation. Beckett really makes you care for characters who are stranded light years from an Earth they have never really known. It's a great book, and this is a well-deserved win for Chris Beckett."
A special award ceremony and public event on science and science fiction was hosted by the Royal Society, London. Presenting the prize Ian Stewart FRS, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, commented:

"It's no surprise that science fiction has been influenced by science, but there is a good case to be made that sometimes science is influenced by science fiction. Fiction can sometimes stimulate the imagination in a way that dry facts cannot. Ideas that first appeared as fiction can become fact, and scientists who read SF when they were young can be motivated, perhaps subconsciously, to work in areas or on problems related to the SF stories."

The Shirley Jackson Awards were established to recognize outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. The winners will be announced on July 14 at Readercon 24 in Burlington, Massachusetts.


Novel:

   
• The Drowning Girl, by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Devil in Silver, by Victor LaValle
• Edge, by Koji Suzuki
• Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
• Immobility, by Brian Evenson

Novella:

   
• 28 Teeth of Rage, by Ennis Drake
• Delphine Dodd, by S.P. Miskowski
• I'm Not Sam, by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
• The Indifference Engine, by Project Itoh
• "Sky," by Kaaron Warren

Novelette:

   
• "The Crying Child," by Bruce McAllister (originally published as "The Bleeding Child"
• "The House on Ashley Avenue," by Ian Rogers
• "Reeling for the Empire," by Karen Russell
• "Wild Acre," by Nathan Ballingrud
• "The Wish Head," by Jeffrey Ford

Short Fiction:

   
• "Bajazzle," by Margo Lanagan
• "How We Escaped Our Certain Fate," by Dan Chaon
• "Little America," by Dan Chaon
• "The Magician's Apprentice," by Tamsyn Muir
• "A Natural History of Autumn," by Jeffrey Ford
• "Two Houses," by Kelly Link

Single-Author Collection:

   
• Crackpot Palace, by Jeffrey Ford
• Errantry, by Elizabeth Hand
• The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, by Andy Duncan
• Remember Why You Fear Me, by Robert Shearman
• The Woman Who Married a Cloud, by Jonathan Carroll
• Windeye, by Brian Evenson

Edited Anthology:

   
• 21st Century Dead, edited by Christopher Golden
• Black Wings II, edited by S. T. Joshi
• Exotic Gothic 4:  Postscripts #28/29, edited by Danel Olson
• Night Shadows, edited by Greg Herren and J. M.  Redmann
• Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2013 Locus Awards.

Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 28-30, 2013.Connie Willis will MC the awards ceremony and judge the annual Hawai'ian shirt contest. Additional weekend events include author readings; a kickoff Clarion West party honoring first week instructor Liz Hand, Clarion West supporters, awards weekend ticket holders, and special guests; panels with leading authors; an autograph session with books available for sale thanks to University Book Store; and a lunch banquet, all followed by a Locus party on Saturday night launching Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology, edited by Ellen Datlow (Hydra House) and celebrating the 2013 SF Hall of Fame inductees.


SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

   
• The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• Caliban's War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)

FANTASY NOVEL

   
• The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
• Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus)
• The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

   
• The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)
• Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• Dodger, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little '13)

FIRST NOVEL

   
• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz '13)
• vN, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
• Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
• The Games, Ted Kosmatka (Del Rey; Titan)
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)

NOVELLA

   
• "In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's 1/12)
• On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion)
• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• "The Stars Do Not Lie", Jay Lake (Asimov's 10-11/12)
• The Boolean Gate, Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean)

NOVELETTE

   
• "Faster Gun", Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 8/12)
• "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi", Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)
• "Close Encounters", Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
• "Fake Plastic Trees", Caitlín R. Kiernan (After)
• "The Lady Astronaut of Mars", Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)

SHORT STORY

   
• "The Deeps of the Sky", Elizabeth Bear (Edge of Infinity)
• "Immersion", Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
• "Mantis Wives", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/12)
• "Elementals", Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House Fall '12)
• "Mono No Aware", Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)

ANTHOLOGY

   
• After, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Hyperion)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25)
• The Future Is Japanese, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
• Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

COLLECTION

   
• The Best of Kage Baker, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
• Shoggoths in Bloom, Elizabeth Bear (Prime)
• At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
• The Dragon Griaule, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)

MAGAZINE

   
• Asimov's
• F&SF
• Tor.com
• Clarkesworld
• Subterranean

PUBLISHER

   
• Tor
• Subterranean Press
• Orbit
• Baen
• Angry Robot

EDITOR

   
• John Joseph Adams
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• Jonathan Strahan
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

ARTIST

   
• Donato Giancola
• Stephan Martiniere
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION

   
• An Exile on Planet Earth, Brian Aldiss (Bodleian Library)
• Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, eds. (NonStop)
• Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (Putnam)
• The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
• Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

ART BOOK

   
• Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
• Trolls, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud (Abrams)
• Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration, Scott Tracy Griffin (Titan)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, eds. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Steampunk: An Illustrated History, Brian J. Robb (Aurum)

Vid' kolko je Elizabeth Bear...

Sturgeon Award Finalists  The finalists for the 2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:
 
"Things Greater Than Love", Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons 3/19/12)

"Immersion", Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)

"Scattered Along the River of Heaven", Aliette  de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/12)

"The Grinnell Method", Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons 9/3/12 & 9/10/12)

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Taychon)

"The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future", Jay Lake (Subterranean Spring 2012)

"The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species", Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/12)

"Mono No Aware", Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)

"Nahiiku West", Linda Nagata (Analog 10/12)

Eater of Bone, Robert Reed (PS Publishing)

"The Peak of Eternal Light", Bruce Sterling (Edge of Infinity)

"(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky", E. Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld 11/12)

"Close Encounters" by Andy Duncan (The Pottawottamie Giant) was a finalist, but Duncan, a juror, removed it from consideration.
The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, to be held July 13-16, 2013 at the Oread Hotel in Lawrence KS.
 

http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2013-campbell-award-nominees/

The 2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists have been announced:

   
• The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
• Any Day Now, Terry Bisson (Overlook)
• Existence, David Brin (Tor)
• The Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (Tor)
• Empty Space, M. John Harrison (Night Shade)
• Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey)
• The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor)
• Blue Remembered Earth,  Alastair Reynolds (Ace)
• Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Slow Apocalypse, John Varley (Ace)
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove Press)

The award, for best SF novel, will be presented during the Campbell Conference, to be held July 13-16, 2013 at the Oread Hotel in Lawrence KS.
This makes the 6th award nomination for 2312.  One more and it would have tied only 5 other books for most nominations ever received. That's quite an accomplishment for a science fiction book that doesn't cross genres.

The winners of the 2012 Nebula Awards have just been announced!

• NOVEL: 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK) [Our review]
• NOVELLA: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
• NOVELETTE: "Close Encounters", Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
• SHORT STORY: "Immersion", Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
• RAY BRADBURY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin (director), Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Abilar (writers), (Journeyman/Cinereach/Court 13/Fox Searchlight )
• ANDRE NORTON AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: Fair Coin, E.C. Myers (Pyr)
• 2011 DAMON KNIGHT GRAND MASTER AWARD: Gene Wolfe
• SOLSTICE AWARD: Carl Sagan and Ginjer Buchanan
• KEVIN O'DONNELL JR. SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD: Michael H. Payne

The winners of Analog Science Fiction and Fact's AnLab Award and Asimov's Science Fiction's Readers' Awardhave been chosen. They are:
Analog Science Fiction and Fact Analytical Laboratory Winners

• BEST NOVELLA: "Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light" by Richard A. Lovett & William Gleason (7-8/12)
• BEST NOVELETTE: "Ninety Thousand Horses" by Sean McMullen (1-2/12)
• BEST SHORT STORY: "Titanium Soul" by Catherine Shaffer (6/12)
• BEST FACT: "Faster Than a Speeding Photon" by Edward M. Lerner (1-2/12)
• BEST COVER: October 2012 by Michael Whelan

• 
  Asimov's Science Fiction Readers' Award Winners
• BEST NOVELLA: "Murder Born" by Robert Reed (2/12)
• BEST NOVELETTE: "The Way of the Needle" by Derek Künsken (3/12)
• BEST SHORT STORY:
  • "Final Exam" by Megan Arkenberg (tie) (6/12)
  • "Sexy Robot Mom" by Sandra McDonald (tie) (4-5/12)
• BEST POEM: "Future History" by Joe Haldeman (2/12)
• BEST COVER Artist: Laura Diehl

The awards were presented at a breakfast celebration during Nebula Awards weekend.

The winners for the 2012 Aurealis Awards, given to works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians, have beenannounced!

• BEST CHILDREN'S FICTION (TOLD PRIMARILY THROUGH WORDS): Brotherband: The Hunters by John Flanagan (Random House Australia)
• BEST CHILDREN'S FICTION (TOLD PRIMARILY THROUGH PICTURES): Little Elephants by Graeme Base (Viking Penguin)
• BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY: "The Wisdom of the Ants" by Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld)Media Release – 2013 Aurealis Awards ceremony Page 2 of 2
• BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL:
  • Dead, Actually by Kaz Delaney (Allen & Unwin)
  • Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK / GRAPHIC NOVEL: Blue by Pat Grant (Top Shelf Comix)
• BEST COLLECTION: That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote by K. J. Bishop (self-published)
• BEST ANTHOLOGY: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books)
• BEST HORROR SHORT STORY: "Sky" by Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls, Twelfth Planet Press)
• BEST HORROR NOVEL: Perfections by Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
• BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY: "Bajazzle" by Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape, Twelfth Planet Press)
• BEST FANTASY NOVEL: Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
• BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY: "Significant Dust" by Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape, Twelfth Planet Press)
• BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (Harper Collins)
• PETER MCNAMARA CONVENORS' AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE: Kate Eltham
• KRIS HEMBURY ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD: Laura Goodin

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_top_noms.asp

The WWEnd Top Nominated Books of All-Time is a list of all novels with four or more nominations each across the 13 awards we cover here on WWEnd.  The awards are: Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Locus SF, Locus Fantasy, Campbell, BFS, World Fantasy, PKD, Clarke, Stoker, Locus YA and Shirley Jackson.

2013 Audie Awards Winners 

The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2013 Audie Awards winners, recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.

Following is a list of those Audie winners of genre interest:


Audio Drama:

   
• Swordspoint, Ellen Kushner, read by Ellen Kushner, Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones (Audible)

Distinguished Achievement in Production:

   
• Dracula, Bram Stoker, read by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, Simon Prebble, James Adams (Audible)

Fantasy:

   
• Anita, Keith Roberts, read by Nicola Barber (Audible)

Fiction:

   
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, read by Clare Danes (Audible)

Multi-Voiced Performance:

   
• Dracula, Bram Stoker, read by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley, Simon Prebble, James Adams (Audible)

Paranormal:

   
• Spellbound, Larry Correia, read by Bronson Pinchot (Audible)

Science Fiction:

   
• The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker, read by Emily Janice Card (Random House Audio)

Thriller/ Suspense:

   
• Red, White, and Blood, Christopher Farnsworth, read by Bronson Pinchot (Blackstone)

The winners were announced at the Audies Gala, held May 30, 2013, at The New York Historical Society in New York City.

Awards Given at Campbell Conference 

Winners of three awards were announced at the 2013 Campbell Conference on June 14.

Molly Gloss won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for her short story "The Grinnell Method."

Adam Roberts won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel Jack Glass.

Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile's novella "Tau Ceti" won the first ever Lifeboat to the Stars Award.

The Horror Writers Association announces the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards at the World Horror Convention this weekened. The winners are:

   
• Superior Achievement in a NOVEL: The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL: Life Rage by L.L. Soares (Nightscape Press)
• Superior Achievement in a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
• Superior Achievement in a GRAPHIC NOVEL: Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times by Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton (McFarland and Co., Inc.)
• Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION: The Blue Heron by Gene O'Neill (Dark Regions Press)
• Superior Achievement in SHORT FICTION: Magdala Amygdala? by Lucy Snyder (Dark Faith: Invocations, Apex Book Company)
• Superior Achievement in a SCREENPLAY: The Cabin in the Woods by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard (Mutant Enemy Productions, Lionsgate)
• Superior Achievement in an ANTHOLOGY: Shadow Show edited by Mort Castle and Sam Weller (HarperCollins)
• Superior Achievement in a FICTION COLLECTION (tie):
  
        
  • New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle (Dark Regions Press)
  • Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco Press)
• Superior Achievement in NON-FICTION: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton (Reaktion Books)
• Superior Achievement in a POETRY COLLECTIONL Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls by Marge Simon (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)

Also: HWA presented its annual Lifetime Achievement Awards and its Specialty Press Awards. Robert R. McCammon was on hand to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award, and Mark Miller accepted on behalf of Lifetime Achievement Award winner Clive Barker. The Specialty Press Award went to Jerad Walters of Centipede Press.
Congrats to all the winners!

Lydia Davis was announced as the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize on 22 May at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The full list of nominees are:

UR Ananthamurthy (India)
Aharon Appelfeld (Israel)
Lydia Davis (USA)
Intizar Husain (Pakistan)
Yan Lianke (China)
Marie NDiaye (France)
Josip Novakovich (Canada)
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
Vladimir Sorokin (Russia)
Peter Stamm (Switzerland)

via @Gaff

Zanimljivo je da Lidija Dejvis ima samo jedan roman a piše (vrlo) kratke priče...

http://scifiportal.eu/kurd-laswitz-award-2013/

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The Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis is an annual German science-fiction award. It is named after the author Kurd Laßwitz, who is also known as "the father of German science-fiction". The award has a tradition back until 1980. In two ballots persons who are specialists on science-fiction like authors, editors, publishers and journalists vote for the best works that have been published in the previous year. Nominations are for works in German language only (the nationality of authors and other nominees is irrelevant) or for translations into German.
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Now here are the winners – note that the last word mentioned is the name of the publishing house:


Best novel:


Dietmar Dath, Pulsarnacht (Pulsarnight) / Heyne


Best short prosaic work:


Klaus N. Frick, Im Käfig (In The Cage) in: Moreau / Wipperfürth / Kemmler (Hrsg.): Exodus 29 / Eigenverlag (=self publishing)


Best foreign work (translated into German in 2012):


Ted Chiang, Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes (Hell is the Absence of God), Golkonda


Best Translation:


Birgit Herden & Dorothea Kallfass & Hannes Riffel for translating: Paolo Bacigalupi, Der Spieler (The Player), Golkonda


Best cover picture /illustration:


Thomas Franke für the cover, backcover and galerie-art in Moreau / Wipperfürth / Kemmler (Hrsg.): Exodus 29, Eigenverlag


Best Radioplay:


Unerwartete Ereignisse (Unexpected Events) made by Heinz von Cramer (Regie: Burkhard Schmid), HR


Bargain Price for an Acievement on SF in 2012:


Ralf Boldt and Wolfgang Jeschke for being anthologist of: Die Stille nach dem Ton (Silence After The Sound)


Bargain Price for an Acievment on SF over years:


Ernst Wurdack for supporting German science-fiction and new talents as a publisher by publishing anthologies and story collections.


More info can be found here: http://www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/2013/KLP_2013_Preistraeger.htm

The finalists for the 2013 British Fantasy Awards have been announced:Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

   
• Blood and Feathers, Lou Morgan (Solaris)
• The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (David Fickling Books)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Macmillan)
• Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

The 2013 inductees to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame have just been announced:

2013 INDUCTEES

Congratulations to:

   
• H.R. Giger
• Judith Merril
• Joanna Russ
• David Bowie

David Gemmell Legend Awards: Longlists announced & voting begins         
David Gemmell Legend Awards season! The organisers have made the sensible decision to organise this year's prize around major conventions - with the shortlist announcement coming at Nine Worlds and the winner at World Fantasy.

So... Longlists for the Legend (Novel), Morningstar (Debut) and Ravenheart (Art) are all up. Some folks are already bandying around the world "finalist" which is... wrong. We've got a round of voting then the shortlists, so don't get too excited just yet.

It is fair to say that my past posts on the DGLA have been a bit... mixed. But, the award gets better every year and I understand (even if I don't wholly agree with) the desire to have an award that is solely about celebrating the genre. Above all, I really like that it is a popular award - I don't always (read: almost never) agree with the results, but I do like that the DGLA adds a completely different perspective into the mix.

With that in mind, I'll be continuing the Pornokitsch tradition of reviewing all ten shortlisted novels & debuts, as soon as they're announced. I'll get a schedule in place as well, so everyone can join in with the fun.

Meanwhile, have a gander at the longlists. The site is a bit of an epic quest in and of itself, but here are the links:

   
• Legend (Novel) [Very, very long list]
• Morningstar (Debut) [Very, very short list]
• Ravenheart (Art) [Very, very long list. Also, no gallery, so you need to click the links to see the covers. Hmpf.]

Announcing the 2013 Locus Award Winners!
Tor.com

2013 Locus Award winners

The winners of the 2013 Locus Awards were announced today at the annual Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! All our thanks go out to this wonderful community of readers, authors, and artists.


SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

    Winner: Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
    The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
    Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
    Caliban's War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
    2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)



FANTASY NOVEL

    Winner: The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
    The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
    The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
    Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
    Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus)



YOUNG ADULT BOOK

    Winner: Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
    The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)
    Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
    Dodger, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
    The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little '13)



FIRST NOVEL

    Winner: Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz '13)
    vN, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)
    Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
    The Games, Ted Kosmatka (Del Rey; Titan)
    Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)



NOVELLA

    Winner: "After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall," Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
    "In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns," Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's 1/12)
    "On a Red Station, Drifting," Aliette de Bodard (Immersion)
    "The Stars Do Not Lie," Jay Lake (Asimov's 10-11/12)
    "The Boolean Gate," Walter Jon Williams (Subterranean)



NOVELETTE

    Winner: "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi," Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)
    "Faster Gun," Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com 8/12)
    "Close Encounters," Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
    "Fake Plastic Trees," Caitlín R. Kiernan (After)
    "The Lady Astronaut of Mars," Mary Robinette Kowal (Rip-Off!)



SHORT STORY

    Winner:"Immersion," Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
    "The Deeps of the Sky," Elizabeth Bear (Edge of Infinity)
    "Mantis Wives," Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/12)
    "Elementals," Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House Fall '12)
    "Mono No Aware," Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)



ANTHOLOGY

    Winner: Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
    After, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Hyperion)
    The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's Griffin; Robinson as The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25)
    The Future Is Japanese, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington, eds. (Haikasoru)
    The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)



COLLECTION

    Winner: Shoggoths in Bloom, Elizabeth Bear (Prime)
    The Best of Kage Baker, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
    At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson (Small Beer)
    The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands, Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer)
    The Dragon Griaule, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)



MAGAZINE

    Winner: Asimov's
    F&SF
    Tor.com
    Clarkesworld
    Subterranean



PUBLISHER

    Winner: Tor Books
    Subterranean Press
    Orbit
    Baen
    Angry Robot



EDITOR

    Winner: Ellen Datlow
    John Joseph Adams
    Gardner Dozois
    Jonathan Strahan
    Ann & Jeff VanderMeer



ARTIST

    Winner: Michael Whelan
    Donato Giancola
    Stephan Martiniere
    John Picacio
    Shaun Tan



NON-FICTION

    Winner: Distrust That Particular Flavor, William Gibson (Putnam)
    An Exile on Planet Earth, Brian Aldiss (Bodleian Library)
    Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, eds. (NonStop)
    The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. (Cambridge University Press)
    Some Remarks, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)



ART BOOK

    Winner: Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
    Trolls, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud (Abrams)
    Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration, Scott Tracy Griffin (Titan)
    J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, eds. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
    Steampunk: An Illustrated History, Brian J. Robb (Aurum)

The judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History are pleased to announce the short list of finalists for the 2012 Sidewise Awards.

The winners will be announced at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st Annual World Science Fiction Convention the weekend of August 30, 2013, in San Antonio.

genijalno!

The Shirley Jackson Award winners were announced at Readercon on July 14. The Shirley Jackson Awards were established to recognize outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

   
• Novel: Edge, by Koji Suzuki
• Novella: "Sky," by Kaaron Warren
• Novelette: "Reeling for the Empire," by Karen Russell
• Short Fiction:"A Natural History of Autumn," by Jeffrey Ford
• Single-Author Collection: Crackpot Palace, by Jeffrey Ford
• Edited Anthology: Exotic Gothic 4:  Postscripts #28/29, edited by Danel Olson

(meh... nesto je stvarno krenulo naopako kad Edge odnese snjur ispred nosa onakvih finalista...)

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2013 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards (for works published in 2012). There are two categories: Long Form and Short Form. The jury has additionally elected to award three honorable mentions in each category.
Long Form Winner
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Kai-cheung Dung, translated from the Chinese by Anders Hansson, Bonnie S. McDougall, and the author (Columbia University Press)
Long Form Honorable Mentions
Belka, Why Don't You Bark? by Hideo Furukawa, translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich (Haikasoru)
Kaytek the Wizard by Janusz Korczak, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Penlight)
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated from the Russian by Olena Bormashenko (Chicago Review Press)
Short Form Winner
"Augusta Prima" by Karin Tidbeck translated from the Swedish by the author (Jagannath: Stories, Cheeky Frawg)
Short Form Honorable Mentions
"Every Time We Say Goodbye" by Zoran Vlahović, translated from the Croatian by Tatjana Jambrišak, Goran Konvićni, and the author (Kontakt: An Anthology of Croatian SF, Darko Macan and Tatjana Jambrišak, editors, SFera)
"A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight" by Xia Jia, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld #65)
"A Single Year" by Csilla Kleinheincz, translated from the Hungarian by the author (The Apex Book of World SF #2, Lavie Tidhar, editor, Apex Book Company)
The winners were announced today at Liburnicon 2013, held in Opatija, Croatia, over the weekend August 23-25. The awards were announced by ARESFFT Board member Cheryl Morgan and convention Guest of Honor, Jacqueline Carey. Zoran Vlahović was in the audience.
The winning authors and their translators will each receive an inscribed plaque and a cash prize of $350. Authors and translators of the honorable mentions will receive certificates.
"Anyone who doubts the vitality of worldwide science fiction and fantasy," said Gary K. Wolfe, President of ARESFFT, "could do worse than to use this impressive list of winners and honorable mentions as a reading list. The breadth and variety of the translated works themselves, as well as their venues of publication, attest to the valuable efforts of many to bring a genuine international dimension to genres that have sometimes (and sometimes accurately) been described as provincial in attitude."
The money for the prize fund was obtained primarily through a generous donation bySociety for the Furtherance & Study of Fantasy & Science Fiction (SF3). SF3 is the parent non-profit corporation of Wiscon, the feminist science fiction convention.
The jury for the awards was James & Kathryn Morrow (Chairs); Felice Beneduce, Alexis Brooks de Vita, Stefan Ekman, Martha Hubbard, Ekaterina Sedia, Kari Sperring, and Aishwarya Subramanian. Comments from the jury on the chosen works follow.
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
In praising Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Jurist Kari Sperring called it a "hugely innovative, playful, intensely political, accomplished book, and the best piece of fantastical history/historiography I have ever read. The translation is excellent, too: elegant, fluent, and lively. I applaud the preservation of Cantonese pronunciation (a decision which is itself a political act). Moreover, novel and translation are actively engaged with each other—the act of translation has produced changes in the Chinese as well as the English texts."
"Disrupting the concept of the novel," Jurist Alexis Brooks de Vita wrote of Atlas, "irresistibly quotable, Dung Kai-cheung's amazingly yearning creation of short chapters toys with conceptions of place and being, with feeling and mythmaking, centered in the fictional story of one of the most painfully politicized cities still in existence in the world."
For Jurist Aishwarya Subramanian, Atlas is a book that "clearly delights in its own cleverness." But beyond the breathtaking inventiveness, she found the text "intensely political and engaged with the present – it's fifteen years old, but it still feels to me contemporary and relevant."
Co-chair Kathryn Morrow discovered in Atlas "a masterwork on the nature of translation itself. The prose is beautifully rendered into English, and the author's essential subject is the process by which myth, legend, and fact translate themselves into human cultural artifacts."
Jurist Martha Hubbard concluded, "This beautiful and elegiac book examines the very nature of how knowledge is created ... The language is at once poetic and specific. The book is so moving, I would deeply love to own a proper copy to keep and cherish."
Belka, Why Don't You Bark?
Kari Sperring singled out Belka, Why Don't You Bark? for its "thoughtful engagement with the issue of abandonment" and she also appreciated the author's insights into "the consequences of globalization and social exclusion." Kari argued that, whileBelka presents itself "as military fiction and gritty crime drama," the book is ultimately "a pacifist narrative." She added, "The excellent translation negotiates the difficulty of a narrative that switches between third person and second person, past tense and present tense."
In confronting Belka, Martha Hubbard noted that "this strange and compelling book grows on you. I think it is a powerful and brave attempt to comment on the aftermath of the wretched situation in the world after decades and decades of war."
Kaytek the Wizard
Alexis Brooks de Vita found Kaytek the Wizard "sublimely poignant, as painful as it is raw, so obviously written by a man who loves childhood and children and uses fantasy to prepare them—and us—for fatality as well as mortality. Huckleberry Finn more than Tom Sawyer, reaching across a century-and-a-half to conjure Harry Potter, Kaytek's loner protagonist finally becomes not only Frankenstein but his self-created monster, a childish Melmoth the Wanderer, made wise enough to have become capable of conveying the author's historically heartbreaking final lines."
Kathryn Morrow added, "This is a fresh, sophisticated, and psychologically authentic exemplar of the Bildungsroman type of fantasy. The author's unique sensibility is well served by Lloyd-Jones's lively translation."
Roadside Picnic
Negotiating the new translation of Roadside Picnic, Jurist Felice Beneduce took pleasure in "the Raymond Chandleresque approach of the authors, whose writing oozes noir." He added, "The notion of aliens being completely indifferent to the consequences of their actions and in essence their 'trash' is brilliant in my view."
Co-chair James Morrow was pleased to report that the Olena Bormashenko rendering of Roadside Picnic "restores scenes and sentences that, owing to the machinations of Soviet censorship, never appeared in Antonina W. Bouis's earlier version."
Martha Hubbard provided a personal coda. "As someone living in a region which had the dubious pleasure of hosting the Soviet Army's roadside picnics, the picture posited of the mess they created and left behind is far too accurate."

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2013 Hugo Awards
Presented at:LoneStarCon 3, San Antonio, Texas, August 29-September 2, 2013
Toastmaster: Paul Cornell
Base design: Vincent Villafranca
Awards Administration: Todd Dashoff, Vince Docherty, Saul Jaffe, Steven Staton, Ben Yalow


Best NovelRedshirts: A Novel with Three Codas, John Scalzi (Tor)Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)

• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW)

• Blackout, Mira Grant (Orbit)

Best NovellaThe Emperor's Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon Publications)After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)

• "The Stars Do Not Lie", Jay Lake (Asimov's, Oct-Nov 2012)

• On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion Press)

• San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, Mira Grant (Orbit)

Best Novelette"The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi", Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity, Solaris)"In Sea-Salt Tears", Seanan McGuire (Self-published)

• "Fade To White", Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld, August 2012)

• "Rat-Catcher", Seanan McGuire (A Fantasy Medley 2, Subterranean)

• "The Boy Who Cast No Shadow", Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Postscripts: Unfit For Eden, PS Publications)

Best Short Story"Mono no Aware", Ken Liu (The Future is Japanese, VIZ Media LLC)"Immersion", Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld, June 2012)

• "Mantis Wives", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, August 2012)

Note: Category had only 3 nominees due to the minimum 5% requirement of Section 3.8.5 of the WSFS constitution.
Best Related WorkWriting Excuses Season Seven, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler and Jordan SandersonChicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them, Edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Sigrid Ellis (Mad Norwegian Press)

• Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who, Edited by Deborah Stanish & L.M. Myles (Mad Norwegian Press)

• The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edited by Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)

• I Have an Idea for a Book ... The Bibliography of Martin H. Greenberg, Compiled by Martin H. Greenberg, edited by John Helfers (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)

Best Graphic StorySaga, Volume One, written by Brian K. Vaughn, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics)Locke & Key Volume 5: Clockworks, written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)

• Schlock Mercenary: Random Access Memorabilia, written and illustrated by Howard Tayler, colors by Travis Walton (Hypernode Media)

• Grandville Bête Noire, written and illustrated by Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse Comics, Jonathan Cape)

• Saucer Country, Volume 1: Run, written by Paul Cornell, illustrated by Ryan Kelly, Jimmy Broxton and Goran Sudžuka (Vertigo)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long FormThe Avengers, Screenplay & Directed by Joss Whedon (Marvel Studios, Disney, Paramount)The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro, Directed by Peter Jackson (WingNut Films, New Line Cinema, MGM, Warner Bros)

• The Hunger Games, Screenplay by Gary Ross & Suzanne Collins, Directed by Gary Ross (Lionsgate, Color Force)

• Looper, Screenplay and Directed by Rian Johnson (FilmDistrict, EndGame Entertainment)

• The Cabin in the Woods, Screenplay by Drew Goddard & Joss Whedon; Directed by Drew Goddard (Mutant Enemy, Lionsgate)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short FormGame of Thrones, "Blackwater", Written by George R.R. Martin, Directed by Neil Marshall. Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (HBO)Doctor Who, "The Angels Take Manhattan", Written by Steven Moffat, Directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)

• Fringe, "Letters of Transit", Written by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Akiva Goldsman, J.H.Wyman, Jeff Pinkner. Directed by Joe Chappelle (Fox)

• Doctor Who, "Asylum of the Daleks", Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)

• Doctor Who, "The Snowmen", written by Steven Moffat; directed by Saul Metzstein (BBC Wales)

Best Editor, Short FormStanley SchmidtSheila Williams

• John Joseph Adams

• Neil Clarke

• Jonathan Strahan

Best Editor, Long FormPatrick Nielsen HaydenToni Weisskopf

• Sheila Gilbert

• Lou Anders

• Liz Gorinsky

Best Professional ArtistJohn PicacioDan dos Santos

• Julie Dillon

• Chris McGrath

• Vincent Chong

Best SemiprozineClarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Jason Heller, Sean Wallace and Kate BakerLightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams and Stefan Rudnicki

• Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Jed Hartman, Brit Mandelo, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Abigail Nussbaum, Sonya Taaffe, Dave Nagdeman and Rebecca Cross

• Apex Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Jason Sizemore and Michael Damian Thomas

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, edited by Scott H. Andrews

Best FanzineSF Signal, edited by John DeNardo, JP Frantz, and Patrick Hester**The Drink Tank, edited by Chris Garcia and James Bacon

• Journey Planet, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Emma J. King, Helen J. Montgomery and Pete Young

• Banana Wings, edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer

• Elitist Book Reviews, edited by Steven Diamond

Best FancastSF Squeecast, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, Catherynne M. Valente (Presenters) and David McHone-Chase (Technical Producer)**SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester, John DeNardo, and JP Frantz

• StarShipSofa, Tony C. Smith

• The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe

• Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)

Best Fan WriterTansy Rayner RobertsSteven H Silver

• Christopher J. Garcia

• Mark Oshiro

• James Bacon

Best Fan ArtistGalen DaraBrad W. Foster

• Spring Schoenhuth

• Maurine Starkey

• Steve Stiles

**These winners have recused themselves from future eligibility for these works in these categories.
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (476 nominating ballots cast)
Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2011 or 2012, sponsored by Dell Magazines. (Not a Hugo Award, but administered along with the Hugo Awards.)Mur Lafferty*Stina Leicht*

• Chuck Wendig*

• Max Gladstone

• Zen Cho*

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.
1343 valid nominating ballots (1329 electronic and 14 paper) were received and counted from the members of Chicon 7, LoneStarCon 3 and Loncon 3, the 2012-2014 World Science Fiction Conventions.
1848 valid final ballots were cast by the members of LoneStarCon 3.
For the full breakdown of voting and nomination see here (PDF).
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Toronto, Ontario (September 15th, 2013) The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Copper Cylinder Awards. The Copper Cylinder Award is an annual member's choice award selected by members of the Sunburst Award Society for books published during the previous year.

The Copper Cylinder Award derives its name from the first Canadian scientific romance, "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder," by James De Mille (1833-1880). The winners receive a unique, handcrafted, copper cylinder trophy.

The winner of the 2013 Copper Cylinder Adult Award is The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson (McElderry Books, ISBN – 9781416954880)


The winner of the 2013 Copper Cylinder Young Adult Award is Starling by Lesley Livingston (HarperCollins, ISBN – 9781443407656).


The Sunburst Award Society also confers annually the juried Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Both awards celebrate the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year.

For additional information about the Copper Cylinder Awards, Sunburst Award Society membership and the voting process please visit the website at http://coppercylinderaward.ca

For additional information about the Sunburst Awards, the nominees and jurors, eligibility and the selection process, please visit the website at http://sunburstaward.org.

The Eurocon Awards were presented in Kiev at this year's Eurocon. 
Hall of Fame:

   
• Best Author: Andrei Valentinov (Ukraine)
• Best Publisher: Shiko (Ukraine)
• Best Artist: Nikolai Redka (Ukraine)
• Best Promoter of Science Fiction: Istvan Burger (Hungary)
• Best Magazine: SFX (UK)
• Best Translator: Patrice and Viktoriya Lajoie (France)
• Grand Master: Terry Pratchett (UK)
• Grand Master: Iain Banks (UK)

Spirit of Dedication

   
• Best Artist: Katerina Bachilo (Russia)
• Best Dramatic Presentation: "Vash Vikhod" (Ваш выход – Your Move), "Raido" theatre (Ukraine)
• Best Website: Europa SF: scifiportal.eu (Romania)
• Best Fanzine: Fandango (Ukraine)

Encouragement Awards:

   
• Stefan Cernohuby (Austria)
• Ioana Visan (Romania)
• Aleksandra Davydova (Russia)
• Leonid Kaganov (Russia)
• Livia Hlavackova (Slovakia)
• Boris Georgiev (Georgia)
• Julia Novakova (Czech Republic)
• Oleg Silin (Ukraine)
• Martin Vavpotic (Slovenia)
• Anton Lik (Belarus)

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  The winners of 2013  Aurora Award, celebrating the best in Canadian fiction (in both English and French), have been announced:

   
• NOVEL: The Silvered – Tanya Huff
• YA FICTION: Under my Skin, The Wildlings – Charles de Lint
• SHORT FICTION: "The Walker of the Shifting Borderland" – Douglas Smith
• POEM / SONG: "A Sea Monster Tells His Story" – David Clink
• GRAPHIC NOVEL: Weregeek – Alina Pete
• RELATED WORK: Hayden Trenholm – Blood and Water
• ARTIST: Erik Mohr – Cover Art for ChiZine Publications
• FAN PUBLICATION: Speculating Canada Blog – Derek Newman-Stille
• FAN FILK: Kari Maaren – Body of Work
• FAN ORGANIZATIONAL: Randy McCharles – When Worlds Collide
• FAN RELATED WORK: Ron Friedman – Aurora Awards Voter Package

 

	Winner of the 2013 WSFA Small Press Award -- Announced at Capclave, October 12th
	The 2013 WSFA Small Press Award was presented by Tom Doyle, winner of the 2008 WSFA Small Press Award,                   during the Capclave 2013 Convention in Gaithersburg Maryland.  The winner of the 2013 WSFA Small Press                   Award was Good Hunting by Ken Liu, published in Strange Horizons, edited by Brit Mandelo, An Owomoyela, and Julia Rios (October 2012)
	The award was accepted by Jamie Todd Rubin.  A copy of Ken's acceptance speech is expected soon.
The complete list of other finalists:                        "Astrophilia" by Carrie Vaughn, published in Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Neil Clarke (July 2012).                "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" by Ken Liu, published in Lightspeed Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams (August 2012).                "Bottled Spirits" by Pamela K. Kinney, published in Buzzy Mag, edited by Laura Anne Gilman (June, 2012).                "Coca Xocolatl" by Lawrence M. Schoen, published in ReDeus: Divine Tales, edited by Robert Greenberger and Aaron Rosenberg (Crazy Eight Press 2012).                "Mornington Ride" by Jason Nahrung, published in Epilogue, edited by Tehani Wessely (Fablecroft Publishing June 2012).                "The Six Million Dollar Mermaid" by Hildy Silverman, published in Mermaids 13: Tales from the Sea, edited by John L. French (Padwolf Publishing Inc. December 2012)
	The first award was presented at the 2007 Capclave in Rockville Maryland and WSFA looks forward                   to continuing this tradition for many years to come.  See our Past Winners page                  for full details of the winner and the other finalists.

The World Fantasy Awards were presented at a banquet at the World Fantasy Con in Brighton, UK on November 3. The winners are listed below.

Novel: Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson
Novella: "Let Maps to Others," by K.J. Parker
Short Story: "The Telling," by Gregory Norman Bossert
Anthology: Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, edited by Danel Olson
Collection: Where Furnaces Burn, by Joel Lane
Artist: Vincent Chong
Special Award—Professional: Lucia Graves for the translation of The Prisoner of Heaven, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Special Award—Non-professional: S.T. Joshi for Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volumes 1 & 2
LIfetime Achievement: Susan Cooper & Tanith Lee


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The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2013 British Fantasy Awards at World Fantasy Con in Brighton, UK on November 3, 2013. The winners are:

Best Novel (the August Derleth Fantasy Award): Some Kind of Fairy Tale, by Graham Joyce
Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award): Last Days, by Adam Nevill
Best Novella: The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine, by John Llewellyn Probert
Best Short Story: "Shark! Shark!" by Ray Cluley
Best Collection: Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman
Best Anthology: Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, edited by Jonathan Oliver
Best Small Press (the PS Publishing Independent Press Award): ChiZine Publications, Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi
Best Non-Fiction: Pornokitsch, edited by Anne C. Perry & Jared Shurin
Best Magazine/Periodical: Interzone, edited by Andy Cox
Best Artist: Sean Phillips
Best Comic/Graphic Novel: Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
Best Screenplay: The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard
Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award): Helen Marshall for Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine Publications)

Special Award (the Karl Edward Wagner Award): Iain Banks / Iain M. Banks



http://www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk/british-fantasy-awards/winners-of-the-british-fantasy-awards-2013/

Saturday, November 2nd, 2013  The winners of the 2013 David Gemmell Legend Awards have been announced:

   
• 2013 RAVENHEART AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY COVER ART: Didier Graffet and Dave Senior for the cover of Red Country by Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• 2013 MORNINGSTAR AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY DEBUT: John Gwynne for Malice (Pan MacMillan)
• 2013 LEGEND AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL: Brent Weeks for The Blinding Knife (Orbit)

THE ENDEAVOUR AWARD...

...for a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.

The award represents a collaboration between writers and fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy to encourage the growth of literature in the field and recognize works of excellence. It is named for H.M. Bark Endeavour, the ship of Northwest explorer Capt. James Cook.


FINALISTS FOR 2013After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)

Amped by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday)
The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks (Orbit US)
Costume Not Included by Matthew Hughes (Angry Robot)



JUDGES FOR THE 2013 AWARD
Noreen Doyle
Susan Forest
John Scalzi

The Nova Award winners were announced the weekend of November 10 at Novacon. The Nova Awards are presented to recognize excellence in British fanzine publishing and writing.

   
• Fanzine: Banana Wings, edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
• Fanwriter: Mike Meara
• Fanartist: D West

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Congratulations to Kristin Centorcelli, proprietor of My Bookish Ways (and SF Signal contributor), for winning Angry Robot's Team Robot Blogger Award!