Nagrade

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A sad - big dil! 

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize includes three titles of interest to SF/fantasy readers:

   
• The Teleportation Accident, Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
• Umbrella, Will Self (Bloomsbury)
• Communion Town, Sam Thompson (Fourth Estate)

The Booker is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, or the Republic of Ireland.

For more, including the complete longlist, see the Man Booker Prize website.

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Writer Ursula K. Le Guin, comics legend Stan Lee, and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen will receive Eaton Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2012/07/eaton-awards/

[PTY]

Carl Brandon Society Award Winners




The winners of the 2010 Carl Brandon Society awards are Karen Lord, who received the Carl Brandon Parallax Award for her novel Redemption in Indigo, and Nnedi Okorafor, who received the Carl Brandon Kindred Award for her novel Who Fears Death.

Honors:     N.K. Jemisin for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms Anil Menon for The Beast with Nine Billion Feet Charles Yu for "Standard Loneliness Package"

The 2010 Carl Brandon Awards will be presented at Worldcon in Chicago, August 30 - September 12, 2012. The jury statements and full nominations list will be published at that time. http://www.carlbrandon.org/awards.html

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Finalisti 2012 World Fantasy Awards-a:

NOVEL 

   
• Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman (Ace)
• 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
• A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

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...


The 2012 World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to Alan Garner and George R.R. Martin.

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/08/finalists-2012-world-fantasy-awards/

[PTY]

Winners of the Prix Aurora Awards, given to Canadian works in both French and English, (a.k.a. the Auroras) have been announced:

   
• BEST NOVEL – English: Wonder, by Robert J. Sawyer
• BEST SHORT FICTION – English: "The Needle's Eye," by Suzanne Church
• BEST POEM / SONG – English: "Skeleton Leaves," by Helen Marshall
• BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL – English: Goblins, created by Tarol Hunt
• BEST RELATED WORK – English: On Spec, published by the Copper Pig Writers' Society
• BEST ARTIST: Dan O'Driscoll
• BEST FAN PUBLICATION: Bourbon and Eggnog, by Eileen Bell, Ryan McFadden, Billie Milholland, and Randy McCharles
• BEST FAN FILK: Phil Mills, Body of Song-Writing Work including FAWM and 50/90
• BEST FAN ORGANIZATIONAL: Randy McCharles, founder and chair of When Words Collide
• BEST FAN OTHER: Peter Watts, "Reality: The Ultimate Mythology" lecture

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2012 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards Winners

Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2012 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards.

How the winners were selected:

In March 2012 we began to solicit nominations from authors, book reviewers, editors, and small press publishers. Individuals could not nominate their own books or books in which they had a financial interest. The only requirements were that the book must be available in ebook format and produced by either an independent publisher or a small press.

In May, 2012, we announced the full list of nominees. Our volunteer staff then went through the nominees to narrow down each category to five to seven finalists. Finalists were chosen based on overall production value and presentation by reviewing available information about the book (third party reviews, previews and samples, author website, etc).

In July, 2012, we announced the list of finalists. We then opened up voting from the general public to select the winners based on popular vote. Safeguard were put in place to prevent multiple voting from the same email address or IP to protect the integrity of the votes.

These awards truly are peer-reviewed awards. The winners, as well as all of the nominees and finalists, can be proud of their achievements. These books represent some of the amazing quality being produced by the independent ebook industry. We hope that you will all join us in congratulating these wonderful authors for their achievement. They've earned it.

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2012 Hugo Awards Livecast Scheduled

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The winners of the 2012 Chesley Awards were announced this evening at Chicon 7, the Chicago World Con. The Chesleys are given by the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists each year for excellence in genre art.



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• Winner: Matthew Stewart for The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells, Night Shade Books

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Nisam bio siguran gde da stavim ovaj link ali evo:

If you haven't heard already, Ustream, the serviced used by Worldcon to live stream the Hugo Awards ceremony, pulled the stream and banned Worldcon from its site for terms of service violation.  What violation would that be?  Apparently an awards ceremony is not allowed to play short clips (a la fair use policy) from nominees in film categories.  Doing so in the middle of your ceremony will result in a mid-sentence suspension of the feed and an apparent permanent ban...

The World in the Satin Bag o uživom prenosu dodele Hugo nagrada.


A kad smo već kod Huga, pobednici su:

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2012/09/2012-hugo-and-campbell-awards-winners/

[PTY]

uh. bio je ovo jedan od cudnijih uzih izbora...

[zakk]

i opet dupla kruna za Huga/Nebulu...

Čitao neko Valtonovu?

[PTY]

2012 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists

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Ian Sales na It Doesn't Have to Be Right-u o tome kako problemi vezani za nagradu Hugo reflektuju probleme vezane za naučnu fantastiku.

From what I remember, the chief point made was that sf seems to have lost confidence in the future because it has lost confidence in the present. Certainly there's very little to celebrate in the present – climate change, climate change denial, rampant neoliberalism, oligarchism, the increasingly anti-science bent of public discourse, etc. – but should we really be celebrating as the best that sf which refuses to acknowledge it? Science fiction has always had a place for escapism, thanks to its pulp origins, but to elevate such stories above those that actually comment on the real world is pure cowardice. But then look at what won the Hugo for best novel this year – Jo Walton's Among Others, a book whose message appears to be "sf fans are special people"...

...


This is not to say all sf is like this. It's a wide field, with many books and many writers in it. Two novels this year, for example – Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 and Alastair Reynolds' Blue Remembered Earth - have made a point of treating the universe realistically. Ken MacLeod's recent novel, Intrusion, and Bruce Sterling's The Caryatids, from a couple of years ago, made a real effort to engage with the world as it might be in the near-future. Kelley Eskridge's Solitaire and Gwyneth Jones' Life did something similar. Adam Roberts uses the genre to satirically comment on the present. There are doubtless others...
But then I look at the award winners of recent years... A bloated paean to a theme-park vision of the Blitz... the infamous Mormon whale rape novella... a novella about a man who built a bridge which, for no apparent reason, is written as fantasy... a TV series based on a re-imagining of the War of the Roses...

http://iansales.com/2012/09/06/the-hugos-are-broken-science-fiction-is-broken-everything-is-broken/

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REMINDER: 2012 Hugo Awards Ceremony Re-Broadcast Tonight!

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/09/reminder-2012-hugo-awards-ceremony-re-broadcast-tonight/

[Gaff]

Dodela Hugo nagrada:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25307882

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2012 Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form Nominees

hehehe...


http://www.youtube.com/embed/nYFLWQstRfw?start=49&end=139

[zakk]

aaaaw, mica

[PTY]

Announcing the 2012 British Fantasy Award Winners




The 2012 British Fantasy Awards were announced this evening at Fanatsy Con in Brighton. This year's BFAward Judges were James Barclay, Hal Duncan, Maura McHugh, Esther Sherman, and Damien G. Walter. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

 
   Novel:
   There were two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Award for best horror novel and The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel.

   
• Winner (Fantasy): Among Others; Jo Walton (Tor Books)
• Winner (Horror): The Ritual; Adam Nevill (Pan)
•       The Heroes; Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
•       11.22.63; Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
•       Cyber Circus; Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon Press)
•       A Dance with Dragons; George RR Martin (Harper Voyager)

Novella:

   
• Winner: Gorel and the Pot Bellied God; Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
•       Terra Damnata; James Cooper (PS Publishing)
•       Ghosts with Teeth; Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
•       Near Zennor; Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
•       The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer; John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
•       Alice Through the Plastic Sheet; Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Short Fiction:

   
• Winner: The Coffin-Maker's Daughter; Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
•       Dermot; Simon Bestwick (Black Static)
•       Sad, Dark Thing; Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
•       Florrie; Adam Nevill (House of Fear, Solaris Books)
•       King Death; Paul Finch (Spectral Press)

Anthology:

   
• Winner: The Weird; editors Jeff and Ann Vandermeer (Corvus Books)
•       A Book of Horrors; editor Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
•       House of Fear; editor Jonathan Oliver (Solaris Books)
•       Gutshot; editor Conrad Williams (PS Publishing)

Collection:

   
• Winner: Everyone's Just So So Special; Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
•       Rumours of the Marvellous; Peter Atkins (Alchemy Press)
•       Mrs Midnight; Reggie Oliver (Tartarus Press)
•       A Glass of Shadow; Liz Williams (NewCon Press)

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/09/announcing-the-2012-british-fanatsy-award-winners

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WSFA Small Press Award - 2012 Winner

	The WSFA Small Press Award honors the efforts of small press publishers in providing a critical venue for short fiction                   in the area of speculative fiction. The award showcases the best original short fiction published by small presses in the                   previous year (2011). An unusual feature of the selection process is that all voting is done with the identity of the                   author (and publisher) hidden so that the final choice is based solely on the quality of the story.                                     The winner is chosen by the members of the Washington Science Fiction Association                   and was presented at their annual convention, Capclave, held this year on                   October 12-14th in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
	The 2012 WSFA Small Press Award was presented by WSFA Small Press Award Committee Chair Cathy Green,                   during the Capclave 2012 Convention in Gaithersburg Maryland.  The winner of the 2012 WSFA Small Press                   Award was "The Patrician" by Tansy Rayner Roberts, published in Love and Romanpunk,                   by Twelfth Planet Press, May 2011, edited by Alisa Krasnostein
	The award was accepted by Colleen Cahill.  Here's a copy of Tansy's Acceptance Speech, as delivered by Colleen. The complete list of other finalists is:                      "A Militant Peace" by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell, published in Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Neil Clarke, November 2011. "Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden" by Joanne Anderton in Hope, edited by Sasha Beattie, published by Kayelle Press, October 2011. "Lessons from a Clockwork Queen" by Megan Arkenberg, published in Fantasy Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, September 2011. "Sauerkraut Station" by Ferrett Steinmetz, published in GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Ann Leckie, November 2011. "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu, published in Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Neil Clarke, April 2011. "What Ho, Automaton!" by Chris Dolley, in Shadow Conspiracy, Volume II, edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff,  published by Book View Cafe, February 2011. "Yesterday's Taste" by Lawrence M. Schoen in Transtories, edited by Colin Harvey and published by Aeon Press, October 2011.

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Hilary Mantel Wins a Second Booker Prize


LONDON – - The novelist Hilary Mantel won the 2012 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for "Bring Up the Bodies," the second book in her trilogy about the life and machinations of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister and master manipulator.
Set over the course of the year 1535, it tells of the reign and rapid demise of Anne Boleyn, Henry's ill-fated second wife, through the eyes of Cromwell, who all but orchestrated her downfall.
"You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize; two come along at once," said Ms. Mantel upon accepting the award. She won the Booker in 2009, too, for the first book in the trilogy, "Wolf Hall."
The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually to a novel written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, Ireland, or the Commonwealth. Much of literary London put on black tie and gathered for a formal dinner at the grand Guildhall to hear the winner announced;  the BBC broadcast the announcement live.

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World Fantasy Awards Winners 

The World Fantasy Awards winners were announced at this year's World Fantasy Convention, held November 1-4, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Lifetime Achievement winners are announced in advance of the event).
The winners are:

Novel

• Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
• Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman (Ace)
• 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
• A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Bantam; Harper Voyager UK)
• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

Novella

"A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong," K.J. Parker (Subterranean Winter 2011)
• "Near Zennor," Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
• "Alice Through the Plastic Sheet," Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors)
• "Rose Street Attractors," Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight)
•  "Silently and Very Fast," Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press; Clarkesworld)

Short Fiction

  "The Paper Menagerie," Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
• "X for Demetrious," Steve Duffy (Blood and Other Cravings)
• "Younger Women," Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean Summer 2011)
• "A Journey of Only Two Paces," Tim Powers (The Bible Repairman and Other Stories)
• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees," E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)

Anthology

  The Weird, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Corvus; Tor, published May 2012)
• Blood and Other Cravings, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher Books)
• The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Harper Voyager US)
• Gutshot, Conrad Williams, ed. (PS Publishing)

Collection

   The Bible Repairman and Other Stories, Tim Powers (Tachyon)
• Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett (Ticonderoga)
• Two Worlds and In Between, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
• After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
• Mrs Midnight and Other Stories, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus)

Artist
 
    John Coulthart
•  Julie Dillon
•  Jon Foster
•  Kathleen Jennings
•  John Picacio

Special Award Professional

    Eric Lane, for publishing in translation - Dedalus books
•  John Joseph Adams, for editing - anthology and magazine
•  Jo Fletcher, for editing - Jo Fletcher Books
•  Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications
•  Jeff VanderMeer & S.J. Chambers, for The Steampunk Bible

Special Award Non-Professional

    Raymond Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
•  Kate Baker, Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan & Sean Wallace, for Clarkesworld
•  Cat Rambo, for Fantasy
•  Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker blog
•  Mark Valentine, for Wormwood


Additionally, the winners of this year's Lifetime Achievement award are authors Alan Garner and George R.R. Martin. Congratulations again to the winners and nominees!

[Melkor]

2012 Hugo Awards Presented at: Chicon 7, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 3, 2012
Toastmaster: John Scalzi
Base design: Deb Kosiba
Awards Administration: Diane Lacey, Jeff Orth, David Gallaher, John Platt, Helen Montgomery


Best Novel

   
• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan / Del Rey)
• Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit)
• Deadline, Mira Grant (Orbit)
• A Dance With Dragons, George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra)

Best Novella

   
• "The Man Who Bridged the Mist", Kij Johnson (Asimov's)
• "Kiss Me Twice", Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's)
• Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)
• "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary", Ken Liu (Panverse 3)
• Countdown, Mira Grant (Orbit)
• "The Ice Owl", Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

Note: 6 nominees due to tie for final position.
Best Novelette

   
• "Six Months, Three Days", Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com)
• "Ray of Light", Brad R. Torgersen (Analog)
• "The Copenhagen Interpretation", Paul Cornell (Asimov's)
• "What We Found", Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
• "Fields of Gold", Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse Four)

Best Short Story

   
• "The Paper Menagerie", Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
• "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees", E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld)
• "The Homecoming", Mike Resnick (Asimov's)
• "Movement", Nancy Fulda (Asimov's)
• "Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue", John Scalzi (Tor.com)

Best Related Work

   
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition, edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight (Gollancz)
• The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature, Jeff VanderMeer and S. J. Chambers (Abrams Image)
• Wicked Girls (CD), Seanan McGuire
• Writing Excuses, Season 6 (podcast series), Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Jordan Sanderson
• Jar Jar Binks Must Die...and other Observations about Science Fiction Movies, Daniel M. Kimmel (Fantastic Books)

Best Graphic Story

   
• Digger, by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press)
• Fables Vol 15: Rose Red, by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
• Locke & Key Volume 4: Keys To The Kingdom, written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
• Schlock Mercenary: Force Multiplication, written and illustrated by Howard Tayler, colors by Travis Walton (The Tayler Corporation)
• The Unwritten (Volume 4): Leviathan, created by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, written by Mike Carey, illustrated by Peter Gross (Vertigo)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

   
• Game of Thrones (Season 1), created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss;
  written by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, and George R. R. Martin; directed by Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Tim van Patten, and Alan Taylor (HBO)
• Hugo, screenplay by John Logan; directed by Martin Scorsese (Paramount)
• Captain America: The First Avenger, screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephan McFeely; directed by Joe Johnston (Marvel)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, screenplay by Steve Kloves; directed by David Yates (Warner Bros.)
• Source Code, screenplay by Ben Ripley; directed by Duncan Jones (Vendome Pictures)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

   
• Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Wife", written by Neil Gaiman; directed by Richard Clark (BBC Wales)
• Doctor Who, "The Girl Who Waited", written by Tom MacRae; directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)
• Doctor Who, "A Good Man Goes to War", written by Steven Moffat; directed by Peter Hoar (BBC Wales)
• Community, "Remedial Chaos Theory", written by Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna; directed by Jeff Melman (NBC)
• "The Drink Tank's Hugo Acceptance Speech", Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon (Renovation)

Best Editor, Short Form

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

Best Editor, Long Form

   
• Betsy Wollheim
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden
• Lou Anders
• Liz Gorinsky
• Anne Lesley Groell

Best Professional Artist

   
• John Picacio
• Stephan Martiniere
• Bob Eggleton
• Dan dos Santos
• Michael Komarck

Best Semiprozine

   
• Locus, edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.
• Apex Magazine, edited by Catherynne M. Valente, Lynne M. Thomas, and Jason Sizemore
• Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams
• Interzone, edited by Andy Cox
• New York Review of Science Fiction, edited by David G. Hartwell, Kevin J. Maroney, Kris Dikeman, and Avram Grumer

Best Fanzine

   
• SF Signal, edited by John DeNardo
• The Drink Tank, edited by James Bacon and Christopher J Garcia
• File 770, edited by Mike Glyer
• Banana Wings, edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
• Journey Planet, edited by James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, et al.

Best Fan Writer

   
• Jim C. Hines
• Steven H Silver
• Claire Brialey
• Christopher J. Garcia
• James Bacon

Note: Hines, in his acceptance speech, recused himself permanently from future consideration in this category.
Best Fan Artist

   
• Maurine Starkey
• Steve Stiles
• Randall Munroe
• Spring Schoenhuth
• Brad W. Foster
• Taral Wayne

Note: 6 nominees due to tie for final position.
Best Fancast

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

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

   
• E. Lily Yu
• Brad R. Torgersen
• Karen Lord
• Mur Lafferty
• Stina Leicht

[Melkor]

Ken Liu je za "The Paper Menagerie" dobio Nebulu, Huga i WFA, prvi put objedinivsi te nagrade. Bio je, a mozda je i jos uvek, nisam siguran, u uzem izboru za jos neke nagrade. Prica se, trenutno, moze procitati ovde.

[Nightflier]

Šta smo rekli, koja se nagrada danas smatra najprestižnijom? Klark i WFA?

[Mme Chauchat]

Ken Liu je za "The Paper Menagerie" dobio Nebulu, Huga i WFA, prvi put objedinivsi te nagrade. Bio je, a mozda je i jos uvek, nisam siguran, u uzem izboru za jos neke nagrade. Prica se, trenutno, moze procitati ovde.

Uh. Ovo bre kao onaj crnjak Ivan Cankar, Desetica/Šoljica kafe/itd. Idem odmah da zovem mamu. -.-

[Nightflier]

'Fala, spasila si me čitanja. Još imam košmare od "Desetice".

[Melkor]

'Fala, spasila si me čitanja. Još imam košmare od "Desetice".

Tebe bas krenulo danas...

[Nightflier]

'Fala, spasila si me čitanja. Još imam košmare od "Desetice".

Tebe bas krenulo danas...

A?

[angel011]

Ken Liu je za "The Paper Menagerie" dobio Nebulu, Huga i WFA, prvi put objedinivsi te nagrade. Bio je, a mozda je i jos uvek, nisam siguran, u uzem izboru za jos neke nagrade. Prica se, trenutno, moze procitati ovde.

Uh. Ovo bre kao onaj crnjak Ivan Cankar, Desetica/Šoljica kafe/itd. Idem odmah da zovem mamu. -.-

Meni su Cankarove priče bile toliko cmizdrave da me uopšte nisu potresale, al' ova The Paper Menagerie baš udara.

[PTY]

Endeavour Award WinnerFiled in Authors, Awards | Steven H Silver, November 5, 2012 5:00 pm | Comments (0)

Tags: City of Ruins, Endeavour Award, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Orycon

Kristine Kathryn Rusch won this year's Endeavour Award for her novel City of Ruins. The winner was announced at Orycon and the award comes with a $1,000 prize and an engraved glass plaque. The Endeavour Award was established to recognize works of SF by authors working and living in the Pacific Northwest. The judges for the 2011 Award were Gregory Benford, Lawrence M. Schoen, and Susan Shwartz.

For more information...

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Eight nominees have been announced for the Bad Sex awards, a competition created by the Literary Review "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel." The competition is reserved for books that would not be categorized as erotic, so novels such as Fifty Shades of Grey cannot be elected.

The prize has been awarded annually since 1993. Literary heavyweights Norman Mailer and Sebastian Faulks have both been crowned winners.

J.K. Rowling had been buzzed about as one of the award's long-listed nominees, but was ultimately beat out by past winner Tom Wolfe, among others. Judges say The Casual Vacancy, Rowling's racy new adult novel, was a contender, but "the book's sins were venal (sic) compared with the competition."

We're not so sure we agree. Check out this excerpt from Vacancy: "He retained a memory of her bare pink vulva; it was as though Father Christmas had popped up in their midst... he forced his way inside her, determined to accomplish what he had come for... Krystal moaned a little. Her head thrown back, her nose became broad and snout-like."

Here are the books that supposedly include worse sex scenes than those in Rowling's book:

The Yips by Nicola Barker

The Adventuress by Nicholas Coleridge

Infrared by Nancy Huston

Rare Earth by Paul Mason

Noughties by Ben Masters

The Quiddity of Will Self by Sam Mills

The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine

Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe

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Sunburst Award Society Announces the Winners of Its First Copper Cylinder Awards

Toronto, Ontario (December 2, 2012) The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the debut of its newest literary 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 first winner of the 2012 Copper Cylinder Adult Award is Among Others by Jo Walton, (TOR, ISBN - 978-0765321534.)

http://coppercylinderaward.ca/2012-copper-cylinder-winners

[Melkor]

Svi vi koji ste na Goodreadsu snosite punu odgovornost za ovu listu -.-

Goodreads Choice Award Winners Revealed   

With 11,525 votes, The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling has won the Best Fiction award at the Goodreads Choice Awards. Earning 20,328 votes, Veronica Roth was named Best Goodreads Author for Insurgent.

We've linked to samples of all the winners below.

All these authors were nominated and picked by Goodreads users. Did your favorite writer make the list?

Winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards

Best Fiction: The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

Best Mystery & Thriller: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Best Historical Fiction: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Best Fantasy: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King, Jae Lee illustrator

Best Paranormal Fantasy: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

Best Science Fiction: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

Best Romance: Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James

Best Horror: The Twelve by Justin Cronin

Best Memoir & Autobiography: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Best History & Biography: Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith

Best Nonfiction: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Best Food & Cookbooks: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier by Ree Drummond

Best Humor: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

Best Graphic Novel & Comics: The Walking Dead, Vol. 16: A Larger World by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, illustrator

Best Poetry: A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

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Baš razmišljam kako Goodreads Awards postaju sve relevantnije.

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The finalists for the 2012 BSFA Award (nominated by members of the British Science Fiction Association,) have been announced:
BEST NOVEL

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

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The nominees for the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award, presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, have been announced:

• Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot (Black Cat)
• Harmony by Keith Brooke (Solaris)
• Helix Wars by Eric Brown (Solaris)
• The Not Yet by Moira Crone (UNO)
• Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress (Small Beer)
• Lovestar by Andri Snær Magnason (Seven Stories)
• Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (Tor)

The winner and any special citations will be announced March 29, 2013 at Norwescon 36 in SeaTac WA.

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Jeff VanderMeer • February 4th, 2013 @ 6:28 pm • News Just received this press release that Karin Tidbeck's Jagannath from our Cheeky Frawg Books has won the 2013 Crawford Memorial Award!
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The winner of the 2013 Crawford Memorial Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts for an outstanding first fantasy book, is Karin Tidbeck for Jagannath: Stories (Cheeky Frawg Books). 
According to award administrator Gary K. Wolfe, the decision on the final award was an unusually difficult one for the nominating committee, whose members also want to call particular attention to the close runner-up, Rachel Hartman, for her novel Seraphina (Random House). Other books on this year's shortlist are Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon (DAW), Roz Kaveney's Rituals: Rhapsody of Blood, Volume One (Plus One), and Kiini Ibura Salaam's Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction (Aqueduct).
Participating in this year's nomination and selection process were Cheryl Morgan, Ellen Klages, Niall Harrison, Graham Sleight, Liza Groen Trombi, Stacie Hanes, Karen Burnham, and Jonathan Strahan.  The award will be presented on March 23 during the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida.

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BARKER & MCCAMMON win Lifetime Horror Award

The Horror Writers Association has chosen two long-time icons of the genre to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award this year. The award, given in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work, will go to Clive Barker and to Robert McCammon.


Clive Barker

A visionary, fantasist, poet and painter, Clive Barker has expanded the reaches of human imagination as a novelist, director, screenwriter and dramatist. An inveterate seeker who traverses between myriad styles with ease, Barker has left his indelible artistic mark on a range of projects that reflect his creative grasp of contemporary media — from familiar literary terrain to the progressive vision of his Seraphim production company. His 1998 "Gods and Monsters" garnered three Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The following year, Barker joined the ranks of such illustrious authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Annie Dillard and Aldous Huxley when his collection of literary works was inducted into the Perennial line at HarperCollins, who then published The Essential Clive Barker, a 700-page anthology with an introduction by Armistead Maupin.

Barker began his odyssey in the London theatre, scripting original plays for his group The Dog Company, including "The History of the Devil," "Frankenstein in Love" and "Crazyface." Soon, Barker began publishing his The Books of Blood short fiction collections; but it was his debut novel, The Damnation Game that widened his already growing international audience.

He shifted gears in 1987 when he directed "Hellraiser," based on his novella The Hellbound Heart, which became a veritable cult classic spawning a slew of sequels, several lines of comic books, and an array of merchandising. In 1990, he adapted and directed "Nightbreed" from his short story "Cabal". Two years later, Barker executive produced the housing-project story "Candyman," as well as the 1995 sequel, "Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh." Also that year, he directed Scott Bakula and Famke Janssen in the noir-esque detective tale, "Lord of Illusions."

Barker's literary works include such best-selling fantasies as Weaveworld, Imajica, and Everville, the children's novel, The Thief of Always, Sacrament, Galilee and Coldheart Canyon. The first of his quintet of children's books, Abarat, was published in October 2002 to resounding critical acclaim, followed by Abarat II: Days of Magic, Nights of War and Abarat III: Absolute Midnight; Barker is currently completing the fourth in the series. As an artist, Barker frequently turns to the canvas to fuel his imagination with hugely successful exhibitions across America. His neo-expressionist paintings have been showcased in two large format books, Clive Barker, Illustrator, volumes I & II.

The HWA's Lifetime Achievement Award Committee Chair, Yvonne Navarro commented, "Clive Barker has had an enormous influence on Gen-X horror authors and has a marked influence on horror as a whole through his writing and movies; his Cenobites have become imprinted in the darkest corners of the public imagination. From his Books of Blood in 1984 to the volumes of his Abarat Quintet, he has continually pushed the boundaries of horror genre to extend above and beyond any kind of stock definition. His vision extends beyond the written word, encompassing art, film, comics, video games, toys and more. He is truly a 21st century multimedia artist."

Clive responded, ""The timing of this award is entirely unexpected. It has been a difficult year personally and I am very honored by this and I accept it with great gratitude. It's a lovely thing to get and I'm incredibly moved. Truly. I look back over the list of past winners – Ray Bradbury, Vincent Price, Harlan Ellison, Steve King – and see that I am in unparalleled company, so I'm doubly honored by that. From the bottom of my heart, I thank the Horror Writers Association."

Robert McCammon

Robert McCammon is a New York Times bestselling author and World Fantasy award winner. He is the author of seventeen books, among them the novels Boy's Life, Swan Song, and The Five.

A native of Birmingham, Alabama, McCammon is better known to his friends and in the horror community as "Rick". He has won numerous awards, including the French Grand Prize of the Imagination Award for Best Foreign Novel for The Wolf's Hour. His novel The Queen Of Bedlam was nominated for the 2008 Thriller Award from the International Thriller Writers, and he is very pleased to be published in dozens of languages around the world. He won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel for Swan Song (1987), Mine (1990) and Boy's Life (1991).

McCammon is currently writing a series of ten books centered around a young detective named Matthew Corbett in colonial New York in the early 1700s. The third in that series, Mister Slaughter, was published early in 2010 and the fourth, The Providence Rider, in 2012.

McCammon is one of the founders of the Horror Writer Association, along with Dean Koontz and Joe and Karen Lansdale. He is currently working on the fifth in the Corbett series, titled The River Of Souls, and also on a large-scope science-fiction/horror novel.
Yvonne Navarro said, "Robert McCammon is one of the original masters of horror fiction who was influential on those who began reading horror during the boom of the 70s and 80s; the New Twilight Zone adaptation of his story "Nightcrawlers" further influenced a generation of horror media fans. The excellence of his earlier work continues to delight new readers, and now that he's returned to writing after a nearly twenty-year break, both long-time and new fans eagerly await his future books.  McCammon was instrumental in the creation of the Horror Writers Association and has mentored numerous authors throughout his career."

Robert responded, "I'm pleased and honored to have been part of the creation of the Horror Writers of America (now the Horror Writers Association), and doubly pleased and honored to be given this award. Thank you and I look forward to seeing you in New Orleans."

The Lifetime Achievement Award is the most prestigious of the Bram Stoker Awards®, given by the HWA in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but over an entire career. Past Lifetime Achievement Award winners include such noted authors as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ramsey Campbell and Peter Straub. Winners must have exhibited a profound, positive impact on the fields of horror and dark fantasy, and be at least sixty years of age or have been published for a minimum of thirty-five years. Recipients are chosen annually by a committee; this one chaired by Yvonne Navarro and including John Everson, Kathy Ptacek, Lucy Snyder and Tim Waggoner.

The LAAs will be presented on June 15 as part of the Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet, at the Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend, incorporating World Horror Convention 2013 in New Orleans. Robert McCammon will be in attendance and Mark Miller will accept for Clive Barker. For more information please visit the website at http://www.stokers2013.org/.

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the nominees for the 2012 Nebula Awards, to be presented in San Jose, California during the 2013 Nebula Award Weekend on May 18.  A tie for six place in the balloting resulted in seven nominees in the Novelette and Short Story categories.  A four way tie for sixth place, plus the three additions by the jury for the Norton Award resulted in twelve nominees in that category.
Novel:

   
• Throne of the Crescent Moon, by Saladin Ahmed
• Ironskin, by Tina Connolly
• The Killing Moon, by N.K. Jemisin
• The Drowning Girl, by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Glamour in Glass, by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Novella:

   
• On a Red Station, Drifting, by Aliette de Bodard
• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, by Nancy Kress
• "The Stars Do Not Lie," by Jay Lake
• "All the Flavors," by Ken Liu
• "Katabasis," by Robert Reed
• "Barry's Tale," by Lawrence M. Schoen

Novelette:

   
• "The Pyre of New Day," by Catherine Asaro
• "Close Encounters," by Andy Duncan
• "The Waves," by Ken Liu
• "The Finite Canvas," by Brit Mandelo
• "Swift, Brutal Retaliation," by Meghan McCarron
• "Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia," by Rachel Swirsky
• "Fade to White," by Catherynne M. Valente

Short Story:

   
• "Robot," by Helena Bell
• "Immersion," by Aliette de Bodard
• "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes," by Tom Crosshill
• "Nanny's Day," by Leah Cypess
• "Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream," by Maria Dahvana Headley
• "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species," by Ken Liu
• "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain," by Cat Rambo

Bradbury:

   
• The Avengers
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Hunger Games
• John Carter
• Looper

Norton:

   
• Iron Hearted Violet, by Kelly Barnhill
• Black Heart, by Holly Black
• Above, by Leah Bobet
• The Diviners, by Libba Bray
• Vessel, by Sarah Beth Durst
• Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman
• Enchanted, by Alethea Kontis
• Every Day, by David Levithan
• Summer of the Mariposas, by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
• Railsea, by China Miéville
• Fair Coin, by E.C. Myers
• Above World, by Jenn Reese

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The finalists for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards have been announced.SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

   
• Bottled Abyss by Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Redrum Horror)
• NightWhere by John Everson (Samhain Publishing)
• The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
• The Haunted by Bentley Little (Signet)
• Inheritance by Joe McKinney (Evil Jester Press)

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uuuuhuhuhuuu, DVE strašne kuće na livadi 

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Mnogo hvale The Drowning Girl.

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The Kitschies, presented by The Kraken Rum, reward the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic.

Winners receive a total of £2,000 in prize money, an iconic Tentacle trophy and a bottle of The Kraken's fine black rum.
The 2012 finalists for the Red Tentacle:
   

   
• Jesse Bullington's The Folly of the World (Orbit)
• Frances Hardinge's A Face Like Glass (Macmillan)
• Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (William Heinemann)
• Adam Roberts' Jack Glass (Gollancz)
• Juli Zeh's The Method (Harvill Secker) (Translated by Sally-Ann Spencer)

The 2012 finalists for the Golden Tentacle:
   

   
• Madeline Ashby's vN (Angry Robot)
• Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon (William Heinemann)
• Rachel Hartman's Seraphina (Doubleday)
• Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Tom Pollock's The City's Son (Jo Fletcher Books)

The 2012 finalists for the Inky Tentacle:
   

   
• La Boca for Ned Beauman's The Teleportation Accident (Sceptre)
• Oliver Jeffers for John Boyne's The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket (Doubleday)
• Tom Gauld for Matthew Hughes' Costume Not Included (Angry Robot)
• Peter Mendelsund for Ben Marcus' Flame Alphabet (Granta)
• Dave Shelton for his own A Boy and a Bear in a Boat (David Fickling Books)

The Black Tentacle, the discretionary prize for an outstanding contribution to the conversation surrounding genre literature, was awarded to The World SF Blog

  Thanks to all the finalists, and thanks to all the publishers and authors who submitted books for consideration. In 2012, The Kitschies received a record 211 books from over 40 publishers and imprints.

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http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/

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http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/03/winners-2012-james-tiptree-jr-award-plus-honor-list/

WINNERS: 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award (Plus: Honor List)
By John DeNardo | Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 at 12:25 am

The winners of the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award, an annual literary prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender, have been announced!

   
• The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc Trade)
• Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam (Aqueduct Press)

The jury also chose the Tiptree Award Honor List:

   
• Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear (Tor 2012) [SF Signal review]
• Rituals – Rhapsody of Blood, Volume One by Roz Kaveney (Plus One Press 2012)
• Up Against It by M.J. Locke (Tor 2011) [via SF Signal review]
• 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit 2012) [via SF Signal review]
• Jagannath: Stories by Karin Tidbeck (Cheeky Frawg Books, 2012) [Crossing the Gulf discussion]
• Firebrand by Ankaret Wells (Epicon Press, 2012)
• "The Receptionist" by Lesley Wheeler (in The Receptionist and Other Tales, Aqueduct Press 2012)

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2012 Sunburst Awards – Geoff Ryman & Catherine Austen Winners

eto. Geoff Ryman. go figure.

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The finalists for the Lambda Literary Award, honoring works of gay and lesbian literature, have been announced. here are the sf/f finalists:

   
• Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, Brit Mandelo, Lethe Press
• Chocolatiers of the High Winds: A Gay Steampunk Romance, H.B. Kurtzwilde, Clasp Editions; An Imprint of Circlet Press
• Green Thumb, Tom Cardamone, Lethe Press
• Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman, Lethe Press [Reviewed, here.]
• In the Now, Kelly Sinclair, Blue Feather Books
• Night Shadows: Queer Horror, Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann, eds., Bold Strokes Books
• The Survivors, Sean Eads, Lethe Press

Congratulations to all the nominees!

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FINALISTS: 2012 Aurealis Awards

By John DeNardo | Thursday, March 21st, 2013 at 12:25 am 
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The finalists for the 2012 Aurealis Awards, given to works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians, have beenannounced!

 
FANTASY NOVEL

• Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)

• Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff (Tor UK)

• Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen&Unwin)

• Flame of Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)

• Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier (HarperVoyager)

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Nominacije za nagrade European Science Fiction Society 2013.

U kategoriji Najbolji promoter nominovan Davor Šišović

A kad smo kod njega, bio li ko na Istrakonu?

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