Nagrade

[Melkor]

Pracenje sirih i uzih izbora, kao i samih dobitnika nagrada moze dosta pomoci u mnogim aspektima voljenja i pracenja desavanja u dragoj nam fantastici i nije lose imati te informacije na jednom mestu a ne lutati po forumu i traziti ih. Poceo bih sa jednom bitnom i jos uvek aktuelnom nagradom:

Dobitnici nagrade "Lazar Komarčić" (za najbolja dela u sezoni 2007-2008) su:
- roman - "Lutajući Bokelj" - Nikola Malović
- noveleta: "Postanje" - Ratko R. Radunović
- kratka priča: "Udno palisada" - Lidija Beatović
- specijalna nagrada: Đorđe Kadijević (za doprinos filmskoj umetnosti).

Nagrada "Ljubomir Damnjanović" (za najbolju priču objavljenu u fanzinu Emitor):
- "Tarzanova poslednja velika avantura" - Pavle Zelić.

[Melkor]

2008 World Fantasy Awards


Novel
winner Ysabel Guy Gavriel Kay [Viking Canada/Penguin Roc]
Territory Emma Bull [Tor]
Fangland John Marks [Penguin Press]
Gospel of the Knife Will Shetterly [Tor]
The Servants Michael Marshall Smith [Earthling Publications]

Novella
winner Illyria Elizabeth Hand [PS Publishing]
The Mermaids Robert Edric [PS Publishing]
"The Master Miller's Tale" Ian R. MacLeod [F&SF May 2007]
"Cold Snap" Kim Newman [The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain Books]
"Stars Seen through Stone" Lucius Shepard [F&SF July 2007]

Short Story
winner "Singing of Mount Abora" Theodora Goss [Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra]
"The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" Daniel Abraham [Logorrhea, Bantam Spectra]
"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" Kij Johnson [The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Viking]
"Damned if you Don't " Robert Shearman" [Tiny Deaths, Comma Press]
"The Church on the Island" Simon Kurt Unsworth [At Ease with the Dead,
Ash-Tree Press]

Anthology
winner Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Ellen Datlow, Editor [Tor]
Five Strokes to Midnight Gary A. Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, Eds. [Haunted Pelican Press]
Wizards: Magical Tales From The Masters of Modern Fantasy
Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Eds. [Berkley]
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Eds.[Viking]
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories John Klima, Editor [Bantam Spectra]

Collection
winner Tiny Deaths Robert Shearman [Comma Press]
Plots and Misadventures Stephen Gallagher [Subterranean Press]
Portable Childhoods Ellen Klages [Tachyon Publications]
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club Kim Newman [MonkeyBrain Books]
Hart & Boot & Other Stories Tim Pratt [Night Shade Books]
Dagger Key and Other Stories Lucius Shepard [PS Publishing]

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Hugo 2008

Best Novel

   * The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)
   * The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor)
   * Halting State by Charles Stross (Ace)
   * Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog Oct. 2006-Jan/Feb. 2007)
   * Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)

Best Novella

   * "All Seated on the Ground" by Connie Willis (Asimov's Dec. 2007, Subterranean Press)
   * "Recovering Apollo 8″ by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov's Feb. 2007)
   * "The Fountain of Age" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's July 2007)
   * "Memorare" by Gene Wolfe (F&SF April 2007)
   * "Stars Seen Through Stone" by Lucius Shepard (F&SF July 2007)

Best Novelette

   * "The Merchant and the Alchemist"s Gate" by Ted Chiang (F&SF Sept. 2007)
   * "The Cambist and Lord Iron: a Fairytale of Economics" by Daniel Abraham (Logorrhea, ed. John Klima, Bantam)
   * "Dark Integers" by Greg Egan (Asimov's Oct./Nov. 2007)
   * "Glory" by Greg Egan (The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
   * "Finisterra" by David Moles (F&SF Dec. 2007)

Best Short Story

   * "Tideline" by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's June 2007)
   * "A Small Room in Koboldtown" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's April/May 2007, The Dog Said Bow-Wow, Tachyon Publications)
   * "Last Contact" by Stephen Baxter (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed. George Mann, Solaris Books)
   * "Who's Afraid of Wolf 359?" by Ken MacLeod (The New Space Opera, ed. by Gardner Dozois, and Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins/Eos)
   * "Distant Replay" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's April/May 2007)

[Nightflier]

Ja sam tipovao na "Brazil" za Huga. I dalje mislim da je trebalo da ga dobije.

[Melkor]

Nikako ne mozes da kazes da je bilo sta trebalo da dobija Hugo. Huga dobija hype, marketing, dobri prijatelji, pare i, na kraju, sta raja vole. E sad, BSFA je vec dobio ostala je Nebula, mislim. Tu vec mozemo i neke pare da bacamo na to sta bi trebalo  

[Melkor]

Nominacije za Nebulu

Novels

   * Little Brother - Cory Doctorow (Tor, Apr08)
   * Powers - Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt, Sep07)
   * Cauldron - Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov07)
   * Brasyl - Ian McDonald (Pyr, May07)
   * Making Money - Terry Pratchett (Harper, Sep07)
   * Superpowers - David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers Press, Jun08)

Novellas

   * "The Spacetime Pool" - Catherine Asaro (Analog, Mar08)
   * "Dark Heaven" - Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes, Resnick, Mike, Ed., SFBC, Jan07)
   * "Dangerous Space" - Kelley Eskridge (Dangerous Space, Aquaduct Press, Jun07)
   * "The Political Prisoner" - Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF, Aug08)
   * "The Duke in His Castle" - Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books, Jun08)

Novelettes

   * "If Angels Fight" - Richard Bowes (F&SF, Feb08)
   * "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" - James Alan Gardner (Asimov's, Feb08)
   * "Dark Rooms" - Lisa Goldstein (Asimov's, Oct/Nov 07)
   * "Pride and Prometheus" - John Kessel (F&SF, Jan08)
   * "Night Wind" - Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade, ed. Deborah J. Ross, Norilana Books, Feb08)
   * "Baby Doll" - Johanna Sinisalo (The SFWA European Hall of Fame, James Morrow & Kathryn Morrow, Ed., Tor, Jun07 )
   * "Kaleidoscope" - K.D. Wentworth (F&SF, May07)

Short Stories

   * "The Button Bin" - Mike Allen (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, Oct07)
   * "The Dreaming Wind" - Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking, Jul07)
   * "Trophy Wives" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, Daw Jan08)
   * "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" - Kij Johnson (Asimov's, Jul08)
   * "The Tomb Wife" - Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, Aug07)
   * "Don't Stop" - James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's, Jun07)
   * "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" - Ruth Nestvold (F&SF, Jan08)

Scripts

   * The Dark Knight - Jonathan Nolan; Christopher Nolan, Christopher, David S. Goyer (Warner Bros., Jul08)
   * "WALL-E" Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
   * "The Shrine" - Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)

Norton

   * Graceling - Kristin Cashore (Harcourt, Oct08)
   * Lamplighter - D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2, Putnam Juvenile, May08))
   * Savvy - Ingrid Law (Dial, May08)
   * The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson (Henry Holt and Company, Apr08)
   * Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) - Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, Sep08)

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Za Huga

   Best Novel

   Anathem by Neal Stephenson
   The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
   Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
   Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
   Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

   Best Novella

   "The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)
   "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF Aug 2008)
   "The Tear" by Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)
   "True Names" by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
   "Truth" by Robert Reed (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)

   Best Novelette

   "Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jan 2008)
   "The Gambler" by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
   "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel (F&SF Jan 2008)
   "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" by James Alan Gardner (Asimov's Feb 2008)
   "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Mar 2008)


   Best Short Story

   "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's Jul 2008) — Read Online
   "Article of Faith" by Mike Resnick (Baen's Universe Oct 2008)
   "Evil Robot Monkey" by Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two)
   "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
   "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Feb 2008)

  Best Related Book

   Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
   Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
   The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold by Lillian Stewart Carl & John Helfers, eds. (Baen)
   What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)
   Your Hate Mail Will be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)

  Best Graphic Story

   The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle. Written by Jim Butcher, art by Ardian Syaf (Del Rey/Dabel Brothers Publishing)
   Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones. Written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
   Fables: War and Pieces. Written by Bill Willingham, pencilled by Mark Buckingham, art by Steve Leialoha and Andrew Pepoy, color by Lee Loughridge, letters by Todd Klein (DC/Vertigo Comics)
   Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic. Story and art by Howard Tayler (The Tayler Corporation)
   Serenity: Better Days. Written by Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad, color by Michelle Madsen, cover by Jo Chen (Dark Horse Comics)
   Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores. Written/created by Brian K. Vaughan, pencilled/created by Pia Guerra, inked by Jose Marzan, Jr. (DC/Vertigo Comics)

   Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

   The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer, story; Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, screenplay; based on characters created by Bob Kane; Christopher Nolan, director (Warner Brothers)
   Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Guillermo del Toro & Mike Mignola, story; Guillermo del Toro, screenplay; based on the comic by Mike Mignola; Guillermo del Toro, director (Dark Horse, Universal)
   Iron Man, Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, screenplay; based on characters created by Stan Lee & Don Heck & Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby; Jon Favreau, director (Paramount, Marvel Studios)
   METAtropolis by John Scalzi, ed. Written by: Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell and Karl Schroeder (Audible Inc)
   WALL-E Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, director (Pixar/Walt Disney)

  Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

   "The Constant" (Lost) Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof, writers; Jack Bender, director (Bad Robot, ABC studios)
   Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen , writers; Joss Whedon, director (Mutant Enemy)
   "Revelations" (Battlestar Galactica) Bradley Thompson & David Weddle, writers; Michael Rymer, director (NBC Universal)
   "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead" (Doctor Who) Steven Moffat, writer; Euros Lyn, director (BBC Wales)
   "Turn Left" (Doctor Who) Russell T. Davies, writer; Graeme Harper, director (BBC Wales)

   Best Editor, Short Form

   Ellen Datlow
   Stanley Schmidt
   Jonathan Strahan
   Gordon Van Gelder
   Sheila Williams

   Best Editor, Long Form

   Lou Anders
   Ginjer Buchanan
   David G. Hartwell
   Beth Meacham
   Patrick Nielsen Hayden

   Best Professional Artist

   Daniel Dos Santos
   Bob Eggleton
   Donato Giancola
   John Picacio
   Shaun Tan

   Best Semiprozine

   Clarkesworld Magazine edited by Neil Clarke, Nick Mamatas & Sean Wallace
   Interzone edited by Andy Cox
   Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi
   The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Kris Dikeman, David G. Hartwell, & Kevin J. Maroney
   Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal


   Best Fanzine

   Argentus edited by Steven H Silver
   Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
   Challenger edited by Guy H. Lillian III
   The Drink Tank edited by Chris Garcia
   Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
   File 770 edited by Mike Glyer

   Best Fan Writer

   Chris Garcia
   John Hertz
   Dave Langford
   Cheryl Morgan
   Steven H Silver

   Best Fan Artist

   Alan F. Beck
   Brad W. Foster
   Sue Mason
   Taral Wayne
   Frank Wu

   The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

   Aliette de Bodard
   David Anthony Durham
   Felix Gilman
   Tony Pi
   Gord Sellar

[Perin]

Jim Butcher and Ardian Syaf's graphic novel THE DRESDEN FILES: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE received a Hugo Award Nomination in the "Best Graphic Story" category. The awards will be presented at Anticipation, the 67th annual World Science Fiction Convention, held August 6-10 in Montreal, Canada.

Steven Barnes, author of Great Sky Woman and Shadow Valley, Blair Underwood, and Tananarive Due have been awarded the NAACP Image Award for their novel In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel. The Image Awards celebrate "the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (motion picture, television, recording, and literature), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors."

Charles Coleman Finlay, author of the forthcoming historical fantasy The Patriot Witch, has been nominated for a Nebula award for his novella "The Political Prisoner." The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend, April 24-26, 2009, in Los Angeles, California.

SF Site recently named Greg Bear's City at the End of Time to their Editor's Choice: Best of 2008 top 10 list. Richard K. Morgan's The Steel Remains also made the 2008 top 10, on the Readers' Choice list .

[zakk]

Ispratio Y the last man i pratim Girl Genius ( http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ ). Y je odličan, Girl Genius je genijalna.

[Melkor]

The Premios Nocte are presented by the Asociación Española de Escritores de Terror (Spanish Association of Horror Writers) and this is their very first year. These awards are therefore for works published (either in Spain or in Spanish, we are not sure which) in 2008. The winners are:

    * Spanish language novel: Rojo alma, negro sombra (Red Soul, Black Shadow), Ismael Martínez Biurrun (451 editores)
    * Translated novel: Déjame entrar (Let the right one in), John Ajvide Lindqvist (Espasa-Calpe)
    * Spanish Language short fiction: "Lluvia sangrienta" ("Bloody rain"), Roberto Malo (from La luz del diablo (Devil's Light); Mira editores)
    * Translated short fiction: "El mejor cuento de terror" ("Best New Horror"), Joe Hill (from Fantasmas (20th Century Ghosts); Suma, 2008)
    * Lifetime Achievement: Francisco Torres Oliver

More information (in Spanish) is available here. There is also a picture of the trophy and, for the benefit of people who were complaining on Sunday about how ugly the Howie is, we reproduce it here.



The sculptor is José Azul.

[Melkor]

Jedna od relevantnih nagrada:


World Fantasy Award Winners 2009


   * Lifetime Achievement: Ellen Asher & Jane Yolen

   * Best Novel (tie): The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) & Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

   * Best Novella: "If Angels Fight", Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)

   * Best Short Story: "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)

   * Best Anthology: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)

   * Best Collection: The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)

   * Best Artist: Shaun Tan

   * Special Award – Professional: Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)

   * Special Award – Non-Professional: Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)

Ford i dalje hara...

[zakk]

O tom Džefriju Fordu sam se naslušao, čak mu je kod nas objavljen Portret gospođe Šarbuk, a ja nikad ništa da nabavim a kamoli pročitam. A zapravo i nema čovek toliko toga...

[vilja]

Ja čitala PORTRET GOSPOĐE ŠARBUK pre par godina (izdavač MOĆ KNJIGE).
Zače, nisi ništa bitno propustio.

[Perin]

I j sam to davno čitao, onako...knjiga i nije nešo, prosek...mada nije toliko loše kao što vilja priča.

[Melkor]

sa upravo citam topika...

Jeffrey Ford - The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque

U, do kraja, neizvesnom sukobu prosle noci izmedju sna koji je pretio da me savlada i mog zavrsavanja ovog romana prevagnulo je Fordovo delo svojim besprekornim stilom, bizarnoscu i, naravno, mojom zeljom da saznam kako se ovaj triler, fantasticna misterija i unutrasnja potraga razresavaju.

Piambo je portretista krema njujorskog drustva 1893 godine. Iako mu to donosi finansijsku sigurnost rastrze ga uverenje da je na taj nacin izdao Umetnost i ne moze da odoli izazovu da naslika portet misteriozne gospodje Charbuque za novce koji bi ga ucinili bogatim i slobodnim da se na miru posveti slikanju kakvo bi on hteo. Postoji "samo" jedan uslov: svoj model ne sme da vidi, treba da ga naslika na osnovu konverzacija sa Mrs Charbuque koja je sve vreme sakrivena iza paravana.

Roman je bio nominovan za World fantasy award 2003.(doduse te godine je tu nagradu dobio za najbolju zbirku). Skrecem paznju na ovo posto su fantasticni elementi prilicno efemerni(ovo je nesto o cemu se moza nadugacko i nasiroko diskutovati). Najbliza odrednica koja mi pada sad na pamet bio bi magicni realizam, mada se ovaj roman otima i takvoj, prilicno sirokoj, klasifikaciji.

Ovo je prvi Fordov roman sa kojim se hvatam u kostac. Poznajem ga iz mnogih kratkih prica na koje nalecem ne sve strane u poslednjih par godina kao i njegove zbirke The Empire of Ice Cream. Na osnovu tih prica nameracio sam se da procitam i nabavim sve sto mogu i ovaj prvi susret sa Fordom u duzoj formi samo me je ucvrstio u toj nameri. Prosto ne mogu sebi da oprostim sto mi ova knjiga vec dve godine stoji na polici neprocitana, ali.. ko zna zasto je dobro? U svakom slucaju Portret donosi sve na sta sam navikao iz brojnih prica: sjajno oslikani likovi, bogata proza koja je retko kada samodovoljna, nit humora koji se provlaci i kroz najmracnije scene, zanimljiv i nekliseiziran zaplet, intospektivni i filozofski senzibilitet i mnogo toga jos.

U svakom slucaju mnogo toga jos.

[Melkor]

Sta su ti ukusi... mada sam ja citao u originalu, i najpre me je kupio recenicom, mozda je to izgubljeno u prevodu. S druge strane, Ford nije bas svacija soljica caja. Steta je samo sto vilja donosi sud o jednom dobrom piscu na osnovu jedne procitane knjige u prevodu.

[vilja]

Sta su ti ukusi... mada sam ja citao u originalu, i najpre me je kupio recenicom, mozda je to izgubljeno u prevodu. S druge strane, Ford nije bas svacija soljica caja. Steta je samo sto vilja donosi sud o jednom dobrom piscu na osnovu jedne procitane knjige u prevodu.

Pa Melkore, ja i nisam komentarisala pisca nego knjigu PORTRET GOSPOĐE ŠARBUK , prevod (FABRIKA KNJIGA)...
Stvarno nije ostavila neki utisak...Evo kad sam pročitala tvoje mišljenje, učinilo mi se da ja i ti uopšte ne mislimo na istu knjigu. Toliko se tvoji utisci razlikuju od mojih...To je, ja mislim, jedna od poslednjih knjiga kod koje sam nasela na blurb...ma svašta je interesantno obećavao...kad ono-šipak. Na stranu to što sam za onog provalnika pretpostavila to-što-već-jesam (da ne spojlujem, neko će to da čita),pa samim tim jelte...interesantnost se svela na zanemarljivu meru, mene su najviše iziritirali likovi gospođe Šarbuk('jao-što-sam-imala-zanimljivo-buran-umetnički-život-kojim-se-kurčim-zavidite-mi-bednici') i slikara (ne mogu ni imena da mu se setim)koliko me je smorio. Stil kojim je knjiga pisana mi je još i dobar (uzimajući u obzir da se radi o prevodu) u odnosu na sve ostalo...Ma za sve kriv taj prokleti blurb, previše je obećavao.  

[Melkor]

Pa, ako je obecavao nekakvu misteriju, le kareovski krimic ili... ladlamovski triler, verovatno, ovo je vise o odnosu umetnika i umetnosti... al' dobro. Imao sam tu prednost sto sam vec procitao silne mu price i znao sam sta, otprilike,  mogu da ocekujem.

@ zakk - Ako si raspolozen za neku od zbirki, javi

Da se vratim nagradama, zanimljivo je da su i Ford i Lanagan najjaci u pricama, ko prati antologije imao je prilike da naleti na dosta njihovih dela. Nazalost, jos nista nisam citao sa spiska, mada neke stvari imam vec neko vreme i voleo bih da se javi neko ko je bar nesto procitao. Za Paper Cities nisam bio siguran da je toliko dobro, alu sad cu, jelte, morati da proverim. Ocigledno je da su sve nagrade dobrano pretegle na stranu slipstreama u odnosu na tradicionalniji fantasy.

[vilja]

Pa, ako je obecavao nekakvu misteriju, le kareovski krimic ili... ladlamovski triler, verovatno, ovo je vise o odnosu umetnika i umetnosti... al' dobro. Imao sam tu prednost sto sam vec procitao silne mu price i znao sam sta, otprilike,  mogu da ocekujem.

Jao bre Melkore, naterao si me da poražim PORTRET GOSPOĐE ŠARBUK. Grdno sam se namučila da je nađem jer sam je gurnula negde na dno police...Evo šta lažljivi blurb kaže:

"Ovaj nesvakidašnji, (ma ajde, kakvo tendenciozno preterivanje  ) uzbudljiv ( mada, neosporno, neke ljude svašta uzbuđuje) i misteriozan roman (e, na ovo sam se primila, kad ono...nigde misterije  ) koji u sebi spaja večita pitanja umetničkog stvaralaštva s najboljom tradicijom trilera (izem ti triler kad ti je već na trećini knjige skoro sve jasno, nema napetosti, glavni likovi toliko iritiraju da uhvatiš sebe kako navijaš da im neko ozbiljno naudi )..."

"Dok čitate ovu knjigu čini vam se kao da ste ušli u svet neke od slika Salvadora Dalija i postali njen deo"
Ja naivno pomislila da je to neka sjajno-uvrnuta knjiga koja se ne ispušta iz ruku dok se ne pročita...a pročitala sam je do kraja samo zato što sam mazohista...Kakav zez.

[Perin]

Previše sereš.

misteriozan roman (e, na ovo sam se primila, kad ono...nigde misterije  )

I jeste misteriozan. Šta je glavni zadatak našeg lika? Šta treba da napravi? DA li zna šta i koga on crta? Roman nije preterano dobar, ali jeste okej.

[Melkor]

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2010 :

Roman francophone :
Le Déchronologue de Stéphane Beauverger (La Volte)

Roman étranger
Roi du matin, reine du jour de Ian McDonald (Denoël)

Nouvelle francophone
Le diapason des mots et des misères (recueil) de Jérôme Noirez (Griffe d'encre)

Nouvelle étrangère
Des choses fragiles (recueil) de Neil Gaiman (Au diable vauvert)

Roman jeunesse
Le clairvoyage et La brume des jours de Anne Fakhouri (L'Atalante)

Prix Jacques Chambon de la traduction
Gilles Goullet pour Vision aveugle de Peter Watts (Fleuve Noir)

Prix Wojtek Siudmak du graphisme
Beb Deum pour FaceBox (Delcourt)

Essai
Echos de Cimmérie. Hommage à Robert Ervin Howard, sous la direction de Fabrice Tortey (Oeil du Sphinx)

Prix spécial
Le lac aux Vélies de Nosfell et Ludovic Debeurme (Futuropolis)

Prix européen
La Maison d'Ailleurs, à Yverdon (Suisse)


Corneliuse?

[Melkor]

Philip K. Dick Nominees

The nominees for the annual Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback original work of science fiction have been announced. The winners will be announced at Norwescon 33 on April 2, 2010 in SeaTac, Washington. The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society.

    * Bitter Angels, by C. L. Anderson
    * The Prisoner, by Carlos J. Cortes
    * The Repossession Mambo, by Eric Garcia
    * The Devil's Alphabet, by Daryl Gregory
    * Cyberabad Days, by Ian McDonald
    * Centuries Ago and Very Fast, by Rebecca Ore
    * Prophets, S. Andrew Swann

[Melkor]

2010 RUSA Reading List Award Winners

The Reference and User Services Association announced the winners of its annual Reading List awards in eight categories, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

Fantasy

    * Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
    * The Warded Man, Peter V. Brett (Del Rey)
    * Turn Coat, Jim Butcher (Tor)
    * The Red Wolf Conspiracy, Robert V.S. Redick (Del Rey)
    * Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)

Science Fiction

    * The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
    * The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Tor)
    * Flood, Stephen Baxter (Penguin)
    * Steal Across the Skies, Nancy Kress (Tor)
    * The Quiet War, Paul J. McAuley (Pyr)

Horror

    * Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland)
    * The House of Lost Souls, F.G. Cottam (St. Martin's)
    * The Séance, John Harwood (Harcourt)
    * The Unseen, Alexandra Sokoloff (St. Martin's)
    * The Little Stranger, Sara Waters (Riverhead)

The winning titles were selected by a council of librarians. This year's awards were announced at the American Library Association's midwinter conference, held in Boston, January 15-19, 2010.

[lilit]

Da li se mozda/slucajno/eventualno doslo do uzeg spiska za ovogodisnju LK nagradu?

[Milosh]

Da li se mozda/slucajno/eventualno doslo do uzeg spiska za ovogodisnju LK nagradu?

Pokreni topik: Mićo, reaguj!

[lilit]

Ne smem. 

[Melkor]

Da li se mozda/slucajno/eventualno doslo do uzeg spiska za ovogodisnju LK nagradu?

LK je previse ozbiljna nagrada da bi mahala kojekakvim sirim i uzim i najuzim spiskovima, imenima clanova zirija, faktom da li ziri uopste postoji... Kad bude dodeljena, cuce se  

[lilit]

Ma znam, al pomislih, dobicu info preko veze. 
Salu na stranu, videh gore da si u februaru prosle godine pisao o nagradi za 2007/2008, pa pomislih da se februar 2010 blizi. Otisla sam.

[Melkor]

HWA Lifetime Achievement


January 21st, 2010

According to SF Scope, the Horror Writers Association (the folks responsible for the Bram Stoker Awards) will be giving their 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award to Brian Lumley and William F. Nolan. They have also pre-announced the winner of their Specialty Press Award: Tartarus Press. These awards will be presented at the Stoker Award banquet at the World Horror Convention in Brighton, England in March.

[Melkor]

2010 BSFA Awards Shortlists

Best Novel

Ark by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin (Gollancz)
The City & The City by China Mieville (Macmillan)
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)

Best Short Fiction

"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster (Interzone 220)
The Push by Dave Hutchinson (Newcon Press)
"Johnnie and Emmie-Lou Get Married" by Kim Lakin-Smith (Interzone 222)
"Vishnu at the Cat Circus" by Ian McDonald (in Cyberabad Days, Gollancz)
"The Beloved Time of Their Lives" [pdf link] by Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia (in The Beloved of My Beloved, Newcon Press)
"The Assistant" by Ian Whates (in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 3, ed. George Mann)

Best Artwork

Alternate cover art for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (art project), Nitzan Klamer
"Emerald" by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
Cover of Desolation Road by Ian McDonald, by Stephan Martinière, jacket design by Jacqueline Nasso Cooke
Cover of Interzone 220, Adam Tredowski
Cover of Interzone 224, Adam Tredowski
Cover of Interzone 225, Adam Tredowski

Best Non-Fiction

Canary Fever by John Clute (Beccon)
"I Didn't Dream of Dragons" by Deepa D
"Ethics and Enthusiasm" by Hal Duncan
"Mutant Popcorn" by Nick Lowe (Interzone)
A Short History of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James (Middlesex University Press)

Note that there are only four nominees in the Best Novel category, and six nominees in the Best Short Fiction and Best Artwork categories due to ties for fifth place. The Awards will be presented at this year's Eastercon, Odyssey.

[zakk]

Neke ne-baš-taze pričice Dejva Hačinsona, al eto radi nekog utiska:

Discreet Phenomena
A Dream of Locomotives
Pavane of the Sons of the Morning

[Melkor]

Sta se voli dole ispod:

The winners were announced at the thirteenth annual Aurealis Awards ceremony at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane on Saturday 24 January 2010.

best science fiction novel

Andrew McGahan, Wonders of a Godless World, Allen & Unwin

best science fiction short story

Peter M. Ball, 'Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens', Apex Magazine May 2009

best fantasy novel

Trudi Canavan, Magician's Apprentice, Orbit

best fantasy short story - Joint winners

Christopher Green, 'Father's Kill', Beneath Ceaseless Skies #24

Ian McHugh, 'Once a Month, On a Sunday', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40, Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-operative Ltd

best horror novel

Honey Brown, Red Queen, Penguin Australia

best horror short story - Joint winners

Paul Haines, 'Wives', X6, Coeur de Lion Publishing

Paul Haines, 'Slice of Life - A Spot of Liver', Slice of Life, The Mayne Press

best anthology

Jonathan Strahan (editor), Eclipse 3, Night Shade Books

best collection

Greg Egan, Oceanic, Gollancz

best illustated book/graphic novel

Nathan Jurevicius, Scarygirl, Allen & Unwin

best young adult novel

Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan Trilogy: Book One, Penguin (je l' ovo bese ona fancy-shmency mapa?)

best young adult short story

Cat Sparks, 'Seventeen', Masques, CSFG

best children's (8-12 years) novel

Gabrielle Wang, A Ghost in My Suitcase, Puffin Books

best children's (8-12 years)
short fiction/illustrated work/picture book

Pamela Freeman (author), Kim Gamble (illustrator), Victor's Challenge, Walker Books Australia

[Melkor]

Inace, sa britanske liste procitao sam samo Mievilla (naravno ) i ne verujem da ce pobediti. Lavinia ulazi u trku sa vec dobijenom Lokusovom nagradom i mogla bi da dobije nagradu kao kontrast prethodnim godinama (a i najnahvaljenija je od svih nominovanih). Roberts je lokalni favorit i prilicno cenjen u UK. A Baxter na papiru ima najvece sanse s obzirom na ljubav BSFA-a prema hard SF-u, pogotovo sto nije stand-alone roman.

[Nightflier]

Jeste, to je ona mapa. Stigla mi je knjiga još pre Nove godine, ali nikako da počnem da čitam.

[Melkor]

John Jude Palencar has won the prestigious Hamilton King Award, presented by the Society of Illustrators. As Irene Gallo explains, although the Hamilton King is ostensibly given for a single piece of artwork (in Palencar's case his cover for Charles de Lint's Muse and Reverie), the award has become seen as something of a mid-career achievement award given only to artists with a superb track record.

Pobednicka ilustracija:

[Melkor]

Lost Man Booker Prize longlist to award best omitted novel of 1970

zbog promene pravila preskocili su 1970 godinu i sad su setili da bi mogli da dodele nagradu za istu....

nominacije:

Brian Aldiss, The Hand Reared Boy

HE Bates, A Little Of What You Fancy?

Nina Bawden, The Birds On The Trees

Melvyn Bragg, A Place In England

Christy Brown, Down All The Days

Len Deighton, Bomber

JG Farrell, Troubles

Elaine Feinstein, The Circle

Shirley Hazzard, The Bay Of Noon

Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman

Susan Hill, I'm The King Of The Castle

Francis King, A Domestic Animal

Margaret Laurence, The Fire Dwellers

David Lodge, Out Of The Shelter

Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Shiva Naipaul, Fireflies

Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander

Joe Orton, Head To Toe

Mary Renault, Fire From Heaven

Ruth Rendell, A Guilty Thing Surprised

Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat

Patrick White, The Vivisector

[Melkor]

Nova nagrada za "istorijsku fikciju", nema veze sa fantastikom ali znamo da dosta ljudi koji citaju SF&F zanima i istorija te:

New Walter Scott prize to honour historical novels

Inaugural £25,000 award to be presented in June at Borders book festival

    * Alison Flood
    * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 February 2010 16.04 GMT

He is seen as the father of the historical novel, so it's perhaps only fitting that a new literary prize honouring the genre is to be launched in the name of Sir Walter Scott.

The £25,000 award is being set up by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scott. They hope the award will help to "properly honour" the author's "immense achievements", and "place as one of the world's most influential novelists".

Scott's novel Waverley, published in 1814 and set during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, is regularly described as the first historical novel. Telling the story of daydreaming Englishman Edward Waverley and his decision to ally himself with Scottish highland chieftain Fergus, his beautiful sister Flora and the Jacobite cause, its subtitle "Tis Sixty Years Since", is being used by the prize's organisers to define parameters for entry, with a historical novel deemed to be one where the events described take place at least 60 years before publication.

"By fixing, then, the date of my story Sixty Years before this present 1st November, 1805, I would have my readers understand, that they will meet in the following pages neither a romance of chivalry nor a tale of modern manners; that my hero will neither have iron on his shoulders, as of yore, nor on the heels of his boots, as is the present fashion of Bond Street; and that my damsels will neither be clothed 'in purple and in pall', like the Lady Alice of an old ballad, nor reduced to the primitive nakedness of a modern fashionable at a rout," wrote Scott in his introduction to Waverley. "From this my choice of an era the understanding critic may farther presage that the object of my tale is more a description of men than manners."

The first Walter Scott prize will be presented as part of the Borders book festival in June, at Scott's home Abbotsford House, near Melrose, for which fundraising to restore the property is currently underway. Judges will include novelist Elizabeth Laird, journalist and author Allan Massie and literary editor of the Scotsman David Robinson.

[Melkor]

2009 PRELIMINARY STOKER BALLOT


Superior Achievement in a Novel

QUARANTINED by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
PATIENT ZERO by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin)
CURSED by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
SACRIFICE by John Everson (Leisure)
AUDREY'S DOOR by Sarah Langan (Harper)
ETERNAL VIGILANCE II: DEATH OF ILLUSIONS by Gabrielle Faust (Immanion Press)
TWISTED LADDER by Rhodi Hawk (Tor/Forge)
VORACIOUS by Alice Henderson (Jove)
THE BONE FACTORY by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

DAMNABLE by Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
THE BLACK ACT by Louise Bohmer (Library of Horror)
SLAUGHTER by Marcus Griffin (Alexandrian Archives Publishing)
BREATHERS by S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)
THE LITTLE SLEEP by Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)
SOLOMON'S GRAVE by Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
DISMEMBER by Daniel Pyle (Wild Child)
SLIGHTS by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)
THE DEAD PATH by Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)
THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH by Carrie Ryan (Delacorte Press/Random House)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction,

MAMA FISH by Rio Youers (Shroud Publishing)
HUNGER OF EMPTY VESSELS by Scott Edelman (Bad Moon Books)
DIANA AND THE GOONG-SI by Lisa Morton (MIDNIGHT WALK)
DOC GOOD'S TRAVELING SHOW by Gene O'Neill (Bad Moon Books)
THE GRAY ZONE by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
THE LUCID DREAMING by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
DREAMING ROBOT MONSTER by Mort Castle (MIGHTY UNCLEAN)
LITTLE GRAVEYARD ON THE PRAIRIE by Steven E. Wedel (Bad Moon Books)
ROT by Michelle Lee (Skullvines Press)
BLACK BUTTERFLIES by Kurt Newton (Sideshow Press)

Superior Achievement in a Short Fiction

IN THE PORCHES OF MY EARS by Norman Prentiss (PS Publishing)
BLANKET OF WHITE by Amy Grech (BLANKET OF WHITE)
KEEPING WATCH by Nate Kenyon (MONSTROUS: 20 TALES OF GIANT CREATURE TERROR)
ONE MORE DAY by Brian Freeman (SHIVERS V)
THE CROSSING OF ALDO RAY by Weston Ochse (THE DEAD THAT WALK)
WHERE SUNLIGHT SLEEPS by Brian Freeman (Horror Drive-in)
THE NIGHT NURSE by Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-in)
PLAGUE DOGS by Joe McKinney (POTTERS FIELD 3)
THE OUTLAWS OF HILL COUNTY by John Palisano (Harvest Hill)
NUB HUT by Kurt Dinan (Chizine)

Superior Achievement in a Anthology,

MIDNIGHT WALK edited by Lisa Morton (Dark House)
POE edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
HARLAN COUNTY HORRORS edited by Mari Adkins (Apex Publications)
HE IS LEGEND: AN ANTHOLOGY CELEBRATING RICHARD MATHESON edited by Christopher Conlon (Gauntlet Press)
LOVECRAFT UNBOUND edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse Books)
DARK DELICACIES 3: HAUNTED edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
BUTCHER SHOP QUARTET 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton (Cutting Block Press)
GRANTS PASS edited by Amanda Pillar and Jennifer Brozek (Morrigan Books)
MIGHTY UNCLEAN edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)
BRITISH INVASION by Chris Golden, Tim Lebbon and James Moore (Cemetery Dance Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Collection,

A TASTE OF TENDERLOIN by Gene O'Neill (Apex Book Company)
SHADES OF BLOOD AND SHADOW by Angeline Hawkes (Dark Regions Press)
MARTYRS AND MONSTERS by Robert Dunbar (DarkHart Press)
IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)
A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FIENDS by Michael McCarty (Sam's Dot)
GOT TO KILL THEM ALL AND OTHER STORIES by Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
DARK ENTITIES by David Dunwoody (Dark Regions)
SHARDS by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)
UNHAPPY ENDINGS by Brian Keene (Delirium Books)
YOU MIGHT SLEEP... by Nick Mamatas (Prime)

Superior Achievement in a Nonfiction

WRITERS WORKSHOP OF HORROR by Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
STEPHEN KING: THE NON-FICTION by Rocky Wood and Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)
CINEMA KNIFE FIGHT by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
ESOTERIA-LAND by Michael McCarty (BearManor Media)
MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES edited by Loren Rhoads (Simon & Schuster)
THE STEPHEN KING ILLUSTRATED COMPANION by Bev Vincent (Fall River Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

CHIMERIC MACHINES by Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)
MORTICIAN'S TEA by G. O. Clark (Sam's Dot)
DOUBLE VISIONS by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
VOICES FROM THE DARK by Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions)
BARFODDER by Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
STARKWEATHER DREAMS by Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
TOWARD ABSOLUTE ZERO by Karen L. Newman (Sam's Dot)
NORTH LEFT OF EARTH by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)
GRAVE BITS by Todd Hanks (Skullvines Press)

[Melkor]

Science Fiction Poetry Association President Deborah P. Kolodji has announced the winners of this year's Dwarf Stars Award, for the best short speculative poems of 10 lines or less published in 2008. The award is voted by the membership of the SFPA.

The 2009 Dwarf Stars Winners are:

First place: "Fireflies" by Geoffrey A. Landis (first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2008)

Second place: "The Leaf Whisperer" by Elizabeth Barrette (Doorways Magazine #5, 2008)

Third place: "Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff" by Jane Yolen (Asimov's, October/November 2008)

[Melkor]

The 2009 Nebula Awards nominees have been announced:

Novel:

    * The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

    * The Love We Share Without Knowing, Christopher Barzak (Bantam)

    * Flesh and Fire, Laura Anne Gilman (Pocket)

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

    * Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)

    * Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)

Novella

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

    * "Arkfall", Kage Baker (F&SF 9/08)

    * "Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)

    * Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)

    * "Sublimation Angels", Jason Sanford (Interzone 9-10/09)

    * The God Engines, John Scalzi (Subterranean)

Novelette

    * "The Gambler", Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)

    * "Vinegar Peace, or, the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage", Michael Bishop (Asimov's 7/08)

    * "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said", Richard Bowes (F&SF 12/09)

    * "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast", Eugie Foster (Interzone 2/09)

    * "Divining Light", Ted Kosmatka (Asimov's 8/08)

    * "A Memory of Wind", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 11/09)

Short Story

    * "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela", Saladin Ahmed (Clockwork Phoenix 2)

    * "I Remember the Future", Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future)

    * "Non-Zero Probabilities", N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld 9/09)

    * "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)

    * "Going Deep", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)

    * "Bridesicle", Will McIntosh (Asimov's 1/09)

Ray Bradbury Award

    * Star Trek, J.J. Abrams (Paramount)

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

    * Avatar, James Cameron (Fox)

    * Moon, Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker (Sony)

    * Up, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter (Disney/Pixar)

    * Coraline, Henry Selick (Laika/Focus)

Andre Norton Award

    * Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon)

    * Ice, Sarah Beth Durst (McElderry)

    * Ash, Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)

    * Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev (Feiwel & Friends)

    * Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi (Tor)

    * When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb)

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

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


Final ballots are due March 30, 2010 (only active SFWA members are eligible to vote). Winners will be announced at the 2010 SFWA Nebula Awards Weekend, to be held May 13-16, 2010 in Cocoa Beach, FL.

[Melkor]

The Diagram Prize '09: The Shortlist

18.02.10

Autonomous Robots take on the Third Reich

THE BOOKSELLER TOWERS, London. — 2009. A year when lists were slashed, advances were cut, employees were given the boot, book sales suffered a slight malaise (see: "celebrity" memoirs), and yet, and yet . . . oddity endured.

I received a record number of submissions for the 2009 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, almost treble the number I received for 2008. And I have Twitter largely to thank, for 50 submissions were Tweeted in my general direction. Sadly, however, almost half the submissions were ineligible as they were published well before 2009. They raised a smile nonetheless—Sketches of a Few Jellyfish, On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers, and Seeing and Sensing Gnomes: Hey Looky Heah'h, to name but three.

However, even after the initial cull, the list was still considerable in size, meaning my panel of esteemed literary minds and I were forced into ruthlessness, brutally cutting any submission we felt carried a "deliberately odd" title. As such, submissions including Bacon: A Love Story, The Origin of Faeces and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, fell at this second hurdle. But even after this second cull, choosing a shortlist still proved formidable, with equal measures of both controversial and emotional.

However, finally, and without further ado, I give you the final six:

The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
by Ellen Scherl and Marla Dubinsky (Slack Inc)

For the second year in succession, healthcare cognoscenti Slack Incorporated enjoy a spot on the shortlist. 2008's bottom-clenchingly absorbing Curbside Consultation of the Colon proved a real cracker with voters, finishing a respectable third in last year's Diagram Prize, but Slack will no doubt be hoping to go two better this year. Sales Stateside have bottomed out at around the one-every-couple-of-weeks mark, but sales aren't on the skids over here—principally because it has yet to sell a single copy on UK shores, no doubt because our enviable diet (curry, etc) bequeaths us with immaculate intestines.

Inflammatory bowel disease has form in this award. Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Personal View narrowly missed out to Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality in the '86 installment.

Spotted by: The Bookseller's non-fiction previewer, Caroline Sanderson

Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich
by James A Yannes (Trafford)

"Of interest to the collector and educational for the casual reader of history," the title of US Army veteran Yannes' indispensable cutlery compendium received high praise from the panel. The epic "explores the relevant historical highlights which in turn illuminate this unique period in history as reflected by the spoons" and runs to 19,000 words. Yours for just £13(ish), no longer will you ever have to ponder: "What did the dessert spoons used on the Kriegsmarine's U-47 look like?"

Much like inflammatory bowels, both spoons and the Nazis have Diagram form. Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan missed out to The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America in '06, while both How Green Were the Nazis? and Detecting Fake Nazi Regalia made previous Diagram shortlists.

Spotted by Nielsen BookScan's Andre Breedt

Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
by Daina Taimina(A K Peters)

More "Riemannian manifold with negative Gaussian curvature" than "crochet charts", Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes is the bestselling book on this odd-title shortlist, having notched up a colossal 34 sales in the UK and a tremendous 588 copies in the US. The gripping yarn will keep you hooked to the final chapter: "Who is Interested in Hyperbolic Geometry Now and How Can it be Used?"

Spotted by: Booth Book Publishing's Stuart Booth

Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
by Ronald C Arkin (CRC Press)

The essential guide to any owner of a T-1000, Georgia Tech roboticist/roboethicist Arkin's 2009 work has sold into double figures in the UK, and clocked up an electrifying 94 copies in the US. Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield deemed it a "must read". Quite. After all, where else can one find an exploration of a new breed of robots, illustrating that "the first steps toward creating robots that not only conform to international law but outperform human soldiers in their ethical capacity are within reach in the future".

So, these "humane-oids" 
will no doubt refuse to participate in any "regime changes" 
that could, perhaps, be seen to be breaking UN 
resolutions, then?

Spotted by: Foyles' web editor Jonathan Ruppin

What Kind of Bean is this Chihuahua?
by Tara Jansen-Meyer (Mirror)

Seemingly a children's book on race ("where kids learn it's OK to be different"), the title suggests pre-school children will instead learn what kind of bean (runner, mung?) a chihuahua is. Last time I checked, it was a dog, but I defer to Jansen-Meyer's expertise. Sales in the UK have thus far been disappointing, but a jacket revamp should do the trick—putting "Meyer" in huge, white letters on a black background might be an idea. Rumours of a follow-up, 
What Kind of Asparagus is this Shetland Pony?, are disappointingly still just rumours.

Spotted by The Bookseller subscriber Jay Omotoso

Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter
by David Crompton (Glenstrae Press)

All proceeds from the sales of helminthologist (look it up) Crompton's notes on his worm-hunting travels go to the Glasgow Centre for International Development's scholarship fund. Sadly, however, sales in the UK and US (according to Nielsen BookScan) total precisely no copies whatsoever. One assumes, of course, that BookScan simply does not cover the traditional sales outlets for worm-hunting tomes.

Two other wormy tomes have made previous Diagram shortlists. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers made the '81 shortlist, while Earthworms of Ontario missed out to Reusing Old Graves in '95. Crompton's Worms could wriggle a win. Said Sir Kenneth Calman, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (where Crompton is an honorary professor): "I am always attracted to a book with an interesting title, and what could be more intriguing than Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter?" It is a question that I leave to you, dear reader...

Spotted by @writershelper on Twitter

(If you click on the book jackets above, you can spend your hard-earned pennies pretty easily — and many thanks to www.bookdepository.co.uk for that.)

Vote for your favourite at www.thebookseller.com. The winner will be announced on Friday, 26th March.

[zakk]

WOW!

[Tripp]

Jos par interesantnih naslova [courtesy of 1997 'Brain Droppings' by George Carlin]:

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-   You Give Me Six Weeks and I'll Give You Some Bad Disease
-   The Stains in Your Shorts Can Indicate Your Future
-   Earn Big Money by Sitting in Your Car Trunk
-   I Gave Up Hope and It Worked Just Fine
-   Why You Should Never Yodel During an Electrical Storm
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-   Where to Hide a Really Big Snot
-   Why You Must Never Give Yourself a Neck Operation
-   Now You Can Cure Cancer by Simply Washing Up
-   Lightweight Summer Ensembles to Wear on the Toilet
-   Where to Throw Up Secretly


Offer #3: General Interest Titles

-   Twelve Things Nobody Cares About
-   The Picture Book of Permanent Stains
-   Firecracker in a Cat's Asshole: A Novel
-   The Complete List of Everyone Who Enjoys Coffee
-   The Official British Empire Registry of Blokes
-   Ten Places No One Can Find
-   Tits on the Moon [science fiction]
-   Why Norway and Hawaii Are Not Near Each Other
-   The History of Envy
-   The Pus Almanac
-   Carousel Maintenance
-   The Dingleberry Papers
-   A Treasury of Poorly Understood Ideas
-   Why Jews Point
-   The Golden Age of Tongue Kissing
-   Famous Bullshit Stories of the Aztecs
-   The Meaning of Corn
-   Feel This: A Braille Sex Manual
-   A Complete List of Everything That is Still Pending
-   Really Loud Singalongs for the Hard of Hearing

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Why Jews Point  

nego, evo i konacne liste za Stokera, vec pre koji dan video sam shortlist za roman, ali nista bez Lokusa za sve kategorije

The 2009 Stoker Awards Final Ballot has been released:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

   * Audrey's Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)

   * Patient Zero, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin)

   * Quarantined, Joe McKinney (Lachesis)

   * Cursed, Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)


Superior Achievement in a First Novel

   * Breathers, S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)

   * Solomon's Grave, Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)

   * Damnable, Hank Schwaeble (Jove)

   * The Little Sleep, Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

   * Dreaming Robot Monster, Mort Castle (Mighty Unclean)

   * The Hunger of Empty Vessels, Scott Edelman (Bad Moon)

   * The Lucid Dreaming, Lisa Morton (Bad Moon)

   * Doc Good's Traveling Show, Gene O'Neill (Bad Moon)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

   * "Keeping Watch", Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)

   * "The Crossing of Aldo Ray", Weston Ochse (The Dead That Walk)

   * "In the Porches of My Ears", Norman Prentiss (Postscripts 18)

   * "The Night Nurse", Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-In 7/09)


Superior Achievement in an Anthology


   * He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Christopher Conlon, ed. (Gauntlet)

   * Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)

   * Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)

   * Midnight Walk, Lisa Morton, ed. (Dark House)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

   * Martyrs and Monsters, Robert Dunbar (DarkHart)

   * Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories, Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)

   * A Taste of Tenderloin, Gene O'Neill (Apex)

   * In the Closet, Under the Bed, Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe)


Superior Achievement in Non-fiction

   * Writers Workshop of Horror, Michael Knost (Woodland)

   * Cinema Knife Fight, L.L. Soares & Michael Arruda (Fearzone)

   * The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, Bev Vincent (Fall River)

   * Stephen King: The Non-Fiction, Rocky Wood & Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)


Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

   * Double Visions, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)

   * North Left of Earth, Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)

   * Barfodder, Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)

   * Chimeric Machines, Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy)


Horror Writers Association members will vote to determine winners. Winning titles will be announced at the World Horror Convention, March 25-28 2010, in Brighton, England.

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Nego, gledam nesto shortlist za Nebulu (Flesh and Fire, Laura Anne Gilman mi je apsolutno iznenadjenje) i pitam se ima li smisla citati Fincha bez predznanja iz prethodnih Ambergis knjiga.

PS. majko mila, sa Stokerove liste cuo sam samo za Paul Tremblaya, ako ne racunamo  Richard Matheson i Ellen Datlow 

[Melkor]

Pre neki dan dodeljene su i 17. Spectrum nagrade.

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Scribe Award Nominees

The nominees for this year's Scribe Awards, for media tie-in novels, have been announced. Locus has the full list. Here are the speculative fiction nominees:

    * Enemies & Allies, Kevin J. Anderson (Morrow)
    * Terminator Salvation: Cold War, Greg Cox (Titan)
    * Star Trek: A Singular Destiny, Keith R.A. DeCandido (Pocket)
    * Warhammer: Shamanslayer: A Gotrek and Felix Novel, Nathan Long (Black Library)
    * Star Trek: Vanguard: Open Secrets, Dayton Ward (Pocket)

William Johnston received the Grandmaster Award. Other winners will be announced at the San Diego ComicCon.

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British Fantasy Awards 2010: the Longlist

The British Fantasy Society Awards use a recommendation list system as the basis for their nominating ballot. That is, members start by sending in lists of works/people that they believe are eligible for the awards and ought to be considered. Those lists are then voted on to produce the short list of nominees. The full long lists for all categories are available here.

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2010 Arthur C Clarke Award Submissions

Now we come to it! The shortlist for this year's Arthur C Clarke Award will be announced on Wednesday 31 March, and the award ceremony will be held on Wednesday 28 April, at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival. However, as last year, the Award is releasing the list of books that were submitted and considered and you heard it, quite literally, here first. Or rather, saw it:



Note that this is not a formal longlist; it's the books that were submitted by publishers and considered by the judges.

    Heart of Veridon by Tim Akers (Solaris)
    Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher (Tor)
    Orbus by Neal Asher (Tor)
    The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
    Twisted Metal by Tony Ballantyne (Tor)
    Transition by Iain Banks (Little, Brown)
    Ark by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
    Moxyland by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
    The Accord by Keith Brooke (Solaris)
    Xenopath by Eric Brown (Solaris)
    Seeds of Earth by Mike Cobley (Orbit)
    And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer (Penguin)
    Makers by Cory Doctorow (Voyager)
    The Babylonian Trilogy by Sebastien Doubinsky (PS Publishing)
    The Wild Things by Dave Eggers (Hamish Hamilton)
    Consorts of Heavenby Jaine Fenn (Gollancz)
    The Stranger by Max Frei (Gollancz)
    Concrete Operational by Richard Galbraith (Rawstone Media)
    Nova War by Gary Gibson (Tor)
    Winter Song by Colin Harvey (Angry Robot)
    The Rapture by Liz Jensen (Bloomsbury)
    Spirit by Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)
    Journey into Space by Toby Litt (Penguin)
    The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove (Solaris)
    Halfhead by Stuart B MacBride (HarperVoyager)
    Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
    The City & The City by China Mieville (Macmillan)
    Red Claw by Philip Palmer (Orbit)
    Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
    Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager)
    Chasing the Dragon by Justina Robson (Gollancz)
    The City of Lists by Brigid Rose (Crocus)
    Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
    Wake by Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
    Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
    The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor (Faber & Faber)
    Far North by Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber)
    Before the Gods by KS Turner (Ruby Blaze)
    The Painting and the City by Robert Freeman Wexler (PS Publishing)
    This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams (Orbit)
    Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (Gollancz)

So there you are: the 41 books in contention for this year's Arthur C Clarke Award. (The Rise of the Iron Moon by Stephen Hunt was also submitted, but ineligible due to SF Crowsnest's association with the award.)

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Ja se uopšte ne snalazim. Bilo je toga na rasprodaji za dolar.