2011
Finalists for the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, which honors the best science fiction published in the U.K., are:
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Generosity by Richard Powers
Declare by Tim Powers
Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
The winner will be announced April 27 [2011] at theSCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival. The Guardianreported that one of this year's judges, Jon Courtenay Grimwood of the British Science Fiction Association, said, "I think this is one of the most interesting lists in the last 25 years. I think it's a good snapshot of SF as a whole, and I'd have said it shows SF in rude and diverse health."
2010
The City and the City by China Miéville won the Arthur C. Clarke award, the U.K.'s prestigious science fiction prize, becoming the first author ever to win three times, the Guardian reported. Miéville said he was "absolutely gobsmacked" and "incredibly honoured" to win.
"It's very different from most of my other books," Miéville observed of The City and the City. "It was very much written in an effort to be absolutely faithful to works of crime fiction. Crime readers will denounce a book because it has 'cheated,' and I wanted to write a book that didn't cheat, that was faithful to crime rules and that if you'd never read any fantasy you could pick up."
Shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2009
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod -- winner!
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
House of Suns (Gollancz) by Alastair Reynolds
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The winner will be announced on Wednesday, April 29, at an award ceremony held on the opening night of the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Golden Duck Awards (1992-2010)
The Golden Duck Awards for excellence in children's SF literature are given annually to picture books, the Gold Duckling Award, books for middle grades the Eleanor Cameron Award, and books for young adults; the latter category is called the Hal Clement Award.
Information from Golden Duck Awards and Locus Index to SF Awards
HAL CLEMENT AWARD (YOUNG ADULT)
2009 Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
(tie) The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
2008 Sky Horizon: Colony High, Book One, David Brin, illustrated by Scott Hampton
2007 Rash, Peter Hautman
2006 Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
2005 Balance of Trade, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
2004 Gunpowder Empire, Harry Turtledove
2003 Feed, M. T. Anderson
2002 This Side of Paradise, Steven Layne
2001 Jumping Off the Planet, David Gerrold
2000 David Brin's Out of Time 3: The Game of Worlds, Roger MacBride Allen
1999 Alien Dreams, Larry Segriff
1998 The Dark Side of Nowhere, Neal Shusterman
1997 Wildside, Steven Gould
1996 The Night Room, E. M. Goldman
(tie) The Winds of Mars, H. M. Hoover
1995 The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer
1994 The Giver, Lois Lowry
1993 River Rats, Caroline Stevermer
1992 Invitation to the Game, Monica Hughes
Eleanor Cameron Award
2010 Z. Rex, Steve Cole
2009 Lighter than Air, Henry Melton
2008 Gravity Buster: Journal #2 of a Cardboard Genius, Frank Asch
(tie) Shanghaied to the Moon, Michael J. Daley
2007 Apers, Mark Jansen & Barbara Day Zinicola
2006 Whales on Stilts!, M. T. Anderson
2006 The Fran that Time Forgot, Jim Benton
2005 The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer
2004 Escape from Memory, Margaret Peterson Haddix
2003 Andrew Lost, J. C. Greenburg
2002 Beatnik Rutabagas from beyond the Stars, Quenin Dodd
2001 The Power of UN, Nancy Etchemendy
2000 I Was a 6th Grade Alien, Bruce Coville
1999 Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moestra
1998 Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror, Bill Crider
1997 Animorphs: The Message, K. A. Applegate
1996 Star Hatching, Margaret Bechard
1995 Shape Changer, Bill Brittain
1994 Star Fleet Academy: Worf's First Adventure, Peter David
1993 Weirdos of the Universe, Unite!, Pamela F. Service
1992 My Teacher Glows in the Dark, Bruce Coville
PICTURE BOOK
2009 We're Off To Look For Aliens, Colin McNaughton
2008 Mars Needs Moms, Berkeley Breathed
2007 Night of the Homework Zombies, Scott Nickel, illustrated by Steve Harpster
2006 Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery, Kevin O'Malley & Patrick O'Brien
2005 Science Verse, Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
2004 Hazel Nutt: Mad Scientist, David Elliott, illustrated by True Kelley
2003 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones - Incredible Cross-Sections, Curtis J. Saxton, illustrated by Hens Jenssen & Richard Chasemore
2002 Baloney (Henry P.), Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
2001 Rex, Robert Gould & Kathleen Duey, illustrated by Eugene Epstein
2000 Hush, Little Alien, Daniel Kirk
1999 Noah and the Space Ark, Laura Cecil, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
1998 Floating Home, David Getz, illustrated by Michael Rex
1997 Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon, Timothy R. Gaffney, illustrated by Barry Root
1996 Insects from Outer Space, Frank Asch & Vladimir Vagin, illustrated by Vladimir Vagin
1995 Time Flies, Eric Rohmann
1994 Richie's Rocket, Joan Anderson, illustrated by George Ancona
1993 June 29, 1999, David Wiesner
1992 Time Train, Paul Fleishman, illustrated by Clarie Ewart
SPECIAL AWARD
2008 Stone Arch Books (for quality SF graphic novels to attract young SF fans)
2008 World of Science Fiction, John Hamilton
2007 Write Your Own Science Fiction Story, Tish Farrell
2006 Bruce Coville & Full Cast Audio Family, Cover of "Rolling Stones" (by Robert A. Heinlein)
2000 J. K. Rowling
1999 Garth Nix
1998 Kipton and the Android, Charles Fontenay
SPECIAL AWARD: BEST SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
2003 Tales of the Wonderzone, Julie E. Czerneda, ed.
Information from Golden Duck Awards and Locus Index to SF Awards
HAL CLEMENT AWARD (YOUNG ADULT)
2009 Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
(tie) The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
2008 Sky Horizon: Colony High, Book One, David Brin, illustrated by Scott Hampton
2007 Rash, Peter Hautman
2006 Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
2005 Balance of Trade, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
2004 Gunpowder Empire, Harry Turtledove
2003 Feed, M. T. Anderson
2002 This Side of Paradise, Steven Layne
2001 Jumping Off the Planet, David Gerrold
2000 David Brin's Out of Time 3: The Game of Worlds, Roger MacBride Allen
1999 Alien Dreams, Larry Segriff
1998 The Dark Side of Nowhere, Neal Shusterman
1997 Wildside, Steven Gould
1996 The Night Room, E. M. Goldman
(tie) The Winds of Mars, H. M. Hoover
1995 The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer
1994 The Giver, Lois Lowry
1993 River Rats, Caroline Stevermer
1992 Invitation to the Game, Monica Hughes
Eleanor Cameron Award
2010 Z. Rex, Steve Cole
2009 Lighter than Air, Henry Melton
2008 Gravity Buster: Journal #2 of a Cardboard Genius, Frank Asch
(tie) Shanghaied to the Moon, Michael J. Daley
2007 Apers, Mark Jansen & Barbara Day Zinicola
2006 Whales on Stilts!, M. T. Anderson
2006 The Fran that Time Forgot, Jim Benton
2005 The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer
2004 Escape from Memory, Margaret Peterson Haddix
2003 Andrew Lost, J. C. Greenburg
2002 Beatnik Rutabagas from beyond the Stars, Quenin Dodd
2001 The Power of UN, Nancy Etchemendy
2000 I Was a 6th Grade Alien, Bruce Coville
1999 Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights, Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moestra
1998 Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror, Bill Crider
1997 Animorphs: The Message, K. A. Applegate
1996 Star Hatching, Margaret Bechard
1995 Shape Changer, Bill Brittain
1994 Star Fleet Academy: Worf's First Adventure, Peter David
1993 Weirdos of the Universe, Unite!, Pamela F. Service
1992 My Teacher Glows in the Dark, Bruce Coville
PICTURE BOOK
2009 We're Off To Look For Aliens, Colin McNaughton
2008 Mars Needs Moms, Berkeley Breathed
2007 Night of the Homework Zombies, Scott Nickel, illustrated by Steve Harpster
2006 Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery, Kevin O'Malley & Patrick O'Brien
2005 Science Verse, Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
2004 Hazel Nutt: Mad Scientist, David Elliott, illustrated by True Kelley
2003 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones - Incredible Cross-Sections, Curtis J. Saxton, illustrated by Hens Jenssen & Richard Chasemore
2002 Baloney (Henry P.), Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith
2001 Rex, Robert Gould & Kathleen Duey, illustrated by Eugene Epstein
2000 Hush, Little Alien, Daniel Kirk
1999 Noah and the Space Ark, Laura Cecil, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark
1998 Floating Home, David Getz, illustrated by Michael Rex
1997 Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon, Timothy R. Gaffney, illustrated by Barry Root
1996 Insects from Outer Space, Frank Asch & Vladimir Vagin, illustrated by Vladimir Vagin
1995 Time Flies, Eric Rohmann
1994 Richie's Rocket, Joan Anderson, illustrated by George Ancona
1993 June 29, 1999, David Wiesner
1992 Time Train, Paul Fleishman, illustrated by Clarie Ewart
SPECIAL AWARD
2008 Stone Arch Books (for quality SF graphic novels to attract young SF fans)
2008 World of Science Fiction, John Hamilton
2007 Write Your Own Science Fiction Story, Tish Farrell
2006 Bruce Coville & Full Cast Audio Family, Cover of "Rolling Stones" (by Robert A. Heinlein)
2000 J. K. Rowling
1999 Garth Nix
1998 Kipton and the Android, Charles Fontenay
SPECIAL AWARD: BEST SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
2003 Tales of the Wonderzone, Julie E. Czerneda, ed.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Nebula Awards 2008-2009
2010 Nebula Award Nominees from SFWA accessed 2/26/11
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is proud to announce the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C.. Other awards to be presented are the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Science Fiction or Fantasy for Young Adults, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Solstice Award for outstanding contribution to the field.
Short Story
‘‘Arvies’’, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine 8/10)
‘‘How Interesting: A Tiny Man’’, Harlan Ellison® (Realms of Fantasy 2/10)
‘‘Ponies’’, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10)
‘‘I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno’’, Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed Magazine 6/10)
‘‘The Green Book’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine 11/1/10)
‘‘Ghosts of New York’’, Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
‘‘Conditional Love’’, Felicity Shoulders (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1/10)
Novelette
‘‘Map of Seventeen’’, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow’’, Aliette de Bodard Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 7/10)
‘‘The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara’’, Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
“Plus or Minus’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 12/10)
‘‘Pishaach’’, Shweta Narayan (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made’’, Eric James Stone (Analog Science Fiction and Fact 9/10)
‘‘Stone Wall Truth’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2/10)
Novella
The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible; Subterranean)
‘‘Iron Shoes’’, J. Kathleen Cheney (Alembical 2)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
‘‘The Sultan of the Clouds’’, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9/10)
‘‘Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance’’, Paul Park (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1-2/10)
‘‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window’’, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine Summer ’10)
Novel
The Native Star, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Echo, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Despicable Me, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud (directors), Ken Daurio & Cinco Paul (screenplay), Sergio Pablos (story) (Illumination Entertainment)
Doctor Who: ‘‘Vincent and the Doctor’’, Richard Curtis (writer), Jonny Campbell (director)
How to Train Your Dragon, Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders (directors), William Davies, Dean DeBlois, & Chris Sanders (screenplay) (DreamWorks Animation)
Inception, Christopher Nolan (director), Christopher Nolan (screenplay) (Warner)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright (director), Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright (screenplay)
Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich (director), Michael Arndt (screenplay), John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, & Lee Unkrich (story) (Pixar/Disney)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry)
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK)
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet)
The Boy from Ilysies, Pearl North (Tor Teen)
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper)
A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld
From The Nebula Awards accessed 5/17/10
2009 Nebula Award Winners
Novel
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books, Sept. 2009)
Novella
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s - Kage Baker (Subterranean Press, June 2009)
Novelette
“Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,”
Eugie Foster (Interzone, Feb. 2009)
Short Story
“Spar,” Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Oct. 2009)
Ray Bradbury Award
District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Tri-Star, Aug. 2009)
Andre Norton Award
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making,
Catherynne M. Valente (Catherynne M. Valente, June 2009)
The winners of the 2008 Nebula Awards, sponsored and voted on by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, are:
Best Novel: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
Best Novella: The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro (Analog)
Best Novelette: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Best Short Story: Trophy Wives by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Daw Books)
Script: WALL-E screenplay by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon; original story by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter (Pixar)
Other awards and their winners:
Andre Norton Award: 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) by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)
SFWA Service Award: Victoria Strauss
Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting: Joss Whedon
Grand Master Award: Harry Harrison
Author Emerita: M.J. Engh
A new honor, the Solstice Award, given to speculative fiction writers making a positive impact in the genres of science fiction or fantasy, was awarded to Kate Wilhelm, Martin H. Greenberg and the late Algis Budrys.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is proud to announce the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C.. Other awards to be presented are the Andre Norton Award for Excellence in Science Fiction or Fantasy for Young Adults, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Solstice Award for outstanding contribution to the field.
Short Story
‘‘Arvies’’, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine 8/10)
‘‘How Interesting: A Tiny Man’’, Harlan Ellison® (Realms of Fantasy 2/10)
‘‘Ponies’’, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10)
‘‘I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno’’, Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed Magazine 6/10)
‘‘The Green Book’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine 11/1/10)
‘‘Ghosts of New York’’, Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
‘‘Conditional Love’’, Felicity Shoulders (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1/10)
Novelette
‘‘Map of Seventeen’’, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow’’, Aliette de Bodard Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 7/10)
‘‘The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara’’, Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
“Plus or Minus’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 12/10)
‘‘Pishaach’’, Shweta Narayan (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made’’, Eric James Stone (Analog Science Fiction and Fact 9/10)
‘‘Stone Wall Truth’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2/10)
Novella
The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible; Subterranean)
‘‘Iron Shoes’’, J. Kathleen Cheney (Alembical 2)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
‘‘The Sultan of the Clouds’’, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9/10)
‘‘Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance’’, Paul Park (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1-2/10)
‘‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window’’, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine Summer ’10)
Novel
The Native Star, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Echo, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Despicable Me, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud (directors), Ken Daurio & Cinco Paul (screenplay), Sergio Pablos (story) (Illumination Entertainment)
Doctor Who: ‘‘Vincent and the Doctor’’, Richard Curtis (writer), Jonny Campbell (director)
How to Train Your Dragon, Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders (directors), William Davies, Dean DeBlois, & Chris Sanders (screenplay) (DreamWorks Animation)
Inception, Christopher Nolan (director), Christopher Nolan (screenplay) (Warner)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright (director), Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright (screenplay)
Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich (director), Michael Arndt (screenplay), John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, & Lee Unkrich (story) (Pixar/Disney)
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry)
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK)
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet)
The Boy from Ilysies, Pearl North (Tor Teen)
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper)
A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld
From The Nebula Awards accessed 5/17/10
2009 Nebula Award Winners
Novel
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books, Sept. 2009)
Novella
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s - Kage Baker (Subterranean Press, June 2009)
Novelette
“Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,”
Eugie Foster (Interzone, Feb. 2009)
Short Story
“Spar,” Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Oct. 2009)
Ray Bradbury Award
District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Tri-Star, Aug. 2009)
Andre Norton Award
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making,
Catherynne M. Valente (Catherynne M. Valente, June 2009)
The winners of the 2008 Nebula Awards, sponsored and voted on by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, are:
Best Novel: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
Best Novella: The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro (Analog)
Best Novelette: Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Best Short Story: Trophy Wives by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Daw Books)
Script: WALL-E screenplay by Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon; original story by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter (Pixar)
Other awards and their winners:
Andre Norton Award: 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) by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)
SFWA Service Award: Victoria Strauss
Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting: Joss Whedon
Grand Master Award: Harry Harrison
Author Emerita: M.J. Engh
A new honor, the Solstice Award, given to speculative fiction writers making a positive impact in the genres of science fiction or fantasy, was awarded to Kate Wilhelm, Martin H. Greenberg and the late Algis Budrys.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Endeavour Award (1999-2010)
from The Endeavour Award website accessed 11/21/10
THE ENDEAVOUR AWARD...
...for a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.
The award represents a collaboration between writers and fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy to encourage the growth of literature in the field and recognize works of excellence. It is named for H.M. Bark Endeavour, the ship of Northwest explorer Capt. James Cook.
The award is announced annually at OryCon, held in Portland, Oregon. The next award will be presented at OryCon 32 (November 2010) for a book published during 2009. The award is accompanied by a grant of $1,000.
2010 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Mind Over Ship by David Marusek [#2 follows Counting Heads]
FINALISTS FOR 2010
City Without End by Kay Kenyon
Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight by Cat Rambo
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
Push of the Sky by Camille Alexa
2009 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Space Magic by David D. Levine
FINALISTS FOR 2009
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Ill Met in the Arena by Dave Duncan
Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Stories by Ken Scholes
A World Too Near: Book Two of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
2008 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper
FINALISTS FOR 2008
The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari
Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest
Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin
2007 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
FINALISTS FOR 2007
Children of Chaos by Dave Duncan
Fortress of Ice by C.J. Cherryh
Horizon by Mary Rosenblum
Spirits that Walk in Shadow by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
2006 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Anywhere But Here by Jerry Oltion
FINALISTS FOR 2006
Counting Heads, by David Marusek
Destroyer, by C.J. Cherryh
Fledgling: A Novel, by Octavia E. Butler
Quantico, by Greg Bear
2005 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
The Child Goddess by Louise Marley
FINALISTS FOR 2005
Alphabet of Thorn, by Patricia McKillip
Paradise Passed, by Jerry Oltion
The Secrets of Jin-Shei, by Alma Alexander
Two Trains Running, by Lucius Shepard
2004 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Red Thunder by John Varley
FINALISTS FOR 2004
A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Dragonmaster: Book Two - Knighthood of the Dragon by Chris Bunch
Storyteller by Amy Thomson
Time Travelers, Ghosts and Other Visitors by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
2003 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNERS
The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes
FINALISTS FOR 2003
The Maquisarde by Louise Marley
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
Technogenisis by Syne Mitchell
2002 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Tales From Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
FINALISTS FOR 2002
The Free Lunch by Spider Robinson
Getaway Special by Jerry Oltion
Homefall by Chris Bunch
Past the Size of Dreaming by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Year the Cloud Fell by Kurt R.A. Giambastiani
2001 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNERS
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Glass Harmonica by Louise Marley
FINALISTS FOR 2001
Storm Force by Chris Bunch
Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by Bruce Holland Rogers
Terminal Visions by Richard Paul Russo
2000 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
FINALISTS FOR 2000
Calculus of Angels by J. Gregory Keyes
The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kikiri Hoffman
The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley
1999 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear
FINALISTS FOR 1999
Golden Globe by John Varley
The Good Children by Kate Wilheim
Iron Shadows by Steve Barnes
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
THE ENDEAVOUR AWARD...
...for a distinguished SCIENCE FICTION or FANTASY BOOK written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.
The award represents a collaboration between writers and fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy to encourage the growth of literature in the field and recognize works of excellence. It is named for H.M. Bark Endeavour, the ship of Northwest explorer Capt. James Cook.
The award is announced annually at OryCon, held in Portland, Oregon. The next award will be presented at OryCon 32 (November 2010) for a book published during 2009. The award is accompanied by a grant of $1,000.
2010 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Mind Over Ship by David Marusek [#2 follows Counting Heads]
FINALISTS FOR 2010
City Without End by Kay Kenyon
Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight by Cat Rambo
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
Push of the Sky by Camille Alexa
2009 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Space Magic by David D. Levine
FINALISTS FOR 2009
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Ill Met in the Arena by Dave Duncan
Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Stories by Ken Scholes
A World Too Near: Book Two of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
2008 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper
FINALISTS FOR 2008
The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari
Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest
Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin
2007 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
FINALISTS FOR 2007
Children of Chaos by Dave Duncan
Fortress of Ice by C.J. Cherryh
Horizon by Mary Rosenblum
Spirits that Walk in Shadow by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
2006 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Anywhere But Here by Jerry Oltion
FINALISTS FOR 2006
Counting Heads, by David Marusek
Destroyer, by C.J. Cherryh
Fledgling: A Novel, by Octavia E. Butler
Quantico, by Greg Bear
2005 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
The Child Goddess by Louise Marley
FINALISTS FOR 2005
Alphabet of Thorn, by Patricia McKillip
Paradise Passed, by Jerry Oltion
The Secrets of Jin-Shei, by Alma Alexander
Two Trains Running, by Lucius Shepard
2004 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Red Thunder by John Varley
FINALISTS FOR 2004
A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Dragonmaster: Book Two - Knighthood of the Dragon by Chris Bunch
Storyteller by Amy Thomson
Time Travelers, Ghosts and Other Visitors by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
2003 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNERS
The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes
FINALISTS FOR 2003
The Maquisarde by Louise Marley
Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
Technogenisis by Syne Mitchell
2002 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Tales From Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
FINALISTS FOR 2002
The Free Lunch by Spider Robinson
Getaway Special by Jerry Oltion
Homefall by Chris Bunch
Past the Size of Dreaming by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Year the Cloud Fell by Kurt R.A. Giambastiani
2001 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNERS
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Glass Harmonica by Louise Marley
FINALISTS FOR 2001
Storm Force by Chris Bunch
Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by Bruce Holland Rogers
Terminal Visions by Richard Paul Russo
2000 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
FINALISTS FOR 2000
Calculus of Angels by J. Gregory Keyes
The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kikiri Hoffman
The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley
1999 ENDEAVOUR AWARD WINNER
Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear
FINALISTS FOR 1999
Golden Globe by John Varley
The Good Children by Kate Wilheim
Iron Shadows by Steve Barnes
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1975-2010)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Locus Online info accessed 8/27/10
This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
2010 novel finalists:
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The City & The City by China Miéville --winner!
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
Award winners and finalists from previous years:
1975
Winner: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
* A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
* Merlin's Ring by H. Warner Munn
1976
Winner: Bid Time Return (aka Somewhere in Time), Richard Matheson
* Salem's Lot, Stephen King
1977
Winner: Doctor Rat, William Kotzwinkle
* The Doll Who Ate His Mother, Ramsey Campbell
* The Dragon and the George, Gordon R. Dickson
* The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Michael Moorcock
* The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck
* Dark Crusade, Karl Edward Wagner
1978
1978
Winner: Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber
* The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
* The Hour of the Oxrun Dead, Charles L. Grant
1979
Winner: Gloriana, Michael Moorcock
* The Black Castle, Les Daniels
* The Sound of Midnight, Charles L. Grant
* The Stand, Stephen King
* Night's Master, Tanith Lee
1980
* Winner: Watchtower, Elizabeth A. Lynn
* The Last Call of Mourning, Charles L. Grant
* The Dancers of Arun, Elizabeth A. Lynn
* Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A. McKillip
* The Dark Bright Water, Patricia Wrightson
* The Palace, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1981
* Winner: The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
* Firelord, Parke Godwin
* The Mist, Stephen King
* Shadowland, Peter Straub
* Ariosto, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1982
* Winner: Little, Big, John Crowley
* The Nameless, Ramsey Campbell
* The War Hound and the World's Pain, Michael Moorcock
* The White Hotel, D. M. Thomas
* The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe
1983
* Winner: Nifft the Lean, Michael Shea
* The Nestling, Charles L. Grant
* Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin
* Phantom, Thomas Tessier
* The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe
1984
* Winner: The Dragon Waiting, John M. Ford
* Pet Sematary, Stephen King
* The Wandering Unicorn, Manuel Mujica Lainez
* Tea with the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy
* The Armageddon Rag, George R. R. Martin
* Lyonesse, Jack Vance
1985
* Winner: Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
* Winner: Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
* Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones
* The Talisman, Stephen King & Peter Straub
* The Ceremonies, T. E. D. Klein
1986
* Winner: Song of Kali, Dan Simmons
* The Damnation Game, Clive Barker
* Illywhacker, Peter Carey
* The Dream Years, Lisa Goldstein
* Winterking, Paul Hazel
* The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
1987
* Winner: Perfume, Patrick Suskind
* Talking Man, Terry Bisson
* The Pet, Charles L. Grant
* It, Stephen King
* Strangers, Dean R. Koontz
* The Tricksters, Margaret Mahy
* Soldier of the Mist, Gene Wolfe
* Portrait of Callum McKendrick As A Young African Boy, Edgar Fong
1988
* Winner: Replay, Ken Grimwood
* Weaveworld, Clive Barker
* Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card
* AEgypt, John Crowley
* Misery, Stephen King
* Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
* On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers
1989
* Winner: Koko, Peter Straub
* The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
* Sleeping in Flame, Jonathan Carroll
* Fade, Robert Cormier
* The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
* The Drive-In, Joe R. Lansdale
1990
* Winner: Lyonesse: Madouc, Jack Vance
* A Child Across the Sky, Jonathan Carroll
* In a Dark Dream, Charles L. Grant
* The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers
* Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons
* Soldier of Arete, Gene Wolfe
1991
* Winner: Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow
* Winner: Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner
* Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
* Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
* Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
1992
* Winner: Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
* Hunting the Ghost Dancer, A.A. Attanasio
* The Paper Grail, James P. Blaylock
* Bone Dance, Emma Bull
* Outside the Dog Museum, Jonathan Carroll
* The Little Country, Charles de Lint
1993
* Winner: Last Call, Tim Powers
* Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
* Was, Geoff Ryman
* Photographing Fairies, Steve Szilagyi
* Briar Rose, Jane Yolen
1994
* Winner: Glimpses, Lewis Shiner
* The Innkeeper's Song, Peter S. Beagle
* Drawing Blood, Poppy Z. Brite
* Skin, Kathe Koja
* The Throat, Peter Straub
* The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick
* Lord of the Two Lands, Judith Tarr
1995
* Winner: Towing Jehovah, James Morrow
* Brittle Innings, Michael Bishop
* From The Teeth of Angels, Jonathan Carroll
* Love & Sleep, John Crowley
* Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
* The Circus of the Earth and the Air, Brooke Stevens
1996
* Winner: The Prestige, Christopher Priest
* All the Bells on Earth, James P. Blaylock
* Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra
* The Silent Strength of Stones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
* Requiem, Graham Joyce
* Expiration Date, Tim Powers
1997
* Winner: Godmother Night, Rachel Pollack
* Shadow of Ashland, Terence M. Green
* The Bear Went Over the Mountain, William Kotzwinkle
* The 37th Mandala, Marc Laidlaw
* A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
* The Golden Key, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott
* Devil's Tower, Mark Sumner
1998
* Winner: The Physiognomy, Jeffrey Ford (Avon)
* Trader, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* American Goliath, Harvey Jacobs (St. Martin's)
* The Gift, Patrick O'Leary (Tor)
* Dry Water, Eric S. Nylund (Avon)
1999
* Winner: The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich (HarperFlamingo)
* Someplace to Be Flying, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* Sailing to Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay (Earthlight; Viking; HarperPrism)
* Mockingbird, Sean Stewart (Ace)
* The Martyring, Thomas Sullivan (Forge)
2000
* Winner: Thraxas, Martin Scott (Orbit)
* Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)
* The Rainy Season, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
* Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson (Bantam Press)
* A Witness To Life, Terence M. Green (Forge)
* A Red Heart of Memories, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace)
2001
* Winner: Declare, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow)
* Winner: Galveston, Sean Stewart (Ace Books)
* The Grand Ellipse, Paula Volsky (Bantam Spectra)
* The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Scholastic UK)
* Lord of Emperors, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; HarperPrism; Earthlight)
* Perdido Street Station, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)
2002
* Winner: The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
* American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
* Brown Harvest, Jay Russell (Four Walls Eight Windows)
* The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos)
* From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
* The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* The Wooden Sea, Jonathan Carroll (Tor)
2003
* Winner: The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
* Winner: Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
* The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
* Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)
* The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
2004
* Winner: Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton (Tor)
* The Etched City, K.J. Bishop (Prime Books)
* Fudoki, Kij Johnson (Tor)
* The Light Ages, Ian R. MacLeod (Ace)
* Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
2005
* Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
* The Runes of the Earth, Stephen R. Donaldson (Putnam; Gollancz)
* Iron Council, China Miéville (Del Rey)
* Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart (Small Beer Press)
* The Wizard Knight, Gene Wolfe (Tor, two volumes)
2006
* Winner: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Harvill; Knopf)
* Vellum, Hal Duncan (Macmillan; Del Rey)
* Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf; Macmillan)
* The Limits of Enchantment, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Atria)
* Od Magic, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
* A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park (Tor)
2007
* Winner: Soldier of Sidon , Gene Wolfe (Tor)
* Lisey's Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
* The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
* The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
* The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
2008
* Winner: Ysabel , Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
* Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
* Fangland, John Marks (Penguin Press)
* Gospel of the Knife, Will Shetterly (Tor)
* The Servants, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
The 2009 shortlist for novel includes:
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford -- Winner!
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
2010 novel finalists:
Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The City & The City by China Miéville --winner!
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
Award winners and finalists from previous years:
1975
Winner: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
* A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
* Merlin's Ring by H. Warner Munn
1976
Winner: Bid Time Return (aka Somewhere in Time), Richard Matheson
* Salem's Lot, Stephen King
1977
Winner: Doctor Rat, William Kotzwinkle
* The Doll Who Ate His Mother, Ramsey Campbell
* The Dragon and the George, Gordon R. Dickson
* The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Michael Moorcock
* The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck
* Dark Crusade, Karl Edward Wagner
1978
1978
Winner: Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber
* The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
* The Hour of the Oxrun Dead, Charles L. Grant
1979
Winner: Gloriana, Michael Moorcock
* The Black Castle, Les Daniels
* The Sound of Midnight, Charles L. Grant
* The Stand, Stephen King
* Night's Master, Tanith Lee
1980
* Winner: Watchtower, Elizabeth A. Lynn
* The Last Call of Mourning, Charles L. Grant
* The Dancers of Arun, Elizabeth A. Lynn
* Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A. McKillip
* The Dark Bright Water, Patricia Wrightson
* The Palace, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1981
* Winner: The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
* Firelord, Parke Godwin
* The Mist, Stephen King
* Shadowland, Peter Straub
* Ariosto, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
1982
* Winner: Little, Big, John Crowley
* The Nameless, Ramsey Campbell
* The War Hound and the World's Pain, Michael Moorcock
* The White Hotel, D. M. Thomas
* The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe
1983
* Winner: Nifft the Lean, Michael Shea
* The Nestling, Charles L. Grant
* Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin
* Phantom, Thomas Tessier
* The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe
1984
* Winner: The Dragon Waiting, John M. Ford
* Pet Sematary, Stephen King
* The Wandering Unicorn, Manuel Mujica Lainez
* Tea with the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy
* The Armageddon Rag, George R. R. Martin
* Lyonesse, Jack Vance
1985
* Winner: Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
* Winner: Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart
* Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones
* The Talisman, Stephen King & Peter Straub
* The Ceremonies, T. E. D. Klein
1986
* Winner: Song of Kali, Dan Simmons
* The Damnation Game, Clive Barker
* Illywhacker, Peter Carey
* The Dream Years, Lisa Goldstein
* Winterking, Paul Hazel
* The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
1987
* Winner: Perfume, Patrick Suskind
* Talking Man, Terry Bisson
* The Pet, Charles L. Grant
* It, Stephen King
* Strangers, Dean R. Koontz
* The Tricksters, Margaret Mahy
* Soldier of the Mist, Gene Wolfe
* Portrait of Callum McKendrick As A Young African Boy, Edgar Fong
1988
* Winner: Replay, Ken Grimwood
* Weaveworld, Clive Barker
* Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card
* AEgypt, John Crowley
* Misery, Stephen King
* Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon
* On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers
1989
* Winner: Koko, Peter Straub
* The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
* Sleeping in Flame, Jonathan Carroll
* Fade, Robert Cormier
* The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
* The Drive-In, Joe R. Lansdale
1990
* Winner: Lyonesse: Madouc, Jack Vance
* A Child Across the Sky, Jonathan Carroll
* In a Dark Dream, Charles L. Grant
* The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers
* Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons
* Soldier of Arete, Gene Wolfe
1991
* Winner: Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow
* Winner: Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner
* Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
* Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin
* Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
1992
* Winner: Boy's Life, Robert R. McCammon
* Hunting the Ghost Dancer, A.A. Attanasio
* The Paper Grail, James P. Blaylock
* Bone Dance, Emma Bull
* Outside the Dog Museum, Jonathan Carroll
* The Little Country, Charles de Lint
1993
* Winner: Last Call, Tim Powers
* Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
* Was, Geoff Ryman
* Photographing Fairies, Steve Szilagyi
* Briar Rose, Jane Yolen
1994
* Winner: Glimpses, Lewis Shiner
* The Innkeeper's Song, Peter S. Beagle
* Drawing Blood, Poppy Z. Brite
* Skin, Kathe Koja
* The Throat, Peter Straub
* The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick
* Lord of the Two Lands, Judith Tarr
1995
* Winner: Towing Jehovah, James Morrow
* Brittle Innings, Michael Bishop
* From The Teeth of Angels, Jonathan Carroll
* Love & Sleep, John Crowley
* Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
* The Circus of the Earth and the Air, Brooke Stevens
1996
* Winner: The Prestige, Christopher Priest
* All the Bells on Earth, James P. Blaylock
* Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra
* The Silent Strength of Stones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
* Requiem, Graham Joyce
* Expiration Date, Tim Powers
1997
* Winner: Godmother Night, Rachel Pollack
* Shadow of Ashland, Terence M. Green
* The Bear Went Over the Mountain, William Kotzwinkle
* The 37th Mandala, Marc Laidlaw
* A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
* The Golden Key, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott
* Devil's Tower, Mark Sumner
1998
* Winner: The Physiognomy, Jeffrey Ford (Avon)
* Trader, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* American Goliath, Harvey Jacobs (St. Martin's)
* The Gift, Patrick O'Leary (Tor)
* Dry Water, Eric S. Nylund (Avon)
1999
* Winner: The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich (HarperFlamingo)
* Someplace to Be Flying, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* Sailing to Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay (Earthlight; Viking; HarperPrism)
* Mockingbird, Sean Stewart (Ace)
* The Martyring, Thomas Sullivan (Forge)
2000
* Winner: Thraxas, Martin Scott (Orbit)
* Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)
* The Rainy Season, James P. Blaylock (Ace)
* Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson (Bantam Press)
* A Witness To Life, Terence M. Green (Forge)
* A Red Heart of Memories, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace)
2001
* Winner: Declare, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow)
* Winner: Galveston, Sean Stewart (Ace Books)
* The Grand Ellipse, Paula Volsky (Bantam Spectra)
* The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (Knopf; Scholastic UK)
* Lord of Emperors, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; HarperPrism; Earthlight)
* Perdido Street Station, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey)
2002
* Winner: The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
* American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow)
* Brown Harvest, Jay Russell (Four Walls Eight Windows)
* The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos)
* From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)
* The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (Tor)
* The Wooden Sea, Jonathan Carroll (Tor)
2003
* Winner: The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
* Winner: Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
* The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
* Fitcher's Brides, Gregory Frost (Tor)
* The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
2004
* Winner: Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton (Tor)
* The Etched City, K.J. Bishop (Prime Books)
* Fudoki, Kij Johnson (Tor)
* The Light Ages, Ian R. MacLeod (Ace)
* Veniss Underground, Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
2005
* Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
* The Runes of the Earth, Stephen R. Donaldson (Putnam; Gollancz)
* Iron Council, China Miéville (Del Rey)
* Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart (Small Beer Press)
* The Wizard Knight, Gene Wolfe (Tor, two volumes)
2006
* Winner: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami (Harvill; Knopf)
* Vellum, Hal Duncan (Macmillan; Del Rey)
* Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf; Macmillan)
* The Limits of Enchantment, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Atria)
* Od Magic, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
* A Princess of Roumania, Paul Park (Tor)
2007
* Winner: Soldier of Sidon , Gene Wolfe (Tor)
* Lisey's Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
* The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
* The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
* The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
2008
* Winner: Ysabel , Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
* Territory, Emma Bull (Tor)
* Fangland, John Marks (Penguin Press)
* Gospel of the Knife, Will Shetterly (Tor)
* The Servants, Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling Publications)
The 2009 shortlist for novel includes:
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford -- Winner!
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Monday, September 6, 2010
Hugo Awards (2009-10)
2010 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Nominees for the 2010 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been named. Winners will be announced at a ceremony September 5 in Melbourne, Australia, during Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention.
Finalists for best novel are Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The City and The City by China Miéville - Winner! (tie)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - Winner! (tie)
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominees are
Saladin Ahmed
Gail Carriger
Felix Gilman
Seanan McGuire - Winner! Rosemary and Rue, (October Daye #1)
Lezli Robyn
2009 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Finalists for best novel include
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominees are
Aliette de Bodard (not on GR)
David Anthony Durham -- The War With the Mein (Book One of the Acacia Trilogy) -- Winner
Felix Gilman -- Thunderer
Tony Pi (not on GR)
Gord Sellar (not on GR)
Nominees for the 2010 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been named. Winners will be announced at a ceremony September 5 in Melbourne, Australia, during Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention.
Finalists for best novel are Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The City and The City by China Miéville - Winner! (tie)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - Winner! (tie)
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominees are
Saladin Ahmed
Gail Carriger
Felix Gilman
Seanan McGuire - Winner! Rosemary and Rue, (October Daye #1)
Lezli Robyn
2009 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
Finalists for best novel include
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman -- Winner
Little Brother by Cory DoctorowSaturn's Children by Charles Stross
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominees are
Aliette de Bodard (not on GR)
David Anthony Durham -- The War With the Mein (Book One of the Acacia Trilogy) -- Winner
Felix Gilman -- Thunderer
Tony Pi (not on GR)
Gord Sellar (not on GR)
Monday, July 12, 2010
Shirley Jackson Awards for Novels (2007-09)
From Shirley Jackson Awards accessed 7/12/10
2009 Shortlist for novels:
Big Machine, Victor LaValle --Winner!
Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland Press)
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte Press)
The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese)
Finalists have been named for this year's Shirley Jackson Awards, which are given for "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic" in several categories, including novel, novella, novelette, short story, collection and anthology.
2008 Shortlist for novels:
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford -- Winner!
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
2007 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners
NOVEL Winner:
Finalists:
* Baltimore, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Bantam Spectra)
* Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow (William Heinemann Ltd)
* The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
* Tokyo Year Zero, David Peace (Knopf)
2009 Shortlist for novels:
Big Machine, Victor LaValle --Winner!
Last Days, Brian Evenson (Underland Press)
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters (Riverhead)
The Owl Killers, Karen Maitland (Delacorte Press)
The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi (Nan A. Talese)
Finalists have been named for this year's Shirley Jackson Awards, which are given for "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic" in several categories, including novel, novella, novelette, short story, collection and anthology.
2008 Shortlist for novels:
Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst
The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie TemPandemonium by Daryl Gregory
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford -- Winner!
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
2007 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners
NOVEL Winner:
GENERATION LOSS by Elizabeth Hand - couldn't get into this so removed from TBR 9/17/10
Finalists:
* Baltimore, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden (Bantam Spectra)
* Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow (William Heinemann Ltd)
* The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
* Tokyo Year Zero, David Peace (Knopf)
Monday, June 28, 2010
Locus Award winners (2009-10)
2010 Locus Awards
Finalists from Locus Online accessed 4/22/10
The top five finalists in each category of the 2010 Locus Awards have been announced. Winners will be presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27, 2010. Tickets are still available.
Science Fiction Novel
* The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Subterranean; Tor)
* Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
* Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor) -- Winner!
* Galileo's Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra)
* Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Fantasy Novel
* The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) -- Winner!
* Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
* Drood, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
* Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
* Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)
First Novel
* The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) -- Winner!
* The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
* Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
* Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
* Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)
Young-Adult Novel
* The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon)
* Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
* Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic; Scholastic UK)
* Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury; Allen & Unwin Australia)
* Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK) -- Winner!
Novella
* The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean) -- Winner!
* "Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
* "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
* Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
* "Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless)
Novelette
* "By Moonlight", Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother) -- Winner!
* "It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
* "First Flight", Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
* "Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/3/09)
* "The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
Short Story
* "The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
* "An Invocation of Incuriosity", Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth) -- Winner!
* "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
* "Going Deep", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)
* "Useless Things", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse Three)
Magazine
* Analog
* Asimov's
* Clarkesworld
* F&SF -- Winner!
* Tor.com
Publisher
* Baen
* Night Shade
* Pyr
* Subterranean
* Tor -- Winner!
Anthology
* Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
* The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. -- Winner!
* The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
* Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds.
* Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
Collection
* We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
* Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
* Wireless, Charles Stross (Ace, Orbit UK)
* The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS) -- Winner!
* The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)
Editor
* Ellen Datlow -- Winner!
* Gardner Dozois
* David G. Hartwell
* Jonathan Strahan
* Gordon Van Gelder
Artist
* Stephan Martinière
* John Picacio
* Shaun Tan
* Charles Vess
* Michael Whelan -- Winner!
Non-fiction/Art Book
* Powers: Secret Histories, John Berlyne (PS)
* Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
* Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct) -- Winner!
* This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
* Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess, Charles Vess (Dark Horse)
The 2009 Locus Award winners for best science fiction books and related books were named at a ceremony during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle. Boing Boing observed that the list is a "good place to start your reading if you want to read some of the best stuff out there."
Locus Award winners:
Science fiction novel: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Fantasy novel: Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
First novel: Singularity's Ring by Paul Melko
Young adult book: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Novella: Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Novelette: Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi
Short Story: "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang
Anthology: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Collection: Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
Non-Fiction/Art Book: P. Craig Russell--Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell
Editor: Ellen Datlow
Artist: Michael Whelan
Magazine: F&SF
Publisher: Tor
Finalists from Locus Online accessed 4/22/10
The top five finalists in each category of the 2010 Locus Awards have been announced. Winners will be presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 25-27, 2010. Tickets are still available.
Science Fiction Novel
* The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker (Subterranean; Tor)
* Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor)
* Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor) -- Winner!
* Galileo's Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager; Ballantine Spectra)
* Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Fantasy Novel
* The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) -- Winner!
* Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
* Drood, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
* Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
* Finch, Jeff VanderMeer (Underland)
First Novel
* The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) -- Winner!
* The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
* Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
* Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)
* Norse Code, Greg van Eekhout (Ballantine Spectra)
Young-Adult Novel
* The Hotel Under the Sand, Kage Baker (Tachyon)
* Going Bovine, Libba Bray (Delacorte)
* Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic; Scholastic UK)
* Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury; Allen & Unwin Australia)
* Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK) -- Winner!
Novella
* The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean) -- Winner!
* "Act One", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09)
* "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
* Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow (Tachyon)
* "Palimpsest", Charles Stross (Wireless)
Novelette
* "By Moonlight", Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother) -- Winner!
* "It Takes Two", Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three)
* "First Flight", Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
* "Eros, Philia, Agape", Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/3/09)
* "The Island", Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2)
Short Story
* "The Pelican Bar", Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
* "An Invocation of Incuriosity", Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth) -- Winner!
* "Spar", Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09)
* "Going Deep", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 6/09)
* "Useless Things", Maureen F. McHugh (Eclipse Three)
Magazine
* Analog
* Asimov's
* Clarkesworld
* F&SF -- Winner!
* Tor.com
Publisher
* Baen
* Night Shade
* Pyr
* Subterranean
* Tor -- Winner!
Anthology
* Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
* The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. -- Winner!
* The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
* Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds.
* Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)
Collection
* We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon)
* Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
* Wireless, Charles Stross (Ace, Orbit UK)
* The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS) -- Winner!
* The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volumes 1-6, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)
Editor
* Ellen Datlow -- Winner!
* Gardner Dozois
* David G. Hartwell
* Jonathan Strahan
* Gordon Van Gelder
Artist
* Stephan Martinière
* John Picacio
* Shaun Tan
* Charles Vess
* Michael Whelan -- Winner!
Non-fiction/Art Book
* Powers: Secret Histories, John Berlyne (PS)
* Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood)
* Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct) -- Winner!
* This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I"), Jack Vance (Subterranean)
* Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess, Charles Vess (Dark Horse)
The 2009 Locus Award winners for best science fiction books and related books were named at a ceremony during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle. Boing Boing observed that the list is a "good place to start your reading if you want to read some of the best stuff out there."
Locus Award winners:
Science fiction novel: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Fantasy novel: Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
First novel: Singularity's Ring by Paul Melko
Young adult book: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Novella: Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Novelette: Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi
Short Story: "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang
Anthology: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Collection: Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
Non-Fiction/Art Book: P. Craig Russell--Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell
Editor: Ellen Datlow
Artist: Michael Whelan
Magazine: F&SF
Publisher: Tor
Friday, April 9, 2010
British Science Fiction Association awards (2010)
From BSFA accessed 013010
Nominees for this year's British Science Fiction Association awards have been named. The winners will be honored during Eastercon, Odyssey 2010 in April.
Novel
Short
Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia - The Beloved Time of Their Lives - The Beloved of My Beloved, Newcon Press -- Winner!
Eugie Foster - Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast - Interzone
Ian Whates - The Assistant - The Solaris Book of Science Fiction Volume 3
Ian McDonald - Vishnu at the Cat Circus
Kim Lakin-Smith - Johnnie and Emmie-Lou Get Married - Interzone
Dave Hutchinson - The Push, Newcon Press
Art
Adam Tredowski - covers of Interzone issues 220, 224 and 225
Nitzan Klamer - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, cover, art project published online (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kipizki/3753443748/in/set-72157621759215456/)
Stephanie Pui-Min Law- Emerald - http://www.shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=23&bid=512
Stephan Martiniere - Cover of Desolation Road by Ian McDonald: http://www.angel.org/will/site/files/ian-mcdonald-desolation-road.jpg -- Winner!
Non-Fiction
Nick Lowe - Mutant Popcorn, Interzone -- Winner!
John Clute - Canary Fever, Beccon
Deepa D - I didn't Dream of Dragons -
Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James - A Short History of Fantasy
Nominees for this year's British Science Fiction Association awards have been named. The winners will be honored during Eastercon, Odyssey 2010 in April.
Novel
China Mieville - The City and the City -- Winner!
Stephen Baxter - Ark -- sequel to Flood Adam Roberts - Yellow Blue Tibia
Ursula Le Guin - Lavinia
Short
Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia - The Beloved Time of Their Lives - The Beloved of My Beloved, Newcon Press -- Winner!
Eugie Foster - Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast - Interzone
Ian Whates - The Assistant - The Solaris Book of Science Fiction Volume 3
Ian McDonald - Vishnu at the Cat Circus
Kim Lakin-Smith - Johnnie and Emmie-Lou Get Married - Interzone
Dave Hutchinson - The Push, Newcon Press
Art
Adam Tredowski - covers of Interzone issues 220, 224 and 225
Nitzan Klamer - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, cover, art project published online (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kipizki/3753443748/in/set-72157621759215456/)
Stephanie Pui-Min Law- Emerald - http://www.shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=23&bid=512
Stephan Martiniere - Cover of Desolation Road by Ian McDonald: http://www.angel.org/will/site/files/ian-mcdonald-desolation-road.jpg -- Winner!
Non-Fiction
Nick Lowe - Mutant Popcorn, Interzone -- Winner!
John Clute - Canary Fever, Beccon
Deepa D - I didn't Dream of Dragons -
Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James - A Short History of Fantasy
Friday, March 26, 2010
Compton Crook Award (1983-2010)
Nominees for the 2010 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award, voted on by members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society and honoring the best first novel in science fiction, fantasy or horror, are:
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Dying Bites by D.D. Barant
Soulless by Gail Carriger and Johannes Cabal
The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
The winner receive $1,000, a plaque and will be invited to Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention, May 28–31.
2009
Paul Melko has won the 2009 Compton Crook Award, also known as the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award, for his novel, Singularity's Ring (Tor). Voted by the membership of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, the award honors the best novel of the year by a first-time novelist and carries a $1,000 prize.
Melko receives the award this evening at the opening ceremony of Balticon, aka the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention, sponsored by the Society.
The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year written by a single author: collaborations are not eligible: in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc., at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the Baltimore, MD area each year.
This prize, named after a Towson State College Professor of Natural Science named Compton Crook, who wrote under the name Stephen Tall, and who died in 1981, was first awarded in 1983 for a work published in 1982.
Previous Winners:
* 2009 - Paul Melko, Singularity’s Ring
* 2008 - Mark L. Van Name, One Jump Ahead
* 2007 - Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
* 2006 - Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
* 2005 - Tamara Siler Jones, Ghosts in the Snow
* 2004 - E. E. Knight, Way of the Wolf
* 2003 - Patricia Bray, Devlin's Luck
* 2002 - Wen Spencer, Alien Taste
* 2001 - Syne Mitchell, Murphy's Gambit
* 2000 - Stephen L. Burns, Flesh and Silver
* 1999 - James Stoddard, The High House
* 1998 - Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree
* 1997 - Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
* 1996 - Daniel Graham Jr., The Gatekeepers
* 1995 - Doranna Durgin, Dun Lady's Jess
* 1994 - Mary Rosenblum, The Drylands
* 1993 - Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist
* 1992 - Carol Severance, Reefsong
* 1991 - Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind
* 1990 - Josepha Sherman, The Shining Falcon
* 1989 - Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter
* 1988 - Christopher Hinz, Liege-Killer
* 1987 - Thomas Wren Doomsday Effect
* 1986 - Sheila Finch, Infinity's Web
* 1985 - David R. Palmer, Emergence
* 1984 - Christopher Rowley, War For Eternity
* 1983 - Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Dying Bites by D.D. Barant
Soulless by Gail Carriger and Johannes Cabal
The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
The winner receive $1,000, a plaque and will be invited to Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention, May 28–31.
2009
Paul Melko has won the 2009 Compton Crook Award, also known as the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award, for his novel, Singularity's Ring (Tor). Voted by the membership of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, the award honors the best novel of the year by a first-time novelist and carries a $1,000 prize.
Melko receives the award this evening at the opening ceremony of Balticon, aka the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention, sponsored by the Society.
The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year written by a single author: collaborations are not eligible: in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc., at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the Baltimore, MD area each year.
This prize, named after a Towson State College Professor of Natural Science named Compton Crook, who wrote under the name Stephen Tall, and who died in 1981, was first awarded in 1983 for a work published in 1982.
Previous Winners:
* 2009 - Paul Melko, Singularity’s Ring
* 2008 - Mark L. Van Name, One Jump Ahead
* 2007 - Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
* 2006 - Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
* 2005 - Tamara Siler Jones, Ghosts in the Snow
* 2004 - E. E. Knight, Way of the Wolf
* 2003 - Patricia Bray, Devlin's Luck
* 2002 - Wen Spencer, Alien Taste
* 2001 - Syne Mitchell, Murphy's Gambit
* 2000 - Stephen L. Burns, Flesh and Silver
* 1999 - James Stoddard, The High House
* 1998 - Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree
* 1997 - Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
* 1996 - Daniel Graham Jr., The Gatekeepers
* 1995 - Doranna Durgin, Dun Lady's Jess
* 1994 - Mary Rosenblum, The Drylands
* 1993 - Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist
* 1992 - Carol Severance, Reefsong
* 1991 - Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind
* 1990 - Josepha Sherman, The Shining Falcon
* 1989 - Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter
* 1988 - Christopher Hinz, Liege-Killer
* 1987 - Thomas Wren Doomsday Effect
* 1986 - Sheila Finch, Infinity's Web
* 1985 - David R. Palmer, Emergence
* 1984 - Christopher Rowley, War For Eternity
* 1983 - Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
Saturday, November 21, 2009
8 Books Featuring Inventive (and Immersive) Fantasy Worlds
From Flashlight Worthy accessed 11/21/09
8 Books Featuring Inventive (and Immersive) Fantasy Worlds
a book list by Kimberly Pauley, author of Sucks To Be Me and founder of YA (& Kids!) Books Central
shelved under Sci Fi & Fantasy
There’s absolutely nothing else like losing yourself in a book. Some people might point out that movies can also suck you in, but there’s just nothing like a book to spark your own imagination.
When I’m reading a great novel — one where the author has created a world that truly captures your mind — it stays with me long after I’ve finished reading. You know the kinds of books I’m talking about: the ones where you can see the world in your head. The ones that really amaze me are the inventive and immersive fantasy worlds that some authors build — places you’d like to visit, even if they’re quite scary. Here are a just a few of my favorites (and there are many, many more great fantasy books I’d list if I had the time!).
Abarat by Clive Barker
The incredible world of Abarat was born first in pictures, not words. Besides being an accomplished author (and a very interesting guy; I chatted with him on the phone for an hour once for an interview and he is just seriously cool), Barker is also a great painter. The richness and wildness of his paintings (think multi-headed fellows and all kinds of craziness) comes through in his story. Abarat is a world of islands, each one representing a different hour of the day, each one more bizarre than the last.
Sabriel by Garth Nix
This book combines two loves of mine: a strong female heroine and a well designed fantasy world. It is the first book in a series (and I love the rest as well) and wakes up the nether reaches of your mind as you descend into a world of necromancy, magic, and the undead.
The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Okay, this is kind of cheating since technically this is three books bound up into one: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. But it would be very hard to pick just one Pern book (and heavens, there are so many of them to choose from now!). My personal favorite is probably The White Dragon, but they are all wonderfully detailed glimpses into a world that touches on both the science fiction and fantasy sides of the fence. And there are dragons. What else could you ask for?
Dune by Frank Herbert
Two (rather horrible) movies have been made of this book and honestly, the rest of the series doesn’t thrill me (though I haven’t tried his son’s prequel books). But Dune is practically an archetype now. The world Herbert created of the barren desert planet Arakis, war-torn and desolate but capable of a stark beauty... ah, it’s the stuff classics are made of.
This book also appears on 6 Classic Sci-Fi Books You Should Read
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
I imagine some would groan at the inclusion of a Xanth book in a “serious” list since the entire series is the stuff of puns and silliness (though, hey, there are messages in there too). But millions of readers have found themselves laughing and giggling their way through the world of Xanth time and time again. A Spell for Chameleon is the first book, but there are many, many more.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I realize I should probably be listing The Lord of the Rings, rather than The Hobbit, but I’m going with this one because it was the first book that I (and many others) read set in Tolkein’s masterwork: Middle-earth. And you have to list Tolkein in any list of fantasy worlds because he created the world; the world that other writers crib from every day. Geez, the man even came up with a whole Elven language!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, illustrated by Pauline Baynes
The Narnia Chronicles also have to be present on any list of influential fantasy worlds. (There might be a law to that effect somewhere.) Countless children (and adults) now dream of stepping into a normal, humdrum piece of furniture and coming out the other side into a world of magic and wonder.
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This book (and Through the Looking Glass) are so ingrained in our consciousness now that references appear to it everywhere: movies, music, and in other books. And no wonder (ha, punny). Wonderland is simply amazing and utterly fantastical. Entered into via a mirror, everything is in reverse and you’d best know how to play chess if you want to get around.
8 Books Featuring Inventive (and Immersive) Fantasy Worlds
a book list by Kimberly Pauley, author of Sucks To Be Me and founder of YA (& Kids!) Books Central
shelved under Sci Fi & Fantasy
There’s absolutely nothing else like losing yourself in a book. Some people might point out that movies can also suck you in, but there’s just nothing like a book to spark your own imagination.
When I’m reading a great novel — one where the author has created a world that truly captures your mind — it stays with me long after I’ve finished reading. You know the kinds of books I’m talking about: the ones where you can see the world in your head. The ones that really amaze me are the inventive and immersive fantasy worlds that some authors build — places you’d like to visit, even if they’re quite scary. Here are a just a few of my favorites (and there are many, many more great fantasy books I’d list if I had the time!).
Abarat by Clive Barker
The incredible world of Abarat was born first in pictures, not words. Besides being an accomplished author (and a very interesting guy; I chatted with him on the phone for an hour once for an interview and he is just seriously cool), Barker is also a great painter. The richness and wildness of his paintings (think multi-headed fellows and all kinds of craziness) comes through in his story. Abarat is a world of islands, each one representing a different hour of the day, each one more bizarre than the last.
Sabriel by Garth Nix
This book combines two loves of mine: a strong female heroine and a well designed fantasy world. It is the first book in a series (and I love the rest as well) and wakes up the nether reaches of your mind as you descend into a world of necromancy, magic, and the undead.
The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Okay, this is kind of cheating since technically this is three books bound up into one: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. But it would be very hard to pick just one Pern book (and heavens, there are so many of them to choose from now!). My personal favorite is probably The White Dragon, but they are all wonderfully detailed glimpses into a world that touches on both the science fiction and fantasy sides of the fence. And there are dragons. What else could you ask for?
Dune by Frank Herbert
Two (rather horrible) movies have been made of this book and honestly, the rest of the series doesn’t thrill me (though I haven’t tried his son’s prequel books). But Dune is practically an archetype now. The world Herbert created of the barren desert planet Arakis, war-torn and desolate but capable of a stark beauty... ah, it’s the stuff classics are made of.
This book also appears on 6 Classic Sci-Fi Books You Should Read
A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
I imagine some would groan at the inclusion of a Xanth book in a “serious” list since the entire series is the stuff of puns and silliness (though, hey, there are messages in there too). But millions of readers have found themselves laughing and giggling their way through the world of Xanth time and time again. A Spell for Chameleon is the first book, but there are many, many more.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I realize I should probably be listing The Lord of the Rings, rather than The Hobbit, but I’m going with this one because it was the first book that I (and many others) read set in Tolkein’s masterwork: Middle-earth. And you have to list Tolkein in any list of fantasy worlds because he created the world; the world that other writers crib from every day. Geez, the man even came up with a whole Elven language!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, illustrated by Pauline Baynes
The Narnia Chronicles also have to be present on any list of influential fantasy worlds. (There might be a law to that effect somewhere.) Countless children (and adults) now dream of stepping into a normal, humdrum piece of furniture and coming out the other side into a world of magic and wonder.
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
This book (and Through the Looking Glass) are so ingrained in our consciousness now that references appear to it everywhere: movies, music, and in other books. And no wonder (ha, punny). Wonderland is simply amazing and utterly fantastical. Entered into via a mirror, everything is in reverse and you’d best know how to play chess if you want to get around.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunburst Award (2001-2009)
From wikipedia and Sunburst Award website accessed 9/29/09
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection. The name of the award comes from the title of the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, Sunburst (1964).
The first award was given out in 2001. The award consists of a cash prize (C$1,000 in 2001-2005) and a medallion. The winner is selected by a jury; a new jury is struck each year. In 2008 a young-adult winner was added. The winners to date have been:
2001 Sean Stewart, Galveston
2002 Margaret Sweatman, When Alice Lay Down with Peter
2003 Nalo Hopkinson, Skin Folk --short stories
2004 Cory Doctorow, A Place So Foreign and 8 More
2005 Geoff Ryman, Air
2006 Holly Phillips, In the Palace of Repose (ISBN 1894815580)
2007 Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin
2008 first young-adult award: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx
2008 adult: The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
2009 young-adult: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
2009 adult: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Eligibility
Sunburst Award administrator and jury use the broadest possible definition of speculative fiction for eligibility purposes: "science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, horror, surrealism, le fantastique, myth and legend, fantastical storytelling, and any other writing beyond the strictly realistic". To be eligible for the award, a work must be published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year. Only Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible, however there are no Canadian residency requirements, and three of the five awards presented to date have gone to expatriates (Stewart, Doctorow, Ryman).
2009 Winners
Toronto, September 28, 2009: The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2009 adult award is The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and the winner of its 2009 young adult award is Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
2009 ADULT SHORTLIST
Night Child by Jes Battis
The Sunburst jury says: "Occult Special Investigator Tess Corday is a terrifically appealing heroine—determined, charming, vulnerable and very human in a world of vampires, necromancers and other supernatural menace. Night Child takes what is becoming a hackneyed genre—romantic supernatural investigator—and injects it with a kind of manic, crazy, campy fun: a little bit Buffy, a little bit CSI and even a little bit hardboiled."
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Sunburst jury says: "An unquenchable thirst for story and a phenomenal command of his craft make Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle a reader's dream. This ferociously ambitious, incendiary (at times literally) story of one man's phoenix-like transformation at the hands of a woman, possibly mad, who claims to have known him for 700 years, is prepared to fall on its own highly charged imaginative sword at any time, but never does. Davidson manages to evoke squirm-inducing horror and abiding love with the same unblinking powers of observation and self-consciousness. As the relationship between narrator and Marianne deepens and her tale of their shared history unfolds, past and present converge in ways tragic and redemptive, and immensely satisfying."
The Alchemist's Code by Dave Duncan
The Sunburst jury says: "With The Alchemist's Code, Dave Duncan accomplishes something which seems to have become an increasing rarity in this or any other genre—the telling of an exciting, interesting and coherent story that has an actual beginning, middle and end—a skill surprisingly lacking in many writers. Set in an alternate 16th-century Venice filled with lush architecture, dashing gondoliers, sultry courtesans, political intrigue and magic, young Alfeo is apprenticed to doctor/prognosticator extraordinaire Nostradamus. When the corpse of an old friend, skewered by Alfeo's own rapier, is left, literally, on his doorstep, it's up to Alfeo and Nostradamus to solve the crime and restore order—whilst still trying to earn a living, capture a spy, and eat a decent meal, not to mention trying to avoid accusations of witchcraft and being burned at the stake. While technically a sequel to Duncan's earlier The Alchemist's Apprentice, readers can jump right into Code and feel right at home—again, a subtle skill on the writer's part that should be lauded. A charming book, full of wit, good humour, and some jolly good mental and physical fencing. Not to mention some delicious-sounding risotto." The Alchemist’s Code is the second book in Dave Duncan’s The Alchemist series.
Things Go Flying by Shari Lapeña
The Sunburst jury says: "Shari Lapeña’s disarmingly deadpan novel of domestic dysfunction nudges readers into the realm of the uncanny, wherein the oh-so-familiar is suddenly rendered strange, even frightening, but which, when faced, leads its characters back to the familiar, and the essential truths of who they are. As the Walker family begins to disintegrate in the usual ways of busy modern urban families, the unusual and extraordinary begin to happen. Eventually, the boundaries between normal and paranormal are blurred to the extent that everything—from a husband and father’s midlife crisis to a teenage boy’s exploration of sex and identity—is edged with strangeness, with magic and finally wonder. A gem."
Half a Crown by Jo Walton
The Sunburst jury says: Half a Crown "presents a striking contrast between the increasingly grim reality faced by one protagonist with the lighter observations of an initially naïve second major character, walking a difficult tightrope of growing suspense until both protagonists face consequences, and the stakes and tension rise grippingly. Although some readers will find the ending jarring, the book is an outstanding examination of both how evil can become 'normal' and of personal courage (of 'doing what is right' rather than two-fisted heroics). A heroine takes shape before the readers' eyes." Half a Crown is the third volume in Jo Walton's alternate-history Small Change series, preceded by Farthing (2006) and Ha'penny (2007).
Jury's Recommended Reading
The jury felt that the following merited Honourable Mention:
* Blackouts, by Craig Boyko
* The Frankenstein Murders, by Kathlyn Bradshaw
* Here After, by Sean Costello
* Toll the Hounds, by Steve Erikson
* The Seary Line, by Nicole Lundrigan
* After the Fires, by Ursula Pflug
* Blasted, by Kate Story
2009 YOUNG-ADULT SHORTLIST
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
The Sunburst jury says: "A necromancer just realizing her true self and the extent of her powers in a mysterious and potentially dangerous world, Chloe Saunders is also a typical teenage girl starting at a new high school in Toronto. After causing a stir at school when she sees some ghosts, she ends up at a group home for troubled teens. It is there that the world of the supernatural collides with the world of the adolescent. The Summoning combines those two worlds beautifully in a coming-of-age story that is exciting and suspenseful, tender and affecting. It captures teen angst with perfect pitch, and without a whiff of sentimentality." The Summoning is book one in her Darkest Powers YA urban-fantasy series; book two, The Awakening, came out in May 2009. Frostbitten, book 10 in the Otherworld paranormal fantasy series (which began with Bitten, 2001), will be published in October 2009.
Dingo by Charles de Lint
The Sunburst jury says: "Teenager Miguel discovers that his new Australian girlfriend, along with her twin sister, are shape-shifters, half human and half dingo. De Lint expertly weaves Australian folklore throughout and switches effortlessly from everyday settings such as Miguel's high school or his father's comic and music store to the mythical realm of the Dreamtime. Similarly, we think nothing of how otherworldly creatures appear in a contemporary North American setting. The characters are well drawn, in particular the two sisters with their contrasting personalities, and the way in which Miguel and his long-term nemesis, Johnny, have to put aside their differences to release the girls from a centuries-old curse is really well handled. Dingo is a well-written, highly imaginative and unusual fantasy novel that stands out from other current novels for the YA age group. This book demands to be read from cover to cover in one sitting, and fortunately that's very easy to do."
Charles de Lint is credited as having pioneered the contemporary fantasy genre with his 1984 urban fantasy novel Moonheart, which is still in print. His work includes 65 books published to date. He has been a finalist 17 times for the World Fantasy Award, and won in 2000 for his story collection Moonlight and Vines. These stories (and most of his recent novels) are set in his fictional city of Newford.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Sunburst jury says: "Many novels take a chapter or two to introduce the setting and protagonists and get the plot on the road. Not so Little Brother—it sings and zings from the first page, perhaps even the first line. Readers will immediately be swept up in the story of 17-year-old Marcus and his buddies, who, after a terrorist attack on not-so-far-future San Francisco, get caught in a government street-sweep simply because, well, they were there. So they must be guilty, right? After Marcus is finally let go, he decides that something needs to be done about this horrifying erosion of liberties and the scary world made scarier by the very people who are supposed to protect us. Besides, some of his friends are still, ominously, missing. Using his technogeek expertise, the Internet and every contact he has, Marcus takes on the school system, the government, Homeland Security, and anyone else standing in the way of freedoms both small and large. In anyone else's hands this material might so easily have come off as preachy or even trite, but Doctorow's superb handling of his protagonists and his plot turn the story into a nail-biting, heartbreaking, rollercoaster of a novel that will leave the reader anguished and sweating over the fate of its characters. Thankfully, the novel wasn't doled out in installments, like Dickens, or we would all have been waiting on the virtual pier, begging to know what became, not of Little Nell, but of Marcus and his friends. A gem of a book—topical, well written, and not to be missed."
Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural by Eileen Kernaghan
The Sunburst jury says: "An absorbing, carefully crafted coming-of-age story and a vividly successful evocation of Victorian occult worlds, with real people and events skillfully interwoven with the author's fictional supernatural elements (and the false supernatural of charlatans), this book reads like a superb historical novel as well as a superior fantasy."
Night Runner by Max Turner
The Sunburst jury says: "Night Runner is an entertaining and well-crafted novel that offers a fresh take on the vampire genre. From the first paragraph, in which protagonist Zach Thomson tells us that 'this is the story of how I died, twice,' readers are completely pulled in. The story is action-packed right from the start, and it blasts off at a pace as quick and exciting as the chase scenes that appear throughout the novel. All the characters are vividly portrayed and the dialogue is extremely well crafted. Zack Thomson in particular is a highly original character with a distinctive voice. The reader believes in him, urging him on through page-turning plot twists in this story of an eternal war between good and evil. Once we started reading, we couldn’t put it down."
The jury felt that the following YA works merited Honourable Mention:
* Feather Brain, by Maureen Bush
* Watching July, by Christine Hart
* Starclimber, by Kenneth Oppel
* Far, by Carol Matas
* Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival, by Arthur Slade
* Shadow Town, by Duncan Thornton
* The Incredibly Ordinary Danny Chandelier, by Laura Trunkey
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection. The name of the award comes from the title of the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, Sunburst (1964).
The first award was given out in 2001. The award consists of a cash prize (C$1,000 in 2001-2005) and a medallion. The winner is selected by a jury; a new jury is struck each year. In 2008 a young-adult winner was added. The winners to date have been:
2001 Sean Stewart, Galveston
2002 Margaret Sweatman, When Alice Lay Down with Peter
2003 Nalo Hopkinson, Skin Folk --short stories
2004 Cory Doctorow, A Place So Foreign and 8 More
2005 Geoff Ryman, Air
2006 Holly Phillips, In the Palace of Repose (ISBN 1894815580)
2007 Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin
2008 first young-adult award: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proulx
2008 adult: The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
2009 young-adult: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
2009 adult: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Eligibility
Sunburst Award administrator and jury use the broadest possible definition of speculative fiction for eligibility purposes: "science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, horror, surrealism, le fantastique, myth and legend, fantastical storytelling, and any other writing beyond the strictly realistic". To be eligible for the award, a work must be published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year. Only Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible, however there are no Canadian residency requirements, and three of the five awards presented to date have gone to expatriates (Stewart, Doctorow, Ryman).
2009 Winners
Toronto, September 28, 2009: The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2009 adult award is The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and the winner of its 2009 young adult award is Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
2009 ADULT SHORTLIST
Night Child by Jes Battis
The Sunburst jury says: "Occult Special Investigator Tess Corday is a terrifically appealing heroine—determined, charming, vulnerable and very human in a world of vampires, necromancers and other supernatural menace. Night Child takes what is becoming a hackneyed genre—romantic supernatural investigator—and injects it with a kind of manic, crazy, campy fun: a little bit Buffy, a little bit CSI and even a little bit hardboiled."
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Sunburst jury says: "An unquenchable thirst for story and a phenomenal command of his craft make Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle a reader's dream. This ferociously ambitious, incendiary (at times literally) story of one man's phoenix-like transformation at the hands of a woman, possibly mad, who claims to have known him for 700 years, is prepared to fall on its own highly charged imaginative sword at any time, but never does. Davidson manages to evoke squirm-inducing horror and abiding love with the same unblinking powers of observation and self-consciousness. As the relationship between narrator and Marianne deepens and her tale of their shared history unfolds, past and present converge in ways tragic and redemptive, and immensely satisfying."
The Alchemist's Code by Dave Duncan
The Sunburst jury says: "With The Alchemist's Code, Dave Duncan accomplishes something which seems to have become an increasing rarity in this or any other genre—the telling of an exciting, interesting and coherent story that has an actual beginning, middle and end—a skill surprisingly lacking in many writers. Set in an alternate 16th-century Venice filled with lush architecture, dashing gondoliers, sultry courtesans, political intrigue and magic, young Alfeo is apprenticed to doctor/prognosticator extraordinaire Nostradamus. When the corpse of an old friend, skewered by Alfeo's own rapier, is left, literally, on his doorstep, it's up to Alfeo and Nostradamus to solve the crime and restore order—whilst still trying to earn a living, capture a spy, and eat a decent meal, not to mention trying to avoid accusations of witchcraft and being burned at the stake. While technically a sequel to Duncan's earlier The Alchemist's Apprentice, readers can jump right into Code and feel right at home—again, a subtle skill on the writer's part that should be lauded. A charming book, full of wit, good humour, and some jolly good mental and physical fencing. Not to mention some delicious-sounding risotto." The Alchemist’s Code is the second book in Dave Duncan’s The Alchemist series.
Things Go Flying by Shari Lapeña
The Sunburst jury says: "Shari Lapeña’s disarmingly deadpan novel of domestic dysfunction nudges readers into the realm of the uncanny, wherein the oh-so-familiar is suddenly rendered strange, even frightening, but which, when faced, leads its characters back to the familiar, and the essential truths of who they are. As the Walker family begins to disintegrate in the usual ways of busy modern urban families, the unusual and extraordinary begin to happen. Eventually, the boundaries between normal and paranormal are blurred to the extent that everything—from a husband and father’s midlife crisis to a teenage boy’s exploration of sex and identity—is edged with strangeness, with magic and finally wonder. A gem."
Half a Crown by Jo Walton
The Sunburst jury says: Half a Crown "presents a striking contrast between the increasingly grim reality faced by one protagonist with the lighter observations of an initially naïve second major character, walking a difficult tightrope of growing suspense until both protagonists face consequences, and the stakes and tension rise grippingly. Although some readers will find the ending jarring, the book is an outstanding examination of both how evil can become 'normal' and of personal courage (of 'doing what is right' rather than two-fisted heroics). A heroine takes shape before the readers' eyes." Half a Crown is the third volume in Jo Walton's alternate-history Small Change series, preceded by Farthing (2006) and Ha'penny (2007).
Jury's Recommended Reading
The jury felt that the following merited Honourable Mention:
* Blackouts, by Craig Boyko
* The Frankenstein Murders, by Kathlyn Bradshaw
* Here After, by Sean Costello
* Toll the Hounds, by Steve Erikson
* The Seary Line, by Nicole Lundrigan
* After the Fires, by Ursula Pflug
* Blasted, by Kate Story
2009 YOUNG-ADULT SHORTLIST
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
The Sunburst jury says: "A necromancer just realizing her true self and the extent of her powers in a mysterious and potentially dangerous world, Chloe Saunders is also a typical teenage girl starting at a new high school in Toronto. After causing a stir at school when she sees some ghosts, she ends up at a group home for troubled teens. It is there that the world of the supernatural collides with the world of the adolescent. The Summoning combines those two worlds beautifully in a coming-of-age story that is exciting and suspenseful, tender and affecting. It captures teen angst with perfect pitch, and without a whiff of sentimentality." The Summoning is book one in her Darkest Powers YA urban-fantasy series; book two, The Awakening, came out in May 2009. Frostbitten, book 10 in the Otherworld paranormal fantasy series (which began with Bitten, 2001), will be published in October 2009.
Dingo by Charles de Lint
The Sunburst jury says: "Teenager Miguel discovers that his new Australian girlfriend, along with her twin sister, are shape-shifters, half human and half dingo. De Lint expertly weaves Australian folklore throughout and switches effortlessly from everyday settings such as Miguel's high school or his father's comic and music store to the mythical realm of the Dreamtime. Similarly, we think nothing of how otherworldly creatures appear in a contemporary North American setting. The characters are well drawn, in particular the two sisters with their contrasting personalities, and the way in which Miguel and his long-term nemesis, Johnny, have to put aside their differences to release the girls from a centuries-old curse is really well handled. Dingo is a well-written, highly imaginative and unusual fantasy novel that stands out from other current novels for the YA age group. This book demands to be read from cover to cover in one sitting, and fortunately that's very easy to do."
Charles de Lint is credited as having pioneered the contemporary fantasy genre with his 1984 urban fantasy novel Moonheart, which is still in print. His work includes 65 books published to date. He has been a finalist 17 times for the World Fantasy Award, and won in 2000 for his story collection Moonlight and Vines. These stories (and most of his recent novels) are set in his fictional city of Newford.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
The Sunburst jury says: "Many novels take a chapter or two to introduce the setting and protagonists and get the plot on the road. Not so Little Brother—it sings and zings from the first page, perhaps even the first line. Readers will immediately be swept up in the story of 17-year-old Marcus and his buddies, who, after a terrorist attack on not-so-far-future San Francisco, get caught in a government street-sweep simply because, well, they were there. So they must be guilty, right? After Marcus is finally let go, he decides that something needs to be done about this horrifying erosion of liberties and the scary world made scarier by the very people who are supposed to protect us. Besides, some of his friends are still, ominously, missing. Using his technogeek expertise, the Internet and every contact he has, Marcus takes on the school system, the government, Homeland Security, and anyone else standing in the way of freedoms both small and large. In anyone else's hands this material might so easily have come off as preachy or even trite, but Doctorow's superb handling of his protagonists and his plot turn the story into a nail-biting, heartbreaking, rollercoaster of a novel that will leave the reader anguished and sweating over the fate of its characters. Thankfully, the novel wasn't doled out in installments, like Dickens, or we would all have been waiting on the virtual pier, begging to know what became, not of Little Nell, but of Marcus and his friends. A gem of a book—topical, well written, and not to be missed."
Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural by Eileen Kernaghan
The Sunburst jury says: "An absorbing, carefully crafted coming-of-age story and a vividly successful evocation of Victorian occult worlds, with real people and events skillfully interwoven with the author's fictional supernatural elements (and the false supernatural of charlatans), this book reads like a superb historical novel as well as a superior fantasy."
Night Runner by Max Turner
The Sunburst jury says: "Night Runner is an entertaining and well-crafted novel that offers a fresh take on the vampire genre. From the first paragraph, in which protagonist Zach Thomson tells us that 'this is the story of how I died, twice,' readers are completely pulled in. The story is action-packed right from the start, and it blasts off at a pace as quick and exciting as the chase scenes that appear throughout the novel. All the characters are vividly portrayed and the dialogue is extremely well crafted. Zack Thomson in particular is a highly original character with a distinctive voice. The reader believes in him, urging him on through page-turning plot twists in this story of an eternal war between good and evil. Once we started reading, we couldn’t put it down."
The jury felt that the following YA works merited Honourable Mention:
* Feather Brain, by Maureen Bush
* Watching July, by Christine Hart
* Starclimber, by Kenneth Oppel
* Far, by Carol Matas
* Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival, by Arthur Slade
* Shadow Town, by Duncan Thornton
* The Incredibly Ordinary Danny Chandelier, by Laura Trunkey
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Linda Buckley-Archer's top 10 time-travelling stories
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Linda Buckley-Archer's top 10 time-travelling stories
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 10.00 BST on Wednesday 5 August 2009. It was last updated at 13.11 BST on Wednesday 5 August 2009.
The children's writer explores tales of journeys through time from HG Wells to Jeanette Winterson
In Linda Buckley-Archer's time-travelling adventure, Gideon the Cutpurse, two 21st-century children are lost in 1763. In its sequel, The Tar Man, an 18th-century villain wreaks havoc on 21st-century London. The trilogy concludes with Time Quake, in which a corrupt 18th-century aristocrat takes a fancy to contemporary New York. Appalled that the "bothersome little colony" has become a superpower, the villainous Lord Luxon resolves to sabotage the American War of Independence.
"My first proper short story was about a man obsessed with marking the new millennium (he missed it). Ever since, though I'm not sure why, the theme of time has managed to creep into almost everything I've written. We are so used to moving backwards and forwards in time in our heads - revisiting times past and speculating on our future - that the notion of time travel is easy to imagine and accept."
1. The Time Machine by HG Wells
It's impossible to leave out this seminal time-travelling story from of one of science fiction's founding fathers. Having invented a machine capable of moving through the fourth dimension, a gentleman scientist journeys to the distant future where he discovers that mankind has evolved in disturbing ways. Wells's imagination was extraordinary. Published in 1895 (10 years before Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity) The Time Machine reflects Wells's fascination with both science and social issues.
2. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Predating The Time Machine by five years, Twain's novel about Hank Morgan, a plain-speaking American who finds himself in an age of chivalry in the court of King Arthur, is still laugh-out-loud funny.
3. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
It's difficult to pin down Woolf's "biography" which is at once satirical and playful (with time, sexuality and literary form) as well as being a love letter (to Vita Sackville West). There's a joie de vivre in the writing that is just lovely. Anyway, who could fail to fall for Orlando? With "eyes like drenched violets" he/she starts life as a shapely-legged Elizabethan nobleman, changes sex around the early 1800s, marries a sea captain and is last seen as a writer, circa 1928.
4. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
I was a student when I first heard Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Radio 4 and recall rushing round to a friend's flat exclaiming "switch the radio on!" Douglas Adams is sorely missed and I often wonder what he would have been writing now. In this comic-sci-fi-fantasy-detective novel, Adams's wild plotting draws on quantum physics, Coleridge, not to mention a time machine that stops working when the telephone is mended, in order to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
5. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
In this rare example of chemically induced time travel, a man finds it increasingly difficult to resist journeying back to 14th-century Cornwall. From the opening paragraph Du Maurier sweeps you along in a vivid narrative. No one tells stories or creates atmosphere better. The novel features Kilmarth, the house on the Cornish coast where Du Maurier spent the last years of her life.
6. Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Tom is bored and in quarantine at his uncle and aunt's flat. One night he discovers that when the clock strikes 13 he is able to enter a sunlit garden where he meets Hatty. Soon he realises that he has somehow stumbled into the 19th century and that with each successive visit Hatty is a different age. In this beloved children's classic, Pearce explores questions about time and childhood and longing in prose which is often poignant and beautiful.
7. Van Loon's Lives by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Published in the US in 1942 (and with a moving dedication to his suffering homeland), Dutch writer and illustrator Van Loon describes a series of dinner parties given for the A-List of history. The perfect illustrations have great captions, too - "It was Leonardo, coming down in his glider" or "Thomas Jefferson tried out my best fiddle". To be consumed in small mouthfuls, it is full of whimsy, charm and humour. Ripe for reprint.
8. Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
You can instantly sense the fun Jeanette Winterson had researching and writing this children's book, which features, among other things, an orphaned heroine called Silver, woolly mammoths, a rabbit called Bigamist and an evil woman who sees Time as big business. The pace is furious and the story teems with ideas, flights of fancy, and references to quantum physics.
9. Making History by Stephen Fry
Time travel novels generally fall into two categories. The first is a kind of time tourism during which great care is taken not to alter the past for fear of future consequences. The second involves yanking open the lid of Pandora's box and has characters tampering with the past for a bespoke future. Worth reading simply for the pleasure of being in the company of Stephen Fry's ever-probing mind, Making History takes the counterfactual approach and asks: What If Hitler had never been born?
10. How To Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies
Last but not least, a work of non-fiction to persuade you that you don't have to suspend your disbelief entirely when reading time-travelling stories. This is eminent physicist Professor Paul Davies's response to the question: Is time travel scientifically possible? Accessible and utterly fascinating.
Linda Buckley-Archer's top 10 time-travelling stories
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 10.00 BST on Wednesday 5 August 2009. It was last updated at 13.11 BST on Wednesday 5 August 2009.
The children's writer explores tales of journeys through time from HG Wells to Jeanette Winterson
In Linda Buckley-Archer's time-travelling adventure, Gideon the Cutpurse, two 21st-century children are lost in 1763. In its sequel, The Tar Man, an 18th-century villain wreaks havoc on 21st-century London. The trilogy concludes with Time Quake, in which a corrupt 18th-century aristocrat takes a fancy to contemporary New York. Appalled that the "bothersome little colony" has become a superpower, the villainous Lord Luxon resolves to sabotage the American War of Independence.
"My first proper short story was about a man obsessed with marking the new millennium (he missed it). Ever since, though I'm not sure why, the theme of time has managed to creep into almost everything I've written. We are so used to moving backwards and forwards in time in our heads - revisiting times past and speculating on our future - that the notion of time travel is easy to imagine and accept."
1. The Time Machine by HG Wells
It's impossible to leave out this seminal time-travelling story from of one of science fiction's founding fathers. Having invented a machine capable of moving through the fourth dimension, a gentleman scientist journeys to the distant future where he discovers that mankind has evolved in disturbing ways. Wells's imagination was extraordinary. Published in 1895 (10 years before Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity) The Time Machine reflects Wells's fascination with both science and social issues.
2. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Predating The Time Machine by five years, Twain's novel about Hank Morgan, a plain-speaking American who finds himself in an age of chivalry in the court of King Arthur, is still laugh-out-loud funny.
3. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
It's difficult to pin down Woolf's "biography" which is at once satirical and playful (with time, sexuality and literary form) as well as being a love letter (to Vita Sackville West). There's a joie de vivre in the writing that is just lovely. Anyway, who could fail to fall for Orlando? With "eyes like drenched violets" he/she starts life as a shapely-legged Elizabethan nobleman, changes sex around the early 1800s, marries a sea captain and is last seen as a writer, circa 1928.
4. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
I was a student when I first heard Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Radio 4 and recall rushing round to a friend's flat exclaiming "switch the radio on!" Douglas Adams is sorely missed and I often wonder what he would have been writing now. In this comic-sci-fi-fantasy-detective novel, Adams's wild plotting draws on quantum physics, Coleridge, not to mention a time machine that stops working when the telephone is mended, in order to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
5. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
In this rare example of chemically induced time travel, a man finds it increasingly difficult to resist journeying back to 14th-century Cornwall. From the opening paragraph Du Maurier sweeps you along in a vivid narrative. No one tells stories or creates atmosphere better. The novel features Kilmarth, the house on the Cornish coast where Du Maurier spent the last years of her life.
6. Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Tom is bored and in quarantine at his uncle and aunt's flat. One night he discovers that when the clock strikes 13 he is able to enter a sunlit garden where he meets Hatty. Soon he realises that he has somehow stumbled into the 19th century and that with each successive visit Hatty is a different age. In this beloved children's classic, Pearce explores questions about time and childhood and longing in prose which is often poignant and beautiful.
7. Van Loon's Lives by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Published in the US in 1942 (and with a moving dedication to his suffering homeland), Dutch writer and illustrator Van Loon describes a series of dinner parties given for the A-List of history. The perfect illustrations have great captions, too - "It was Leonardo, coming down in his glider" or "Thomas Jefferson tried out my best fiddle". To be consumed in small mouthfuls, it is full of whimsy, charm and humour. Ripe for reprint.
8. Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
You can instantly sense the fun Jeanette Winterson had researching and writing this children's book, which features, among other things, an orphaned heroine called Silver, woolly mammoths, a rabbit called Bigamist and an evil woman who sees Time as big business. The pace is furious and the story teems with ideas, flights of fancy, and references to quantum physics.
9. Making History by Stephen Fry
Time travel novels generally fall into two categories. The first is a kind of time tourism during which great care is taken not to alter the past for fear of future consequences. The second involves yanking open the lid of Pandora's box and has characters tampering with the past for a bespoke future. Worth reading simply for the pleasure of being in the company of Stephen Fry's ever-probing mind, Making History takes the counterfactual approach and asks: What If Hitler had never been born?
10. How To Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies
Last but not least, a work of non-fiction to persuade you that you don't have to suspend your disbelief entirely when reading time-travelling stories. This is eminent physicist Professor Paul Davies's response to the question: Is time travel scientifically possible? Accessible and utterly fascinating.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
British Fantasy Award - August Derleth
Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971. The membership of the BFS vote to determine recommendations, short-lists and winners of the awards. The current award categories are Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Short Story, Best Small Press, Best Artist, Best Anthology, Best Collection, and the Karl Edward Wagner Award is given at the discretion of the BFS committee.
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)
1972
Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords
1973
Michael Moorcock, The King of the Swords
1974
Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki’s Saga
1975
Michael Moorcock, The Sword and the Stallion
1976
Michael Moorcock, The Hollow Lands
1977
Gordon Dickson, The Dragon and The George
1978
Piers Antony, A Spell for Chameleon
1979
Stephen Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
1980
Tanith Lee, Death’s Master
1981
Ramsey Campbell, To Wake The Dead
1982
Stephen King, Cujo
1983
Gene Wolfe, Sword of the Lictor
1984
Peter Straub, Floating Dragon
1985
Ramsey Campbell, Incarnate
1986
TED Kline, The Ceremonies
1987
Stephen King, It
1988
Ramsey Campbell, The Hungry Moon
1989
Ramsey Campbell, The Influence
1990
Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
1991
Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun
1992
Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
1993
Graham Joyce, Dark Sister
1994
Ramsey Campbell, The Long Lost
1995
Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
1996
Graham Joyce, Requiem
1997
Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy
1998
Chaz Brenchley, Tower of the King's Daughter
1999
Stephen King, Bag of Bones
2000
Graham Joyce, Indigo
2001
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
2002
Simon Clark, The Night of the Triffids
2003
China Mieville, The Scar
2004
* Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler -- (winner)
* Felaheen, Jon Courtenay Grimwood
* Lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub
* Nobody True, James Herbert
* The Poison Master, Liz Williams
* Vampyrrhic Rites, Simon Clark
2005
Stephen King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower --winner!
Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House
* Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker
* The Queen of Sinister, Mark Chadbourn
* Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
* The Water Room, Christopher Fowler
2006
Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
2007
Tim Lebbon, Dusk
2008
Ramsey Campbell, The Grin of the Dark (PS Publishing)
Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)
1972
Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords
1973
Michael Moorcock, The King of the Swords
1974
Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki’s Saga
1975
Michael Moorcock, The Sword and the Stallion
1976
Michael Moorcock, The Hollow Lands
1977
Gordon Dickson, The Dragon and The George
1978
Piers Antony, A Spell for Chameleon
1979
Stephen Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
1980
Tanith Lee, Death’s Master
1981
Ramsey Campbell, To Wake The Dead
1982
Stephen King, Cujo
1983
Gene Wolfe, Sword of the Lictor
1984
Peter Straub, Floating Dragon
1985
Ramsey Campbell, Incarnate
1986
TED Kline, The Ceremonies
1987
Stephen King, It
1988
Ramsey Campbell, The Hungry Moon
1989
Ramsey Campbell, The Influence
1990
Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
1991
Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun
1992
Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum
1993
Graham Joyce, Dark Sister
1994
Ramsey Campbell, The Long Lost
1995
Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
1996
Graham Joyce, Requiem
1997
Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy
1998
Chaz Brenchley, Tower of the King's Daughter
1999
Stephen King, Bag of Bones
2000
Graham Joyce, Indigo
2001
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
2002
Simon Clark, The Night of the Triffids
2003
China Mieville, The Scar
2004
* Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler -- (winner)
* Felaheen, Jon Courtenay Grimwood
* Lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub
* Nobody True, James Herbert
* The Poison Master, Liz Williams
* Vampyrrhic Rites, Simon Clark
2005
Stephen King, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower --winner!
Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House
* Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker
* The Queen of Sinister, Mark Chadbourn
* Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
* The Water Room, Christopher Fowler
2006
Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
2007
Tim Lebbon, Dusk
2008
Ramsey Campbell, The Grin of the Dark (PS Publishing)
Saturday, July 11, 2009
John W. Campbell Award for the best science fiction novel (2009)
Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother and Ian MacLeod’s Song of Time shared the John W. Campbell Award for the best science fiction novel of the year. James Gunn, director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, announced the co-winners, along with the recipient of this year's Theodore Sturgeon Award for the best short science fiction: James Alan Gardner’s "The Ray Gun: A Love Story."
The authors, who will accept their awards at KU July 10, will be featured at the Campbell Conference July 11-12, where they will open a discussion about what’s new in publishing and its effect on writing and reading.
The authors, who will accept their awards at KU July 10, will be featured at the Campbell Conference July 11-12, where they will open a discussion about what’s new in publishing and its effect on writing and reading.
Friday, July 10, 2009
David Gemmell Legend prize
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski has won the David Gemmell Legend prize. The Guardian reported that the award, which "is intended to restore fantasy to its proper place in the literary pantheon," was given to the Polish author who "outsells Stephen King in Poland, but his fantasy novels, set in a world where the races of dwarves, elves, gnomes and humans are on the verge of war with each other, have only recently been translated into English." More than 10,000 fans from 75 countries voted for the prize.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Best genre fiction titles named to 2009 Reading List (ALA)
Contact: Liz Markel
Marketing Specialist, RUSA/ASCLA
(312) 280-4398
lmarkel@ala.org
NEWS
For Immediate Release
February 3, 2009
Best genre fiction titles named to 2009 Reading List
DENVER—The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced its selection for the 2009 Reading List award.
The Reading List annually recognizes the best books in eight genres: adrenaline (which includes suspense, thriller and adventure), fantasy, historical fiction, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and women’s fiction. This year’s list includes novels that will please die-hard fans as well as introduce new readers to the pleasures of genre fiction.
The winning titles were selected by the Reading List Council, whose members include Neal Wyatt, chair, Richmond, Va.; Joyce Saricks, vice-chair, Downers Grove, Ill.; Jennifer Baker, The Seattle Public Library; Arlene Griffin, LSSI Library North Jackson Madison County Library; Mirja Johanson, Perrot Memorial Library; Lucy Lockley, St. Charles City-County Library District; Robert Renwick, Brooklyn Public Library; Jacqueline Sasaki, Ann Arbor District Library; Sharron Smith, Kitchener Public Library; Tapley Trudell, San Antonio Public Library; and Alan Ziebarth, Chicago Public Library.
Authors of these selected titles will be invited to speak at the Literary Tastes Breakfast, a ticketed RUSA event at the ALA Annual Conference. Find out more about RUSA events at the conference—scheduled for July 9-15 in Chicago—at www.ala.org/rusa.
The 2009 winners are:
Adrenaline
Blue Heaven by C.J. Box, St. Martin, 9780312365707
In this relentlessly paced story two children witness a murder, elude crooked ex-cops, and find refuge with a taciturn rancher. The evocative landscape and emotional depth, along with the engaging characters and provocative story line, combine to create an unforgettable novel.
Read-Alikes:
Killer Weekend by Ridley Pearson
Nothing to Lose byLee Child
Hombre by Elmore Leonard
Shortlist
The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner, Dutton, 9780525950660
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben, Dutton, 9780525950608
L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker, Dutton, 9780525950554
Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich, Doubleday, 9780385524063
Fantasy
The Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins, Tor, 9780765320063
The discovery of a golden bear in the walls of a derelict St. Petersburg bath house lifts the veil between the real world and that of fairy tales. Treachery is rampant and death is ever-present: stories aren’t safe, and love can’t rescue anyone—or can it?
Read-Alikes:
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
Shortlist
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker, TOR Books, 9780765317452
Ink and Steel by Elizabeth Bear, Roc, 9780451462091
Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost, Ballantine, 9780345497581
Small Favor byJim Butcher, Roc, 978045146189
Historical Fiction
The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara, Ballantine, 9780345461421
In this riveting tale of D-Day and its aftermath, Shaara closely follows events through the lives common soldiers and generals, Allies and Axis alike. A journalistic style underscores the drama of events, and the engaging warts-and-all portrayals add to the immediacy of the novel.
Read-Alikes:
Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell
An Army at Down: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
Killing Rommel bySteven Pressfield
Shortlist
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell, Random House, 9781400-64717
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, William Morrow, 9780688163181
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, Dial Press, 9780385340991
The Whiskey Rebels byDavid Liss, Random House, 9781400064205
Horror
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow, Harper, 9780061430220
The insiders’ perspective and lyrical language of this haunting free verse novel offer a sympathetic glimpse into the lives of urban werewolves, a nightmarish noir world where violence and heartbreak go hand in hand.
Read-Alikes:
Bitten byKelley Armstrong,
The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
The Joe Pitt series by Charlie Huston
Shortlist
Coffin County by Gary A. Braunbeck, Leisure, 9780843960501
Infected by Scott Sigler, Crown, 9780307406101
The Killing Circle byAndrew Pyper, St. Martin’s Minotaur, 9780312384760
The Wolfman byNicholas Pekearo, Tor, 9780765320261
Mystery
The Garden of Evil by David Hewson, Bantam Dell, 978-0385339575
In contemporary Rome an unknown lascivious painting by Caravaggio, grisly murders, and a heart-stopping chase mark series detective Nic Costa’s return. The perfidious villains can only be outwitted by inventive police work and an unexpected ally in this masterfully crafted puzzler.
Read-Alikes:
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez Reverte
Dressed for Death by Donna Leon
The Death Artist byJonathan Santlofer
Shortlist
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard, William Morrow, 9780061173509
The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe, Harcourt, 9780151013470
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny, St. Martin’s Press, 9780312352578
Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis, Random, 9780812977769
Romance
The Spymaster's Lady by Joanna Bourne, Berkley
9780425219607
Take a British spymaster and a resourceful French agent, spice with clever banter, toss in a refreshing and unexpected plot, add a heaping measure of sexual chemistry, and the result is an irresistible read with Napoleon’s ambitions for England hanging in the balance.
Read-Alikes:
Scandal by Amanda Quick
It’s in His Kiss byJulia Quinn
Seduced by a Spy byAndrea Pickens
Shortlist
My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne, Berkley, 9780425222461
Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas, Bantam Books, 9780440244318
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose byLauren Willig, Dutton, 9780525950332
Your Scandalous Ways byLoretta Chase,Avon Books, 9780061231247
Science Fiction
Hunter's Run by George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham, Eos, 9780061373299
On a dangerous backwater planet, a criminal outcast stumbles across an alien race in hiding in this relentless and gritty adventure. Forced into a life-threatening hunt, he is irrevocably changed and learns what it means to be truly human.
Read-Alikes:
Downward to the Earth byRobert Silverberg
Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
Shortlist
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez, Tom Doherty, 9780765318343
City at the End of Time byGreg Bear, Ballantine, 9780345448392
Matter byIain M.Banks, Orbit, 9780316005364
A World Too Near byKay Kenyon, Pyr Books, 9781591026426
Women’s Fiction
Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy, Algonquin Books
9781565125414
Set against the richly textured landscape of rural Vermont, Maloy’s optimistic and heartwarming novel chronicles one woman’s experience of widowhood as she remembers the pains and pleasures of her long marriage and moves into a new phase of her life.
Read-Alikes:
Broken for You byStephanie Kallos
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
Shortlist
Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos, William Morrow, 9780061240270
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner, Atria Books, 9780743294256
The Sugar Queen bySarah Addison Allen, Bantam Dell, 9780553805499
Thank You for All Things bySandra Kring, Bantam, 9780553591491
The Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, is the foremost organization of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services, and collection materials they need. For more information, visit www.ala.org/rusa.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Philip K. Dick Award
Emissaries from the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro and Terminal Mind by David Walton were co-winners of the Philip K. Dick Award, presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the U.S. Results were announced at Norwescon 32, in SeaTac, Wash. The 2009 judges wre Daniel Abraham (chair), Eileen Gunn, Karen Hellekson, Elaine Isaak, and Marc Laidlaw.
Philip K. Dick Award co-winner (2009)
Shortlist:
Emissaries from the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos Books) - WINNER
FAST FORWARD 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)
JUDGE by Karen Traviss (Eos Books)
PLAGUE WAR by Jeff Carlson (Ace Books)
Terminal Mind by David Walton (Meadowhawk Press) - WINNER
TIME MACHINES REPAIRED WHILE-U-WAIT by K. A. Bedford (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Philip K. Dick Award co-winner (2009)
Shortlist:
Emissaries from the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos Books) - WINNER
FAST FORWARD 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)
JUDGE by Karen Traviss (Eos Books)
PLAGUE WAR by Jeff Carlson (Ace Books)
Terminal Mind by David Walton (Meadowhawk Press) - WINNER
TIME MACHINES REPAIRED WHILE-U-WAIT by K. A. Bedford (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
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