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Feng Zhang passes on to us the results of the 2009 Sky Awards, presented on July 18, 2010 at a ceremony in Beijing, China.
Best Fiction Long Form in 2009: Once upon a Time in Shanghai, JIANG Nan (Volumes Publishing Company)
Best Fiction Short Form in 2009: “Dark Room”, HAN Song (New Realms of Fantasy and Science [...]
Thanks to René Walling for sending us the nominations for the Prix Rosny award for French science fiction:
Novels
BEAUVERGER Stéphane: Le Déchronologue (La VOLTE)
BELLAGAMBA Ugo: Tancrède. Une uchronie (LES MOUTONS ÉLECTRIQUES),
DUFOUR Catherine: Outrage et rébellion (DENOËL)
FERRIK Frank, La Loi du désert (Éditions de Riez)
McALLISTER Laurent: Suprématie (BRAGELONNE)
MURAIL Lorris: Nuigrave (A.& D., Robert Laffont)
Short Stories
DEIANA Célia: « [...]
The Endeavour Award nominations have been announced:
City Without End, Kay Kenyon
Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, Cat Rambo
Hunting Ground, Patricia Briggs
Mind Over Ship, David Marusek
Push of the Sky, Camille Alexa
The judges who will select the winner are Robin Wayne Bailey, Laura Anne Gilman, and Madeleine Robins. The winner will [...]
From Con-news.com comes word of the announcement of the Harvey Award nominations for comics and sequential art. The Awards will be presented a this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con on the evening of Saturday, August 28.
As reported by File 770, The winners of the 2010 Mythopoeic Awards were announced at Mythcon 41 in Dallas today. They are as follows:
Adult Literature: Jo Walton, Lifelode (NESFA Press)
Children’s Literature: Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown)
Inklings Studies: Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Palgrave Macmillan, [...]
We’ve been checking on tweets about the Shirley Jackson Awards from Readercon. Here are the (unofficial) results, courtesy of someone called @avaland2.
Novel: Big Machine, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau)
Novella: Midnight Picnic, Nick Antosca (Word Riot Press)
Novelette: “Morality,” Stephen King (Esquire)
Short Story: “The Pelican Bar,” Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse 3, Night Shade)
Collection (tie): Love Songs for [...]
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award are normally announced at the Campbell Conference, which is next weekend. However, as Chris McKitterick explains, this year the winners were announced a week early at Readercon. The winners are as follows:
Campbell: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
Sturgeon: Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James [...]
The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the results of this year’s Rhysling Awards as follows:
Long Form
1st: “In the Astronaut Asylum”, Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson
2nd: “Rattlebox III” Mike Allen, Kendall Evans, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel
3rd: “The First Story” Lana Hechtman Ayers
Short Form
1st: “To Theia”, Ann K. Schwader
2nd: “The Changeling Always Wins”, Nicole Kornher-Stace
3rd: “Nine [...]
Scott Edelman tweets from Readercon that this year’s Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award has been won by Mark Clifton.
Clifton is best known for the Hugo-winning novel, They’d Rather Be Right, which he co-authored with Frank Riley. A bibliography is available here.
We’ve done it again! Last year Chris Beckett shocked the literary world by winning the prestigious £5,000 Edge Hill Prize for short story collections with The Turing Test. This year’s nominees included two genre contenders, and the winner is Rob Shearman’s Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (Big Finish).
Rob’s book is also up for [...]