Campbell and Sturgeon Winners

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother (Tor) and Ian R. MacLeod's Song of Time (PS Publishing) tied to win the 2008 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. This is only the third tie in the award's history.

"The Ray Gun: A Love Story" by James Alan Gardner (Asimov's 2/08) won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

The awards were announced early, but will be presented at a banquet July 10, 2009, held during the Campbell Conference in Lawrence KS, from July 9-12. For more information visit www.ku.edu/~sfcenter.

2009 Locus Award Winners

Winners of the 2009 Locus Awards were announced at a ceremony and banquet June 27, 2009 in Seattle WA during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend.

Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow)

Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)

First Novel: Singularity's Ring, Paul Melko (Tor)

Young-Adult Book: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury)

Novella: "Pretty Monsters", Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters)

Novelette: "Pump Six", Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories)

Short Story: "Exhalation", Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)

Anthology: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)

Collection: Pump Six and Other Stories, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)

Non-Fiction/Art Book: P. Craig Russell, Coraline: The Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell (HarperCollins)

Editor: Ellen Datlow

Artist: Michael Whelan

Magazine: F&SF

Publisher: Tor

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who voted! Look for detailed analysis of the voting in the July issue.

£1 Million Deal for Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds has signed a £1m deal to deliver ten books in ten years to editor Jo Fletcher at Gollancz. "It gives me a huge amount of security for the next ten years, and writers don't have a lot of security.... To have that in place is fantastic for me."

For more details, see this story in the Guardian.

Sapkowski Wins Legend Award

Andrzej Sapkowski's Blood of Elves (Gollancz) won the first David Gemmell Legend Award, presented June 19, 2009 in London. Sapkowski was unable to attend, and his editor Jo Fletcher accepted in his place.

The shortlisted nominees all received mini-replicas of Snaga, the axe featured in Gemmell's works; the winner received a larger version, approximately two feet in length. For more, visit gemmellaward.com.

Stoker Winners

The winners of the 2008 Bram Stoker Awards were announced at a banquet June 13, 2009 during the Stoker Award Weekend at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, near Los Angeles.

Novel: Duma Key, Stephen King (Scribner)

First Novel: The Gentling Box, Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart)

Long Fiction: Miranda, John R. Little (Bad Moon)

Short Fiction: The Lost, Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance)

Fiction Collection: Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)

Anthology: Unspeakable Horror, Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, eds. (Dark Scribe)

Non-Fiction: A Hallowe’en Anthology, Lisa Morton, ed. (McFarland)

Poetry: The Nightmare Collection, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)

Other awards presented at the ceremony include the annual Lifetime Achievement Awards for F. Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; The Specialty Press Award for Larry Roberts of Bloodletting Press; The Silver Hammer Award, for outstanding service to HWA, for Sephera Giron; and the President’s Richard Laymon Service Award for John R. Little.

For more: www.stokers2009.

Paul O. Williams, 1935-2009

Paul O. Williams died June 2, 2009 from an aortic dissection. His most notable work was the Pelbar Cycle, a series of seven novels set in post-apocalyptic Illinois. He won the Campbell Award in 1983, and published two other science fiction novels outside of the Pelbar novels; the most recent was The Man from Far Cloud in 2004. He was also a poet, served as president of the Haiku Society of America, and was professor emeritus of English at Principia College in Elsah IL. He is survived by his wife, KerryLynn Blau Williams.

2009 Campbell Award Finalists

The John W. Campbell Award is presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, July 9 - 12, 2009, as the focal point of a weekend of discussions about the writing, illustration, publishing, teaching, and criticism of science fiction.

Finalists are:

• City at the End of Time, Greg Bear (Del Rey)
  
• Valley of Day-Glo, Nick Di Chario (Robert J. Sawyer Books)
  
• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
  
• Song of Time, Ian MacLeod, (PS Publishing)
  
• The Philosopher's Apprentice, James Morrow (William Morrow)
  
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)