The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced that Myke Cole’s Shadow Ops: Control Point (Ace) is the winner of the 2013 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award.

The award, which honors the best first SF/fantasy/horror novel of the year, will be presented at Balticon 47, May 24-27, 2013, where Cole will receive an award plaque and check for $1,000, during the convention’s opening ceremonies. Selection is by vote of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society membership

The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards and the Analog 2012 AnLab Awards were presented at a breakfast celebration at the Affinity restaurant on May 18, 2013 during the Nebula Awards Weekend in San Jose CA.

Asimov’s Readers’ Awards winners are:

Best Novella

“Murder Born”, Robert Reed (2/12)

Best Novelette

“The Way of the Needle”, Derek Künsken (3/12)

Best Short Story (tie)

“Final Exam”, Megan Arkenberg (6/12)

“Sexy Robot Mom”, Sandra McDonald (4-5/12)

Best Poem

“Future History”, Joe Haldeman (2/12)

Best Cover Artist

Laura Diehl

The AnLab Awards winners are:

Best Novella

“Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light”, Richard A. Lovett & William Gleason (7-8/12) .

Best Novelette

“Ninety Thousand Horses”, Sean McMullen (1-2/12)

Best Short Story

“Titanium Soul”, Catherine Shaffer (6/12)

Best Fact Article

“Faster Than a Speeding Photon”, Edward M. Lerner (1-2/12)

Best Cover

Michael Whelan for October 2012.

Winners have been announced for the 2012 Aurealis Awards, honoring SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians:

Best Science Fiction Novel

• The Rook, Daniel O’Malley (Harper Collins)

• Suited, Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
• The Last City, Nina D’Aleo (Momentum)
• And All The Stars, Andrea K. Host (self-published)
• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Ambelin Kwaymullina (Walker)
• A Confusion of Princes, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)

Best Science Fiction Short Story

• “Significant Dust”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)

• “Visitors”, James Bradley (Review of Australian Fiction)
• “Beyond Winter’s Shadow”, Greg Mellor (Wild Chrome)
• “The Trouble with Memes”, Greg Mellor (Wild Chrome)
• “The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club”, Kaaron Warren (Exotic Gothic 4)

Best Fantasy Novel

• Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)

• Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
• Stormdancer, Jay Kristoff (Tor UK)
• Flame of Sevenwaters, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
• Winter Be My Shield, Jo Spurrier (Harper Voyager)

Best Fantasy Short Story

• “Bajazzle”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)

• “Sanaa’s Army”, Joanne Anderton (Bloodstones)
• “The Stone Witch”, Isobelle Carmody (Under My Hat)
• “First They Came”, Deborah Kalin (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 55)
• “The Isles of the Sun”, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape)

Best Horror Novel

• Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)

• Bloody Waters, Jason Franks (Possible Press)
• Blood and Dust, Jason Nahrung (Xoum)
• Salvage, Jason Nahrung (Twelfth Planet)

Best Horror Short Story

• “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)

• “Sanaa’s Army”, Joanne Anderton (Bloodstones)
• “Elyora”, Jodi Cleghorn (Review of Australian Fiction)
• “To Wish Upon a Clockwork Heart”, Felicity Dowker (Bread and Circuses)
• “Escena de un Asesinato”, Robert Hood (Exotic Gothic 4)

Best Young Adult Novel (tie)

• Dead, Actually, Kaz Delaney (Allen & Unwin)
• Sea Hearts, Margo Lanaga (Allen & Unwin)

• And All The Stars, Andrea K. Host (self-published)
• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Amberlin Kwaymullina (Walker)
• Into That Forest, Louis Nowra (Allen & Unwin)

Young Adult Short Story

• “The Wisdom of the Ants”, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld 12/12)

• “Stilled Lifes x 11″, Justin D’Ath (Trust Me Too)
• “Rats”, Jack Heath (Trust Me Too)
• “The Statues of Melbourne”, Jack Nicholls (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56)
• “The Worry Man”, Adrienne Tam (self-published)

Best Collection

• That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote, K.J. Bishop (self-published)

• Metro Winds, Isobelle Carmody (Allen & Unwin)
• Midnight and Moonshine, Lisa L. Hanett & Angela Slatter (Ticonderoga)
• Living With the Dead, Martin Livings (Dark Prints)
• Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet)

Best Anthology

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 6, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

• The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, eds. (Ticonderoga Publications)
• Bloodstones, Amanda Pillar, ed. (Ticonderoga)
• Under My Hat, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)
• Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris)

Best Children’s Fiction (told primarily through words)

• Brotherband: The Hunters, John Flanagan (Random House Australia)

• Princess Betony and the Unicorn, Pamela Freeman (Walker)
• The Silver Door, Emily Rodda (Scholastic)
• Irina the Wolf Queen, Leah Swann (Xoum)

Best Children’s Fiction (told primarily through pictures)

• Little Elephants, Graeme Base (author and illustrator) (Viking Penguin)

• The Boy Who Grew Into a Tree, Gary Crew (author) & Ross Watkins (illustrator) (Penguin Group Australia)
• In the Beech Forest, Gary Crew (author) & Den Scheer (illustrator) (Ford Street)
• Inside the World of Tom Roberts, Mark Wilson (author and illustrator) (Lothian Children’s Books)

Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel

• Blue, Pat Grant (author and illustrator) (Top Shelf Comix)

• It Shines and Shakes and Laughs, Tim Molloy (author and illustrator) (Milk Shadow)
• Changing Ways #2, Justin Randall (author and illustrator) (Gestalt)

Kate Eltham received the Peter McNamara Convenors’ Award for Excellence, and Laura Goodin was given the Kris Hembury Encouragement Award. Winners were announced on May 18, 2013 at the annual Aurealis Awards ceremony at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney, Australia. Details at the Aurealis Awards website.

The 2012 Nebula Awards were presented May 18, 2013 in a ceremony at  SFWA’s 48th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, held in San Jose CA. Gene Wolfe was honored with the 2012 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for his lifetime contributions and achievements in the field.

Novel

• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)
  
• Ironskin, Tina Connolly (Tor)
  
• The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
  
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

Novella

• After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)

• On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion Press)
• “The Stars Do Not Lie”, Jay Lake (Asimov’s 10-11/12)
• “All the Flavors”, Ken Liu (GigaNotoSaurus 2/1/12)
• “Katabasis”, Robert Reed (F&SF 11-12/12)
• “Barry’s Tale”, Lawrence M. Schoen (Buffalito Buffet)

Novelette

• “Close Encounters”, Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)

• The Pyre of New Day”, Catherine Asaro (The Mammoth Books of SF Wars)
• “The Waves”, Ken Liu (Asimov’s 12/12)
• “The Finite Canvas”, Brit Mandelo (Tor.com 12/5/12)
• “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”, Meghan McCarron (Tor.com 1/4/12)
• “Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia”, Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 8/22/12)
• “Fade to White”, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/12)

Short Story

• “Immersion”, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)

• “Robot”, Helena Bell (Clarkesworld 9/12)
• “Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes”, Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 4/12)
• “Nanny’s Day”, Leah Cypess (Asimov’s 3/12)
• “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream”, Maria Dahvana Headley (Lightspeed7/12)
• “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”, Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/12)
• “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain”, Cat Rambo (Near + Far)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Beasts of the Southern Wild

• The Avengers
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Hunger Games
• John Carter
• Looper

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book

• Fair Coin, E.C. Myers (Pyr)

• Iron Hearted Violet, Kelly Barnhill (Little, Brown)
• Black Heart, Holly Black (S&S/McElderry; Gollancz)
• Above, Leah Bobet (Levine)
• The Diviners, Libba Bray (Little, Brown; Atom)
• Vessel, Sarah Beth Durst (S&S/McElderry)
• Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)
• Enchanted, Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
• Every Day, David Levithan (Alice A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Summer of the Mariposas, Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Tu Books)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
• Above World, Jenn Reese (Candlewick)

Carl Sagan and Ginjer Buchanan received Solstice Awards, and Michael H. Payne was given the Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award.

A crowdfunding project launched on May 15, 2013 on Kickstarter to turn Blood Kiss, a script by Emmy Award-winning writer Michael Reaves, into a film. Writer Neil Gaiman and actress and fantasy writer Amber Benson will both star if the film is funded.

For more information, and to donate, see Blood Kiss on Kickstarter.

The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2013 Mythopoeic Award finalists. Winners will be announced at Mythcon 44, July 12-15, 2013, in East Lansing MI.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature:

• The Weirdstone trilogy: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins), The Moon of Gomrath (Collins), and Boneland (Fourth Estate), Alan Garner
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• Death and Resurrection, R.A. MacAvoy (Prime)
• Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow)
• Digger, volumes 1-6, Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature:

• Giants Beware!, Jorge Aguirre & Rafael Rosado (First Second)
• Vessel, Sarah Beth Durst (Margaret K. McElderry)
• The Princess Curse, Merrie Haskell (HarperCollins)
• The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, Christopher Healy (Walden Pond)
• The Spy Princess, Sherwood Smith (Viking Juvenile)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies:

• C.S. Lewis and the Middle Ages, Robert Boenig (Kent State University Press, 2012)
• C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918, John Bremer (Lexington Books, 2012)
• Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays, Jason Fisher, ed. (McFarland, 2011)
•  Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press, 2012)
• Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Corey Olsen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies:

• Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Nancy Marie Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
• Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship, Jo Eldridge Carney (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
• The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald, Bonnie Gaarden (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011)
• As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality, Michael Saler (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712-1831, David Sandner (Ashgate, 2011)

The LoneStarCon 3 committee sent an alert about scam phone calls some dealers who attended Chicon have been receiving:

Some people who were dealers at Chicon have been receiving cold calls from a company claiming to be booking housing for the Worldcon. Other claims include that the hotel is almost full, and that discounted dealers reservations are available at the Hyatt near the convention. Lonestarcon 3 has no connection with this firm, the Hyatt is not a convention hotel, and there are no discounted dealers room rates at the convention hotels.

Rooms are still available in both of the official convention hotels: the Marriot Rivercenter and the Marriott Riverbank.

The finalists for the 2013 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:

The 2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists have been named:

• The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
• Any Day Now, Terry Bisson (Overlook)
• Existence, David Brin (Tor)
• The Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (Tor)
• Empty Space, M. John Harrison (Gollancz; Night Shade ’13)
• Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
• Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey)
• The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
• Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds (Ace)
• Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Slow Apocalypse, John Varley (Ace)
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove Press)

The award, for best SF novel, will be presented during the Campbell Conference, to be held July 13-16, 2013 at the Oread Hotel in Lawrence KS.