The finalists for the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced:

• “Six Months, Three Days”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 6/8/11)
• “The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s 7/11)
• “Ghostweight”, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 1/11)
• “The Old Equations”, Jake Kerr (Lightspeed 7/11)
• “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”, Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
• “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)
• “The Choice”, Paul McAuley (Asimov’s 2/11)
• Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA; Clarkesworld 10/11)

“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11) was a finalist, but Johnson, a juror, removed it from consideration.

The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, to be held July 5-8, 2012 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards and the Analog 2011 AnLab Awards were presented at a breakfast celebration on May 19, 2012 during the Nebula Awards Weekend in Arlington VA.

The winners of Analog’s Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards are:

Best Novella

• “With Unclean Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro (11/11)

Best Novelette (tie)

• “Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms”, John G. Hemry (3/11)
• “Jak and the Beanstalk”, Richard A. Lovett (7-8/11)

Best Short Story

• “Julie is Three”, Craig DeLancey (3/11)

Best Fact

• “Smart SETI”, Gregory & James Benford (4/11)

Best Cover

• Bob Eggleton, December 2011 (for “Ray of Light”)

The winners of Asimov’s Readers’ Awards are:

Best Novella

• “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (10-11/11)

Best Novelette

• “All About Emily”, Connie Willis (12/11)

Best Short Story

• “Movement”, Nancy Fulda (3/11)

Best Poem

• “Five Pounds of Sunlight”, Geoffrey A. Landis (1/11)

Best Cover Artist

• Paul Youll, October-November 2011 (for “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”)

The results of the SFWA officers’ election were announced during the 2012 Nebula Awards Weekend (May 17-20, 2012 in Arlington VA) at the SFWA business meeting.

President: John Scalzi
Vice President: Rachel Swirsky
Secretary: Ann Leckie
Treasurer: Bud Sparhawk
West Coast Representative: Jim Fiscus
Canadian Representative: Matthew Johnson

For more information, see SF Site or the Science Fiction Writers of America page.

The Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF & F Translation (ARESFFT) announced the finalists for the 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards (for works published in 2011) at Åcon 5.

LONG FORM

• Zero, Huang Fan, translated from the Chinese by John Balcom (Columbia University)
• Good Luck Yukikaze, Chohei Kambayashi, translated from the Japanese by Neil Nadelman (Haikasoru)
• The Dragon Arcana, Pierre Pevel, translated from the French by Tom Clegg (Gollancz)
• Utopia, Ahmed Khaled Towfik, translated from the Arabic by Chip Rossetti (Bloomsbury Qatar)
• Midnight Palace, Carlos Fuiz Zafón, translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves (Little, Brown)

SHORT FORM

• “Paradiso”, Georges-Oliver Chateaureynaud, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin (Liquid Imagination Summer ’11)
• The Boy Who Cast No Shadow, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated from the Dutch by Laura Vroomen (PS)
• “The Short Arm of History”, Kenneth Krabat, translated from the Danish by Niels Dalgaard (Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors)
• “Stanlemian”, Wojciech Orlinski, translated from the Polish by Danusia Stok (Lemistry)
• “The Green Jacket”, Gudrun Östergaard, self-translated from the Danish (Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors)
• “The Fish of Lijiang”, Chen Qiufan, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld 8/11)
• “Spellmaker”, Andrzej Sapkowski, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel (A Polish Book of Monsters)

Each winning author and translator will receive a cash prize of $350. The winners will be announced at the 2012 Finncon, July 21-22, 2012.

The 2011 Nebula Awards were presented on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in a ceremony at the Nebula Awards Weekend, held in Arlington, Virginia. Walter Jon Williams was Toastmaster, and Astronaut Michael Fincke was the keynote speaker. Connie Willis was honored with the 2011 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for her lifetime contributions and achievements in the field.

Novel

• Among Others,  Jo Walton (Tor)

• God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
• The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
• Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey)
• Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)

Novella

• “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/11)

• “With Unclean Hands”, Adam-Troy Castro (Analog 11/11)
• “The Ice Owl”, Carolyn Ives Gilman (F&SF 11-12/11)
• ‘‘Kiss Me Twice’’, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 6/11)
• “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”, Ken Liu (Panverse Three)
• Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)

Novelette

• ‘‘What We Found’’, Geoff Ryman (F&SF 9-10/11)

• “Six Months, Three Days”, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 6/8/11)
• “The Old Equations”, Jake Kerr (Lightspeed 7/11)
• “The Migratory Pattern of Dancers”, Katherine Sparrow (GigaNotoSaurus 7/11)
• “Sauerkraut Station”, Ferrett Steinmetz (GigaNotoSaurus 11/11)
• “Fields of Gold”, Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4)
• “Ray of Light”, Brad R. Torgersen (Analog 12/11)

Short Story

• “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu (F&SF 3-4/11)

• “Her Husband’s Hands”, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed 10/11)
• “Mama, We Are Zhenya, Your Son”, Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed 4/11)
• “Shipbirth”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 2/11)
• “Movement”, Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s 3/11)
• “The Axiom of Choice”, David W. Goldman (New Haven Review Winter ’11)
• “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”, E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld 4/11)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Doctor Who: “The Doctor’s Wife”

• The Adjustment Bureau
• Attack the Block
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Hugo
• Midnight in Paris
• Source Code

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book

• The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)

• Ultraviolet, R.J. Anderson (Orchard UK; Carolrhoda)
• Chime, Franny Billingsley (Dial)
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow; Gollancz as Fire and Thorns)
• The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury USA)
• Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King (Little, Brown)
• Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown)

Octavia Butler and John Clute received the Solstice Award. Bud Webster received the SFWA Service Award.

Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, 83, died May 15, 2012 in Mexico City.

Fuentes frequently wrote in the magical realist vein, and even wrote occasional SF, with notable works including Aura (1962), La cabeza de la hidra [The Hydra's Head] (1978), Terra Nostra (1975), Cristobál Nonato [Christopher Unborn] (1987), collection Constancia y otras novelas para virgenes [Constancia; And Other Stories for Virgins] (1989), Inez (2001), La silla del aguila [The Eagle's Throne] (2002).

Carlos Manuel Fuentes Macías was born November 11, 1928 in Panama City, Panama. His father was a Mexican diplomat, and Fuentes grew up in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington DC, Santiago, Quito, and Buenos Aires. He began living in Mexico when he was a teenager, and remained there until 1965. That year he became a diplomat for Mexico, serving in London, Paris, and elsewhere, resigning as ambassador to France in 1978. He taught at Universities including Brown, Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton.

See the June issue of Locus for a complete obituary.

Photographer, fan, artist, and occasional SF writer Jay Kay Klein, 80, died May 13, 2012 in a Syracuse NY hospice. He had esophageal cancer.

Klein was a well-known figure in SF fandom, renowned for his work as a photographer and taking thousands of photos over the decades at conventions. Countless numbers of his photos have appeared in SF publications, and he was a regular contributor to Locus. He was close friends with major SF figures including Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and Forrest J Ackerman.

Klein discovered fandom in 1945 at a meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, and began contributing to fanzines the following year. Klein was fan guest of honor at the 1974 Worldcon and toastmaster at many other conventions.

In addition to his fannish activities also wrote the occasional short SF story, beginning with “On Conquered Earth” (1967) in If, and “Probability Zero” vignettes for Analog, including “Century of Progress” (1984) and “Mass Communication” (1985).

He was a member of SFWA, First Fandom, the National Fantasy Fan Federation, and various regional SF leagues. In 1990 he was honored with a Big Heart Award for his services to the field.

Born July 28, 1931 in Philadelphia PA, Klein graduated from Syracuse University in 1953, and pursued graduate studies in English there from 1955-59. He spent most of his career in advertising at the General Electric Corporation and Carrier Corporation, where he remained until retirement.

His work will be exhibited at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, August 30 – September 3, 2012, in Chicago IL, and there is also a celebration of his life planned for the convention.

Klein’s wife of 57 years, Doris Klemmer Klein, predeceased him in October 2011.

See the June issue of Locus for a complete obituary.

The 2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists have been named:

• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown)
• This Shared Dream, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor)
• Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade)
• Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey)
• The Islanders, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• The Highest Frontier, Joan Slonczewski (Tor)
• Dancing with Bears, Michael Swanwick (Night Shade)
• Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS)
• Robopocalypse, Daniel H. Wilson (Simon & Schuster)
• Home Fires, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Seed, Rob Ziegler (Night Shade)

The award, for best SF novel, will be presented during the Campbell Conference, to be held July 5-8, 2012 at the Oread Hotel in Lawrence KS.

Children’s author and artist Maurice Sendak, 83, died May 8, 2012 in Danbury CT following complications from a stroke. Sendak is best known for his classic children’s fantasy picture book Where the Wild Things Are (1963). Other notable books include In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981). In a career that spanned nearly 50 years, he illustrated over 80 books and wrote more than 20.

Maurice Bernard Sendak was born June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn NY to Jewish, Polish immigrant parents. He got his start illustrating a science textbook in 1947, and in the ’50s began illustrating books by other writers. Soon he began to write and illustrate his own. He also produced animated programs for television, designed sets for operas and ballets, and collaborated with playwright Tony Kushner on opera Brundibar. Sendak won the Caldecott Medal for Where The Wild Things Are in 1964, and a Newbery Award for his illustrations of Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1966).

See the June issue of Locus for a complete obituary.

The British Fantasy Society has announced the finalists for the 2012 British Fantasy Awards:

Best Novel (There will be two awards in the best Novel category: The August Derleth Fantasy Award for best horror novel and The Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel):

• The Heroes, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)
• 11.22.63, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Cyber Circus, Kim Lakin-Smith (NewCon)
• A Dance With Dragons, George R.R. Martin (Harper Voyager)
• The Ritual, Adam Nevill (Pan)
• Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

Best Novella

• Terra Damnata, James Cooper (PS)
• “Ghosts with Teeth”, Peter Crowther (A Book of Horrors)
• King Death, Paul Finch (Spectral)
• “Near Zennor”, Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors)
• “The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer”, John Ajvide Lindqvist (A Book of Horrors)
• Gorel and the Pot Bellied God, Lavid Tidhar (PS)

Best Short Story

• “Dermot”, Simon Bestwick (Black Static 8-9/11)
• “Sad, Dark Thing”, Michael Marshall Smith (A Book of Horrors)
• “Florrie”, Adam Nevill (House of Fear)
• “Alice Through the Plastic Sheet”, Robert Shearman (A Book of Horrors)
• “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”, Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors)

Best Anthology

• A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher)
• House of Fear, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
• The Weird, Jeff & Ann VandeMeer, eds. (Corvus)
• Gutshot, Conrad Williams, ed. (PS Publishing)

Best Collection

• Rumours of the Marvellous, Peter Atkins (Alchemy)
• Mrs Midnight, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus)
• Everyone’s Just So So Special, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)
• A Glass of Shadow, Liz Williams (NewCon)

Best Non-Fiction

• Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A Biography of Herbert Van Thal, Johnny Mains (Screaming Dreams)
• Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, Grant Morrison (Jonathan Cape)
• Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s, Kim Newman (Bloomsbury)
• Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema, Jonathan Rigby (Signum)
• Case Notes, Peter Tennant (Black Static)

Best Artist

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Les Edwards
• Daniel Serra

Best Small Press (The PS Publishing Independent Press Award)

• Chomu Press; Quentin S. Crisp
• Gray Friar Press; Gary Fry
• NewCon Press; Ian Whates
• Spectral Press; Simon Marshall-Jones

Best Magazine

• Black Static
  
• Interzone
• SFX
• The Horror Zine
  

Best Graphic Novel

• Animal Man, Jeff Lemire & Travel Foreman (DC)
• Batwoman, J.H. Williams III & W. Haden Blackman (DC)
• Locke and Key, Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
• The Unwritten, Mike Carey & Peter Gross (Vertigo)
• The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman & Charlie Adlard (Image)

There are also nominees  in the screenplay category. Voting is open to all current members of the BFS, plus members of FantasyCon 2011 and FantasyCon 2012 who registered before March 31, 2012. Winners will be announced at this year’s British Fantasy Convention, FantasyCon 2012, held September 27 – 30, 2012 at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, UK.