The Mythopoeic Society has announced the winners of the 2011 Mythopoeic Awards. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature: Redemption in Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer Press) Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc) The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) A Cup of Normal, Devon Monk (Fairwood Press) Troubled Waters, Sharon Shinn (Ace) Mythopoeic [...]

Borders will not emerge from bankruptcy successfully, but will instead be liquidated. With no bidders interested in keeping the bookstore chain as a going concern, Borders chose to cancel the planned July 19 auction, and instead announced plans to submit a liquidation plan from Hilco and Gordon Brothers to the bankruptcy court for approval. Assuming approval [...]

The 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were presented during a ceremony at Readercon 22 in Burlington, Massachusetts on Sunday, July 18th, 2011. The awards are given for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction. Novel Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) Dark Matter, Michelle Paver (Orion) A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (Doubleday) [...]

Theodore Roszak, 77, died July 5, 2011 at home in Berkeley CA of liver cancer. Roszak was most famous for his work on the ’60s youth movement, including  The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society (1969). He was also a SF writer, with notable works including Bugs (1981, which won a [...]

The Science Fiction Research Association has announced the 2011 winners of its annual research awards: Pilgrim Award: Donna Haraway Pioneer Award: John Rieder, “On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History”, Science Fiction Studies 37.2 (July 2010) Clareson Award: The Tiptree Motherboard (Karen Joy Fowler, Debbie Notkin, Ellen Klages, Jeanne Gomoll, Jeff Smith, [...]

The University of Kansas has received a collection of Theodore Sturgeon’s private letters, manuscripts, and other papers as a gift from the late writer’s daughter, Noel Sturgeon. Highlights from the collection include the original manuscript and multiple film script treatments of More Than Human, his notes and outline for one of the Star Trek episodes he [...]

The winner and runners-up of the 8th annual Million Writers Award, given by storySouth, were announced July 9, 2011. First place: “Arvies”,  Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed) Runner-up: “The Incorrupt Body of Carlo Busso”, Eric Maroney (Eclectica) Honorable mention: “The Green Book”, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex) The prizes for this year’s award are $600 plus a $100 gift certificate [...]

Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House (Gollancz/Pyr) is the winner of this year’s John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel published in 2010, and Geoffrey A. Landis’s novella “The Sultan of the Clouds” (Asimov’s 9/10) is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of 2010. The awards were [...]

Freelance director Josh Costello adapted Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother for the stage and is about to start production for a show that will run in January and February 2012 at The Custom Made Theatre Co. in San Francisco CA.  This is the second adaptation of Doctorow’s novel, and it unrelated to the production that [...]

Finalists for the 13th Endeavour Award, given to a novel or single-author collection written by a Pacific Northwest writer, have been announced. A Cup of Normal, Devon Monk (Fairwood) The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia McKillip (Ace) Black Prism, Brent Weeks (Orbit US) Dreadnought, Cherie Priest (Tor) Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs (Ace) The 2011 judges for [...]