Archive for January, 2012
2011 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees
The 2011 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced: The Company Man, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) Deadline, Mira Grant (Orbit) The Other, Matthew Hughes (Underland) A Soldier’s Duty, Jean Johnson (Ace) The Postmortal, Drew Magary (Penguin) After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer) The Samuel Petrovich Trilogy, Simon Morden (Orbit) The awards are [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2012 under Awards.
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HWA Lifetime Achievement Awards
Joe R. Lansdale and Rick Hautala will be awarded the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Awards for 2011. The awards will be presented at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City UT on March 31, 2012. This convention also marks the 25th anniversary of the organization, which Lansdale helped found. Karen Lansdale will receive the [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2012 under Awards.
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Wolfe Wins Fuller Award
The first Fuller Award for lifetime achievement in literature will be awarded to Gene Wolfe by the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. The presentation will take place March 17, 2012 at an Evening to Honor Gene Wolfe, hosted by Gary K. Wolfe at the San Filippo Estate in Barrington Hills IL. Among those scheduled to [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2012 under Awards, Milestones.
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Hugo Nominations Period is Open
Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, to be presented at Chicon 7, August 30 to September 3, 2012. Those who have memberships to Chicon 7 or LoneStarCon 3 (2013) by January 31, 2012, or were members of Renovation (2011), may submit their nominations [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2012 under Awards.
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Zahir Folds
Zahir, a quarterly journal of speculative fiction, is closing, effective immediately. Twenty issues of Zahir were published in print from 2003-2009, and a further eight were published after the magazine moved online, the most recent in October 2011. Editor Sheryl Tempchin says the online archive will remain available indefinitely at www.zahirtales.com, and print back issues are still [...]
Posted: January 3rd, 2012 under Publishing.
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Glenn Lord (1931-2011)
Agent, editor, and publisher Glenn Lord, 80, died December 31, 2011 in Pasadena TX. Lord is best known as a champion of the works of Robert E. Howard, and acted as agent for the Howard estate starting in 1965. Lord worked tirelessly to keep Howard’s work available, and brought many of his unpublished works into [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2012 under Obituaries.
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