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The 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement winners are Brian Lumley and William F. Nolan. The award is presented to an individual or individuals whose work has "substantially influenced the horror genre."The winner of the 2009 HWA Specialty Press Award is Tartarus Press. The award is presented to "a specialty publisher whose work has contributed substantially to the horror genre, whose

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Philip Klass, who wrote SF as William Tenn, 89, died February 7, 2010 of congestive heart failure.Klass is best known for his satirical, humorous SF work. His first SF story was "Alexander the Bait" in Astounding (1946). Klass also wrote two novels, Of Men and Monsters (1968) and short novel A Lamp for Medusa (1968), and numerous non-fiction articles and essays, some of which were gathered in

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The Locus Poll & Survey is live!Use this online form to cast your votes in the 40th Annual Locus Awards.The deadline for voting is April 1, 2010. Winners will be announced at the Locus Awards Ceremony this June in Seattle.(Internet Explorer users may see a security error on the link above. We're looking into the problem, which does not appear to affect other browsers.)

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Following the ongoing Amazon/Macmillan conflict, HarperCollins and Hachette have now joined Macmillan. These publishers want to renegotiate Kindle e-book prices on the so-called Agency Model, in which publishers set prices and retailers keep 30% of the sales price. Under this plan, publishers will be able to offer a higher price for books when they're first published, and reduce the prices over

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The 2009 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot has been released:Superior Achievement in a NovelAs Fate Would Have It, Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon)Sacrifice, John Everson (Leisure)Eternal Vigilance II: Death of Illusions, Gabrielle Faust (Immanion)Twisted Ladder, Rhodi Hawk (Tor)Voracious, Alice Henderson (Jove)The Bone Factory, Nate Kenyon (Leisure)Audrey's Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)Patient

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Sir Terry Pratchett, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's in 2007, is arguing for the legalization of assisted suicide in the UK. Pratchett says Alzheimer's "is not nice and I do not wish to be there for the endgame."Pratchett, the first novelist to deliver the annual BBC Dimbleby lecture, used his speech, "Shaking Hands with Death," to advocate for the rights of the terminally ill, and

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The 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List is now available online. The list is published as part of the 2009 Year in Review issue of Locus (February 2010). An extensive survey of SF publishing for 2009, the issue includes year-end essays by Locus reviewers discussing recommended titles; the Magazine Summary, which covers all the major print and online magazines and tracks numbers of stories

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The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the finalists for the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award:"No Truce with Kings", Poul Anderson (1964)"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", Harlan Ellison (1965)"As Easy as A.B.C.", Rudyard Kipling (1912)Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (1999)This category honors novels, novellas, stories, graphic novels, anthologies, films, TV shows/series, plays,

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Writer Kage Baker, 57, died January 31, 2010 of cancer at home in Pismo Beach, CA. Baker was best known for her Company series of time travel novels and stories. Company novel The Empress of Mars (2008) was an expansion of the eponymous 2003 novella, which won a Sturgeon Award and was a Hugo and Nebula finalist. Baker also wrote fantasy, notably Mythopoeic finalist The Anvil of the World (2003)

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Amazon and Macmillan's ongoing disagreement about pricing models for e-books boiled over this weekend in a very public way.Late Friday, Amazon pulled all titles by Macmillan and its imprints – including Tor, Forge, St. Martin's, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux – from its online store, even removing titles from customer wishlists and remotely removing promotional sample chapters from the Kindle

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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America will hold the Nebula Awards Weekend May 13-16, 2010, in Coco Beach FL, on Cape Canaveral.The 2009 Nebula Awards will be presented that weekend, along with other SFWA awards, including the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master award for Joe Haldeman. The dates were chosen to coincide with the scheduled launching of the shuttle Atlantis on May 14, 2010.

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According to Kage Baker's sister Kathleen Bartholomew, Baker's cancer has spread, and she has "reached the end of useful treatment." They are preparing for end-of-life care. See Green Man Review for the full statement.

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The British Science Fiction Association announced the finalists for the 2009 awards. Best Novel Ark, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz) Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan)Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)Best Short Fiction "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast", Eugie Foster (Interzone #220)The Push, Dave

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Jedediah Berry has been named the winner of the 2010 William L. Crawford Award for first novel The Manual of Detection. The Award, presented annually at The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, is for a new fantasy writer whose first book appeared the previous year. This year's conference will be March 17-21, 2010 in Orlando FL. The award committee shortlisted Deborah

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Winners of the 2009 Aurealis Awards (Australia's juried awards) have been announced:Peter McNamara Convenors' Award Justin Ackroyd, Proprietor, Slow Glass BooksBest Science Fiction Novel Wonders of a Godless World, Andrew McGahan (Allen & Unwin)The Grand Conjunction: Astropolis Book Three, Sean Williams (Orbit)Best Science Fiction Short Story"Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens", Peter M. Ball (

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Fiction editor Ann VanderMeer has been promoted to the position of editor in chief at Weird Tales, while author Mary Robinette Kowal will serve as the magazine’s new art director and editor Paula Guran will serve as the new non-fiction editor. Editorial and creative director Stephen H. Segal is stepping away from the magazine’s day-to-day operations to accept a new full-time position as

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The Reference and User Services Association announced the winners of its annual Reading List awards in eight categories, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction.Fantasy Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor)The Warded Man, Peter V. Brett (Del Rey)Turn Coat, Jim Butcher (Tor)The Red Wolf Conspiracy, Robert V.S. Redick (Del Rey)Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)Science Fiction The Windup Girl,

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The Alex Awards, given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, have been announced. Three genre titles made this year's list:Everything Matters!, Ron Currie, Jr. (Viking Penguin)The Magicians, Lev Grossman (Viking Penguin)Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit)This year's awards were announced at the 2010 Youth Media Awards at the American Library Association's midwinter

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Many awards were announced at the American Library Association's midwinter conference, held in Boston, January 18, 2010. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Random/Wendy Lamb) won the Newbery Medal, and Going Bovine by Libba Bray (Delacorte) won the Michael L. Printz Award.The Monstrumologist by Rich Yancey (Simon & Schuster) and Tales from the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by

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The 2009 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced:Bitter Angels, C.L. Anderson (Ballantine Spectra)The Prisoner, Carlos J. Cortes (Ballantine Spectra)The Repossession Mambo, Eric Garcia (Harper)The Devil’s Alphabet, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)Centuries Ago and Very Fast, Rebecca Ore (Aqueduct Press)Prophets, S. Andrew Swann (DAW)The Awards are presented

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Japanese author, translator, and fan Takumi Shibano, 83, died January 16, 2010 of pneumonia. The "father of Japanese science fiction" founded influential Japanese fanzine Uchujin in 1957, with the most recent issue, #202, appearing in 2009.Beginning in the '70s he translated around 60 books by authors including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Larry Niven into Japanese, and was a major figure

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Author Neil Gaiman has announced his engagement to singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer. Official announcement at Neil's blog.

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Author Kage Baker, 57, has been battling cancer for some time, and is now in the hospital following surgery to remove a brain tumor on December 26, 2009. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment, but her condition remains very serious. For more details, see this letter from her caregiver.

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Editor and agent Knox Burger, 87, died January 4, 2010 in Manhattan. Burger was fiction editor for Collier's from 1948 to 1951, where he published Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s first short story. Vonnegut dedicated 1968 collection Welcome to the Monkey House to him: "To Knox Burger. Ten days older than I am. He has been a very good father to me." Burger also published Jack Finney's early time travel

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Cherie Priest's steampunk novel Boneshaker (Tor), has been selected for a 2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. Priest's book was one of five winners selected from over 200 entries. The awards are voted on by a committee of nine booksellers from throughout the region. Via SF Awards Watch.

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