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Artist John Schoenherr, 74, died April 8, 2010 in New Jersey.John Carl Schoenherr was born July 5, 1935 in New York City. He became a full-time freelance artist shortly after his graduation from the Pratt Institute in 1956, and did hundreds of illustrations for SF magazines, including Astounding/Analog, Amazing, Fantastic, Infinity, and F&SF. He was the principle cover artist for Astounding/

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SFWA President Russell Davis announced the recipients of the 2010 Solstice Awards: Tom Doherty, Terri Windling, and the late Donald A. Wollheim. They will be presented during the Nebula Awards Weekend in Cocoa Beach FL, May 14-16, 2010.The award, created in 2008 and given at the discretion of the SFWA president with the majority approval of the Board of Directors, is for individuals who have had

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Author, dancer, and choreographer Jeanne Robinson, 62, has reached the end of chemotherapy treatment for her cancer, and has entered palliative care. Letters and cards are welcome (please no flowers, phone calls, or visitors) and should be sent to Jeanne Robinson, Palliative Care Section, 7th floor, Lion's Gate Hospital, 231 15th Street East, North Vancouver BC V7L 2L7. Robinson is expected to be

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The 2009 David Gemmell Legend Awards shortlist has been announced: Best Fantasy Novel Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz, Orbit) The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (Tor)Empire: The Legend of Sigmar, Graham McNeill (Black Library)The Cardinal's Blades, Pierre Pevel (Gollancz)Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer The Sad

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Winners of the 2009 British Science Fiction Association Awards have been announced: Best Novel The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan)Ark, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Gollancz)Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)Best Short Fiction"The Beloved Time of Their Lives" , Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia (The Beloved of My Beloved)"Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red

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The 2010 Philip K. Dick Award winner was announced on Friday, April 2, 2010 at Norwescon 33, in SeaTac WA. The winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2009 in the US is: Bitter Angels, C.L. Anderson (Ballantine Spectra)Special citation was given to: Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald (Pyr)The Philip K. Dick Award is

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Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Melbourne, Australia, September 2-6, 2010. The Hugo Awards ceremony will take place September 5, 2010. The listing here is alphabetical by title within a category, then nominee.Best NovelBoneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)The

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Children's author William Mayne, 82, died March 23, 2010 in Thornton Rust, North Yorkshire. Born March 16, 1928 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he wrote over a hundred books, some of which included SF and fantasy elements, notably the Earthfasts sequence – Earthfasts (1966), Cradlefasts (1999), and Candlefasts (2002) – and A Game of the Dark (1971), The Jersey Shore (1971), The Member for the

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Neal Barrett, Jr. has been named the 2010 SFWA Author Emeritus. Barrett, known for works like Through Darkest America (1987), Dawn's Uncertain Light (1989), and Prince of Christler-Coke (2004), has published over 50 novels and more than 70 short works since 1959, many of them SF or fantasy. The award will be presented at the Nebula Awards Weekend, May 13-16, 2010 in Coco Beach, FL.

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The 2009 Stoker Awards winners have been announced. Superior Achievement in a Novel: Audrey's Door, Sarah Langan (Harper) Patient Zero, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin)Quarantined, Joe McKinney (Lachesis)Cursed, Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)Superior Achievement in a First NovelDamnable, Hank Schwaeble (Jove)Breathers, S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)Solomon’s Grave, Daniel G. Keohane

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The six titles on the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist have been announced: Spirit, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan)Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)Galileo's Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins)Far North, Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber)Retribution Falls, Chris Wooding (Gollancz)The winner will receive a £2010 prize and a commemorative

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Author Patricia Wrightson, 88, died March 15, 2010, in a hospital in New South Wales, Australia. Born June 21, 1921 in Lismore, New South Wales, Wrightson wrote 27 children's and YA books, many with fantasy elements, including The Nargun and the Stars (1973), The Ice Is Coming (1977), The Dark Bright Water (1978), Journey Beyond the Wind (1981), A Little Fear (1983), Moon-dark (1987), and Balyet

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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced the nominees for the 2010 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)Dying Bites, D.D. Barant (St. Martin's)Soulless, Gail Carriger (Orbit)Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer, Jonathan L. Howard (Doubleday) The Compton Crook Award is presented for the best SF/fantasy/horror first novel published each year. The

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Rick Wilber (administrator), Rachel Halpern, Rachel Sobel, Rebecca McNulty, Anthony Powers, Lara Donnelly, Miah Saunders, Asimov's editor Sheila Williams.The winner and runners-up of the 2010 Dell Awards for undergraduate excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing have been announced: Winner "The Dead Star, the Satirist, and the Soldier", Rachel Sobel, University of Washington (Seattle)

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The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced finalists for the 2010 Prometheus Best Novel Award: Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card (Tor) Makers, Cory Doctorow (Tor)The Unincorporated Man, Dani & Eytan Kollin (Tor)Liberating Atlantis, Harry Turtledove (Roc)The United States of Atlantis, Harry Turtledove (Roc)Prometheus Hall of Fame Finalists were previously announced.Voting is open to all members

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SF writer Peter Watts was found guilty of resisting a US Customs and Border Protection officer today. He will be sentenced on April 26, 2010, and could face up to two years in prison for the felony conviction. Watts, a Canadian citizen, was stopped at the border crossing at Port Huron, Michigan in December 2009 for a search of his rental car. Border officials claim he resisted and physically

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The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) has announced nominees for the fourth annual Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing for books published in 2009.Best Novel (Speculative Fiction)Enemies & Allies, Kevin J. Anderson (Morrow)Terminator Salvation: Cold War, Greg Cox (Titan)Star Trek: A Singular Destiny, Keith R.A. DeCandido (Pocket)Warhammer:

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The Orange, a short film directed by Nick Fox-Gieg and based on Benjamin Rosenbaum's short story "The Orange" (2002), won a SXSW Film Award in the Animated Shorts category at the SXSW 2010 festival. Watch it below:

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Greer Gilman's Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales (Small Beer) and Fumi Yoshinaga's Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Volumes 1 & 2 (VIZ Media) are co-winners of the 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, given annually to works of science fiction or fantasy that explore and expand gender roles. Ooku is the first manga to be chosen as a Tiptree winner. The awards ceremony will be held at WisCon 34 in Madison WI

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The Speculative Literature Foundation's 2010 Grant for Older Authors is now open for submissions. The deadline is March 31, 2010. The grant, which offers $750 to authors fifty years or older, is intended to help older writers who are beginning to work at a professional level. For full application details, visit the Speculative Literature Foundation website.

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SF critic, editor, and convention organizer Cheryl Morgan, a British citizen, landed at San Francisco International Airport on March 11, only to be put on a plane back to the UK. She will not be attending the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts as originally planned. See her blog for further details.

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Vonda McIntyre and Keith Stokes will receive 2010 SFWA Service Awards, to be presented during the Nebula Awards Weekend, May 13-16, 2010 in Coco Beach, FL.The award will honor McIntyre for her volunteer work on SFWA member websites and other sections of the original SFWA website, and for her numerous other volunteer activities. Stokes will be honored for his service on SFWA committees and

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Eric S. Rabkin is the winner of the 2009 Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to SF and fantasy scholarship. Eric S. Rabkin, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has published over 30 books, including Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology and Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and

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The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame has announced the 2010 Hall of Fame inductees: Octavia E. Butler, Roger Zelazny, Douglas Trumbull, and Richard Matheson. The induction ceremony will be held June 26, 2010 at the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, Washington as part of the Science Fiction Awards Weekend, June 25-27, 2010, in conjunction with the Locus Awards and

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The 2010 Spectrum 17 Award winners were announced in Kansas City MO, February 26, 2010.AdvertisingGold: "Absinthe Drinker", Sam Webber (Dellas Graphics)Silver: "Never the Twain", Craig Elliot (C.E. Gallery)BookGold: "Mistmantle: The Rage Tide", Omar Rayyan (Hyperion)Silver: "A Confabulation of Dragons", Scott Gustafson (The Greenwich Workshop)ComicsGold: "The Incident", Steven Tabbutt (Rabid

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