HWA Lifetime Achievement & Specialty Press Winners

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 publications display general excellence, and whose dealings with writers have been fair and exemplary."

The awards will be presented at the World Horror Convention, to be held March 25-28, 2010, in Brighton, England.

Fill out the Locus Poll and Survey

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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.

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2009 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

The 2009 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot has been released:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• As 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 Zero, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin)

• Quarantined, Joe McKinney (Lachesis)

• Cursed, Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• The Black Act, Louise Bohmer (Library of Horror)

• Breathers, S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)

• Slaughter!, Marcus Griffin (Alexandrian Archives)

• The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)

• Solomon’s Grave, Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)

• Dismember, Daniel Pyle (Wild Child)

• The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan (Delacorte

• Damnable, Hank Schwaeble (Jove)

• The Little Sleep, Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)

• Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Dreaming Robot Monster, Mort Castle (Mighty Unclean)

• The Hunger of Empty Vessels, Scott Edelman (Bad Moon)

• Rot, Michelle Lee (Skullvines)

• The Gray Zone, John R. Little (Bad Moon)

• "Diana and the Goong-Si", Lisa Morton (Midnight Walk)

• The Lucid Dreaming, Lisa Morton (Bad Moon)

• Black Butterflies, Kurt Newton (Sideshow)

• Doc Good's Traveling Show, Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon)

• Little Graveyard on the Prairie, Steven E. Wedel (Bad Moon)

• Mama Fish, Rio Youers (Shroud)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• "Nub Hut", Kurt Dinan (Chizine 1/09)

• "One More Day", Brian Freeman (Shivers V)

• "Where Sunlight Sleeps", Brian Freeman (Horror Drive-In 4/16/09)

• "Blanket of White", Amy Grech (Blanket of White)

• "Keeping Watch", Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)

• "Plague Dogs", Joe McKinney (Potters Field 3)

• "The Crossing of Aldo Ray", Weston Ochse (The Dead That Walk)

• "The Outlaws of Hill County", John Palisano (Harvest Hill)

• "In the Porches of My Ears", Norman Prentiss (Postscripts 18)

• "The Night Nurse", Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-In 7/15/09)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Harlan County Horrors, Mari Adkins, ed. (Apex)

• He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Christopher Conlon, ed. (Gauntlet)

• Mighty Unclean, Bill Breedlove, ed. (Dark Arts)

• Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)

• Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)

• Dark Delicacies 3: Haunted, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds. (Running Press)

• Butcher Shop Quartet 2, Frank J. Hutton, ed. (Cutting Block)

• British Invasion, Chris Golden, Tim Lebbon & James Moore, eds. (Cemetery Dance)

• Midnight Walk, Lisa Morton, ed. (Dark House)

• Grants Pass, Amanda Pillar & Jennifer Brozek, eds. (Morrigan)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Shards, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone)

• Martyrs and Monsters, Robert Dunbar (DarkHart)

• Dark Entities, David Dunwoody (Dark Regions)

• Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories, Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)

• Shades of Blood and Shadow, Angeline Hawkes (Dark Regions)

• Unhappy Endings, Brian Keene (Delirium)

• You Might Sleep..., Nick Mamatas (Prime)

• A Little Help from my Fiends, Michael McCarty (Sam's Dot)

• A Taste of Tenderloin, Gene O'Neill (Apex)

• In the Closet, Under the Bed, Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe)

Superior Achievement in Non-fiction

• Writers Workshop of Horror, Michael Knost (Woodland)

• Esoteria-Land, Michael McCarty (BearManor Media)

• Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, Loren Rhoads, ed. (Simon & Schuster)

• Cinema Knife Fight, L.L. Soares & Michael Arruda (Fearzone)

• The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, Bev Vincent (Fall River)

• Stephen King: The Non-Fiction, Rocky Wood & Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Double Visions, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)

• North Left of Earth, Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)

• Mortician's Tea, G. O. Clark (Sam's Dot)

• Starkweather Dreams, Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)

• Voices from the Dark, Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions)

• Barfodder, Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)

• Grave Bits, Todd Hanks (Skullvines)

• Toward Absolute Zero, Karen L. Newman (Sam's Dot)

• Chimeric Machines, Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy)

Horror Writers Association members will vote to choose final nominees from this list, and then vote again to determine winners. Winning titles will be announced at the World Horror Convention, March 25-28 2010, in Brighton, England.

2010 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Finalists

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, poems, music recordings and other works of fiction first published or broadcast more than five years ago. Final voting will take place in June and early July of 2010. All members of the Libertarian Futurist Society are eligible to vote. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Melbourne, Australia.

Nebula Awards Weekend, May 13-16, 2010

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. The launch will be visible from the beach outside the hotel, and special tours of the Kennedy Space Center will be available. For more information, visit the Nebula Awards website and the SFWA website.

2009 BSFA Award Finalists

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 Hutchinson (Newcon Press)

• "Johnnie and Emmie-Lou Get Married", Kim Lakin-Smith (Interzone #222)

• "Vishnu at the Cat Circus", Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)

• "The Beloved Time of Their Lives", Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia (The Beloved of My Beloved)

• "The Assistant", Ian Whates (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three)

Best Non-Fiction

• Canary Fever: Reviews, John Clute (Beccon)

• "I Didn't Dream of Dragons", Deepa D. (Deepa D.'s Blog)

• "Mutant Popcorn" film column, Nick Lowe (Interzone)

• A Short History of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James (Middlesex University Press)

Best Artwork

• Cover art project for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Nitzan Klamer

• Cover of Desolation Road, by Stephan Martinière

• "Emerald", Stephanie Pui-Min Law

• Covers of Interzone issues #220, #224, and #225, by Adam Tredowski

There are only four nominees in the Best Novel category, and six nominees in the Short Fiction and Best Artwork categories, due to multiple ties. The awards are voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). Winners will be announced during Odyssey (Eastercon 2010), to be held April 2-5, 2010 in Heathrow, London.

Jedediah Berry Wins Crawford Award

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 Biancotti's collection A Book of Endings, Kari Sperring's novel Living with Ghosts, and Ali Shaw's novel The Girl With Glass Feet, and wanted to commend two other authors whose works were ineligible this year but were highly regarded: Robert V.S. Redick, whose The Red Wolf Conspiracy appeared in 2008 and whose The Ruling Sea appears in 2010, and Michal Ajvaz, whose The Other City originally appeared in Czech in 1993 but was first translated into English by Gerald Turner in 2009.

The Award is administered by Gary K. Wolfe with assistance from Kelly Link, Niall Harrison, Cheryl Morgan, Graham Sleight, Paul Witcover, John Clute, Jonathan Strahan, Liza Groen Trombi, Farah Mendlesohn, and Amelia Beamer.

Aurealis Awards 2009 Finalists and Winners

Winners of the 2009 Aurealis Awards (Australia's juried awards) have been announced:

Peter McNamara Convenors' Award

• Justin Ackroyd, Proprietor, Slow Glass Books

Best 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 (Apex May 2009)

• "To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer's Lament", Peter M. Ball (Apex Oct 2009)

• "A Hundredth Name", Christopher Green (Abyss & Apex #31)

• "Defence of the Realm", Greg Mellor (Cosmos #25)

• "Soulmates", Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn (Asimov's Sep 2009)

Best Fantasy Novel

• Magician's Apprentice, Trudi Canavan (Orbit)

• Horn, Peter Ball (Twelfth Planet)

• The Last Stormlord, Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)

• Witches Incorporated, K.E. Mills (HarperVoyager)

• The Dark Griffin, K.J. Taylor (HarperVoyager)

Best Fantasy Short Story

• "Father's Kill", Christopher Green (Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  #24)

• "Once a Month, On a Sunday", Ian McHugh (Andromeda
  Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40)

• "Siren Beat", Tansy Rayner Roberts (Roadkill/Siren Beat)

• "Words", Angela Slatter (The Lifted Brow #5)

• "Something Better than Death", Lucy Sussex (Aurealis #42)

Best Horror Novel

• Red Queen, Honey Brown (Penguin Australia)

• Horn, Peter Ball (Twelfth Planet)

• The Dead Path, Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)

• Night's Cold Kiss, Tracey O'Hara (HarperCollins Australia)

• Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)

Best Horror Short Story

• "Wives", Paul Haines (X6)

• "Slice of Life — A Spot of Liver", Paul Haines (Slice of Life)

• "Jesse's Gift", Felicity Dowker (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40)

• "Having Faith", Christopher Green (Nossa Morte
  Feb 2009)

• "The Message", Andrew J. McKiernan (Midnight Echo #2)

Best Anthology

• Eclipse Three, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

• The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Harper Eos)

• New Ceres Nights, Alisa Krasnostein & Tehani Wessely, eds. (Twelfth Planet)

• X6, Keith Stevenson, ed. (Coeur de Lion)

• Eclipse 2, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade)

Best Collection

• Oceanic, Greg Egan (Gollancz)

• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti (Twelfth Planet)

• Slice of Life, Paul Haines (The Mayne Press)

• Johnny Phillips, Werewolf Detective, Robbie Matthews (Australian Speculative Fiction)

Best Young Adult Novel

• Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin)

• The Puzzle Ring, Kate Forsyth (Pan Macmillan)

• The Museum of Mary Child, Cassandra Golds (Puffin)

• A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, Glenda Millard (Allen & Unwin)

• Scarecrow, Sean Williams (HarperCollins Australia)

Best Young Adult Short Story

• "Seventeen", Cat Sparks (Masques)

• "Dragon Bones", Joanne Anderton (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #39)

• "Paper Dragons", Sue Isle (Shiny #5)

• "Once a Month, on a Sunday", Ian McHugh (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #40 Sep 2009)

• "Like Us", Tansy Rayner Roberts (Shiny #5)

The winners were announced at a ceremony in Brisbane on January 23, 2010. Full list of winners available at the Aurealis Awards website.

Carriger, Currie, Grossman Win 2010 Alex Awards

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 conference, held in Boston, January 18, 2010.

Stead Wins Newbery Medal, Bray Wins Printz Award

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 John Barnes (Viking) were among four Prinz Honor books. Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi, with illustrations by Yuko Shimizu, translated by Cathy Hirano (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine) was a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor book for best translation. Walter Dean Myers is the winner of the first-ever Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lois Lowry has been chosen to deliver the 2011 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.

Full write-up at Publisher's Weekly.

2009 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees

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 annually to a distinguished work of science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.

The winner and any special citations will be announced April 2, 2010 at Norwescon 33 in SeaTac WA.

For more, see http://www.philipkdickaward.org/

Cherie Priest's Boneshaker Wins PNBA Award

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.

Carl Brandon Award Winners

Winners of the 2006 and 2007 Carl Brandon Society Awards have been announced.

2006 Carl Brandon Parallax Award

• Mindscape, Andrea Hairston (Aqueduct)

2007 Carl Brandon Parallax Award

• The Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor (Hyperion)

2007 Carl Brandon Kindred Award

• From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain, Minister Faust (Del Rey)

No work will receive the 2006 Carl Brandon Kindred Award.

The Carl Brandon Parallax Award is given to works of speculative fiction created by a self-identified person of color, and includes a $1000 cash prize. The Carl Brandon Kindred Award is given to any work of speculative fiction dealing with issues of race and ethnicity, and includes a $1000 cash prize; nominees may be of any racial or ethnic group.

According to Candra Gill, member of the Carl Brandon Society Steering Committee, the 2006 award was delayed for administrative reasons. The Society plans to present the 2008 and 2009 awards in the coming year, and nominations for the 2009 Carl Brandon Society Awards are now open to the public.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony at Arisia, to be held January 15-18, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hugo Nominations Open

The nominating period for the Hugo Awards opened today.

Nominations for works published or otherwise released in 2009, and for individual achievement awards, are open to current members of the World Science Fiction Society, which includes supporting or attending members of the 2009 Worldcon (Anticipation) or the upcoming 2010 Worldcon (Aussiecon 4).

Nominations must be received by March 13, 2010. In order to participate, you must have purchased an Aussiecon 4 membership by January 31, 2010, or have been a member of the 2009 Worldcon.

A shortlist of the five most popular works or achievements in each award category will be published in early April 2010, with the voting process open to Aussiecon 4 members until July 31, 2010.

Winners will be announced at the Hugo Awards Ceremony, September 5, 2010. Aussiecon 4 will be held at the new Melbourne and Convention and Exhibition Centre, September 2-6, 2010.

For more information, or to nominate, see the Aussiecon 4 site.

World Fantasy Award Judges Announced

The judges for the 2010 World Fantasy Awards have been empanelled. All kinds of fantasy qualify; only living authors and editors are eligible; all books must have a 2009 publication date and all magazines a 2009 cover date.

To be considered for awards, all materials must be received by all five judges by June 1, 2010:

Greg Ketter
c/o Dreamhaven Books
2301 38th Street
Minneapolis MN 55406

Kelly Link
c/o Camelot Court Office
10 Camelot Court
#1A
Brighton MA 02135

James Minz
c/o Baen Books
500 Wait Avenue
Wake Forest NC 27587

Jürgen Snoeren
Publisher MYNX
Herengracht 507
1017 BV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Gary K. Wolfe
40 East Cedar
Apt 9A
Chicago IL 60611.

A copy should also go to

Peter Dennis Pautz, President
World Fantasy Awards Association
PO Box 43
Mukilteo WA 98275

Winners will be announced at the 2010 World Fantasy Awards Banquet and Ceremony during the 36th World Fantasy Convention, October 28 - November 31, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Columbus OH. (Life Achievement nominees will not be released; the winner will be announced in advance of the banquet.)

For more: http://www.worldfantasy.org.

Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award Balloting Open

The Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award 2009 balloting is now open. All National Space Society members are invited to vote. The award honors individuals who have made a significant lifetime contribution to the creation of a free, space-faring civilization. The winner will be announced at the International Space Development Conference, to be held May 27-May 31 2010 in Chicago IL.

National Space Society Members Vote Here

Joe Haldeman Named Grand Master

Joe Haldeman was named the 2010 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. The Grand Master award is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's highest accolade and recognizes excellence for a lifetime of contributions to the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

SFWA President Russell Davis announced the decision after consulting with the Board of Directors and participating past presidents. “Giving the Grand Master is one of the true pleasures of serving as the President of SFWA,” said Davis. “Being able to give it to Joe Haldeman--a past SFWA president, an extraordinarily talented writer, a respected teacher and mentor in our community, and a good friend -- is not just a pleasure, but a genuine honor.”

In total, Haldeman's writings have garnered him five Nebulas, five Hugos, and a host of other awards, as well as numerous nominations. Haldeman will be the 27th writer recognized by SFWA as a Grand Master.

Joe Haldeman recently headed home to Gainesville FL after several weeks in a Cincinnati OH hospital following surgery for a twisted bowel and severe pancreatitis, and several further weeks of outpatient treatment. Haldeman said,"Still a couple of surgeries to go, but at least I'll be able to recuperate in the sunshine. And I'll recover much faster, surrounded by my telescopes and art stuff." More information available at Haldeman's Daily Diary on sff.net.

The presentation of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award will take place at the SFWA Nebula Awards® Weekend in May. The Nebula Awards weekend is available to the general public with advance registration.

More information available at the SFWA website.

David D. Levine Wins Endeavor Award

Portland author David D. Levine is the winner of the 2009 Endeavour Award, for a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author.

• Space Magic, David D. Levine (Wheatland)

• Ill Met in the Arena, Dave Duncan (Tor)

• A World Too Near, Kay Kenyon (Prometheus/Pyr)

• Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Stories, Ken Scholes (Fairwood)

• Anathem, Neal Stephenson (HarperCollins/Morrow)

The winner is presented with an engraved glass plaque made by artist Ashley Harper, and a grant of $1,000. Judges for the 2009 Award were Joe Haldeman, John Helfers, and Sarah Zettel.

Ellison Nominated for Grammy Award

Harlan Ellison is nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album for Children category for his recording of Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (Blackstone Audio). See the full Grammy Award ballot here.

Finch and di Filippo Join Campbell Jury

SFWA reports that Paul A. Carter has retired from the John W. Campbell Memorial Award jury after serving since the 1970s. In his absence, Sheila Finch and Paul di Filippo will both join the jury, effective immediately. The John W. Campbell Memorial Award is presented annually by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction in Lawrence Kansas.

New SF&F Translation Awards Launched

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards, for works of foreign-language speculative fiction translated into English, were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose on October 29, 2009. The first awards are expected to be presented in 2011, for works published in 2010.

Two awards will be presented: one for long form literature (40,000 words and above) and the other for short form. Both the authors and translators of the winning works will receive a trophy and a cash prize. Critic and blogger Cheryl Morgan, who is one of the organizers, says, "In running the Science Fiction Awards Watch web site, I see non-English speaking countries all around the world give awards for translated fiction. Only in English-speaking countries are translations not specifically rewarded. We aim to change that."

Organizers are in the process of setting up a non-profit organization to administer the awards. Further information available at www.sfftawards.org.

World Fantasy Awards Winners

The 2009 World Fantasy Award winners were announced today at the World Fantasy Convention held October 29 - November 1, 2009, in San José, California.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS

• Ellen Asher
• Jane Yolen

NOVEL (tie)

• The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)
• The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)

NOVELLA

• "If Angels Fight", Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)
• "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel", Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
• "The Overseer", Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)
• "Odd and the Frost Giants", Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)
• "Good Boy", Nisi Shawl (Filter House)

SHORT STORY

• "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)
• "Caverns of Mystery", Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
• "Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)
• "Our Man in the Sudan", Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)
• "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica", Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)

ANTHOLOGY

• Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)
• The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008:
  Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
• Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

COLLECTION

• The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
• Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)
• Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
• Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)
• Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic '09)

ARTIST

• Shaun Tan
• Kinuko Y. Craft
• Janet Chui
• Stephan Martinière
• John Picacio

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

• Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
• Farah Mendlesohn (for Rhetorics of Fantasy)
• Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales)
• Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)
• Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)
• Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)
• John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
• Elise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her "artist's challenges.")
• Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarksworld)

F&SF'S $2010 in 2010 Contest Winner Announced

The winner of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction's "Win $2010 in the year 2010" contest is Allen MacNeill, for his prediction that handheld computers would exist by 2010. In 1980, under then editor Ed Ferman, Fantasy & Science Fiction held a 30th anniversary contest, asking readers to choose the science fiction concept most likely to be realized by the year 2010. The approximately 2,700 entries were kept securely and, as promised, were recently opened to determine the winner (a few months ahead of schedule).

Ferman noted that "so many entries projected a sense of confidence and hope that it was somewhat distressing to see how badly we fell short in realizing these predictions." Winner MacNeill said, "I came up with the one about 'home computer terminals with interactive access to other home, business and academic terminals, and including hand-held terminals' mostly because I had been using the PLATO terminals in Uris Hall at Cornell and wished very, very much that I could have one of my own (and especially one that I could carry around with me)." He went on to speculate that perhaps 30 years from now "we will be using some version of a 'cloud-book,' for which most of the processing and hard memory/data storage will be located somewhere else." Seems reasonable! We'll see... in 30 years.

2009 Spectrum Grand Master Announced

Richard Corben is the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award. Spectrum runs a series of art contests, exhibits, and publications designed to promote contemporary fantastic artists. Corben’s first professional sale was a cover for the September 1967 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He illustrated R. Crumb’s Underground Comix. His broad-ranging art career spans comics, animation, and book cover design. "Richard is one of the five or six true geniuses in comics history," says Mark Chiarello, art director for DC Comics and Spectrum Advisory Board member.

Sunburst Award 2009 Winners

The 2009 Sunburst Award winners have been announced:

Adult:

• The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson (Random House Canada)
• Night Child, Jes Battis (Ace)
• The Alchemist’s Code, Dave Duncan (Ace)
• Things Go Flying, Shari Lapeña (Brindle & Glass)
• Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor)
  

Young Adult:

• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
• The Summoning, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
• Dingo, Charles de Lint (Viking)
• Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural, Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown Press)
• Night Runner, Max Turner (HarperTrophy)

The Sunburst Award is presented annually to a Canadian writer who has published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection during the previous calendar year. Winners each receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion with a sunburst logo designed by Marcel Gagné. The Sunburst is named after the novel by Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction. This year’s jurors were Barbara Berson, John Dupuis, Ed Greenwood, Sandra Kasturi, and Simon Rose.

2009 Robert A. Heinlein Award Winners

Joe Haldeman and John Varley are the winners of the Robert A. Heinlein Award for 2009. The award is for "outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space." Winners are selected by a committee of science fiction authors chaired by Robert Heinlein's friend Dr. Yoji Kondo. Members of the committee were originally selected by Mrs. Virginia Heinlein. The award prize consists of a wall plaque certificate, large sterling silver medallion, and lapel pin, each featuring the likeness of Robert Heinlein as rendered by Arlin Robbins. Virginia Heinlein authorized multiple awards in memory of her husband. The Robert A. Heinlein Award is supported by independent donations from the public. The Baltimore Science Fiction Society provides logistical support for the award, including processing of donations and manufacture of award materials, and maintains a list of past winners.

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2009 Shortlist

The short lists for the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2009 awards have been announced:

French Novel

• Le Déchronologue, Stéphane Beauverger (La Volte)
• Paysage sombre avec foudre, Alain Claret (Robert Laffont)
• Gagner la guerre, Jean-Philippe Jaworski (Les Moutons électriques)
• Lilliputia, Xavier Mauméjean (Calmann-Lévy)

Foreign Novel

• The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall (Robert Laffont)
• King of Morning, Queen of Day, Ian McDonald (Denoël)
• The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss (Bragelonne)
• The Terror, Dan Simmons (Robert Laffont)

Short Fiction

• "Bataille pour un souvenir", Lionel Davoust (Identités)
• "La contrée du dragon", Thomas Day (Dragons)
• "Révélations du prince de feu", Léo Henry (Fiction 9)
• "Le diapason des mots et des misères (recueil)", Jérôme Noirez (Griffe d'encre)
• "La vieille qui, là-haut, porte son fagot noir", Timothée Rey (Fiction 9)

Foreign Short Fiction

• "Maelstrom", Kage Baker (Le Nouveau Space Opera)
• Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman (Au diable vauvert)
• Moon and Others, John Kessell (Gallimard)
• Pixel Juice (recueil), Jeff Noon (La Volte)
• "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter", Geoff Ryman (Solaris #170)

Young Adult Novel

• Le clairvoyage et La brume des jours, Anne Fakhouri (L'Atalante)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Albin Michel)
• Jumper, Steven Gould (Mango)
• Le sang des lions, Loïc Le Borgne (Intervista)

The full lists (in French) can be found on the Noosfere web site. Winners will be announced at Utopiales, to be held in Nantes, France, from October 28 - November 1, 2009.

Via sfawardswatch.com.

2009 British Fantasy Awards Winners

The winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2009 are:

Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)

• Memoirs of a Master Forger, William Heaney/Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Midnight Man, Simon Clark (Severn House)
• Rain Dogs, Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
• The Victoria Vanishes, Christopher Fowler (Little, Brown)
• Thieving Fear, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)

Best Novella

• The Reach of Children, Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming)
• Cold Stone Calling, Simon Clark (Tasmaniac Publications)
• Gunpowder, Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
• "Heads", Gary McMahon (We Fade To Grey)
• "The Narrows", Simon Bestwick (We Fade To Grey)

Best Short Fiction

• "Do You See", Sarah Pinborough (Myth-Understandings)
• "All Mouth", Paul Meloy (Black Static 6)
• "N", Stephen King (Just After Sunset)
• "Pinholes in Black Muslin", Simon Strantzas (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror)
• "The Caul Bearer", Allyson Bird (Bull Running For Girls)
• "The Tobacconist’s Concession", John Travis (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror)
• "The Vague", Paul Meloy (Islington Crocodiles)
• "Winter Journey", Joel Lane (Black Static 5)

Best Collection

• Bull Running for Girls, Allyson Bird (Screaming Dreams)
• Glyphotech, Mark Samuels (PS Publishing)
• How To Make Monsters, Gary McMahon (Morrigan Books)
• Islington Crocodiles, Paul Meloy (TTA Press)
• Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)

Best Anthology

• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, Stephen Jones, ed. (Constable & Robinson)
• Cone Zero, DF Lewis, ed. (Megazanthus Press)
• Myth-Understandings, Ian Whates, ed. (Newcon Press)
• Subtle Edens, Allen Ashley, ed. (Elastic Press)
• The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror, Ian Alexander Martin, ed. (Humdrumming)
• We Fade To Grey, Gary McMahon (Pendragon Press)

Best Artist

• Vincent Chong for various
• Dave McKean for The Graveyard Book (Bloomsbury)
• Edward Miller for Vault of Deeds (PS Publishing)
• Lee Thompson for The Land at the End of the Working Day (Humdrumming)
• Les Edwards for various

The PS Publishing Best Small Press Award

• Elastic Press (Andrew Hook)
• Newcon Press (Ian Whates)
• Pendragon Press (Chris Teague)
• Screaming Dreams (Steve Upham)
• TTA Press (Andy Cox)

Best Non-Fiction

• Basil Copper: A Life in Books, Stephen Jones, ed. (PS Publishing)
• Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, Russell T. Davies & Benjamin Cook (BBC Books)
• journal.neilgaiman.com, Neil Gaiman
• "Mutant Popcorn" column, Nick Lowe (Interzone)
• What Is It We Do When We Read Science Fiction, Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)

Best Magazine

• Postscripts, Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, eds.
• Black Static, Andy Cox, ed.
• Interzone, Andy Cox, et. al., eds.
• Midnight Street, Trevor Denyer, ed.
• SFX, Dave Bradley, ed.

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• Locke and Key, Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing);
• 30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow, Steve Niles & Bill Sienkiewicz (IDW Publishing);
• All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely (DC Comics);
• Buffy, Season Eight, Vol. 3: Wolves at the Gate, Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard and Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse Comics);
• Comic Book Tattoo: Tales Inspired by Tori Amos, Rantz A. Hoseley & Tori Amos, eds. (Image Comics);
• Hellblazer: Fear Machine, Jamie Delano (Vertigo);
• Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician, Andy Diggle & Leonardo Manco and Daniel Zezelj(Vertigo);
• The Girly Comic Book 1, Selina Lock, ed. (Factor Fiction);
• The New Avengers: Illuminati, Brian Bendis & Brian Reed and Jim Cheung (Marvel Comics).

The Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer
Joseph D'Lacey, for Meat (Bloody Books)

The Karl Edward Wagner Award (the Special Award)
Hayao Miyazaki

The BFS Short Story Competition 2009 results were also announced at the ceremony:

• Winner:"Dead Astronauts", Patrick Whittaker
• Runner-up: "In the Moment", Elana Gomel

There were also winners in film and television categories. Winners were chosen by members of the British Fantasy Society, and were announced at FantasyCon, September 18-20, 2009 in Nottingham. For more details: http://www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/.

Debut Novel Wins The Age Book of the Year Award

Steven Amsterdam's post-apocalyptic debut novel, Things We Didn't See Coming, is the winner of both the 2009 The Age fiction award for "a work of imaginative writing," which comes with an AU$10,000 prize, and The Age Book of the Year award for an additional AU$10,000. The awards are administered by Melbourne's The Age, a broadsheet daily newspaper operating since 1854. The judges described Things We Didn't See Coming as "suspenseful and involving; it succeeds both as a compelling vision of the future and as a study of human resourcefulness and endurance." The 36th annual awards were presented at the Melbourne Town Hall, in a ceremony that marked the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival.

Heinlein Society Short Story Contest Winners

The three winners of the 2009 Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Story Contest are as follows: First place: "Under the Shouting Sky", Karl Bunker. Second place: "In the Shadows", Charlie Allery. Third place: "Salvage Sputnik", Sam S. Kepfield.

The stories won $5,000, $2,000, and $1,000 respectively. The prize fund was donated by an admirer of Heinlein's work who wishes to remain anonymous. The stories were judged on general literary quality and reflection of the spirit, ideas, and philosophies contained in the works of Robert A. Heinlein. A panel of professionals and editors made the final selection. The Heinlein Society wishes to thank the hundreds of authors who submitted entries.

Writers and Illustrators of the Future Winners

Winners of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future competition were announced at a 25th anniversary gala and banquet held August 29, 2009 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.

Emery Huang won the $5,000 grand prize for story "Garden of Tian Zi", and Oleksandra Barysheva won the artist's grand prize for her illustration of C.L. Holland's story "The Reflection of Memory." All the quarterly winners also received trophies, and copies of the 25th annual anthology were handed out after the ceremony.

Emperor Norton Award Winners

The 2009 Emperor Norton Award Winners are:

• Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead)
  
• Charlie Jane Anders, for Writers with Drinks and io9.com

The award is given for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason,” in memory of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico. Two awards are given, one to a single work of science fiction, fantasy, or horror, or to an author in these genres; the second to any creation, creator, or service relating to those genres. Norton judges are Richard Lupoff, Alan Beatts, and Jacob Weisman. Winners were presented with framed certificates at the Tachyon Publications 14th anniversary party, held Sunday August 30, 2009 at Borderlands Books in San Francisco.

Waldrop Wins Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup

Howard Waldrop has been awarded the Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup by judges Michael Moorcock, Jeff VanderMeer, Iain Sinclair, Lili Sztajn, Fabrice Colin, Lisa Tuttle, and Sebastian Doubinski. The prize, not given every year, is awarded for a work of fiction or body of work which best celebrates the spirit of author Jack Trevor Story, who died in 1992. Moorcock presented the cup to Waldrop during a special ceremony in Austin TX on August 14, 2009.

The award also includes a $1,000 prize, with the stipulation that the money must be spent within two weeks, with nothing to show for it at the end. This recalls Story's remark to a bankruptcy judge when asked what happened to a substantial sum of money paid to him for film rights: "You know how it is, judge. Two hundred or two thousand. It always lasts a week to a fortnight."

Mike Resnick Named as WotF Judge

Author Mike Resnick has been named as a judge for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. He joins a list of other notable science fiction and fantasy authors who also serve as judges for the contest, including Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Algis Budrys, Orson Scott Card, Sean Williams, Brian Herbert, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Eric Kotani, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert Silverberg, and K.D. Wentworth. The contest, established in 1983, awards annual cash prizes for writers of never-before-published works of science fiction and fantasy, and publishes the year's winning stories in the anthology titled L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future.

World Fantasy Life Achievement Winners

The World Fantasy Life Achievement Award winners for 2009 are Jane Yolen and Ellen Asher. The award is presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field. Life Achievement winners are announced in advance; other winners will be announced at this year's World Fantasy Convention, to be held October 29 - November 1, 2009 in San José, California.

WSFA Small Press Award Finalists

The Washington Science Fiction Association announced the finalists for the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction. The award was created to showcase small-press publishers by recognizing the "best original short fiction" published by small presses in the previous year. The winner will be presented at Capclave, held October 16-18, 2009 in Rockville, Maryland.

Finalists are:

• “The Absence of Stars: Part 1”, Greg Siewert (Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show Dec 08)
• “Drinking Problem”, K.D. Wentworth (Seeds of Change)
• “Hard Rain at the Fortean Café”, Lavie Tidhar (Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine #14)
• “His Last Arrow”, Christopher Sequeira (Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes)
• “Silent as Dust", James Maxey (Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show Jan 08)
• “Spider the Artist”, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (Seeds of Change)
• “The Toy Car”, Luisa Maria Garcia Velasco (Aberrant Dreams Apr 08)

Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award Finalists

Two genre books are finalists for the inaugural Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award: Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt), and The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins). The award, established in 2008, was created to honor an author whose work shows “a positive approach to life, widespread teen appeal, and literary merit” and is sponsored by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) of the National Council of Teachers of English. Honorees will receive a $5,000 check. The winning title will be announced at the 2009 ALAN Workshop in Philadelphia, PA.

2009 Sidewise Award Winners

The winners of the Sidewise Awards for alternate history published in 2008 were announced at Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon in Montréal.

LONG FORM

• The Dragon's Nine Sons, Chris Roberson (Solaris)
  
• The Affinity Bridge, George Mann (Snowbooks; Tor 2009)
  
• Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor)
  
• Nation, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
  
• Swiftly, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
  

SHORT FORM

• "Sacrifice", Mary Rosenblum (Sideways in Crime)
  
• "A Brief Guide to Other Histories", Paul J. McAuley (Postscripts #15)
  
• "G-Men", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Sideways in Crime)
  
• "Night Bird Soaring", T. L. Morganfield (Greatest Uncommon Denominator Autumn 2008)
  
• "The People's Machine", Tobias S. Buckell (Sideways in Crime)
  
• "Poison Victory", Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF Jul 2008)

2009 Chesley Awards Winners

The 24th annual Chesley Awards were announced at Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon in Montréal, on August 7, 2009. The Chesley Awards were established in 1985 as ASFA's peer awards to recognize individual works and achievements during a given year.

COVER ILLUSTRATION, HARDCOVER

• Donato Giancola, for A Book of Wizards (by Marvin Kaye, ed.; SFBC)
  
• Stephan Martiniere, for The Dragons of Babel (by Michael Swanwick; Tor)
  
• Scott Fischer, for An Evil Guest (by Gene Wolfe; Tor)
  
• Stephen Hickman, for Ghost Quartet (by Marvin Kaye, ed.; Tor)
  
• Todd Lockwood, for Quofum (by Alan Dean Foster; Del Rey)
  
• Dan Dos Santos, for Stalking the Vampire (by Mike Resnick; Pyr)
  
• John Picacio, for Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories (by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.; Tor)
  

COVER ILLUSTRATION, PAPERBACK

• John Picacio, for Fast Forward 2 (by Lou Anders, ed.; Pyr)
  
• Dan Dos Santos, for Cry Wolf (by Patricia Briggs; Ace)
  
• Michael Komarck, for Dragonforge (by James Maxey; Solaris)
  
• Paul Youll, for Hell and Earth (by Elizabeth Bear; Roc)
  
• Todd Lockwood, for The Stormcaller (by Tom Lloyd; Pyr)
  
• J.P. Targete, for The Turtle Moves! Discworld's Story Unauthorized (by Lawrence Watt-Evans; Benbella)
  

COVER ILLUSTRATION, MAGAZINE

• Matts Minnhagen, for Clarkesworld (Apr 2008)
  
• Bob Eggleton, for Asimov's (Aug 2008)
  
• David A. Hardy, for F&SF (Jun 2008)
  
• Maurizio Manzieri, for F&SF (Apr 2008)
  
• John Picacio, for Asimov's (Sep 2008)
  

INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION

• Donato Giancola, for "The Wraith" (by J. Robert Lennon; Playboy Nov 2008)
  
• John Picacio, for Elric: The Stealer of Souls (by Michael Moorcock; Del Rey)
  
• Adam Rex, for Frankenstein Takes the Cake (Harcourt)
  
• Shaun Tan, for Tales from Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin)
  
• Alan Lee, for Tales from the Perilous Realm (by J. R. R. Tolkien; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  

COLOR WORK, UNPUBLISHED

• "The Gift", Simon Dominic (digital)
  
• "Gizmo", Omar Rayyan (watercolor)
  
• "Lorca's Cave", Raoul Vitale (oil)
  
• "Progeny", Donato Giancola (oil)
  
• "The Seawall", Michael Whelan (acrylic)
  
• "The Wave in Her Heart", Julie Bell (oil)
  

MONOCHROME WORK, UNPUBLISHED

• "Kraken", Simon Dominic (digital)
  
• "Chiroptera", Kate Lebherz-Gelinas (pencil)
  
• "Counterfeit", A. L. Ashbaugh (graphite)
  
• "Gwenevere", Rebecca Guay (pencil)
  
• "Hare", James Jean (oil)
  

THREE-DIMENSIONAL

• "Otherworldly Procession", Vincent Villafranca (bronze)
  
• "Dark Harpy", Forest Rogers (polyclay, copper foil, and gold leaf)
  
• "Heart of Art", Akihito Ikeda (mixed)
  
• "The Mushroom Gatherer", Laura Reynolds (mixed)
  
• "Wall-E", Brian Chan (origami - a single sheet of paper)
  

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• Julie Bell
  
• Roger Dean
  
• Dan Dos Santos
  
• James Jean
  
• Stephan Martiniere
  
• Shaun Tan
  

ART DIRECTOR

• Lou Anders (Pyr Books)
  
• Matt Adelsperger (Wizards of the Coast)
  
• Scott Allie (Dark Horse Comics)
  
• Irene Gallo (Tor)
  
• Jeremy Jarvis (Wizards of the Coast)
  
• William Schafer (Subterranean Press)
  
• David Stevenson (Del Rey)
  

GAMING-RELATED ILLUSTRATION

• "Stoic Angel", Volkan Baga (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
  
• "Angelic Benediction", Michael Komarck (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
  
• "Cancel", David Palumbo (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
  
• "Firestorm", Tom Fleming (VS System, Upper Deck)
  
• "Invincible Hymn", Matt Stewart (Magic Card: Shards of Alara, Wizards of the Coast)
  

PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION

• "Hellboy 2", Dan Dos Santos (promotional art for the film, Dark Horse & Universal Pictures)
  
• "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", Justin Sweet (concept art for the film, Walt Disney Studios)
  
• "Cyber Angel", Patrick Jones (poster, IlluXCon)
  
• "False Magic", James Christensen (LE Canvas Print, Greenwich Workshop)
  
• "The Name of the Rose", Volkan Baga (box art & promotional art for the game, Ravensburger Spieleverlag)
  
  The full list of nominated artworks is available on the ASFA website.

2009 Prix Aurora Winners

Winners of the Prix Aurora Awards, given by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, were announced at the 2009 Worldcon in Montréal.

LONG-FORM WORK IN ENGLISH

• Marseguro, Edward Willett (DAW)
  
• After the Fires, Ursula Pflug (Tightrope)
  
• Defining Diana, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran)
  
• Identity Theft and Other Stories, Robert J. Sawyer (Red Deer)
  
• Impossibilia, Douglas Smith (PS Publishing)
  

LONG-FORM WORK IN FRENCH

• Les vents de Tammerlan, Michèle Laframboise (Éditions Médiaspaul)
• Une fêlure au flanc du monde, Éric Gauthier (Alire)
  

SHORT-FORM WORK IN ENGLISH

• "Ringing in the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta", Randy McCharles (Tesseracts Twelve)
  
• "All In", Peter Atwood (Weird Tales May/Jun 2008)
  
• "Back", Susan J. Forest (Analog Jun 2008)
  
• "A Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase by Van Gogh", Douglas Smith (Impossibilia)
  
• "Doorways", Douglas Smith (Postscripts #17)
  

SHORT-FORM WORK IN FRENCH

• "Le Dôme de Saint-Macaire", Jean-Louis Trudel (Solaris #167)
  
• "Ballade sur Pallide", Michèle Laframboise (Virages #44)
  
• "Jos Montferrand et le Grand Brigand des routes", Alain Ducharme (Solaris #161)
  
• "La révolte des gilets-malins", Michèle Laframboise (QUAD9 #6A)
  

OTHER WORK IN ENGLISH

• Neo-Opsis, Karl Johanson, ed.
  
• Gaslight Grimoire: Dark Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Jeff Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. (Edge)
• On Spec, Diane Walton, ed.
  
• Tesseracts Twelve, Claude Lalumière, ed. (Edge)
  
• Through the Window: a Journey to the Borderlands of Faerie, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Double Edge)
  

OTHER WORK IN FRENCH

• Solaris, Joël Champetier, ed.
  
• Jean-Louis Trudel, Sophie Beaulé (Éditions David)
  
  

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT

• Lar deSouza (Looking for Group, online comic)
  
• Stephanie Ann Johanson (cover of Neo-Opsis #14)
  
• Michèle Laframboise ("Imagination", from Imagination contre les pigeons spammers, Vermillion)
  
• Ronn Sutton (Fear Agent #22, Dark Horse)
  
• David Willicome (cover of JEMMA7729)
  

FAN ACHIEVEMENT (FANZINE)

• The Original Universe, Jeff Boman, ed.
  
• Brins d'éternité, Guillaume Voisine, ed.
  
• Clair/Obscur, François-Bernard Tremblay, ed.
  
• Opuntia, Dale Spiers, ed.
  

FAN ACHIEVEMENT (ORGANIZATIONAL)

• Randy McCharles (chair, World Fantasy 2008)
  
• Renée Bennett (administrator, Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest)
  
• Kim Greyson (guest liaison, World Fantasy 2008)
  
• Judith Hayman & Peggi Warner-Lalonde (co-chairs, FilKONtario 19)
  
• David Simmons (organizer, Anime North 2008)
  

FAN ACHIEVEMENT (OTHER)

• Joan Sherman (organizer, Heather Dale Concert)
  
• Kurt Armbruster & Ryah Deines (producers/editors/hosts, World Fantasy 2008 Podcasts)
  
• Keith Braithwaite (editor, Impulse, news bulletin of MonSFFA)
  
• Jennifer Ennis (editor, Through the Keyhole -- 25 years of Keycon Memories)
  
• Lloyd Penney (fan writing)

Hugo Awards Winners

The Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award winners were presented at the Hugo Award Ceremony, August 9, 2009 at the the 67th Worldcon, Anticipation at the Palais de Congrès in Montreal, Québec.

NOVEL

• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
  
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
  
• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
  
• Saturn's Children, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
  
• Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi (Tor)
  

NOVELLA

• "The Erdmann Nexus", Nancy Kress (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)
  
• "The Political Prisoner", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF Aug 2008)
  
• "The Tear", Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)
  
• "True Names", Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
  
• "Truth", Robert Reed (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)
  

NOVELETTE

• "Shoggoths in Bloom", Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Mar 2008)
  
• "Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders", Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jan 2008)
  
• "The Gambler", Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
  
• "Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF Jan 2008)
  
• "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story", James Alan Gardner (Asimov's Feb 2008)
  

SHORT STORY

• "Exhalation", Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
  
• "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's Jul 2008)
  
• "Article of Faith", Mike Resnick (Baen's Universe Oct 2008)
  
• "Evil Robot Monkey", Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two)
  
• "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Feb 2008)
  

RELATED BOOK

• Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008, John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)
  
• Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
  
• Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
  
• The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold, Lillian Stewart Carl & John Helfers, eds. (Baen)
  
• What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction, Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)
  

GRAPHIC STORY

• Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones, Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
  
• The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, Jim Butcher, illustrated by Ardian Syaf (Del Rey/Dabel Brothers Publishing)
  
• Fables: War and Pieces, Bill Willingham, art by Steve Leialoha & Andrew Pepoy (DC/Vertigo Comics)
  
• Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic, Howard Tayler (The Tayler Corporation)
  
• Serenity: Better Days, Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad (Dark Horse Comics)
  
• Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores, Brian K. Vaughan DC/Vertigo Comics)
  

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: LONG FORM

• WALL-E (Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, directo; Pixar/Walt Disney)
  
• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer, story; Jonathan Nolan and and & Christopher Nolan, screenplay; based on characters created by Bob Kane; Christopher Nolan, director; Warner Brothers)
  
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro & Mike Mignola, story; Guillermo del Toro, screenplay; based on the comic by Mike Mignola; Guillermo del Toro, director; Dark Horse, Universal)
  
• Iron Man (Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, screenplay; based on characters created by Stan Lee & Don Heck & Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby; Jon Favreau, director; Paramount, Marvel Studios)
  
• METAtropolis (edited by John Scalzi; Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, and Karl Schroeder, writers; Audible Inc.)
  

DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: SHORT FORM

• Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon, & Maurissa Tancharoen, writers; Joss Whedon, director; Mutant Enemy)
  
• Battlestar Galactica: "Revelations" (Bradley Thompson & David Weddle, writers; Michael Rymer, director; NBC Universal)
  
• Doctor Who: "Turn Left" (Russell T. Davies, writer; Graeme Harper, director; BBC Wales)
  
• Doctor Who: "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" (Steven Moffat, writer; Euros Lynn, director; BBC Wales)
  
• Lost: "The Constant" (Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof, writers; Jack Bender, director; Bad Robot, ABC studios)
  

EDITOR, SHORT FORM

• Ellen Datlow
  
• Stanley Schmidt
  
• Jonathan Strahan
  
• Gordon Van Gelder
  
• Sheila Williams
  

EDITOR, LONG FORM

• David G. Hartwell
  
• Lou Anders
  
• Ginjer Buchanan
  
• Beth Meacham
  
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  

PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

• Donato Giancola
  
• Daniel Dos Santos
  
• Bob Eggleton
  
• John Picacio
  
• Shaun Tan
  

SEMIPROZINE

• Weird Tales, Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal, eds.
  
• Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke, Nick Mamatas & Sean Wallace, eds.
  
• Interzone, Andy Cox, ed.
  
• Locus, Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong & Liza Groen Trombi, eds.
  
• The New York Review of Science Fiction, Kathryn Cramer, Kris Dikeman, David G. Hartwell & Kevin J. Maroney, eds.
  

FANZINE

• Electric Velocipede, John Klima
  
• Argentus, Steven H Silver
  
• Banana Wings, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer
  
• Challenger, Guy H. Lillian III
  
• The Drink Tank, Chris Garcia
  
• File 770, Mike Glyer
  

FAN WRITER

• Cheryl Morgan
  
• Chris Garcia
  
• John Hertz
  
• Dave Langford
  
• Steven H Silver
  

FAN ARTIST

• Frank Wu
  
• Alan F. Beck
  
• Brad W. Foster
  
• Sue Mason
  
• Taral Wayne

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Not a Hugo)

• David Anthony Durham*
• Aliette de Bodard*
• Felix Gilman
• Tony Pi*
• Gord Sellar*

*(Second year of eligibility)

The 2009 Hugo Awards are for works first published in 2008 or works first published in 2008 in the US that were published in a previous year outside the US.

In addition to the awards listed above, the Big Heart Award was presented to Andrew Porter. The First Fandom Hall of Fame Award was given to James Gunn; Posthumous Hall of Fame went to Walter Daugherty.

2009 Eisner Awards Winners

The 2009 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at the San Diego Comic-Con. Awards of interest to science fiction and fantasy fans follow:

• Best Limited Series: Hellboy: The Crooked Man by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben (Dark Horse)


• Best Webcomic: Finder by Carla Speed McNeil (www.shadowlinecomics.com/webcomics/#/finder/)


• Best Graphic Album—Reprint: Hellboy Library Edition, vols. 1 and 2, by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)


• Best Writer: Bill Willingham, for Fables and House of Mystery (Vertigo/DC)


• Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: Guy Davis for BPRD (Dark Horse)


• Best Cover Artist: James Jean for Fables (Vertigo/DC) and The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse)


• Best Coloring: Dave Stewart for Abe Sapien: The Drowning, BPRD, The Goon, Hellboy, Solomon Kane, and The Umbrella Academy(Dark Horse), as well as Body Bags (Image) and Captain America: White (Marvel)


• Best Publication Design: Hellboy Library Editions designed by Cary Grazzini and Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)


• Hall of Fame inductees (chosen by this year's judges): Harold Gray, Graham Ingels


• Hall of Fame inductees (chosen by the voters): Matt Baker, Reed Crandall, Russ Heath, Jerry Iger

World Fantasy Awards Nominations

Nominations for this year's World Fantasy Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention to be held October 29 - November 1, 2009, in San José, California.

NOVEL

The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor)

The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)

Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)

Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)

NOVELLA

"Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel", Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)

"If Angels Fight", Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08)

"The Overseer", Albert Cowdrey (F&SF 3/08)

"Odd and the Frost Giants", Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins)

"Good Boy", Nisi Shawl (Filter House)

SHORT STORY

"Caverns of Mystery", Kage Baker (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)

"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov's 7/08)

"Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)

"Our Man in the Sudan", Sarah Pinborough (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories)

"A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica", Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 5/08)

ANTHOLOGY

The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)

The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008:
Twenty-First Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press)

Steampunk, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Tachyon Publications)

COLLECTION

Strange Roads, Peter S. Beagle (DreamHaven Books)

The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)

Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)

Filter House, Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press)

Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic '09)

ARTIST

Kinuko Y. Craft

Janet Chui

Stephan Martinière

John Picacio

Shaun Tan

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)

Farah Mendlesohn (for Rhetorics of Fantasy)

Stephen H. Segal & Ann VanderMeer (for Weird Tales)

Jerad Walters (for A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft)

Jacob Weisman (for Tachyon Publications)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

Edith L. Crowe (for her work with The Mythopoeic Society)

John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)

Elise Matthesen (for setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her "artist's challenges.")

Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, & Nick Mamatas (for Clarksworld)

Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)

Scribe Awards Winners

The Scribe Awards, rewarding media tie-in fiction, were presented on Friday, July 24, 2009 during Comic-con in San Diego. The winners are:

Grand Master

• Keith R.A. DeCandido

Best General Fiction Original

• CSI: Headhunters, Greg Cox

Best General Fiction Adapted

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, James Rollins

Best Speculative Fiction Original

• Star Trek Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers, James Swallow

Best Speculative Fiction Adapted

• Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Robert Greenberger

Best Young Adult Original

• Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar, Steven Savile

Best Young Adult Adapted

• Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, Tracey West

2009 Mythopoeic Awards Winners

Winners of the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards were announced at a banquet during Mythcon XL (July 17-20, 2009) in Los Angeles CA.

2009 Mythopoeic Awards winners:

ADULT LITERATURE

• Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone, Carol Berg (Roc)
  

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

• Graceling, Kristin Cashore (Harcourt Children's)

INKLINGS STUDIES

• The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end, John Rateliff (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES

• Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children’s Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper, Charles Butler (Children's Literature Association & Scarecrow Press, 2006).

For more: www.mythsoc.org/awards.html

Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12, 2009, at Readercon 20, the Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Winners and finalist are:

NOVEL
The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)

Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover)
The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)
Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
The Resurrectionist, Jack O’Connell (Algonquin )
Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

NOVELLA
Disquiet, Julia Leigh (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)

"Dormitory," Yoko Ogawa (The Diving Pool, Picador)
Living With the Dead, Darrell Schweitzer (PS Publishing)
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, Stephen Graham Jones (Chiasmus)
"N,", Stephen King (Just After Sunset, Scribner)

NOVELETTE
"Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF)

"Hunger Moon", Deborah Noyes (The Ghosts of Kerfol)
"The Lagerstatte", Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
"Penguins of the Apocalypse", William Browning Spencer (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)
The Situation, Jeff VanderMeer (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY
"The Pile", Michael Bishop (Subterranean Online, Winter 2008)

"68° 07’ 15"N, 31° 36’ 44"W", Conrad Williams (Fast Ships, Black Sails)
"The Dinner Party", Joshua Ferris (The New Yorker, 08/11/08)
"Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account", M. Rickert (F&SF, Oct/Nov 2008)
"The Inner City", Karen Heuler (Cemetery Dance #58, 2008)
"Intertropical Convergence Zone", Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine, Issue 37, 2008)

COLLECTION
The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa (Picador)

A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)
Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)

ANTHOLOGY
The New Uncanny, Sarah Eyre and Ra Page, eds. (Comma)

Bound for Evil, Tom English, ed. (Dead Letter)
Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo, Danel Olson, ed. (Ash-Tree)
Fast Ships, Black Sails, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Night Shade)
Shades of Darkness, Barbara & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree)

Sunburst Award Finalists

Finalists for the 2009 Sunburst Award, given to the best novel-length Canadian literature of the fantastic, have been announced.

Adult Novel:

• Night Child, Jes Battis (Ace)
  
• The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson (Random House Canada)
  
• The Alchemist's Code, Dave Duncan (Ace)
  
• Things Go Flying, Shari Lapeña (Brindle & Glass)
  
• Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor)
  

Young-Adult Novel:

• The Summoning, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
  
• Dingo, Charles de Lint (Viking)
  
• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
  
• Wild Talent, Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown Press)
  
• Night Runner, Max Turner (HarperTrophy)
  

The winners will be announced in September 2009. Each will receive a cash prize of C$1000 and a hand-crafted "Sunburst" medallion.

The 2009 jurors are Barbara Berson, John Dupuis, Ed Greenwood, Sandra Kasturi, and Simon Rose. For more details, including lists of Honourable Mentions for both categories, see www.sunburstaward.org.

Endeavour Award Finalists Announced

Finalists for the 11th Endeavour Award, for novels or single-author collections written by Pacific Northwest writers, have been announced.

The winner will be announced November 27 at OryCon, Oregon's annual science fiction convention and will receive a $1,000.00 honorarium.

Judges for this year's award are Joe Haldeman, John Helfers, and Sarah Zettel.

FINALISTS

Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

Ill Met in the Arena, Dave Duncan (Tor)

Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Stories, Ken Scholes (Fairwood)

Space Magic, David Levine (Wheatland)

A World Too Near, Kay Kenyon (Pyr)

For more info on the Endeavour Awards, see:
Locus Index to SF Awards
Endeavour Awards
Past winners by year
Past finalists and winners

Prometheus Awards Announced

The Libertarian Futurist Society has released winners of this year's Prometheus Awards in advance of the planned awards ceremony at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, August 6-10, 2009, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Winners and finalists are as follows:

NOVEL

Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)

Matter, Iain Banks (Orbit)

The January Dancer, Michael Flynn (Tor)

Saturn's Children, Charles Stross (Tor)

Opening Atlantis, Harry Turtledove (Roc)

Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor)

Twelve novels were nominated.

HALL OF FAME

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold

Courtship Rite, Donald M. Kingsbury

"As Easy as A.B.C.", Rudyard Kipling

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

The Golden Age, John C. Wright

The Hall of Fame category includes works sometimes nominated year after year until they win; The Lord of the Rings has been nominated several times in the past.

The Prometheus Awards were established in 1979. Winners receive a plaque and a one-ounce gold coin.

Campbell and Sturgeon Winners

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother (Tor) and Ian R. MacLeod's Song of Time (PS Publishing) tied to win the 2008 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. This is only the third tie in the award's history.

"The Ray Gun: A Love Story" by James Alan Gardner (Asimov's 2/08) won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

The awards were announced early, but will be presented at a banquet July 10, 2009, held during the Campbell Conference in Lawrence KS, from July 9-12. For more information visit www.ku.edu/~sfcenter.

2009 Locus Award Winners

Winners of the 2009 Locus Awards were announced at a ceremony and banquet June 27, 2009 in Seattle WA during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend.

Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow)

Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)

First Novel: Singularity's Ring, Paul Melko (Tor)

Young-Adult Book: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury)

Novella: "Pretty Monsters", Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters)

Novelette: "Pump Six", Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories)

Short Story: "Exhalation", Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)

Anthology: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)

Collection: Pump Six and Other Stories, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)

Non-Fiction/Art Book: P. Craig Russell, Coraline: The Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell (HarperCollins)

Editor: Ellen Datlow

Artist: Michael Whelan

Magazine: F&SF

Publisher: Tor

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who voted! Look for detailed analysis of the voting in the July issue.

Sapkowski Wins Legend Award

Andrzej Sapkowski's Blood of Elves (Gollancz) won the first David Gemmell Legend Award, presented June 19, 2009 in London. Sapkowski was unable to attend, and his editor Jo Fletcher accepted in his place.

The shortlisted nominees all received mini-replicas of Snaga, the axe featured in Gemmell's works; the winner received a larger version, approximately two feet in length. For more, visit gemmellaward.com.

Stoker Winners

The winners of the 2008 Bram Stoker Awards were announced at a banquet June 13, 2009 during the Stoker Award Weekend at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, near Los Angeles.

Novel: Duma Key, Stephen King (Scribner)

First Novel: The Gentling Box, Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart)

Long Fiction: Miranda, John R. Little (Bad Moon)

Short Fiction: The Lost, Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance)

Fiction Collection: Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)

Anthology: Unspeakable Horror, Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, eds. (Dark Scribe)

Non-Fiction: A Hallowe’en Anthology, Lisa Morton, ed. (McFarland)

Poetry: The Nightmare Collection, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)

Other awards presented at the ceremony include the annual Lifetime Achievement Awards for F. Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; The Specialty Press Award for Larry Roberts of Bloodletting Press; The Silver Hammer Award, for outstanding service to HWA, for Sephera Giron; and the President’s Richard Laymon Service Award for John R. Little.

For more: www.stokers2009.

2009 Campbell Award Finalists

The John W. Campbell Award is presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, July 9 - 12, 2009, as the focal point of a weekend of discussions about the writing, illustration, publishing, teaching, and criticism of science fiction.

Finalists are:

• City at the End of Time, Greg Bear (Del Rey)
  
• Valley of Day-Glo, Nick Di Chario (Robert J. Sawyer Books)
  
• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
  
• Song of Time, Ian MacLeod, (PS Publishing)
  
• The Philosopher's Apprentice, James Morrow (William Morrow)
  
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)

British Fantasy Award Finalists

Finalists for the 2009 British Fantasy Awards have been announced.

Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award)

• Memoirs of a Master Forger, William Heaney/Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
• Midnight Man, Simon Clark (Severn House)
• Rain Dogs, Gary McMahon (Humdrumming)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
• The Victoria Vanishes, Christopher Fowler (Little, Brown)
• Thieving Fear, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing).
  

Best Novella

• Cold Stone Calling, Simon Clark (Tasmaniac Publications)
• Gunpowder, Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
• "Heads", Gary McMahon (We Fade To Grey)
• "The Narrows", Simon Bestwick (We Fade To Grey)
• The Reach of Children, Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming)

Best Short Fiction

• "All Mouth", Paul Meloy (Black Static 6)
• "Do You See", Sarah Pinborough (Myth-Understandings)
• "N", Stephen King (Just After Sunset)
• "Pinholes in Black Muslin", Simon Strantzas (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror)
• "The Caul Bearer", Allyson Bird (Bull Running For Girls)
• "The Tobacconist’s Concession", John Travis (The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror)
• "The Vague", Paul Meloy (Islington Crocodiles)
• "Winter Journey", Joel Lane (Black Static 5)

Best Collection

• Bull Running for Girls, Allyson Bird (Screaming Dreams)
• Glyphotech, Mark Samuels (PS Publishing)
• How To Make Monsters, Gary McMahon (Morrigan Books)
• Islington Crocodiles, Paul Meloy (TTA Press)
• Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)

Best Anthology

• Cone Zero, DF Lewis, ed. (Megazanthus Press)
• Myth-Understandings, Ian Whates, ed. (Newcon Press)
• Subtle Edens, Allen Ashley, ed. (Elastic Press)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, Stephen Jones, ed. (Constable & Robinson)
• The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror, Ian Alexander Martin, ed. (Humdrumming)
• We Fade To Grey, Gary McMahon (Pendragon Press)

Best Artist

• Dave McKean for The Graveyard Book (Bloomsbury)
• Edward Miller for Vault of Deeds (PS Publishing)
• Lee Thompson for The Land at the End of the Working Day (Humdrumming)
• Les Edwards for various
• Vincent Chong for various

Best Small Press

• Elastic Press (Andrew Hook)
• Newcon Press (Ian Whates)
• Pendragon Press (Chris Teague)
• Screaming Dreams (Steve Upham)
• TTA Press (Andy Cox)

Best Non-Fiction

• Basil Copper: A Life in Books, Stephen Jones, ed. (PS Publishing)
• Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, Russell T. Davies & Benjamin Cook (BBC Books)
• journal.neilgaiman.com, Neil Gaiman
• "Mutant Popcorn" column, Nick Lowe (Interzone)
• What Is It We Do When We Read Science Fiction, Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)

Best Magazine

• Black Static, Andy Cox, ed.
• Interzone, Andy Cox, et. al., eds.
• Midnight Street, Trevor Denyer, ed.
• Postscripts, Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, eds.
• SFX, Dave Bradley, ed.

Best Comic/Graphic Novel

• 30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow, Steve Niles & Bill Sienkiewicz (IDW Publishing);
• All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely (DC Comics);
• Buffy, Season Eight, Vol. 3: Wolves at the Gate, Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard and Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse Comics);
• Comic Book Tattoo: Tales Inspired by Tori Amos, Rantz A. Hoseley & Tori Amos, eds. (Image Comics);
• Hellblazer: Fear Machine, Jamie Delano (Vertigo);
• Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician, Andy Diggle & Leonardo Manco and Daniel Zezelj(Vertigo);
• Locke and Key, Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing);
• The Girly Comic Book 1, Selina Lock, ed. (Factor Fiction);
• The New Avengers: Illuminati, Brian Bendis & Brian Reed and Jim Cheung (Marvel Comics).

There are also nominees in film and television categories. Winners will be chosen by members of the British Fantasy Society, and will be announced at FantasyCon, September 18-20, 2009 at the Brittania Hotel in Nottingham. For complete details: www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk

Ditmar Award Winners

The 2009 Ditmar Awards, Australia's annual SF achievement awards for work produced in 2008, were presented at Conjecture, the 48th Australian national SF convention, June 5-8, 2009 in Adelaide. The winners are:

Novel: Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf).

Novella: "Painlessness", Kirstyn McDermott (Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2).

Short Story (tie): "The Goosle", Margo Lanagan (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction & Fantasy); "This Is Not My Story", Dirk Flinthart (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37).

Collected Work: Dreaming Again, Jack Dann, ed. (Voyager Australia; Eos).

Best Professional Artwork: Shaun Tan for Tales from Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic '09).

Best New Talent: Felicity Dowker.

William Atheling Jr. Award: Kim Wilkins for "Popular Genres and the Australian Literary Community: The Case of Fantasy Fiction (Journal of Australian Studies).

Peter McNamara Award: Sean Williams.

Best Professional Achievement: Angela Challis, for Black, the Australian Dark Culture Magazine.

Best Fan Publication: Asif! , Alisa Krasnostein & Gene Melzack, eds. (Twelfth Planet Press)

Best Fan Artist: Cat Sparks for Scary Food Cookbook (Agog! Press).

Best Fan Writer: Rob Hood for Undead Backbrain (Twelfth Planet Press).

A. Bertram Chandler Award: Rosaleen Love.

2009 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists

The 2009 Mythopoeic Awards finalists have been announced. The winners of this year's awards will be announced during Mythcon XL to be held from July 17-20, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. A complete list of Mythopoeic Award winners is available on the Society website.

2009 Mythopoeic Awards finalists:

ADULT LITERATURE

• Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone, Carol Berg (Roc)
  
• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)
  
• Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
  
• The Bell at Sealey Head, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
  
• An Evil Guest, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

• Graceling, Kristin Cashore (Harcourt Children's)
  
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
  
• House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins)
  
• Savvy, Ingrid Law (Dial)
  
• Nation, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)

INKLINGS STUDIES

• Charles Williams: Alchemy and Imagination, Gavin Ashenden (Kent State, 2008)
  
• Tolkien on Fairy-stories: Expanded Edition, with Commentary and Notes, Veryln Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, eds. (HarperCollins, 2008)
  
• The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end, John Rateliff (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
  
• Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, Michael Ward (Oxford, 2008)
  
• The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth, Elizabeth A. Whittingham (McFarland, 2008)

MYTH AND FANTASY STUDIES

• Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children’s Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper, Charles Butler (Children’s Literature Association & Scarecrow, 2006)
  
• Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, Jason Marc Harris (Ashgate, 2008)
  
• Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press, 2008)
  
• One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card, Marek Oziewicz (McFarland, 2008)
  
• Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the Frank L. Baum Books, Richard Carl Tuerk (McFarland, 2007)

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2008 that best exemplifies the spirit of the Inklings. Books are eligible for two years after publication if not selected as a finalist during the first year of eligibility. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears. The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for younger readers (from young adults to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as for the Adult Literature award. The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of the committees.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the last three years (2006–2008) are eligible, including finalists for
previous years. The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings
Studies award.

Melko Wins Compton Crook Award

Paul Melko's Singularity's Ring won the 2009 Compton Crook / Stephen Tall Award for the best SF/fantasy first novel from the previous year, which includes a plaque and a $1,000 cash prize. The award will be presented May 22, 2009 at Balticon, and is sponsored by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

Sturgeon Award Finalists

Finalists for the 2009 Sturgeon Awards have been announced:

"The Gambler", Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
"The Political Prisoner", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 8/08)
"True Names", Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum (Fast Forward 2)
"The Ray Gun: A Love Story", James Alan Gardner (Asimov's 2/08)
"Memory Dog", Kathleen Ann Goonan (Asimov's 4-5/08)
"The Tear", Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)
"Special Economics", Maureen McHugh (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
"His Master's Voice", Hannu Rajaniemi (Interzone #218)
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 2/08).

Kij Johnson's "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" (Asimov's 7/08) was a finalist, but Johnson removed it from consideration because she is a juror. The awards will be presented at a banquet July 10, 2009, held during the Campbell Conference in Lawrence KS, from July 9-12. For more information visit www.ku.edu/~sfcenter.

Scribe Award Finalists

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) has announced nominees for the third annual Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing for books published in 2008. Winners will be announced at a ceremony July 2009 at Comic-Con International in San Diego CA. The genre-related nominees are:

Best General Novel: Adapted

The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Max Allan Collins (HarperCollins)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, James Rollins (Del Rey)

Best Speculative Fiction Novel: Original

Ghost Whisperer: Revenge, Doranna Durgin (Pocket Star)
Ravenloft: The Covenant, Heaven's Bones, Samantha Henderson (Wizards of the Coast)
Stargate SG-1: Hydra, Holly Scott & Jaime Duncan (Fandemonium)
Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers, James Swallow (Pocket)

Best Speculative Fiction Novel: Adapted

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Greg Cox (Pocket Star)
The Mutant Chronicles, Matt Forbeck (Del Rey)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Bob Greenberger (Dark Horse)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Wild Space, Karen Miller (Del Rey)

Best Young Adult Novel: Original

Doctor Who: The Eyeless, Lance Parkin (Random House UK)
Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar, Steven Savile (Titan Books)

Best Young Adult Novel: Adapted

The Dark Knight: The Junior Novel, Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon (HarperFestival)
Iron Man: The Junior Novel, Stephen D. Sullivan (HarperFestival)
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, Tracey West (Price Stern Sloan)

Best Game-Related Novel: Original (Special Scribe Award)

Eberron: The Doom of Kings, Don Bassingthwaite (Wizards of the Coast)
Eberron: The Inquisitives: The Darkwood Mask, Jeff LaSala (Wizards of the Coast)
Warhammer: Elfslayer, Nathan Long (Games Workshop)
Dragonlance: Death March, Jean Rabe (Wizards of the Coast)

Best Game-Related Novel: Adapted (Special Scribe Award)

The Mutant Chronicles, Matt Forbeck (Del Rey)
World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal, Aaron Rosenberg & Christie Golden (Pocket Star)

For a complete list of nominees, see the IAMTW website

Sidewise Award Nominees

Finalists for the 2008 Sidewise Awards for excellence in alternate history have been announced:

LONG FORM

• The Affinity Bridge, George Mann (Snowbooks; Tor '09)
  
• The Dragon's Nine Sons, Chris Roberson (Solaris)
  
• Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor)
  
• Nation, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
  
• Swiftly, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)

SHORT FORM

• "A Brief Guide to Other Histories", Paul J. McAuley (Postscripts #15)
  
• "G-Men," Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Sideways in Crime)
  
• "Night Bird Soaring," T.L. Morganfield (Greatest Uncommon Denominator Autumn '08)
  
• "The People's Machine", Tobias Buckell (Sideways in Crime)
  
• "Poison Victory", Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF 07/08)
  
• "Sacrifice", Mary Rosenblum (Sideways in Crime)

The awards will be presented at Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon, to be held in Montreal, Canada from August 6-10, 2009. The judges are Stephen Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Stuart Shiffman, Kurt Sidaway, and Steven H Silver. For more see the Sidewise Award website.

Klages Wins California Book Award

White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages (Viking) won a Gold Medal in the 78th Annual California Book Awards in the Young Adult Category, chosen by the Commonwealth Club. Prizes will be presented at a ceremony June 4, 2009 in San Francisco. For more information, or to buy tickets for the ceremony, visit the Commonwealth Club website.

Ian R. MacLeod Wins Clarke Award

Ian R. MacLeod's Song of Time (PS Publishing) won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the UK in 2008, presented at a ceremony April 29, 2009 in London. The award includes an engraved bookend and a £2009 cash prize. MacLeod was present to accept the award.

Other finalists were:

The Quiet War, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic)
The Margarets, Sheri S. Tepper (Gollancz)
Martin Martin's on the Other Side, Mark Wernham (Jonathan Cape)


For more information, visit the Clarke Award website.

Asimov's and Analog Readers' Awards

Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction announced their readers' award winners.

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

Best Novella: "Tenbrook of Mars", Dean McLaughlin (July-August)
Best Novelette: "The Man in the Mirror", Geoffrey A. Landis (January-February)
Best Short Story: "Starship Down", Tracy Canfield (October)
Best Fact Article: "The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor", Tom Ligon (January-February)
Best Cover: April 2008, Scott Grimando

The winners of Asimov's Readers' Awards are:

Best Novella: "The Room of Lost Souls", Kristine Kathryn Rusch (April-May)
Best Novelette: "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story", James Alan Gardner (February)
Best Short Story: "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (July)
Best Poem: "Deaths on Other Planets", Joanne Merriam (April-May)
Best Cover Artist (tie): Tomasz Maronski (March)
Best Cover Artist (tie): John Picacio (September)

2009 Locus Award Finalists

The top five finalists in each category of the 2009 Locus Awards have been announced. The Locus Awards will be presented during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 26-27, 2009. Finalists are:

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• Matter, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK)
• City at the End of Time, Greg Bear (Gollancz, Del Rey)
• Marsbound, Joe Haldeman (Ace)
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow)
• Saturn's Children, Charles Stross (Orbit, Ace)

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)
• Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
• The Bell at Sealey Head, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• The Dragons of Babel, Michael Swanwick (Tor)
• An Evil Guest, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

FIRST NOVEL

• Thunderer, Felix Gilman (Bantam Spectra)
• Black Ships, Jo Graham (Orbit US)
• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Ballantine Del Rey)
• The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann, Knopf)
• Singularity's Ring, Paul Melko (Tor)

YOUNG-ADULT NOVEL

• Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
• Nation, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK, HarperCollins)
• Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi (Tor)

NOVELLA

• "The Erdmann Nexus", Nancy Kress (Asimov’s 10-11/08)
• "Pretty Monsters", Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters)
• "The Tear", Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)
• Once Upon a Time in the North, Philip Pullman (Knopf)
• "True Names", Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)

NOVELETTE

• "Pump Six", Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories)
• "The Ice War", Stephen Baxter (Asimov’s 9/08)
• "Shoggoths in Bloom"Elizabeth Bear (Asimov’s 3/08)
• "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away", Cory Doctorow (Tor.com 8/08)
• "Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF 1/08)

SHORT STORY

• "King Pelles the Sure", Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads)
• "Boojum", Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette (Fast Ships, Black Sails)
• "Exhalation", Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
• "The Kindness of Strangers", Nancy Kress (Fast Forward 2)
• "After the Coup", John Scalzi (Tor.com 7/08)

MAGAZINE

• Analog
• Asimov's
• F&SF
• Realms of Fantasy
• Subterranean

PUBLISHER

• Ace
• Baen
• Night Shade Books
• Subterranean Press
• Tor

ANTHOLOGY

• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin's Griffin)
• Galactic Empires, Gardner Dozois, ed. (SFBC)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
• Eclipse Two, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade Books)
• The Starry Rift, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Viking)
  

COLLECTION

• Pump Six and Other Stories, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books)
• The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
• Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link (Viking)
• The Best of Lucius Shepard, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean Press)
• The Best of Michael Swanwick, Michael Swanwick (Subterranean Press)

EDITOR

• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• David G. Hartwell
• Jonathan Strahan
• Gordon Van Gelder

ARTIST

• Bob Eggleton
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

NON-FICTION/ART BOOK

• Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
• What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction, Paul Kincaid (Beccon)
• Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
• P. Craig Russell, Coraline: The Graphic Novel, Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell (HarperCollins)
• Shaun Tan, Tales From Outer Suburbia (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic '09)
  

Come to the Locus Awards Ceremony in Seattle WA during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend, June 26-27, 2009!

Tiptree Award Winners

The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council announced the 2008 Tiptree Award has two winners: Patrick Ness's young adult novel The Knife of Never Letting Go (Walker) and Nisi Shawl's short story collection Filter House (Aqueduct).

The Tiptree Award will be presented on Memorial Day weekend at WisCon in Madison, Wisconsin. Each winner will receive $1000 in prize money, an original artwork created specifically for the winning novel or story, and (as always) chocolate. A panel of five jurors selects the Tiptree Award winners and compiles an Honor List of other works that they find interesting, relevant to the award, and worthy of note. The 2008 jurors were Gavin J. Grant (chair), K. Tempest Bradford, Leslie Howle, Roz Kaveney, and Catherynne M. Valente.

Nebula Awards Announced

The 2008 Nebula Awards were presented on Saturday, April 25 in a ceremony at the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend held in Los Angeles, California. Janis Ian was Toastmistress, and Chuck Lorre gave the keynote address.

The Nebula Awards winners are:

Novel: Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
Novella: "The Spacetime Pool", Catherine Asaro (Analog Mar '08)
Novelette: "Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF Jan '08)
Short Story: "Trophy Wives", Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic)
Script: WALL-E, Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon. Original story by Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter (Pixar)
Andre Norton Award: Flora's Dare, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt)

Harry Harrison was honored as Damon Knight Grand Master; M.J. Engh was honored as Author Emerita; Kate Wilhelm, A.J. Budrys, and Martin Greenberg received the Solstice Award; and Joss Whedon received the Ray Bradbury Award. Victoria Strauss received the SFWA Service Award.

For more details, see the live blog from the event. A full report with photos will appear in the June issue of Locus.

Shirley Jackson Awards Ballot Announced

The Shirley Jackson Awards will be presented on Sunday, July 12th 2009, at Readercon 20, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Guest of honor Elizabeth Hand, whose Generation Loss won the 2007 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, will emcee.

NOVEL

• Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead Hardcover)


• The Man on the Ceiling, Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast Discoveries)


• Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey)


• The Resurrectionist, Jack O’Connell (Algonquin Books)


• The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)


• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Knopf)

NOVELLA

• Disquiet, Julia Leigh (Penguin/Hamish Hamilton)


• "Dormitory," Yoko Ogawa (The Diving Pool)


• Living With the Dead, Darrell Schweitzer (PS Publishing)


• The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, Stephen Graham Jones (Chiasmus)


• "N.", Stephen King (Just After Sunset)

NOVELETTE

• "Hunger Moon", Deborah Noyes (The Ghosts of Kerfol)


• "The Lagerstatte", Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)


• "Penguins of the Apocalypse", William Browning Spencer (Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy)


• "Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF, January 2008)


• The Situation, Jeff Vandermeer (PS Publishing)

SHORT STORY

• "68° 07’ 15"N, 31° 36’ 44"W", Conrad Williams (Fast Ships, Black Sails)


• "The Dinner Party", Joshua Ferris (The New Yorker, August 11, 2008)


• "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account", M. Rickert (F&SF, Oct/Nov 2008)


• "The Inner City", Karen Heuler (Cemetery Dance #58)


• "Intertropical Convergence Zone", Nadia Bulkin (ChiZine, Issue 37)


• "The Pile", Michael Bishop (Subterranean Online, Winter 2008)

COLLECTION

• A Better Angel, Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)


• Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser (Knopf)


• The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa (Picador)


• The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)


• Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner)


• Wild Nights!, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)

ANTHOLOGY

• Bound for Evil, edited by Tom English (Dead Letter)


• Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo, edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree)


• Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer (Night Shade)


• The New Uncanny, edited by Sarah Eyre & Ra Page (Comma)


• Shades of Darkness, edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree)

BSFA Awards Winners Announced

The British Science Fiction Awards were announced in a ceremony at Eastercon LX 2009. Winners are:

Best Artwork: Cover of Subterfuge by Andy Bigwood
Best Non-Fiction: Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn
Best Short Fiction: "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang
Best Novel: The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod

Philip K Dick Award Announced

The Philip K. Dick Award was announced on Friday April 10, 2009 at Norwescon 32 in SeaTac, Washington.

The winner is a tie between:

• Emissaries From the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos)
• Terminal Mind by David Walton (Meadowhawk)

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the US and is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society. The 2008 judges were Tobias Buckell, M.M. Buckner, Walter Hunt, Rosemary Kirstein, and Bill Senior. The 2009 judges are Daniel Abraham (chair), Eileen Gunn, Karen Hellekson, Elaine Isaak, and Marc Laidlaw.

For more information, contact the award administration: David G. Hartwell (914) 769-5545; Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551.

For more information, see the full story in the May 2009 issue of Locus.

Hugo Logo Contest

The World Science Fiction Society has announced a contest to design an official logo for the Hugo Awards, suitable for use in the publishing and film/television industries, and in solidifying the Hugo Awards brand.

The contest is open to individual designers. Full submission guidelines are available on the Hugo Awards web site at www.thehugoawards.org/logocontest.htm. Some guidelines for a successful design:

• The design must work well at a variety of sizes and in both black & white and color;
  
• The design must include something clearly recognizable as the classic four-finned Hugo Award rocket;
  
• The design must include the words “Hugo Award”.
  

The deadline for submitting entries is May 31, 2009. Entries must be submitted on-line at logocontest@thehugoawards.com. The winning design will be selected by a jury including Chip Kidd, Irene Gallo, Geri Sullivan, Neil Gaiman, and by the Hugo Awards Marketing Committee.

The winner will receive a special trophy incorporating the winning logo design, a $500 cash prize, and signed copies of Neil Gaiman’s Hugo-winning works American Gods and Coraline, and collection Fragile Things, which includes winning story "A Study in Emerald".

2009 Dell Awards Winner Announced

The 2009 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy writing went to "We Were Real" by Josh Eure of North Carolina State University. Eure received $500 as well as an expense-paid trip to Orlando FL where Sheila Williams presented him with the Award at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.

First runner-up was "The Best and Bitt'rest Kiss" by Sarah Miller of Bard College at Simon's Rock, second runner-up was "Suspended" by Maggie Morgan of North Carolina State University, and honorable mentions went to "Between Dusk and Twilight" by Rahul Kanakia of Stanford University, "Locked and Keyed" by Jeannette Westwood of Stanford University, "Aeroplasty" by Elena Gleason of Knox College, and "The Case of the Unassuming Book and the Very Soiled Trousers" by Lara Donnelly of Wright State University.

For more information and photos, see the full report in the May issue of Locus.

2009 SF Museum Hall of Fame Inductees Announce

The Science Fiction Museum and SF Hall of Fame have announced the 2009 Hall of Fame inductees: Connie Willis, Michael Whelan, Frank R. Paul, and Edward L. Ferman.

For more information about the SF Hall of Fame, see www.empsfm.com.

Prometheus Awards Finalists

The Libertarian Futurist Society announced the finalists for the 2008 Prometheus Awards.

Best Novel: Matter, Iain Banks (Orbit); Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor); The January Dancer, Michael Flynn (Tor); Saturn's Children, Charles Stross (Ace); Opening Atlantis, Harry Turtledove (Roc); and Half a Crown, Jo Walton (Tor).

Hall of Fame: Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold; Courtship Rite, Donald M. Kingsbury; "As Easy as A.B.C.", Rudyard Kipling; The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien; The Once and Future King, T.H. White; and The Golden Age, John C. Wright.

The winners will be announced at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 6-10, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and will receive a plaque and a gold coin.

Stoker Awards Final Ballot

The final ballot for the 2008 Stoker Awards has been released. Final ballots will be mailed by April 1, and must be returned postmarked no later than May 1. Winners will be announced at the Stoker Award Weekend, June 12-14, 2009 at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, near Los Angeles. For more: http://www.stokers2009.org/.

Novel: Coffin County, Gary Braunbeck (Leisure); The Reach, Nate Kenyon (Leisure); Duma Key, Stephen King (Scribner); Johnny Gruesome, Gregory Lamberson (Bad Moon/Medallion).

First Novel: Midnight on Mourn Street, Christopher Conlon (Earthling); The Gentling Box, Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart); Monster Behind the Wheel, Michael McCarty & Mark McLaughlin (Delirium); The Suicide Collectors, David Oppegaard (St. Martin's); Frozen Blood, Joel A. Sutherland (Lachesis).

Long Fiction: The Shallow End of the Pool, Adam-Troy Castro (Creeping Hemlock); Miranda, John R. Little (Bad Moon); Redemption Roadshow, Weston Ochse (Burning Effigy); The Confessions of St. Zach, Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon).

Short Fiction: "Petrified", Scott Edelman (Desolate Souls); The Lost, Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance); "The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft", Nick Mamatas & Tim Pratt (Chizine #36); "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment", M. Rickert (F&SF 10-11/08); "Turtle", Lee Thomas (Doorways #4).

Fiction Collection: The Number 121 to Pennsylvania, Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance); Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales, Fran Friel (Apex); Just After Sunset, Stephen King (Scribner); Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, John Langan (Prime); Gleefully Macabre Tales, Jeff Strand (Delirium).

Anthology: Like a Chinese Tattoo, Bill Breedlove, ed. (Dark Arts); Horror Library Volume 3, R.J. Cavender, ed. (Cutting Block); Beneath the Surface, Tim Deal, ed. (Shroud); Unspeakable Horror, Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, eds. (Dark Scribe).

Non-Fiction: Cheap Scares, Gregory Lamberson (McFarland); Zombie CSU, Jonathan Maberry (Citadel); A Hallowe’en Anthology, Lisa Morton, ed. (McFarland); The Book of Lists: Horror, Amy Wallace, Del Howison, & Scott Bradley, eds. (HarperCollins).

Poetry: The Nightmare Collection, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions); The Phantom World, Gary William Crawford (Sam’s Dot); Virgin of the Apocalypse, Corrine De Winter (Sam’s Dot); Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster, Mark McLaughlin & Michael McCarty (Skullvines).

Locus Online Analyzes this year's Hugo Nominations

This year's Hugo Awards finalists (today integrated into the Locus Index to SF Awards) include first-time nominations for fiction authors Kij Johnson and Mary Robinette Kowal, nonfiction authors and editors Lillian Stewart Carl, John Helfers, and Paul Kincaid, artists Daniel Dos Santos and Alan F. Beck, and semiprozine and fanzine editors Neil Clarke, Nick Mamatas, Stephen H. Segal, Ann VanderMeer, Sean Wallace, and John Klima.

There are also numerous first-time nominations in the Graphic Story category, depending on whether every listed credit is considered a nomination; as in the dramatic presentation categories, the Locus Index to SF Awards notes credits listed on Hugo ballots as comments, but does not compile them as nominees. (This is consistent with the apparent policy of Hugo Awards administrators to present a single trophy to the winners of dramatic presentation categories, while co-winners of fiction and magazine/semiprozine/fanzine categories receive multiple trophies.)

Novel nominees this year include Neil Gaiman, who has won 3 Hugos for 5 prior nominations, wins including novel American Gods in 2002, novella Coraline in 2003, and short story "A Study in Emerald" in 2004. John Scalzi, Neal Stephenson, and Charles Stross each have one Hugo award each, Scalzi as fan writer in 2008, Stephenson for novel The Diamond Age in 1996, and Stross for novella "The Concrete Jungle" in 2005.

With this nomination, Stross now ties Robert Silverberg and Jack McDevitt for the most consecutive nominations in a single major award category, with six: he was nominated for Hugos for Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise, Accelerando, Glasshouse, Halting State, and now Saturn's Children, in awards years 2004 through 2009, and has yet to win in this category. (See Table 24 in the Locus Index to SF Awards.)

Novella nominees Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, and Robert Reed each have one Hugo win, Kress for novella "Beggars in Spain" in 1992, McDonald for novelette "The Djinn's Wife" in 2007, and Reed for novella "A Billion Eves" in 2007. Benjamin Rosenbaum has 2 previous nominations, Charles Coleman Finlay 1, with no wins.

Novelette nominee Mike Resnick has 31 Hugo nominations before this year, and 5 Hugo wins, from short story "Kirinyaga" in 1989 to short story "Travels with My Cats" in 2005. Elizabeth Bear won a Hugo last year for short story "Tideline", her first nomination. Paolo Bacigalupi has 3 previous Hugo nominations with no wins, James Alan Gardner 1, and John Kessel 3.

Short story nominees include Resnick, mentioned above, and Michael Swanwick, who has 5 Hugo wins out of 22 prior nominations -- most recently for novelette "Legions in Time" in 2004. Ted Chiang has 2 Hugo wins out of 6 prior nominations, for novelettes "Hell Is the Absence of God" in 2002 and "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" in 2008.

In other categories, Cathy & Arnie Fenner have 7 prior nominations each, all for previous volumes of their Spectrum art anthology series, with no wins. Farah Mendlesohn has two prior nominations, and one Hugo win, for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (with Edward James) in 2005.

Nominees in the Editor, Short Form and Editor, Long Form categories are exactly the same as last year, when Gordon Van Gelder and David G. Hartwell won.

This year's Professional Artist nominees are notable for excluding last year's winner, Stephan Martiniere. Daniel Dos Santos receives his first nomination, and Donato Giancola is nominated again after not being nominated last year, though he won the category in 2006 and 2007.

Semiprozine nominees this year include a webzine, Clarkesworld Magazine, and a revived print magazine, Weird Tales. Perennial nominee Ansible, whose editor Dave Langford shifted his publication from fanzine to semiprozine several years ago, is not nominated this year, for the first time since 2001. Langford is, however, a fan writer nominee this year.

Last year's fan writer winner John Scalzi is not nominated this year; John Hertz takes his place, among repeat nominees Chris Garcia, Dave Langford, Cheryl Morgan, and Steven H Silver.

See the Hugo Nominees List in the Locus Index to SF Awards for a complete list of all nominations, by nominee, to date.

--Mark R. Kelly
special to Locus Online

Hugo Awards Final Ballot

The Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award nominations have been announced. The Awards will be presented at the 67th Worldcon, Anticipation, August 6-10, 2009 at the Palais de Congrès in Montreal, Québec.

There were 799 total ballots cast. Finalists include:

Best Novel (639 Ballots Cast)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)

Best Novella (337 Ballots Cast)
"The Erdmann Nexus" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)
"The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF Aug 2008)
"The Tear" by Ian McDonald (Galactic Empires)
"True Names" by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
"Truth" by Robert Reed (Asimov's Oct/Nov 2008)

Best Novelette (373 Ballots Cast)
"Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's Jan 2008)
"The Gambler" by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
"Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel (F&SF Jan 2008)
"The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" by James Alan Gardner (Asimov's Feb 2008)
"Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear (Asimov's Mar 2008)

Best Short Story (448 Ballots Cast)
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (Asimov's Jul 2008)
"Article of Faith" by Mike Resnick (Baen's Universe Oct 2008)
"Evil Robot Monkey" by Mary Robinette Kowal (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two)
"Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
"From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Feb 2008)

Best Related Book (263 Ballots Cast)
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan University Press)
Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art by Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood Books)
The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold by Lillian Stewart Carl & John Helfers, eds. (Baen)
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon Publications)
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 by John Scalzi (Subterranean Press)

Best Graphic Story (212 Ballots Cast)
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle Written by Jim Butcher, art by Ardian Syaf (Del Rey/Dabel Brothers Publishing)
Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones Written by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
Fables: War and Pieces Written by Bill Willingham, pencilled by Mark Buckingham, art by Steve Leialoha and Andrew Pepoy, color by Lee Loughridge, letters by Todd Klein (DC/Vertigo Comics)
Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic Written, art by Howard Tayler (The Tayler Corporation)
Serenity: Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days Written by Joss Whedon & Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad, color by Michelle Madsen, cover by Jo Chen (Dark Horse Comics)
Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores Written/created by Brian K. Vaughan, pencilled/created by Pia Guerra, inked by Jose Marzan, Jr. (DC/Vertigo Comics)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (436 Ballots Cast)
The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer, story; Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, screenplay; based on characters created by Bob Kane; Christopher Nolan, director (Warner Brothers)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army Guillermo del Toro & Mike Mignola, story; Guillermo del Toro, screenplay; based on the comic by Mike Mignola; Guillermo del Toro, director (Dark Horse, Universal)
Iron Man Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, screenplay; based on characters created by Stan Lee & Don Heck & Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby; Jon Favreau, director (Paramount, Marvel Studios)
METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi; Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, and Karl Schroeder, writers (Audible Inc.)
WALL-E Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter, story; Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, screenplay; Andrew Stanton, director (Pixar/Walt Disney)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (336 Ballots Cast)
Lost: “The Constant”, Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof, writers; Jack Bender, director (Bad Robot, ABC studios)
Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Joss Whedon, & Zack Whedon, & Jed Whedon, & Maurissa Tancharoen, writers; Joss Whedon, director (Mutant Enemy)
Battlestar Galactica: “Revelations”, Bradley Thompson & David Weddle, writers; Michael Rymer, director (NBC Universal)
Doctor Who: “Silence in the Library”/”Forest of the Dead”, Steven Moffat, writer; Euros Lyn, director (BBC Wales)
Doctor Who: “Turn Left”, Russell T. Davies, writer; Graeme Harper, director (BBC Wales)

Best Editor, Short Form (377 Ballots Cast)
Ellen Datlow
Stanley Schmidt
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon Van Gelder
Sheila Williams

Best Editor, Long Form (273 Ballots Cast)
Lou Anders
Ginjer Buchanan
David G. Hartwell
Beth Meacham
Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Best Professional Artist (334 Ballots Cast)
Daniel Dos Santos
Bob Eggleton
Donato Giancola
John Picacio
Shaun Tan

Best Semiprozine (283 Ballots Cast)
Clarkesworld Magazine edited by Neil Clarke, Nick Mamatas, & Sean Wallace
Interzone edited by Andy Cox
Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi
The New York Review of Science Fiction edited by Kathryn Cramer, Kris Dikeman, David G. Hartwell, & Kevin J. Maroney
Weird Tales edited by Ann VanderMeer & Stephen H. Segal

Best Fan Writer (291 Ballots Cast)
Chris Garcia
John Hertz
Dave Langford
Cheryl Morgan
Steven H Silver

Best Fanzine (257 Ballots Cast)
Argentus edited by Steven H Silver
Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
Challenger edited by Guy H. Lillian III
The Drink Tank edited by Chris Garcia
Electric Velocipede edited by John Klima
File 770 edited by Mike Glyer

Best Fan Artist (187 Ballots Cast)
Alan F. Beck
Brad W. Foster
Sue Mason
Taral Wayne
Frank Wu

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (288 Ballots Cast)
Aliette de Bodard*
David Anthony Durham*
Felix Gilman
Tony Pi*
Gord Sellar*

*(Second year of eligibility)

The 2009 Hugo Awards are for works first published in 2008 or works first published in 2008 in the US that were published in a previous year outside the US.

To vote on the final ballot, you must be a supporting or attending member of Anticipation. You do not need to attend Anticipation in order to participate in the Hugo Awards. A “supporting membership” will be sufficient to make you a member of the World Science Fiction Society and get you voting rights for both the nomination stage and the final ballot. A supporting membership costs US$50 and can be purchased here.

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist Announced

Finalists have been announced for this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, for the best science fiction novel published in the UK in 2008:

Song of Time, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
The Quiet War, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic)
The Margarets, Sheri S. Tepper (Gollancz)
Martin Martin's on the Other Side, Mark Wernham (Jonathan Cape)

The prize of £2009, along with a commemorative engraved bookend, will be presented to the winner on Wednesday, April 29th, at an award ceremony held on the opening night of the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival.

Torque Control has this post about the finalists, with links to numerous reviews, and comments. The Locus Roundtable blog has this post by Graham Sleight about the shortlist.

Prix Aurora Awards Ballot Announced

The 2009 Prix Aurora Awards final ballot has been announced, and voting will take place through July 15, 2009. The awards, given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, art works, and fan achievement, will be presented at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, held August 6-10, 2009, in Montreal, Quebec.

This year's nominees are:

Best Long-Form Work in English:
After the Fires, Ursula Pflug (Tightrope)
Identity Theft: And Other Stories, Robert J. Sawyer (Red Deer)
Impossibilia, Douglas Smith (PS Publishing)
Defining Diana, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran)
Marseguro (Daw Science Fiction), Edward Willett (DAW)

Best Long-Form Work in French:
Une fêlure au flanc du monde, Éric Gauthier (Alire)
Les vents de Tammerlan, Michèle Laframboise (Éditions Médiaspaul, coll. Jeunesse-Plus)

Best Short-Form Work in English:
"All In", Peter Atwood (Weird Tales May/Jun 2008)
"Back", Susan J. Forest (Analog Jun 2008)
"Ringing in the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta", Randy McCharles (Tesseracts Twelve)
"Doorways", Douglas Smith (Postscripts #17)
"A Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase by Van Gogh", Douglas Smith (Impossibilia)

Best Short-Form Work in French:
"Jos Montferrand et le Grand Brigand des routes", Alain Ducharme (Solaris 161)
"Ballade sur Pallide", Michèle Laframboise (Virages 44)
"La révolte des gilets-malins", Michèle Laframboise (QUAD9 6A)
"Le Dôme de Saint-Macaire", Jean-Louis Trudel (Solaris 167)

Best Work in English (Other):
Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Jeff Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. (Edge)
Neo-opsis, Karl Johanson, ed.
Tesseracts Twelve, Claude Lalumière, ed. (Edge)
Through the Window: A Journey to the Borderlands of Faerie, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Double Edge)
On Spec, Diane Walton, ed.

Best Work in French (Other):
Jean-Louis Trudel, Sophie Beaulé (Éditions David)
Solaris, Joël Champetier, ed.

Artistic Achievement:
Looking for Group, Lar deSouza (online comic)
Cover of Neo-Opsis #14, Stephanie Ann Johanson
"Imagination", Michèle Laframboise (from Imagination contre les pigeons spammers, Vermillion)
Fear Agent #22, Ronn Sutton (Dark Horse)
Cover of JEMMA7729, David Willicome

Fan Achievement (Fanzine):
The Original Universe, Jeff Boman, ed.
Opuntia, Dale Spiers, ed.
Clair/Obscur, François-Bernard Tremblay, ed.
Brins d'éternité, Guillaume Voisine, ed.

Fan Achievement (Organizational):
Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Story Contest, Renée Bennett (Administrator)
World Fantasy 2008, Kim Greyson (Guest Liaison)
FilKONtario 19, Judith Hayman & Peggi Warner-Lalonde (Co-chairs)
World Fantasy 2008, Randy McCharles (Chair)
Anime North 2008, David Simmons (Organizer)

Fan Achievement (Other):
World Fantasy 2008 Podcasts, Kurt Armbruster & Ryah Deines (Producers/Ed./Hosts)
Impulse, news bulletin of MonSFFA, Keith Braithwaite (Editor)
Through the Keyhole—25 years of Keycon Memories, Jennifer Ennis (Editor)
Fan Writing, Lloyd Penney
Heather Dale Concert, Joan Sherman (Organizer)

Compton Crook Award Finalists

Finalists for the Compton Crook Award, presented by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the best first novel of the previous year, have been announced: Into the Storm, Taylor Anderson (Roc); Black Ships, Jo Graham (Orbit); Singularity's Ring, Paul Melko (Tor); The Way of Shadows, Brent Weeks (Orbit). The winner will be announced at Balticon 43, May 22-25, 2009. For details, see www.bsfs.org.

SFRA Awards Winners Announced

The SFRA Awards winners were announced today by SFRA president Lisa Yaszek:

The Pilgrim Award — Brian Attebery
The Pioneer Award — "Giving An Account of Oneself: Ethics, Alterity, Air", Neil Easterbrook
The Clareson Award — Hal Hall
The Mary Kay Bray Award — Sandor Klapcsik for his review of Rewired (SFRAR #284)
The Graduate Student Paper Award — "The Imperial Unconscious: Samuel R. Delany's The Fall of the Towers", Dave Higgins


This year's SFRA conference will take place June 11-14, 2009, in Atlanta GA.

Spectrum 16 Awards

The winners of the 16th Annual Spectrum Awards for Fantastic Art were announced in Kansas City MO, February 27, 2009.

Advertising: Gold — Ryohei Hase, "Go Forward and Forward" (FIGHTSTAR/Raw Power Management); Silver — Yuko Shimizu, "Little Red Polka Dots and Other Stories" (Microsoft UltimatePC).

Book: Gold — Petar Meseldzija, illustration for The Legend of Steel Bashaw (Zmaj, Novi Sad); Silver — Jean-Baptiste Monge, "Dunlee Darnan" (Au Bord des Continents).

Comics: Gold — Jon Foster, cover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #14 (Dark Horse Comics); Silver — Aleksi Briclot, illustration for Annihilation: Conquest #5 (Marvel Entertainment).

Concept Art: Gold — Daniel Dociu, "Mole Tunnels" (ArenaNet/Guildwars); Silver — Kekai Kotaki, "Snow Battle" (ArenaNet/Guildwars).

Dimensional: Gold — Akhito, "Elegant Medusa"; Silver — David Meng, "Satyr's Head".

Editorial: Gold — Craig Elliott, "Damali Richards" (Devil's Candy Store); Silver — Nate Van Dyke, "Pool Hall Brawl" (Juxtapoz).

Institutional: Gold — James Gurney, "Song in the Garden" (Maison D'Ailleurs); Silver — Jaime Jones, "Progenitus" (Wizards of the Coast).

Unpublished: Gold — Jeremy Enecio, "Koi"; Silver — David Laub, "She's Back".

The winning artwork is available for view at the Spectrum website. Winners received a sculpted trophy with an engraved plate and inclusion in Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art, edited by Cathy & Arnie Fenner, to be published by Underwood Books in October 2009. Jurors were Kevin Brimmer, David Dorman, Donato Giancola, Steven Sanders, and Robert Self.

Correction to Nebula Ballot

SFWA has announced a correction to the final Nebula Ballot:

"Upon a procedural review, we discovered an error in the final Nebula tally. Two works that should be on the final ballot were not listed: the novelette “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story”, James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s 2/08) and “Mars: A Traveler’s Guide”, Ruth Nestvold (F&SF 1/08) in short stories. No other changes have been made to the final ballot. We apologize for the error and have made changes to the procedures to keep this sort of mistake from happening again."

We have amended our previous post, listing the full ballot, to reflect this change.

Nebula Final Ballot

SFWA has released the final ballot for the 2008 Nebula Awards, to be announced during the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend, April 24-26, 2009 in Los Angeles CA.

Novels: Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Tor); Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt); Cauldron, Jack McDevitt (Ace); Brasyl, Ian McDonald (Pyr); Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Harper); Superpowers, David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers).

Novellas: "The Spacetime Pool", Catherine Asaro (Analog 3/08); "Dark Heaven", Gregory Benford (Alien Crimes); Dangerous Space, Kelley Eskridge (Dangerous Space); "The Political Prisoner", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 8/08); The Duke in His Castle, Vera Nazarian (Norilana).

Novelettes: "If Angels Fight", Richard Bowes (F&SF 2/08); “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story”, James Alan Gardner (Asimov’s 2/08); "Dark Rooms", Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s 10-11/07); "Pride and Prometheus", John Kessel (F&SF 1/08); "Night Wind", Mary Rosenblum (Lace and Blade); "Baby Doll", Johanna Sinisalo, David Hackston, trans. (The SFWA European Hall of Fame); "Kaleidoscope", K.D. Wentworth (F&SF 5/07).

Stories: "The Button Bin", Mike Allen (Helix 10/07); "The Dreaming Wind", Jeffrey Ford (The Coyote Road); "Trophy Wives", Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic); "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss", Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 7/08); "The Tomb Wife", Gwyneth Jones (F&SF 8/07); "Don’t Stop", James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 6/07); "Mars: A Traveler's Guide", Ruth Nestvold (F&SF 1/08).

Scripts: The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer (Warner Bros.); "The Shrine", Brad Wright (Stargate Atlantis); WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Peter Docter (Pixar).

Andre Norton Award: Graceling, Kristin Cashore (Harcourt); Lamplighter, D.M. Cornish; Savvy, Ingrid Law (Dial); The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson (Holt); Flora's Dare, Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt).

Dick Award Judges Announced

Judges for the 2009 Philip K. Dick Awards, honoring distinguished science fiction published in paperback original format in the United States, have been announced:

Daniel Abraham
5925 Woodford Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110-1225

Eileen Gunn
525 19th Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112-4006

Karen Hellekson
16 Rolling Rdg
Jay, ME 04239-7038

Elaine Isaak
34 Hardy Road
Bedford, NH 03110-4914

Marc Laidlaw
15510 NE 153rd St.
Woodinville, WA 98072-8125

Publishers who issue eligible titles during the calendar year 2009 are encouraged to provide copies to each of the judges as the books are published during the year. (All works of science fiction published originally in the United States as paperbacks during the year 2009 are eligible.) The nominees will be announced in January 2010.

The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society sponsors the $1,000 cash award, which is administered by David G. Hartwell and Gordon Van Gelder. The prize – a cash award of $1,000, a plaque, and a free trip to Norwescon – is given annually at sponsoring convention Norwescon (the Northwest Science Fiction Society). The 2008 awards will be presented on April 10, 2009. For more information: http://www.philipkdickaward.org/

Joss Whedon to Win Bradbury Award

SFWA President Russell Davis announced on February 16 that Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, etc., has been named recipient of the Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting.

“Like everyone who picks up a pen, I was a rabid Bradbury fan and as greatly influenced by him as any other writer I read. To receive the award named for him is an honor I'd not dreamed of,” said Whedon. “In my defense, it didn't exist back then. What did exist were the very lovely, very twisted and very human stories that warped my impressionable mind, and that I have tried, in whatever medium they will let me, to measure up to.”

Whedon will be presented the award during the Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles, California, April 24-26, 2009.

[Photo CC-by Raven Underwood, Wikimedia Commons]

SFWA Announces Inaugural Solstice Awards

SFWA President Russell Davis announced that Kate Wilhelm, Martin H. Greenberg, and the late Algis Budrys are the recipients of the inaugural Solstice Awards in 2009. 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 "a significant impact on the science fiction or fantasy landscape, and is particularly intended for those who have consistently made a major, positive difference within the speculative fiction field."

The Solstice Awards will be presented during the Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles CA, April 24-26, 2009. Janis Ian will be toastmistress for the ceremony. Harry Harrison will also be honored as Damon Knight Grand Master, M.J. Engh as Author Emerita, and Victoria Strauss will receive the SFWA Service Award.

Shirley Jackson Awards Fundraiser

The administrators of the Shirley Jackson Awards are holding an "online lottery" fundraiser. Lottery tickets are a dollar each, and prizes range from rare signed books to Tuckerizations by various authors to a keyboard signed by Neil Gaiman. Tickets will be available for purchase February 9-23, 2009. For the list of available prizes, see www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/store/.

Gaylactic Spectrum Award Winners

Winners of the 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards -- honoring works of SF/F/H that deal positively with gay characters, themes, and issues -- have been announced.

Best Novel: Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale (Blind Eye Books).

Best Short Fiction: "Ever So Much More Than Twenty", Joshua Lewis (So Fey).

For a complete list of shortlisted and recommended works, see spectrumawards.org/2008.htm.

Gaiman Wins Newbery

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins) won the 2009 Newbery Medal, given by the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association) for last year's outstanding American children's book. The award was announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver CO.

Aurealis Awards Winners

Winners of this year's Aurealis Awards, for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror, include K.A. Bedford's novel Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, Jonathan Strahan's anthology The Starry Rift, Shaun Tan's illustrated book Tales from Outer Suburbia, and the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence to Jack Dann.

Lee Battersby has posted the full list of winners.

The Aurealis Awards website also has the list of winners, with links to judges' reports evaluating the nominees in each category.

British Science Fiction Awards Nominations

Nominees for this year's BSFA Awards, presented by the British Science Fiction Association, have been announced. The awards will be presented in April at Eastercon LX.

Best Novel

Flood by Stephen Baxter
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Best Short Fiction

"Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (Eclipse 2)
"Crystal Nights" by Greg Egan (Interzone 215)
"Little Lost Robot" by Paul McAuley (Interzone 217)
"Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment" by M. Rickert (F&SF, Oct/Nov 2008)

Best Non-Fiction

"Physics for Amnesia" by John Clute (talk given at the Gresham College Symposium "Science Fiction as a Literary Genre")
Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films by Roz Kaveney (I.B. Tauris)
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon)
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan)

Best Artwork

Cover of Subterfuge, ed. Ian Whates, by Andy Bigwood
Cover of Flood by Stephen Baxter, by Blacksheep
Cover of Swiftly by Adam Roberts, by Blacksheep
Cover of Murky Depths 4, by Vincent Chong
Cover of Interzone 218, by Warwick Fraser Coombe

The list is posted by Niall Harrison on the Torque Control blog, with additional links, and comments from readers.

Ray Bradbury Award

SFWA has announced the formation of The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation for works including motion pictures, television, Internet, radio, audio, and stage productions. The award will first be presented in 2010 (for works released in 2009). Though not a Nebula, the award will be presented at the Nebula Awards Ceremony and will follow Nebula rules and procedures; the Script category of the Nebulas has been eliminated. For more:
www.sfwa.org/awards/rules2009.htm.

Nebula Rules Change

SFWA has announced significant rules changes for the Nebula Awards process, eliminating rolling eligibility and limiting nominations to work published during a given calendar year (i.e., only works published in 2009 will be eligible for the 2010 awards), as well as eliminating jury additions. The changes are effective as of January 2009 and "except as explicitly stated, will have no impact on works published in 2008 or the Nebula Awards process currently underway." The complete new rules are available here.

Philip K. Dick Award Nominees List Revised

Award administrator Gordon Van Gelder announced a revised nominee list for the Philip K. Dick Award, noting the Kristine Smith title Endgame had a 2007 copyright date; Plague War by Jeff Carlson (Ace Books) will replace the ineligible title. Revised nominee list.

Gregory Wins Crawford

Daryl Gregory's Pandemonium (Del Rey) is the winner of the 2009 Crawford Award for best first fantasy. Other titles on this year's shortlist are Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst (Riverhead); Superpowers, David Schwartz (Three Rivers); Thunderer, Felix Gilman (Bantam Spectra); and Last Dragon, J.M. McDermott (Wizards of the Coast). The award will be presented at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 18-22, in Orlando, Florida. Details of the conference are at http://www.iafa.org/.

Dick Award Finalists

Finalists for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Awards have been announced:

Emissaries from the Dead, Adam-Troy Castro (Eos)

Endgame, Kristine Smith (Eos)

Fast Forward 2, Lou Anders, ed. (Pyr)

Judge, Karen Traviss (Eos)

Plague War, Jeff Carlson (Ace)*

Terminal Mind, David Walton (Meadowhawk Press)

Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, K.A. Bedford (EDGE)

The winner and any special citations will be announced April 10, 2009 at Norwescon 32 in Seattle. For more: http://www.philipkdickaward.org/. *Title replacing Endgame (which was deemed ineligible for its 2007 copyright).

Dwarf Stars Award Winner

The winner of the 2008 Dwarf Stars Award, presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association for the best short speculative poem of 10 lines or less, has gone to Greg Beatty for "Place Mat by Moebius", published in Asimov's SF, January 2007.

Second and third place went to Sonya Taaffe and Ann K. Schwader. Details are listed on the SFPA website.

The Bellingham [Washington] Herald included this announcement of Beatty's award.

SFWA Releases Preliminary Nebula Ballot

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released the preliminary ballot for this year's Nebula Awards, from which members may nominate up to five items per category, with the results forming a final ballot. Results of voting on the final ballot will be announced at a banquet during Nebula Awards Weekend, to be held April 24-26, 2009, at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

» SFWA: preliminary Nebula Awards ballot

Hugo Nominations Open

Nominations for the Hugo Awards, honoring the best work published in 2008, are now being accepted. Nominating ballots must be postmarked by February 28, 2009. To participate, you must have purchased an Anticipation membership by January 31st, 2009, or have been a member of Denvention 3. Details are available here: www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Hugos.