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During Nebula Weekend, the winners of the 2006 readers' awards for Analog and Asimov's magazines were awarded.

Analog's Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards went to:

• Best Novella: "The Good Kill" by Barry B. Longyear (November)
• Best Novelette: "Lady Be Good" by John G. Hemry (April)
• Best Short Story: "Kyrie Eleison" by John G. Hemry (September)
• Best Fact Article: "The Great Sumatran Earthquakes of 2004-5" by Richard A. Lovett (October)
• Best Cover: September 2006 by Jean-Pierre Normand

And the Asimov's Readers' Awards were given to:

• Best Novella: "The Walls of the Universe" by Paul Melko (April/May)
• Best Novelette: "Yellow Card Man" by Paolo Bacigalupi (December)
• Best Short Story: "Impossible Dreams" by Tim Pratt (July)
• Best Poem: "Remembering the Future" by Darrell Schweitzer (October/November)
• Best Cover Artist: J.K. Potter (March)

[via SF Signal]

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Mike Wood's story "A Better Sense of Direction" has won the first annual James Patrick Baen Memorial Writing Contest, beating nearly a hundred other entires.

The story -- along with the two runners-up -- will be published in Jim Baen's Universe online magzine, and the winners will also receive a subscription to Jim Baen's Universe, an autographed copy of The Best of Jim Baen's Universe, a mug and totebag with the magazine's logo, and a membership in the National Space Society.

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From the luxurious Grand Ballroom of New York's Marriott Financial Center, here are your Nebula winners for 2007:

• Novel: Seeker by Jack McDevitt
• Novella: "Burn" by James Patrick Kelly
• Novelette: "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle
• Short Story: "Echo" by Elizabeth Hand
• Script: Howl's Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt
• Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy: Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier

"Burn" is available from the SFBC in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Third Annual Collection, and Magic or Madness is available from the SFBC in the omnibus The Magic of Reason.

Congratulations to all of the winners.

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Following their announcement of the Nebula novel jury the other day, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the members of the jury for the Andre Norton Award for 2007.

The Norton Award is given to the best work of SF and fantasy for young adults, published anywhere in the world in English, and is nominated and voted by the members of SFWA (along with the Nebula Awards). The Jury's power is to add one work to the final shortlist, if they feel that it has been unjustly been neglected.

This year's judges are:

Victoria McManus
1157 BRB II/III, 421 Curie Blvd
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6058

John G. Hemry
8830 Stratford Ct
Owings MD 20736-3601

Catherine Morrison
150 Ashcroft Square
King Street
London W6 0YN
United Kingdom

Sarah Prineas
419 Ferson Ave
Iowa City IA 52246

Amy Sisson
14326 Sun Harbor Dr
Houston TX 77062

Sherwood Smith
5072 Kingscross Rd
Westminster CA 92683

Guy Stewart
3607 72nd Ave N
Brooklyn Center MN 55429-1413

[via SF Scope]

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Neil Gaiman's recent short story collection Fragile Things has been nominated for the Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story, awarded annually to the author of the best collection published the previous year. (To be eligible, authors must have been born in, or currently based in, the UK or Ireland).

The other nominees include collections by Jackie Kay, Nicholas Royle, Colm Toibin, and Tamar Yellin.

[via Neil Gaiman's blog]

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The Science Fiction Writers of America have named the panel of members who will act as the novel jury for the 2007 Nebula Awards -- publishers are urged to send eligible works (science fiction or fantasy stories over 40,000 words) to the jury members for consideration. 

The members of the jury this year are:

• Theodore Beale
  15 Seestrasse
  CH-6300 Zug
  Switzerland
• Russell Davis
  615 Wedge Lane
  Fernley, NV 89408
• Debra Doyle
  174 Main Street
  Colebrook NH 03576
• Sharon Lee
  PO Box 179
  Unity Maine 04988
• Jean Rabe
  3511 22nd Street
  Kenosha WI 53144
• Don Trotter
  749 Millard Hill Road
  Newfield NY 14867

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA -- and, yes, they know that they dropped an "F" in the middle there) have teamed up with Abebooks.com, the Internet used-books amalgamator, to run a contest that will send two lucky readers to this year's Nebula Awards Banquet in New York. The winners will get two tickets to the Nebula Weekend and a two-night stay at the Marriott New York, where the event will be held.

You can enter the contest at that link -- the only things you need to know are your own name and address and the winner of last year's Nebula for Best Novel. (Shades of this Dork Tower cartoon, huh?)

Update, 5/8: The winner of the contest has been announced, and it's...Gavin Grant! (I assume this is the Small Beer Press Gavin Grant, but perhaps there's more than one person lurking out there with that name. I've learned not to be dogmatic on the subject, since I know of several "Andrew Wheelers" in the world, and most of them aren't me.)

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Romantic Times has announced the winners of their 2006 Reader's Choice Awards in a bewildering array of categories.

Among the many, many categories are a bunch that could be of interest to SFF readers:

• Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Jacob by Jacquelyn Frank
• Futuristic Romance: True Blood by Patricia Waddell
• Vampire Romance: Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward
• Werewolf Romance: Master of Wolves by Angela Knight
• Historical Fantasy: The Grail King by Joy Nash 
• Historical Paranormal: Touch of Desire by Susan Spencer Paul
• Epic Fantasy Novel: The Privilege of the Sword by Elle nKushner (also available in the SFBC omnibus Swords of Riverside)
• Fantasy Novel: Eyes of Crow by Jeri Smith-Ready
• Modern-Day Fantasy Novel: Working for the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow
• Science Fiction Novel: Farthing by Jo Walton
• Small Press Contemporary Paranormal/Futuristic Romance: Into a Dangerous Mind by Tina Gerrow

[Thanks to Ellen Kushner for pointing me to the full list of winners.]

Update, 5/8: I missed one! Joshua Bilmes, agent to the stars, let me know that Charlaine Harris's Definitely Dead won in the Best Amateur Sleuth category (not where I was expecting to find a contemporary fantasy, I'll admit). Congratulations to Charlaine, and all of the winners.

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The world's least necessary award for books, the Quills, will continue for a third year, though the process is being overhauled, reports the Associated Press.

This year, the general public will only be allowed to vote for the Book of the Year category; the other eighteen winners will be determined by votes of booksellers and librarians. Quills founder and chairman Gerry Byrne started that the purpose of this move was to "add to the credibility" of the winners.

The Quills are a joint project of the parent companies of NBC (broadcaster of the cermony) and Publishers Weekly, and were started in 2005 with the mission of "livening up" literary awards.

Nominees will be announced June 2nd, and the winners in all categories except Book of the Year will be released September 10th. Voting for the Book of the Year will follow -- it's unclear whether the voters will be required to choose from among the eighteen category winners or can choose other nominees or even un-annointed books -- until October 10th, and the gala TV show will inevitably follow on October 27th.

According to the official site, books are nominated either by being given a starred review...by PW, or by appearing on the bestseller lists...published by PW, or by being a special selection of the Committee...made up of PW editors. Once PW has decided what books are nominated, they'll send it to the voters -- "over 6,000 invited [by PW] booksellers and librarians" -- who will decide which PW books will win their PW categories for the PW awards.

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The ceremony was being held tonight at the opening of the SciFi-London Film Festival, and, according to Eve's Alexandria, the winner is M. John Harrison for Nova Swing.

Congratulations to Mr. Harrison!

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As previously announced, Stephen King was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at their Edgar Awards Banquet last week. Not much else this year was of interest to the SFF genre -- though Charles Ardai (the publisher of the great Hard Case Crime line, who has edited in the field and is married to Naomi Novik) did win for Best Short Story.

Dark Echo has a longer report, with a full list of the winners. And our congratulations to all of the winners!

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Everyone was expecting the list of nominations to be released on the 24th (last Saturday), but better late than never. I saw these at SF Signal, and apparently Lit Soup had them first. (I haven't seen an official press release, and the Nippon 2007 Hugo page is silent on the subject.) So, assuming these are the real deal...

Novel

• Michael F. Flynn, Eifelheim (Tor)
• Naomi Novik, His Majesty’s Dragon (Del Rey) (also available in Temeraire: In the Service of the King)
• Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace)
• Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor)
• Peter Watts, Blindsight (Tor)

Novella

• Robert Reed, “A Billion Eves”
• Paul Melko, “The Walls of the Universe”
• William Shunn, “Inclination”
• Michael Swanwick, “Lord Weary’s Empire”
• Robert Charles Wilson, “Julian”

"A Billion Eves," "Lord Weary's Empire," and "Julian" will be in Jonathan Strahan's Best Short Novels: 2007, coming soon from the SFBC.

"Julian" will also be in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection, also coming soon from the SFBC. 

Novelette

• Paolo Bacigalupi, “Yellow Card Man”
• Michael F. Flynn, “Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth”
• Ian McDonald, “The Djinn’s Wife”
• Mike Resnick, “All the Things You Are”
• Geoff Ryman, “Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter”

"Yellow Card Man" and "The Djinn's Wife" will be in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection.

"Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" will be in Year's Best SF 12, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, coming soon from the SFBC.

Short Story

• Neil Gaiman, “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” (from Fragile Things)
• Bruce McAllister, “Kin”
• Tim Pratt, “Impossible Dreams”
• Robert Reed, “Eight Episodes”
• Benjamin Rosenbaum, “The House Beyond Your Sky”

"Kin" and "The House Beyond Your Sky" will be in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection.

Related Book

• Samuel R. Delany, About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews
• Joseph T. Major, Heinlein’s Children: The Juveniles
• Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon
• John Picacio, Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio
• Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari, eds., Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches

Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

• Children of Men
• Pan's Labyrinth (see below for explanation)
• The Prestige
• A Scanner Darkly
• V for Vendetta

Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Battlestar Galactica, “Downloaded”
• Doctor Who, “Army of Ghosts” and “Doomsday”
• Doctor Who, “Girl in the Fireplace”
• Doctor Who, “School Reunion”

Editor, Short Form

• Gardner Dozois
• David G. Hartwell
• Stanley Schmidt
• Gordon Van Gelder
• Sheila Williams

Editor, Long Form

• Lou Anders
• James Patrick Baen
• Ginjer Buchanan
• David G. Hartwell
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Professional Artist

• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• Stephan Martiniere
• John Jude Palencar
• John Picacio

Semiprozine

• Ansible
• Interzone
• Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
• Locus
• The New York Review of Science Fiction

Fanzine

• Banana Wings
• Challenger
• The Drink Tank
• Plokta
• Science-Fiction Five-Yearly

Fan Writer

• Chris Garcia
• John Hertz
• Dave Langford
• John Scalzi
• Steven H. Silver

Fan Artist

• Brad W. Foster
• Teddy Harvia
• Sue Mason
• Steve Stiles
• Frank Wu

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

• Scott Lynch
• Sarah Monette
• Naomi Novik
• Brandon Sanderson
• Lawrence M. Schoen

The awards will be presented at Nippon 2007; I'll have to miss it this year (Japan is very expensive, as is trans-Pacific air travel), but best wish to all of the nominees and attendees.

Update, 4/2: The Hugo Administrators have announced a change in the "Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form" category; Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest is off and Pan's Labyrinth is on. There was an error in the original tally, and this is a correction tyo reflect the actual votes.

Further Update, 4/24: Jed Hartman has been instrumental in ensuring that all of this year's short fiction nominees are available on-line (just click the links from that page); now those of you who are members of Nippon 2007 have no excuses for not voting (and no excuses for not voting, and then whining that the "wrong things" won).

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Locus has announced the finalists for their annual Poll; winners will be announced on June 16th at the Locus Awards Ceremony at the Science Fiction Museum during the Hall of Fame Weekend.

Best Science Fiction Novel:

• Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor)
• Carnival, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
• Farthing, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Glasshouse, Charles Stross (Orbit; Ace)
• Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel:

• The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross (Golden Gryphon Press; Ace) (also available in the SFBC omnibus On Her Majesty's Occult Service)
• The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow (Morrow)
• The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra) (also available in the SFBC omnibus Swords of Riverside)
• Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
• Three Days to Never, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow)

Best First Novel:

• Crystal Rain, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
• The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist (Bantam; Viking UK)
• The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages (Viking)
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
• Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon/Throne of Jade/Black Powder, Naomi Novik (Del Rey; Voyager); as Temeraire: In the Service of the King (SFBC)

Best Young Adult Book:

• The Keys to the Kingdom: Sir Thursday, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; The Chicken House)
• Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier (Penguin/Razorbill) (also available in the SFBC omnibus The Magic of Reason)
• Spirits That Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
• Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin (Orion Children's; Harcourt)
• Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperTempest)

Best Novella:

• "Botch Town", Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream) (also available in Best Short Novels: 2007)
• Lord Weary's Empire", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 12/06)  (also available in Best Short Novels: 2007)
• "Map of Dreams", M. Rickert (Map of Dreams)
• "The Mars Girl", Joe Haldeman (Escape from Earth)
• Missile Gap", Charles Stross (One Million A.D.)

Best Novelette: 

• "I, Row-Boat", Cory Doctorow (Flurb 1, Fall '06)
• "The Night Whiskey", Jeffrey Ford (Salon Fantastique)
• "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)", Geoff Ryman (F&SF 10-11/06)
• "The Singularity Needs Women!", Paul Di Filippo (Forbidden Planets [Crowther])
• "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth", Cory Doctorow (Baen's Universe 8/06) (also available in Year's Best SF 12)

Best Short Story: 

• "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
• "In the Abyss of Time", Stephen Baxter (Asimov's 8/06)
• "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls", Nancy Kress (Asimov's 7/06) (also available in Year's Best SF 12)
• "Sob in the Silence", Gene Wolfe (Strange Birds)
• "Tin Marsh", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's 8/06) (also available in Year's Best SF 12)

Best Magazine: 

• Analog
• Asimov's
• Interzone
• The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
• Strange Horizons

Best Publisher: 

• Baen
• Del Rey
• Night Shade Books
• Subterranean Press
• Tor

Best Anthology: 

• One Million A.D., Gardner Dozois, ed. (SFBC)
• Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder's Mouth Press)
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin's)
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin's)
• Year's Best SF 11, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, eds. (Eos)

Best Collection: 

• The Best of Philip José Farmer, Philip José Farmer (Subterranean Press) 
• The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
• Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
• Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)

Best Editor: 

• Jim Baen
• Ellen Datlow
• Gardner Dozois
• David G. Hartwell
• Gordon Van Gelder

Best Artist: 

• Bob Eggleton
• Donato Giancola
• John Picacio
• Charles Vess
• Michael Whelan

Best Non-Fiction: 

• About Writing, Samuel R. Delany (Wesleyan University Press)
• Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard, Mark Finn (MonkeyBrain Books)
• The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror, John Clute (Payseur & Schmidt)
• James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St. Martin's)
• Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, Win Scott Eckert (MonkeyBrain Books)

Best Art Book: 

• Cathy & Arnie Fenner, eds. Spectrum 13: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Underwood)
• Edward Gorey, Amphigorey Again (Harcourt)
• John Jude Palencar, Origins (Underwood Books)
• John Picacio, Cover Story (MonkeyBrain Books)
• Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, The Fabulous Women of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell (HarperCollins/Collins Design)

Good luck to all of the nominees!

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The nominees for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced yesterday; the best run-through of the nominees I've seen is on the Forbidden Planet International blog.

The Eisners are a mixed award: the nominees are selected by a blue-ribbon planel (this year including novelist Jeff VanderMeer and four obvious very smart people whom I don't know), and then voted on by comic industry professionals (retailers, creators, publishers, and editors). The winners will be announced during the gigantic annual Comic-Con in San Diego on July 27th.

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Steven H. Silver, one of the administrators for the Sidewise Award (which honors the best in alternate history stories) has posted the nominees for this year's awards:

Long Form:

• Robert Conroy, 1862
• Paul Park, The Tourmaline
• Charles Stross, The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, and The Clan Corporate
• Harry Turtledove, The Disunited States of America
• Jo Walton, Farthing

Short Form:

• Stephen Baxter, "The Pacific Mystery"
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, "O, Pioneer"
• Gardner Dozois, "Counterfactual"
• Chris Floyd, "History Lesson"
• Martin Gidron, "Palestina"
• Brian Stableford, "The Plurality of Worlds"
• Andrew Tisbert, "The Meteor of the War"

Winners will be announced during this year's NASFiC, TuckerCon, this summer in St. Louis.

[via Locus Online] 

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VOYA, which I believe is a magazine for juvenile librarians (librarians for juveniles, not librarians who are themselves juvenile), has put out its 22nd annual listing of the best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror for Teen Readers. It's not entirely clear exactly when this year starts and stops, though I suspect it's May 2006 to April 2007.

Thirty-eight books are listed, including Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson's Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, Eric Flint's 1634: The Cannon Law, Diana Wynne Jones's The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory's When Darkness Falls, and both His Majesty's Dragon and Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik (both included in the exclusive SFBC omnibus Temeraire: In the Service of the King).

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The Trolls & Legendes Festival, in Mons, Belgium, has given their Le'Fantastique Lifetime Achievement Award to Stan Nicholls, for Contributions to Literature, and to Alan Lee, for Contributions to the Visual Arts. The award is commonly known as "the Troll."

Nicholls is the author, most recently, of the "Dreamtime" trilogy: The Covenant Rising, The Righteous Blade, and The Diamond Isle. Alan Lee has painted hundreds of covers for books over the past thirty-some years, has worked as a conceptual artist on many films (most famously, Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), is the co-author of the classic Fairies, and most recently is the author of The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook.

[via UK SF Book News]

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The annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced today, and there are some winners of SFnal interest this year.

Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road won for Fiction, and national treasure Ray Bradbury received a special citation for his "distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy."

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Nominees for the 2007 Compton Crook Award, given by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the best first solo SF, fantasy or horror novel, have been announced. They're not up on the BSFS's home page for the award, but I trust Locus Online, who listed them first.

The nominees are:

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• Sojourn by Jana G. Oliver
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (also available in the SFBC omnibus Temeraire: In the Service of the King)
• The Skewed Throne by Joshua Palmatier

The winner will be announced at Balticon 41.

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The nominees for the 2007 Rhysling Award, given by the Science Fiction Poetry Association in two categories, have been announced. The list of nominees is also apparently the table of contents of a Rhysling-branded anthology of 2006's SF poetry.

The list is quite long; one wonders how much SF poetry was published in 2006 that didn't make it onto the list.

Winners will be announced on July 7th at Readercon.

[via Locus Online]

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The official on-line voting page for the 2007 Hugo Awards is now available; the deadline for voting is midnight (PDT) on July 31st. You must be a member of Nippon 2007, this year's Worldcon, to vote.

The Locus Poll, on the other hand, is open to anyone at all; its deadline is this coming Sunday (April 15th), and I urge anyone who read a pile of SFF last year to vote for your favorite stuff.

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This weekend, at Contemplation/Eastercon, the BSFA's awards were given to:

• Novel: End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Short Fiction: "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald
• Artwork: "Angelbot" by Fanghorn (cover for Time Pieces, edited by Ian Whates)

[via Locus Online]

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The 2007 Philip K. Dick Award, presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback in the United States, was given to Chris Moriarty's Spin Control this weekend at Norwescon in SeaTac, Washington. A special citation was also given to Elizabeth Bear's novel Carnival. [via Locus Online]

If you want a hardcover edition of the winning novel, you'd have to get it from the SFBC...where you could get Spin Control, and four other books, for a dollar each with membership.

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Justine Larbalestier's Daughters of Earth will be awarded the Susan Koppleman Award for an Edited volume in Women's Studies, during the annual conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in Boston this week.

Daughters of Earth is an anthology of eleven classic SF stories by women along with eleven new essays about those stories; more information about it is available on its publisher's website.

[via SF Scope]

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The fabled Ditmar Awards -- which, if I recall correctly, are essentially the "Hugos of Australia" (someone correct me if I'm wrong) are awarded every year at the Australian National SF Convention. This year's con is Convergence 2, and the nominees for the 2007 Ditmars have just been announced.

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The list of Hugo nominees for this year came out last week, and soon afterward, as predictable as the tide of toxic sludge in my home state of New Jersey, came the complaints.

Well, Jed Hartman has attempted to answer all of those complaints..not that I expect it will do much good; the people who complain seem to prefer complaining to actually nominating or voting themselves (or doing anything constructive whatsoever). But he's got a pretty comprehensive list of all the things people complain about, with both the reasons why things are that way, and ways that the complainers could help make changes.

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Here's another award where I'm getting the winners from Locus Online rather than the Tiptree site, or even the site of WisCon, home of the awards. I guess Mark Kelly really is the hardest-working man in SF...

Your winners for 2007, sharing the honors jointly, are:

• Half Life by Shelley Jackson
• The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Gardner by Catherynne M. Valente

And a special recognition will go to Julie Phillips for her biography James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. The awards will be presented May 27th, at WisCon.

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These have not aparrently been posted officially on the Horror Writers Association or the World Horror Convention 2007 websites; I got them from Locus Online.

Novel: Lisey's Story by Stephen King

First Novel: Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry

Long Fiction: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge

Short Fiction: "Tested" by Lisa Morton

Anthology: (tie) Retro Pulp Tales edited by Joe R. Landsale and Mondo Zombie edited by John Skipp

Collection: Destinations Unkinown by Gary A. Braunbeck 

Nonfiction: (tie) Final Exits by Michael Largo and Gospel of the Living Dead by Kim Paffenroth

Poetry: Shades Fantastic by Bruce Boston

Congratulations to all of the winners.

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John Scalzi has posted the finalists for this year's Prometheus Award:

• Empire, Orson Scott Card
• The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi
• Glasshouse, Charles Stross
• Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
• Harbingers, F. Paul Wilson 

The Award, in past years, has been announced at the World Science Fiction Convention, so I expect (but am not sure) that this year's award will be announced sometime during Nippon 2007.

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Perhaps my favorite award in the world is the Bookseller/Diagram Prize, given annually to the book with the oddest title. Past winners include the magisterial Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers, the groundbreaking Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice, and the perplexing Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality.

This year, the frontrunner appears to be How Green Were the Nazis?, though The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America is a dark horse candidate. The winner will be announced on April 13th, just before the beginning of the annual London Book Fair; anyone can vote on The Bookseller's home page.

(The Guardian reports on the current prize and its history. The Book Standard article on last year's winner also has a list of all winning titles since 1978. The Bookseller lists this year's nominees.)

Posted by Andrew Wheeler at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)