LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, has made available the 2013 Hugo Voter Packet, an electronic package of nominated works graciously made available to voters by nominees and their publishers.
The 2013 Hugo Voter Packet is available to Supporting, Attending, Military and Young Adult members of LoneStarCon 3 to help inform them about the works under consideration before voting. The packet will remain available until voting closes on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 11:59pm CDT.
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If you are not yet a member you can register online for immediate access to the Hugo Voter Packet and the chance to help select this year’s Hugo and John W. Campbell Award winners. You do not need to attend the convention to participate in the Hugo Awards.
The winners of the 2012 Nebula Awards have just been announced!
- NOVEL: 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK) [Our review]
- NOVELLA: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
- NOVELETTE: “Close Encounters”, Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)
- SHORT STORY: “Immersion“, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)
- RAY BRADBURY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin (director), Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin (writers), (Journeyman/Cinereach/Court 13/Fox Searchlight)
- ANDRE NORTON AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY: Fair Coin, E.C. Myers (Pyr)
- 2011 DAMON KNIGHT GRAND MASTER AWARD: Gene Wolfe
- SOLSTICE AWARD: Carl Sagan and Ginjer Buchanan
- KEVIN O’DONNELL JR. SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD: Michael H. Payne
Congrats to all!
The winners of Analog Science Fiction and Fact‘s AnLab Award and Asimov’s Science Fiction’s Readers’ Award have been chosen. They are:
Analog Science Fiction and Fact Analytical Laboratory Winners
- BEST NOVELLA: “Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light” by Richard A. Lovett & William Gleason (7-8/12)
- BEST NOVELETTE: “Ninety Thousand Horses” by Sean McMullen (1-2/12)
- BEST SHORT STORY: “Titanium Soul” by Catherine Shaffer (6/12)
- BEST FACT: “Faster Than a Speeding Photon” by Edward M. Lerner (1-2/12)
- BEST COVER: October 2012 by Michael Whelan
The awards were presented at a breakfast celebration during Nebula Awards weekend.
The winners for the 2012 Aurealis Awards, given to works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians, have been announced!
- BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION (TOLD PRIMARILY THROUGH WORDS): Brotherband: The Hunters by John Flanagan (Random House Australia)
- BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION (TOLD PRIMARILY THROUGH PICTURES): Little Elephants by Graeme Base (Viking Penguin)
- BEST YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY: “The Wisdom of the Ants” by Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld)Media Release – 2013 Aurealis Awards ceremony Page 2 of 2
- BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL:
- Dead, Actually by Kaz Delaney (Allen & Unwin)
- Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK / GRAPHIC NOVEL: Blue by Pat Grant (Top Shelf Comix)
- BEST COLLECTION: That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote by K. J. Bishop (self-published)
- BEST ANTHOLOGY: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books)
- BEST HORROR SHORT STORY: “Sky” by Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls, Twelfth Planet Press)
- BEST HORROR NOVEL: Perfections by Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
- BEST FANTASY SHORT STORY: “Bajazzle” by Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape, Twelfth Planet Press)
- BEST FANTASY NOVEL: Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY: “Significant Dust” by Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape, Twelfth Planet Press)
- BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (Harper Collins)
- PETER MCNAMARA CONVENORS’ AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE: Kate Eltham
- KRIS HEMBURY ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD: Laura Goodin
Congratulations to all the winners!
The winners if the 20th Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards have been announced!
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The finalists for this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (honoring the best short science fiction story published in 2012) and John W. Campbell Memorial Award (honoring the best science fiction novel of 2012) have just been announced.
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The finalists for the 2013 Locus Awards have been announced!
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
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The finalists of the 2012 Shirley Jackson Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic have been announced!
NOVEL
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (ROC)
- The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
- Edge, Koji Suzuki (Vertical, Inc.)
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers)
- Immobility, Brian Evenson (Tor)
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The winner of the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced.
Congratulations to Chris Beckett for his novel Dark Eden being selected among a fine list of nominees!
he winners of the Ditmar Awards have been announced!
- NOVEL: Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- NOVELLA OR NOVELETTE: “Sky”, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls)
- SHORT STORY: “The Wisdom of Ants“, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld 12/12)
- COLLECTED WORK: Through Splintered Walls, Kaaron Warren (Twelfth Planet)
- ARTWORK: Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Midnight and Moonshine (Ticonderoga)
- FAN WRITER: Tansy Rayner Roberts, for body of work including reviews in Not If You Were The Last Short Story On Earth
- FAN ARTIST: Kathleen Jennings, for body of work including “The Dalek Game” and “The Tamsyn Webb Sketchbook”
- FAN PUBLICATION: The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
- NEW TALENT: David McDonald
- WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW: Tansy Rayner Roberts, for “Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.” (Tor.com)
Also announced at the ceremony (but not a Ditmar) were the following:
- NORMA K. HEMMING AWARD: Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- PETER MCNAMARA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Nick Stathopoulos
- A. BERTRAM CHANDLER AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE FICTION: Russell B Farr
Congratulations to all the winners!
[via David McDonald and Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews.]
The finalists for the Aurora AWard, celebrating the best in Canadian fiction (in both English and French), have been announced :
Best Novel – English
- Destiny’s Fall by Marie Bilodeau, Dragon Moon Press
- Food for the Gods by Karen Dudley, Ravenstone Books
- Healer’s Sword: Part 7 of the Okal Rel Saga by Lynda Williams, EDGE
- The Silvered by Tanya Huff, DAW Books, Inc.
- Thunder Road by Chadwick Ginther, Ravenstone Books
- Triggers by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada
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The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the finalists for the 2013 Prometheus Award, recognizing pro-freedom novels published in the last year:
The finalists are:
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The finalists for the 2013 Ditmar Awards, given by members of the Australian National Science Fiction Convention for professional and fan works by Australians, have been announced:
Best Novel
- Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin)
- Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
- Suited (The Veiled Worlds 2), Jo Anderton (Angry Robot)
- Salvage, Jason Nahrung (Twelfth Planet Press)
- Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum)
- The Corpse-Rat King, Lee Battersby (Angry Robot)
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The finalists for the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award (given to the best SF novel published each year in the UK, though not necessarily by a British writer) have been announced:
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The winners of the 2012 BSFA Awards have been announced.
- NOVEL: Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- SHORT FICTION: Adrift on the Sea of Rains by Ian Sales (Whippleshield Books) [See SF Signal review.]
- ARTWORK: Blacksheep for Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- NON-FICTION: The World SF Blog, Lavie Tidhar, chief editor
Congratulations to the winners!
See also: Past winners
BSFA Awards
The finalists for the 2013 Hugo Award have been announced.
Short version: Woot! Two nominations again — Thank you, everyone!
Long version: The nominees are:
Best Novel
- 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) [See SF Signal review]
- Blackout by Mira Grant (Orbit)
- Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi (Tor) [See SF Signal review]
- Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (DAW) [See SF Signal review]
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It was announced on Friday, March 29, at Norwescon 36, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2012 in the U.S.A. is:
- Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (Tor Books)
Special citation was given to:
- Lovestar by Andri Snær Magnason (Seven Stories Press)
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society. The 2012 judges were Bruce Bethke, Sydney Duncan, Daryl Gregory, Bridget McKenna, and Paul Witcover (chair). This year’s judges are Elizabeth Bear (chair), Siobhan Carroll, Michael Kandel, Jamil Nasir, and Tim Sullivan.
Congratulations to Brian and Andri!
The finalists for the 2012 Aurealis Awards, given to works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians, have been announced!
FANTASY NOVEL
- Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth (Random House Australia)
- Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff (Tor UK)
- Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (Allen&Unwin)
- Flame of Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)
- Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier (HarperVoyager)
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The finalists for the Lambda Literary Award, honoring works of gay and lesbian literature, have been announced. here are the sf/f finalists:
- Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, Brit Mandelo, Lethe Press
- Chocolatiers of the High Winds: A Gay Steampunk Romance, H.B. Kurtzwilde, Clasp Editions; An Imprint of Circlet Press
- Green Thumb, Tom Cardamone, Lethe Press
- Heiresses of Russ 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman, Lethe Press [Reviewed, here.]
- In the Now, Kelly Sinclair, Blue Feather Books
- Night Shadows: Queer Horror, Greg Herren and J.M. Redmann, eds., Bold Strokes Books
- The Survivors, Sean Eads, Lethe Press
Congratulations to all the nominees!
And don’t forget to check out the full list of nominees.
The winners of the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award, an annual literary prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender, have been announced!
The jury also chose the Tiptree Award Honor List:
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