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tiden...
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att göra det! Grejor om skrivande, sf, fantasy, kultur, vetenskap kanske, annat
som är kul. Undertecknad är iofs en gammal Flygande Fanreporter sedan 35+ år,
men jag skall väl inte behöva göra allt själv, eh.)
/Omsändning. Det blev tydligen bara en massa skräptecken första gången./
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The 2014 Analog AnLab Awards and the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards were presented at
a breakfast celebration at the Palmer House Hilton during the Nebula Awards
Weekend on June 6, 2015 in Chicago IL.
The Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards winners are:
Best Novella
“Music to Me”, Richard A. Lovett (8/14)
Best Novelette
“Life Flight”, Brad R. Torgersen (8/14)
Best Short Story (tie)
“Another Man’s Treasure”, Tom Greene (5/14) & “Snapshots”, Kristine Kathryn
Rusch (5/14)
Best Fact
“Lockstep: A Possible Galactic Empire”, Karl Schroeder (5/14)
Best Cover
January/February 2014, David A. Hardy
The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards winners are:
Best Novella
“The Legion of Tomorrow”, Allen M. Steele (7/14)
Best Novelette
“The Common Good”, Nancy Kress (1/14)
Best Short Story
“The Plantimal”, Mike Resnick & Ken Liu (3/14)
Best Poem
“In the Quiet Hour”, Bruce Boston (4-5/14)
Best Cover Artist:
June 2014, Maurizio Manzieri
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The 2016 World Fantasy Convention will be held October 27-30, 2016 at the Hyatt
Regency Columbus in Columbus OH.
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The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced winners of the 27th Annual Lambda
Literary Awards, celebrating excellence in LGBT literature in a wide variety of
categories, including SF:
SF/Fantasy/Horror
Bitter Waters, Chaz Brenchley (Lethe)
The awards were presented June 1, 2015 at the 27th Annual Lambda Literary
Awards Ceremony in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City.
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The Audio Publishers Association has announced the 2015 Audie Awards winners,
recognizing excellence in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment.
Audie winners of genre interest include:
Science Fiction
The Martian, Andy Weir, read by R.C. Bray (Brilliance)
Paranormal
The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey, read by Finty Williams (Hachette Audio)
Fantasy
Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson, read by Kate Reading & Michael Kramer
(Macmillan Audio)
Package Design
The Light at the End, Nicholas Briggs, read by Tom Baker and a full cast (Big
Finish)
Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman and a full cast
(HarperAudio)
Multi-Voiced Performance
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman and a full cast
(HarperAudio)
Distinguished Achievement in Production
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman and a full cast
(HarperAudio)
Solo Narration – Male
The Hero’s Guide to Being an Outlaw, Christopher Healy, read by Bronson Pinchot
(HarperAudio)
The winners were announced at BookExpo America, held May 28, 2015, at Javits
Center in New York City.
Category: Awards
Tomorrow Prize Winner
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“Freedom” by Ashley Anderson from Port of Los Angeles High School won the
inaugural Tomorrow Prize for Short Fiction. Anna Maria Horsford read the story
aloud and Anderson will receive a prize of $250. The ceremony was held May 25,
2015 at Sci-Fest LA, the Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival.
For more: www.sci-fest.com
Category: Contests
Roswell Award Winner
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“Grandma’s Sex Robot” by William Hawkins won the inaugural Roswell Award short
story writing contest. Gates McFadden read the story aloud and Hawkins will
receive a prize of $1,000. The ceremony was held May 25, 2015 at Sci-Fest LA,
the Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival.
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French-Canadian SF writer and editor Joël Champetier, 57, died May 30, 2015
after a long struggle with leukemia. Champetier was a renowned and
award-winning SF author, and longtime editor of Solaris, one of the most
prestigious French-language SF magazines in the world.
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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced that Alexandra
Duncan’sSalvage (Greenwillow) is the winner of the 2015 Compton Crook/Stephen
Tall Award for “the best first novel in the genre published in the previous
year by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.”
The award was presented May 22, 2015 at Balticon 49, where Duncan received an
award plaque and check for $1,000 during the convention’s opening ceremonies.
Selection is by vote of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society membership.
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The 2015 Spectrum Awards Winners were announced May 23, 2015 at Spectrum
Fantastic Art Live 4 at the Folly Theater in Kansas City MO.
Advertising
Gold Award: “Barbarians: Faust”, Taylor Wessling
Silver Award: “Tokyo Night Show”, Yuko Shimizu
Book
Gold Award: “Taking Flight”, Dan dos Santos
Silver Award: “Jack and the Sleeping Giant”, Scott Gustafson
Comics
Gold Award: Bernadette, page 1, Audrey Benjaminsen
Silver Award: Castle in the Stars, Alex Alice
Concept Art
Gold Award: “The Parade”, Sung Choi
Silver Award: “Fairy 3″, Audrey Benjaminsen
Dimensional
Gold Award: “Venetian Harpy”, Forest Rogers
Silver Award: “Dragon vs. Raptors”, David Silva
Editorial
Gold Award: “A Distressed Damsel”, Tran Nguyen
Silver Award: “Critical Education”, Sam Bosma
Institutional
Gold Award: “Fake It”, Rovina Cai
Silver Award: “Bad Seed”, Laurie Lee Brom
Unpublished
Gold Award: “Momentum”, Cynthia Sheppard
Silver Award: “Beowulf: Mother”, Paul Bonner
Grand Master Award
Scott Gustafson
Rising Star Award
Wylie Beckert
Winning artwork will be included in Spectrum 22: The Best in Contemporary
Fantastic Art (Flesk Publications), edited by John Fleskes. Jurors were Justin
Gerard, Virginie Ropars, Greg Ruth, Annie Stegg Gerard, and Dice Tsutsumi.
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Don McGregor and John Stanley will receive this year’s Bill Finger Award,
presented at Comic Con International to recognize unsung writers in the comics
field. Each year, the award is given to one living and one dead writer. Doyle
began writing for Warren in 1971. At Marvel he wrote Black Panther and
Killraven. Stanley began writing Little Lulu in the 1940s and created much f
the comic’s support cast. Much of Stanley’s work was published anonymously and
he left the field in the 1970s and died in 1993.
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The winners of the 2015 Prix Imaginales have been announced. The awards will be
presented at Imaginales in Épinal, France on May 30. The Imaginales Awards
recognizes the best works of fantasy of the year in six categories, with a
prize of 1,000 euros for the first four categories and 500 euros for the last
two. Winners were selected by a jury composed of Anne Besson, Jacques Grasser,
Annaïg Houesnard, Jean-Claude Van Troyen, Jérôme Vincent, and Stéphane Wieser.
French Novel: Manesh, by Stefan Platteau,
Foreign Novel: Comme un conte, by Graham Joyce, translated by Louise Malagoli,
(Some Kind of Fairy Tale)
Work for Youth: La Voie des oracles, by Estelle Faye
Illustration: Hélène Larbaigt for L’étrange cabaret des fées désenchantées
Short Story: Père-des-Pierres, by Orson Scott Card, translated by Jean-Daniel
Brèque, (Stonefather)
Prix spécial du Jury: Vincent Ferré for the collection Lire J.R.R. Tolkien and
overseeing the new translation of Seigneur des Anneaux by Daniel Lauzon.
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Alexandra Duncan won this year’s Compton Crook Award for best first novel for
her book Salvage. The award comes with a prize of $1,000 and the winner will be
treated as a guest of honor for two consecutive Balticons. A plaque wasbe
presented to Duncan at Balticon.
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Doris Elaine Sauter died around May 25. Sauter met Philip K. Dick in 1972 and
struck up a friendship with him that lasted until his death. After Dick died,
Sauter edited What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations of
Philip K. Dick, which was ranked fourth in the Locus Poll in 2002.
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The results of this year’s SFWA elections, the first to be governed by the new
constitution, have been announced. Although SFWA board members will now serve
for two year terms, some of this year’s elected board will only serve a single
year in order to stagger some of the elections. An asterisk denotes an
incumbent who was re-elected. The new board members take office on July 1.
President: Cat Rambo
Vice-President: M.C.A. Hogarth (one year term)
Secretary: Susan Forest*
Chief Financial officer: Bud Sparhawk* (one year term)
Directors-at-large: Jennifer Brozek and Matthew Johnson*
Lee Martindale, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Sarah Pinsker will continue in their
multi-year terms as Directors-at-large.
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The Speculative Literature Foundation has announced that Nino Cipri has been
awarded the Working Class Grant. The $750 award supports any purpose that the
writer wishes to benefit their work. Cipri currently works for bicycle sharing
company Divvy in Chicago and has recently completed the Clarion Writers
Workshop. Cipri’s writing has appeared or will appear in Tor.com, Fireside
Fiction, Betwixt, Daily Science Fiction, The Journal of Unlikely Entomology,
and The Eunoia Review.
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Margaret Atwood is the first of 100 contributors to 'Future Library' (created
by artist Katie Paterson), which will collect one unpublished MS a year and
print them all in 2114 to coincide with The Last Dangerous Visions. Until then,
fandom will be on tenterhooks as to whether the Atwood story contains talking
squid in outer space.
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John Scalzi's $3.4 million deal with Tor, for 13 books to be written over ten
years (Washington Post, 28 May), caused much comment online. Various
puppy-aligned pundits – see A334 – indicated that this was a terrible calamity,
signalling the imminent End Times for both author and publisher; Vox Day
deplored Scalzi's failure to take the wiser course of self-publishing. Others,
incredible though it may seem, disagreed.
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RIP:
Masayuki Imai (1961-2015), Japanese actor/writer who wrote and starred in the
timeslip film Winds of God (1995, based on his own earlier stage play) –
additionally directing its remake The Winds of God: Kamikaze (2006) – died on
28 May aged 54.
Chuck Miller (1952-2015), US publisher, editor and author best known for the
small press Underwood-Miller Inc (1976-1994 with Tim Underwood) which published
Jack Vance and the collected stories of Philip K. Dick, died on 24 May aged 62.
[PDF] He also coedited various U-M anthologies of Stephen King criticism.
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Ursula K. Le Guin posted a follow-up to her A333-cited Bookviewcafe.com reproof
of Kazuo Ishiguro, apologizing for 'my evidently over-hasty response' (10
March). 'Many sites on the Internet were quick to pick up my blog post,
describing it as an "attack", a "slam", etc. They were hot on the scent for
blood, hoping for a feud. I wonder how many will pick up this one?' Oops. Well,
eventually...
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