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- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:16:37 +0200
Från SF Awards Watch:
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Myke Cole Wins Compton Crook Award
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society is proud to announce that Myke
Cole is the winner of the 2013 Compton Crook Award for his novel “Shadow
Ops: Control Point” published in February of 2012 by Ace. The award
consists of a check for $1000.00 and a plaque which will be presented to
Myke Cole at 8:00pm on Friday, May 24, 2013 during the Opening
Ceremonies of Balticon 47, the annual Maryland Regional Science Fiction
Convention.
The Compton Crook Award is presented 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 named in memory of Towson State
College Professor of Natural Sciences Compton Crook, who wrote under the
name Stephen Tall, and who died in 1981. The award has been presented
since 1983 and is also known as the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award.
More information on author Myke Cole can be found at his website
http://mykecole.com
For more information about the Compton Crook Award please visit
http://www.bsfs.org/CCA/bsfsccnu2012.htm
Information on the Baltimore Science Fiction Society and Balticon is
available at http://www.bsfs.org
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2013 Kitschies Short List Announced
London — The Kitschies, the prize for “novels containing elements of the
speculative and fantastic” have revealed their shortlists for the most
“progressive, intelligent and entertaining” books of 2012.
This year’s shortlisted books are narrowed down from 211 submissions, coming
from over 40 publishers.
The Red Tentacle (Novel), judged by Rebecca Levene, Patrick Ness and Jared
Shurin:
Jesse Bullington, The Folly of the World (Orbit)
Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker (William Heinemann)
Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass (Macmillan Children’s)
Adam Roberts, Jack Glass (Gollancz)
Julie Zeh (translated by Sally-Ann Spencer), The Method (Harvill Secker)
The Golden Tentacle (Debut), also judged by Levene, Ness and Shurin:
Madeline Ashby, vN (Angry Robot)
Jenni Fagan, The Panopticon (William Heinemann)
Rachel Hartman, Seraphina (Doubleday)
Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo (Jo Fletcher Books)
Tom Pollock, The City’s Son (Jo Fletcher Books)
The Inky Tentacle (Cover Art), judged by Lauren O’Farrell, Gary Northfield and
Ed Warren:
Tom Gauld, Costume Not Included by Matthew Hughes (Angry Robot)
Oliver Jeffers, The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John
Boyne (Doubleday)
Dave Shelton, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton (David Fickling Books)
Peter Mendelsund, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus (Granta)
La Boca, The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
The winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Free Word Centre on 26
February. Winners will receive a total of £2,000 in prize money, as well as one
of the prize’s iconic Tentacle trophies and bottles of The Kraken Rum.
The prize, sponsored by The Kraken Rum, is now in its fourth year, with
previous winners including Lauren Beukes, China Miéville, Donald Westlake and
Patrick Ness.www.thekitschies.com
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2012 Phantastik Prize (Germany)
Germany’s Phantastik Prize was awarded at Buchmessecon (BuCon) (or Book Fayre
Con) in Dreieich near Frankfurt. The principal wins were:
Novel: Vernichtender Hass [Shattering Hatred] by Markus Heitz
Debut Novel: Die Alchemie der Unsterblichkeit [The Alchemy of Immortality] by
Kerstin Pflieger
Best Foreign Book (translated to German): Die Furcht des Weisen by Patrick
Rothfuss
Best (book) Series: Perry Rhodan (yet again).
Short story: ‘Die Duftorgel’ ['The Scent Organ'] by Nina Horvath
2012 Deutsche Science Fiction Preis
The Deutsche Science Fiction Preis DSFP (German SF Club Prize ):
Best Novel: Galdäa – Der Ungeschlagene Krieg [Galdäa - The Unfought War]
Best Story: ‘In der Freihandelszone’ ['Within Free Trade Zone']
The German SF Club Prize is a juried award from the German SF Society (Club)
SFCD.
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2012 Curt Siodmak Prize
Germany’s Curt Siodmak Prize (visual) and the German SF Prize (written) were
awarded by the SF Club Deutschland (SFCD) at their annual convention this year
in Kiel. We should have covered this last time in the autumn but alas were not
then informed of the wins:-
Curt Siodomak – Film: Planet der Affen: Prevolution [Rise of the Planet of the
Apes]
Curt Siodomak – TV: Ijon Tichy – Raumpilot (This year a German offering that is
an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s Star Diaries.)
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2012 Daniel Neils Klim Award
The Daniel Neils Klim Award were presented at this year’s Fantasticon:
Best Novella: (tie): Alastair Reynolds for ‘Skjul’ ['Hideaway'] and ‘Minlas
blomster” ['Minla’s Flowers'] from Vejen mellem stjernerne(both translated by
Niels Dalgaard) and both of which appear in the English edition Zima Blue.
Best Novelette: ‘Faderens Sønner’ ['The Sons of the Father'] by A. Silvestri
from Faderens sønner.
Best Short Story: (tie) ‘Homo Arachnida’ ['Homo Arachnida'] by Michael Kamp and
for ‘En Helt Almindelig Død’ ['A Completely Ordinary Death'] by Lars Ahn
Pedersen.
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