Det delas ut - lågt räknat - hundratals olika prisr inom fantastiken. Här några till från senaste tiden (källa locusmag.com): ----- Seiun-priserna The recipients of the 2014 Seiun Awards for best works published last year in Japan are: Best Translated Novel Blindsight, Peter Watts, translated by Yoichi Shimada (Tokyo Sogensha) Best Translated Story The Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu, translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa (Hayakawa 1/13) Det finns också japanska vinnare, men listan är på japanska: www.sf-fan.gr.jp/awards/2014result.html.#sthash.QDoIxbkF.dpuf ----- Detcon1 Young Readers Awards Winners Detcon1, the 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC), held July 17-20, 2014 in Detroit MI, has announced the winners for its Young Readers Awards in two categories, presented July 20, 2014: Young Adult The Dream Thieves, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic) Middle Grade Handbook for Dragon Slayers, Merrie Haskell (HarperCollins) ----- Wellman Award The North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation has announced the winner of the 2014 Manly Wade Wellman Award. The award recognizes outstanding works of speculative fiction by North Carolina authors. The Shambling Guide to New York City, Mur Lafferty (Orbit) ----- Prometheus Award The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the winners for the Prometheus Best Novel Award for pro-freedom works published in 2013 and the Hall of Fame Award for best classic fiction, as well as two Special Awards. Best Novel Award: Tie: Homeland, Cory Doctorow (Tor) & Nexus, Ramez Naam (Angry Robot) Hall of Fame Award: Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold (1988) Author-filksinger Leslie Fish will receive a Special Prometheus Award in 2014 for the combination of her 2013 novella, Tower of Horses and her filk song, The Horsetamers Daughter. In a separate awards ceremony, four-time-Prometheus-Award winning author Vernor Vinge will receive a Special Prometheus Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented during Conjecture/ConChord October 10-12, 2014 in San Diego, California. The Prometheus Award will be presented in a ceremony during the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in London England, August 14-18, 2014. ----- Shirley Jackson Award The 2013 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 13, 2014 at Readercon 25, Conference on Imaginative Literature, in Burlington, Massachusetts. Readercon guests of honor Andrea Hairston and Kit Reed hosted the ceremony. NOVEL American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) NOVELLA Burning Girls, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com) NOVELETTE Cry Murder! In a Small Voice, Greer Gilman (Small Beer Press) SHORT FICTION 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides, Sam J. Miller (Nightmare December 2013) SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION Tie: Before and Afterlives, Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press) & North American Lake Monsters, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer) EDITED ANTHOLOGY Grimscribes Puppets, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. (Miskatonic River Press) ----- World Fantasy Life Achievement Winners The World Fantasy Life Achievement Award winners for 2014 are Ellen Datlow and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. 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 years World Fantasy Convention, to be held November 6-9, 2014 in Washington DC. ----- Kay Awarded Order of Canada Guy Gavriel Kay, 59, has been made a Member of the Order of Canada for his outstanding contributions to the field of speculative fiction as an internationally celebrated author. The Order was established in 1967 and recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to Canada. ----- 2014 Locus Awards Winners SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Abaddons Gate, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Abaddons Gate, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK) YOUNG ADULT BOOK The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends) FIRST NOVEL Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) NOVELLA Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean) NOVELETTE The Sleeper and the Spindle, Neil Gaiman (Rags and Bones) SHORT STORY The Road of Needles, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales) ANTHOLOGY Old Mars, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam) COLLECTION The Best of Connie Willis, Connie Willis (Del Rey) MAGAZINE Asimovs PUBLISHER Tor EDITOR Ellen Datlow ARTIST Michael Whelan NON-FICTION Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams Image) ART BOOK Spectrum 20: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Cathy Fenner & Arnie Fenner, eds. (Underwood) ----- 2014 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees The 2014 inductees to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame are Leigh Brackett, Frank Frazetta, Stanley Kubrick, Hayao Miyazaki, and Olaf Stapledon. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame was founded in 1996 and then relocated from the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy at the University of Kansas to its permanent home at EMP Museum in 2004. ------ (Och så en avliden:) Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) Author, editor, and pulp magazine scholar Frank M. Robinson, 87, died June 30, 2014. Robinson lived in San Francisco and had suffered from health problems in recent years. --Ahrvid Ps. Puh... 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