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The winners of the Deutscher Phantastik Preis Awards were announced October 11,
2014 at Buchmess Convent in Dreieich near Frankfurt, Germany.
Best Novel in German
Phoenix Tochter der Asche [Phoenix Daughter of Ashes], Ann-Kathrin
Karschnick (Papierverzierer)
Best Debut Novel in German
Eldorin Das verborgene Land [Eldorin The Hidden Land], Gaby Wohlrab
(Vier Raben)
Best International Novel
Dunkle Halunken [Dodger], Terry Pratchett (ivi)
Best German Short Story
Claire, Miriam Schäfer (Weltentor 2013 Mystery)
Best Anthology/Collection
Eis und Dampf [Ice and Steam], Christian Vogt, ed. (Feder & Schwert)
Best Book Series
DSA Das schwarze Auge [DSA The Black Eye] (Ulisses Spiele)
Best Graphic Artist
Mia Steingräber
Best Work on Secondary Literature
Geek! magazine
Best Website
www.phantastik-couch.de
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Larry Niven will be honored with the 2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Impact of
Imagination on Society. The ceremony will be held November 19, 2014 at the
Artisphere in Arlington VA. The award was created in 2012 by the Arthur C.
Clarke Foundation. Prior winners were Ursula K. Le Guin in 2013 and Sir Kenneth
Robinson in 2012. - See more at:
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Childrens
writer Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, died October 8, 2014 of complications
from a stroke in San Francisco. Snyder wrote over 40 books, including
many middle-grade novels with fantasy elements. She is best known for
Newbery Honor book The Egypt Game (1967), and wrote two other Newbery
Honor titles, The Headless Cupid (1971) and The Witches of Worm (1971). -
See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/#sthash.OqWegzqc.dpufChildrens
writer Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, died October 8, 2014 of complications from a
stroke in San Francisco. Snyder wrote over 40 books, including many
middle-grade novels with fantasy elements. She is best known for Newbery Honor
book The Egypt Game (1967), and wrote two other Newbery Honor titles, The
Headless Cupid (1971) and The Witches of Worm (1971). - See more at:
http://www.locusmag.com/News/#sthash.OqWegzqc.dpuf
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The winner of the 2014 Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award
for Short Fiction was announced October 11, 2014 at Capclave:
Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma, Alex Shvartsman (Orson Scott Cards
InterGalactic Medicine Show 4/13)
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The 2014 Geffen Awards winners have been announced. The awards are presented by
the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Best Translated Science Fiction Book
The Devils Alphabet, Daryl Gregory, translated by Didi Chanoch (Graff)
Best Translated Fantasy Book
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett, translated by Vered Tochterman (Opus)
Best Translated YA Book
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett, translated
by Yonatan Bar (Sial)
Best Israeli Short Story
Whisky in a Jar, Rotem Baruchin (Once Upon a Future)
Best Israeli Novel
Every Story Is a Sudden Cat, Gabriella Avigur-Rotem (Kinnert Zmora Bitan)
Winners were announced at ICon in Tel Aviv, the annual Israeli SF convention,
held October 12-14, 2014.
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Hild by Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) won the 2014 Washington
State Book Award in the Fiction category, presented October 10, 2014 in a
ceremony at the Seattle Public Library. Winners in various categories are
selected by jury and receive a $500 honorarium. The award recognizes
outstanding works by Washington authors published in the previous year. For
more information, including other winners, see the Seattle Public Library
website. - See more at:
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Online retailer Amazon is reportedly opening a store in New York City, with
plans to be up and running in time for the holidays.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazons space at 7 West 34th St.,
across from the Empire State Building in Midtown, would function as a mini
warehouse, with limited inventory for same-day delivery within New York,
product returns and exchanges, and pickups of online orders.
While Amazon has experimented with physical locations before, including
temporary pop-up shops to sell Kindle devices, this would be its first
dedicated brick-and-mortar location.
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Winners for the 2014 Prix Aurora Awards, celebrating the best Canadian
SF/fantasy work, have been announced.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Best Novel
A Turn of Light, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
Best YA Novel
The Rising, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
Best Short Fiction
Ghost in the Machine, Ryan McFadden (The Puzzle Box)
Best Poem/Song
Night Journey: West Coast, Eileen Kernaghan (Tesseracts Seventeen:
Speculating Canada)
Best Graphic Novel
Rock, Paper, Cynic, Peter Chiykowski (webcomic)
Best Related Work
On Spec (Copper Pig Writers Society)
Best Artist
Erik Mohr
Best Fan Music
Chris Hadfield for his performance of Space Oddity
Best Fan Organizational
Randy McCharles, Chair and Programming, When Words Collide, Calgary
Best Fan Related Work
Robert Runté, Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social
Dimension of Reading, Scholar Keynote Address at ACCSFF 13, Toronto
Frank Johnson received a special recognition award for producing the Aurora
awards for the past 23 years.
Winners were recognized on October 4, 2014, in Vancouver BC at Canvention
34, hosted by VCON 39.
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The Denmark-based Egmont Publishing Group has decided to sell their Egmont USA
division. Distributed by Penguin Random House and established in 2008,
Egmont USA specializes in books for children and young adults. - See
more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/page/2/#sthash.DgG4Xrwq.dpufThe
Denmark-based Egmont Publishing Group has decided to sell their Egmont USA
division. Distributed by Penguin Random House and established in 2008, Egmont
USA specializes in books for children and young adults.
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Winners for the 14th annual Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian
Literature of the Fantastic have been announced:
Adult
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Penguin Canada)
Young Adult
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, Charles de Lint (Little, Brown)
Honorable Mentions
The n-Body Problem, Tony Burgess (Chizine)
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (McClelland & Stewart)
The Oathbreakers Shadow, Amy McCulloch (Doubleday Canada)
Wild Fell, Michael Rowe (ChiZine)
Beyond the Rift, Peter Watts (Tachyon)
Winners will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion
featuring a sunburst logo. Jurors for 2014 were Camille Alexa, Paul Glennon,
Bob Knowlton, Nicole Luiken, and Derek Newman-Stille.
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2014 Dwarf Stars and Elgin Awards
The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the 2014 Dwarf Stars
Awards winners:
1st Place: And Deeper Than Did Ever Plummet Sound, Mat Joiner
2nd Place: The Loss, Mari Ness
3rd Place: Hourglass, David Livingstone Clink
The Dwarf Stars Award is given by the SFPA to recognize the best speculative
poem of 1-10 lines, published in the previous year. Winners will have their
work reprinted in the 2014 Dwarf Stars Anthology. The first place winner
receives a plaque of recognition, and the runner-ups receive a certificate.
The SFPA also announced the winners of the Elgin Award for best poetry
chapbook and best full-length poetry book in the speculative genre. The Elgin
Awards are named after the founder of SFPA, Suzette Haden Elgin.
The winners and runners-up of the 2014 Elgin Awards are:
BEST CHAPBOOK
1st Place: The Sex Lives of Monsters, Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press)
2nd Place: The Edible Zoo, David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Sams Dot Publishing)
3rd Place: Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse, Joshua Gage (The
Poets Haven)
BEST FULL-LENGTH BOOK
1st Place: Demonstra, Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press)
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Writer Eugie Foster, 42, died September 27, 2014 of respiratory failure, a
complication of her cancer, in Atlanta GA.
Foster was best known for her short fiction, including novelette Sinner,
Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast (2009), winner
of a Nebula Award and finalist for Hugo and British SF Association awards. She
began publishing fiction with Second Daughter in Leading Edge (2002), and
went on to publish more than a hundred stories in magazines and anthologies.
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Three NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars, the Mars Odyssey, Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter, and MAVEN, were sent signals to remain in orbit
on one side of Mars while comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring passed within
88,000 miles of the planet. NASA feared that particles from the comet
could endanger or damage the orbiters during the cometary flyby on
October 20. The satellites were also used to gather data on the flyby,
as were the rovers currently on the Martian surface.
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--Ahrvid
Childrens
writer Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, died October 8, 2014 of complications
from a stroke in San Francisco. Snyder wrote over 40 books, including
many middle-grade novels with fantasy elements. She is best known for
Newbery Honor book The Egypt Game (1967), and wrote two other Newbery
Honor titles, The Headless Cupid (1971) and The Witches of Worm (1971). -
See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/#sthash.OqWegzqc.dpuf
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