015 Nebula awards have been released.

From IO9    The 2015 Nebula awards have been released.  There  were a healthy mix of  print and digital.  What's more the awards were dominated by women this year. 

from the article

The science fiction world has had its share of drama with the Hugo Awards as various slates have worked aggressively to push against the growing numbers of women and people of color appearing on award ballots. The Nebula Awards have demonstrated, for two years in a row, that science fiction and fantasy literature remains a strong, inclusive body of literature.

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Novel

    Uprooted, Naomi Novik  
    Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon 
    The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin   
    Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie
    The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu
    Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen   
    Updraft, Fran Wilde 

Novella

    Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
    Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato   
    The Bone Swans of Amandale, C.S.E. Cooney  
    The New Mother, Eugene Fischer
    The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik
    Waters of Versailles’’, Kelly Robson



Novelette
  
    Our Lady of the Open Road, Sarah Pinsker
    Rattlesnakes and Men, Michael Bishop
    And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead, Brooke Bolander
    Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds, Rose Lemberg
    The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society, Henry Lien
    The Deepwater Bride, Tamsyn Muir


Short Story

    Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers, Alyssa Wong
    Madeleine, Amal El-Mohtar
    Cat Pictures Please, Naomi Kritzer
    Damage, David D. Levine
    When Your Child Strays From God, Sam J. Miller
    Today I Am Paul, Martin L. Shoemaker

2015 Hugos & 5 “No Award” HUH?

The 2015 Hugo Awards, the World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle.

It appears that the drama started even before the nominations were out.

According to a report from Sci-Fi Storm blog, the group “Sad Puppies” attempting to influence the nomination and voting process to correct what they perceived as the infiltration of the genre by women and minorities, where it was formerly “ruled” by white males." (boy does THAT sound familiar!)

 Well according to the story in Sci-Fi Storm, the Sad Puppies lost out, but their antics may have resulted in perhaps deserving winners, due possibly to the Puppies support.

There were 5 categories – Best Novella, Best Short Story, Best Related Work, Best Editor, Short Form, and Best Editor, Long Form all resulted in “No Award” winning, with four others having No Award in second place, as well as the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer also coming in second. It would appear that the voter's did not appreciate the antics of the group and soundly voted any supporters out.

That being said, here is a short list of some of the award winners.

Best Novel: The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu translator

Best Novelette: The Day the World Turned Upside Down, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Lia Belt translator

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Wesley Chu

Please visit the Sci-Fi Storm site HERE  to read the complete article and the HUGO site HERE

2013 Hugo Nominations

Here are the 2013 nominations for Hugo awards

Best Novel 

 2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson 

 Blackout - Mira Grant 

 Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance - Lois McMaster Bujold 

 Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas - John Scalzi 

 Throne of the Crescent Moon - Saladin Ahmed 

Best Novella  

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fal - Nancy Kress 

The Emperor’s Soul - Brandon Sanderson 

On a Red Station, Drifting - Aliette de Bodard 

San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats - Mira Grant 

The Stars Do Not Lie - Jay Lake 

Best Novelette 

The Boy Who Cast No Shadow - Thomas Olde Heuvelt  

Fade To White - Catherynne M. Valente 

The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi - Pat Cadigan 

In Sea-Salt Tears - Seanan McGuire  

Rat-Catcher - Seanan McGuire 

Best Short Story 

Immersion - Aliette de Bodard 

Mantis Wives - Kij Johnson 

Mono no Aware - Ken Liu 

2011 Nebula Awards Winners

IO9 has posted a notice of the winners of the 2011 Nebula Awards. Here is a short list is the winners.


NOVEL: Among Others, by Jo Walton

NOVELLA: "The Man Who Bridged the Mist," Kij Johnson

NOVELLETTE: "What We Found," Geoff Ryman

SHORT STORY: "The Paper Menagerie," Ken Liu

A complete article can be read here

2012 Hugo Award nominees announced

From Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing here are the nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards


Best Novel
Among Others by Jo Walton
A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin
Deadline by Mira Grant
Embassytown by China Miéville
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey

Best Novella
Countdown by Mira Grant
“The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson
“The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” by Ken Liu
Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente

Best Novelette
“The Copenhagen Interpretation” by Paul Cornell
“Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky
“Ray of Light” by Brad R. Torgersen
“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders
“What We Found” by Geoff Ryman

Best Short Story
“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu
“The Homecoming” by Mike Resnick
“Movement” by Nancy Fulda
“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
“Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue” by John Scalzi


The Hugo Awards themselves are presented at a formal ceremony which is always one of the highlights of the Worldcon, and we expect Chicon 7's ceremony to be no different. The Chicon 7 ceremony will take place on Sunday, September 2, 2012.

2011 Nebula Awards nominees announced

The Science Fiction Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards,


Novel

Among Others, Jo Walton
Embassytown, China Miéville
Firebird, Jack McDevitt
God's War, Kameron Hurley
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine
The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin


Novella

Kiss Me Twice -  Mary Robinette Kowal
Silently and Very Fast - Catherynne M. Valente
The Ice Owl - Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Man Who Bridged the Mist - Kij Johnson
The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary -  Ken Liu
With Unclean Hands -  Adam-Troy Castro


Novelette

Fields of Gold -  Rachel Swirsky
Ray of Light -  Brad R. Torgersen
Sauerkraut Station -  Ferrett Steinmetz
Six Months, Three Days - Charlie Jane Anders
The Migratory Pattern of Dancers -  Katherine Sparrow
The Old Equations -  Jake Kerr
What We Found -  Geoff Ryman


Short Story


Her Husband's Hands -  Adam-Troy Castro
Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son - Tom Crosshill
Movement - Nancy Fulda
Shipbirth -  Aliette de Bodard
The Axiom of Choice -  David W. Goldman
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees -  E. Lily Yu
The Paper Menagerie -  Ken Liu

Article from Boing Boing / written by Cory Doctorow

The 2011 Hugo Award Winners

From Boing Boing blog, here is the winners of the 2011 Hugo awards.

• Best Novel: Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
  
• Best Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
  
• Best Novelette: The Emperor of Mars by Allen M. Steele
• Best Short Story: For Want of a Nail by Mary Robinette Kowal

Congrats to all. This year's crop of winners is proof in my mind that there is still a lot of talent out there. Great selections one and all!

Photo from IO9

2010 Nebula Award Winners Announced

the 2010 Nebula Awards have been announced!

The Nebula for Best Short Story this year is a tie!!! The co-winners are:

"Ponies" by Kij Johnson
"How Interesting: A Tiny Man" by Harlan Ellison

The Nebula for Best Novelette

"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone

The Nebula for Best Novella

"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window" by Rachel Swirsky

The Nebula for Best Novel

Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis

The complete award article can be found on the SFScope site here

2010 Aurealis Award Nominees

From SFScope blog

• The nominees for this year's Aurealis Awards have been announced. The Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 to "recognize the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers

Here is a partial listing of the science fiction nomination:

Science Fiction Short Story:
"The Heart of a Mouse" by K.J. Bishop (Subterranean Online)
"The Angaelian Apocalypse" by Matthew Chrulew (The Company Articles of Edward Teach/The Angaelian Apocalypse)
"Border Crossing" by Penelope Love (Belong)
"Interloper" by Ian McHugh (Asimov's Science Fiction)
"Relentless Adaptations" by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Sprawl)

Science Fiction Novel:
Song of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy (Eos)
Mirror Space by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit/Hachette)
Transformation Space by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit/Hachette)

The complete list is available at SFScope here

Bacigalupi Wins Printz Award

From the Science Fiction Awards watch blog:

• Paolo Bacigalupi has added to his haul of awards, but this one is not for The Windup Girl. The American Library Association has just announced their annual awards, and Paolo’s YA novel, Ship Breaker, has won the prestigious Michael L. Printz Award.

Congrats to one of BMU's favorite authors! Way to go Paolo!

Ig Nobel Awards for 2010

Boing Boing informs us that the 2010 Ig Nobel Awards are out for 2010! According to Wikipedia for those not in the know -

• The Ig Nobel Prizes are an American parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think." Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research....
  

So, what are some of the awards?

The medicine prize goes to psychologists Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest at the University of Amsterdam for discovering that breathing difficulties brought on by asthma can be alleviated by repeated roller coaster rides.

Engineering prize goes to Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and others at the Institute of Zoology in London developed a way to collect fluids ejected from whales' blowholes by attaching petri dishes to the underside of small, remote-controlled helicopters and hovering them overhead.

Transportation prize to Mark Fricker and Dan Bebber at Oxford University, used slime mold to model an effective railway network. In the experiment, cities were represented by oat-meal that were linked to one another as the slime mold grew.

Biology prize goes to Gareth Jones who's description of the sexual antics of the short-nosed fruit bat. The research showed that females who performed oral sex on their mates copulated for longer.

Peace prize was awarded to psychologist Richard Stephens for confirming that swearing relieves pain

Public health prize awarded to Manuel Barbeito at the Industrial Health and Safety Office in Maryland for scientific studies that found microbes cling to beards, making more hirsute men a potential laboratory hazard.

More on these and other awards can be found at the Guardian website here

This Year's Locus Award Winners

From Science Fiction Award Watch

Here is a partial listing of the results of this year’s Locus Awards.

• Science Fiction Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
• Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
• First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
• Young Adult Novel: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
• Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)
• Novelette: “By Moonlight”, Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
• Short Story: “An Invocation of Incuriosity”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

for a complete listing you can go here: Science Fiction Award Watch

This Year's Nebula Winners!

Just read the news in Boing Boing! Congrats to all the winners this year!

SHORT STORY: "Spar" by Kij Johnson

NOVELETTE: Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast by Eugie Foster

NOVELLA: The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker

NOVEL: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

2010 Hugo Nominees announced

From Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing blog, we have the 2010 Hugo Award Nominees!
No surprise that Paolo's The Windup Girl is in the running!

BEST NOVEL
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The City & The City by China Miéville
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Beam Me Up review here)

BEST NOVELLA

Act One by Nancy Kress
The God Engines by John Scalzi
Palimpsest by Charles Stross
Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
Vishnu at the Cat Circus by Ian McDonald
The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker

BEST NOVELETTE

Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky
The Island by Peter Watts
It Takes Two by Nicola Griffith
One of Our Bastards is Missing by Paul Cornell
Overtime by Charles Stross
Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster

BEST SHORT STORY

The Bride of Frankenstein by Mike Resnick
Bridesicle by Will McIntosh
The Moment by Lawrence M. Schoen
Non-Zero Probabilities by N.K. Jemisin
Spar by Kij Johnson

Logorama (nsfw language)

From Movie Web comes this very entertaining, Oscar nominated, short film called Logorama which uses 2500 corporate logos as actors and set pieces. You might argue that this isn't science fiction, but 1 minute into the movie and you're so twisted by the truly twisted world that you will agree, this is someone's idea of an alternate reality! lol As the folks over on Gizmodo said.."By French design collective H5, Logorama is worth taking the 15 minutes or so running time out of your lunchbreak" yep..ahuh..

WINNERS: 2009 Aurealis Awards

Here is a partial listing of the 2009 winners of the Aurealis Awards.

The Aurealis Awards, honoring works of SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians.

Here are the science fiction category winners

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: Wonders of a Godless World, Andrew McGahan
BEST SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY: 'Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens', Peter M. Ball
BEST ANTHOLOGY: Eclipse 3, Jonathan Strahan (editor)

For a complete listing of all categories you can click the link here or the article title

Chris Davies wins UK's Countdown

Now here is something you just have to appreciate! It seems Colin Davies son has been doing quite well for himself in other venues. And who better to bring us up to speed is Colin himself in a recent note to me:

• My son Chris (the one who composed and played the Pestworld theme) has been taking part in a TV quiz show called Countdown, which is hugely popular in the UK. It's a game of math skill and word knowledge on Channel 4.
• The news is that Chris won the current series on 18th December and became champion. The win carries quite a lot of status and has attracted the interest of our local and one national paper.
• Although the show is available online from C4, it is blocked in the US. However a number of clips are available on youtube at:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUNfnFG5SwA
• and the whole final can be seen at:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQ_o0WgI8c

Congrats Chris and excellent news Colin...

JP Kelly wins award

From the Science Fiction Awards Watch blog I read:

• James Patrick Kelly’s collection, The Wreck of the Godspeed, has won the Outstanding Book of Fiction award for 2009, given by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.

Congrats JP!

John Kessel reads Nebula Award winning "Pride And Prometheus"

Yeah, I know.....that address is freereads! JP Kelly's site...You're right! Jim is hosting John's reading! Here is what he writes in Freereads:

• Here is Part One of the Nebula Award winning "Pride And Prometheus" written and read by my pal John Kessel who has graciously agreed to share his work with my Free Reads listeners. Check out John's website

Run time for part 1 is 29:06 and if you download it the size is 13mb

Locus awards for 2009

Here are this year's Locus award winners thanks to Science Fiction Awards Watch blog

• Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow)
• Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt)
• First Novel: Singularity’s Ring, Paul Melko (Tor)
• Young-Adult Book: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury)
• Novella: “Pretty Monsters”, Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters)
• Novelette: “Pump Six”, Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories)
• Short Story: “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)