2010 Locus Award Winners

Here is a short list of this year's Locus Award Winners


Science Fiction Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)

YA Book: Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)

Novella: The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)

Novelette: “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”, Neil Gaiman (Stories)

Short Story: “The Thing About Cassandra”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)

Go to SF Awards Watch for complete listing

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

Hugo Award nominees for 2011

Here is a list of Hugo Award nominees for 2011 - from Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing blog

Best Novel
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Feed by Mira Grant
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Best Novella
"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window" by Rachel Swirsky
The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
"The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" by Elizabeth Hand
"The Sultan of the Clouds" by Geoffrey A. Landis
"Troika" by Alastair Reynolds

Best Novelette
"Eight Miles" by Sean McMullen
"The Emperor of Mars" by Allen M. Steele
"The Jaguar House, in Shadow" by Aliette de Bodard
"Plus or Minus" by James Patrick Kelly
"That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made" by Eric James Stone

Best Short Story
"Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn
"For Want of a Nail" by Mary Robinette Kowal
"Ponies" by Kij Johnson
"The Things" by Peter Watts

SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees

Here are the nominations for the 2110 Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA)

The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C..

Short Story

* Arvies, Adam-Troy Castro
* How Interesting: A Tiny Man, Harlan Ellison
* I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno, Vylar Kaftan
* The Green Book, Amal El-Mohtar
* Ghosts of New York, Jennifer Pelland
* Conditional Love, Felicity Shoulders

Novelette

* Map of Seventeen, Christopher Barzak
* The Jaguar House, in Shadow, Aliette de Bodard
* The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara, Christopher Kastensmidt
* Plus or Minus, James Patrick Kelly
* Pishaach, Shweta Narayan
* That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made, Eric James Stone
* Stone Wall Truth, Caroline M. Yoachim

Novella

* The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi
* Iron Shoes, J. Kathleen Cheney
* The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang
* The Sultan of the Clouds, Geoffrey A. Landis
* Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance, Paul Park
* The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window, Rachel Swirsky

Novel

* The Native Star, M.K. Hobson
* The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin
* Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal
* Echo, Jack McDevitt
* Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
* Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis

2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot

Here is the 2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot and a great list it is indeed! How about “Divining Light,” one of the nominations for the novelette division by Ted Kosmatka! wow, that would be my choice, but it would be a hard pick. We read that story on episodes 145 to 147 of Beam Me Up and even reading it, freaked me out. Plus Paolo's The Windup Girl ! Whooooooooohooooooo great mix this year!

Short Story

* “Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela,” Saladin Ahmed
* “I Remember the Future,” Michael A. Burstein
* “Non-Zero Probabilities,” N. K. Jemisin
* “Spar,” Kij Johnson
* “Going Deep,” James Patrick Kelly
* “Bridesicle,” Will McIntosh

Novelette

* “The Gambler,” Paolo Bacigalupi
* “Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Orphanage,” Michael Bishop
* “I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said,” Richard Bowes
* “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast,” Eugie Foster
* “Divining Light,” Ted Kosmatka
* “A Memory of Wind,” Rachel Swirsky

Novella

* The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker
* “Arkfall,” Carolyn Ives Gilman
* “Act One,” Nancy Kress
* Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow
* “Sublimation Angels,” Jason Sanford
* The God Engines, John Scalzi

Novel

* The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
* The Love We Share Without Knowing, Christopher Barzak
* Flesh and Fire, Laura Anne Gilman
* The City & The City, China Miéville
* Boneshaker, Cherie Priest
* Finch, Jeff VanderMeer

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet the evening of May 15 2010.

61st Annual Emmy Award Winners for sf/f/h nominees

Sfscope report the Emmy Award winners in the catagories of science fiction fantasy and horror.

Here is a partial list of some of the winners:

• Battlestar Galactica: * Sound Editing (Series) for "Daybreak, Part 2"
• Chuck: * Stunt Coordination for "Chuck Versus the First Date"
• Heroes: * Special Visual Effects (Series) for "The Second Coming/The Butterfly Effect"

This is just a partial list of the awards. For a full listing click the article title to go to the complete story.

2009 Hugo Awards

Here is a partial list of the 2009 Hugo Award winners:

• Best Novel: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
• Best Novella: “The Erdmann Nexus”, Nancy Kress
• Best Novelette: “Shoggoths in Bloom”, Elizabeth Bear
• Best Short Story: “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang

for a complete listing, click the article title or here to go to the official award site

Picture from IO9

Sturgeon & Campbell award winners for 2009

Here are the FINAL for the John W. Campbell & Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards


John W Campbell Memorial Award results

1. (tie) Song of Time, Ian MacLeod
2. (tie) Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
3. The Philosopher’s Apprentice, James Morrow
   

and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award results:

1. “The Ray Gun: A Love Story,” James Alan Gardner
2. “Memory Dog,” Kathleen Ann Goonan
3. “The Tear,” Ian McDonald
   

Nebula Awards 2008 Final Ballot

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Nebula Awards^® 2008 Final Ballot
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SFWA is proud to announce the nominees for the 2008 Nebula Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2009 Nebula Awards® Weekend, April 24-26,2009 in Los Angeles, California. For more information on the awards and the Nebulas Weekend, please see http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/nebulaweekend.

Novels

Little Brother - Doctorow, Cory
Powers - Le Guin, Ursula K.
Cauldron - McDevitt, Jack
Brasyl - McDonald, Ian
Making Money - Pratchett, Terry
Superpowers - Schwartz, David J.

Novellas
The Spacetime Pool - Asaro, Catherine
Dark Heaven - Benford, Gregory
Dangerous Space - Eskridge, Kelley
The Political Prisoner - Finlay, Charles Coleman
The Duke in His Castle - Nazarian, Vera

Novelettes
If Angels Fight - Bowes, Richard
The Ray Gun: A Love Story - Gardner, James Alan
Dark Rooms - Goldstein, Lisa
Pride and Prometheus - Kessel, John
Night Wind - Rosenblum, Mary
Baby Doll - Sinisalo, Johanna
Kaleidoscope - Wentworth, K.D.

Short Stories
The Button Bin - Allen, Mike
The Dreaming Wind - Ford, Jeffrey
Trophy Wives - Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss - Johnson, Kij
The Tomb Wife - Jones, Gwyneth
Don't Stop - Kelly, James Patrick
Mars: A Traveler's Guide - Nestvold, Ruth

Click on the article title for complete listing

Catherine Asaro's "The Spacetime Pool" available online

More and more authors are coming to realize that if they want to reach the biggest audience possible, they have to consider adding the internet/web to their strategy. As the prelim listing for the Nebula awards makes it's rounds I see several author that aren't afraid to wade in early. Take for example Catherine Asaro. I was just reading in SFScope's blog that she has release her novella The Spacetime Pool on her Facebook page. It is well worth searching it out. My only complaint is that the story was released first in chapters as kind of a "here it is, if you like it, buy it" idea. Nothing wrong with that....the problem is that the rest of the story has been released in the same manner....and in slightly different places on her page. I know....its a BS complaint, however if I am a voting member for Nebula or Hugo awards, I just would reather sit back and read the offering in one go and not have to search for parts. But that is me.

Oh and if anyone finds it listed differently let me know and I will updat asap.

<- Catherine Asaros' facebook page ->

**UPDATE!**

Catherine said... Thank you for the post about the novella. I much appreciate it. You can indeed now find the full text in one chunk, at

http://www.analogsf.com/nebulas09/TheSpacetimepool.shtml

Nebula Awards draft

As reported, here are the draft Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Awards for 2008. This is a rough list, but gives you an idea of what the award season is going to look like.

According to Brook West, the final ballot will be mailed in early March.For those of you wondering what the Nebulas are vs Hugos Here is the description of who votes and for what as concerns the Nebula. (the Hugos are fan votes)

The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. Founded as the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1965 by Damon Knight, the organization began with a charter membership of 78 writers; it now has over 1,400 members, among them most of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy. The Nebula Awards Weekend will be held April 24-26

Novels: Daniel Abraham, : A Betrayal in Winter
Chris Barzak, : One for Sorrow
Emma Bull, : Territory
Cory Doctorow, : Little Brother
Kathleen Ann Goonan, : In War Times
Ursula K Le Guin, .: Powers
Jack McDevitt, : Cauldron
Ian McDonald: Brasyl
Terry Pratchett: Making Money
Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind

Novellas:
Catherine Asaro: The Spacetime Pool
Gregory Benford: Dark Heaven
Kelley Eskridge: Dangerous Space
Charles Coleman Finlay: The Political Prisoner

Novelettes:
Rochard Bowes: If Angels Fight
Michael F. Flynn : Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo
James Alan Gardner: The Ray-Gun: A Love Story
Lisa Goldstein: Dark Rooms
John Kessel: Pride and Prometheus
Ted Kosmatka: The Prophet of Flores
David Moles: Finisterra
Johanna Sinisalo: Baby Doll
K.D. Wentworth: Kaleidoscope

Short Stories:
Mike Allen: The Button Bin
Michael Cassutt: Skull Valley
Sheila Finch: Stranger Than Imagination Can
Jeffrey Ford: The Dreaming Wind
Samantha Henderson: Bottles
M.K. Hobson.: The Hotel Astarte
Kij Johnson: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
Gwyneth Jones: The Tomb Wife (read on BMU 110)
James Patrick Kelly: Don't Stop
Brian Plante: The Astronaut
Mary Rickert: Holiday
Ken Scholes: Summer in Paris, Light From the Sky
James Van Pelt: How Music Begins (read on BMU 116)

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