Clarke Award shortlist

The Arthur C Clarke shortlist tend to bring some controversy and this year is no different.
The shortlist:
The Red Men
Matthew de Abaitua - Snow Books
The H-Bomb Girl
Stephen Baxter - Faber & Faber
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall - Faber & Faber
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall - Canongate
The Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod - Orbit
Black Man
Richard Morgan - Gollancz
John Jarrold really […]

Cybil awards announced

The Cybil awards for children’s literature have been announced which are collated and voted on by the children’s lit blogosphere.
In the genre section The True Meaning of Smekday (Amazon) by Adam Rex and Book of a Thousand Days (Amazon) by Shannon Hale won the award.
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Philip K Dick award 2007 nominees announced

The judges for the Philip K Dick awards and the Philadelphia SF Society have announced the shortlist for the PKD award. It’s given for first paperback publication in the US.
The shortlist is:
Grey by Jon Armstrong (published by Night Shade Books)
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
From the Notebooks of Dr Brain by Minister Faust (Del Rey)
Nova […]

Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize

Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, only the 11th woman to have done so. She’s even written some sf to boot…
Source: The Guardian 
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SF Awards site

Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee have developed a new site, Science Fiction Awards Watch, to contain all the news about sf awards. It will have:
- A list of awards, with details of how they are decided
- Prompt news about these awards, including live reporting from some award ceremonies
- A recommendation list (covering many awards, not […]

Sunburst adds YA to its roster

The Sunburst award, hailing from Canada, has announced that it will begin a Young Adult section to its awards which are announced in Autumn.
Given the fact that the the YA genre bubble hasn’t burst, should organisations like the British Science Fiction Association or British Fantasy Society be thinking about similar entries? There is a large […]

British Fantasy Awards shortlist announced

UKSFBookNews has the shortlist for the British Fantasy Society awards. Its odd seeing the awesome Nova Swing on the list but if I were a betting guy, I’d go for one of the horror titles to win.
Novel: The August Derleth Award

Chaz Brenchley, BRIDGE OF DREAMS, Ace Books
Mike Carey, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, Orbit Books
Mark Chadbourn, […]

Mythopoeic Awards

The Mythopoeic Awards were given out at Mythcon.
The winners are:
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature: Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip (Ace Books)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature: Corbenic by Catherine Fisher (Greenwillow)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies: The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (Houghton Mifflin)
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Sidewise Awards - winner announced

The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced. Gardner Dozois won for Counterfactual (originally publishing in the June 2006 edition of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction). Charles Stross won for the first three in the Clan Corporate series.
The nominees in the Long Form category are:
* 1862 by Robert Conroy (Presidio Press)
* The Tourmaline […]

Chesley Awards

The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) have announced the shortlist for this year’s awards:
This year’s nominees are:
Best Cover Illustration—Hardback Book:
Jon Foster for The Demon and the City by Liz Williams (published by Night Shade Books, August)
Donato Giancola for The Thirteenth House by Sharon Shinn (Ace, March)
Todd Lockwood for Temeraire: […]