2015/16 SFF Awards: Discussion

[Darke]

Don't be a historical illiterate then - read up on the history of the World Fantasy Convention. Plenty of long time industry professionals who helped establish the first WFC in 1975 have spoken out about why Lovecraft was chosen for the image of the award - and that is because the WFC was created to honor the fantasy and horror genres, and like it or not, H.P. Lovecraft is the most important horror author of all time. 

[Darth Richard II]

Man, Lovecraft fanboys make all those Tolkien nuts look mild.

[Spockydog]

Eh, whatever. Dude was an Olympic level racist.

Dude was the Michael Phelps of racism.

 

[AncalagonTheBlack]

2016 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

2016 Gemmell Award Shortlist

2016 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists Announced

First Dragon Awards Presented

The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2015 has been announced:

• Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)

• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Europe at Midnight, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
• The Book of Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Arcadia, Iain Pears (Faber & Faber)
• Way Down Dark, J.P. Smythe (Hodder & Stoughton)

 

The winners for the Sidewise Awards for best alternate history have been announced.

[williamjm]

19 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said:

The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2015 has been announced:

• Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)

• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Europe at Midnight, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
• The Book of Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Arcadia, Iain Pears (Faber & Faber)
• Way Down Dark, J.P. Smythe (Hodder & Stoughton)

While it wasn't actually my favourite Adrian Tchaikovsky novel published in 2015, I do think it seems like a worthy winner (admittedly I've only read one of the other nominees), I know the award isn't necessarily looking for a Clarke-like book, but it definitely the sort of Big Ideas SF that Clarke was known for.

[AncalagonTheBlack]

2016 Gemmell Awards Winners

— posted Monday 26 September 2016 @ 9:59 am PDT

 

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The 2016 David Gemmell Awards winners have been announced:

The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• The Liar’s Key, Mark Lawrence (Harper Voyager)

• The Dread Wyrm, Miles Cameron (Gollancz)
• Son of the Black Sword, Larry Correia (Baen)
• Gotrek & Felix: Slayer, David Guymer (Black Library)
• Ruin, John Gwynne (Pan Macmillan)

The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer

• The Vagrant, Peter Newman (Harper Voyager)

• Battlemage, Stephen Aryan (Orbit)
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson (Pan Macmillan)
• The Fire Sermon, Francesca Haig (Harper Voyager)
• Starborn, Lucy Hounsom (Pan Macmillan)
• An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir (Harper Voyager)

The Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art

• Jason Chan for the cover of The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence (Harper Voyager)

• Kerem Beyit for the cover of The Dread Wyrm by Miles Cameron (Gollancz)
• Larry Elmore & Carol Russo Design for the cover of Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia (Baen)
• Raymond Swanland for the cover of Archaon: Lord of Chaos by Rob Sanders (Black Library)
• Paul Young for the cover of Ruin by John Gwynne (Pan Macmillan)

 

 

2016 British Fantasy Awards Winners

 

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— posted Sunday 25 September 2016 @ 1:41 pm PDT

The British Fantasy Society announced the British Fantasy Awards Winners on September 25, 2016 during an awards ceremony at FantasyCon 2016 at the Grand and Royal Hotels in Scarborough, England. The winners are:

Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

• Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Macmillan)

• Half a War, Joe Abercrombie (Harper Voyager)
• Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho (Macmillan)
• Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
• Guns of the Dawn, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
• The Iron Ghost, Jen Williams (Headline)

Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award)

• Rawblood, Catriona Ward (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

• Welcome to Night Vale, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor (Orbit UK)
• The Silence, Tim Lebbon (Titan)
• A Cold Silence, Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher)
• Lost Girl, Adam Nevill (Pan)
• The Death House, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)

Best Novella

• The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com)

• Witches of Lytchford, Paul Cornell (Tor.com)
• The Bureau of Them, Cate Gardner (Spectral)
• Albion Fay, Mark Morris (Spectral)
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)

Best Short Fiction

• “Fabulous Beasts”, Priya Sharma (Tor.com 7/27/15 )

• “When the Moon Man Knocks”, Cate Gardner (Black Static 10-11/15)
• Strange Creation, Frances Kay (Tenebris Nyxies)
• “The Blue Room”, V.H. Leslie (Skein and Bone)
• “Dirt Land”, Ralph Robert Moore (Black Static 11-12/15)
• “Hippocampus”, Adam Nevill (Terror Tales of the Ocean)

Best Collection

• Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due (Prime)

• Probably Monsters, Ray Cluley (ChiZine)
• The Stars Seem So Far Away, Margrét Helgadóttir (Fox Spirit)
• Monsters, Paul Kane (The Alchemy Press)
• Scar City, Joel Lane (Eibonvale)
• Skein and Bone, V.H. Leslie (Undertow)

Best Anthology

• The Doll Collection, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)

• African Monsters, Margrét Helgadóttir & Jo Thomas, eds. (Fox Spirit)
• Best British Horror 2015, Johnny Mains, ed. (Salt)
• The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Mark Morris, ed. (Spectral)
• Aickman’s Heirs, Simon Strantzas, ed. (Undertow)

Best Independent Press

• Angry Robot (Marc Gascoigne)

• The Alchemy Press (Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards)
• Fox Spirit (Adele Wearing)
• Newcon (Ian Whates)

Best Non-Fiction

• Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce & Alisa Krasnostein, ed. (Twelfth Planet)

• Fantasy-Faction, Marc Aplin & Jennie Ivins, eds. (Fantasy-Faction)
• The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History, Stephen Jones, ed. (Applause Theater & Cinema)
• Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim McLeod, ed. (gingernutsofhorror.com)
• Matrilines, Kari Sperring (Strange Horizons)
• King for a Year, Mark West, ed. (kingreviews2015.blogspot.com)

Best Magazine / Periodical

• Beneath Ceasless Skies

• Black Static
• Holdfast Magazine
• Interzone

Best Artist

• Julie Dillon

• Ben Baldwin
• Vincent Chong
• Evelinn Enoksen
• Sarah Anne Langton
• Jeffrey Alan Love

Best Comic / Graphic Novel

• Bitch Planet (#2-5), Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV & Cris Peter (Image)

• Red Sonja (#14-18), Gail Simone & Walter Geovani (Dynamite)
• Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
• Saga (#25-32), Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)
• Ms. Marvel, Vol 2: Generation Why, G. Willow Wilson, Jacob Wyatt & Adrian Alphona (Marvel)

Best Film/Television Production

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

• Inside No. 9: The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
• Jessica Jones: “AKA WWJD?”
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Midwinter of the Spirit
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Newcomer (the Sydney J. Bounds Award)

• Zen Cho for Sorcerer to the Crown (Macmillan)

• Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Peter Newman for The Vagrant (HarperVoyager)
• Steven Poore for The Heir to the North (Kristell Ink)
• Marc Turner for When the Heavens Fall (Titan)

 

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[Darth Richard II]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GO MARK GO