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Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced:

 
  • Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct Press)
  • The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter, Rod Duncan (Angry Robot)
  • The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison (Sybaritic Press)
  • Memory of Water, Emmi Itäranta (Harper Voyager)
  • Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches, Cherie Priest (Roc)
  • Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan ed. (Solaris)

http://www.philipkdickaward.org/
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Elysium is a damn fine debut. Much better-written than some of the more lauded debuts/series openers from the past couple of years (thinking of Hurley and Leckie in particular, but there are others).


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2015 William L. Crawford Award

For the first time in its 30-year history, the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award selection has resulted in a tie. The co-winners are collection Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho (Buku Fixi) and novel The Angel of Losses by Stephanie Feldman (Ecco).

The other books included on this year’s Crawford shortlist are :
Fire in the Unnameable Country by Ghalib Islam (Hamish Hamilton)
The Stone Boatmen by Sarah Tolmie (Aqueduct)
Boundary Problems by Greg Bechtel (Freehand)
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Ecco)

James Herbert Award Shortlist

Nominees for the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing have been announced:

M.R. Carey, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (Orbit)

Nick Cutter, THE TROOP (Headline)

Frances Hardinge, CUCKOO SONG (Macmillan)

Andrew Michael Hurley, THE LONEY (Tartarus Press)

Josh Malerman, BIRD BOX (Harper Voyager)

Kim Newman, AN ENGLISH GHOST STORY (Titan Books)

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The Kitschies Shortlist

The Red Tentacle (Novel), judged by Kate Griffin, Adam Roberts, Frances Hardinge, Kim Curran, and Glen Mehn:

The Golden Tentacle (Debut), also judged by the above panel:

BSFA Awards Shortlist

Best Novel:
Nina Allan, for The Race (Newcon Press)
Frances Hardinge, for Cuckoo Song, (Macmillan)
Dave Hutchison, for Europe in Autumn, (Solaris)
Simon Ings, for Wolves, (Gollancz)
Ann Leckie, for Ancilliary Sword, (Orbit)
Claire North, for The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, (Orbit)
Nnedi Okorafor, for Lagoon, Hodder
Neil Williamson, for The Moon King, Newcon Press

Best Short Fiction:
Ruth E J Booth for “The Honey Trap”, published in La Femme, Newcon Press
Octavia Cade for The Mussel Eater, published by The Book Smugglers
Benjanun Sriduangkaew for Scale Bright, published by Immersion Press

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The 2015 Philip K. Dick Award winner :

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Special citation was given to Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

Tiptree Awards Winners:

Monica Byrne’s novel The Girl in the Road and Jo Walton’s novel My Real Children (Tor) are the winners of the 2014 James Tiptree, Jr. Award

Tiptree Award honor list, and long list - http://tiptree.org/

British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Winners:

Best Novel: Ancillary Sword, Anne Leckie (Orbit)
Best Short Fiction: “The Honey Trap”, Ruth E J Booth (La Femme)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist:

The Girl With All The GiftsM.R. Carey (Orbit)
The Book Of Strange New ThingsMichel Faber (Canongate)
Europe In AutumnDave Hutchinson (Solaris)
Memory Of WaterEmmi Itäranta (HarperVoyager)
The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry AugustClaire North (Orbit)
Station ElevenEmily St John Mandel (Picador)

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The 2015 Philip K. Dick Award winner :

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

Special citation was given to Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

Tiptree Awards Winners:

Monica Byrne’s novel The Girl in the Road and Jo Walton’s novel My Real Children (Tor) are the winners of the 2014 James Tiptree, Jr. Award

Tiptree Award honor list, and long list - http://tiptree.org/

British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Winners:

Best Novel: Ancillary Sword, Anne Leckie (Orbit)

Best Short Fiction: “The Honey Trap”, Ruth E J Booth (La Femme)

Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist:

The Girl With All The GiftsM.R. Carey (Orbit)

The Book Of Strange New ThingsMichel Faber (Canongate)

Europe In AutumnDave Hutchinson (Solaris)

Memory Of WaterEmmi Itäranta (HarperVoyager)

The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry AugustClaire North (Orbit)

Station ElevenEmily St John Mandel (Picador)

I disappointed that Harry August didn't win the BSFA, hopefully it can snag the Clarke.

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2015 Locus Award Finalists




SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL


FANTASY NOVEL


YOUNG ADULT BOOK


FIRST NOVEL


NOVELLA


NOVELETTE


  • “Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)
  • “The Hand Is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
  • “Memorials”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 1/14)
  • “The Jar of Water”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House #62)
  • “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane”, Scott Lynch (Rogues)

SHORT STORY


ANTHOLOGY


COLLECTION



full list of nominees - http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/05/2015-locus-awards-finalists/


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Station Eleven Wins Clarke Award:
The winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2014 has been announced:

Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Picador)

Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees:

NOVEL

NOVELLA

NOVELETTE

  • “The End of the End of Everything”, Dale Bailey (Tor.com 4/23/14)
  • Office at Night, Kate Bernheimer & Laird Hunt (Coffee House)
  • “The Quiet Room”, V.H. Leslie (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
  • “The Husband Stitch”, Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
  • “Newspaper Heart”, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
  • “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)

SHORT FICTION

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

John W. Campbell Memorial Award

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2015 Locus Awards Winners


SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL


Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)



FANTASY NOVEL


The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)



FIRST NOVEL


The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)



YOUNG ADULT BOOK


Half a King, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)



NOVELLA


Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)



NOVELETTE


“Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)



SHORT STORY


“The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)



ANTHOLOGY


Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Titan)



COLLECTION


Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)



NON-FICTION


What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair 2015)



ART BOOK


Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)



ARTIST


John Picacio



EDITOR


Ellen Datlow



MAGAZINE


Tor.com



PUBLISHER


Tor



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2015 World Fantasy Awards Ballot




The World Fantasy Awards finalists are:



Novel:


  • The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
  • City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
  • The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre)
  • Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)

Novella:


  • We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
  • “Where the Trains Turn”, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Tor.com 11/19/14)
  • “Hollywood North”, Michael Libling (F&SF 11-12/14)
  • “The Mothers of Voorhisville”, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
  • “Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)

Short Fiction:


  • “I Can See Right Through You”, Kelly Link, (McSweeney’s 48)
  • Do You Like to Look at Monsters?, Scott Nicolay (Fedogan & Bremer)
  • “Death’s Door Café”, Kaaron Warren (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)
  • “The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, 4/2/14)
  • “The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5-6/14)

Anthology:


  • Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
  • Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
  • Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)
  • Monstrous Affections, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, ed. (Candlewick)
  • Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Bantam; Titan)

Collection:


  • Mercy and Other Stories, Rebecca Lloyd (Tartarus)
  • Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
  • They Do the Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman (ChiZine)
  • The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
  • Death at the Blue Elephant, Janeen Webb (Ticonderoga)

Artist:


  • Samuel Araya
  • Galen Dara
  • Jeffrey Alan Love
  • Erik Mohr
  • John Picacio

Special Award – Professional:


  • John Joseph Adams, for editing anthologies and Nightmare and Fantasy magazines
  • Jeanne Cavelos, for Odyssey writing workshops
  • Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications
  • Gordon Van Gelder, for F&SF
  • Jerad Walters, for Centipede Press

Special Award – Nonprofessional:


  • Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  • Matt Cardin, for Born to Fear: Interviews with Thomas Ligotti (Subterranean)
  • Stefan Fergus, for Civilian Reader (civilianreader.wordpress.com)
  • Ray B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
  • Patrick Swenson, for Fairwood Press

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World Fantasy award drops HP Lovecraft as prize image

The World Fantasy award trophy will no longer be modelled on HP Lovecraft, it has been announced, following a campaign last year that called the author out as an “avowed racist” with “hideous opinions”.

The change was revealed at the World Fantasy Convention on Sunday, where David Mitchell took the top award, the best novel prize, for The Bone Clocks.

 S.T. Joshi returns his World Fantasy Awards in protest H.P. Lovecraft bust being replaced.

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I find it to be refreshing that he followed through on his convictions. Ever since the initial engagement on this topic last year, he has written quite compellingly on why it is a mistake to remove Lovecraft's image from the award. You can read those essays on his blog. 

 

I'm definitely looking forward to this spiraling out of control soon. What's next? Renaming the Hugo (as Gernsback was apparently a scumbag)? Renaming the Bram Stoker, Campbell, and Jackson awards? All of those authors held quite outdated views by today's standards. 

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