If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The winners of the 2011 Prix Aurora Awards, the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards, which are presented by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, were announced on 20 November during SFContario 2, Canvention 31, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [...]
Dreadnought (Tor), by Cherie Priest, has won the 13th Endeavour Award, given to a science fiction or fantasy novel or to a science fiction/fantasy collection by a single author from the Pacific Northwest. The award was announced recently at OryCon 33, in Portland, Oregon. As winner of the award, Ms. Priest received an honorarium of [...]
Winners of the World Fantasy Awards for 2011 were announced last weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California. Best Novel was Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death (DAW), which was also a Nebula Award finalist for best novel. Both the Best Novella and Best Short Fiction awards came from Stories: All-New Tales, edited [...]
The World Fantasy Awards for 2011, including two Lifetime Achievement winners, will be awarded at the World Fantasy Convention, to be held in San Diego, California on 27 – 30 October, with the awards banquet scheduled to take place on Sunday afternoon, 30 October. The nominees for Best Novel are Zoo City (Jacana South Africa; [...]
The TransAtlantic Fan Fund (TAFF), created in 1953 to provide funds so that well-known science-fiction fans can cross the Atlantic to attend conventions, has announced the candidates for its 2012 ballot. TAFF regularly helps American fans attend conventions in Europe and helps European fans to go to conventions in North America. There are three nominees [...]
Sam Stone, whose novel Demon Dance (The House of Murky Depths) was voted the August Derlith Fantasy Award for Best Novel at the British Fantasy Awards earlier this month, has returned the award after a controversy over the awards. Some members of the British Fantasy Society criticized the fact that several of this year’s winners, [...]
The winners of the 2011 British Fantasy Awards were announced on 2 October 2011 at FantasyCon 2011, the British Fantasy Convention, held in Brighton, UK. Among the awards given during the ceremony was the Karl Edward Wagner Special Award, which went to Terry Pratchett. The winner of the August Derleth Fantasy Award for Best Novel [...]
The Mythopoeic Society has announced the winners of its 2011 Mythopoeic Awards. The winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is Redemption in Indigo (Small Beer Press), by Karen Lord, while The Queen’s Thief series, consisting of The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia and A Conspiracy of Kings (Greenwillow), [...]
The British Fantasy Society has announced the nominees for the 2011 British Fantasy Awards. The nominees for the August Derlith Fantasy Award, for best novel, are Apartment 16 (Pan Macmillan), by Adam Nevill; Demon Dance (The House of Murky Depths), by Sam Stone; The Leaping (Quercus), by Tom Fletcher; Pretty Little Dead Things (Angry Robot), [...]
Abbadon Books has announced the availability of The Ulysses Quicksilver Short Story Collection, by Jonathan Green, in e-book format. All three stories in the collection, which includes “Fruiting Bodies”, “Vanishing Point” and “White Rabbit”, take place in the Pax Britannia shared universe, where Queen Victoria is in her sixteenth decade on the throne, kept alive [...]
Sea Lion Books will debut a new 12-book series of graphic novels, beginning with Pariah, at San Diego Comic Con in July. The series, conceived by Aron Warner, the Academy Award-winning producer of the Shrek series of films, written by Philip Gellat and illustrated by Eisner Award nominee Brett Weldele, follows the adventures of a [...]
The winners of the Nebula Awards, sponsored by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, were presented on Saturday 21 May 2011 in Washington, DC, as a part of the Nebular Awards Weekend. Best Novel went to Connie Willis for Blackout/All Clear (Spectra), while the Best Novella was “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers [...]
The nominees for the 2011 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were recently announced ahead of Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held this year in Reno, Nevada. Arguably the most prestigious of awards for science fiction writers and artists, the Hugo Awards were first presented [...]
Abaddon Books is set to release an new book in its Pax Britannia shared universe, Pax Britannia: Anno Frankenstein, by Jonathan Green, later this month. In this installment of the story of the Pax Britannia universe, the fifth by Green, Queen Victoria is still the ruler of Magna Britannia in the late 20th century. She [...]
The nominees for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense and dark fantasy fiction have been announced. Works appearing in the calendar year 2010 were eligible for nomination by publishers. The nominees in the category of Novel include Dark Matter (Orion), by Michelle Paver; A Dark Matter (Doubleday), by Peter [...]
The shortlist for the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced, chosen from science fiction novels that saw their first publication in Britain in the 2010 calendar year. The list includes Zoo City (Angry Robot), by Lauren Beukes; The Dervish House (Gollancz), by Ian McDonald; Monsters of Men (Walker), by Patrick Ness; Generosity (Atlantic), [...]
The Horror Writers Association has announced the finalists for the 2010 Bram Stoker Awards, which recognize achievement in the dark fantasy, horror and occult genres. The nominees for Superior Achievement in a Novel, defined as a prose work of 40,000 words or more, include Horns (William Morrow), by Joe Hill; Rot and Ruin (Simon & [...]
The nominees for the Nebula Awards for works published in 2010 have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which presents the awards. Awards are given in for novel, novella, novelette, and short story. The SFWA also administers the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Andre Norton Award [...]
Analog Science Fiction and Fact has announced that it began accepting electronic submissions at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, 22 February 2011, via a submissions system at its website. With the new electronic submissions system in place, electronic submissions become the preferred way for Analog to receive stories for consideration, but it will [...]
Dark Scribe Magazine, an online magazine catering to readers of horror, suspense and thrillers, has announced its fourth annual Black Quill Awards, recognizing work in the genres it highlights, with an Editor’s Choice and a Readers’ Choice in each category. In the category of Dark Genre Novel of the year, which is awarded to the [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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