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. Best English Novel was WWW: Watch (Penguin Canada), by Robert J. Sawyer. In addition to [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
. The British Science Fiction Association has announced the finalists for its annual awards, for works published in 2010, in four categories, including Novel, Short Fiction, Non-Fiction and Artwork. The nominees for the Novel category include The Windup Girl (Orbit), by Paolo Bacigalupi; Zoo City (Angry Robot), by Lauren Beukes; The Restoration Game (Orbit), by [...]
Science fiction and fantasy made a respectable showing when the American Library Association announced its annual awards on 10 January at its midwinter conference in San Diego, California. Ship Breaker (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), by Hugo and Nebula Award winner Paolo Bacigalupi, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature [...]
If you were a member of Aussiecon 4, last year’s Worldcon, or if you are a member of Renovation, this year’s Worldcon, you may submit nominations for the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. In fact, even if you are not yet a member of Renovation you will still [...]
Eastercon, one of the biggest science fiction and fantasy conventions in the UK, will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, runs 22 through 25 April 2011. Named Illustrous 2011, Eastercon has announced its guests of honor, as well as a new take on the traditional Masquerade and a couple of competitions [...]
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 [...]
Raam’s Shadow DLC out for Gears of War 3
Gears of War fans should be sprinting to their Xbox, MS points in hand, because a new batch of DLC has been released for the game. Raam’s Shadow is, in fact, the biggest add-on ever to be released in the history of the Gears of War franchise. The new mini-campaign is around three hours in [...]
Two lost Doctor Who episodes returned to BBC
If you’re a Doctor Who fan – and one of the true variety who has all the old black and white episodes on DVD, still watching them regularly – then some exciting news has emerged. Two episodes from the sixties which were thought to be lost have been discovered and returned to the BBC, meaning [...]
Focus claims Game of Thrones RPG
Focus Home Interactive has announced that it has bagged another game which is being developed that’s based on the Game of Thrones books and hit TV series. The franchise, which has suddenly got hotter than an orc torturer’s poking stick since it was aired on Sky earlier this year, has had several computer games developed [...]
Alice Eve cast for Star Trek 2
Several fresh snippets of news have popped up regarding the much anticipated JJ Abrams Star Trek sequel, which is destined to hit the silver screen in 2013. Abrams has apparently cast Alice Eve, of Entourage and Sex in the City 2 fame, for Star Trek 2 as it’s currently being referred to. The British actress [...]
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