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2011 British Fantasy Award winners announced

2011 British Fantasy Award winners announced

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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, [...]

October 5, 2011 | 0 Comments More
New Discworld novel out in October

New Discworld novel out in October

Fans of the wonderful Discworld series will be delighted to learn that a new novel is due for release in October. The new Discworld novel from fantasy master Sir Terry Pratchett sees Sam Vimes investigating a countryhouse murder; Snuff is number 39 in the acclaimed Discworld novel and Sir Terry’s fiftieth book. According to the [...]

August 19, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Nebula Award winners announced in Washington, DC

Nebula Award winners announced in Washington, DC

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 [...]

May 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Science fiction, fantasy works, writers among ALA award winners

Science fiction, fantasy works, writers among ALA award winners

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 [...]

January 10, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Winners of World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards announced

Winners of World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards announced

The winners of the World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards have been announced ahead of the awards’ presentation at the awards banquet at World Fantasy Convention 36, to be held 28 through 31 October in Columbus, Ohio. There are three honorees this year, including Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett and Peter Straub. The three writers are being [...]

October 16, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Pratchett, Transworld Publishers announce new writers’ competition

Pratchett, Transworld Publishers announce new writers’ competition

Transworld Publishers and Sir Terry Pratchett have announced a contest for new writers. The contest, called the Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now Prize, is open to writers over 18 years old who live in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, or the British Commonwealth and who have never published a full-length work [...]

July 12, 2010 | 7 Comments More
Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book wins Carnegie Medal

Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book wins Carnegie Medal

The Graveyard Book (Bloomsbury), by Neil Gaiman, has been awarded the Carnegie Medal for 2010 as the most outstanding children’s book to be published in the UK. In recognition of the award, Gaiman will receive a gold medal and £500 worth of books to be donated to any library he chooses. In winning the Medal, [...]

June 24, 2010 | 0 Comments More
The Locus Awards nominees are announced

The Locus Awards nominees are announced

It must be awards season. Within a few minutes of when I finished writing about the final ballot for the Hugo Awards, I learned that the finalists have been announced for this years Locus Awards, a poll of the readers of Locus magazine. Despite being announced a couple of weeks after the finalists for the [...]

April 20, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Sky to make “Going Postal”

Sky to make “Going Postal”

Following the successes of the “Hogfather” and “The Colour of Magic” from the books by Terry Pratchett, Sky One are in the process of producing yet another classic from the writer. Production of “Going Postal” is under way in Budapest, Hungary. Where the all British cast including Richard Coyle as Moist Von Lipwig, David Suchet [...]

July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment More