This year's Nebula Award winners are as follows:Novel The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade Books, Sept. 2009) Novella The Women of Nell Gwynne's - Kage Baker (Subterranean Press, June 2009) Novelette "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast," Eugie Foster (Interzone, Feb. 2009) Short Story "Spar," Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld, Oct. 2009) Ray Bradbury Award District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Tri-Star, Aug. 2009) Andre Norton Award The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Catherynne M. Valente, June 2009 thought I've only read the Eugie Foster story, which I didn't like at all: all that Fantasy mask trapping was tedious. The Windup Girl is on my shelf to read and I imagine is a popular winner. I've seen District 9, and thought it was pretty good but not as good as Moon.
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Nebula Award Winners 2010
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May 16 2010, 6:25am | Comments »
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An Updated Analysis of the BSFA Award Novel Shortlists Versus The Clarke Award Shortlists
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Two years ago I decided to analyse the difference between the BSFA Award novel shortlists and the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlists. Now seems as good as time as any to update the analysis.As before any errors are sure to be my own, please feel free to point them out in the comments.
Novels which made one shortlist but not the other According to my numbers there have been:
79 novels that have made the BSFA shortlist but not the Clarke, that's 70% of them. 119 novels that have made the Clarke shortlist but not the BSFA, that's 79% of them. Only 32 novels have made both shortlists, which is less than the last time I did this analysis. Hmmm. I'm more confident of this analysis though. It's still incredibly low.
Winners of the Clarke Award that weren't shortlisted for the BSFA AwardI reckon there are 14 of them:
Body Of Glass, Marge Piercy (MICHAEL JOSEPH) Distraction, Bruce Sterling (MILLENNIUM 1998) Dreaming In Smoke, Tricia Sullivan (ORBIT) Fools, Pat Cadigan (HARPERCOLLINS UK) Iron Council, China Mievelle (MACMILLAN) Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (GOLLANCZ) Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (HEINEMANN) Synners, Pat Cadigan (HARPERCOLLINS) The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh (PICADOR 1995) The Sea And Summer, George Turner (FABER & FABER) Unquenchable Fire, Rachel Pollack (CENTURY) Vurt, Jeff Noon (RINGPULL) Black Man, Richard Morgan (GOLLANCZ) Song Of Time, Ian R. MacLeod (PS PUBLISHING)
Some amazing novels in there that BSFA members didn't even shortlist. I wonder why?
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April 27 2010, 1:18am | Comments »
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2010 SF Hall of Fame Inductees
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The Science Fiction Museum and SF Hall of Fame announced that this year's Hall of Fame inductees: Octavia E. Butler Roger Zelazny Douglas Trumbull Richard Matheson Winners were selected by a jury cosnisting of Robin Wayne Bailey, Gavin Grant, Leslie Howle, Therese Littleton, George R.R. Martin, Brooks Peck, Robert Silverberg, Frank Wu. The Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place June 26 at Seattle's Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum as part of the Science Fiction Awards Weekend.
[via Small Beer Press and SciFi Wire]
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March 9 2010, 9:28am | Comments »
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The BAFTAs : Battle Of The Science Fiction Films
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I know I'm biased, but I would say that some of the best films last year were Science Fiction: Moon, The Road and District 9. I'd also say that the most over-hyped and over-rated film last year was also Science Fiction: Avatar.It's the BAFTAs tonight and all of those films have a nomination for something. Here's the relevant nominations:Best Film : AvatarOutstanding British Film: MoonOutstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer: Duncan Jones for Moon.Director: James Cameron for Avatar, Neill Blomkamp for District 9 Original Screenplay: UpAdapted Screenplay: District 9Animated Film: Coraline, UpMusic: Avatar, UpCinematography: Avatar, District 9, The RoadEditing: Avatar, District 9Production Design: Avatar, District 9, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Imaginarium Of Doctor ParnassusSound: Avatar, District 9, Star Trek, UpSpecial Visual Effects: Avatar, District 9, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star TrekPersonally I'd have preferred more nominations for Moon and The Road rather than Avatar and District 9.The BAFTAs is on BBC1 tonight at 9pm.
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