This year's Hugo Awards were presented during the night in Australia. Several friends and acquaintances were fortunate enough to win. Notably, Paolo Bacigalupi tied for best novel with The Windup Girl, which had won the Nebula and John W. Campbell for best novel earlier in the year ( Read more... )

Congrats to the 2010 BSFA nominees.

Novels on the short list are Ark by Stephen Baxter, Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin, The City & The City by China Mieville, and Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts.

Congrats to Paul/paulmelko and Paolo/pbacigalupi and Ellen Datow/ellen_datlow for nabbing the first novel, novelette, collection, and editor 2009 Locus Awards.

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PW profiles Charlie. Worth the read. Same can be said about the Traitor to the Crown books. One notable fact about the article is the discussion about Blue Heaven. Didn't know alums were battling 1.000 with regards to the Crawford. Excellent, dude. :-)

I just saw the news that paulmelko won the Compton Crook for best first novel yesterday for Singularity's Ring. On his birthday. Talk about nice surprises.

Lots of late-night posts. Saw the 2009 Sturgeon finalist list on Ellen's LJ. Quite happy to see several friends and professional acquaintances ( Read more... )

Congrats to all the nominees. Some nice competition.

Best Novel
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)
Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr)
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog Oct. 2006-Jan/Feb. 2007)
The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor)
Halting State by Charles Stross (Ace)

Best Novella“The ( Read more... )

A slew of LJ friends and MySpace friends on the ballot (most notably on the collection list). Congrats and good luck to everyone.

Final 2007 Stoker Ballot

Superior Achievement in a Novel
THE GUARDENER'S TALE by Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
THE MISSING by Sarah Langan (Harper)THE TERROR by ( Read more... )

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Shirley Jackson Awards, taking the place of the International Horror Guild Awards.

Didn't except I'd spam LJ today, but I noted a post just now linking to the British Science Fiction Association's list of nominees for the past year, and there are several LJ friends mentioned. So here's a link to the full list. Congrats to all. :-)