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The nominations for the 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced. The awards are given annually by The Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ) for excellence in science fiction and fantasy by New Zealanders and New Zealand residents. This year’s awards will be presented at Lexicon 2017.


Professional Award Nominees

Best Novel

Innocents, by Sarah Fayermann
Den of Wolves, by Juliet Marillier
Into the Mist, by Lee Murray
Daybreak Rising, by Kiran Oliver
Night’s Fall, by Richard Parry


Best Youth Novel

Stranded Starship (You Say Which Way), by Kevin Berry
The Ghosts of Moonlight Creek, by Sue Copsey
Battlesaurus: Clash of Empires, by Brian Falkner
Light in My Dark, by Jean Gilbert and William Dresden


Best Novella / Novelette

The Convergence of Fairy Tales, by Octavia Cade
“Babylon’s Song,” by Woelf Dietrich
The Sleeper’s Dance – A Novella, by Mouse Diver-Dudfield
“Spindle,” by Dan Rabarts
Tipuna Tapu, by Dan Rabarts


Best Short Story

“Narco,” by Michelle Child
“Splintr,” by A.J. Fitzwater
“Wakers,” by Sean Monaghan
“Call of the Sea,” by Eileen Mueller
“BlindSight,” by A.J. Ponder
“London’s Crawling,” by Emma Pullar


Best Collected Work

At the Edge, edited by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray
Everything is Fine, by Grant Stone


Best Professional Artwork

Cover artwork for Write Off Line 2016: Everyone’s a Winner, by Kodi Murray
Cover artwork for Beyond the Stars, by Kodi Murray
Cover artwork for Chameleon Moon, by Laya Rose
Midnight Star, Laya Rose
Cover artwork for That Kind of Planet, by Emma Weakley
Cover artwork for At the Edge, by Emma Weakley


Best Professional Production / Publication

That Kind of Planet, by Emma Weakley
Best Dramatic Presentation

This Papier Mache Boulder is Actually Really Heavy, by Andrew Beszant and Christian Nicholson
Chronesthesia, directed by Hayden J. Weal, collaborator Simeon Duncombe
AFK: the webseries, episode 12, “ZERG,” directed by Peter Haynes



Fan Award Nominees

Best Fan Production/ Publication

Novazine, edited by Jacqui Smith
Phoenixine, edited by John and Lynelle Howell
Summer Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror


Best Fan Writing

Alex Lindsay for “SITREP,” Published in Phoenxine
Jacqui Smith, For contributions to Novazine
Octavia Cade, For “Food and Horror” Column Series


Best Fan Artist

Keith Smith, Contributions to Novazine
Special Award Nominees


Best New Talent

Eileen Mueller
Richard Parry
Laya Rose
Darian Smith


Services To Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror

Lee Murray


Services To Fandom

Jan Butterworth
Lynelle Howell

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2016 Bram Stoker Awards Winners

— posted Saturday 29 April 2017
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/04/2016-bram-stoker-awards-winners/


The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the winners for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards on April 29, 2017 at a gala held aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA during StokerCon 2017.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)

Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand (Minotaur)
Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
Stranded, Bracken MacLeod (Tor)
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Haven, Tom Deady (Cemetery Dance)

The Apothecary’s Curse, Barbara Barnett (Pyr)
Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum)
Mayan Blue, Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason (Sinister Grin)
The Eighth, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Dark Regions)


Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Snowed, Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming)

Last Days of Salton Academy, Jennifer Brozek (Ragnarok)
Holding Smoke, Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)
When They Fade, Jeyn Roberts (Knopf)
The Telling, Alexandra Sirowy (Simon & Schuster)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner (Darkfuse)

The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01Publishing)
“That Perilous Stuff”, Scott Edelman (Chiral Mad 3)
The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
“The Jupiter Drop”, Josh Malerman (You, Human)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

“The Crawl Space”, Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen 9-10/16)

“Time is a Face on the Water”, Michael Bailey (Borderlands 6)
“A Rift in Reflection”, Hal Bodner (Chiral Mad 3)
“The Bad Hour”, Christopher Golden (What the #@&% Is That?)
“Arbeit Macht Frei”, Lisa Mannetti (Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious)

Swift to Chase, Laird Barron (JournalStone)
A Long December, Richard Chizmar (Subterranean)
Lethal Birds, Gene O’Neill (Omnium Gatherum)
American Nocturne, Hank Schwaeble (Cohesion)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Borderlands 6, Oliva F. Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, eds. (Samhain)

Chiral Mad 3, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
The Beauty of Death, Alessandro Manzetti, ed. (Independent Legions)
Fright Mare – Women Write Horror, Billie Sue Mosiman, ed. (self-published)
Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward, eds. (Crystal Lake)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)

Haunted, Leo Braudy (Yale University Press)
Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”, Danel P. Olson (Centipede)
In the Mountains of Madness, W. Scott Poole (Soft Skull)
Something in the Blood, David J. Skal (Liveright)
The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts (McFarland)


Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Sacrificial Nights, Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria)
Corona Obscura, Michael R. Collings (self-published)
Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City)
Small Spirits, Marge Simon (self-published)


Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, James Chambers (Moonstone)

Blood Feud, Cullen Bunn (Oni)
No Mercy: Volume 2, Alex de Campi (Image)
Outcast: Volume 3: This Little Light, Robert Kirkman (Image)
The Steam Man, Mark Alan Miller & Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Horse)
Providence: Act 1, Alan Moore (Avatar)


Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

The Witch

Penny Dreadful: “A Blade of Grass”
Stranger Things: “The Upside Down”
Stranger Things: “The Vanishing of Will Byers”
10 Cloverfield Lane

nije loše. znao sam da će langan da dobije čim sam pročito roman. lepo je to, mada imam krupne rezerve prema tom spoju intimne priče o gubitku i megalomanskog metafizičkog horora...
u broju maj/jun RUE MORGUE magazina je moj članak o langanovoj upcoming zbirci koji uključuje i moj intervju s njim. 

inače, u jednom ranijem broju RUE MORGUE pisao sam prikaz za zbirku dž. k. outs koja je sad dobila stokera. 

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i jedna veoma...  nagrada:

Odyssey Scholarship Announced

George R.R. Martin has announced that he will be offering a full scholarship to the Odyssey Writers Workshop. The Miskatonic Scholarship will be awarded to a new author of Lovecraftian style cosmic horror. It will be a full scholarship covering tuition, fees, and lodging for a student and given annually. The winner of the scholarship will be selected by a panel of three judges based on writing samples from students who have demonstrated need.

http://grrm.livejournal.com/534795.html

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The Nominees for this year’s Kurd Laßwitz award for science fiction published in Germany have been announced.


Best German Science-Fiction Novel

Moonatics, by Arne Ahlert
Omni, by Andrea Brandhorst
Der Bahnhof von Plön, by Christopher Ecker
Helix: Sie werden uns ersetzen, by Marc Elsberg
Alles außer irdisch, by Horst Evers
Sternentor , by Mathias Falke
Im Nebel kein Wort, by Frank Hebben
Vektor, by Jo Koren
Das Universum nach Landau, by Karsten Kruschel
Unsterblich, by Jens Lubbadeh
Blumen vom Mars, by Gabriele Nolte
Ein neuer Himmel für Kana, by Karla Schmidt
Babylon, by Thomas Thiemeyer



Best Foreign Science-Fiction Book (translated into German)

A Darkling Sea, by James L. Cambias
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
The Fold, by Peter Clines
The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
Sleeping Giants, by Sylvain Neuvel
Lagoon, by Nnedi Okorafor
Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The End of the Running Club, by Adrian J. Walker
Half a Crown, by Jo Walton

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The 2017 Aurora/Boréal Award ballot for French language has been announced.

Meilleur roman

Le crépuscule des arcanes 3. Le sorcier de l’Île d’Orléans, by Sébastien Chartrand
Les monstres intérieurs, by Héloïse Côté
La chambre verte, by Martine Desjardins
Les Cendres de Sedna, by Ariane Gélinas
La rue du Lac-Frisson 1. L’arbre maléfique, by Frédéric Raymond

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The 2017 Compton Crook 35th Award Winner is:

Too Like the Lightning ( Terra Ignota, Book 1) Ada Palmer, Tor Books (May 10, 2016)

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Locus has announced the shortlist for this year’s Locus Awards. The winners will be presented in Seattle, WA on the weekend of June 23-25. Connie Willis will serve as emcee.


Science Fiction Novel

Company Town, by Madeline Ashby
The Medusa Chronicles, by Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
Take Back the Sky, by Greg Bear
Visitor, by C.J. Cherryh
Babylon’s Ashes, by James S.A. Corey
Death’s End, by Cixin Liu
After Atlas, by Emma Newman
Central Station, by Lavie Tidhar
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
Last Year, by Robert Charles Wilson


Fantasy Novel

All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders
Summerlong, by Peter S. Beagle
City of Blades, by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Obelisk Gate, by N.K. Jemisin
Children of Earth and Sky, by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Wall of Storms, by Ken Liu
The Last Days of New Paris, by China Miéville
The Winged Histories, by Sofia Samatar
The Nightmare Stacks, by Charles Stross
Necessity, by Jo Walton


Horror Novel

The Brotherhood of the Wheel, by R.S. Belcher
Fellside, by M.R. Carey
The Fireman, by Joe Hill
Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones
The Fisherman, by John Langan
Certain Dark Things, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
HEX, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Family Plot, by Cherie Priest
Lovecraft Country, by Matt Ruff
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, by Paul Tremblay


Young Adult Book

Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo
The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill
Lois Lane: Double Down, by Gwenda Bond
Truthwitch, by Susan Dennard
Poisoned Blade, by Kate Elliott
Burning Midnight, by Will McIntosh
Goldenhand, by Garth Nix
Revenger, by Alastair Reynolds
This Savage Song, by Victoria Schwab
The Evil Wizard Smallbone, by Delia Sherman


First Novel

The Reader, by Traci Chee
Waypoint Kangaroo, by Curtis Chen
The Star-Touched Queen, by Roshani Chokshi
The Girl from Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig
Roses and Rot, by Kat Howard
Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee
Arabella of Mars, by David D. Levine
Infomocracy, by Malka Older
Everfair, by Nisi Shawl
Vigil, by Angela Slatter

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The Shirley Jackson Awards were established to recognize outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. The winners will be announced on July 16 at Readercon 28 in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Novel

The Girls, by Emma Cline
The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue
Lily, by Michael Thomas Ford
Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, by Iain Reid
Foxlowe, by Eleanor Wasserberg


Novella

“Maggots,” by Nina Allan
The Sadist’s Bible, by Nicole Cushing
The Warren, by Brian Evenson
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, by Kij Johnson
The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle
Muscadines, by S.P. Miskowski


Single-Author Collection

We Show What We Have Learned, by Clare Beams
A Natural History of Hell, by Jeffrey Ford
Furnace, by Livia Llewellyn
Almost Insentient, by Almost Divine, D.P. Watt
Greener Pastures, by Michael Wehunt


Edited Anthology

An Unreliable Guide to London, edited by Kit Caless & Gary Budden
Autumn Cthulhu, edited by Mike Davis
The Madness of Dr. Caligari, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories, edited by Kelsi Morris & Kaitlin Tremblay
The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the winners of the 2016 Nebula Awards. The winners are…

Novel:
All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
Borderline, Mishell Baker (Saga)
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
Everfair, Nisi Shawl (Tor)

Novella:
Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
Runtime, S.B. Divya (Tor.com Publishing)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing)
The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
‘‘The Liar’’, John P. Murphy (F&SF 3-4/16)
A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com Publishing)


Novelette:
‘‘The Long Fall Up’’, William Ledbetter (F&SF 5-6/16)
‘‘Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea’’, Sarah Pinsker (Lightspeed 2/16)
‘‘Blood Grains Speak Through Memories’’, Jason Sanford (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/17/16)
“The Orangery“, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/8/16)
The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde (Tor.com Publishing)
‘‘You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay’’, Alyssa Wong (Uncanny 5-6/16)


Short Story:
‘‘Seasons of Glass and Iron“, Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit Wood)
‘Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies’’, Brooke Bolander (Uncanny 11-12/16)
‘‘Sabbath Wine’’, Barbara Krasnoff (Clockwork Phoenix 5)
‘‘Things With Beards’’, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 6/16)
‘‘This Is Not a Wardrobe Door’’, A. Merc Rustad (Fireside Magazine 1/16)
‘‘A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers’’, Alyssa Wong (Tor.com 3/2/16)
‘‘Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station│Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Lightspeed 3/16)


Bradbury:
Arrival
Doctor Strange
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Westworld: ‘‘The Bicameral Mind’’
Zootopia


Norton:
Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine (Tor)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s)
The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK; Abrams)
Railhead, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press; Switch)
Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, Lindsay Ribar (Dawson)
The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)
The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award was given to two recipients: Toni Weisskopf and Peggy Rae Sapienza.

The Awards were presented at a ceremony held in the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center in Pennsylvania on the evening of May 20, 2017. For more information on the Nebula Awards and the Nebula Conference, see the SFWA website.


All the Birds in the Sky je bio na čitaonici i nije bilo lepih reči.

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Robert J. Sawyer has been presented with the Heinlein Award at Balticon 51. The Heinlein Award is given to writers of science fiction and technical writers whose work inspires the exploration of space. The recipients are selected by a panel from the Heinlein Society. Sawyer received a plaque, a sterling silver medallion engraved with Heinlein’s likeness, and two lapel pins.

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Sunburst Nominees

The Spawning Grounds, by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Company Town, by Madeline Ashby
Three Years With the Rat, by Jay Hosking
Spells of Blood and Kin, by Claire Humphrey
The Witches of New York, by Ami McKay
Certain Dark Things, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sleeping Giants, by Sylvain Neuvel
The Angels of Our Better Beasts, by Jerome Stueart
Necessity, by Jo Walton
Last Year, by Robert Charles Wilson

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The Cóyotl Awards honor excellence in anthropomorphic fiction.


The Digital Coyote, by Kris Schnee
The Goat, by Bill Kieffer
“400 Rabbits,” by Alice “Huskyteer” Dryden
Gods with Fur, by Fred Patten

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The forty-third Premio Italia Awards were announced at Italcon 43.

International SF Novel: Green Mars (Il verde di Marte), by Kim Stanley Robinson
Science Fiction Novel: Real Mars, by Alessandro Vietti
Fantasy Novel: Il segreto del vecchio cimitero, by Marco Di Giaimo and Giuseppe Bono

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The 2017 Aurora Award ballot for English language has been announced.

Best Novel

Children of Earth and Sky, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Company Town, by Madeline Ashby
The Courier, by Gerald Brandt
The Nature of a Pirate, by A.M. Dellamonica
Quantum Night, by Robert J. Sawyer
Stars like Cold Fire, by Brent Nichols


Best Young Adult Novel

Day of the Demon, by Randy McCharles
Door into Faerie, by Edward Willett
Heir to the Sky, by Amanda Sun
Icarus Down, by James Bow
Mik Murdoch: Crisis of Conscience, by Michell Plested
The Wizard Killer – Season One, by Adam Dreece


Best Short Fiction

“Age of Miracles,” by Robert Runté
“Frog Song,” by Erika Holt
“Living in Oz,” by Bev Geddes
“Marion’s War,” by Hayden Trenholm
“Seasons of Glass and Iron,” by Amal el-Mohtar
“When Phakack Came to Steal Papa” A Ti-Jean Story,” by Ace Jordyn


Best Poem/Song

No award will be given out in this category in 2017 due to insufficient eligible nominees

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Silver Falchion Nominees


Best Fantasy/SciFi

The Apothecary’s Curse, by Barbara Barnett
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Phoenix Descent, by Chuck Grossart
A Murder in Time, by Julie McElwain
The City of Seven Gods, by Andrew Peters
Shamar, by Lydia Staggs
The Delphi Effect, by Rysa Walker


Best Horror

Awakening, by Eric Gardner
Defiance, by Eric Gardner
The Crandall Haunting, by A.H. Gilbert
The Blackening of Flesh, by Christian Larsen


Best Fiction – Children

Balto of the Blue Dawn, by Mary Pope Osborne
Something’s Tuggin on my Claw, by Janice Petrie
Pugs of the Frozen North, by Philip Reeve
The Evil Wizard Smallbone, by Delia Sherman


Best Fiction – Teen/Young Adult

Useless Bay, by M.J. Beaufrand
Weregirl, by C.D. Bell
Trapped, by P.A. DeVoe
The Door That Led to Where, by Sally Gardner
The Lost Property Office, by James Hanibal
The Dagger’s Curse, by Wendy H. Jones
Dream Crimes, by Gabriela Naumnik
Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom, by David Neilsen
Train to Glory, by Lisa Potocar
Color Blind, by Sheila Sobel