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World Fantasy Award nominations
Date: August 14, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Nominees for the 2007 World Fantasy Award have been announced. A full list of nominees can be found at the World Fantasy Award website.
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Locus Awards finalists named
Date: April 26, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 2007 Locus Awards finalists have been chosen. The prize awards science fiction and fantasy writing through a popular vote.
For a full list of finalists, see here.
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Hugo Award nominees announced
Date: March 30, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The World Science Fiction Convention has named its nominees for the 2007 Hugo Award, which honours the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year. The full list of nominees is available at the SciFi Wire website.
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Prometheus nominees announced
Date: March 29, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Nominees for the 2007 Prometheus Award, which annually honours libertarian science fiction, have been announced.
The nominees for this year’s main award are:
Empire by Orson Scott Card
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson
The Prometheus Classic Hall of Fame recognizes classic pro-freedom freedom writing, with this year’s nominees being:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
“As Easy as A.B.C.” by Rudyard Kipling
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
“True Names,” by Vernor Vinge
Winners will be revealed at the end of August this year.
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Kevin Brockmeier wins the 2006 Borders Original Voices Fiction Award
Date: February 9, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Kevin Brockmeier’s The Brief History of the Dead has won in the fiction category of the 2006 Borders Original Voices Award, which is given to emerging and innovative artists (other categories include non-fiction and music).
The Borders selection committee described the work as being “a powerful first novel. The language was poetic and the intertwining stories were the most lyrical accounts of death ever read.” In the book life on Earth and a place called “the city” — an Earth-like place inhabited by those who have died and whose existence depends on the memories of the living — are mixed through the consciousness of Laura Byrd, a wildlife specialist whose Antarctica research station has become cut from the rest of the world due to a deadly virus that is spreading across Earth.
You can read more about The Brief History of the Dead at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
