The 2019/1944 Hugo Award Administrators have announced that Guteto, edited by Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas), has been added to the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Award ballot, and that Fantasy News, edited by William S. Sykora, has been removed. The full text of the Administrator’s announcement is below.
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Following two rounds of nomination and voting from the members of the British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon, The British Fantasy Awards has announced the shortlist for each of the Award categories. The shortlisted entries are now entered for consideration by the appointed juries for each category. A full list of the jurors can be seen on the BFS website here.
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BooktubeSFF is the segment of YouTube dedicated to booklovers who use the platform to discuss and share their love of reading Science Fiction and Fantasy. The awards started in 2015 and according to the organisers the goals of running them are: 1) To provide another avenue for the BooktubeSFF community to share, read, and discuss our favourite works published in the
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The seeds of heresy are sown What have I started here? As readers, we are used to embarking on a new series with an ominous mountain of books standing between us and the conclusion of the epic tale we have started. Those people who came late to A Song of Ice and Fire will know the feeling. Those of us
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23rd July 2019 – The Dark Above – Jeremy Finley In this sequel to the critically-acclaimed novel that grabbed fans of X-Files and Stranger Things, Jeremy Finley returns with another thriller full of aliens and government cover-ups. For most of his life, William Chance has been the living proof that his grandmother and her fellow researchers into missing people were right all along about
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Tade Thompson’s Rosewater , published by Orbit, has been announced as the winner of the 33rd Arthur C. Clarke Award. As well as the status of being a Clarke Award prize winner, Thompson receives a check for £2,019 and an engraved bookend. Other finalists were: Semiosis – Sue Burke (HarperVoyager) Revenant Gun – Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) Frankenstein in Baghdad
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J.J. Cragun has taken the top prize in the sixth annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Awards, his entry, “Treason Properly” will be published as the featured story on the Baen Books main website and paid at industry-standard rates for professional story submittals. Cragun will also receive a handsome engraved award and a prize package containing $500 worth of free Baen Books.
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The Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier awards for speculative fiction, are for works created by an Australian citizen or permanent resident, and published for the first time between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. Full guidelines and FAQ can be found on the Aurealis Awards website.
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J. S. Burke is an author, artist, and scientist. She’s worked as a marine biologist, studying creatures of the dark abyss and diving on coral reefs. Her stories blend imagination with real science and author experiences. She lives in Georgia with her family, rescue companions, and dragons! The award-winning Dragon Dreamer series grew from her years at sea, a fascination
Read moreThey say your life flashes in front of your eyes before you die. I had been suffering with a chest infection for a few weeks and had been feeling very peculiar. Antiobiotics hadn’t shifted it. Lying in bed one night I found my memories cycling before my closed eyes. I sat bolt upright, my heart beating fast; 00:59 glowed softly
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