by Meera Nair Media representations are meant to reflect life and, sometimes, life itself lends meaning from the various narratives that propel these stories. Even the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres have underlying themes, drawn from real life. So it is only natural if we made our way to some of the technology that we have seen in Science Fiction
Read moreA slightly lesser known award, The Scribe awards recognise the world of “media tie-in” writing. While this field suffers from a lack of the prestige that the pure Science Fiction and Fantasy fields enjoy there is some excellent work in the area and the Scribe awards work to highlight this fact. If you believe, and you won’t be alone, that
Read moreCongratulations to all the 2016 Nebula Award Winners! The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has released the list of Nebula Award winners for 2016. The Nebula is one of the most prestigious awards in the SFF world and it is an outstanding achievement to be one of the selected winners.
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Gollancz have just announced that the world audio rights for David Gemmell’s complete works have been acquired, jointly, by Orion Audio and Hachette Audio. Gemmell is an outstanding figure in British Fantasy, his first work, Legend, being published back in 1984. He continued to enjoy success with his Drenai series, of which Legend is the first installment, up until 2004
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The Parsec Awards have now closed their nomination process and have invited the nominated parties to submit samples of their work for review by the committee. With over 400 nominees, we don’t envy the committee the workload! You can see the full list of nominees, along with the details of whether their sample has been received, on the Parsec Site
Read moreAngry Robot have announced the signing of a new author to their stable, Jasmine Gower. Her debut novel, Moonshine, is scheduled for release by the publisher in February 2018 and follows the story of Daisy Dell. Daisy has inherited the gift of magical power in the form of heirlooms from her grandmother, in a world where magic is prohibited.
Read moreSte Sharp was born in the hottest summer on record. The sun-god was happy and, by rights, Ste should have been sacrificed on the nearest beach, but he escaped. Twenty years later, with a degree in Ecology under one arm and a guitar under the other, Ste travelled the globe in search of tall tales and the perfect chord progression.
Read moreA month ago, we introduced you to The Power. Naomi Alderman’s Science Fiction thriller had the privelege of being included on the shortlist for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction. We are delighted to report that The Power beat off some tough competition to win the Award! Congratulations to Naomi Alderman!
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I went into a box and it wasn’t a box. I asked the box to go wandering. We could go to planets We could visit stars Or Tuesday. That box could go anywhere at all. And so we did.
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There are rumours going around the web of a new award category for the Nebulas next year, that of a Nebula Award for Game Writing. I haven’t, as yet, seen any confirmation of this from the SFWA themselves but if so this is a fantastic step forward for the SFF literature to embrace new formats.
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