An announcement for our Canadian friends today with the release of the shortlist for the 2017 Sunburst Awards. The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an award to recognize exceptional writing in three categories: adult, young adult and short story. The awards are presented annually to a winner in each of the categories. And yes, they do
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The World Fantasy Convention is all set to honour Terry Brooks and Marina Warner with lifetime achievement awards at their annual ceremony in November.
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The Scribe Awards have announced their winners of the 2017 awards.
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Controversy marred the annual Dragon Awards this year, this gets a little bit convoluted so you’ll need to bear with us while we unravel this for you. The issues started with Alison Littlewood, author of The Hidden People. The novel was announced as nominated in the Horror novel category of the Dragon Awards, an excellent achievement for the author? Well,
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When the Booker Prize shortlist was announced yesterday a Zealot Script favourite was missing. Unfortunately for author Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad has missed out on scooping the most prestigious literary prize of them all. We’re sure that Colson is not too disheartened as he can console himself with the fact that he has already been awarded 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the
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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced winners in each category of the 2017 Locus Awards.
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This is the book plants don’t want you to read… There’s been a lot of coverage in recent times of the successes and failures of the crowdsourcing model, epitomised by Kickstarter. Well we’ve found one Kickstarter that looks primed to be a success! From the Kickstarter description: Improbable Botany is a brand-new science fiction anthology about alien plant conquests, fantastical ecosystems,
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Gollancz have announced the arrival of Strange Weather, a collection of four “short novels” by the award-winning Joe Hill. This collection of novellas is due for release on the 7th of November, but you can already get your pre-orders in. Joe Hill is best known as the bestselling author of the 2016 release, The Fireman, and has scoped a host
Read moreOrbit Books has released M. R. Carey’s follow-up to his smash hit The Girl With All the Gifts, The Boy on the Bridge. Carey’s post-apocalyptic tale, The Girl With All The Gifts, has already been seen in several versions. Originally the tale appeared back in 2013 as Iphigenia In Aulis, a short story that was nominated for an Edgar award. Carey then adapted
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Orbit books has announced the acquisition of the rights to Josiah Bancroft’s series, The Books of Babel. Bancroft’s first in the series, Senlin Ascends, was self published by the author back in February 2013 and has met with excellent reviews. It tells the story of Thomas Senlin, a mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, who is drawn to the Tower
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