The finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards, Award for Best Young Adult Book, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and for the 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards were announced at simultaneous events held in San Jose, California, at Norwescon 41 in SeaTac, Washington, and at Follycon, the 68th British National Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon).
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Earlier this year, we highlighted one of the Booker Prize shortlist as particularly interesting and a front runner for the award. That book was Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Yesterday, the Booker Prize committee announced that George Saunders was the winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
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Last month, we brought you the full shortlist for the Sunburst Awards, one of the premier awards in Canadian Speculative Fiction. Well, the wait is finally over and we can bring you the winners!
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The Sputnik Award has announced the winner of the 2015/16 to, well, near-deafening silence. Another reaction to the “infiltration” of the Hugo Awards nomination process, the Sputnik Awards were founded by Jo Lindsay Walton and announced in a guest editorial in Interzone back in July last year.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky continues his recent run of success with the Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel from the British Fantasy Society for The Tiger and the Wolf. Tchaikovsky rose to prominence with his Shadows of the Apt series of fantasy novels, wherein he released an astonishing ten novels in the series between 2008 and 2014. However, his departure from the series
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The Shirley Jackson Awards celebrate “outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction” and are considered one of the premier awards in horror literature. This is the top of the game for horror writers and a true honour for any author wanting to follow in the footsteps of one of the genre’s great contributors. The awards are voted
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Yet another Canadian Award announcement in what is quickly becoming Canadian Season here at Zealot Script! This time, in affiliation with the Sunburst Awards Society, comes the Copper Cylinder award.
Read moreFrom the Sunburst Awards to the Aurora Awards, it’s Canada season! The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association has announced the winners of their Annual Aurora awards, but this year was a bit different. In addition to the twelve (that’s right twelve) regular awards, this year was that one out of every ten years that they also handed out the prestigious
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At their second annual conference the Historical Writers of America will award their PastWords Award to seven artists whose “work illuminates the past”. The award was setup “to recognize creators who have produced an outstanding body of work.” Among the winners of the 2017 awards is none other than A Song of Ice and Fire, and therefore TV sensation Game of
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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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