WorldCon is all set to return to Washington DC with the successful, unopposed bid to host WorldCon 2021. DisCon III, as it will be known, will as the name suggests be the third time that the event has been held in Washington DC, with events I and II taking place back in 1963 and 1974 respectively. DisCon III, the 79th
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The team at StokerCon have recently announced that Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series, is to join the convention line up as the 2020 Author Guest of Honour. His Anno Dracula series is set in an alternate (to Stoker’s reality) history where the original protagonists were not able to prevent Dracula’s conquest of Great Britain. His work encompasses
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Silver turned to gold at Mythcon 50 as Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver took home the star prize of Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. The Mythopoeic Awards are given out to those works that are decided to have best exemplified “the Spirit of the Inklings”, the famous Oxford writing group that counted JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis among its members.
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The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, an mouthful made no easier to pronounce by their commonly known acronym IAMTW, have announced the winners for the 2019 Scribe Awards. The awards honour excellence in licensed tie-in writing, and this year’s nominees wrote in such familiar universes as Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who. The top award, for Original Novel
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The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal continued its domination of the Award scene by adding the Hugo Award for Best Novel to an already impressive array of acclaim. The award also meant that Kowal joined the short list of authors honoured with winning both the Nebula and Hugo awards for the same work! A commonplace achievement in the 1970s,
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20th August 2019 – The Withered King (Tempest Blades) – Ricardo Victoria Fionn – wielder of a legendary Tempest Blade and blessed, or cursed, by the Gift – thought his days as a warrior were over. He cannot grow old and is full of regrets. But life proves that it has other plans for him, once he agreed to help a friend. Gaby and Alex
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The Dragon Awards have announced the ballot for the 2019 awards. Among the nominees are such well-known names as Kim Stanley Robinson, for Red Moon, and James S.A. Corey, for Tiamat’s Wrath, both up for the Best Science Fiction Novel Award. The full list of nominees can be seen below:
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This was the secret Paradise hidden amid the world’s great weights. A door was opening. “Karen: I will see you again.” Together, they would reach a new place.
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15th August 2019 – Distaff – Anthology DISTAFF: NOUN A staff used in spinning.Of women and women’s work.An anthology of women’s stories woven through time and space. In 2018 a crack team of women sci-fi writers, all members of the sffchronicles community forum, came together to write an anthology. Distaff is the result. Join us as we share stories of people, of science
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8th August 2019 – To Be Taught, If Fortunate – Becky Chambers In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves. At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They
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