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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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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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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Following on from our post just yesterday, announcing The Underground Railroad was in the running for the Booker Prize, Colson Whitehead’s novel has been confirmed as the winner of the 2017 Arthur C Clarke award. Whitehead’s novel has been collecting accolades and awards across the entire scope of literary world, uniting the experts of the literary and science fiction worlds
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