Having already taken home the 2017 Pulitzer prize, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction (from the US based National Book Foundation) and being one of six nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Underground Railroad has been taking the literary world by storm. The latest accolade to come the way of this exciting novel is to be included
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In celebration of an emerging new genre we can announce a new award ceremony, the SplatterPunk awards! Certainly not to everyone’s tastes, the genre of SplatterPunk is characterised by extreme violence written in gory, graphic detail. Whereas many horror authors will attest to the power of letting the reader’s imagination run wild, pointing them in the right direction without letting
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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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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Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series of novels has been an absolute phenomenon in the SFF publishing world. Following monster hunters, known as Witchers, the original short story of “The Witcher” was published all the way back in 1986, winning third place in a competition for Fantastyka. What followed was a series of short stories set in the world of the Witchers,
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The Locus Awards, awarded by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, have recognised some of the biggest names in the business. Past winners include Le Guin, Gaiman and Asimov, among a whole of other household names. The awards cover all the major categories with the standard speculative fiction award staples of Best Science Fiction Novel and Best Fantasy Novel the
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Mimi Yu is an author in high demand, despite not yet having a book published. Already signed up to a two book deal with Bloomsbury, which they had to bid for at an auction, the rights to the UK releases of Yu’s debut works have been snapped up by Gollancz to publish. The first novel, The Girl King, is set
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