The 2010 Awards Thread

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The nominations for the SFWA's Nebula Awards are out, so I thought I'd start a thread. I know, I know, awards are meaningless and have no correlation with quality, but sometimes it's interesting to see what's new and allegedly noteworthy.

Linked items are freely available online.

EDIT: Winners are in red.


Short Story (tie)

‘‘Ponies (http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/11/ponies)’’, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10)
‘‘How Interesting: A Tiny Man’’, Harlan Ellison® (Realms of Fantasy 2/10)
‘‘Arvies (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/arvies/)’’, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine 8/10)
‘‘I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/im-alive-i-love-you/)’’, Vylar Kaftan (Lightspeed Magazine 6/10)
‘‘The Green Book (http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2010/11/short-fiction-the-green-book-by-amal-el-mohtar/)’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine 11/1/10)
‘‘Ghosts of New York (http://www.apexbookcompany.com/2010/12/dark-faith-ghosts-of-new-york-by-jennifer-pelland/)’’, Jennifer Pelland (Dark Faith)
‘‘Conditional Love’’, Felicity Shoulders (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1/10)

Novelette

‘‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made’’, Eric James Stone (Analog Science Fiction and Fact 9/10)
‘‘Map of Seventeen’’, Christopher Barzak (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow (http://aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/online-fiction/the-jaguar-house-in-shadow/)’’, Aliette de Bodard Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 7/10)
‘‘The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara’’, Christopher Kastensmidt (Realms of Fantasy 4/10)
“Plus or Minus’’, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 12/10)
‘‘Pishaach’’, Shweta Narayan (The Beastly Bride)
‘‘Stone Wall Truth’’, Caroline M. Yoachim (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2/10)

Novella

‘‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2010/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky/)’’, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine Summer ’10)
The Alchemist, Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible; Subterranean)
‘‘Iron Shoes’’, J. Kathleen Cheney (Alembical 2)
The Life Cycle of Software Objects (http://www.subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/), Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
‘‘The Sultan of the Clouds (http://www.asimovs.com/2010_09/exc_story1.shtml)’’, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9/10)
‘‘Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance’’, Paul Park (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1-2/10)

Novel

Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
The Native Star, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
Echo, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper)
Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry)
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK)
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet)
The Boy from Ilysies, Pearl North (Tor Teen)
A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

I left out the Ray Bradbury award nominations, since that's for movies and TV, but you can find it here (http://www.sfwa.org/2011/02/2010-nebula-nominees/).

[JeffreyWKramer]

Wow, I have seriously fallen out of touch with SF. For the first time since I was old enough to know what the Nebula Award was, I've not read a single one of this year's nominees.

[jesse_custer]

I just finished "Ponies." It's a lot like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Kinda interesting.

I tried reading "Arvies," but it's an unfunny Vonnegut imitation.

Edit: "Ghosts of New York" is horrifying and sad but ultimately positive. The best one I've read so far.

[berk]

I just finished "Ponies." It's a lot like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Kinda interesting.

I tried reading "Arvies," but it's an unfunny Vonnegut imitation.

Edit: "Ghosts of New York" is horrifying and sad but ultimately positive. The best one I've read so far.Where do you read newer SF like this in general - periodicals, anthologies, on-line? I'm even more out of touch than Jeffrey - I haven't even heard of most of these writers, let alone read them.

[edit:] I saw the links to things like the Ted Chiang story and will follow up on some of those. I was just wondering how you keep up with the new or recent SF in a general sort of way.

[jesse_custer]

Oh, I don't read any of this stuff regularly; I saw this thread and thought I would give some of the linked stories a shot today.

I believe the online publications where these stories are published would be good places to start. Lightspeed Magazine seems to be more on the sci-fi rather than fantasy side.

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I saw the links to things like the Ted Chiang story and will follow up on some of those. I was just wondering how you keep up with the new or recent SF in a general sort of way.I like the "best of the year" anthologies. They each have their particular biases (Dozois' especially), but they generally give a good idea of who and what are current. Also, they've been featuring a lot of online sources over the last few years, like Lightspeed, and I've discovered a bunch of good stuff by branching out from those sites. For instance, this year's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy (http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/341221.html) anthology is about half print and half electronic.

Beyond that, it's just the usual round-up of blogs and RSS feeds.

[berk]

Oh, I don't read any of this stuff regularly; I saw this thread and thought I would give some of the linked stories a shot today.

I believe the online publications where these stories are published would be good places to start. Lightspeed Magazine seems to be more on the sci-fi rather than fantasy side.


I like the "best of the year" anthologies. They each have their particular biases (Dozois' especially), but they generally give a good idea of who and what are current. Also, they've been featuring a lot of online sources over the last few years, like Lightspeed, and I've discovered a bunch of good stuff by branching out from those sites. For instance, this year's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy (http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/341221.html) anthology is about half print and half electronic.

Beyond that, it's just the usual round-up of blogs and RSS feeds.Thanks to both of you, that's helpful.

[Libaax]

Im 1 year or 2 after new SF short stories,novellas. You wont get them in the library like new SF novels....

I wish i could read them online because i prefer short stories to novells in SFF.

Wish because i can only read paper books.

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The Hugo Awards nominations (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/2011-hugo-and-campbell-awards-nominees/) are out. I figured I'd combine it with the Nebula Awards thread, because why not?

EDIT: Updated with winners (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/08/2011-hugo-and-campbell-awards-winners/).


BEST NOVEL

Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)

BEST NOVELLA

The Lifecycle of Software Objects (http://www.subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/), Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
‘‘The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon'', Elizabeth Hand (Stories)
‘‘The Sultan of the Clouds'' (www.asimovs.com/2011_04-05/images/511Nebula10_sultan.pdf), Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov's 9/10)
‘‘Troika'', Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
‘‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window'' (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2010/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky/), Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)

BEST NOVELETTE

‘‘The Emperor of Mars'' (http://www.asimovs.com/2011_06/images/611hugo_emperor.pdf"), Allen M. Steele (Asimov's 6/10)
‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow'' (http://aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/online-fiction/the-jaguar-house-in-shadow/), Aliette de Bodard (Asimov's 7/10)
‘‘Plus or Minus'' (http://www.jimkelly.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136&Itemid=41), James Patrick Kelly (Asimov's 12/10)
‘‘Eight Miles'', Sean McMullen (Analog 9/10)
‘‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made'' (http://www.ericjamesstone.com/blog/stories/that-leviathan-whom-thou-hast-made/), Eric James Stone (Analog 9/10)

BEST SHORT STORY

‘‘For Want of a Nail'' (http://www.asimovs.com/2011_06/images/611hugo_nail.pdf), Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's 12/10)
‘‘Ponies'' (http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/11/ponies), Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
‘‘Amaryllis'' (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/amaryllis/), Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 6/10)
‘‘The Things'' (http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/), Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)

BEST RELATED WORK

Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, Lynne M. Thomas & Tara O'Shea, eds. (Mad Norwegian)
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)
The Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing, Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg (McFarland)
Writing Excuses (http://www.writingexcuses.com/), Season 4, Brandon Sanderson, Jordan Sanderson, Howard Tayler, Dan Wells
Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/), Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, Phil & Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio (Airship Entertainment)
The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man, Mike Carey; art by Peter Gross (Vertigo)
Grandville Mon Amour, Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse)
Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/): Massively Parallel, Howard Tayler (Hypernode)
Fables: Witches, Bill Willingham; art by Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)

The rest of the nominations (film, TV, fan awards, etc) are in the link.

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Might as well keep this up. Here are this year's British Science Fiction Association Award (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/2010bsfa/) nominees (winners in red):


Novel
The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit)
Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
The Restoration Game, Ken Macleod (Orbit)
Lightborn, Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)

Short Fiction
“The Shipmaker” (http://ttapress.com/downloads/the-shipmaker.pdf), Aliette de Bodard (Interzone #231)
‘‘Flying in the Face of God” (http://ttapress.com/downloads/flying-in-the-face-of-god.pdf), Nina Allan (Interzone #227)
“The Things” (http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/), Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)
“Arrhythmia”, Neil Williamson (Music for Another World)

Non-Fiction

“Blogging the Hugos: Decline” (http://bigother.com/2010/07/14/blogging-the-hugos-decline-part-1/), Paul Kincaid (Big Other)
“With Both Feet in the Clouds” (http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2010/06/with-both-feet-in-clouds-fantasy-in.html), Abigail Nussbaum (Asking the Wrong Questions)
“The Wheel of Time” (http://punkadiddle.blogspot.com/2010/06/robert-jordan-wheel-of-time-1990-2005.html) review, Adam Roberts (Punkadiddle)
Red Plenty, Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber)
Notes from Coode Street Podcast (http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/the-coode-street-podcast), Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe

And this year's Phillip K. Dick award (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/2010pkd/) went to The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder.

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And here are this year's nominees for the Shirley Jackson Award (http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2010_nominees.php) (horror and dark fantasy). I'll see if I can track down URLs for any publicly available stuff later on, although there doesn't seem to be much.


Novel

Dark Matter, Michelle Paver (Orion)
A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (Doubleday)
Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
The Reapers Are the Angels, Alden Bell (Holt)
The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)

Novella

The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
Chasing the Dragon, Nicholas Kaufmann (ChiZine)
“Mysterium Tremendum”, Laird Barron (Occultation)
One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW)
Subtle Bodies, Peter Dubé (Lethe)
The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)

Novelette

“–30–”, Laird Barron (Occultation)
“The Broadsword”, Laird Barron (Black Wings)
“Holderhaven”, Richard Butner (Crimewave 11: Ghosts)
“The Redfield Girls”, Laird Barron (Haunted Legends)
“The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” (http://www.fiftytwostories.com/?p=1338), Neil Gaiman (Stories)

Short Story

“As Red as Red”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Haunted Legends)
“Booth’s Ghost”, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
“The Foxes”, Lily Hoang (Haunted Legends)
“six six six”, Laird Barron (Occultation)
“The Things” (http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/), Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)

Single-Author Collection

Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade)
The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime)
The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
What Will Come After, Scott Edelman (PS)

Edited Anthology

Black Wings, S.T. Joshi, ed, (PS)
Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
Stories, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow)
Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (HarperCollins)

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Here're this year's nominees for the Locus Awards (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/05/2011-locus-award-finalists/).

EDIT: The winners (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/06/locus-awards-2011-winners/) are in red.


Science Fiction Novel

Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Zero History, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)

Fantasy Novel

Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey)
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
The Fuller Memorandum, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
The Sorcerer’s House, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

First Novel

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade)
Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon)

Young Adult Book

Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; HarperCollins)
Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Novella

The Lifecycle of Software Objects (http://www.subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/), Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
“The Mystery Knight”’, George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
“Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window” (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2010/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky/), Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)

Novelette

“The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” (http://www.fiftytwostories.com/?p=1338), Neil Gaiman (Stories)
“The Fool Jobs”, Joe Abercrombie (Swords & Dark Magic)
“The Mad Scientist’s (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100118/daughter-f.shtml) Daughter” (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100125/daughter-f.shtml), Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 1/18-1/25/10)
“Plus or Minus” (http://www.jimkelly.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=136&Itemid=41), James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10)
“Marya and the Pirate” (http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_1001/exc_Pirate.shtml), Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 1/10)

Short Story

“The Thing About Cassandra”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love and Death)
“Booth’s Ghost” (http://books.google.com/books?id=i3aceb-GKRAC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=booth%27s+ghost+fowler&source=bl&ots=tQr0fwKIzO&sig=iySQlGldg3prSDWztu1183d3U-A&hl=en&ei=KTbLTaCBOefm0QHDqZXiCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAQ), Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
“Names for Water”, Kij Johnson (Asimov’s 10-11/10)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time” (http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_10/), Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/10)
“The Things” (http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/), Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)

Magazine

Asimov’s
Analog
F&SF
Subterranean (http://www.subterraneanpress.com/magazine)
Tor.com (http://www.tor.com/stories)

Publisher

Tor
Baen
Night Shade Books
Orbit
Subterranean Press

Anthology

Warriors, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor)
Zombies vs. Unicorns, Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier, eds. (McElderry)
The Beastly Bride, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Viking)
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s)
Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (HarperCollins)

Collection

Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories, Fritz Leiber (Night Shade)
Mirror Kingdoms, Peter S. Beagle (Subterranean)
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson (Night Shade)
The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Five: Nine Black Doves, Roger Zelazny (NESFA)

There're a couple more categories in the link.

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And this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees (winner in red):


Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness (Walker)
Generosity, Richard Powers (Atlantic)
Declare, Tim Powers (Corvus)
Lightborn, Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)

Declare is a bit older, but apparently the criteria for this one is based on when it was first published in the UK.

[sHayden]

zombies vs. unicorns? Jesus icedancing Christ, just stop with that type of crap already!

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Some updates:

The SF&F Translation Awards (http://www.sfftawards.org/) (given out at Eurocon) went to:


Long Form
Winner: A Life on Paper: Stories, Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, translated by Edward Gauvin (Small Beer Press). Original publication in French.
Honorable Mention: The Golden Age, Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland (Dalkey Archive Press). Originally published in Czech as Zlatý Věk.

Short Form
Winner: “Elegy for a Young Elk”, Hannu Rajaniemi, translated by Hannu Rajaniemi (Subterranean Online, Spring 2010). Original publication in Finnish.
Honorable Mention: “Wagtail”, Marketta Niemelä, translated by Liisa Rantalaiho (Usva International 2010, ed. Anne Leinonen). Original publication in Finnish as “Västäräkki”.

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History (http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/) nominees are:


Short Form
Mammoths of the Great Plains, Eleanor Arnason (PM Press)
“Alter Kameraden,” Barry B. Longyear (Asimov’s, 4/10)
“Sidewinders,” Ken MacLeod, in The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, ed. Ian Watson and Ian Whates (Robinson Publishing/Running Press)
“A Clash of Eagles,” Alan Smale, in Panverse Two, ed. Derwin Mak & Eric Choi. (DAW)
“Goin’ Down to Anglotown”, William F. Wu, The Dragon and the Stars, ed. Derwin Mak & Eric Choi. (DAW)

Long Form
Columbia and Britannia, Adam Chamberlain and Brian Dixon (Fourth Horseman Press)
Red Inferno: 1945, Robert Conroy (Ballantine)
Pinion, Jay Lake (Tor)
When Angels Wept, Eric Swedin (Potomac Books)

The David Gemmell Legend Awards (http://gemmellaward.com/) were announced (winner in red):


The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel
The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
The Desert Spear, Peter V. Brett (Voyager)
War of the Dwarves, Markus Heitz (Orbit)
Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
The Alchemist in the Shadow, Pierre Pevel (Gollancz)
The Black Prism, Brent Weeks (Orbit)

The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer
Warrior Priest, Darius Hinks (Black Library)
Spellwright, Blake Charlton (Tor)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Shadow Prowler, Alexey Pehov (Tor)
Tymon’s Flight, Mary Victoria (HarperCollins Australia)

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The 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award (http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/sturgeon-finalists.htm) nominees are:


“The Sultan of the Clouds” (http://www.asimovs.com/2011_04-05/images/511Nebula10_sultan.pdf), Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 9/10)
“Mammoths of the Great Plains”, Eleanor Arnason (Mammoths of the Great Plains)
“Under the Moons of Venus” (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring-2010/fiction-under-the-moons-of-venus-by-damien-broderick/), Damien Broderick (Subterranean Spring ’10)
“The Maiden Flight of McAuley’s Bellerophon“ (http://www.elizabethhand.com/bellerophone.php), Elizabeth Hand (Stories)
“Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/flower-mercy-needle-chain/), Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed 9/10)
“Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance”, Paul Park (F&SF 1-2/10)
“Dead Man’s Run”, Robert Reed (F&SF 11-12/10)
“Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
“A Letter from the Emperor”, Steve Rasnic Tem (Asimov’s 1/10)
“The Night Train” (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100614/nighttrain-f.shtml), Lavie Tidhar, (Strange Horizons 6/14/10)
“The Things” (http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/), Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)


The 2011 John W. Campbell Award (http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/campbell.htm) nominees are:


The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Gollancz/Pyr)
Yarn, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade)
Hull Zero Three, Greg Bear (Orbit)
Zero History, William Gibson, (Putnam)
C, Tom McCarthy (Knopf)
New Model Army, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
The Quantum Thief , Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz/Tor)
Veteran, Gavin Smith (Gollancz)
The Waters Rising, Sheri S. Tepper (Eos)
Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat (Melville House)
Anthill , E. O. Wilson (Norton)
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (Pantheon)


EDIT: Winners in red.

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The 2011 Ditmar Awards (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/ditmar-and-other-australian-awards/) nominees (for Australian science fiction) were the following (winners in red):


Best Novel

Power and Majesty, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Voyager)
Death Most Definite, Trent Jamieson (Hachette)
Madigan Mine, Kirstyn McDermott (Pan Macmillan)
Stormlord Rising, Glenda Larke (Voyager)
Walking the Tree, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)

Best Novella or Novelette

“The Company Articles of Edward Teach”, Thoraiya Dyer (Twelfth Planet)
“Acception”, Tessa Kum (Eneit)
“All the Clowns in Clowntown”, Andrew McKiernan (Brimstone)
“Bleed”, Peter M. Ball (Twelfth Planet)
“Her Gallant Needs”, Paul Haines (Twelfth Planet)

Best Short Story (tie)

“All the Love in the World”, Cat Sparks (Sprawl)
“She Said”, Kirstyn McDermott (Scenes From the Second Storey)
“Bread and Circuses”, Felicity Dowker (Scary Kisses)
“One Saturday Night With Angel”, Peter M. Ball (Sprawl)
“The House of the Nameless”, Jason Fischer (Writers of the Future XXVI)
“The February Dragon”, Angela Slatter & Lisa L. Hannett (Scary Kisses)

Best Collected Work

Sprawl, Alisa Krasnostein, ed. (Twelfth Planet)
Baggage, Gillian Polack, ed. (Eneit)
Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, Angela Challis & Marty Young, eds. (Brimstone)
Scenes from the Second Storey, Amanda Pillar & Pete Kempshall, eds. (Morrigan)
Worlds Next Door, Tehani Wessely, ed. (FableCroft)


The British Fantasy Society's 2011 Awards (http://www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/index.php/submitted-news/54-awards/1459-bfs-fantasy-awards-2011-shortlist) nominees are:


BEST NOVEL (AUGUST DERLETH FANTASY AWARD)

Apartment 16 – Adam Nevill – Pan McMillan
Demon Dance – Sam Stone – The House Of Murky Depths
Leaping, The – Tom Fletcher – Quercus
Pretty Little Dead Things – Gary McMahon – Angry Robot
Silent Land, The – Graham Joyce – Gollancz

BEST NOVELLA

1922 – Stephen King – Hodder & Stoughton
Humpty’s Bones – Simon Clark – Telos
Ponthe Oldenguine – Andrew Hook – Atomic Fez
Sparrowhawk – Paul Finch – Pendragon
Thief of Broken Toys, The – Tim Lebbon – ChiZine

BEST SHORT STORY

"Beautiful Room, The" – R B Russell – Nightjar
"Fool’s Gold" – Sam Stone – NewCon
"Lure, The" – Nicholas Royle – Solaris
"Otterburn" – Jan Edwards – Estronomicon
"Something For Nothing" – Joe Essid – PS Publishing

BEST COLLECTION

Full Dark, No Stars – Stephen King – Hodder & Stoughton
Gravedigger’s Tale: Fables of Fear, The – Simon Clark – Robert Hale
Last Exit for the Lost – Tim Lebbon – Cemetery Dance
One Monster Is Not Enough – Paul Finch – Gray Friar
Walkers in the Dark – Paul Finch – Ash Tree

BEST ANTHOLOGY

Back From the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories – Johnny Mains – Noose & Gibbet
End of the Line, The – Jonathan Oliver – Solaris
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 21, The – Stephen Jones – Robinson & Constable
Never Again – Allyson Bird & Joel Lane – Gray Friar
Zombie Apocalypse! – Stephen Jones – Robinson & Constable

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This is the last set of updates for now, I promise.

Although I did go back through and edit in the Nebula and Locus award winners.

Anyway, the 2011 Mythopoeic Award (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/05/2011-mythopoeic-awards-finalists/) nominees are:


Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc)
Redemption in Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer Press)
The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
A Cup of Normal, Devon Monk (Fairwood Press)
Troubled Waters, Sharon Shinn (Ace)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature

Incarceron and Sapphique, Catherine Fisher (Dial)
I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins)
The Grimm Legacy, Polly Shulman (Putnam Juvenile)
Toads and Diamonds, Heather Tomlinson (Henry Holt)
The Queen’s Thief series: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, and A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)


The 2011 Aurora Award (http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/wordpress/) nominees (for Canadian science fiction and fantasy in English) are:


Best Novel

Black Bottle Man, Craig Russell (Great Plains Publications)
Destiny’s Blood, Marie Bilodeau (Dragon Moon Press)
Stealing Home, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
WWW: Watch, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)

Best Short Story

“The Burden of Fire”, Hayden Trenholm (Neo-Opsis #19)
“Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle”, Suzanne Church (Tesseracts Fourteen)
“The Envoy”, Al Onia (Warrior Wisewoman 3)
“Touch the Sky, They Say”, Matt Moore (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, 11/10)
“Your Beating Heart”, M. G. Gillett (Rigor Amortis)


The 2011 Prix Boreal (http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/wordpress/) nominees (for Canadian science fiction and fantasy in French -- winners are in red) are:


Best Novel

Côté, Héloïse: La tueuse de dragons (Alire)
Chen, Ying: Espèces (Boréal)
Fortin, Mathieu: Le serrurier (Coups de tête)

Best Short Fiction

Côté, Philippe-Aubert: « Pour l’honneur d’un Nohaum » (Solaris 176)
Bellavance, Dominic: Sintara et le scarabée de Mechæom (Les Six Brumes)
Bolduc, Claude: « Entre les bras des amants réunis (révision) » (Vents d’Ouest)
Fournier-Goulet, Geneviève : « Les pantoufles de Louis XVI » (Solaris 175)
Rocheleau, Carl: L’Aquilon (Les Six Brumes)

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The Hugo winners are have been announced (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/08/2011-hugo-and-campbell-awards-winners/).

The big award went to Connie Willis's two-novel time travel sequence about the Blitz, Blackout and All Clear. This makes a clean sweep for her time travel stories thus far. Her novelette "Fire Watch" and her novels The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog all previously won Hugo awards.

The short fiction winners were:
The Lifecycle of Software Objects (http://www.subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/), Ted Chiang (novella)
‘‘The Emperor of Mars'' (http://www.asimovs.com/2011_06/images/611hugo_emperor.pdf"), Allen M. Steele (novelette)
‘‘For Want of a Nail'' (http://www.asimovs.com/2011_06/images/611hugo_nail.pdf), Mary Robinette Kowal (short story)

Pictures and an account of the ceremony are here (http://io9.com/5832940/2011-hugo-awards-a-good-night-for-time-travel-artificial-intelligence-and-asimovs-magazine)

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The 2011 World Fantasy Awards (for the 2010 awards year) were announced (http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/10/world-fantasy-2011-winners/) over the weekend. Winners in red.


Best Novel
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK)
Redemption In Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer)

Best Novella
“The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon”, Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine Publications)
“The Mystery Knight”, George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)

Best Short Fiction
“Fossil-Figures”, Joyce Carol Oates (Stories: All-New Tales)
“Beautiful Men” , Christopher Fowler (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts)
“Booth’s Ghost”, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
“Ponies”, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
“Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us”, Mercurio D. Rivera (Black Static 8-9/10)

Best Anthology
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow; Headline Review)
Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (Eos)

Best Collection
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
The Ammonite Violin & Others, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
Holiday, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
Sourdough and Other Stories, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)