2011 Nebula Award Winners

The 2011 Nebula Awards were presented on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in a ceremony at the Nebula Awards Weekend, held in Arlington, Virginia. Walter Jon Williams was Toastmaster, and Astronaut Michael Fincke was the keynote speaker.

Novel Winner: Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

Other Nominees

• Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey; Subterranean Press)
• Firebird, Jack McDevitt (Ace Books)
• God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade Books)
• Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime Books)
• The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Novella Winner: ”The Man Who Bridged the Mist,” Kij Johnson (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2011)

Other Nominees

• “Kiss Me Twice,” Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011)
• “Silently and Very Fast,” Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA Press;Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2011)
• “The Ice Owl,” Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy andScience Fiction, November/December 2011)
• “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary,” Ken Liu (PanverseThree,Panverse Publishing)
• “With Unclean Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (Analog Science Fiction andFact, November 2011)

Novelette Winner: ”What We Found,” Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2011)

Other Nominees

• “Fields of Gold,” Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse 4,Night Shade Books)
• “Ray of Light,” Brad R. Torgersen (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011)
• “Sauerkraut Station,” Ferrett Steinmetz (Giganotosaurus, November 2011)
• “Six Months, Three Days,” Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com, June 2011)
• “The Migratory Pattern of Dancers,” Katherine Sparrow (Giganotosaurus, July 2011)
• “The Old Equations,” Jake Kerr (Lightspeed Magazine, July 2011)

Short Story Winner: ”The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2011)

Other Nominees

• “Her Husband’s Hands,” Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
• “Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son,” Tom Crosshill (Lightspeed Magazine, April 2011)
• “Movement,” Nancy Fulda (Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2011)
• “Shipbirth,” Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2011)
• “The Axiom of Choice,” David W. Goldman (New Haven Review, Winter 2011)
• “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees,” E. Lily Yu (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 2011)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation Winner: Doctor Who: “The Doctor’s Wife,” Neil Gaiman (writer), Richard Clark (director) (BBC Wales)

Other Nominees

• Attack the Block, Joe Cornish (writer/director) (Optimum Releasing; Screen Gems)
• Captain America: The First Avenger, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely (writers), Joe Johnston (director) (Paramount)
• Hugo, John Logan (writer), Martin Scorsese (director) (Paramount)
• Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen (writer/director) (Sony)
• Source Code, Ben Ripley (writer), Duncan Jones (director) (Summit)
• The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi (writer/director) (Universal)

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and FantasyBook Winner: The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Big Mouth House)

Other Nominees

• Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Juvenile)
• Chime, Franny Billingsley (Dial Books; Bloomsbury)
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Everybody Sees the Ants, A.S. King (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• The Boy at the End of the World, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson (Greenwillow Books)
• Ultraviolet, R.J. Anderson (Orchard Books; Carolrhoda Lab)

2011 DAMON KNIGHT GRAND MASTER AWARD: Connie Willis

SOLSTICE AWARD: Octavia Butler (posthumous) and John Clute

SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD: Bud Webster

(Source: sfawardswatch.com)

BSFA Award Winners

2011 Nebula Award Nominees

Anne McCaffrey Passes at 85

Anne McCaffrey, author of the landmark Dragonriders of Pern series, has passed away at her home in Ireland. Author Alan Baxter first leaked the news via a tweet saying that McCaffrey suffered a stroke. Baxter later expressed regret, stating he thought the news of her death was already known. Del Rey Books/Random House have since confirmed her death via their Suvudu blog.

McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award, the first to win a Nebula Award, and the first author to make the New York Times Bestseller List with an Science Fiction title (The White Dragon).

Anne McCaffrey was 85.

(Source: tor.com)

2011 Aurora Award Winners

Winners for the 2011 Prix Aurora Awards were announced on November 20, 2011 at Canvention 31. Winners received trophies and the Best Novel winner received a $500 cash prize from SF Canada, the National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals.

Best English Novel

• WINNER: WWW: Watch, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)
• 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)

Best English Short Story

• WINNER: “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)

Best English Poem / Song

• WINNER: “The ABCs of the End of the World”, Carolyn Clink (A Verdant Green)
• “Let the Night In”, Sandra Kasturi (Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead)
• “Of the Corn: Kore’s Innocence”, Colleen Anderson (Witches & Pagans #21)
• “The Transformed Man”, Robert J. Sawyer (Tesseracts Fourteen)
• “Waiting for the Harrowing”, Helen Marshall (ChiZine 45)

Best English Graphic Novel

• WINNER: Goblins, Tarol Hunt (goblinscomic.com)
• Looking For Group, Vol. 3, Ryan Sohmer & Lar DeSouza (lfgcomic.com)
• Stargazer, Volume 1, by Von Allan (Von Allan Studio)
• Tomboy Tara, Emily Ragozzino (tomboytara.com)

Best English Related Work

• WINNER: The Dragon and the Stars, Derwin Mak & Eric Choi, eds. (DAW)
• Chimerascope, Douglas Smith (ChiZine)
• Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, Nancy Kilpatrick, ed. (EDGE)
• On Spec, Diane Walton, ed. (Copper Pig Writers Society)
• Tesseracts Fourteen, John Robert Colombo & Brett Alexander Savory, eds. (EDGE)

Best Artist (Professional and Amateur)

• WINNER: Erik Mohr, cover art for ChiZine Publications
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, “Brekky” cover art (On Spec Fall)
• Christina Molendyk, Girls of Geekdom Calendar for Argent Dawn Photography
• Dan O’Driscoll, cover art for Stealing Home (Bundoran)
• Aaron Paquette, “A New Season” cover art (On Spec Spring)

World Fantasy Awards

The 2011 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Awards Convention in San Diego, CA. This year’s Lifetime Achievement award winners are authors Peter S. Beagle and Angélica Gorodischer. The other winners (in bold) with the nominees:

BEST NOVEL

• Winner: 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

• Winner: “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon,” Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
• Bone and JewelCreatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
• The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
• The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine)
• “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

• Winner: “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

• Winner: 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

• Winner: 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)

BEST ARTIST

• Winner: Kinuko Y. Craft
• Vincent Chong
• Richard A. Kirk
• John Picacio
• Shaun Tan

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL

• Winner: Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot
• John Joseph Adams, for editing and anthologies
• Lou Anders, for editing at Pyr
• Stéphane Marsan & Alain Névant, for Bragelonne
• Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Winner: Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press
• Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, & Amanda Foubister, for Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010
• Matthew Kressel, for Sybil’s Garage and Senses Five Press
• Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker
• Lavie Tidhar, for The World SF Blog

SyFy Picks Up “Wild Cards”

Syfy Film’s Senior Vice President of Production, Gregory Noveck, has announced that it has acquired the rights to the sci-fi superhero anthology called “Wild Cards” edited by George R.R. Martin. The ongoing anthology was first published in 1987 and consists of 22 books of stories by various sci-fi writers.

“‘Wild Cards’ presents a terrific franchise opportunity given the volume of material from this compelling fantasy series,” said Noveck. “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to develop a film based on the anthology’s supernatural heroes, and to be working with such talented and visionary writers as George R.R. Martin and Melissa Snodgrass.”

“Wild Cards” is one of the most successful and longest running, sci-fi book series. Its characters were developed with the goal of creating a realistic take on people with super powers and how they affect their daily lives. The series was conceived as a shared universe in which different authors contributed new characters and storylines to the overall mythos.

Martin and Snodgrass will serve as executive producers. Contributors include contemporary sci-fi writers Roger Zelazny (“The Chronicles of Amber”) and Walter Jon Williams (“Hardwired”).