New Prometheus poster.
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)
Sony to screen Total Recall footage at Kapow!
Total Recall, Len Wiseman’s update of the well-loved Arnie-starring sci-fi, will debut a host of new footage at this weekend’s Kapow! comic-book convention…
Ender’s Game Release Date Pushed Back
Lionsgate has pushed the release of Ender’s Game back from March 2013 to November 1. That is just three weeks before the release of Catching Fire, the sure to be a hit sequel to The Hunger Games.
The studio is reportedly doing this so they can cross promote the less widely known Ender’s Game with Catching Fire in hopes that it will generate a bigger audience.
TOTAL RECALL - Teaser for “World Trailer Premiere” on Sunday (by SonyPictures).
BSFA Award Winners
Winners of the 2011 British Science Fiction Awards winners:
Best Novel
- The Islanders, Christopher Priest (Gollancz) winner
- Cyber Circus, Kim Lakin-Smith (Newcon Press)
- Embassytown, China Miéville (Macmillan)
- By Light Alone, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Osama, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Best Short Fiction
- “The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s July 2011) winner
- “The Silver Wind”, Nina Allan (Interzone #233)
- “Afterbirth”, Kameron Hurley (www.kameronhurley.com)
- “Covehithe”, China Miéville (The Guardian)
- “Of Dawn”, Al Robertson (Interzone #235)
Best Non-Fiction
- The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, John Clute, Peter Nicholls, David Langford, & Graham Sleight, eds. (SF Gateway) winner
- Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not as We Know It, Mike Ashley (British Library)
- Review of Arslan, M.J. Engh & Abigail Nussbaum (Asking the Wrong Questions blog)
- SF Mistressworks, Ian Sales, ed. (SF Mistressworks)
- Pornokitsch, Jared Shurin & Anne Perry, eds. (Pornokitsch)
- The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who, Graham Sleight, Tony Keen, & Simon Bradshaw (Science Fiction Foundation)
Best Art
- Cover of Ian Whates’s The Noise Revealed, Dominic Harman (Solaris) winner
- Cover and illustrations of Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls, Jim Kay (Walker)
- Cover of Lavie Tidhar’s Osama, Pedro Marques (PS Publishing)
- Cover of Liz Williams’s A Glass of Shadow, Anne Sudworth (Newcon Press)
The awards are voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). Winners were announced during the 2012 Eastercon, held April 6-9, 2012 at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London.
Ridley Scott talks Prometheus’ 3D
Total Film sat down with Sir Ridley Scott recently to talk about his long-awaited return to the Alien universe, Prometheus.
And while we’re incredibly keen to see just how much Prometheus ties into the Alien mythology, there’s another aspect to the film that’s making us more excited than a face-hugger who’s just bought a first-class ticket to Easter Island – it marks Scott’s first tangle with 3D…
Hunger Games Sets 3rd Highest Opening Weekend
The good news for The Hunger Games continued after its stellar first day receipts. The film built on its opening over the weekend, climbing to a massive $155 million debut weekend. That gives The Hunger Games the third highest opening weekend of all time behind the final Harry Potter movie and The Dark Knight. The best opening for a Twilight Saga film was New Moon at just shy of $143 million.
The next test will be whether it can maintain its momentum or if it fades quickly. Next weekend it faces Wrath of the Titans and Mirror Mirror, which are likely to draw different portions of The Hunger Games’ target audience.
- Hunger Games Scores a $68M Opening Day (sciencefictiontoday.com)
Hunger Games Scores a $68M Opening Day
The Hunger Games pulling in $68.25 million on its first day of release, putting the film on track for a $140 million opening weekend. That would shatter the record for best March opening, currently held by Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland with $116.1 million.
Friday’s haul was good enough for 5th best opening day ever. While the astounding $91.1 million all time record set by last summer’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 wasn’t in any danger, The Hunger Games gross is in the ballpark with the last three Twilight films.
The Hunger Games is based on the first book in Suzanne Collins best selling trilogy. It stars Jennifer Lawrence as a teen forced to compete in a televised death match against other youths in a future North American society where a privileged capital city oppresses the people of 12 outlying worker districts.
The demo reel for SyFy’s Blood & Chrome. The official synopsis:
“Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome” takes place in the 10th year of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a young, talented fighter pilot, William Adama (Luke Pasqualino), finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful Battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly find himself at odds with Coker (Ben Cotton), the battle-weary officer to whom he reports. With 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine mission turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet.
UPDATE: Turns out this was a demo reel and SyFy has officially canceled it as a television series. The pilot may be aired as a special. SyFy originally conceived of the show as an online digital series. After Caprica tanked Blood & Chrome was elevated to television. SyFy is reportedly reconsidering the show for the original online only concept with a much lower budget.
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