Science Fiction Awards Watch http://www.sfawardswatch.com Covering the World of Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:20:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ScienceFictionAwardsWatchhttp://feedburner.google.com Hugos Tonight http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceFictionAwardsWatch/~3/F1_YcQE2M1Q/ http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3572#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:32:29 +0000 Editors http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3572 It is Sunday morning here is Australia. Only a few hours remain before the 2010 Hugo Award ceremony. You will be able to follow along with the results as they are announced on the official Hugo Award website.

]]> http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?feed=rss2&p=3572 0 http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3572 Parsec Awards, Preliminary Results http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceFictionAwardsWatch/~3/CUjkKI6u7ak/ http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3569#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:29:19 +0000 Editors http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3569 The Parsec Awards for 2010 have been announced at Dragon*Con. We caught some of the results on our Twitter feed, but we don’t think we have all of them. An official announcement will doubtless appear on the Parsecs website soon. We’ll update when we have the full list. In the meantime the list of finalists is here.

Update: Locus has the full results.

]]> http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?feed=rss2&p=3569 0 http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3569 Other Australian Awards http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceFictionAwardsWatch/~3/GyvlKQr_1Nk/ http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3566#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:21:21 +0000 Editors http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3566 A number of other awards were announced at the Ditmar Award ceremony last night. These were as follows:

  • A. Bertram Chandler Award: Damien Broderick
  • Norma K. Hemming: Maria Quinn, The Gene Thieves (HarperCollins)
  • Peter McNamara Award: Janine Webb
  • William Atheling Jr Award: Helen Merrick, The Secret Feminist Cabal: a cultural history of science fiction feminisms (Aqueduct Press)
  • Best Fannish Cat: Peri Peri Canavan
]]> http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?feed=rss2&p=3566 0 http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3566 Ditmar Awards Winners http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceFictionAwardsWatch/~3/WTRbx9Uiuo4/ http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3561#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:15:09 +0000 Editors http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3561 As per Cheryl & Kevin’s live coverage on ConReporter.com yesterday, here are the 2010 Ditmar Award winners.

  • Best Novel: Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)
  • Best Novella or Novelette: “Wives” Paul Haines (X6/Couer de Lion)
  • Best Short Story: “Seventeen” Cat Sparks (Masques, CSFG)
  • Best Collected Work: Slice Of Life, Paul Haines, edited by Geoffrey Maloney (The Mayne Press)
  • Best Artwork: Cover art, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #42, Lewis Morley
  • Best Fan Writer: Robert Hood for Undead Backbrain (roberthood.net/blog)
  • Best Fan Artist: Dick Jenssen for body of work
  • Best Fan Publication in Any Medium: Steam Engine Time, edited by Bruce Gillespie and Janine Stinson
  • Best Achievement: Gillian Polack et al for the Southern Gothic banquet at Conflux
  • Best New Talent: Peter M. Ball

A full list of nominees is available here.

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  • 2008 Awards: Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)
  • 2009 Awards: Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Allen & Unwin)
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Janusz A Zajdel Awards (Polish)

  • Novel: Novel: Przedksiezycowi, Anna Kantoch (Fabryka Slow)
  • Short Story: “Wszyscy jestesmy Meekhanczykami”, Robert M. Wegner

Karel Capek Awards (Czech/Slovak)

  • Short story: Pavel Obluk
  • Novelette: Ivan Mls
  • Novella: Ales Pitzmos
  • Novel: Miroslava Dvorakova

Ludwik Awards (Czech/Slovak)

  • Pavel Mikulastik – for honours
  • Petr Cap – for work in the Terry Pratchett Club
  • Eva Kovacova – in memoriam

As usual any additional information and corrections would be appreciated. We know nothing at all about the Capek or Ludwik Awards. More information about the Zajdels (in Polish, with correct characters) is available at their website. Our thanks to Pawel‚ Dembowski and Peter Wilkinson for the data we have.

]]> http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?feed=rss2&p=3553 0 http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3553 ESFS Awards http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceFictionAwardsWatch/~3/h0aMVPD4M_E/ http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3547#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:11:26 +0000 Editors http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=3547 The European Science Fiction Society presented their annual awards at the Eurocon last weekend. Here are the results. Thanks to David Haddock for sending them though. There’s nothing on the ESFS website yet so technically these are unofficial.

Our email has eaten some of the accented characters so there will be a few mis-spelled names below. Corrections would be appreciated.

Hall of Fame Awards

  • Best Author: Stephen Baxter, Great Britain
  • Best Artist: Martina Pilcerova, Slovakia
  • Best Translator: Piotr Cholewa, Poland
  • Best Magazine: SRSSF, Romania
  • Best Publisher: Newcon Press, Great Britain
  • Best Promoter: Robert Zittnan, Slovakia

Spirit of Dedication Awards:

  • Artist: Lars Jacobsson, Sweden
  • Best Dramatic Presentation: Fredrik Edin, Martin Hultman, Stig
    Larsson & Tarik Saleh for Metropia, Sweden
  • Best Fanzine: was not awarded

European Grand Master

Andrzej Sapkowski, Poland

Encouragement Awards

  • Natalya Shcherba, Ukraine
  • Karina Shainyan, Russia
  • Tama¡s Csepregi, Hungary
  • Michal Ivan, Slovakia
  • Luciana Brindusa Grosu, Romania
  • Maciej Guzek, Poland
  • Adrian Lazarovski, Bulgaria

Zagreb, Croatia won the vote to be host city for Eurocon 2012.

The awards were in the form of a black obelisk. There is a picture of
the one for best magazine at the SRSFF website.

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The winners of the Prix Rosny-Aîné have just been announced at the 37th French Science Fiction Convention:

Short story: “Terre de fraye”, Jérôme Noirez (Retour sur l’Horizon, Denoël)

Novel: Tancrède. Une uchronie, Ugo Bellagamba (Les Moutons électriques)

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  • Best Novel: Beyond The Wall Of Time, Russell Kirkpatrick
  • Best YA Novel: Brainjack, Brian Falkner
  • Best Novella / Novellete: Wives, Paul Haines
  • Best Short Story (tie): “Corrigan’s Exchange”, Ripley Patton; “The Living Dead Boy”, Grant Stone
  • Best Collected Work: Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, Mark Pirie and Tim Jones
  • Best Artwork: The Test, Serena Kearns
  • Best Dramatic Presentation: Under The Mountain
  • Best Professional Publication: Semaphore Magazine, edited by Marie Hodgkinson
  • Best New Talent: Simon Petrie
  • Best Fan Writing: Simon Litten for SJV Watch and SFFANZ Reviews
  • Best Fan Production: Coals to Newcastle (Short Film), Yvonne Harrison
  • Fan Publication (tie): Phoenixine, John & Lynelle Howell; Time Space Visualiser, Adam McGechan
  • Services to Fandom: David Lee Smith, the founder of the Upper Hutt Science Fiction Club
  • Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Philip Mann
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