The Awards Thread

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:09 pm

The artwork on Jews vs. Zombies is completely derivative of Jews vs. Aliens.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:34 am

That was a weird comment to arrive to apropos of nothing at all...

--A

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:47 pm

I was referring to the last nominee listed for Best Artwork.

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:23 am

Haha, I realised when I clicked back a page, but when I first saw it I was like WTF?

--A

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Feb 22, 2016 7:16 am

2015 Nebula Awards Nominees

https://www.sfwa.org/2016/02/2015-nebul ... announced/

Novel

Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)
Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen (Tor)
Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)

Novella

Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager Impulse)
"The Bone Swans of Amandale," C.S.E. Cooney (Bone Swans)
"The New Mother," Eugene Fischer (Asimov's 4-5/15)
"The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn," Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 4/22/15)
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
"Waters of Versailles," Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15)

Novelette

"Rattlesnakes and Men," Michael Bishop (Asimov's 2/15)
"And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead," Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
"Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds," Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/15)
"The Ladies' Aquatic Gardening Society," Henry Lien (Asimov's 6/15)
"The Deepwater Bride," Tamsyn Muir (F&SF 7-8/15)
"Our Lady of the Open Road," Sarah Pinsker (Asimov's 6/15)

Short Story

"Madeleine," Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed 6/15)
"Cat Pictures Please," Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)
"Damage," David D. Levine (Tor.com 1/21/15)
"When Your Child Strays From God," Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 7/15)
"Today I Am Paul," Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld 8/15)
"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers," Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

Ex Machina, Written by Alex Garland
Inside Out, Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original Story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Jessica Jones: AKA Smile, Teleplay by Scott Reynolds & Melissa Rosenberg; Story by Jamie King & Scott Reynolds
Mad Max: Fury Road, Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
The Martian, Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Written by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

Seriously Wicked, Tina Connolly (Tor Teen)
Court of Fives, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK 5/14; Amulet)
Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace (Big Mouth House)
Zeroboxer, Fonda Lee (Flux)
Shadowshaper, Daniel Jose Older (Levine)
Bone Gap, Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray)
Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)

Strong shortlist this year.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:56 am

Nothing. I got nothing. Never heard of any of them.

--A

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:06 am

Not even Ancillary Mercy or The Grace of Kings?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:12 am

2015 Kitschies Shortlist

www.thekitschies.com/the-kitschies-2015 ... -revealed/

The Red Tentacle (Novel), judged by Sarah Lotz, James Smythe, Nikesh Shukla, Nazia Khatun, and Glen Mehn:

The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
Europe at Midnight, by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
The Reflection, by Hugo Wilcken (Melville House)
The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Thing Itself, by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)

The Golden Tentacle (Debut), also judged by Sarah Lotz, James Smythe, Nikesh Shukla, Nazia Khatun, and Glen Mehn

The Shore, by Sara Taylor (William Heinemann)
Blackass, by A. Igoni Barrett (Chatto and Windus)
The Gracekeepers, by Kirsty Logan (Harvill Secker)
The Night Clock, by Paul Meloy (Solaris)
Making Wolf, by Tade Thompson (Rosarium)

The Inky Tentacle (Cover Art), judged by Sarah McIntyre, Dapo Adeola, Regan Warner, and Lauren O'Farrell:

The Vorrh, by Brian Catling, design by Pablo Declan (Coronet)
Monsters, by Emerald Fennell, art direction by Jet Purdie, illustration by Patrick Leger (Hot Key Books)
The Honours, by Tim Clare, design and illustration by Peter Adlington (Canongate)
The Door that Led to Where, by Sally Gardner, art direction and design by Jet Purdie, illustration by Dover Publications Inc & Shutterstock (Hot Key Books)
Get In Trouble, by Kelly Link, design by Alex Merto (Canongate)

The Invisible Tentacle (Natively Digital Fiction), judged by James Wallis, Rebecca Levene and Em Short:

Arcadia by Iain Pears, arcadiatheapp.com/ (Faber/Touchpress)
LIFE IS STRANGE www.lifeisstrange.com/ (Square Enix)
Daniel Barker's Birthday, by Frog Croakley https://storify.com/FrogCroakley/the-co ... er-s-birth (@FrogCroakley)
The Last Hours of Laura K, thelasthoursoflaurak.com/ (BBC Writer's Room)
Bloodborne www.fromsoftware.jp/pc_en/product/detail_92.html (Hidetaka Miyazaki/FromSoftware)

The winners will be announced in a ceremony at The Star of Kings on 7th March, and receive a total of [GBP]2,500 in prize money, as well as one of the prize's iconic Tentacle trophies.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:49 pm

It's awards season!

2015 Bram Stoker Awards Finalists

horror.org/the-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/

Superior Achievement in a Novel
Clive Barker - The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin's Press)
Michaelbrent Collings - The Deep (self-published)
JG Faherty - The Cure (Samhain Publishing)
Patrick Freivald - Black Tide (JournalStone Publishing)
Paul Tremblay - A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Courtney Alameda - Shutter (Feiwel & Friends)
Nicole Cushing - Mr. Suicide (Word Horde)
Brian Kirk - We Are Monsters (Samhain Publishing)
John McIlveen - Hannahwhere (Crossroad Press)
John Claude Smith - Riding the Centipede (Omnium Gatherum)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Jennifer Brozek - Never Let Me Sleep (Permuted Press)
Michaelbrent Collings - The Ridealong (self-published)
John Dixon - Devil's Pocket (Simon & Schuster)
Tonya Hurley - Hallowed (Simon & Schuster)
Maureen Johnson - The Shadow Cabinet (Penguin)
Ian Welke - End Times at Ridgemont High (Omnium Gatherum)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Cullen Bunn - Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints (Dark Horse Comics)
Victor Gischler - Hellbound (Dark Horse Books)
Robert Kirkman - Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him (Image Comics)
Scott Snyder - Wytches, Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Chris Ryall, & Carlos Guzman (editors) - Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (IDW Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Gary A. Braunbeck - Paper Cuts (Seize the Night) (Gallery Books)
Lisa Mannetti - The Box Jumper (Smart Rhino Publications)
Norman Partridge - Special Collections (The Library of the Dead) (Written Backwards)
Mercedes M. Yardley - Little Dead Red (Grimm Mistresses) (Ragnarok Publications)
Scott Edelman - Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen (Dark Discoveries #30)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Kate Jonez - All the Day You'll Have Good Luck (Black Static #47)
Gene O'Neill - The Algernon Effect (White Noise Press)
John Palisano - Happy Joe's Rest Stop (18 Wheels of Horror) (Big Time Books)
Damien Angelica Walters - Sing Me Your Scars (Sing Me Your Scars) (Apex Publications)
Alyssa Wong - Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Nightmare Magazine #37)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins - Crimson Peak (Legendary Pictures)
John Logan - Penny Dreadful: And Hell Itself My Only Foe (Showtime)
John Logan - Penny Dreadful: Nightcomers (Showtime)
David Robert Mitchell - It Follows (Northern Lights Films)
Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement - What We Do in the Shadows (Unison Films)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Michael Bailey - The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards)
Ellen Datlow - The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls (Tor Books)
Christopher Golden - Seize the Night (Gallery Books)
Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles - nEvermore! (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Jonathan Maberry - The X-Files: Trust No One (IDW Publishing)
Joseph Nassise and Del Howison - Midian Unmade (Tor Books)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Gary A. Braunbeck - Halfway Down the Stairs (JournalStone Publishing)
Nicole Cushing - The Mirrors (Cycatrix Press)
Taylor Grant - The Dark at the End of the Tunnel (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Gene O'Neill - The Hitchhiking Effect (Dark Renaissance Books)
Lucy A. Snyder - While the Black Stars Burn (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks (ed.) - The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Stephen Jones - The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
Michael Knost - Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth (Seventh Star Press)
Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley (editors) - Horror 201: The Silver Scream (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Danel Olson - Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (Centipede Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Bruce Boston - Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press)
Alessandro Manzetti - Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Ann Schwader - Dark Energies (P'rea Press)
Marge Simon - Naughty Ladies (Eldritch Press)
Stephanie M. Wytovich - An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

The presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards will occur during the inaugural StokerCon in Las Vegas, Nevada on the evening of Saturday, May 14, 2016.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:49 am

At least I recognise Clive Barker.

I'm Murrin wrote:Not even Ancillary Mercy or The Grace of Kings?

Somebody here might have mentioned Ancilliary something...thought it was "justice" though.

--A

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:09 am

2015 Ditmar Awards Finalists

ditmars.sf.org.au/2016_voting_open.txt

BEST NOVEL
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* The Dagger's Path, Glenda Larke (Orbit)
* Day Boy, Trent Jamieson (Text Publishing)
* Graced, Amanda Pillar (Momentum)
* Lament for the Afterlife, Lisa L. Hannett (ChiZine Publications)
* Zeroes, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti (Simon and Schuster)

BEST NOVELLA/NOVELETTE
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* "The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood", Deborah Kalin, in Cherry Crow Children (Twelfth Planet Press)
* "Fake Geek Girl", Tansy Rayner Roberts, in Review of Australian Fiction, volume 14, issue 4 (Review of Australian Fiction)
* "Hot Rods", Cat Sparks, in Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy 58 (Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy)
* "The Miseducation of Mara Lys", Deborah Kalin, in Cherry Crow Children(Twelfth Planet Press)
* "Of Sorrow and Such", Angela Slatter, in Of Sorrow and Such (Tor.com)
* "The Wages of Honey", Deborah Kalin, in Cherry Crow Children (Twelfth Planet Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
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* "2B", Joanne Anderton, in Insert Title Here (FableCroft Publishing)
* "The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner", Alan Baxter, in Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2015 (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
* "A Hedge of Yellow Roses", Kathleen Jennings, in Hear Me Roar (Ticonderoga Publications)
* "Look how cold my hands are", Deborah Biancotti, in Cranky Ladies of History (FableCroft Publishing)

BEST COLLECTED WORK
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* Bloodlines, Amanda Pillar (Ticonderoga Publications.
* Cherry Crow Children, Deborah Kalin, edited by Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
* Cranky Ladies of History, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely (FableCroft Publishing)
* Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
* Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories by Robert Hood (IFWG Publishing Australia)

BEST ARTWORK
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* Cover art, Rovina Cai, for "Tom, Thom" (Tor.com)
* Cover art, Kathleen Jennings, for Bloodlines (Ticonderoga Publications)
* Cover and internal artwork, Kathleen Jennings, for Cranky Ladies of History (FableCroft Publishing)
* Cover, Shauna O'Meara, for The Never Never Land (CSFG Publishing)
* Illustrations, Shaun Tan, for The Singing Bones (Allen & Unwin)

BEST FAN PUBLICATION IN ANY MEDIUM
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* The Angriest, Grant Watson
* The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
* Galactic Suburbia, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts
* SF Commentary, Bruce Gillespie
* The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond

BEST FAN WRITER
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* Tsana Dolichva, for body of work, including reviews and interviews in Tsana's Reads and Reviews
* Foz Meadows, for body of work, including reviews in Shattersnipe: Malcontent & Rainbows
* Ian Mond, for body of work, including The Hysterical Hamster
* Alexandra Pierce, for body of work, including reviews in Randomly Yours, Alex
* Katharine Stubbs, for body of work, including Venture Adlaxre
* Grant Watson, for body of work, including reviews in The Angriest

BEST FAN ARTIST
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* Kathleen Jennings, for body of work, including Illustration Friday
* Belinda Morris, for body of work, including Belinda Illustrates

BEST NEW TALENT
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* Rivqa Rafael
* T. R. Napper
* DK Mok
* Liz Barr

WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD FOR CRITICISM OR REVIEW
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* Letters to Tiptree, Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press)
* The Rereading the Empire Trilogy review series, Tansy Rayner Roberts
* The Reviewing New Who series, David McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely
* "Sara Kingdom dies at the end", Tansy Rayner Roberts in Companion Piece (Mad Norwegian Press)
* "SF Women of the 20th Century", Tansy Rayner Roberts
* Squeeing over Supergirl, David McDonald and Tehani Wessely series

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 9:38 pm

Avatar wrote:At least I recognise Clive Barker.

I'm Murrin wrote:Not even Ancillary Mercy or The Grace of Kings?
Somebody here might have mentioned Ancilliary something...thought it was "justice" though.

--A

It's a trilogy. Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy.

Post by **Cord Hurn** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:36 pm

Right now, I'm reading through SRD's The King's Justice for the first time (I've had it on my book shelf for the past couple of months, and just last week got around to starting it. Finished the first novella 2-3 days ago.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 5:33 am

Sorus wrote:
It's a trilogy. Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy.

Ah, that'll be it.

--A

Post by **Sorus** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:56 pm

Avatar wrote:
Sorus wrote:
It's a trilogy. Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy.
Ah, that'll be it.

--A

You might like it. I found it thought-provoking on several levels.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:14 am

I enjoyed the first one. But I'd have to read it again before going on. I think that gender thing confused me way too much. More than it seems to have confused anyone else. But definitely a very good book.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:00 am

Argh...must...resist...

I'll keep an eye out.

--A

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:13 am

I don't think it should really be confusing, since the gender of the characters doesn't matter to the story at all. You're not going to miss anything by just taking it at face value and considering everyone female.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:21 am

Yeah, that's the way to go. I spent too much time trying to figure out who was what. And trying to figure out why the ship couldn't figure it out.

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:06 pm

The first time I read the first book, I spent some time speculating as to what gender this or that character really was, but by the second book I was immersed in the universe enough that it really ceased to matter.

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