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The
Horror, The Horror
The 2003 International Horror Guild awards recognizing outstanding
achievements in the field of horror and dark fantasy from the year
2002 have been announced.
07/2003
More
Priestly Mischief
Is there no stopping the man? The winners of the British Science
Fiction Association Awards were announced on Easter Sunday, at he
54th UK National Science Fiction Convention. The Winner for Best
Novel of 2002? None other than Christopher Priest for his 'The Separation',
published by Scribner.
06/2003
Adamantium
or cement? Shall I count the ways for the Hugo.
The World SF con - Noreascon Four - would like your creative insights
and other-worldly engineering proposals for the perfect base on
which to mount their treasured silver rocket denoting excellence
in SFF ... the Hugo awards. How about moon rock, guys?
06/2003
Who
will arrange my Separation from this troublesome Priest?
Christopher Priest scoops the 2003 Arthur C Clarke Award for his
novel 'The Separation', featuring a parallel reality where Britain
made peace with Hitler in 1941. Pulp SF it ain't ... but it's a
rather good read all the same.
06/2003
Making
Merry SF in Melbourne
Australian SFF came under the spotlight, with the recent close of
the 2002 Aurealis Awards. Damien Broderick got best novel for 'Transcension'
(Tor), which rather begs the question, why's the most popular Ozzie
SF coming out of the USA?
05/2003
Wooden
Rocket update
The 'Oscars' of the online science fiction world have opened with
over 3,000 votes for 632 different web sites in the first month.
Jessica takes a look at some of the early nominations in the Wooden
Rocket Awards.
03/2003
Arthur
C Clarke Shortlist for 2003
The Arthur C Clarke Awards shortlist has been announced and includes
M. John Harrison's 'Light' and China Miéville's masterpiece 'The
Scar'.
03/2003
Online
Science Fiction gets its own 'Oscars' … but they're made of wood!
Do you run a science fiction or fantasy web site? Then you could
be a winner in the first Wooden Rocket awards. At long last it's
an award like the Oscars, Nebulas and Hugos all rolled into one,
but only for online SFF!
02/2003
Hugo,
Hugo, As Long As You USA-Go
The Hugo Award nominees get trotted out for 2002. Truly global,
as long as your definition of the world starts at the West Coast
and ends at the East Coast.
05/2002
Whose
Side Are You On? The Sidewise Awards Come To Town
There's awards for everything these days, even parallel reality
fiction. Just don't expect Sliders to collect any gongs this year.
You know, there's probably a parallel reality where parallel realities
don't exist and no-one has ever heard of them.
07/2001
China
Town - Miéville Wins The Arthur C. Clarke Award
Funny name for a funny guy (and an odd novel, too). China Mieville
scoops the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke book award in front of a
jealous London audience.
06/2001
Hugo
A-Go-Go
The SF world loves it traditions, and the Hugos - the oscars of
the SF book world - are one of the oldest. They may not always be
fair, but the nominees are almost always a good read.
06/2000
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