(1) STAR TREK DAY. io9’s James Whitbrook tells how “Star Trek: Discovery’s New Trailer Brings the Fight for the Federation to the Far Future”. The crew of the Discovery made a terrible sacrifice at the end of season two, leaving their lives as they … Continue reading
The Writers Guild of America has announced the 2024 Writers Guild Award nominees for screenwriting, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing. Here are the nominees of genre interest: SCREENPLAY Original Screenplay: Barbie, written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach; Adapted Screenplay: … Continue reading
Finalists in 27 competitive categories for the 2024 Audie Awards were announced by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) on January 30. The Audie Awards® recognize excellence in audiobook and spoken word entertainment. The winners will be revealed on March 4. The complete … Continue reading
(1) BOASE AWARD. The UK’s Branford Boase Award honors debut efforts in children’s books and the editors as well as authors behind them. There are three works on The Branford Boase Award 2023 Shortlist of genre interest: The other shortlisted … Continue reading
Night Shade Books today released The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 2 edited by Paula Guran. It’s the second from the current publisher, but overall volume 12 in a series Guran started in 2010 (covering the stories of … Continue reading
The shortlists for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards have been released, along with the names of the jurors who will decide the winners, which will be announced at FantasyCon in September. BEST NEWCOMER (THE SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD) Jurors: Mohsin Siddiqui, Rhian Bowley, … Continue reading
By JJ: To assist Hugo nominators, listed below are the editors of more than 1,000 short form works published for the first time in 2020. Note that all of the works labeled “novella”, “novelette”, and “short story” are eligible in … Continue reading
(1) GIBSON TOPS THIS LIST. The Times of London’s Simon Ings picked the five “Best sci-fi books of the year 2020” (behind a paywall). He rates William Gibson’s Agency the best of the year. The other four you’ll have to pay … Continue reading
The finalists for the 46th Annie Awards have been announced by The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood. At the awards ceremony to be held February 2 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, the following special awards also will be presented: Winsor McCay … Continue reading
(1) Why is Stieg Larsson’s fourth Millennium novel a news item for the scroll? Well, it is a book a lot of us will read, but that’s not the reason. Sweden’s Ahrvid Engholm supplies the connection in his coverage “From the … Continue reading