The 2023 Dragon Award winners were announced on September 3.
1. Best Science Fiction Novel
- The Icarus Plot by Timothy Zahn
2. Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal)
- Witch King by Martha Wells
3. Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel
- The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
4. Best Alternate History Novel
- Lost In Time by A.G. Riddle
5. Best Horror Novel
- A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
6. Best Illustrative Cover
- Tower of Silence by Kurt Miller
7. Best Comic Book or Graphic Novel
- Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson, Michael Shelfer
8. Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series, TV or Internet
- The Sandman, Netflix
9. Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Movie
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves by Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
10. Best Digital Game
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo EPD
11. Best Tabletop Game
- Magic the Gathering: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, Wizards of the Coast
Also presented during the ceremony:
HANK REINHART FANDOM AWARD
- Amanda Makepeace
JULIE AWARD
- Marty Krofft
In 1998, Dragon Con established the Julie Award presented annually in tribute to the legendary Julie Schwartz. The Julie Award is bestowed for universal achievement spanning multiple genres, selected each year by our esteemed panel of industry professionals. The first recipient in 1998 was science fiction and fantasy Grandmaster Ray Bradbury.
2023 MIKE RESNICK MEMORIAL AWARD
For the best unpublished science fiction short story by a new author
- “For the Great and Immortal” by Daniel Burnbridge (South Africa)
[Thanks to Ray Radlein for livetweeting the results!]
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Has anyone read “The Icarus Plot”? I keep hearing recommendations to read Timothy Zahn — and this one starts a new series. (I don’t want to climb in mid-series.)
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No, but I’ve read a lot of his not Star Wars genre fiction and it’s damn excellent, so I’ve no reason for this novel to expect it to be any less grrat than the ones I read.
What I’ve not read is his Star Wars works as the only Star Wars films I really, really like the first three films and the most excellent animated series, so I’ve no interest in any of the fiction generated.
I’m about half way through A House With Good Bones and may never go near a rose bush again.
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@Cat
And the Kindle edition is just $6.99… Hmm…
@Jim Janney
A nefarious RedWombat plot to save all the rose bushes for herself perhaps?…
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@Anne Marble:
I’m sure that any plot RedWombat comes up with would be brilliant, but she revealed her dislike of roses in the “A Note About Books and Roses” foreword to Bryony and Roses (link leads to non-spoilery review — nor will I spoil anybody!).
I continue to be amazed and awestruck how she manages to combine humor/cozy/dark/HORRIFYING elements so amazingly in her work.
(I am a huge fan of roses but was never a gardener — one of my tattoos is a rose vine with definite THORNS, and I used to teach a two-week unit in my intro to lit class on the English poetic tradition involving roses! But wow, it’s amazing how well they work in Kingfisher’s horror stories!).
She and Mira Grant are the only authors who write horror I can read (well, Sheri Tepper wrote a couple of horror novels, so that’s three).
Delighted with the win for Golden Enclaves.
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Well, now I know why I don’t share the near-universal worship of her. I love roses.
I saw the cover for “Tower of Silence” and I’m not going to read it to find out what exactly is going on, but dang if it doesn’t look like that knight & demon are, uh, having a lot of fun right now.
Coming in late for Anne Marble’s leading question.
I love Zahn’s “The Icarus Hunt”, which is inspired by Cold War skulduggery adventure such as Alistair MacLean. “Plot” is a pseudo-sequel that I was excited to stumble on, and it’s forgettably meh.
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