The European Science Fiction Society has published the nominees for the 2023 ESFS Achievement Awards and ESFS Hall of Fame Awards. The winners of these awards will be selected at the next general meeting of the ESFS, which will take … Continue reading
(1) CAT RAMBO MAKES APOLOGY ABOUT WORKSHOP VENUE. Amplifying yesterday’s announcement of The Wayward Wormhole workshop in Spain, Cat Rambo has written “An Apology to the F&SF Community, and Particularly to Those who Look to Me for Leadership” in respect … Continue reading
(1) NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR 58TH NEBULA AWARDS. Full, Associate, and Senior members of SFWA are eligible to submit a nomination ballot for the Nebula Awards. Nominations may be cast online or by post. Ballots must be received by February 28, 2023 at … Continue reading
This year File 770 is partnering with AudioFile to announce the winners of the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Audiobooks of 2022. They are listed below with links to AudioFile’s review. AudioFile also will be featuring exclusive interviews with narrators from Best Audiobooks 2022 across all the categories … Continue reading
(1) JUSTICE FOR SYLVIA ANDERSON. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] Last night’s BBC Radio 4 arts programme, Front Row, devoted a substantive amount of time to the airbrushing of Sylvia Anderson from Anderson productions by Gerry Anderson and then … Continue reading
(1) CHICON 8 COVID UPDATE. The Chicon 8 committee has notified attending members that another 19 people present at the 2022 Worldcon last weekend have tested positive for Covid. (The first email listed 8 cases.) Where known, it includes information … Continue reading
In 2022 the Horror Writers Association (HWA) awarded 13 scholarships/grants/endowments with a total value of $15,650 to assist writers looking to pursue a career as a writer of horror fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. They also have named the libraries that … Continue reading
The Booker Prize 2022 longlist includes four books of genre interest, titles shown in boldface. The list also includes the historical novel Booth by Karen Joy Fowler, a writer with a deep resume of sff works. Audrey Magee, The Colony (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Selby … Continue reading
(1) BAFTA TV. Today’s BAFTA TV Awards 2022 winners predictably had almost no genre presence because there were very few sff nominees. (Even the new Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa, lost – as a nominee in the Male Performance in a … Continue reading
THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the 2022 shortlists for their annual Awards of Excellence. Best Crime Novelsponsored by Rakuten Kobo, with a $1000 prize Linwood Barclay, Find You First, William Morrow, an imprint … Continue reading