(1) STUCK INSIDE. BBC’s Doctor Who site has posted a new short story by Paul Cornell, “The Shadow Passes”. The setup is — … She’d been thinking that when Graham had found the sign. It had said, the letters wobbling … Continue reading
Chris M. Barkley, Juli Marr, and Mark Richards have submitted an motion to create a new Hugo Awards category for Best Translated Novel. It will soon be listed on Dublin 2019’s New Business Agenda. (Update Barkley says this is the … Continue reading
Ellen Datlow has revealed the table of contents for The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven, to be released in September by Night Shade. “I Remember Nothing” by Anne Billson “Monkeys on the Beach” by Ralph Robert Moore “Painted … Continue reading
By JJ: To assist Hugo nominators, listed below are the editors of works published for the first time in 2018. These credits have been accumulated from Acknowledgments sections and copyright pages in works, as well as other sources on the … Continue reading
Why I am Advocating for a Best Translated Novel Category By Chris M. Barkley: Author’s Note: Like Jo Van Ekeren, I am a member of a Hugo Awards Study Committee, which was formed last year at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, … Continue reading
By Jo Van Ekeren: I have written this post in response to the recent voicing of support on Twitter and elsewhere for the establishment of a Best Translated Work category for the Hugo Awards, but much of what follows is … Continue reading
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2017 Locus Awards. The awards will be presented at Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle, June 23-25. SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor) The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter … Continue reading
The nominees for the 2017 Seiun Award were announced April 11 by the 56th Japan Science Fiction Convention. The members of “Donburacon” will vote on the winners, which will be announced in July. The award has nine categories. Here are the categories … Continue reading
(1) CELEBRATING IN ORBIT. Happy New Year from the International Space Station. Happy #NewYearsEve from @AstroPeggy, @astro_kimbrough, @Thom_astro, and the whole space station crew! pic.twitter.com/EwYKvx6qPz — International Space Station (@Space_Station) January 1, 2017 (2) MAKING IT COUNT. Camestros Felapton celebrates … Continue reading
By Carl Slaughter: THE APEX BOOK OF WORLD SF, VOL. 1 Editor: Lavie Tidhar “The Apex Book of SF series has proven to be an excellent way to sample the diversity of world SFF and to broaden our understanding of … Continue reading