The World Fantasy Awards Association announced this year’s awards at WFC in Kansas City on October 29. 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOVEL NOVELLA SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY COLLECTION ARTIST SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Writer Peter S. Beagle was voted the 2023 Forrest J Ackerman Award for Lifetime Achievement by the members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society at their October 12 meeting. The Forrest J Ackerman or Forry Award has been given by … Continue reading
Myriad science fiction and fantasy awards are given but not so many that it goes unnoticed if they skip a year. Here are four sff awards that have missed a beat, with an assessment of whether we’re likely to see … Continue reading
The World Fantasy Awards administrator announced the final ballot for this year’s awards, and the Lifetime Achievement award winners, on July 25. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTS NOVEL NOVELLA SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY COLLECTION ARTIST SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL … Continue reading
Three First Fandom awards were announced during opening ceremonies of Pemmi-Con, the 2023 NASFiC, on July 20. Emcees Vincent Docherty and David Ritter named the winners of the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award, the Posthumous Hall of Fame Award, and the Sam Moskowitz … Continue reading
The 2023 Trigon Awards were presented at SpiralCon 2 this past weekend at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. The awards are given by Spiral Tower Press, which publishes the magazines Whetstone and Witch House, and celebrate “the past, present, and future of … Continue reading
[Introduction: Gary Westfahl has authored, edited, or co-edited over thirty books about science fiction and fantasy, including the Hugo Award-nominated Science Fiction Quotations (2005) and the two-volume Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia (2021). In 2003 he won the Science Fiction Research Association’s … Continue reading
(1) AI AND CLICK FARMERS GAMING KINDLE UNLIMITED. AI-generated books are hitting the best-seller lists in the Kindle Unlimited store. Stacy King points out that one of the best-sellers in the War & Military Fiction category is “URGENT CHARACTER NAME: … Continue reading
The Chengdu Worldcon’s Chinese-language website today published five posts about the just-concluded “2023 Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention Global Brand Conference” that are not yet available on its English-language counterpart. Three Chengdu Worldcon committee members from the U.S., Ben Yalow, … Continue reading
The Horror Writers Association today announced the winners of the 2022 HWA Lifetime Achievement and special awards: the Specialty Press Award, the Richard Laymon President’s Award, the Silver Hammer Award, and the Mentor of the Year Award. These will be … Continue reading