Out of the Woodwork 125.
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Alice Borchardt author of fantasy, horror, and historical romance novels, passed away from cancer in her Houston home on July 24, 2007 at the age of 67.

Following a career as a nurse, Borchardt's first published novel was Devoted, which appeared in 1995. Her best known series was the Legends of the Wolves, a trilogy made up of The Silver Wolf, Night of the Wolf and The Wolf King. Full SFWA story

SFWA reports that Elizabeth Moon has won the prestigious Robert A Heinlein Award. At a gala ceremony in Kansas City on Saturday, July 7, 2007, it was announced that Elizabeth Moon is the recipient of this year's Robert A. Heinlein Award. Elizabeth was not present to accept the award. It was accepted for her by Eleanor Wood. Full SFWA story

Daniel F. Galouye was named winner of this year's Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, honoring writers whose originality embodies the spirit of Cordwainer Smith's fiction, at last weekend's ReaderCon. Sci Fi News story

Mythopoeic Awards winners, announced last weekend at Mythcon in Berkeley, California, are Patricia A. McKillip's Solstice Wood, Catherine Fisher's Corbenic, Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond's The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, and G. Roland Murphy's Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival. Full story

Winners of this year's Sidewise Awards for works of alternate history, presented last weekend at TuckerCon/NASFiC in Collinsville, Illinois, are Charles Stross' The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, and The Clan Corporate in the long form category, and Gardner Dozois' "Counterfactual" in the short form. (SFWA News)

Harry Potter sales top 11 million copies in 24 hours. The phenomenon that is Harry Potter exceeded everyone's expectations with massive worldwide sales. With supermarkets offering the Potter (original price £17.99) at discounted prices of £5 Potter mania was astonishing. J K Rowling launched the final instalment of the Wizard saga at a special reading at the Natural History Museum in London and signed 250 copies an hour for devotees.

Valerie Roebuck contacted us after reading the last in the series (I must admit I did enjoy it and didn't put it down)

Dear Friends

Help! J K Rowling has forced me to reconsider my list of favourite witches and wizards! After reading 'Deathly Hallows', and then re-reading the whole sequence to see how it all fits together, I feel she has discovered a whole new dimension in the ways in which magic-users can operate. I daren't say too much, in case you haven't finished reading it yet, but I feel that one of her characters in particular can stand beside any of the great mages of literature.

All the best--

Valerie J Roebuck

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Comedian Harry Enfield is to play Dirk Gently, the eccentric detective created by late author Douglas Adams, in the character's first UK broadcast series.
BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Adams' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency will begin in October. Full BBC story

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Recent floods in the Heart of England leave Adrian Snowdon unscathed:
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My house is situated in a location that can't possibly get flooded. However, mains water supplies were cut off today and I could be without water for up to a week. Furthermore, electricity may be cut at any time. If so, I won't be receiving or sending Emails. I've already received some Email enquiries of concern so I'm sending this to the Whole Wide World to pre-empt any forthcoming enquires for which I may not have the electron flow to see or reply to. Thanks to everyone who has expressed concern (or was about to).

All my books and comics are safe. So I've no problems at all.

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The British Fantasy Society is pleased to announce the nominees for the British Fantasy Award 2007

The nominations and the overall winner in each category will be announced at the Sunday banquet of this year’s British Fantasy Convention, Fantasycon 2007. The convention will be held on 21st – 23rd September 2007 at the Britannia Hotel, Nottingham, UK. More details can be found on the BFS website at www.fantasycon.org.uk or www.britishfantasysociety.org

In addition to the categories below, which are by a ballot of the society and Fantasycon memberships, there will be the announcement of the Karl Edward Wagner Special Award (selected by the BFS committee), presented to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to the genre, and the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award, selected by a panel of judges. This latter is a new category this year.

I would be pleased if you would use the information in your news section. If you need any further information please do not hesitate to contact me. Many thanks.

David A. Sutton

British Fantasy Awards Administrator

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British Fantasy Award
Alphabetical List of top five nominees in all categories:

(Note: Where the list has more than 5 nominations, this is due to voting ties for one or more runner-up places)

Novel: The August Derleth Award
Chaz Brenchley, BRIDE OF DREAMS, Ace Books

Mike Carey, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, Orbit Books

Mark Chadbourn, JACK OF RAVENS: KINGDOM OF THE SEPENT BOOK 1, Gollancz

M. John Harrison, NOVA SWING, Gollancz

Tim Lebbon, DUSK, Spectra

Scott Lynch, THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA, Gollancz

Sarah Pinborough, BREEDING GROUND, Leisure Books

Mark Samuels, THE FACE OF TWILIGHT, PS Publishing

Conrad Williams, THE UNBLEMISHED, Earthling Publications

Novella
Eric Brown, THE MEMORY OF JOY, Choices, Pendragon Press

Simon Clark, SHE LOVES MONSTERS, Necessary Evil Press

Paul Finch, KID, Choices, Pendragon Press

Ian McDonald, THE DJINN’S WIFE, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2006

Gary McMahon, ROUGH CUT, Rough Cut, Pendragon Press

Short Fiction
Marion Arnott, THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music, Elastic Press

Mark Chadbourn, WHISPER LANE, BFS: A Celebration, British Fantasy Society

Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, PUCA MUC, Shrouded By Darkness, Telos Publishing

Sarah Singleton, THE DISAPPEARED, Time Pieces, NewCon Press

Stephen Volk, 31/10, Dark Corners, Gray Friar Press

Conrad Williams, THE VETERAN, Postscripts #6, PS Publishing

Collection
Neil Gaiman, FRAGILE THINGS, Headline

Joel Lane, THE LOST DISTRICT AND OTHER STORIES, Night Shade Books

Kim Newman, THE MAN FROM THE DIOGENES CLUB, Monkeybrain

Mike O’Driscoll, UNBECOMING AND OTHER TALES OF HORROR, Elastic Press

Neil Williamson, THE EPHEMERA, Elastic Press

Anthology
Gary Couzens, EXTENDED PLAY: THE ELASTIC BOOK OF MUSIC, Elastic Press

Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY & HORROR: 19TH ANNUAL COLLECTION, St. Martin’s Press

Alison L. R. Davies, SHROUDED BY DARKNESS: TALES OF TERROR, Telos Publishing

Stephen Jones, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 17, Robinson Publishing

Christopher Teague, CHOICES, Pendragon Press

Small Press
Andy Cox, TTA PRESS,

Peter Crowther, PS PUBLISHING,

Andrew Hook, ELASTIC PRESS,

David J. Howe & Stephen James Walker, TELOS PUBLISHING,

Christopher Teague, PENDRAGON PRESS,

Artist
Vincent Chong

Les Edwards

Dean Harkness

Edward Miller

John Picacio

Non-Fiction
Allen Ashley, THE DAYS OF THE DODO, Dodo Press

Paul Kane, THE HELLRAISER FILMS AND THEIR LEGACY, Macfarland & Co.

Mark Morris, CINEMA MACABRE, PS Publishing

Andy Murray, INTO THE UNKNOWN: THE FANTASTIC LIFE OF NIGEL KNEALE, Headpress

Julie Phillips, JAMES TIPTREE JR: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF ALICE B. SHELDON, St. Martin’s Press

World Fantasy Awards Nominations

Nominations for this year's World Fantasy Awards, for works published in 2006, have been released. Winners will be announced at this year's World Fantasy Convention, to be held 1-4 November 2007 in Saratoga Springs, New York.

NOVEL
Lisey's Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

NOVELLA
"Botch Town", Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon)
"The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train", Kim Newman (The Man from the Diogenes Club, MonkeyBrain)
Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge (Cemetery Dance)
"Map of Dreams", M. Rickert (Map of Dreams, Golden Gryphon)
"The Lineaments of Gratified Desire", Ysabeau S. Wilce (F&SF Jul 2006)

SHORT FICTION
"The Way He Does It", Jeffrey Ford (Electric Velocipede #10, Spr 2006)
"Journey Into the Kingdom", M. Rickert (F&SF May 2006)
"A Siege of Cranes", Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics, All-Star Stories)
"Another Word for Map is Faith", Christopher Rowe (F&SF Aug 2006)
"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)", Geoff Ryman (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)

ANTHOLOGY
Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard, Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale, eds. (MonkeyBrain and the Fandom Association of Central Texas)
Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling, eds. (Thunder's Mouth)
Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed. (Subterranean)
Twenty Epics, David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, eds. (All-Star Stories)
Firebirds Rising, Sharyn November, ed. (Firebird)

COLLECTION
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
The Empire of Ice Cream, Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)
American Morons, Glen Hirshberg (Earthling)
Red Spikes, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia; Knopf)
Map of Dreams, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)

ARTIST
Jon Foster
Edward Miller
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Jill Thompson

SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL
Ellen Asher (For work at SFBC)
Mark Finn (for Blood & Thunder: The Life of Robert E. Howard, MonkeyBrain)
Deanna Hoak for copyediting
Greg Ketter for Dreamhaven
Leonard S. Marcus, ed. (for The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Candlewick)

SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
Leslie Howle (for her work at Clarion West)
Leo Grin (for The Cimmerian)
Susan Marie Groppi (for Strange Horizons)
John Klima (for Electric Velocipede)
Gary K. Wolfe (for reviews and criticism in Locus and elsewhere)

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