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of the Woodwork 125. 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 Galaxiki is a virtual galaxy with over a million stars and solar systems - each star, each planet and each moon represents one wiki page and site members can name and edit them, creating an entirely fictional world. It's also possible to "purchase" a star or a solar system, so that only you (and not other community members) can name and edit it. Comedian Harry Enfield is to play Dirk Gently,
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to be too much to wade through. *sigh* 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
British Fantasy Award (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 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 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 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 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 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 Peter Crowther, PS PUBLISHING, Andrew Hook, ELASTIC PRESS, David J. Howe & Stephen James Walker, TELOS PUBLISHING, Christopher Teague, PENDRAGON PRESS,
Artist Les Edwards Dean Harkness Edward Miller John Picacio
Non-Fiction 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.
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