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The British Fantasy Society is delighted to announce the winners of the British Fantasy Awards for 2007. The presentations were made at the awards banquet of FantasyCon 2007 in Nottingham, England on 23rd September.

Best Novel: 'The August Derleth Fantasy Award': Tim Lebbon: DUSK

Best Novella: Paul Finch: KID

Best Anthology: Gary Couzens: EXTENDED PLAY: THE ELASTIC BOOK OF MUSIC

Best Collection: Neil Gaiman: FRAGILE THINGS

Best Short Fiction: Mark Chadbourn: WHISPER LANE - BFS A celebration, BFS

Best Artist: Vincent Chong

Best Small Press: Peter Crowther, PS Publishing

Best Non-Fiction: Mark Morris: CINEMA MACABRE

The Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award. Joe Hill

BFS Special Award: 'The Karl Edward Wagner Award': Ellen Datlow

The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2007 award is Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, ISBN 0-676-97727-8).

The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a prized and juried award presented annually. It is based on excellence of writing and awarded to a Canadian writer who has published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection any time during the previous calendar year. Named after the novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction, the award consists of a cash prize of $1,000 and a handcrafted medallion which incorporates a "Sunburst" logo, designed by Marcel Gagné. Sunburst award.

One for the collective consciousness - can you help?

Dear Simon - I'm emailing you to see if you've got in stock, or could help me track down an old horror book I remember coming across as a child (I'm 31 one now, so this is about 20 - 25 years ago). The book was a collection of horror stories, or a single horror story, but all I can clearly remember about it is a large illustration that was on the inside of the front and back covers.

I've sketched and attached the design for your reference, which I've roughly drawn from memory. The scene consisted of a gloomy cellar/dungeon, with the shadow of a moose-headed man cast accross the floor and walls, with smaller cringing faces hiding in the shadows.

I know this is a very vague desciption, but if you've come accross the book, I'm sure you'd remember this haunting and strange picture. Any help you can provide in tracking this old book down would be hugely appreciated, because I've been trying to find it for years.

Many thanks,

Sam Schroeder

and Sam provided this image

can you help?

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and another - can you help?

I wonder if you could post this in an upcoming newsletter. It's an enquiry I got from a sci-fi fan called Pete who saw my Sheckley substation on my www.paradoxone.co.uk website.
I cannot think of any Robert Sheckley story that perfectly fits this description. I contacted an authority on Sheckley who thinks it may be a story by Frederick Pohl. Can any of your readers cast any light on this?
Many thanks
Phil Jackson
"I came across your site while trying to track down what I think was a
Robert Sheckley short story that I read ages ago. I hope you can help
with the title, as it's been bugging me for some years!

The story (as I remember it) was about a guy in hospital who has some
sort of serious condition that can't yet be cured. He's frozen for a
while and wakes up to find a robot tending to him. There's still no
cure so he's put back to sleep. As the story unfolds, centuries pass
while this robot looks after him, waking him every now and then to
keep him up to speed on the state of his treatment. Eventually, after
a millennium or so, it turns out that the robot has built him a
complete new world, with a civilisation already in place, that he can
now inhabit having been cured.

Any idea what this story's called and whether it's available in a
collection anywhere? There's always the chance that it wasn't Mr
Sheckley at all, but at least that's one SF writer I can strike off the
list!

Thanks for any light you can throw on this." (Pete)

if you can email us

Hot Fuzz star Simon Pegg is poised to play Scotty in the new Star Trek movie.
The British comic has been offered the role of the chief engineer, played by James Doohan in the classic TV series, his manager has told BBC News.

The film, directed by Lost creator JJ Abrams, focuses on the early lives of Captain James T Kirk and Mr Spock.

Star Trek's 11th big screen outing also stars Eric Bana, Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy, and filming is due to start next month. Full BBC story

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