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of the Woodwork 134. Welcome to our newsletter, it contains up to the minute news and gossip as well as awards details and items requiring help from the collective consciousness. If you wish to contribute please do so! We welcome your thoughts, your news items and any gossip! We do love a bit of gossip here at Fantastic HQ. Woodwormers respond: Enclosed is a cheque for the three paperbacks, Agatha Christie and two P K Dicks. I will be very interested to read "Hound of Death" by Christie as I have always heard that she wrote some stuff of a supernatural/macabre nature but had never been able to get hold of a copy. As for poor old Philip K Dick, I read "We Can build You" many years ago but no on rereading it, I cannot recognise a thing. Thus does memory play tricks on the aged. I was always vaguely aware of "The World Jones Made" but had no notion of its contents, it sounds quite fascinating from the blurb on the cover. Very sad about the early death of PKD. A tragic life really but without the paranoia and the mental suffering we would not have had the brilliant convoluted novels and stories. Mind you, since his death I believe the world has begun more and more to resemble his sinister visions. - John Hunt. Sad news about the loss of Roy Scheider who died at the age of 75, Roy starred as the water hating Chief of Police in the Spielberg blockbuster Jaws, he was always a favourite of everyone here at Fantastic HQ, particularly with that great understaed line in jaws where he simply turns to Quint and says "we're going to need a bigger boat!" BBC story Tolkien Trouble in LA: The estate
of "Lord of the Rings" creator J.R.R. Tolkien is suing
the film studio that released the trilogy based on his books, claiming
the company hasn't paid it a penny from the estimated $6 billion
the films have grossed worldwide. 2007 BSFA Awards: Shortlists. The shortlists for the 2007 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) awards were announced on 21 January 2008, as follows: Best Novel Alice in Sunderland – Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape) ‘Lighting Out’ – Ken MacLeod (disLocations) ‘Cracked World’ – Andy Bigwood (cover of disLocations,
ed. Ian Whates; Newcon Press) A Case of Conscience – James Blish (Ballantine) 2008 Edgar Award nominees, Best Novel Nominees
Best Motion Picture Screen Play The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark
Award Sue Graton wins cartier Diamond dagger - The twenty-third Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in the genre of crime writing, has been awarded to the best-selling American novelist, Sue Grafton. Her Kinsey Millhone alphabet series of PI mystery novels have won numerous awards in her native America. The latest number one best-seller, T is for Trespass, was published in the US in December 2007 and will be out in Macmillan hardback in the UK in April 2008. Full CWA story Hi there, I am enclosing brief details of our fifth anniversary poetry competition, with a link to the competitions page on our website. Anything you can do to include this on your website or newsletter would be greatly appreciated. I am also looking to insert our poetry competition leaflet into any mailings to writers going out between now and the end of March; let me know if this is a possibility or if you know of any other mailings which might useful for us.
FANTASY NOVEL SHORT-LISTED FOR 2008 BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Ten novels (written in a wide variety of languages) have been selected for presentation by the world's main publishers on February 12th 2008 at the Berlin International Film Festival - the world's largest film festival with 200,000 movie and TV professionals attending. One fantasy and science fiction book made the cut, Stephen Hunt’s epic fantasy tale, The Court of the Air. The only genre fantasy and science fiction novel to be short-listed is Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air, an epic fantasy adventure set in a society with parallels to 18th/19th century England. The Guardian said of this fantasy book, "The characters are convincing and colourful, but the real achievement is the setting, a hellish take on Victorian London where grim, steam-driven machines work beside citizens with magical powers. The Court of the Air is aimed at young adults, but the depth and complexity of Hunt's vision makes it compulsive reading for all ages." The Times called Hunt's novel, "An inventive, ambitious work,
full of wonders and marvels." while SFX magazine said of it,
"Hunt can take his place alongside such eminent Magratheans
as JRR Tolkien, Mervyn Peake and China Mieville. Creating a fully-realised
other-world which feels new and different, yet cohesive and believable
is half the battle in a fantasy novel, and it is a battle Hunt wins
with honours... Hunt's world is so rich and colourful it keeps you
engrossed ... It's a confident audacious novel." 1. The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt, HarperCollins Publishers,
Great Britain The Aurealis Awards have a significant history behind them now. Since the Awards' first ceremony, both the field of literature and the vibrancy of the Australian speculative fiction community have grown substantially. This list of past winners and finalists is not only a great guide to a basic bookshelf selection of the best Australian works, it is also a useful survey of more than a decade's worth of signficant topics and themes, a who's who of the genre locally and the growth of the Australian publishing industry's commitment to the genre. We make every effort to keep this list accurate and up to date, however if you do spot an error, please contact the Aurealis Awards Director via email director@aurealisawards.com. Congratulations to the 2007 Aurealis Award winners, listed below. 2007 WINNERS Terry Dowling has long been a respected writer of science fiction and supporter of the speculative fiction community. In 2007 his book Rynemonn was released. This work is theculmination of the exceptional Tom Rynosseros stories that Dowling haspublished over more than a decade. His work fits comfortably next to genre fiction writers such as Ray Bradbury or Ursula K. LeGuin. His literary skill and richness of storytelling equally bring to mind comparisons with writers such as Isak Dinesen and Thornton Wilder. Therefore, the convening judges of the Aurealis Awards 2007 have
awarded the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence to Terry
Dowling for Rynemonn, his magnum opus of the Tom Rynosseros/Tom
Tyson saga. Best of - various opinions Jeff Vandermeer's Best of 2007 - Locus Claude Lalumiere's best of 2007 - Locus http://www.fantasticliterature.com We also buy books and travel around the country to purchase, we will pay a finders fee to anyone who puts us in touch with a collection we later purchase. Instant ordering on our web site in
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