2013 British Fantasy Awards Winners

I've read Mieville and Abercrombie's offerings. Railsea was unique memorable, Red Country was fun but more of the same. I hope I get a chance to sample the winning novel and the other nominees.

Announcing the 2013 British Fantasy Awards Winners | Tor.com: The 2013 British Fantasy Awards were presented today at the Brighton World Fantasy convention. Nominees in each category were decided by a vote of the members of the British Fantasy Society and the attendees of FantasyCon 2012. Congratualtions to all the nominees and winners.
British Fantasy Special Award:
Iain M. Banks
Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)
Winner: Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
Blood and Feathers, Lou Morgan (Solaris)
The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan (David Fickling Books)
Railsea, China Mi�ville (Macmillan)
Red Country, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz)

2012 Nebula Award Finalists Announced | Tor.com

2012 Nebula Award Finalists Announced | Tor.com:

Novel:

Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)
Ironskin, Tina Connolly (Tor)
The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Drowning Girl, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc)
Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

I haven't read any of these.

2010 World Fantasy Award Winners - The City & The City by China Miéville

Announcing the 2010 World Fantasy Award Winners at Tor.com:

The World Fantasy Awards have been given annually since 1975, to fantasy authors the world over, and are announced every year, appropriately, at the World Fantasy Awards Convention, which is being held in Columbus, Ohio this year. Nominees are selected by a group of judges, composed this year of Greg Ketter, Kelly Link, Jim Minz, Jürgen Snoeren, and Gary K. Wolfe.

NOVEL
* WINNER: The City & The City by China Miéville (Macmillan UK / Del Rey)
* Blood of Ambrose by James Enge (Pyr)
* The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
* Finch by Jeff VanderMeer (Underland Press)
* In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield (Jonathan Cape UK/Del Rey)

Follow the link for the rest of the winners.

The more time that passes since I read The City & The City the less I am impressed... in that it left no lasting emotional impression. The book's excellence lies in the originality of the concept of the two cities and the skill demonstrated by Miéville in making this world so totally believable.

Note to self: pick up  Finch by Jeff VanderMeer. City of Saints and Madmen was a roller-coaster ride of tentacular proportion. Cannot make a mistake by reading more VanderMeer.

The Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2010 - Conrad Williams - One is best Novel

The Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2010

Not many names I recognize. I haven't read Conrad Williams's One. Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold was pretty good so I hope he deserved the win. I guess I'll find out once I track down a copy of the book.

British Fantasy Awards 2010: the Nominees

2010 Locus Award winners! - Boing Boing

The 2010 Locus awards are out. Nothing surprising, though I haven't read Boneshaker yet. Check out the bit of drama in the comments section of the Boing Boing post. First of all, I am also getting a bit tired of steampunk and zombies. Second, what is the problem with discussing this distressing trend where the nostalgic yearning for the "good old days" is turning to active disbelief in science (immunization shots, evolution, climate change).

I think if authors are addressing these issues its all to the good, but if a novel is just a bit of pulp pandering to this trend then it should be recognized as such. It certainly shouldn't be given an award.

2010 Locus Award winners! - Boing Boing:

Best SF Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)

Best Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Mieville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)

Best First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)

Best Young Adult Book: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)

Best Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

Best Novelette: ''By Moonlight'', Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)

Best Short Story: ''An Invocation of Incuriosity'', Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)

Best Anthology: The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)

Best Collection: The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)

afs97209 • #2 • 11:28 PM Saturday, Jun 26, 2010 • Reply

Bad enough that the right wingers fill the airwaves with anti-science propaganda, and we're stuck with religious propaganda in science classrooms. Now we're stuck with both fantasy and SF wings of this genre clogged full of "better, simpler, earlier" times.

You can't run to the SF aisle as a refuge from anti-science attitudes anymore. Look at the Locus Awards. Steampunk, swords and sorcery, apocalypse, literary fantasy, Victorian England. A space opera anthology is the closest we get to any message from any Locus Award winner that science is a positive force on society.

Antinous / Moderator replied to comment from afs97209 • #8 • 1:49 AM Sunday, Jun 27, 2010 • Reply

Your attempt to politicize the thread is out of order.

The Nebula Awards

The Nebula Awards: "are annual awards presented by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to celebrate excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing."

No surprise. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi won the best novel. I'll add it to my reading list. From what little I've read the book is set in a world where the planet's bio-diversity has been seriously reduced due to corporate genetic manipulation and food becomes scarce? Does corporate greed force mankind to evolve?

I look forward to seeing how it compares to China Mieville's The City & The City: a world where two cities seemingly occupy the same space.

Tor.com
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
boingboing

14th Annual Webby Awards

14th Annual Webby Awards winners are now available. See the list of nominees & winners at webbyawards.com. Its a long list and many (most) award categories are of no interest to me. Yet its a great comprehensive jumping-off point to visit areas of the web you haven't stumbled upon yet (stumbleupon.com didn't win anything).

At first glance there is nothing on the list that jumps out at me. I'm gonna look at mashable.com -- it looks like a site that I should have visited already.