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The penultimate list included a Nebula winner ( Scarborough ), a work that received an embarassment of awards in and out of genre ( The Sparrow ), a John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner ( Slonczewski ), and enough works that are very recent and well-known (Kushner x 2, Bull, Valente, Huff, etc.) that my friend Constance (who edited a work that is appropriate for the list and knows the history of...
The winners of this year's Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced Sunday evening at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, in Denver, Colorado. Hugo winners include: Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's...
Congratulations to the (literary) Hugo and officially-not-a-Hugo recipients, announced earlier this evening. Mary Robinette Kowal received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer... which marks the first time in quite a while that a sitting SFWA officer (she just began her term as Secretary a month ago) has won a Hugo. OK, it's officially not a Hugo, but it's still quite an
Who Goes There? Why, it's G.I. Joe! Quasar Dragon reminds us that we can read John W. Campbell's 1928 paranoia-fest novella " Who Goes There? " online. What a great story. This was, of course, the basis for the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and the 1982 John Carpenter film, The Thing . And in a bit of Information Superhighway Synchronicity, along comes Topless Robot to point us to this high...
Kathleen Ann Goonan's SF novel In War Times was named the winner of this year's John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which is presented annually to the best science fiction novel of the year.
Rick Kleffel sez, "John W. Campbell Award winning author Jay Lake will be in the studio on Saturday, July 12 for GeekSpeak, to be interviewed by RIck Kleffel, Lyle Troxell and Sean Cleveland. We'll be taking your phone calls at 1-800-655-5877, or you can email me your questions in advance (agony@trashotron.com). We'll be talking with Jay about his latest novels, Mainspring and Escapement and the widespread...
The winners of this year's Campbell and Sturgeon Winners have been leaked : The winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award , honoring the best SF novel published in the US, is In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan. See also: John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winners By Year SF Signal review The winners of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award , honoring the best short fiction published in the US are...
The winners of the John W Campbell Memorial Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced, and I’m delighted with the winners. Kathy Goonan’s In War Times has won the novel award. The joint winners of the Sturgeon award are “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear and “Finisterra” by David Moles, both of which are terrific. [...]
I was sorry to hear we lost Thomas M. Disch, an award-winning science fiction author and poet over the weekend. Thomas won the Hugo Award for best related book in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others. According to Locus Online Thomas
The John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer is nominated for and voted on by the people who select the year's HugoAward winners. Writers are eligible for two years from their first publication, and the nominees and winners each year are a who's-whom of the most promising talents in the field -- one of the finest moments of my life was winning the Campbell at the 2000 Hugo Awards, joining such august...
Farthing and Tooth And Claw author Jo Walton is widely regarded as one of the best writers of fantasy right now, and she won the John W. Campbell award for the best new writer of speculative fiction.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Over at Post Weird Thoughts , there is a great mega review of Jeremy Stake , the detective that stars in the novels of Jeffrey Thomas . That is, the John W. Campbell nominated Jeffrey Thomas . Ahem. " First, a caveat: as the title of this post says, this is not a review of the entire work of Jeffrey Thomas. It´s rather a kind of analysis of the "life and times" of Jeremy Stake, his most famous character...
Jeffrey Thomas has been nominated for the hugely prestigious 2008 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his SF horror hybrid, Deadstock . The Campbell is one of the three major SF awards, and we're hugely excited that Jeffrey's made the list. You can see the full list of nominees here . And don't forget, we've got the whole book available for free download! Fingers crossed, Jeffrey!
The nominees for the 2008 John W Campbell Memorial Award, awarded to the best SF novel published in the US, have been announced : Brian Aldiss, HARM Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union Kathleen Ann Goonan, I n War Times Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms Jay Lake, Mainspring Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel Ian McDonald, Brasyl Rebecca Ore, Time's Child Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys Robert J....
This week Tony starts a new aspect of the show - The Editorial. Following in the footsteps of some of the great SF magazine editorials from the likes of John W Campbell, Ben Bova and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, join Tony for his once a month editorial as he plots the Sofa's route for world globalisation.
