2011 Prix Aurora Shortlists Announced by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 1:46pm

Congratulations to Brandon's Craig Russell for being shortlisted for the 2011 Prix Aurora Award for Best English Novel. We've been fortunate at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg to have hosted four of the five nominees in this year's novel category.

The Prix Auroras will be awarded the weekend of November 18-20 at the Canadian national science fiction and fantasy convention, this year hosted by SFContario.

Best English Novel:

• Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell, Great Plains Publications
• Destiny's Blood by Marie Bilodeau, Dragon Moon Press
• Stealing Home by Hayden Trenholm, Bundoran Press
• Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada
• Watch, by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada

Two nominated anthologies feature stories by Manitobans: Tesseracts Fourteen, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, includes "Heat Death, or Answering the Ouroboros Question" by Brandon's Patrick Johanneson and "Chrysalis" by Winnipeg's Ronald Hore appears in Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick. There are also two new categories this year: Poetry or Song Lyric and Graphic Novel.

A complete list of 2011 nominees

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Winnipeg, Horror

2011 Nebula Award Winners by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 1:41pm

Connie Willis' Blackout and All Clear, novels of time traveling historians sent to World War II era London, won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Nebula Award for Best Novel. Willis is also shortlisted for the 2011 Hugo Award for Blackout/All Clear.

A complete list of winners and nominees in all categories may be found on the SFWA website.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

2011 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award Shortlists Announced by Chadwick Ginther - Monday, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:13pm

The ballot for the 2011 Hugo Awards has been released and there are some familiar names on the list; both Connie Willis' Blackout/All Clear and N.K. Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms were nominated for the Nebula Award, and Ian McDonald's Dervish House was nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award.

Nominees in the Best Novel Category:

• Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
• Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
• Feed by Mira Grant
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

The nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer are:

• Saladin Ahmed
• Lauren Beukes
• Larry Correia
• Lev Grossman
• Dan Wells

The winners will be announced Saturday, August 20th, 2011, at the 69th World Science Fiction Convention (Renovation) in Reno, Nevada.

A complete list of nominees in all categories:

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

Diana Wynne Jones 1934-2011 by Cameron - Saturday, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:08pm

Diana Wynne Jones, author of the Chrestomanci series and Howl's Moving Castle has passed away.

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