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2009 Locus Award Winners by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:34am

Locus Magazine, which has covered the Science Fiction and Fantasy fields since 1968, has released the winners of the annual Locus Awards. Two Hugo Award contenders are honoured here, Neal Stephenson's Anathem for Best Science Fiction Novel and Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book in the Young Adult Category. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin won for Best Fantasy Novel while Paul Melko took home the prize for Best First Novel with Singularity's Ring.

A complete list of winners may be found here.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

John W. Campbell and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards Announced by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:39am

Canadian Cory Doctorow's young adult novel Little Brother and Ian R. Macleod's Song of Time tied for the Campbell Award for Best Novel. This is the third time the Campbell Award has resulted in a draw. Another Canadian, James Alan Gardner received the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction for The Ray-Gun: A Love Story. Gardner's story will be reprinted in Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction to be published by the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint of Red Deer Press.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

Andrzej Sapkowski Wins First David Gemmell Legend Award by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:53pm

The Legend Award was created to honour heroic fantasy written in the spirit of the late, bestselling author David Gemmell. The winner, chosen by fans from a shortlist including Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson, Juliet Marillier and Brett Weeks, was voted on by fantasy fans through the DGLA website. Sapkowski, who won for his novel Blood of Elves, is so popular in his native Poland that he outsells Stephen King.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

Duma Key Wins Stoker Award for Best Novel by Chadwick Ginther - Monday, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:20pm

The Horror Writer's Association has announced that Stephen King's Duma Key was the winner of its award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Also during the ceremony the HWA's Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to F. Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

A complete list of winners may be found here.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

Audie Awards Recognize SF&F by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:03am

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book was recently awarded an Audie Award for not only Children's Title Ages 8-12 but also was named Audiobook of the Year. This award no doubt holds special significance to the author as The Graveyard Book was read by Gaiman himself.

Also honoured was Canadian science fiction giant Robert J. Sawyer, whose excellent novel Calculating God (read by Jonathan Davis) won Science Fiction/Fantasy Audio Book of the Year.

A full list of winners in all categories may be found here.

Categories: Awards, Authors, SciFi & Fantasy

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