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, 's Anathem for Best Science Fiction Novel and 's The Graveyard Book in the Young Adult Category. Lavinia by won for Best Fantasy Novel while took home the prize for Best First Novel with Singularity's Ring.
A complete list of winners may be found here.
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Canadian 's young adult novel Little Brother and '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, 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.
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'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 , 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.
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Nominees for the British Fantasy Society's 2009 British Fantasy Awards have been released. Good luck to all the contenders in competition with 's excellent young adult novel, The Graveyard Book, which has been gobbling up awards and nominations for young and old categories alike.
The Nominees for Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award):
- Thieving Fear by
- Midnight Man by
- The Victoria Vanishes by
- The Graveyard Book by
- Memoirs of a Master Forger by and
- Rain Dogs by
The winners will be announced at the British Fantasy Convention, to be held September 18-20 in Nottingham, U.K.
A complete list of nominees in all categories may be found here.
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The John Campbell Award, one of the three biggest science fiction prizes, has released its list of finalists for best novel. Among them are Canadian 's young adult novel, Little Brother (reviewed here), and honorary Canadian (at least according to his many friends here in Winnipeg) 's absurdist romp Valley of Day-Glo (reviewed here). Nick's first novel, A Small and Remarkable Life, was previously shortlisted for the Campbell Award.
The award will be presented at the Campbell Conference in Kansas July 9-12.
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