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.

 

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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 Neil Gaiman'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 Ramsey Campbell
• Midnight Man by Simon Clark
• The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney and Graham Joyce
• Rain Dogs by Gary McMahon

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 Cory Doctorow's young adult novel, Little Brother (reviewed here), and honorary Canadian (at least according to his many friends here in Winnipeg) Nick DiChario'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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Ian R. MacLeod's novel Song of Time won the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom.

Ellen Klages received a Gold Medal in the Young Adult category at the California Book Awards for her novel White Sands, Red Menace.

The Sidewise Awards have released their shorlists for Best Long and Short Form Alternate History.

The Scribe Awards, celebrating Media Tie-In Writing have released their shortlists in all categories. Special congratulations to McNally Robinson Don Mills bookseller Don Bassingthwaite, his novel The Doom of Kings, was nominated in the Original Gaming category.