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:

 

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This Hidden Thing$19.50 add to cart

Manitoban literary achievement was celebrated April 17th at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain. Congratulations to all the nominees and award recipients.

• McNally Robinson Book of the Year: This Hidden Thing by Dora Dueck, published by CMU Press
• McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award, Older Category: Ortega by Maureen Fergus, published by Kids Can Press
• Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Prix Lansdowne de Poésie: Hump by Ariel Gordon, published by Palimpsest Press
• Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher: I Still Don't Even Know You by Michelle Berry, published by Turnstone Press
• Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction: When the Other Is Me by Emma LaRocque, published by University of Manitoba Press
• Best Illustrated Book of the Year Award: The Imagination Manifesto - Book Two by G.M.B. Chomichuk, with James Rewucki and John Toone, cover design and illustrations by G.M.B. Chomichuk, published by Alchemical Press Ltd.
• Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award: The Matter with Morris by David Bergen, published by Harper Collins
• Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author: High Speed Crow by Sheila McClarty, published by Oberon Press
• John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer: Michelle Elrick
• Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award: A Dog's Breakfast: A Chef's Guide to Healthy Home Cooking for Your Favorite Pooch by Jess Young, design by Relish Design Studio, published by Great Plains Publications
• Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction: The Matter with Morris by David Bergen, published by Harper Collins
• Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault: Lointaines par Lise Gaboury-Diallo, publié par Les Éditions du Blé

 

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Napier's Bones$15.95 add to cart

What if, in a world where mathematics could be magic, the thing you desired most was also trying to kill you?

Saskatoon author Derryl Murphy, a three-time Prix Aurora Award nominee, was kind enough to answer some questions about writing and his novel Napier's Bones.

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A Dance With Dragons$38.00 add to cart

The book fantasy fans have been waiting over five years for...will be on our shelves July 12th, 2011.

Author George R.R. Martin had this to say on his website:

Yes, I know. You've all seen publication dates before: dates in 2007, 2008, 2009. None of those were ever hard dates, however. Most of them... well, call it wishful thinking, boundless optimism, cockeyed dreams, honest mistakes, whatever you like.

This date is different. This date is real.

Barring tsunamis, general strikes, world wars, or asteroid strikes, you will have the novel in your hands on July 12. I hope you like it.

(For what it's worth, the book's a monster. Think A Storm of Swords.)

The dragons are coming. Prepare to dance.

And hey... thanks for waiting.