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2009 Locus Award Winners
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday Jul 05 2009 11:38 am permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy


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.


John W. Campbell and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards Announced
by Chadwick Ginther - Thursday Jul 02 2009 4:09 pm permalink Post a comment
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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.


Enter to Win a Copy of Black and White by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge
by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday Jun 30 2009 1:03 pm permalink Post a comment
Posted in: Fun, SciFi & Fantasy


Random House, publisher of Black and White, was kind enough to donate a copy of the book for an internet giveaway. Email us what your code-name would be if you were a superhero (or supervillain!), and which of our four locations you'd like to claim your prize at.

(No purchase necessary. One entry per customer. In-store pickup only. Only Canadian residents eligible to enter.)

Read a review of Black and White here, and an interview with co-author Jackie Kessler here.


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