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ICFA-33 Survey

Hope everyone has recovered from ICFA-33! It’s always so wonderful to get together each year and so hard to get back to our everyday lives sometimes. We’re so excited at how many of you were able to join us this[...]

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2011 BSFA Award Winners

The 2011 BSFA Award Winners were announced at 2012 Eastercon last weekend. Congratulations everyone! Novel: The Islanders, Christopher Priest (Gollancz) Short Fiction: ‘The Copenhagen Interpretation’, Paul Cornell (Asimov’s July 2011) Artwork: Cover of Ian Whates’s The Noise Revealed, Dominic Harman[...]

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2012 Hugo Awards

Reposted from the Hugo Award site. Presented at: Chicon 7, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-September 3, 2012 Toastmaster: John Scalzi Base design: Deb Kosiba Awards Administration: Diane Lacey, Jeff Orth, David Gallaher, John Platt, Helen Montgomery Best Novel Among Others, Jo[...]

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2012 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced

It was announced on Friday, April 6, at Norwescon 35, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2011 in the U.S.A. is: THE SAMUIL PETROVITCH TRILOGY by Simon[...]

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CFP: 2013 Eaton/SFRA Conference

Call for Papers The 2013 Joint Eaton/SFRA Conference Science Fiction Media April 10-14, 2013 Riverside Marriott Hotel Riverside, California This conference—cosponsored by the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy (UC Riverside) and the Science Fiction Research Association—will examine science[...]

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2012 Prometheus Award Finalists Announced

The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced finalists for this year’s Prometheus Awards, which will be presented during the 70th World Science Fiction Convention over Labor Day weekend in Chicago. The Prometheus finalists for Best Novel recognize pro-freedom novels published last[...]

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The 2011 Bram Stoker Awards™

Reposted from the HWA blog: At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards™ at its annual awards banquet. This year’s presentation was held in Salt Lake City, Utah,[...]

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2012 Service to SFWA Award goes to Clarence Howard ‘Bud’ Webster

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America awarded Clarence Howard ‘Bud’ Webster the 2012 Service to SFWA Award for his outstanding work on behalf of the organization. Bud has had a long history in the science fiction and fantasy[...]

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Bill Clemente’s ICFA 33 Blog

A link to Bill Clemente’s conference blog has been added to the ICFA 33 page of the website.[...]

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Clark Award Short List Announced

Greg Bear, Drew Magary, China Miéville, Jane Rogers, Charles Stross and Sheri S. Tepper are the six authors shortlisted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK’s premier prize for science fiction literature. The six shortlisted books are: Greg[...]

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