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WorldCon 2009

Congratulations to Montréal for winning the 2009 WorldCon bid [and I’m particularly thrilled as it’s only a few hours drive away for me :-)]. Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, Montréal, Québec, will be held Thursday 6 August – Monday 10 August, 2009 at Palais des congrès de Montréal. The attendees include:

Neil Gaiman – Guest of Honour
Elisabeth Vonarburg – Invitée d’honneur
Taral Wayne – Fan Guest of Honour
David Hartwell – Editor Guest of Honour
Tom Doherty – Publisher Guest of Honour
Julie Czerneda – Master of Ceremonies

More information can be found at the Anticipation website.

Devention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, will be held in Denver, Colorado, from Wednesday 6 August – Sunday 10 August, 2008.

Robert Jordan’s Passing

The death of Robert Jordan is making international headlines, so click on over to www.locusmag.com for the many links to obituaries that lament the loss of a key figure in the field of the fantastic.

Hugo Awards Announcement

Locus Online has information pertaining to the recent Hugo Awards, including such winners as Vernor Vinge (our Guest of Honor for the upcoming ICFA-29), Tim Pratt, Robert Reed, and Julie Phillips. The link is here.

For information on other awards, including the Chelsey Awards and the Prometheus Awards, please click here.

Alice Borchardt (1939-2007); Joe L. Hensley (1926-2007)

SFWorld.com has information pertaining to the recent passings of both Alice Borchardt (1939-2007) and Joe L. Hensley. The link is here.

IAFA and Facebook

My involvement with Facebook is, to put it lightly, a bare minimum; however, Stacie Hanes has been so kind as to establish the IAFA on Facebook. So, for those facebookers (is that even a term? what is the term for those actively participating in Facebook?), the link is:

http://kent.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2249636821

There’s also one for the SFRA as well (a little courteous plug to our fellow association). It’s at:

http://kent.facebook.com/group.php?gid=224968681

Finally, Kathryn Cramer has set one up for NYRSF at:

http://kent.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4719447319&ref=mf.

Awards Information Update

Locus Online reports Ben Bova’s Titan is the winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel published in 2006 and Robert Charles Wilson’s “The Cartesian Theathre” is the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of the year. The awards were this weekend at the Campbell Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.

In addition, the Rhysling Awards for best SF/Fantasy/Horror poetry of 2006 went to Rich Ristow for “The Graven Idol’s Godheart” (short poem) and Mike Allen for “The Journey to Kailash” (long poem). The awards were announced last weekend at ReaderCon.

For more information, please click here.

Fred Saberhagen: 1930-2007

Locus Online has news regarding the death of sf and fantasy author Fred Saberhagan. For more information, please click here.

Awards Information Update (Mythopoeic, Ditmar, and Lambda)

Locus Online has posted the finalists for Mythopoeic Awards as well as the winners for both the Ditmar Awards and the Lambda Literary Awards. The link is here.

Locus Awards Winners

Locus Online has its list of Locus Awards Winners, including Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End (Best Science Fiction Novel), Ellen Kushner’s The Privilege of the Sword (Best Fantasy Novel), and a variety of other awards. The link is here.

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists

As reported on Locus Online, the finalists for the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award are:

Ben Bova: Titan
Nick DiChario: A Small and Remarkable Life
David Louis Edelman: Infoquake
M. John Harrison: Nova Swing
Jack McDevitt: Odyssey
James Morrow: The Last Witchfinder
Justina Robson: Living Next Door to the God of Love
Barbara Sapergia: Dry
Karl Schroeder: Sun of Suns
Charles Stross: Glasshouse
Vernor Vinge: Rainbows End
Jo Walton: Farthing
Peter Watts: Blindsight

The award will be handed out at the Campbell Conference and Awards Ceremony in Kansas City, Missouri, July 6-8, 2007. Good luck to all the nominees.