F&SF Wins Locus Award for Best Magazine
As the headline states, F&SF has won this year’s Locus Award for Best Magazine. That makes it seven years in a row we’ve taken home the honor. Many thanks to everyone who voted for us!
A complete list of the winners can be found here. If you’re curious about the history of the award, you can poke around through lists of the past winners here. Congratulations to all of the other winners!
Nebula Award Winners
Congrats to Ted Chiang, whose F&SF story "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" has won the Nebula Award for best novelette! Kudos, Ted–well deserved! If you haven’t read it yet, it’s still available on our website (and is still currently a finalist for the Hugo Award).
Here’s the full list of winners:
Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Novella: "Fountain of Age" by Nancy Kress
Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" by Ted Chiang
Short Story: "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler
Script: Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Andre Norton Award: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Author Emeritus: Ardath Mayhar
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: Michael Moorcock
2008 Locus Award Finalists
The 2008 Locus Award finalists have been announced, and we’d like to congratulate Gene Wolfe and Ted Chiang, whose stories from F&SF “Memorare” and “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” are both on the shortlist. EDIT: Congrats to Lucius Shepard too, who is also on the ballot.
We’d also like to congratulate Gordon for being nominated in the best editor category and…ourselves, for being nominated in the best magazine category. Thanks to everyone who voted!
Vote!
Don’t forget, today’s the last day to vote in the Locus Awards poll.
F&SF’s Hugo Nominees Now Online
Late last week, I posted about F&SF’s stories that have made this year’s Hugo ballot. Three out of four were already on our website because they’re also Nebula nominees. Now the fourth–"Finisterra" by David Moles–is available as well. Here’s a handy list with links:
Novella: "Stars Seen Through Stone" by Lucius Shepard (July 2007), "Memorare" by Gene Wolfe (April 2007)
Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" by Ted Chiang (Sept. 2007); "Finisterra" by David Moles (Dec. 2007)
2008 Hugo Award Finalists
The 2008 Hugo Award finalists have been announced, and I’m pleased to report that F&SF editor Gordon Van Gelder is once again a nominee in the best professional editor (short form) category, and that several F&SF stories made the cut.
Novella: "Stars Seen Through Stone" by Lucius Shepard (July 2007), "Memorare" by Gene Wolfe (April 2007)
Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" by Ted Chiang (Sept. 2007); "Finisterra" by David Moles (Dec. 2007)
Congrats to these authors, and to the rest of the nominees!
2007 Recommended Reading Lists
Dave Truesdale has posted his 2007 recommended reading list for short fiction over at Black Gate. Here are the stories from F&SF that made the cut:
Short Stories
“Red Card” by S. L. Gilbow (F&SF, Feb.) SF
“A Thing Forbidden” by Donald Mead (F&SF, Apr.) F/H
“PowerSuit™” by M. K. Hobson (F&SF, July) SF
“Cold Comfort” by Ray Vukcevich (F&SF, July) SF
“The Mole Cure” by Nancy Farmer (F&SF, Aug.) F
“The Tomb Wife” by Gwyneth Jones (F&SF, Aug.) SF
“Who Brought Tulips to the Moon?” by S. L. Gilbow (F&SF, Dec.) SF
“Osama Phone Home” by David Marusek (F&SF, Dec.) SF
“Don’t Ask” by M. Rickert (F&SF, Dec.) F
Novelettes
“Fool” by John Morressy (F&SF, Feb.) F
“Dance of Shadows” by Fred Chappell (F&SF, Mar.) F
“Wizard’s Six” by Alex Irvine (F&SF, June) F
“Lazaro y Antonio” by Marta Randall (F&SF, June) SF
“Car 17” by P. E. Cunningham (F&SF, July) F
“A Wizard of the Old School” by Chris Willrich (F&SF, Aug.) F
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” by Ted Chiang (F&SF, Sep.) F
“Two Weeks After” by M. Ramsey Chapman (F&SF, Oct./Nov.) F
“The Diamond Shadow” by Fred Chappell (F&SF, Oct./Nov.) F
“The Recreation Room” by Albert E. Cowdrey (F&SF, Oct./Nov.) F
“Urdumheim” by Michael Swanwick” (F&SF, Oct./Nov.) SF
“The Bone Man” by Frederic S. Durbin (F&SF, Dec.) H
“Finisterra” by David Moles (F&SF, Dec.) SF
Novellas
“Kiosk” by Bruce Sterling (F&SF, Jan.) SF
“The Helper and His Hero” Part 1, by Matthew Hughes (F&SF, Feb.) SF
“The Helper and His Hero” Part 2, by Matthew Hughes (F&SF, Mar.) SF
“Memorare” by Gene Wolfe (F&SF, Apr.) SF
“The Master Miller’s Tale” by Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF, May) F
“Stars Seen Through Stone” by Lucius Shepard” (F&SF, July) SF
Nominate!
Speaking of awards, the deadline for the 2008 Hugo Awards nominations is March 1. You must be an attending or supporting member of this year’s Worldcon, or have been an attending or supporting member of last year’s, to nominate. You still have time to mail in a paper ballot (which is handy in case you can’t find your membership number and/or PIN), or you can vote online.
The 38th annual Locus Awards ballot is also online. Voting is open to all. Deadline for is April 15.
Go and vote for your favorite F&SF titles!
Final Nebula Awards Ballot
This year’s final Nebula Awards ballot has been released. Congrats to all of the F&SF authors who made the cut:
- Kiosk by Bruce Sterling
- Memorare by Gene Wolfe
- Stars Seen Through Stone by Lucius Shepard
- The Helper and His Hero by Matthew Hughes
- Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter by Geoff Ryman
- The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang
- Titanium Mike Saves the Day by David D. Levine
Gordon posted the full ballot over on the forum.
