SFX announced the winners of the SFX Awards at the SFX Weekender 3 on February 4. The awards are a mix of reader voted awards and awards given by a jury. The Elisabeth Sladen Award is a new category which was added in memory of Elisabeth Sladen. It will be given for contributions to children’s sf/f in any media.
Reader-Voted Awards
- Best Film: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
- Best Director: Matthew Vaughn for X-Men: First Class
- Best Comic: The Walking Dead
- Best Novel: A Dance with Dragons, by George R. R. Martin
- Best TV Show: Doctor Who
- Best New Show: Game of Thrones
- Best Actor: Matt Smith for Doctor Who
- Best Actress: Alex Kingston for Doctor Who
- Biggest Disappointment: No cameo for Stan Lee in X-Men: First Class
SFX Team Choice Awards
- Outstanding Literary Contribution: Brian W. Aldiss
- Screenwriting Excellence: Neil Gaiman for Doctor Who “The Doctor’s Wife”
- Breakout: Joe Gilgun for Misfits
- Living Legend: Brian Blessed
- Elisabeth Sladen Award: The Sarah Jane Adventures
- Lifetime Achievement: John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
- Hope for the Future: Dirk Gently
- Phenomenon: Merlin
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Genevieve Valentine’s debut novel Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti has been announced as the winner of the William L. Crawford Award. The Crawford Award is presented annually for a new fantasy author whose first book appeared during the previous year. It is presented at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, which will be held this year from March 21-25 in Orlando, Florida.
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Nominations are open for the Ursa Major Awards, presented to recognize the best works published in the field of anthropomorphics in 2011. Fans may nominate up to five works in each category until the nomination deadline of February 29. Voting will run from March 15-May 4 with the awards presented at CaliFur VIII in Irvine, CA the weekend of June 1 – 3, 2012.
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Editor Mark Leslie has put out a call for short fiction by Canadian authors for Tesseracts 16, the theme of which is Parnassus Unbound. Stories should have art, music, literature, and cultural elements that is central to the story. Stories can be a maximum of 5,000 words and the deadline for submissions is February 29, 2012.
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Clarkesworld, which was a bookstore before it was a magazine, has announced that it will be selling some of its still-extant stock in a short term sale ending on November 19. There is a $40 minimum purchase with $3.50 shipping and, according to Neil Clarke, all proceeds will go to fund the magazine.
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The beta text of the third edition of the Science Fiction Encyclopedia, edited by John Clute and David Langford has gone live. The editors note that additional entries will continue to be added and the current version is not final. The on-line version is sponsored by Gollancz.
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The Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition has announced the nominees for the 2012 Epic Awards for e-published books. Categories with nominees of genre interest are listed below. The winners will be announced at EPICon in March, 2012.
Anthology
- Dame Topaz Treasures, by Carrie S. Masek
- Dragon’s Lure, edited by Neal Levin
- Winter Wishes, edited by Angela James
Fantasy
- Psyche’s Prophecy, by Ann Gimpel
- The Sevenfold Spell, by Tia Nevitt
- Thief of Hope, by Cindy Young-Turner
Horror
- Pillar’s Fall, by Ben Larken
- The Death of Lou Grant, by David Halliday
- The Last Vampire, by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Paranormal
- Healey’s Cave, by Aaron Paul Lazar
- One Blood, by E.F. Watkins
- Piper’s Fury, by Rachel Firasek
- Revelations, by Carrie Lynn Barker
Science Fiction
- Crewkin, by Rhobin L. Courtright
- The Crystal Desert, by Catherine Wells
- The Immortality Virus, by Christine Amsden
Novella
- “Almost Heaven,” by Kimberly Gardner
- “Do Over,” by Mari Carr
- “Eagle’s Redemption,” by Cindy Spencer Pape
- “Hearts in Darkness,” by Laura Kaye
- “Jaq’s Harp,” by Ella Drake
- “Song from the Abyss,” by Margaret L. Carter
- “Stormy Wedding,” by Kelli Scott
Fantasy Romance
- Bound: A Faery Story, by Sophie Oak
- Knightfall, by Berinn Rae
- One Thousand Kisses, by Jody Wallace
- The Sleigh Maker, by Candace Sams
Horror Romance
- A Demon Inside, by Rick R. Reed
- Demon’s Dance, by Evey Brett
- Devil Music, by E.C. Stacy and Thia Myles
- Endless Lust, by Lexxie Couper
Paranormal Romance
- Blacque/Bleu, by Belinda McBride
- Capricorn: Forgotten Faces, by Vivien Dean
- Dead Sexy, by Paige Tyler
- Key of Solomon, by Cassiel Knight
- Mask of Ice, by Elaine Lowe
Science Fiction Romance
- Outcast Mine, by Jamie Craig
- Silver Bound, by Ella Drake
- Steam and Sorcery, by Cindy Spencer Pape
- To Kiss Or To Kill, by Jean Lorrah
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Independent bookseller Harbour Books of Dartmouth, Devon will be closing its doors at the end of the month after sixty years. The store was founded in 1951 by Christopher Robin Milne, who was the model for his father’s character Christopher Robin, who ran it until he retired in 1983. The current owners, Rowland and Caroline Abram, have explained their decision to close based on increased rents and more on-line competition.
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Phoenix Pick, an imprint of Arc Manor, is planning on producing a series of six books which pair an established science fiction/fantasy writer with a new writer. Each book will consist of two stories which may be set in the same universe or complement the other in some other manner. The project is being edited by Mike Resnick. Kevin J. Anderson and Mercedes Lackey have both signed on to participate.
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Jeff VanderMeer has announced that he will be publishing If You Lived Here, a look at the top 50 science fiction and fantasy worlds. He is looking for input from fans as to which worlds should be included. And fans can nominate worlds from literature , along with an explanation for why the world would fit into the project.
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