The Utopiales Awards were presented in Nantes, France. The awards carry a prize of €3000 and are presented for works produced by Europeans and published in French in the year of eligibility.
Fiction
- Utopiales European Award: Biting the Shield (Mordre le bouclier), by Justine Niogret (France)
- Utopiales European Youth Award: Blood Red Road (Saba ange de la mort), by Moira Young (UK)
Cinema
Feature Films
- Grand Prix: Eega (Fly), by S. S. Rajamouli (India)
- SyFy Public Award & Special Mention: Iron Sky, by Timo Vuorensola (Finland)
- Special Mention : The Human Race, by Paul Hough (UK)
Short Films
- Jury Award: “Apnoe,” by Harald Hund, Paul Horn (Austria)
- Audience Award: “The Elaborate End of Robert Ebb” (“La Mysterieuse disparition de Robert Ebb“), by Francois Xavier Goby, Matthieu Landour and Clement Bolla (France, UK)
- Special Mention : “Robots of Brixton,” by Tavares Kibwe (UK)
- Special Mention : “Error 0036,” by Raul Fernandez Rincón (Spain)
- Special Mention : “Tvillingen” (“The Twin”), by Gustav Danielsson (Sweden)
Comics
- Utopiales Comics Award: Daytripper, by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
- Jury Special Award : Big Crunch, by Remi Gourrierec
Video Games
- Tie: Thanks for Playing and 2012 Game
Role Play:
- Best Screenplay: Victor Bret for War Hero
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Tags: Cory Doctorow, CPC, Dave McKean, e-books, EFF, John Scalzi, Kelly Link, Lauren Beukes, Mercedes Lackey, Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, SFWA EMT
Eight authors, including Cory Doctorow, Mercedes Lackey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, Kelly Link, John Scalzi, Neil Gaiman, and Dave McKean, are offering up a bundle of e-books. The books are available in DRM-Free versions for a donation which will go to the authors and a variety of charities. Six books by the first five authors are available to anyone making a donation. Two additional books by Scalzi and Gaiman & McKean are available to anyone who donates more than the average donation at the time of purchase. The titles included are Doctorow’s Pirate Cinema, Lackey’s Invasion, Bacigalupi’s Pump Six, Beukes’s Zoo City, and Link’s Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners. The addition books are Scalzi’s Old Man’s War and Gaiman & McKean’s Signal to Noise. The charities being helped include the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Child’s Play Charity.
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Several rare volumes of science fiction have been stolen from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection of the Temple University Libraries. First editions by Isaac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, H. P. Lovecraft, and Jules Verne were among those listing as missing as of August 2012. Anyone with knowledge of these volumes, or other volumes which may rightfully belong to the University, should contact Margery Sly, Director of Special Collections, at msly@temple.edu.
The winners of the Golden Duck Awards, presented annually by SupderConDuckTivity, were presented at Chicon 7. The Golden Ducks are given to recognize excellence in young adult science fiction.
- Picture Book: Earth to Clunk, by Pam Smallcomb, illustrated by Joe Berger
Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades: Worst Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure #2: Mars!, by Hena Kahn and David Borgenicht
Hal Clement Award for Young Adults: tie A Beautiful Friendship, by David Weber; A Long, Long Sleep, by Anna Sheehan
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Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe will release fifteen audio books in the Liaden Universe for download on September 4 to coincide with the hardcover publication of Dragon Ship. Kevin Collins and Bernadette Dunne will each narrate three books, Eileen Stevens will narrate four books, and Andy Caploe will narrate five books.
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The winners of the John W. Campbell, Jr. Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award have been announced. The actual awards will be presented on Friday, July 6 at the University of Kansas Awards Banquet. The Campbell Award is given for the best sf novel of the year. The Sturgeon Award is given for the best short story of the year.
- Campbell Award: (tie) The Highest Frontier, by Joan Slonczewski; The Islanders, by Christopher Priest
- Sturgeon Award: “The Choice,” by Paul McAuley
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The winners of the Gemmell Awardswere presented at a ceremony held in London at the Magic Circle headquarters on June 15. Nest year’s awards will be presented at World Fantasy Con in Brighton, which means the organization will be shifting its nomination and voting timeline next year.
- Legend Award (Best Novel): The Wise Man’s Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss
- Morningstar Award (Best Debut): The Heir of Night, Helen Lowe
- Ravenheart Award (Best Cover Art): Cover for Warhammer: Blood of Aenarion, by Raymond Swanland
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T. C. McCarthy won this year’s Compton Crook Award for best first novel for his book Germline. The award comes with a prize of $1,000 and the winner will be treated as a guest of honor for two consecutive Balticons.
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The nominees for the Gemmell Awards for fantasy have been announced. The Gemmell Awards are popularly voted awards. Anyone can vote by visiting the Gemmell Award website.
The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer:
- Prince of Thorns, by Mark Lawrence
- Among Thieves, by Douglas Hulick
- The Unremembered, by Peter Orullian
- The Heir of Night, by Helen Lowe
- Songs of the Earth, by Elspeth Cooper
The Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art:
- Raymond Swanland for the cover of Blood of Aenarion
- Didier Graffet and Dave Senior for the cover of The Heroes
- Frank Victoria for the cover of Oracle’s Fire
- Larry Rostant for the cover of Among Thieves
- Aaron Briggs for the cover of Journey by Night
The David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2010:
- The Heroes, by Joe Abercrombie
- The Wise Man’s Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss
- Blood of Aenarion, by Willian King
- Alloy of Law, by Brandon Sanderson
- Black Veil, by Kristen Britain
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The winner of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award for Best original paperback publication was announced at Norwescon on April 6. The Dick Award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust. This year’s judges were Scott Baker, Mark Budz, Roby James, Darrell Schweitzer, and Alice K. Turner.
- Winner: The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy, by Simon Morden
- Special Citation: Company Man, by Robert Jackson Bennett
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