DeepSouthCon 53 will take place in 2015 in conjunction with Contraflow 5 at the Airport Hilton in New Orleans from October 2-4. Guests will include Pro Guest of Honor Robert Sawyer and Fan Guest of Honor John Guidry. The current cost is $40.
Robert J. Sawyer has been named a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The Medal was established to mark the 2012 celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession. Recipients must have been alive on the Queen’s jubilee date, be a Canadian citizen, and have made a significant contribution to a particular province, territory, region or community within Canada, or an achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada.
Robert J. Sawyer received the Humanism in the Arts Award, presented for the first time by Humanist Canada at their conference in Montreal on August 4.
The English language Aurora Awards for Canadian Science Fiction were presented this weekend in Toronto at SFContario 2. The Francophone winners were announced on May 15 in Montreal. The winners are listed below.
Robert J. Sawyer will speak at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa on October 19. The free lecture will run from 7:00-8:00 and is part of the museum’s National Science and Technology Week.
Susan Dunman reports that this past Friday (May 29, 2009) the annual Audie Awards (think Oscar awards for audiobooks) were presented to this year’s winners. Congratulations go to Neil Gaiman for winning “Audiobook of the Year” with The Graveyard Book. Narrated by the author, this title also took the “Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12″ category. The Science Fiction category was won by Robert J. Sawyer for his book, Calculating God. The narrator was Jonathan Davis.