Free Fiction Friday: Gwyneth Jones
Gwyneth Jones, born in Manchester, 14th February 1952, writer. She’s the author of more than twenty novels for teenagers, mostly using the name Ann Halam, and several highly regarded SF novels for adults. She’s won two World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association short story award, the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night award, the P.K.Dick award, and shared the first Tiptree award, in 1992, with Eleanor Arnason. She lives in Brighton, UK, with her husband and son; a Tonkinese cat called Ginger and her young friend Milo. She’s done some extreme tourism in her time, still likes traveling but has given up on air transport. Likes going to the movies & playing with her websites. She’s a member of the Soil Association, the Sussex Wildlife Trust; and an Amnesty International volunteer. [via]
Jones has several pieces of free fiction on her website, including "The Tomb Wife," which appeared in our August 2007 issue.
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
Mar. 2008 Favorite Story Poll
March Acquistions
Here’s a list of the stories we acquired in March:
- Stratosphere by Henry Garfield (3000 words)
- Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi (13,000 words, 2nd serial)
- The Unstrung Zither by Yoon Ha Lee (8,200 words)
- The Price of Silence by Deborah J. Ross (9,200 words)
- Falling Angel by Eugene Mirabelli (3250 words)
- Run! Run! by Jim Aikin (3,250 words)
- How the Day Runs Down by John Langan (16,200 words)
Free Fiction Friday: Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shepard is the award-winning author of innumerable classics, many of which have appeared in the pages of F&SF such as “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule” and “The Jaguar Hunter” (which you can read online at Infinity Plus). And, of course, he’s currently up for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and Locus Award for best novella, for his F&SF story, “Stars Seen Through Stone.”
