Locus Magazine has revealed the shortlist of nominees for the annual Locus Awards, which honors the best science fiction and fantasy writing.
“The Peripheral” by William Gibson, “Ancillary Sword” by Ann Leckie, “The Three-Body Problem” by Cixin Liu, “Lock In” by John Scalzi and “Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance” by Jeff VanderMeer made the short list for the best science fiction novel of the year.
“The Goblin Emperor” by Katherine Addison, “Steles of the Sky” by Elizabeth Bear, “City of Stairs” by Robert Jackson Bennett, “The Magician’s Land” by Lev Grossman and “The Mirror Empire” by Kameron Hurley made the shortlist for the best fantasy novel of the year.
The winners will be revealed during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 26-28, 2015. Follow this link to check out the nominees in other categories.
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One Book One Twitter starts tomorrow. Here's a Guardian Article about it.
Tell people about it. If you're on Twitter, follow @1b1t2010, and bust out your copy of
American Gods. Remember that
http://frowl.org/gods is an excellent round up or starting place for
American Gods gods and geography. And remember that, as with any of these city-wide book clubs,
there are no rules. One Book One Twitter starts tomorrow but you can start reading whenever you like, jump in and out of conversations as you wish.
I'll try and respond to questions. I may try and do occasional "Okay, I'll answer all the #1b#t questions that come in starting now..."
....
...I'm in Cologne, right now as I type this.
So, in the blog before last, I went to Indianapolis and got the Kurt Vonnegut Jr prize for Literature. Then I got up very early and flew to Chicago.
There was a convention going on in Chicago, C2E2, and I'd been asked to do the first Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Evening With Neil Gaiman since the end of the Last Angel Tour a decade ago.
And I did. It was a strange, long day -- people had paid up to $250 for tickets (they were the "dream tickets" that the CBLDF sold, and those people also got a signing), and there were about 1600 people in the audience altogether.
I had to sign a few thousand things for the CBLDF, the coolest of which were the "In Reilig Oran" prints that Tony Harris painted. I did a bunch of TV interviews (looking a bit more tired and frayed than normal) on subjects ranging from Freedom of Speech to Online Privacy.
Jim Lee introduced me.
I read stories. I read poems. We had an intermission. I answered questions. I read some more. I said goodnight, over an hour after it was meant to have ended. It was good, and although it had a long way to go before it was smooth, it had raised many tens of thousands of dollars for the CBLDF. And that was good.
I don't know. You turn your (still extremely jet-lagged, just in the opposite direction) back for one moment and the tabs to be closed are already breeding...
First, the big sadness: Cody's Bookshop has closed completely. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/21/codys-books-of-berke.html
I've loved doing signings and events with Cody's over the years, thought they were special and will miss them very much. It makes me glad that Kepler's is still in business,
I'm a Hachette author in the UK and much of the Commonwealth. I see that, from an Amazon-selling point of view, this might not be a good thing to be.
I guess I'll start finding other places to link to when I want to point to books. Amazon is always the easiest way to link, so it tends to be the place I default to.
I got a bit puzzled last year when my name got left off the National Theatre of Scotland production of "The Wolves In The Walls" at the New Victory (it was there as writer of the book the thing was based on, but not as co-adapter or as writer of most of the extra lyrics). Still, I felt that things had swung a bit far the other way when I saw this article from Variety on The New Victory winning the National Award for Excellence...
Here's the second part of a two part interview with Alan Moore at the Forbidden Planet blog (where you can learn what he thinks about Gordon Brown being petitioned by the public for an honour on Alan's behalf ):
The door to Hell. It's in Darvaz in Uzbekistan.
Weird Tales is blogging an entry a day on its 85 weirdest storytellers of the last 85 years.
I was thrilled by
Sandman, the whole thing, being on the
Entertainment Weekly top 50 new classics of the last 25 years, and baffled why, when they did the entry on what the longest work on their list was, they only listed the first volume of
Absolute Sandman, rather than the whole thing. And googled to make sure that my friend Marc Bernardin was still working there to ask him (not that it's anything to do with him of course) and found myself reading this:
I met Miriam Berkeley on a plane in late 1988, on my first professional trip to the US, I think. She's a photographer who photographs authors -- here's an interview with her, along with some of her great author photos:
http://goodbooksguide.blogspot.com/2008/04/eyes-of-miriam-berkley.html
Hi, Mr. Neil!
Thought you might enjoy this:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/07672/I_Believe...
--Julia
That's cool: Turning wordclouds into art. I have to go and play with Wordle, don't I?
why do the characters in your children's book "The Dangerous Alphabet" look so very similar in appearance (hair color, eyes, clothing - even, somewhat, the shapes of their faces) to Al Columbia's beloved underground cartoon characters, "Pim and Francie"? The similarities are pretty uncanny. Are you and your illustrator very big fans of Al Columbia, or is it simply a very big co-incidence?
thank you for your time.
regards,
brent higginsI'm not sure I've ever seen anything Al Columbia's drawn, apart from a promo piece for
Big Numbers about 18 years ago, but I googled Pim and Francie,
found a picture, and can't figure out what they have in common with the brother and sister in
The Dangerous Alphabet apart from being male and female children, and his hair being lighter than hers. So it's a mystery to me too.
Sent some
pictures of me taken for Time Out Sydney...
And here's a scan of the
Entertainment Weekly photo page with my top ten on it. A photo almost unique in the history of pictures of me in magazines, for actually looking like me...
In my head
Eddie Campbell whispers, "Ah. Righht. Another picture from the Neil Gaiman School of Looking at You Sideways.")
...
STOP PRESS: "The Witch's Headstone" (which will, later this year, be Chapter 4 of
The Graveyard Book) won the Locus Award for best novelette. Thank you to all who voted for it, and to Gardner Dozois who accepted the award on my behalf. It's a really terrific list of winners, too.
From
Locus:
Locus Awards Winners
Winners of this year's Locus Awards, voted by readers of Locus Magazine in the annual Locus Poll, were were announced this afternoon at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Seattle, at an event led by Master of Ceremonies Connie Willis.
- SF NOVEL
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
- FANTASY NOVEL
- Making Money, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins)
- YOUNG ADULT BOOK
- Un Lun Dun, China Miéville (Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
- FIRST NOVEL
- Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- NOVELLA
- "After the Siege", Cory Doctorow (The Infinite Matrix Jan 2007)
- NOVELETTE
- "The Witch's Headstone", Neil Gaiman (Wizards)
- SHORT STORY
- "A Small Room in Koboldtown", Michael Swanwick (Asimov's Apr/May 2007)
- COLLECTION
- The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis (Subterranean)
- ANTHOLOGY
- The New Space Opera, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos)
- NON-FICTION
- Breakfast in the Ruins, Barry N. Malzberg (Baen)
- ART BOOK
- The Arrival, Shaun Tan (Lothian 2006; Scholastic)
- EDITOR
- Ellen Datlow
- MAGAZINE
- F&SF
- PUBLISHER
- Tor
- ARTIST
- Charles Vess
Advanced Reading Copies of The Graveyard Book have started going out. This is the first review I've spotted.
"The Witch's Headstone", Chapter Four of The Graveyard Book, is nominated for a Locus Award. http://www.locusmag.com/2008/LocusAwardsFinalists.html for the full list -- It would be an excellent reading list, incidentally: I don't think there's a book or story on the list that isn't readable, cool, or doesn't deserve to win its category.
They'll be awarded next month, on Saturday, June 21, 2008 in Seattle WA, during the Science Fiction Hall of Fame Awards Weekend. I was toastmaster for this a few years ago, and it's a wonderful event. https://secure.locusmag.com/About/2008LocusAwardsAd.html (Note that The SF Hall of Fame ceremony, inducting William Gibson, Ian & Betty Ballantine, Rod Serling, and Richard Powers at the SF Museum Saturday evening, will be ticketed separately. Also that some members of the Hall of Fame are no longer with us.)
Rebecca Fitzgibbon interviewed me when I was in Hobart a few weeks ago, and sent me a link to the article at http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23670222-5006544,00.html
Right. Back to signing Todd Klein's prints (in a purple ink called "Tanzanite") -- you can see what they look like, and learn about Todd's process -- at http://kleinletters.com/Blog/?p=1184.
Back to signing. I'll try and make the next blog post more exciting. Sorry.
By: Rebecca,
on 12/3/2007
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