2009 Locus Award winners announced
OF Blog of the Fallen —
Taken from the Locus Online site, with commentary to follow: Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow) Solid, unsurprising choice. I enjoyed reading this back in January, although it wasn't Stephenson's strongest work, in my opinion. Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt) One of my favorite 2008 reads and a novel that I gave up trying to write a review of, due to how many layers of connection and interpretation there are between ...
Locus Awards 2009: Winners
Variety SF —
List at Locus' site. Related: "best of" lists.
June 29, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... on Good PR & Bad PR. JM McDermott on Thinking More on the Falseness of Literary Fiction, sometimes. Mike Brotherton on Ten of the Dumbest Things in Science Fiction Film and What Harry Potter Didn’t Study. Richard Dansky on The Secret To Good Writing. Seriously. Wayne Allen Sallee on Yearn For A Dream. Juliette Wade on It's all about appearances... News 2009 Locus Award Winners. Jeff VanderMeer podcasts Finch.The wave of ...
Locus Awards
14theditch —
... as all the winners, who include Ellen Datlow for Best Editor, F&SF as Best Magazine, Kelly Link for her Novella Pretty Monsters, Ted Chiang for best story -- "Exhalation," and Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction for best anthology. Here's the entire list @ the Locus Website: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/06/2009-locus-award-winners.html *Screwed this up ...
Locus Award Winners
Big Dumb Object —
The winners of the 2009 Locus Awards have been announced. The full list is here. Anathem by Neal Stephenson won the best Science Fiction novel. For the short fiction "Pretty Monsters" by Kelly Link won best novella, "Pump Six" by Paolo Bacigalupi won best novella and "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang won best short story. So that’s Pretty Monsters and Pump Six on the wish list….
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SF Tidbits for 7/6/09
SF Signal —
... Steven Piziks has been added to BookViewCafe Lineup.
July 18 is Edmond Hamilton Day! [via Locus Online]
Simon Bradshaw has posted pictures from the Physics for Fiction event at Imperial College's Astrophysics Group, organized by Dave Clements with the support of the Science Fiction Foundation. [via Fred K.]
Ellen Datlow has posted pictures from Locus awards weekend. [Winners posted here.]
Jonathan Cowie asks: Is it possible to be negative about SF?
S.L. ...

