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SF Signal: WINNERS: 2009 World Fantasy Award
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WINNERS: 2009 World Fantasy Award
SF Signal —
... The Drowned Life, Jeffrey Ford (HarperPerennial)
Best Artist: Shaun Tan
Special Award - Professional: Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (for Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House)
Special Award - Non-Professional: Michael Walsh (for Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books)
Congratulations to the winners!
See also: Past winners.
[via Locus Online and Science Fiction Awards Watch]
World Fantasy Awards
Et in arcaedia, ego. —
... create a sense of sameness. Not so with urban fantasy. As Jess Nevins points out in his excellent introduction, urban fantasy is "a mode of storytelling rather than a subgenre, and as such accommodates a variety of themes and approaches." This idea of variety, along with a willingness to publish new and established writers alike, helps explain the considerable appeal of this ambitious and entertaining anthology." --Jeff Vandermeer (in Publishers Weekly) And congratulations to the winners in all the other categories.
SF TV - Attack of the remakes
Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys —
... to take note. Morena Baccarin was Anara on Firefly and the movie Serenity. She was also a nemesis on Stargate SG1. I also just heard that The Prisoner is getting redone in a miniseries. It's on AMC and begins Nov. 15 starring Jim Caviezel as number 6 and Lennie James (Jericho) as number 147, the content villager who drives a taxi and has a family. It's supposed to have a more satisfying conclusion than the original. Here's the complete list of the World Fantasy Award winners. That's it for tonight. I have books to read, shows to ...
