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asphixiapixia, and happy early birthday to dement1a. May both of you lovely ladies enjoy your best year yet, and many, many more!
'Tis the season for awards, and over the last few days, several honors have been announced (and Serenity won two of them!):
The Libertarian Futurist Society has named the winners of the Prometheus Awards:
* best novel: Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
* best classic fiction: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
* Special Prometheus Award: Serenity by Joss Whedon (This is only the fifth time a special award has been given since 1979, and it's the first time a film has received it.)
The winners of the Sideways Awards for Alternate History are
* Best short-form alternate history: "Pericles the Tyrant" by Lois Tilton, in Asimov's October/November 2005
* Best long-form alternate history: The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
And here are the winners of the Hugo and Campbell Awards:
* Best novel: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
* Best novella: "Inside Job" by Connie Willis (Asimov's January 2005)
* Best novelette: "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (F&SF October/November 2005)
* Best short story: "Tk'tk'tk" by David D. Levine (Asimov's March 2005)
* Best related book: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop by Kate Wilhelm
* Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form: Serenity (Universal Pictures/Mutant Enemy, Inc.; Written & Directed by Joss Whedon)
* Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form: Doctor Who: "The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances" (BBC Wales/BBC1; Directed by James Hawes; Written by Steven Moffat)
* Best Professional Editor: David G. Hartwell
* Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
* Best Semiprozine: Locus
* Best Fanzine: Plokta
* Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
* Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
* John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo]: John Scalzi
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. - Alvin Toffler
asphixiapixia, and happy early birthday to dement1a. May both of you lovely ladies enjoy your best year yet, and many, many more!'Tis the season for awards, and over the last few days, several honors have been announced (and Serenity won two of them!):
The Libertarian Futurist Society has named the winners of the Prometheus Awards:
* best novel: Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
* best classic fiction: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
* Special Prometheus Award: Serenity by Joss Whedon (This is only the fifth time a special award has been given since 1979, and it's the first time a film has received it.)
The winners of the Sideways Awards for Alternate History are
* Best short-form alternate history: "Pericles the Tyrant" by Lois Tilton, in Asimov's October/November 2005
* Best long-form alternate history: The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
And here are the winners of the Hugo and Campbell Awards:
* Best novel: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
* Best novella: "Inside Job" by Connie Willis (Asimov's January 2005)
* Best novelette: "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (F&SF October/November 2005)
* Best short story: "Tk'tk'tk" by David D. Levine (Asimov's March 2005)
* Best related book: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop by Kate Wilhelm
* Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form: Serenity (Universal Pictures/Mutant Enemy, Inc.; Written & Directed by Joss Whedon)
* Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form: Doctor Who: "The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances" (BBC Wales/BBC1; Directed by James Hawes; Written by Steven Moffat)
* Best Professional Editor: David G. Hartwell
* Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
* Best Semiprozine: Locus
* Best Fanzine: Plokta
* Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford
* Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
* John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [Not a Hugo]: John Scalzi
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. - Alvin Toffler