Mon, August 10th, 2009
Hugo Award Winners Revealed
Posted by: Courtney
The results of the Hugo Awards were announced Sunday night at Anticipation, the Sci-Fi World Con, in Quebec. And the winners are:
Best Novel
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Best Novella
The Erdmann Nexus, by Nancy Kress
Best Novelette
Shoggoths in Bloom, by Elizabeth Bear
Best Short Story
“Exhalation,” (Eclipse Two), by Ted Chiang
Best Related Book
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Tue, June 30th, 2009
Too many extras make me extra moany
Posted by: Ian
Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go was far and away my favorite YA novel published in 2008, which is saying something considering the absolute murderer’s row of impressive YA novels unleashed last year. I’ve just finished the second book, The Ask and the Answer, and will have a review for it coming up in [...]
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Tue, June 30th, 2009
Bog Child wins Carnegie Medal; Locus Winners Announced
Posted by: Courtney
Last week, the UK’s Carnegie Medal for Literature (not to be confused with that other Carnegie Medal) was awarded posthumously to Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer three months after Bog Child was completed. With only three novels under her belt and a fourth on the way, Solace of the Road (to be released Oct. 2009), [...]
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Wed, May 27th, 2009
T.A. Barron: Not Insane!
Posted by: Daniel
In my interview with fantasy scribe T. A. Barron, he tells how, when he quit his venture capital job to write books, a partner tried to refer him to a therapist. Many striving writers face similar reactions when they make the plunge, and no wonder: it can be a quixotic quest, and all too often [...]
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Fri, May 8th, 2009
Nerdalert Friday
Posted by: Ian
Not content to be simply Likely Stories’ resident comics guy, I’ll also assume the helm of all things worthy of conventions, standing in long lines at conventions, and dressing up in costumes while standing in long lines at conventions. So, it falls to me to hyperventilate about tonight release of the new Star Trek film. Except, [...]
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Tue, May 5th, 2009
An Old-School Look for the Books of the Future
Posted by: Keir
Book-cover enthusiasts should stop by The Art of Penguin Science Fiction, where they’ll find an arresting mosaic of Penguin sf book covers; click on a thumbnail image and you’ll be taken to a detail page with a larger image and an interesting note about the cover or the author or, perhaps, the difficulty of defining [...]
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