Mythopoeic Awards: 2009 Finalists
Fantasy hard-hitters Neil Gaiman, Ursula K LeGuin, Gene Wolfe, Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett are amongst the finalists for the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards, announced yesterday.
The awards are given by the Mythopeoic Society, a non-profit organisation promoting ’study, discussion and enjoyment of fantastic and mythic literature’.
Nominees for the Scholarship Awards, which reward study of fantasy literature, are especially interesting to note. Mostly because they’ve just listed lots more things to go on my reading list!
The finalists, in full, are:
Adult Literature
Carol Berg, Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone (Roc)
Daryl Gregory, Pandemonium (Del Rey)
Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (Harcourt)
Patricia A. McKillip, The [...]
Hugo Nominations: Best Novel 2009
The nominations for this year’s Hugo award for best novel are:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
For once, I’ve read all of these. The Scalzi, Stross and Doctorow stories fall more under science fiction. Well, more or less. Anathem is very hard to place, and I’m willing to call it “speculative”, and not try to pin it down any further. The Graveyard Book is definitely fantasy. So I’m better informed than in [...]
Twitter Tidbits
Twitter is a wonderful tool, not only as communication between friends but as a way to grab important and unimportant tidbits from the people you admire.
Terry Prattchet (@terryandrob):
Okay, that’s it. We’ve just reached the end of Unseen Academicals. THE END. Now all we’ve got to do is go back and do all the back-filling.
Unseen Academicals is the 37th (yes, you read that correctly) Discworld novel, and is scheduled to be released on October 8. The fact that I have read all the previous 36 might indicate just how talented Pratchett is.
Hugo Awards (@TheHugoAwards):
Hugo Award Voting Opens http://www.thehugoawards.org/?p=533
The Hugo Awards is [...]
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