Bram Stoker Awards Winners

Winners of this year's Bram Stoker Awards for superior achievement in horror were announced Saturday evening, June 5, at a banquet at the Horror Writers Association annual meeting in Hollywood, California. (Nominations)

novel

Bag of Bones, Stephen King (Scribner)

first novel

Dawn Song, Michael Marano (Tor)

long fiction

"Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff", Peter Straub (Murder For Revenge Otto Penzler, ed., Delacorte)

short fiction

"The Dead Boy at Your Window", Bruce Holland Rogers (The North American Review Nov/Dec 1998)

fiction collection

Black Butterflies, John Shirley (Mark V. Ziesing)

anthology

Horrors! 365 Scary Stories Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (Barnes & Noble)

nonfiction

DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5 #1-50, Paula Guran, ed. (DarkEcho)

comic book, graphic novel, or other illustrated narrative

no award

screenplay [tie]

Dark City, Alex Proyas

Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon

work for younger readers

"Bigger Than Death", Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Mar 1998)

other media

no award

life achievement

Ramsey Campbell

life achievement

Roger Corman

specialty press award

Barry Hoffman, Gauntlet Press

(Mon 7 Jun 1999)

Prix Tour Eiffel

Results of the Eiffel Tower Award were announced June 1 at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The winner was Etoiles Mourantes (''Dying Stars'') by Ayerdhal and Jean-Claude Dunyach, published by Editions J'ai lu. The winners receive a prize of 100,000 French francs (approximately $17,000).

Honorable mentions were given to Serge Lehman for Aucune Etoile Aussi Lointaine ("No Star So Far Away", J'ai lu), Roland C. Wagner for Le Chant du Cosmos ("Song of the Cosmos", L'Atalante) and Maurice G. Dantec for Babylon Babies (Gallimard). There was no short story prize this year.

(Mon 7 Jun 1999)

Robert Sobel Dies

Author and business historian Robert Sobel died Wednesday, June 2 in Long Beach, NY at the age of 68. He was a newspaper columnist, author or editor of more than 50 books, and a professor for 40 years at New York's Hofstra University. He wrote one work of genre interest, the alternate history novel For Want of a Nail...; If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga (Macmillan 1972; Greenhill 1997), which was given a Special Achievement Sidewise Award in 1998.

(Mon 7 Jun 1999)

Spectrum Awards Finalists

Finalists for the Gaylactic Network Spectrum Awards have been announced. The Spectrum Awards honor works in science fiction, fantasy and horror that deal positively with gay characters, themes and issues. Winners will be announced at Gaylaxicon: 1999, October 8-11, in Arlington, Virginia.

novel

Accidental Creatures, Anne Harris (Tor)

Dark Water's Embrace, Stephen Leigh (Avon Eos)

Halfway Human, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Avon Eos)

Maximum Light, Nancy Kress (Tor)

The Painter Knight, Fiona Patton (DAW)

other work

Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction Nicola Griffith & Stephen Pagel, eds. (Overlook)

Gods and Monsters (Renaissance Pictures)

Things Invisible to See, Lawrence Schimel, ed. (Circlet/Ultra Violet Library)

hall of fame

China Mountain Zhang Maureen F. McHugh

The Drag Queen of Elfland Lawrence Schimel

Secret Matter Toby Johnson

Shadow Man Melissa Scott

Uranian Worlds Lyn Paleo & Eric Garber

(Mon 7 Jun 1999)

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