2020 Brave New Words and Hero Awards Winners
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl (Rebellion) won the Brave New Words Award, announced by Starburst magazine during Octocon 2020, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, held online October 9-11, 2020. Other finalists were:
- Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, Sady Doyle (Melville House)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Saga; Quercus)
- The Imaginary Corpse, Tyler Hayes (Angry Robot)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
- Rage of Dragons, Evan Winter (Orbit)
Judges were Matt Cavanagh, Rebecca Derrick, Ed Fortune, Jane Hanmer, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, and Russell Smith. Shawl will receive a trophy in the shape of a robot.
The Starburst Hero Award for Literature, given “for an outstanding contribution to genre literature,” went to Jenni Hill. She will receive a leather shield trophy.
For more information, see the Starburst website.
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