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The 2018 David Gemmell Awards shortlists have been announced:

The Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novel

• Fall of Dragons, Miles Cameron (Orbit)
• Assassin’s Fate, Robin Hobb (Del Rey)
• Red Sister, Mark Lawrence (Harper Collins)
• Scorched Shadows, Steve McHugh (47North)
• Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
  

The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer

• Age of Assassins, RJ Barker (Orbit)
• The Tethered Mage, Melissa Caruso (Orbit)
• Kings of the Wyld, Nicholas Eames (Orbit)
• Blackwing,

The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) has announced the shortlist for the 2018 Nommo Awards. All titles “are speculative fiction, were published in calendar year 2017, and are thought to be by Africans as defined by the ASFS and Nommo Awards Guidelines.”

• Our Memory Like Dust, Gavin Chait (TW Adult)
• The Real, Masha du Toit (self-published)
• Fever, Deon Meyer (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
• After

Winners for the This Is Horror Awards 2017 have been announced:

Novel of the Year

• WINNER: I Wish I Was Like You, S.P. Miskowski (JournalStone)
• Runner-up: In the Valley of the Sun, Andy Davidson (Skyhorse)

• The Devil Crept In, Ania Ahlborn (Gallery)
• The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
• Black Mad Wheel, Josh Malerman (Ecco)

Novella of the Year

• WINNER: Mapping The Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
• Runner-up: Agents

The finalists for the 2018 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year have been announced:

• “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue”, Charlie Jane Anders (Global Dystopias)
• “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance”, Tobias S. Buckell (Cosmic Powers)
• “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine”, Greg Egan (Asimov’s 11-12/17)
• “Sidewalks”, Maureen McHugh (Omni 11/17)
• “The Martian Obelisk”, Linda Nagata (Tor.com 7/17)
• “The Secret

The 57th Japan Science Fiction Convention has announced the 2018 Seiun Awards finalists (the Japanese equivalent to the Hugo Awards), honoring the best original and translated works published last year in Japan. The nominees for translated works follow.

Best Translated Novel

• The History of Soviet Fantastika, Roman Arbitman translated by Hiroaki Umemura (Kyōwakoku)
• Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel, translated by Chiori Sada (Tokyo Sogensha)
• The Adjacent, Christopher Priest, translated by Yoshimichi

Andrew Sean Greer has won the Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category for his novel Less (Lee Boudreaux/Little, Brown). The award, given for “distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life,” comes with a prize of $15,000.

The Pulitzer jury called Less “a generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and ...Read More

The Robert E. Howard Foundation announced the nominees for its 2018 REH Foundation Awards.

The Atlantean – Outstanding Achievement, Book (non-anthology/collection)

• AR-I-E’CH and the Spell of Cthulhu: An Informal Guide to R. E. Howard’s Lovecraftian Fiction, Fred Blosser (Black Stone)
• Savage Scrolls: Scholarship from the Hyborian Age (Volume 1), Fred Blosser (Pulp Hero)
• The Robert E. Howard Bar Guide, Bobby Derie (self-published)

The Hyrkanian – Outstanding Achievement, Essay (print)

• “Robert

“A Series of Steaks” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad was named Best Story in the annual Clarkesworld readers’ poll. “Sea Change” by Matt Dixon, from the June 2017 issue, won Best Cover Art.

For more, including finalists, see the Clarkesworld site.

The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) was awarded $50,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), announced April 9, 2018. The endowment is to “ensure the preservation of nearly 30,000 pounds of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia from author Ray Bradbury” under the lead of the center’s director, Jonathan R. Eller.

“The Center is home to more than 100,000 pages of published and ...Read More

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead) has won the inaugural Aspen Words Literary Prize, announced during a ceremony held April 10, 2018 at the Morgan Library in New York NY. The $35,000 prize is awarded to “an influential work of fiction focused on vital contemporary issues.” Finalists and winner were chosen by jurors Stephen L. Carter, Jessica Fullerton, Phil Klay, Alondra Nelson, and Akhil Sharma. Hamid will also be the ...Read More