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

The shortlist for the 2018 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2017, has been announced:

French Novel

• La Désolation, Pierre Bordage (Bragelonne)
• Toxoplasma, Calvo (La Volte)
• Le Temps de Palanquine, Thierry Di Rollo (Bélial’)
• La Société des faux visages, Xavier Mauméjean (Alma)

Foreign Novel

• La Bibliothèque de Mount Char [The Library at Mount Char], Scott Hawkins (Denoël)
• Bagdad, la grande évasion! [Escape from

Winners for the 2017 Kitschies, awarded to “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining science fiction,” were announced during a ceremony at The Star of Kings, London.

The Red Tentacle (Novel)

• WINNER: The Rift, Nina Allan (Titan)

• Fever, Deon Meyer, translated by L. Seegers (Hodder)
• City of Circles, Jess Richards (Hodder)
• We See Everything, William Sutcliffe (Bloomsbury)
• Black Wave, Michelle Tea (& Other Stories)

The Golden Tentacle (Debut)

• WINNER: Hunger

The 2018 Writers of the Future Golden Pen Award went to Darci Stone for her story “Mara’s Shadow”. The Illustrators of the Future Golden Brush Award went to Kyna Tek for his illustration of Erin Cairns’s story “A Smokeless and Scorching Fire”.

They were honored, along with the other 2017 quarterly contest winners, at a ceremony held April 8, 2018 in the Elks Hall of the MacArthur in Los Angeles ...Read More

Authors Lauren Groff and China Miéville are among the 2018 Guggenheim Fellows, announced April 4, 2018 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellowships were awarded to 173 recipients across 49 fields of study. “Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

The Foundation was started in 1925 and has awarded grants totaling more than $360 ...Read More

Finalists for the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction have been announced:

• On the Edge of Gone, Corrine Duyvis (Amulet/Abrams)
• Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit)
• Best Worst American, Juan Martinez (Small Beer)
• Void Star, Zachary Mason (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Using Life, Ahmed Naji (University of Texas Press)
• After Atlas, Emma Newman (Roc)
• Made for Love, Alissa Nutting (Ecco)
• New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
• Telling

Johan Anglemark has won the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) to travel from Europe to Worldcon 76, defeating Fia Karlsson and Helena McCallum (Adela Terrell). The fund is currently administered by John Purcell in North America and Anna Raftery in Europe. The 2018 TAFF is open to anyone “active in SF fandom” before April 2016. Worldcon 76 will be held August 16-20, 2018 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in ...Read More

The 10-title shortlist for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award has been announced and includes several titles of genre interest:

• Baba Dunja’s Last Love, Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr (Europa Editions)
• Human Acts, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello, Random House)
• Solar Bones, Mike McCormack (Tramp)
• Ladivine, Marie Ndiaye, translated by Jordan Stump (MacLehose)

The winning author, selected by jury, receives €100,000 and will be announced June 13, ...Read More

Walter Jon Williams announced that Joey Yu is the winner of the inaugural Terran Award scholarship, funded by George R.R. Martin to cover all tuition and fees (travel and meals not included) for one applicant to attend the Taos Toolbox writing workshop. Applicants “must be from from a country where English is not the primary language.” The winner was selected by workshop staff including Walter Jon Williams and Nancy Kress. ...Read More

Marlee Jane Ward has won the Down Under Fan Fund (DUFF), to travel from Australasia to Worldcon 76. The fund is currently administered by Paul Weimer in North America and Clare McDonald-Sims in Australia. DUFF is open to anyone who has been “active in science fiction fandom” before the start of the previous year. Candidates for a northbound trip must be residents of Australia or New Zealand. Weimer says

Delegates ...Read More

Winners for the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel Award were announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of New Zealand (SFFANZ). Winners were honored at Conclave3, March 30 – April 2, 2018 at the Surrey Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand.

Best Novel

• WINNER: Hounds of the Underworld, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming)

• In the Earth’s Embrace, J.C. Hart (Etherhart)
• Bastet’s Daughters, Lyn McConchie (Wildside)
• Tyche’s Flight, Richard

The winners for the 2017 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards have been announced:

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Rift, Nina Allan (Titan US; Titan UK)

• Dreams Before the Start of Time, Anne Charnock (47North)
• Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton)
• Provenance, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Best Shorter Fiction

• WINNER: The Enclave, Anne Charnock, (NewCon)

• “These Constellations Will Be Yours”, Elaine Cuyegkeng (Strange Horizons 8/7/17)

The 2017 Aurealis Awards winners, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, have been announced.

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• WINNER: From the Wreck, Jane Rawson (Transit Lounge)

• Closing Down, Sally Abbott (Hachette Australia)
• Terra Nullius, Claire G. Coleman (Hachette Australia)
• Year of the Orphan, Daniel Findlay (Penguin Random House Australia)
• An Uncertain Grace, Krissy Kneen (Text)
• Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Skyhorse)

BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

• WINNER: Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner

The 2018 Ditmar Award winners for Australian SF have been announced:

Best Novel

• WINNER: Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor)

• In the Dark Spaces, Cally Black (Hardie Grant Egmont)
• How to Bee, Bren McDibble (Allen & Unwin)
• Corpselight, Angela Slatter (Hachette Australia)
• Lotus Blue, Cat Sparks (Skyhorse)

Best Novella or Novelette

• WINNER: Girl Reporter, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Book Smugglers)

• “My Sister’s Ghost”, Kate Forsyth & Kim Wilkins (The Silver Well)

The 2018 Philip K. Dick Award winner was announced on Friday, March 30, 2018 at Norwescon 41, in SeaTac, Washington. The winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2017 in the US is Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Special citation was given to After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun (The Unnamed Press).

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually ...Read More

Finalists for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Worldcon 76, the 76th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA August 16-20, 2018. 1813 valid nominating ballots (1795 electronic and 18 paper) were received and counted from the members of Worldcon 75, Worldcon 76, and Dublin 2019. Nominating ...Read More

Finalists for the 1943 Retro Hugo Awards, honoring work from 1942, have been announced by Worldcon 76, to be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose CA August 16-20, 2018. They counted 204 valid nominating ballots (192 electronic and 12 paper) from the members of Worldcon 75, Worldcon 76, and Dublin 2019. Ballot information for individual categories has not been released.

Best Novel

• The Uninvited, Dorothy