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2030 Edmonton Worldcon Bid

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Edmonton (AKA ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ / Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Canada has announced a bid to host the 88th World Science Fiction Convention in 2030.

Northern Alberta Science Fiction Society chair Mike Johnson said, “Edmonton is one of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing cities. It’s bubbling with ideas, creativity, diversity, and a can-do attitude. It has an energy that I think science fiction fans from around the globe will find themselves aligned with.”

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2024 Salam Award Winners

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The winner, finalists, and honorable mentions for the 2024 Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction have been announced.

The winner is “A Shrine by the Sea” by Syed Zain Haroon. Finalists are “The Shopkeeper’s Remedy” by Manahil Bandukwala and “The 11th Wish” by Raazia Sajid. Honorable mentions are “On the Moonglow Road” by Ramsha Farooq Raja and “Hexes on Exes” by Zuha Siddiqui.

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2024 Fishing Fortress Awards Winners

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The winners of the second Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Awards, honoring the best in Chinese SF writing, were announced on November 9, 2024.

Sci-Fi Master Achievement

  • Han Song

Sci-Fi Promoter Achievement

  • San Feng

Sci-Fi Educator Achievement

  • Li Guangyi

Sci-Fi Publisher Achievement

  • Yang Feng

Sci-Fi Translator Achievement

  • Li Keqin

Sci-Fi Academy Award

  • Yan Feng

Marco Polo Award

  • Francesco Verso

Best Novel

  • Once Upon a Time in Nanjing, Tianrui Shuofu

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Harvey Wins 2024 Booker Prize

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Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape; Grove Atlantic US) is the winner of the 2024 Man Booker Prize. It depicts the lives of astronauts, and is “the first Booker Prize-winning book set in space.”

This year’s shortlist also included James by Percival Everett (Mantle;Doubleday US).

The £50,000 prize is “open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.” This year’s judges

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2024 Prix ActuSF de l’Uchronie Winners

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ActuSF has announced the winners for the 2024 Prix de l’Uchronie. The prize is awarded to works of alternate history, written or translated into French and published between September 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

Prix Littéraire

  • WINNER: Noblesse oblige, Maiwenn Alix (Slalom)
  • L’Affaire Crystal Singer [Singer Distance], Ethan Chatagnier, translated by Michelle Charrier (Albin Michel Imaginaire)
  • Le Huitième Registre 1. Le Silène assassiné, Alain Bergeron (Alire)
  • Protectorats, Ray
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2024 Premio Italia Winners

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Winners for the 2024 Premio Italia Awards have been announced, honoring accomplishments in the field of Italian fantasy and science fiction.

International Novel

  • WINNER: Le navi d’ossa [The Bone Ships], R.J. Barker (Meridiano Zero – Elara)
  • L’archivio dei finali alternativi [The Archive of Alternate Endings], Lindsey Drager (Zona42)
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Fanucci Editore)
  • Fattore Rh, Charles Stross (Mondadori)
  • Project Hail
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2024 Ignotus Awards Winners

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The Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT) has announced the winners for the 2024 Ignotus Awards, honoring speculative fiction from Spain and beyond.

Novela extranjera (Foreign Novel)

  • WINNER: Mi corazón es una motosierra [My Heart Is a Chainsaw], Stephen Graham Jones, translated by Manuel de los Reyes (Biblioteca de Carfax)
  • Ascensión [Ascension], Nicholas Binge, translated by Gemma Benavent (Minotauro)
  • Hermana Roja [Red Sister], Mark Lawrence, translated by
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Cixin Liu Museum Opens in China

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A museum dedicated to science fiction author Cixin Liu has opened in Yangquan, China. Ceremonies were held on October 13, 2024, as part of Yangquan’s second annual Liu Cixin Hometown Science Fiction Culture Week.

Liu, author of The Three-Body Problem, The Wandering Earth, and other influential works, took to the stage with local officials. In his commemorative speech (reported here), he said, “I hope that science fiction can bring ...Read More

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2024 Prix Utopiales Awards

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The winners of the 2024 Prix Utopiales and the 2024 Prix Utopiales Jeunesse have been announced. The prizes recognize work in the fantastic genres published or translated into French.

Prix Utopiales (Adult Literature)

  • WINNER: Code Ardant, Marge Nantel (Les éditions Mnémos)
  • Aux ordres, Louise Carey (L’Atalante)
  • Sweet Harmony, Claire North (Le Bélial)
  • L’Ost céleste, Olivier Paquet (L’Atalante)
  • La Maison des Soleils, Alastair Reynolds (Le Bélial)
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2024 Caine Prize Shortlist

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Finalists for the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing, including several works of genre interest, have been announced, including “Breastmilk” by ‘Pemi Aguda (One Story 5/27/21).

The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and announced at an awards dinner to be held September 17, 2024. The winner will receive a £10,000 prize.

For more information, see the Caine Prize website.

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2024 Tähtifantasia Award Winner

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Kertomukset, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anu Partanen (Teos) is the winner of the 2024 Tähtifantasia Award, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year. Other nominees were

  • Babel, R.F. Kuang, translated by Helene Bützow (Teos)
  • Kellopelisydän, Vehka Kurjenmiekka (Aula & Co)
  • Tytär hämärän, piika pimeän, J.S. Meresmaa (Myllylahti)
  • Soturi sumussa, Gene Wolfe, translated by
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World Conventions News

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Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, to be held August 8th-12th, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland, published Media Release #10 on December 28, 2023, announcing editor and game devel­oper Tanya DePass as a Special Guest. For more, see their website.

 

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2024 Tähtivaeltaja Award Shortlist

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The five-title shortlist for the Tähtivaeltaja Award has been announced, honoring the best science fiction published in Finland. The award is sponsored by Helsingin Science Fiction seura (Helsinki Science Fiction Society). The nominees are:

  • Piparkakkutalo [The Candy House], Jennifer Egan, translated by Helene Bützow (Tammi)
  • Tällä tavalla hävitään aikasota [This Is How You Lose the Time War], Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, translated by Kaisa Ranta (Hertta)
  • Merkintä [Marking], Fríða
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ICon: Tel Aviv 2023

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The theme for this year’s ICon, held Oc­tober 3-5, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel, was ‘‘Antiquities’’, a perfect fit to the rich and long history of this country. It afforded an opportunity to a collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority, that had its own booth with artifacts and held workshops and lectures about the art of making mosaics and practicing archeology. It is also a theme that allowed for a ...Read More

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NATO Defense College Call for Submission

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The NATO Defense College (NDC) has invited authors from across Europe to “produce a short-written piece on the future of NATO” for inclusion in the forthcoming NATO 2099: A Graphic Novel.

In 2024, NATO will celebrate its 75th anniversary. It is expected that this milestone will lead to an avalanche of analysis on the last decades, and the possible futures for the Alliance. As NATO’s premier educational institution,

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Worldcon 2025 Site Selection Open

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Chengdu Worldcon has opened site selection voting for the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in 2025. The only active bid is Seattle WA, though write-in bids are also allowed.

Voting is open only to members “who have successfully purchased WSFS memberships and voting rights through the official website” of Chengdu Worldcon. Per the announcement sent by email, “Ballots sent in via postal mail or email must be ...Read More

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SF in India

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The Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies, Bangalore, India held the 22nd Annual/7th International Science Fiction Virtual conference on April 8-9, 2023. The student community occupied the central stage in organizing the entire event successfully. Provisions were made for streaming the session videos af­ter 12 hours so that the participants on the other side of the globe could watch conveniently online.

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Ekpeki Denied US Entry

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Nigerian author and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki was reportedly denied entry to the US when attempting to attend the NAACP Image Awards ceremony as a nominee.

Ekpeki said on Twitter today,

I’m alive, though I won’t say well, yet. Currently in Nigeria. I was detained for 3 days, & missed the NAACP Image awards. Been seeing the speculations. I’ll just say it’s way worse than anyone is says or thinks. ...Read More

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Publishing News

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Aconyte Books has a new sales and distribution partnership with Simon & Schuster Australia, covering trade sales in Aus­tralia and New Zealand, effective December 15, 2022. Aconyte Books is the book publish­ing imprint of games publisher and distributor Asmodee.

Macmillan’s “security incident” in June 2022 led to a data breach, as reported in a filing with the office of the Texas Attorney General. The in­cident “resulted in consumer names, addresses, ...Read More

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Manuscript Thief Pleads Guilty

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Filippo Bernardini, the Italian junior rights manager at Simon & Schuster UK who was charged with wire fraud and “aggravated identity theft,” has pled guilty to “one count of wire fraud in connection with a multi-year scheme to impersonate individuals involved in the publishing industry in order to fraudulently obtain more than one thousand prepublication manuscripts of novels and other forthcoming books.”

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said:

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Giger And Sorayama Exhibition

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NANZUKA is working with COEXIST and UCCA Lab to host “H.R. Giger X Sorayama: Approaching” from December 25, 2022 – March 24, 2023. The exhibition features 45 works from H.R. Giger and Hajime Sorayama, and is divided into “Surrealistic Explorations, Fear, and Fantasy”, “The Eve of Tomorrow, Between the Biological and the Mechanical”, and “Seeds of Pop Culture.”

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Petition for Chengdu to Drop Lukyanenko

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A petition has been launched on site AVAAZ.org calling on “the Board of Worldcon 2023” to “rescind the status of guest of honour from Sergei Lukyanenko….” Lukyanenko was announced as one of three guests of honor for the 81st World Science Fiction Convention scheduled to be held August 16-20, 2023 in Chengdu, China. The petition objects to Lukyanenko’s support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of this writing, the ...Read More

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2022 Xingyun Awards Winners

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The 13th annual Xingyun awards for Chinese science fiction were presented by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association on December 10, 2022 in Chengdu, China.

Best Novel

  • WINNER: The New New Newspaper Press: Shadow of the Enchanted Metropolis, Liang Qingsan (New Star)
  • Reset, Qidaojun (Qingdao)
  • Travel with My Dear Android, A Que (Aviation Industry)
  • The Times of Great Antiquity,  Su Xuejun (China Broadcast, Film & Television Publishing
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2022 Premio Italia Winners

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Winners for the 2022 Premio Italia Awards have been announced:

International SF Novel

  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Fazi)

Science Fiction Novel

  • Avrai i miei occhi, Nicoletta Vallorani (Zona 42)

Fantasy Novel

  • L’aquila nera, Claudio Chillemi (Delos Digital)

Collection

  • Odissea Fantascienza (Delos Digital)

Anthology

  • Temponauti, Franco Forte (Mondadori)

Short Fiction — Professional

  • “Il giorno in cui vinsi la guerra del passato”, Davide Del Popolo Riolo  (Urania Millemondi)

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ICon: Tel Aviv 2022

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This year’s ICon was the first major convention held in Israel with no COVID restrictions in force since the pandemic began, so it’s not surprising that it was themed “Awakening” – and it did indeed feel like things are back to what they used to be.

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Worldcon 2024 Site Selection: Glasgow

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Glasgow 2024 won the bid to host the 2024 Worldcon. The 82 World Science Fiction Convention will be held August 8-12, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Guests of honor announced so far include Chris Baker, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer, Ken MacLeod, Nnedi Okorafor, and Terri Windling.

For more, see the Glasgow 2024 website.

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