Broad Universe News

posted 7 July 2001

Eileen Kernaghan's young adult fantasy, The Snow Queen, won the Aurora Award for the best long-form work of speculative fiction in English. The award is given at the Vancouver Science Fiction convention, VCon.

Finalists have been announced for the 2001 Mythopoeic Award, honoring fantasy works published in 2000. Midori Snyder has been named one of the finalists in the category of adult literature for her book, The Innamorati. For children's literature, the finalists include Aria of the Sea by Dia Calhoun, Night Flying by Rita Murphy, Beast by Donna Jo Napoli, Growing Wings by Laurel Winter and Boots and the Seven Leaguers by Jane Yolen. The winners will be announced at Mythcon XXXII, Aug. 3-6 in Berkeley, Calif.

The Jazz by Melissa Scott is among the finalists for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for best novel of 2000. A Distant Soil, a comic by Colleen Doran is a finalist for best other work. Among the finalists for the Hall of Fame, which recognizes any sf/f/h work in any format released before 1998, are The "Blood" Books by Tanya Huff, The "Darkover" Books by Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, The Sparrow/Children of God by Mary Doria Russell and The "Weetzie Bat" Books (collected as Dangerous Angels) by Francesca Lia Block.

The Gaylactic Network Spectrum Awards honor works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues.

Six women were among the winners of the 2000 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement. The awards were presented May 26 at the Horror Writer's Association convention in Seattle. Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem won in the long fiction category for The Man on the Ceiling, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, eds., won the anthology award for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, Nancy Etchemendy won the award for best work for younger readers for The Power of Un, and Patricia Lee Macomber, Sandra Kasturi, and Steve Eller won the award for best other media for Chiaroscuro.

Two women are among the 12 finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and one woman, Ursula Le Guin, is both a finalist and an inductee into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Three men and one women will be inducted this year.

The finalists for the award include Ursula Le Guin for "The Birthday of the World" (F&SF June 2000) and Nancy Kress for "Savior" (Asimov's June 2000).

The winners of the Sturgeon Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year will be announced, and the new members of the Hall of Fame inducted on July 6 at the University of Kansas during the annual Campbell Conference.

Catherine Asaro has won the Analog AnLab Award for best novella for her work, "A Roll of the Dice" (Analog Jul/Aug 2000). The awards will be presented during the 2001 Millennium Philcon, the world science fiction convention being held in Philadelphia, Aug. 30-Sept. 3.

Also to be at Philcon are the winners of the 2000 Sidwise Awards, for works of alternative history, will be announced. Among the finalists for the long-form award are Mary Gentle for Ash: A Secret History (published in US as A Secret History, Carthage Ascendant, The Wild Machines, and Lost Burgundy) and Suzanne Allés Blom for Inca. Carla Pereira is a finalist for the short-form prize for "Xochiquetzal", translated by David Alan Prescott (Altair 6/7).

Heaven and Hell, new from Speculation Press, is a collection of whimsical stories about angels and demons. Edited by Winifred Halsey; stories by Susan Sizemore, Jody Lynn Nye, Michele Hauf, Jacqueline Litchenberg and others. (Of the 12 stories, 9 are by women.)

Empire of Bones, by Liz Williams, is due out in either March or April 2002.

Season of Sacrifice, by Mindy Klasky, will be published by Roc in January 2002. It is a stand-alone novel, unrelated to her award-winning Glasswright series. Sacrifice is loosely based on Cornish culture in the early middle ages and tells the story of five-year-old twins who are kidnapped from their fishing village and taken to an inland town where they are destined to participate in a religious ritual. The villagers mount a rescue party to save the children, only to find that the twins no longer want to be rescued.

Freedom's Ransom (Transworld/Bantam UK) by Anne McCaffrey is due out in February, 2002.

In March 2002 we'll see Ursula K. LeGuin's The Birthday of the World (HarperCollins), Holly Lisle's Vincalis the Agitator (Warner Aspect), and Juliet Marillier's Child of the Prophecy (Tor).

Laurie Mark's new book, Fire Logic will be published by Tor in May. In a war-torn land, Zanja, the last survivor of an extinct people, uses fire logic to open the doors of history.