Awards

The nominations for this year’s Ditmar Awards are out. Some great names in here and some really deserving nominees. You’ll be able to vote online soon at http://ditmars.sf.org.au/2010. Best Novel * Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin) * Liar, Justine Larbalestier (Bloomsbury) * World Shaker, Richard Harland (Allen & Unwin) * Slights, Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot...
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Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the ballot for the 2010 Hugo Awards and all the votes have been cast. Now it’s just a case of counting it all up. There are some awesome nominees this year and some truly deserving ones. I’m looking forward to the announcements on these....
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It’s a particularly special day when the Captain of the Starship Enterprise is knighted by the Queen of England. From Levar Burton’s (Geordie LaForge) Twitter page, we get this exclusive picture: .
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So yeah, this does nothing for my personal branding. But it’s a very kind gesture nonetheless, and I’ll take it in the spirit it was intended. Maybe it can be beautiful in the way that arterial spray from a swiftly rent throat is beautiful. These things are little more than glorified chain letters, morphed...
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From Horrorscope, the Australian Dark Fiction Web Log, we have the winners of the Shadows Awards. There are three categories. The winners are: Long Fiction: Slights by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot) Edited Publication: Grants Pass, edited by Jennifer Brozek & Amanda Pillar (Morrigan Books) Short Fiction: Six Suicides by Deborah Biancotti (A Book of...
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This month, Battlefield Earth, an absolute bomb of a movie based on the novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, won the Golden Raspberry Award, or Razzie, for “Worst Movie of the Decade.” J.D. Shapiro, the film’s (first) screenwriter, who also wrote the screenplay for Robin Hood: Men in Tights, has subsequently written an...
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You know, it’s true that if you just crap on about rubbish for long enough, people will eventually start recognising you for it. You’ll become a trusted source of crap. Well, that’s me. The very kind Tony Noland over at Landless has awarded me a Prolific Blogger Award, after getting one himself. See, that’s...
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The latest list of recommended reading from Locus Online has been announced. You know I’ve been rattling on for months about Paul Haine’s awesome novella, “Wives”. Well, that’s on there, as is Margo Lanagan’s novella, “Sea Hearts”, from the same anthology. And, in fact, the “X6″ Novellanthology itself is listed. So yeah, you really...
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The Award ceremony happened in Brisbane last night. I was very sad not to be able to get up there for it, but finances are only so elastic. I was greatly heartened, however, to discover a great little Twitter party happening as the Awards were announced. I got to vicariously enjoy the ceremony by...
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Further to the interesting discussion following this post, I was interested to read today over at Visual Thesaurus that “tweet” has been named the word of the year and “google” (in its verb form) has been named word of the decade. Given that Google are actively campaigning against the use of “to google” as...
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