Awards

2010 Ditmar Award nominations announced

August 3, 2010
By alan

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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The nominations are in and the votes are cast

August 1, 2010
By alan

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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Patrick Stewart knighted

June 15, 2010
By alan
Patrick Stewart knighted

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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Ooh, right in the brand

April 15, 2010
By alan
Ooh, right in the brand

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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Australian Shadows Awards winners announced

April 6, 2010
By alan

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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“Battlefield Earth” officially the suckiest movie ever

March 29, 2010
By alan

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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My prolixity recognised at last

February 3, 2010
By alan
My prolixity recognised at last

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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Locus Online 2009 Recommended reading list

February 1, 2010
By alan

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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Aurealis Award winners 2009

January 23, 2010
By alan

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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Tweet and google word of the year and decade

January 8, 2010
By alan

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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