Archive for April, 2007

Time Rangers Links Many Stories

Apr. 2 —

World Fantasy Award-winning author Richard Bowes, whose novel From the Files of the Time Rangers was recently named a finalist for the Nebula Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book is a “mosaic novel”: The chapters are a series of linked stories.

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Hugo Awards meme

If you nominated for the Hugos this year, copy this list and bold the selections that you actually nominated. Underline selections that you’ve read/seen (or tried to read/view and gave up on, etc.) but didn’t nominate. If you’ve passionately dislike one of the selections, italicize it (in addition to underlining it). If you like, add a pick of your own to each category that you feel should have made it, by placing it in [brackets] at the end of each category list.

Novel:

  • Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
  • His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
  • Glasshouse by Charles Stross
  • Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
  • Blindsight by Peter Watts
  • [Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell]

Novella:

  • “The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko
  • “A Billion Eves” by Robert Reed
  • “Inclination” by William Shunn
  • “Lord Weary’s Empire” by Michael Swanwick
  • “Julian: A Christmas Story” by Robert Charles Wilson
  • [“Planet of Mystery” by Terry Bisson]

Novelette:

  • “Yellow Card Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • “Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth” by Michael F. Flynn
  • “The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald
  • “All the Things You Are” by Mike Resnick
  • “Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter” by Geoff Ryman
  • [“Pop Squad” by Paolo Bacigalupi]

Short Story:

  • “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” by Neil Gaiman
  • “Kin” by Bruce McAllister
  • “Impossible Dreams” by Timothy Pratt
  • “Eight Episodes” by Robert Reed
  • “The House Beyond Your Sky” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • [“Killers” by Carol Emshwiller]

Related Book:

  • About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany
  • Heinlein’s Children: The Juveniles by Joseph T. Major
  • James Tiptree, Jr. : The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
  • Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio by John Picacio
  • Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches edited by Mike Resnick and Joe Siclari
  • [no pick]

Dramatic Presentation, Long Form:

  • Children of Men
  • Pan’s Labvrinth

  • The Prestige
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • V for Vendetta
  • [no pick]

Dramatic Presentation, Short Form:

  • Battlestar Galactica, “Downloaded”
  • Doctor Who, “Army of Ghosts” and “Doomsday”
  • Doctor Who, “Girl in the Fireplace”
  • Doctor Who, “School Reunion”
  • Stargate SG-1, “200”
  • [The Amazing Screw-on Head]

Editor, Long Form:

  • Lou Anders
  • James Patrick Baen
  • Ginjer Buchanan
  • David G. Hartwell
  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • [Juliet Ulman]

Editor, Short Form:

  • Gardner Dozois
  • David G. Hartwell
  • Stanley Schmidt
  • Gordon Van Gelder
  • Sheila Williams
  • [Shawna McCarthy]

Professional Artist:

  • Bob Eggleton
  • Donato Giancola
  • Stephan Martiniere
  • John Jude Palencar
  • John Picacio
  • [Max Bertolini]

Semiprozine:

  • Ansible
  • Interzone
  • Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
  • Locus
  • The New York Review of Science Fiction
  • [Subterranean Magazine]

Fanzine:

  • Banana Wings
  • Challenger
  • The Drink Tank
  • Plokta
  • Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
  • [Sybil’s Garage]

Fan Writer:

  • Chris Garcia
  • John Hertz
  • Dave Langford
  • John Scalzi
  • Steven H. Silver
  • [Carol Pinchefsky]

Fan Artist:

  • Brad W. Foster
  • Teddy Harvia
  • Sue Mason
  • Steve Stiles
  • Frank Wu
  • [no pick]

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer:

  • Scott Lynch
  • Sarah Monette
  • Naomi Novik
  • Brandon Sanderson
  • Lawrence M. Schoen
  • [Cherie Priest]

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