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Nebula Awards Weekend
The Forty-Seventh Nebula Awards Weekend will be held Thursday through Sunday, May 17 to May 20, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, near Reagan National Airport.
We honor Connie Willis as our Grand Master!
To register, click on “Registration” in the menu to the immediate left. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Register” button.
Tours, workshops and panels are available for registered attendees (the number of people who can be accommodated on the tours and workshops is limited.) Active and Associate SFWA members may nominate works, until February 15th, for the awards to be presented at the May 19th Nebula Awards Weekend Banquet. Hour long interviews and readings will be recorded by Jim Freund for his Hour of the Wolf radio show broadcast on WBAI (99.5FM) in New York City.
Jon Williams is our Toastmaster (he will also conduct a half-day Writers Workshop on Friday morning.) Mike Fincke is our Keynote Speaker.
The Mass Autographing Session on Friday, May 18th will be followed by a reception to honor the nominees and other honorees.
You don’t have to be a nominee, a member of SFWA, or even a writer to participate in the weekend. Registration for the 2012 Nebula Awards Weekend is open now. The cost for the Nebula Awards Banquet is $75.00 per person. The cost to register is $50.00 for a SFWA Member and $60.00 for a non-SFWA Member until February 29, 2012. Rates for registration will be higher as the date of the event draws closer.
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-31
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
- Painful, we know, but the SFWA business meeting is at 8:30am in the Gold Room at World Fantasy on Saturday morning…. http://bit.ly/O9LYP #
- If you are up. We need one more Active member for quorum. Gold room on the ballroom level. Up the elevator, turn right. #
- RT @LAGilman: Interesting & useful discussion of Google settlement & legalities at #SFWA meeting. Worth getting up for. #
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WINNERS OF THE SPANISH IV XATAFI-CYBERDARK AWARD
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
WINNERS OF THE SPANISH IV XATAFI-CYBERDARK AWARD OF THE CRITICS OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE
Spanish fiction book (ex-aequo):
El mapa del tiempo [The Map of Time], by Félix J. Palma (Algaida)
El hermano de las moscas, by Jon Bilbao (Salto de página)
The finalists have been:
Rojo alma, negro sombra, by Ismael Martínez Biurrun (451 Ed.)
El hombre divergente, by Marc R. Soto (Grupo AJEC)
Spanish tale:
“Mosquitos”, by Marc R. Soto (in Marc R. Soto, El hombre divergente, AJEC)
The finalists have been:
“Lo más dulce”, by Santiago Eximeno (in Santiago Eximeno, Bebés
jugando con cuchillos, Grupo AJEC)
“El hombre divergente”, by Marc R. Soto (in Marc R. Soto, El hombre
divergente, Grupo AJEC)
Foreigner fiction book:
The Yiddish’s Policemen Union, by Michael Chabon (Mondadori)
The finalists have been:
War fever, by J.G. Ballard (Berenice)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, by Haruki Murakami (Tusquets)
The Terror, by Dan Simmons (Roca)
Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson (Omicrón)
Foreigner tale:
“The Index”, by J. G. Ballard (in J.G. Ballard, Fiebre de guerra, Berenice)
The finalists have been:
“Fever War”, by J.G. Ballard (in J.G. Ballard, Fiebre de guerra, Minotauro)
“The Ice Man”, by Haruki Murakami (in Haruki Murakami, Sauce ciego,
mujer dormida, Tusquets)
“Salmonella Men on Planet Porno”, by Yasutaka Tsutsui (in Yasutaka
Tsutsui, Hombres salmonela en el planeta Porno, Atalanta)
Publisher iniciative:
Francisco Arellano, because of Biblioteca del Laberinto
The finalists have been:
Mondadori, because of Miracles of Life, by J.G. Ballard
Menoscuarto, because of La realidad oculta. Cuentos fantásticos
españoles del siglo XX, (David Roas and Ana Casas, ed.)
Puerto NORTE-SUR and Libros del Zorro Rojo, because of the reedition
of ilustrated clasiccs for the young readers
Tusquets, because of Cuentos completos, by Cristina Fernández Cubas
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-30
Friday, October 30th, 2009
- Welcome to SFWA's newest Associate member, John Moran. Read his qualifying story. http://is.gd/4HMPK http://bit.ly/2lsvom #
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-29
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
- The SFWA board is in San Jose for World Fantasy. Feel free to stop me if you have any SFWA questions. –Mary Robinette Kowal #
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-29
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
- The SFWA board is in San Jose for World Fantasy. Feel free to stop me if you have any SFWA questions. –Mary Robinette Kowal #
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-28
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
- RT @wfc2009: New blog post: Last Minute Memberships http://www.worldfantasy2009.org/?p=1112 #
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-25
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
- RT @innsmouthpress: If you sent a fiction submission more than two weeks ago and have not received a hold or rejection notice, contact us. #
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“Angel Dust” by Ian McHugh
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
“Angel Dust” by Ian McHugh
July 2009, Clockwork Phoenix 2
Mike Allen, ed.
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-24
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
- RT @BrandonSandrson: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Gathering Storm just broke into the top ten on Amazon. #TGS #
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-24
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
- RT @BrandonSandrson: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Gathering Storm just broke into the top ten on Amazon. #TGS #
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