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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 2010-03-31
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
- Happy release day to @jay_lake and his new novel, PINION. #
- Happy release day to @jayewells and THE MAGE IN BLACK. #
- Without everyone voting, the possibility of ties increases (even 3-way ties). Every vote matters. Nebula Ballot: http://3.ly/hqwQ #
- Happy release day to @kenyonsherrilyn and Bad Moon Rising. Wisit http://is.gd/b7cKe for an excerpt. #
- If you've already voted in the Nebulas, great! Would you remind at least 1 other Active member to vote?11:59pmPSTtonight http://3.ly/hqwQ #
- @spitkitten Thanks for voting! in reply to spitkitten #
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Neal Barrett, Jr., named 2010 SFWA Author Emeritus
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
COCOA BEACH, FLA. – Neal Barrett, Jr., author of The Hereafter Gang, named by the Washington Post as “one of the great American novels,” and Interstate Dreams, recognized as an award-winner by the Texas Institute of Letters, will be honored as Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America for the 2010 Nebula Awards® Weekend in Coco Beach, Fla.
The moved was announced by SFWA President Russell Davis.
“I am very pleased and proud to be a part of the upcoming Nebula Awards ceremonies in Florida, and have the chance to talk to the people I respect the most—the writers who do the job every day that I’ve done since I could hold that blue crayon up straight,” Barrett said.
Barrett is known in the science fiction and fantasy world for works such as Through Darkest America, Dawn’s Uncertain Light and Prince of Christler-Coke, and a number of outstanding short story collections such as Perpetuity Blues, Slightly Off Center and A Different Vintage. Barrett has published more than 50 novels and 70-plus shorter works since his first sales in 1959. (more…)
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Quick Updates for 2010-03-30
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Member News
- Nebula nominee & former SFWA Secretary Michael A. Burstein is running for re-election for Brookline Library Trustee.
- Kate Milford: New blog posting, The Informed Nebula Voter, Part the 3rd: The Nebula Award Novella Finalists.
- SFWA member Livia Llewellyn‘s novella “Her Deepness” is live at Subterranean.
Industry News
- Do not put it off any longer. Nebula voting closes TODAY, March 30th 11:59pm PST.
Tags: Kate Milford, Livia Llewellyn, Michael A. Burstein, twitter
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Mistwood
Monday, March 29th, 2010
“An unusual, suspenseful fantasy that is propelled by well-placed clues.” -Booklist
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InterstellarNet: Origins
Monday, March 29th, 2010
“A wonderfully thought-provoking story … Lerner’s world-building and extrapolating are top notch.”
— SFscope
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Edward M. Lerner: InterstellarNet: Origins
Monday, March 29th, 2010
We are not alone. Now what?
Among Edward M. Lerner’s most popular novels are the Fleet of Worlds series of collaborations set in what colleague Larry Niven calls Known Space. Known Space brims with strange aliens and exotic locales, making it a great setting for storytelling.
But below the radar, Lerner has been constructing his own star-spanning stage. “Dangling Conversations,” the original InterstellarNet novelette — about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and First Contact — ran in Analog in 2000. Related stories appeared in Analog, Artemis, and Jim Baen’s Universe. Call them Tales of Un-Known Space.
But magazine issues go out of print, and readers kept emailing Lerner to ask where they could find one story or another. He has had no good answer –
Until now. Expanded, updated, and merged, five related stories have become a novel, InterstellarNet: Origins. Opening on Earth in an era much like our own, the tale rapidly expands into an open-ended star-spanning future history.
We are not alone. Now what?
Life changed for physicist Dean Matthews — and everyone else on Earth — the day astronomers heard the radio signal from a neighboring star.
First Contact brought more questions than answers. What were the aliens saying, and what did they want? What could humanity hope to gain — and what did we risk losing — if we replied? Did we dare trust one another? Did we dare not to? And who had any say in the matter?
By sorting out all that, Dean changed lives again. This time across two worlds.
And in the process he set the stage for crises yet more daunting that would bedevil his family — and an expanding number of interstellar civilizations — for generations to come.
EARLY PRAISE
“One of the most original, believable, thoroughly thought-out, and utterly fascinating visions ever of what interstellar contact might really be like.”
– Stanley Schmidt, editor of Analog
“Lerner mixes physics, computer science, and economics into a series of very intellectually satisfying puzzles. Some of the puzzles involve understanding the alien, and some depend on understanding ourselves … A very satisfying read, especially for the intellectually inclined.”
– Mike Brotherton, author of Spider Star
“Edward Lerner takes us from a first SETI detection to full scale interstellar net economics, with thrills along the way. No one had thought through what a working interstellar net would be like. Lerner has the professional heft to make sense of it, tell a story, and make us care. Good stuff, told in clear, quick prose. A groundbreaking job!”
– Gregory Benford, author of Timescape
“A wonderfully thought-provoking story … Lerner’s world-building and extrapolating are top notch.”
– SFScope
Edward M. Lerner is a member of SFWA.
Edward M. Lerner’s website: www.sfwa.org/members/lerner/
Edward M. Lerner’s blog: http://edward-m-lerner.blogspot.com/
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New from Norilana – SOUNDS AND FURIES by Tanith Lee
Monday, March 29th, 2010
Norilana Books is proud to present Sounds And Furies by the 2009 Grand Master of Horror, Tanith Lee . . .
SOUNDS AND FURIES by Tanith Lee
Sounds and Furies collects seven singular, gorgeous tales of lingering atmospheric horror from the masterful pen of Tanith Lee.
These seven faces of darkness cast a wide shadow and burrow deep within…
The collection includes six short stories and a full-length novella The Isle Is Full of Noises.
Table of Contents
“Where All Things Perish”
“Midday People”
“Cold Fire”
“Crying in the Rain”
“We All Fall Down”
“The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald”
“The Isle is Full of Noises” (novella)
Tanith Lee is the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost 300 short stories, plus 4 radio plays (broadcast by the BBC) and 2 scripts for the TV cult UK SF series Blake’s 7. Her work, which has been translated into over 17 languages, ranges through fantasy, SF, gothic, YA and children’s books, contemporary, historical and detective novels, and horror. She was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror 2009. Major awards include the August Derleth Award for Death’s Master, the second book in the Flat Earth series.
SOUNDS AND FURIES by Tanith Lee
TaLeKa (an imprint of Norilana Books)
March 1, 2010
246 pages
Trade Hardcover – First Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-059-4
ISBN-10: 1-60762-059-6
Retail Price: $23.95 USD – £16.50 GBP
Trade Paperback Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-060-0
ISBN-10: 1-60762-060-X
Retail Price: $11.95 USD – £9.50 GBP
http://www.norilana.com/norilana-taleka.htm#saf
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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 260 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women’s fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/
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Caselberg and Brenchley Join Book View Cafe
Monday, March 29th, 2010
On Wednesday, March 24th, Book View Café welcomed Jay Caselberg as its newest member. Caselberg is an Australian author currently based in Germany.
When not writing, he can be found in various countries around the world for his dayjob. His four volume future noir series appeared from Roc Books, but he also has many short fiction appearances in venues such as Interzone, Aurealis, The Third Alternative, Polyphony, Electric Velocipede and many others. He is more inclined to depict himself as a short fiction writer who just happens to write novels.
For his debut, Caselberg is offering chapter one from his novel Binary. Watch for subsequent chapters from Caselberg on Wednesdays at http://www.bookviewcafe.com.
Visit Caselberg’s bookshelf at BookViewCafe.com at http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Jay-Caselberg/
where you can also find his short story “The Cabinet,” and his novelette “Iridescence.”
On Thursday, March 11, Book View Café welcomed Chaz Brenchley as its newest member. Brenchley is the author of nine thrillers, most recently Shelter, and two major fantasy series: The Books of Outremer, based on the world of the Crusades, and Selling Water by the River, set in an alternate Ottoman Istanbul. As Daniel Fox, he has published Dragon in Chains and now Jade Man’s Skin, the first volumes of a Chinese-influenced fantasy series. A winner of the British Fantasy Award, he has also published three books for children and more than 500 short stories in various genres. His time as Crimewriter-in-Residence at the St Peter’s Riverside Sculpture Project in Sunderland resulted in the collection Blood Waters. His first play, A Cold Coming, was performed and then toured in 2007. He is a prizewinning ex-poet, and has been writer in residence at the University of Northumbria, as well as tutoring their MA in Creative Writing. He was Northern Writer of the Year 2000, and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne with two squabbling cats and a famous teddy bear.
For his debut, Brenchley is offering chapter one of his ’90s novel, DEAD OF LIGHT. Subsequent chapters of the novel will be posted every Thursday at http://www.bookviewcafe.com.
Visit Brenchley’s bookshelf at BookViewCafe.com:
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Chaz-Brenchley-Bookshelf/
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Nebula Voting Closes TOMORROW
Monday, March 29th, 2010
SFWA Active members, tomorrow is the last day to vote for the Nebula Awards. You may do that online with the Nebula final ballot. Your vote must be received by Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 11:59pm PST in order to be counted.
Please vote, and then help us encourage other members to vote as well.
Don’t forget to register for the Nebula Awards Weekend!
If you haven’t yet, you may read the Nebula Nominated Fiction in the members’ only Discussion Forum.
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Quick Updates for 2010-03-29
Monday, March 29th, 2010
- Nebula nominee & former SFWA Secretary Michael A. Burstein is running for re-election for Brookline Library Trustee http://is.gd/b37yg #
- I will be away from the computer so if you have news DM me to be sure I get it and can retweet you. #
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