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Quick Updates for 2010-02-14
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Member News
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member, Julie Barrett.
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Daina Chaviano, author of “The Island of Eternal Love.”
- Congratulations to SFWA member Cory Doctorow who has been commissioned to write a story based on illo from Harris Burdick.
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member Allison Pang with a 3 book deal to Pocket Books!
- Congratulations to SFWA member Silvia Moreno-Garcia who sold the audio rights of “Jaguar Woman” (first print Shimmer, 2009) to Podcastle.
- SFWA member Cynthia Ward’s article “Fall Harvest”reviewing six Fall 2009 SF/F titles, is up IROSF.
Industry News
- Nominations open for 2010 WSFA Small Press Award.
Tags: Allison Pang, Cory Doctorow, Cynthia Ward, Daina Chaviano, Julie Barrett, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, twitter
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Quick Updates for 2009-10-01
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Resources
Agent Janet Reid has a good list of questions to ask a prospective agent.
Member News
- Welcome to SFWA’s newest Active member, Marie-Claude Bourque and her book Ancient Whispers.
- In an interview at io9, Cory Doctorow Talks About the Future of the Novel, Including His Own
- The October issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by SFWA member Kij Johnson.
- Happy Book Release day to Gail Carriger whose novel hit the stores today.
- Congratulations to Alethea Kontis who sold her short story “Diary of a Ghost’s Mistress” to Shroud Publishing.
- Check out the interview with Tim Pratt as one of “21 Authors to Keep an Eye On”
- Congratulations to Laura Anne Gilman who has sold audio rights to to Tantor Audiobooks.
- Blog Talk Radio interviewed Brandon Sanderson
- The Barnes and Nobel Book Club features by Paolo Bacigalupi saying it’s “nothing short of an instant dystopian classic.”
Industry News
- Sourcebooks announces new YA imprint.
- Lawsuit against Scribd challenges copyright filtering technology intended to protect against infringement.
Tags: Alethea Kontis, Brandon Sanderson, Cory Doctorow, Gail Carriger, Kij Johnson, laura anne gilman, Marie-Claude Bourque, new members, Paolo Bacigalupi, Tim Pratt, twitter
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SUNBURST AWARD ANNOUNCES 2009 WINNERS
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Toronto (September 28, 2009): The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2009 adult award is The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (Random House Canada, ISBN: 0307356779) and the winner of its 2009 young adult award is Little Brother by SFWA member Cory Doctorow (Tor, ISBN: 0765319853).
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a prized and juried award presented annually. It is based on excellence of writing and awarded to a Canadian writer who has published a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection any time during the previous calendar year. Named after the novel by Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction, the award consists of a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion which incorporates a “Sunburst” logo, designed by Marcel Gagné.
The Sunburst jury said: “An unquenchable thirst for story and a phenomenal command of his craft make Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle a reader’s dream. This ferociously ambitious, incendiary (at times literally) story of one man’s phoenix-like transformation at the hands of a woman, possibly mad, who claims to have known him for 700 years, is prepared to fall on its own highly charged imaginative sword at any time, but never does. Davidson manages to evoke squirm-inducing horror and abiding love with the same unblinking powers of observation and self-consciousness. As the relationship between narrator and Marianne deepens and her tale of their shared history unfolds, past and present converge in ways tragic and redemptive, and immensely satisfying.”
About Little Brother, the Sunburst jury said: “Many novels take a chapter or two to introduce the setting and protagonists and get the plot on the road. Not so Little Brother — it sings and zings from the first page, perhaps even the first line. Readers will immediately be swept up in the story of 17-year-old Marcus and his buddies, who, after a terrorist attack on not-so-far-future San Francisco, get caught in a government street-sweep simply because, well, they were there. So they must be guilty, right? After Marcus is finally let go, he decides that something needs to be done about this horrifying erosion of liberties and the scary world made scarier by the very people who are supposed to protect us. Besides, some of his friends are still, ominously, missing. Using his technogeek expertise, the Internet and every contact he has, Marcus takes on the school system, the government, Homeland Security, and anyone else standing in the way of freedoms both small and large. In anyone else’s hands this material might so easily have come off as preachy or even trite, but Doctorow’s superb handling of his protagonists and his plot turn the story into a nail-biting, heartbreaking, rollercoaster of a novel that will leave the reader anguished and sweating over the fate of its characters. Thankfully, the novel wasn’t doled out in installments, like Dickens, or we would all have been waiting on the virtual pier, begging to know what became, not of Little Nell, but of Marcus and his friends. A gem of a book — topical, well written, and not to be missed.”
This is Cory Doctorow’s second Sunburst Award; he won the 2004 Award for “A Place So Foreign and Eight More”.
The jurors for the 2009 award were Barbara Berson, John Dupuis, Ed Greenwood, Sandra Kasturi and Simon Rose. They selected five adult and five young adult shortlisted works as representing the finest of Canadian fantastic literature published during the 2008 calendar year.
The other shortlisted works for the 2009 adult award were:
Night Child by Jes Battis
The Alchemist’s Code by Dave Duncan
Things Go Flying by Shari Lapeña
Half a Crown by Jo Walton
The other shortlisted works for the 2009 young adult award were:
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
Dingo by Charles de Lint
Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural by Eileen Kernaghan
Night Runner by Max Turner
Andrew Davidson lives in Winnipeg. Cory Doctorow lives in London, England.
The 2010 Award jurors will be Don Bassingthwaite, Gemma Files, Susie Moloney, Ursula Pflug and Ed Willett.
For additional information about the Sunburst Award, the nominees and jurors, as well as previous awards, eligibility and the selection process, please visit the website at www.sunburstaward.org.
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Cory Doctorow on writing for YA
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Our sister site, Nebula Awards has an interview with Cory Doctorow up right now about his book Little Brother, which was nominated for a Nebula award this year. In the interview he talks about what it’s like to write for Young Adult audiences.
What were the differences between writing for adults and writing for young adults?
I once asked a young adult writer what she thought the soul of young adult fiction was. She said, “Being an adolescent is the state of perpetually going through these one-way changes, where you’re very brave, and you jump off cliffs. You can’t go back again. Like one day you’re someone who has never told a lie of consequence and then you’re someone who has. You can never go back and be that other person again.”
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the centers of our brain that govern risk don’t fully develop until we’re out of our teens. There was a court case last year or the year before in which a teen had done something very foolish, and part of the defense was that his capacity to understand risk was not physiologically fully developed. He literally couldn’t parse risk the way an adult would. I think if you could parse those risks, you probably wouldn’t take all kinds of momentous steps in your life. From a plotting perspective, I like to keep that in mind.
The only other big difference was that when it was all done, my editor said, you know Scholastic has some interest in distributing this as part of their book club. But they won’t do that if it’s got the F word in it, so do you mind if we just take it out of the two places where it is? And I said, take the F word out. No big deal.
There’s other good stuff in there and it’s worth taking a look at the full interview.
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2009 winners Campbell and Sturgeon awards
Monday, June 29th, 2009
We are especially pleased to see that SFWA member Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother has just been awarded 2009 John W. Campbell Award for the best science fiction novel of the year. His novel tied with Ian MacLeod’s Song of Time which is only the third time in the history of the award that the jurors have ended in a tie.
Cory also holds another important first. He is the first person to win both the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Campbell Award for Best science fiction novel.
The Campbell award is shared by Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother” (Tor Books) and Ian MacLeod’s “Song of Time” (PS Publishing). James Alan Gardner’s “The Ray Gun: A Love Story” won the Sturgeon award. The authors will accept their awards July 10 at KU and will be featured at the Campbell Conference on Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12.
This is only the third time in the history of the Campbell award that the balloting of the jurors has resulted in a tie. In 1974, Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama” and Robert Merle’s “Malevil” tied. In 2002, Jack Williamson’s “Terraforming Earth” and Robert Charles Wilson’s “The Chronoliths” tied.
via KU News.
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