2013 Nebula Awards Announced by the SFWA

Over the weekend the Science Fiction, Fantasy Writers of America came out with 2 firsts when it announced the 2013 Nebul Awards.

It named its first African American "Damon Knight Grand Master" ... Samuel R. Delany, a gifted writer who happens to be gay, and for the first time in the history of the awards all of the winners in the fiction catagories just happen to be women.
Here's a list of the winners and the nominees:

Novel

Winner: Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Nominees:
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
Fire with Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper)

Novella
Winner: ‘‘The Weight of the Sunrise,’’ Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 2/13)
Nominees:
‘‘Wakulla Springs,’’ Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13)
‘‘Annabel Lee,’’ Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun)
‘‘Burning Girls,’’ Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13)
‘‘Trial of the Century,’’ Lawrence M. Schoen (www.lawrencemschoen.com; World Jumping)
Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)

Novelette
Winner: ‘‘The Waiting Stars,’’ Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky)
Nominees:
‘‘Paranormal Romance,’’ Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed 6/13)
‘‘They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass,’’ Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s 1/13)
‘‘Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters,’’ Henry Lien (Asimov’s 12/13)
‘‘The Litigation Master and the Monkey King,’’ Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/13)
‘‘In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,’’ Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons 7/1 – 7/8/13)

Short Story
Winner: ‘‘If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love,’’ Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13)
Nominees:
‘‘The Sounds of Old Earth,’’ Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed 1/13)
‘‘Selkie Stories Are for Losers,’’ Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons 1/7/13)
‘‘Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer,’’ Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
‘‘Alive, Alive Oh,’’ Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Lightspeed 6/13
)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Winner: Gravity
Nominees:
Doctor Who: ‘‘The Day of the Doctor’’
Europa Report
Her
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Pacific Rim

Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book
Winner: Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
Nominees:
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo)
When We Wake, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
Hero, Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
September Girls, Bennett Madison (Harper Teen)
A Corner of White, Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine)

Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award: Michael Armstrong

2013 Damon Knight Grand Master Award: Samuel R. Delany 

2013 Special Honoree: Frank M. Robinson

The 2013 Nebula Awards were presented May 17, 2014 at the  SFWA’s 49th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend in San Jose, CA. 

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.

The 2014 Hugo Awards Nominees

The finalists for this year's Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced on Saturday 19 April 2014.
The shortlist announcement was streamed live from the UK to the web and conventions in the United States. The presentation can be watched again here: www.ustream.tv/hugo-awards. Our thanks go to Satellite 4, the British National Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon), Norwescon 37 and Minicon 49 for their support in making this unique event possible.
1923 valid nominating ballots were received and counted from the members of LoneStarCon 3, Loncon 3 and Sasquan. (1889 Electronic  and 34 Paper.)

BEST NOVEL (1595 ballots)

• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit US / Orbit UK)
• Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross (Ace / Orbit UK)
• Parasite by Mira Grant (Orbit US / Orbit UK)
• Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia (Baen Books)
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books)

BEST NOVELLA (847 ballots)

• The Butcher of Khardov by Dan Wells (Privateer Press)
• “The Chaplain's Legacy” by Brad Torgersen (Analog, Jul-Aug 2013)
• “Equoid” by Charles Stross (Tor.com, 09-2013)
• Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean Press)
• “Wakulla Springs” by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages (Tor.com, 10-2013)

BEST NOVELETTE (728 ballots)

• “The Exchange Officers” by Brad Torgersen (Analog, Jan-Feb 2013)
• “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal (maryrobinettekowal.com / Tor.com, 09-2013)
• “Opera Vita Aeterna” by Vox Day (The Last Witchking, Marcher Lord Hinterlands)
• “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang (Subterranean, Fall 2013)
• “The Waiting Stars” by Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky, Candlemark & Gleam)

BEST SHORT STORY (865 ballots)

• “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” by Rachel Swirsky (Apex Magazine, Mar-2013)
• “The Ink Readers of Doi Saket” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Tor.com, 04-2013)
• “Selkie Stories Are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons, Jan-2013)
• “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu (Tor.com, 02-2013)

Note: category has 4 nominees due to a 5% requirement under Section 3.8.5 of the WSFS constitution.

BEST RELATED WORK (752 ballots)

• Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It Edited by Sigrid Ellis & Michael Damian Thomas (Mad Norwegian Press)
• Speculative Fiction 2012: The Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary by Justin Landon & Jared Shurin (Jurassic London)
• “We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative” by Kameron Hurley (A Dribble of Ink)
• Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer, with Jeremy Zerfoss (Abrams Image)
• Writing Excuses Season 8 by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Jordan Sanderson

BEST GRAPHIC STORY (552 ballots)

• Girl Genius, Volume 13: Agatha Heterodyne & The Sleeping City written by Phil and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment)
• "The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who" written by Paul Cornell, illustrated by Jimmy Broxton (Doctor Who Special 2013, IDW)
• The Meathouse Man adapted from the story by George R.R. Martin and illustrated by Raya Golden (Jet City Comics)
• Saga, Volume 2 written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples (Image Comics )
• “Time” by Randall Munroe (XKCD)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM) (995 ballots)

• Frozen screenplay by Jennifer Lee, directed by Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee (Walt Disney Studios)
• Gravity written by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Esperanto Filmoj; Heyday Films; Warner Bros.)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire screenplay by Simon Beaufoy & Michael Arndt, directed by Francis Lawrence (Color Force; Lionsgate)
• Iron Man 3 screenplay by Drew Pearce & Shane Black, directed by Shane Black (Marvel Studios; DMG Entertainment; Paramount Pictures)
• Pacific Rim screenplay by Travis Beacham & Guillermo del Toro, directed by Guillermo del Toro (Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros., Disney Double Dare You)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM) (760 ballots)

• An Adventure in Space and Time written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Terry McDonough (BBC Television)
• Doctor Who: “The Day of the Doctor” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Television)
• Doctor Who: “The Name of the Doctor” written by Steven Moffat, directed by Saul Metzstein (BBC Televison)
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot written & directed by Peter Davison (BBC Television)
• Game of Thrones: “The Rains of Castamere” written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by David Nutter (HBO Entertainment in association with Bighead, Littlehead; Television 360; Startling Television and Generator Productions)
• Orphan Black: “Variations under Domestication” written by Will Pascoe, directed by John Fawcett (Temple Street Productions; Space / BBC America)

Note: category has 6 nominees due to a tie for 5th place.

BEST EDITOR - SHORT FORM (656 ballots)

• John Joseph Adams
• Neil Clarke
• Ellen Datlow
• Jonathan Strahan
• Sheila Williams

BEST EDITOR - LONG FORM (632 ballots)

• Ginjer Buchanan
• Sheila Gilbert
• Liz Gorinsky
• Lee Harris
• Toni Weisskopf

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (624 ballots)

• Galen Dara
• Julie Dillon
• Daniel Dos Santos
• John Harris
• John Picacio
• Fiona Staples

Note: category has 6 nominees due to a tie for 5th place.

BEST SEMIPROZINE (411 ballots)

• Apex Magazine edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Jason Sizemore, and Michael Damian Thomas
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies edited by Scott H. Andrews
• Interzone edited by Andy Cox
• Lightspeed Magazine edited by John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki
• Strange Horizons edited by Niall Harrison, Brit Mandelo, An Owomoyela, Julia Rios, Sonya Taaffe, Abigail Nussbaum, Rebecca Cross, Anaea Lay, and Shane Gavin

BEST FANZINE (478 ballots)

• The Book Smugglers edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James
• A Dribble of Ink edited by Aidan Moher
• Elitist Book Reviews edited by Steven Diamond
• Journey Planet edited by James Bacon, Christopher J. Garcia, Lynda E. Rucker, Pete Young, Colin Harris, and Helen J. Montgomery
• Pornokitsch edited by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin

BEST FANCAST (396 ballots)

• The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)
• SF Signal Podcast Patrick Hester
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show Shaun Duke, Jen Zink, Julia Rios, Paul Weimer, David Annandale, Mike Underwood, and Stina Leicht
• Tea and Jeopardy Emma Newman
• Verity! Deborah Stanish, Erika Ensign, Katrina Griffiths, L.M. Myles, Lynne M. Thomas, and Tansy Rayner Roberts
• The Writer and the Critic Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond

Note: category has 7 nominees due to a tie for 5th place.

BEST FAN WRITER (521 ballots)

• Liz Bourke
• Kameron Hurley
• Foz Meadows
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Mark Oshiro

BEST FAN ARTIST (316 ballots)

• Brad W. Foster
• Mandie Manzano
• Spring Schoenhuth
• Steve Stiles
• Sarah Webb

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER (767 ballots)

Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy writer of 2012 or 2013, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).

• Wesley Chu
• Max Gladstone *
• Ramez Naam *
• Sofia Samatar *
• Benjanun Sriduangkaew

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

NEW SERIES: THE OUTLAW KING

 Just read a couple of books by author S.A. Hunt. that had me turning pages until I got to the end .
The first book in the series is The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree.
Protagonist Ross Brigham comes home after a tour of duty in Afghanistan...and is hit by heart wrenching life changes, with no warning his wife takes him to a home that's empty except for Ross's meager possessions, she's moved out, then his mother calls to tell him  his father has died unexpectedly.
 Ross goes home for the funeral to discover just how popular his father's fantasy series is with its fans
After the huge funeral, Ross investigates his father's death, accompanied by two of his father's fans--film student Sawyer and Florida beachcomber Noreen. Together, they discover a passage that leads them to the desolate reaches of Destin, the outlaw-infested parallel world in Ed's gunslinger novels. There they meet the Kingsmen, the warrior gunslinger caste of Destin and find themselves the target of a plot by the Muses themselves to bring the final act of humanity to a close.

 Inspired by the classics he grew up with such as A Wrinkle in Time and The Neverending Story, and evocative of Stephen King's fantasy-western epic The Dark Tower, the first volume of S. A. Hunt's The Outlaw King is the beginning of a series spanning from modern-day Earth to the sands of an exotic parallel world, where a climactic battle will take place on the shores of consciousness...and challenge the rules of the written word itself.

 I have to give this book 4 and a half stars, it would have been 5 if the author had gotten to the action on Destin sooner. I have to admit this one kept me reading well into the wee hours and fired me up to buy book 2... Law of the Wolf (The Outlaw King) and jump into it as soon as I finished the first book.

 The protagonists of The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree (4 and a half stars) are led across the desert to confront their mysterious antagonist from book 1 by the Outlaw King himself, the wizened gunslinger Normand Kaliburn. When one of their own is captured and taken beyond the Wildlands to the heart of the Antargata K-Setra, our heroes will learn the true origins of Ed Brigham's fantasy world... and that incredible revelation will shatter everything they thought they knew about the secret world of Destin.

This one also kept me up well into the night. I am anxiously awaiting the next book in the series.

 Both of these books are available in Kindle editions and aren't that expensive, but I found my self receiving a hell of a lot of bang for my buck.  

Hunt has done a great job of world building creating non human races that live alongside humans, and of creating a society that's a mix of steampunk, the wild west and modern times. 

 As I said I can't wait for he next volume in the series and the further adventures of Ross Bingham and his friends. Its like coke or heroin...the first taste is free (if you get the kindle edition) and then you have to buy the rest (not that I mind), I just want my next fix from Mr. Hunt.

 New Year, new books.. just finished a peek at Stephen Leigh's upcoming release IMMORTAL MUSE, due out March 5th.
In an email the author says: Here's an advance peek at some of what Romantic Times will be saying in their March newsletter, where IMMORTAL MUSE will be designated a Top Pick!  "Mythology, alchemy, and fantasy all combine in Leigh's IMMORTAL MUSE, creating the perfect combination for readers looking for their next stellar read."  Hey, we'll take that! You can read the entire full review in RT in March.
As a fan I was able to get a look at the first chapter, and I'll tell you its got my interest... More a little later.
  I'm what some people would call a"bookaholic" and as such I've built of a good sized collection. I find there's nothing quite as satisfying as a physical book, but I have a secret vice.. I have become a "kindle" addict. I got one because it was handy for school, then I started getting novels, and I must say I found a few gems in the 99cents pile and have managed to build up quite the collection, including a umber of free books through Book Bub.com
Check it out next time I'll have a couple of reviews

WE HAVE LOST ANOTHER SF GREAT

Frederik Pohl (1919-2013)

SFWA Grandmaster, author, editor, agent, and fan Frederik Pohl, 93, died yesterday September 2, 2013.

Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was born November 26, 1919 in New York City. He was one of the earliest SF fans, attending the first SF convention in Philadelphia in 1936, and was one of the founders of the Futurians and the Hydra Club. He attended Brooklyn Tech, but dropped out without graduating. From 1939-43 he was editor of new magazines Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories. He sometimes published his own fiction, often in collaboration with fellow Futurians C.M. Kornbluth, Robert W. Lowndes, and James Blish, under assorted house names and pseudonyms including James MacCreigh and S.D. Gottesman.

He served in the Italian theaters of World War II and afterward became a literary agent, representing many of America’s top SF writers. In the ’50s he went back to writing and editing, producing his first novels in collaboration with Kornbluth, beginning with classic The Space Merchants (1953) and continuing with Search the Sky (1954), Gladiator-at-Law (1955), and Wolfbane (1957). He also collaborated with Jack Williamson on a number of books, including the Undersea Trilogy, the Starchild trilogy, and the Cuckoo duology, along with standalones Land’s End (1988) and The Singers of Time (1991). He collaborated with Lester del Rey on Preferred Risk (1983, as by Edson McCann).

Pohl’s solo novels include Slave Ship (1957); Drunkard’s Walk (1961); A Plague of Pythons (1965, later reissued as Demon in the Skull); The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965); Nebula winner Man Plus (1976); Gateway (1977), which won Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial awards, and began his Heechee series, which also includes Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980), Heechee Rendezvous (1984), Annals of the Heechee (1987), The Gateway Trip (1990), and The Boy Who Would Live Forever (2004); American Book Award winner JEM (1980); The Cool War (1981); Syzygy (1981); Starburst (1982); Campbell Memorial winner The Years of the City (1984); Black Star Rising (1985); The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986); Terror (1986); Narabedla Ltd. (1988); Homegoing (1988); The World at the End of Time (1990); Outnumbering the Dead (1991); Mining the Oort (1992); The Voices of Heaven (1994); The Eschaton trilogy, including The Other End of Time (1996), The Siege of Eternity (1997), The Far Shore of Time (1999);  and O Pioneer! (1998);  The Last Theorem, written in collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke (2008); and All the Lives He Led (2011).

A prolific story writer, Pohl’s short fiction has been collected in more then 20 volumes, including Alternating Currents (1966), The Best of Frederik Pohl (1975), The Early Pohl (1980), Pohlstars (1984) and, most recently Platinum Pohl (2005). “The Meeting” (1972), with C.M. Kornbluth, won a Hugo, as did solo story “Fermi and Frost” (1985). Other notable stories include Nebula Award finalists “Under Two Moons” (1965), “Shaffery Among the Immortals” (1973), “Growing Up in Edge City” (1976), “Mars Masked” (1979), and “The Greening of Bed-Stuy” (1985); “Day Million” (1966); Hugo and Nebula Award finalist “The Gold at Starbow’s End” (1972); and Hugo finalists “Servant of the People” (1983) and novella Stopping at Slowyear (1992).

An influential editor, Pohl edited Ballantine’s original anthology series Star Science Fiction in the ’50s. In the ’60s, he edited notable SF magazines Galaxy and If, and in the ’70s he was executive editor at Ace, then SF editor at Bantam. He won Hugo awards for editing in 1966, ’67, and ’68 and a Retro Hugo for best professional editor of 1953 in 2004.

Pohl wrote about his life in memoir The Way the Future Was (1978). Other non-fiction includes a biography of Roman emperor Tiberius (1960), political guide Practical Politics 1972 (1971), Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Time Bomb with Isaac Asimov (1991), and Chasing Science: Science as Spectator Sport (2000). He also wrote non-SF novels, including A Town Is Drowning (1955), Presidential Year (1956), and Sorority House (1956, as by Jordan Park), all with C.M. Kornbluth; The God of Channel 1 (1956, as by Donald Stacy); Turn the Tigers Loose (1956, with Walter Lasly); and Chernobyl (1987).

He was president of SFWA from 1974-76. He was named a SFWA Grand Master in 1992; a living inductee in the SF Hall of Fame in 1998; won a Hubbard Award for life achievement in 2000; and received the Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. He is survived by his fifth wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull.

Pohl wrote online extensively about his life in SF, politics, and other topics at The Way the Future Blogs.

For more about Pohl, see his entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

 Looking forward at this weekend just about a year ago I was torn between planning for 2 majors conventions, The World Science Fiction Convention, known as WorldCon and DragonCon.

 Worldcon was in the lead for the simple reason that LonestarCon3 in San Antonio was picked to host Worldcon 2013, getting there would be no problem either a few hours drive or ride on the Big Bus down I-35 from Dallas. Attending  Dragoncon on the other hand meant a long drive or a flight to Atlanta. Alas "Dame Fortune" did not smile upon me and I did not find decent employment, which would have provided funds for my trip.

 2014 is a different story I will plan on working towards attending DragonCon since the WorldCon is in London, England too far and expensive a journey to contemplate. On the other hand the 2014 North American Science Fiction Convention (held when the WorldCon is outside the U.S.) could be either in Phoenix, AZ or Detroit, MI. So we shall see. 

Why the above?  Well, because one of the major events at WorldCon is the announcement of the Hugo Awards, the top honor for writers and artists that is voted upon by fans rather than professional authors (those are the Nebulas) and now (drum roll please) the winners:

BEST NOVEL

Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)

Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)

Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)

Blackout, Mira Grant (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

BEST NOVELLA

The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (Tachyon)

On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard (Immersion)

San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, Mira Grant (Orbit Short Fiction)

‘‘The Stars Do Not Lie’’, Jay Lake (Asimov’s 10-11/12)

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)

BEST NOVELETTE

‘‘The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi’’, Pat Cadigan (Edge of Infinity)

‘‘In Sea-Salt Tears’’, Seanan McGuire (Self-published)

‘‘Rat-Catcher’’, Seanan McGuire (A Fantasy Medley 2)

‘‘The Boy Who Cast No Shadow’’, Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Postscripts 26/27: Unfit For Eden)

‘‘Fade to White’’, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/12)

BEST SHORT STORY

‘‘Mono no Aware’’, Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese)

‘‘Immersion’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)

‘‘Mantis Wives’’, Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 8/12)

  BEST RELATED WORK

Writing Excuses, Season Seven, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler & Jordan Sanderson

‘‘I Have an Idea for a Book’’: The Bibliography of Martin H. Greenberg, John Helfers, compiler & ed. (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Edward James & Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)

Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who, Deborah Stanish & L.M. Myles, eds. (Mad Norwegian)

Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them, Lynne M. Thomas & Sigrid Ellis, eds. (Mad Norwegian)

BEST GRAPHIC STORY

Saga, Volume One, Brian K. Vaughn, art by Fiona Staples (Image)

Saucer Country, Volume 1: Run, Paul Cornell, art by Ryan Kelly, Jimmy Broxton & Goran Sudžuka (Vertigo)

Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks, Joe Hill, art by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)

Grandville Bête Noire, Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse Comics; Jonathan Cape)

Schlock Mercenary: Random Access Memorabilia Howard Tayler, colors by Travis Walton (Hypernode Media)

BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONG

The Avengers

The Cabin in the Woods

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hunger Games

Looper

 BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORT

Game of Thrones: ‘‘Blackwater’’

Doctor Who: ‘‘The Angels Take Manhattan’’

Doctor Who: ‘‘Asylum of the Daleks’’

Doctor Who: ‘‘The Snowman’’

Fringe: ‘‘Letters of Transit’’

BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR LONG FORM

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Lou Anders

Sheila Gilbert

Liz Gorinsky

Toni Weisskopf

 BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR SHORT FORM

Stanley Schmidt

John Joseph Adams

Neil Clarke

Jonathan Strahan

Sheila Williams

BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST

John Picacio

Vincent Chong

Julie Dillon

Dan Dos Santos

Chris McGrath

BEST SEMIPROZINE

Clarkesworld

Apex Magazine

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Lightspeed

Strange Horizons

BEST FANZINE

SF Signal

Banana Wings

The Drink Tank

Elitist Book Reviews

Journey Planet

 BEST FANCAST

SF Squeecast

The Coode Street Podcast

Galactic Suburbia Podcast

SF Signal Podcast

StarShipSofa

 BEST FAN WRITER

Tansy Rayner Roberts

James Bacon

Christopher J Garcia

Mark Oshiro

Steven H Silver

BEST FAN ARTIST

Galen Dara

Brad W. Foster

Spring Schoenhuth

Maurine Starkey

Steve Stiles

JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER [NOT A HUGO AWARD]

*Mur Lafferty

*Zen Cho

Max Gladstone

*Stina Leicht

*Chuck Wendig

*Finalists in their 2nd year of eligibility.

The Big Heart Award went to Tom Veal.

There you have it the winners for 2013. I'll let you know what happens as we progress to the major cons of 2014.

IAIN BANKS PASSES

Two months after he announced he had terminal cancer Scottish author Iain Banks, creator of the "Culture " series and other noteworthy literature, died early on 9. June 2013. He will be sorely missed. 

I discovered his books when I read Consider Phlebas, Bank's first science fiction novel which introduced the "Culture". He wrote his sci-fi books as Iain M. Banks and his mainstream works were published under the name Iain Banks.

After announcing his illness in April, Banks asked his publishers to bring forward the release date of his latest novel, The Quarry, so he could see it on the shelves. It was revealed the book - to be released on 20 June - would detail the physical and emotional strain of cancer. It describes the final weeks of the life of a man in his 40s who has terminal cancer. 

Banks told the BBC he was some 87,000 words into writing the book when he was diagnosed with his own illness.

"I had no inkling. So it wasn't as though this is a response to the disease or anything, the book had been kind of ready to go," he said.

"And then 10,000 words from the end, as it turned out, I suddenly discovered that I had cancer."

 You can leave a comment for his family here:

http://friends.banksophilia.com/

and here is the link to his official website:

http://www.iain-banks.net/

REV. ANDREW GREELEY

Father Greeley, who described himself as a "Loud mouthed Irish priest" died in his sleep on 29. May 2013, he was 85.

Greeley was a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction writing at least 100 non fiction works and 50 novels, including some science fiction. 

He was a sociologist, journalist as well as a novelist and was known for his outspoken criticism of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.