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Te Shutle May 2017 The Next NASFA Meeting is 6:30P Saturday 20 May 2017 at the New Church Location Concom Meeting 3P; New Church Location, 20 May 2017 CONCOM MEETINGS d Oyez, Oyez d The next Con†Stellation XXXV Concom Meeting will be at ! 3P on 20 May 2017—the same day as this month’s NASFA The next NASFA Meeting will be 20 May 2017, at the meeting. It will be at the NEW church building. There will be a NEW regular meeting location. It’s still the Madison campus dinner break between the concom and the club meeting. of Willowbrook Baptist Church, but that has moved about a In general, Concom Meetings are expected to be 3P on mile to 446 Jeff Road. This will be the first meeting at this the same day as the club meeting, at least until we need to go to location. See the map at right for directions to the church. See two meetings a month. Note, though, that the date of the July the map on page 13 for a closeup of parking at the church as Concom Meeting is TBD. Other exceptions for the date/time/place well as how to find the meeting room (“The Huddle”), which is of meetings may be made if (for instance) the club does a “field close to one of the back doors for the church. trip” program like we did for the Huntsville Art Museum in 2016. MAY PROGRAM The May program will be ’s Stolen Death Star New Church ~0.8 miles north of US 72 Plans—a set of music videos by the band Palette-Swap Ninja. Location Map To In them, the plot of Episode IV: A New Hope is told Willowbrook Madison to the tune of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts 446 Jeff Road NW New Club Band (and illustrated with clips from the movie). Huntsville AL 35806 MAY ATMM Meeting Maria and Adam Grim will host the May After-The-Meeting Road Jeff Location Meeting at the church. The usual rules will apply—that is, please bring food to share and your favorite drink. Also, please US 72W stay to help clean up. We need to be good guests and leave (aka University Drive) ! Kroger things at least as clean as we found them especially as this will Shopping be the first time we use this new location for the ATMM. Center

Note that we can have ATMMs in the new church location, Slaughter

but there is a hard deadline to be out of the building by 10P. A Road discussion is planned for the May 2017 NASFA Business Meeting to decide what to do about ATMMs and the club meet- Old Church Location ing time(s) going forward. Continuing Our 37th Year of Publication

Inside this issue… Nominations ...... 4 News & Info ...... 2 Locus Awards Nominations ...... 5 Not the Minutes of the April Meeting ...... 3 Awards Roundup ...... 7 NASFA Calendar ...... 4 Letters of Comment ...... 12 Deadline for the June 2017 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Monday 29 May 2017 FUTURE PROGRAMS HUGO NOMS: ARTIST LIST CHANGED • October: Con†Stellation XXXV Post-Mortem. The list of finalists in the Fan Artist Hugo category has • December: NASFA Christmas Party. Stay tuned for more changed. Speaking for the con, Nicholas Whyte explained: info on the location as we get closer. “Alex Garner, who was announced as a finalist in the Best Fan JudySue would love to hear from you with ideas for future Artist category for the 2017 Hugo Awards on 4 April, has noti- programs—even more so if you can lead one yourself! fied the Hugo administrators that in fact the entirety of his pub- FUTURE ATMMs lished 2016 work was professional and not .” We need volunteers to host After-the-Meeting Meetings for As a result, Garner [who had been supported by the Rabid all future months in 2017, beginning in June. Please email Puppies slate -ED] was removed and replaced by Steve Stiles. to volunteer or inquire. The revised list of finalists for this category is: FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES/LOCATIONS Ninni Aalto Vesa Lehtimäki Likhain (M. Sereno) Most meetings in 2017 will be on the normal 3rd Saturday at Spring Schoenhuth Steve Stiles Mansik Yang the normal time and meeting location. (Allowing for the fact SITE SELECTION OPEN that the church has moved and we have moved with them.) Site Selection for the 2019 Worldcon has opened—adminis- There’s currently one known exception: tered by Helsinki’s Worldcon 75. There is only one filed bid; • July: The meeting will be one week later than usual (that is, for Dublin Ireland. They propose to hold the 77th Worldcon 15– 22 July) due to a conflict with DeepSouthCon 55/ConGre- 19 August 2019 at the Convention Centre Dublin, North Dock, gate 4. Dublin 1, Ireland. CHANGING SHUTTLE DEADLINES Voting is open to Attending and Supporting Members of In general, the monthly Shuttle production schedule has been Worldcon 75 and must include an Advanced Supporting Mem- moved to the left a bit (versus prior practice). Though things bership fee ($40 or €40) which will give the voter a Supporting are a bit squishy, the current intent is to put each issue to bed as Membership in the winning 2019 convention. This fee can be much as 9 days before each month’s meeting. paid in euros online or in dollars in various other ways if the Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each ballot is mailed to the available US address. (There is also a month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. Finnish mailing address option.) JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST There will be no electronic voting available for Site Selection All NASFAns who have email are urged to join the NASFA (it is optional under current rules) so all votes must be mailed email list, which you can do online at . The list is usually low traffic, though the rate for people who don’t attend. The deadline for mailed ballots to is rather variable. Generally the list is limited to announce- arrive is 29 July 2017. Further details (including info about the ments about club activities plus the occasional message of Dublin bid and a printable PDF ballot) are available at the Site general interest to north-Alabama sf/f/h/etc. fans. Non NAS- Selection page on Helsinki’s website . please only do so if you’re interested in the above restricted While it is theoretically possible for a write-in bid to win or topics. for the electorate to send the decision to the onsite Worldcon NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE Business Meeting, in all likelihood Dublin is a shoo-in in for NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties the 2019 Worldcon. Assuming any non-North American site can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to it wins, Site Selection for a 2019 North American and have your Outlook, iCal, or other calendar automatically Convention will be held at the 2018 Worldcon in San José. At updated as events (Club Meetings, Concom Meetings, local sf/ least one prospective 2019 NASFiC bid has been announced— f/h/etc. events) are added or changed. You can view the calen- for Layton UT, which is a bit north of the Salt Lake City area dar online at . (closer to Ogden UT). ! AWARDS VOTING OPEN ! Online voting—open to the public (site registration required) —for the 2017 is open at . The current nomination round will end at 11:59P ! EDT on 24 June 2017. The final round will begin in early Au- WORLDCON 75 WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU gust 2017 and end at 11:59P EDT on 29 August 2017. Winners Among the exhibits at the upcoming Helsinki Worldcon, will be announced at the 2017 , to be held 1–4 Sep- they plan a display of greetings from world . Please tember 2017 at the Hyatt Regency and other hotels in send your postcards to: GA. Worldcon 75 NEW DISABILITY-AWARENESS AWARD c/o Maa ja ilma ry A new award—the D Franklin Defying Doomsday Award PO Box 665 —has been established to FINLAND recognize work in disability advocacy in sf/f literature. They HUGO AWARDS VOTING PERIOD ANNOUNCED are currently seeking nominees for the 2016 award year. See HUGO VOTER PACKET MOOTED the URL above for more info. Voting for the 2017 Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY GETS SCREWY Award for Best New Writer has opened. It will close 15 July The OED—which calls itself “the definitive record of the 2017 at 11:59P PDT. Voting can be done by mailed paper ballot English language”—has announced they are adding “sonic or online. You must be a member Worldcon 75—they will screwdriver” (from ). The announcement notes this entry will join “TARDIS,” “,” and in May2017. “Cyberman.” 2 TAFF WINNER ANNOUNCED announcement of each at The winner of the 2017 Trans Atlantic Fan Fund respectively. uk> is John Purcell. None of the three candidates received a ma- The first winner of the Sense of Wonder Scholarship is Lucy jority in the first round, but Sarah Gulde was eliminated with the Smith (Twitter: @subterranape). This year’s Clarion will be lowest vote total as well as not meeting TAFF’s “20% held 25 June–5 August 2017. rule” (wherein candidates must have at least 20% of the total vote SFPA GRAND MASTER ANNOUNCED from both North America and the UK/Europe to advance). In the The Science Fiction & Poetry Association has announced that David C. Kopaska-Merkel has a single vote and will travel to Worldcon 75 as the TAFF delegate. been selected as their 2017 Grand Master. A total of 144 votes were cast in the first round. After elimi- TOR PODCAST IMPRINT nating “No Preference” and “Hold Over Funds” votes plus has announced a new imprint—Tor Labs redistributing Gulde’s votes to the second-choice candidates on —to publish serialized those ballots, 135 votes were counted in the final round. fiction podcasts. The imprint “will debut this summer GUFF WINNER ANNOUNCED with Steal the Stars, a science fiction audio drama The winner of the 2017 Get Up-and-over Fan Fund is Donna Maree Hanson. There was Media and written by Mac Rogers.” a four-way race this year and voting went to four rounds (with : DISCOVERY DELAYS CONTINUE automatic runoffs). Sam Hawke was eliminated first followed CBS All Access is reportedly non-committal about whether by Belle McQuattie. In the final round, Hanson took the major- they will be able to meet the latest announced date for Star ity over Alexandra Pierce by a fairly wide margin. Hanson will Trek: Discovery. See the story at A total of 62 votes were cast. After eliminating a write-in and ECLIPSE & STAR TREK STAMPS “No Preference” votes plus redistributing Hawke’s and Mc- The US Postal Service is issuing (20 June 2017 release) a Quattie’s votes to their second (or third) choice candidates on new Forever Stamp to commemorate the upcoming total solar subsequent ballots, 51 votes were counted in the final round. eclipse (21 August 2017) NAFF WINNER ANNOUNCED visible in the US. The The winner of the 2017 National Australian Fan Fund stamps show an image of a is Fe Waters. There was a four-way total eclipse with a black race this year. Voting totals are not readily available to the Shut- circle for the Moon, which tle, but the race was said to be close between Waters and the transforms into a full image other candidates (Jason Fischer, Talitha Kalago, and Jay Wat- of the Moon when heated by son). Waters will travel across to Continuum 13 touch. [Or, in Alabama, probably by a summer day. -ED] , the 56th Australian National Sci- Meanwhile, Canada Post has already added seven new Star ence Convention as the NAFF delegate. Trek stamps to their catalog. They had a 2016 set featuring WORLD FANTASY REVEALS NEW TROPHY characters from the 1966 TV Over the last few years, the existing World Fantasy Awards series. The 2017 collection has trophy—a caricature of H.P. Lovecraft originally fashioned by five stamps with captains from —had come the live-action TV series—each under fire due to some decid- with a major nemesis in the edly unlovely aspects of Love- background. Kirk, for instance, craft’s worldview. (That’s real is paired with Khan. Picard is world; not his legendarium.) paired with the Borgified ver- The board of the World Fan- sion of himself. Two more tasy Convention has announced a and a Cube. Some of the new trophy, sculpted by Vin- new issues are Permanent Rate cent Villafranca, will replace stamps; others have various fixed denominations. the Lovecraft bust. The board BBC TO AIR “DEFINITIVE” WAR OF THE WORLDS originally announced that they A new three-part series is being developed for BBC One, would continue to use the adapting The War of the Worlds in a way it hasn’t been seen nominee pins based on Wil- before—set near the time of Well’s book. The production is son’s work (apparently quite a being filmed in Woking, Surrey , the announced they would retire the Lovecraft design entirely. home of the book’s narrator. GRRM FUNDS TWO SCHOLARSHIPS ! George R.R. Martin has announced that he is funding two ! new writing scholarships, one to the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop at the Uni- April Minutes (Not) versity of California San Diego and one to the Odyssey Writing ! Workshop at Saint Anselm Col- The April 2017 NASFA lege in Manchester NH. Both will cover tuition, fees, and lodg- meeting was subsumed into ing for a single student annually. the More-or-Less Annual The Clarion scholarship will be knows as the Sense of Wonder NASFA Cookout/Picnic at Scholarship. The one to the Odyssey Writing Workshop will be Sam and Judy Smith’s house. knows as the Miskatonic Scholarship. You can see GRRM’s Thus, there are no minutes. Cookout photo by Mike Stone 3 02 Atlanta Comic Convention—Atlanta GA. NASFA Calendar 04 Independence Day. ! 06–09 Play On Con—Birmingham AL. MAY 07–09 Blues Con 7—Memphis TN. 01 May Day/Labor Day/Día del Trabajo. 08–09 Heroes & Villains—Nashville TN. 05 Cinco de Mayo. 08–09 C1 Comicon—Ringgold GA. 05–07 Timegate—Atlanta GA. 14–16 DeepSouthCon 55/ConGregate 4—High Point NC. 06 National Explosive Ordnance Disposal Day. 14–16 Cos-Losseum Con—Atlanta GA. 10 Día de la Madre. 15 BD: Courtney Clark. 12–14 Outlantacon—Atlanta GA. TBD* The date/place/time of theJuly Con†Stellation XXXV 14 Mother’s Day. Concom Meeting(s) is (are) TBD. 14 BD: Nancy Whittle. 22* NASFA Meeting—6:30P Business, 7P Program, at Wil- 15 Peace Officers Memorial Day. lowbrook Madison. NOTE: This will be at the church’s 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. new location. ALSO NOTE: This is one week later 19 BD: David O. Miller. than usual due to DeepSouthCon 55/ConGregate 4. 20* Con†Stellation XXXV Concom Meeting—3P, at Wil- Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. lowbrook Madison. NOTE: This will be at the church’s 23 Parents’ Day. new location. 24 BD: Jay Johns. 20* NASFA Meeting—6:30P Business, 7P Program, at Wil- 27 National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. lowbrook Madison. NOTE: This will be at the church’s 28–30 SciFi Fantasy Fest—Hoover AL. new location. Program: Princess Leia’s Stolen Death 29 BD: Mark Paulk. Star Plans. ATMM: Adam and Maria Grimm will host 29 Zombie Pub Crawl—Atlanta GA. at the church. There is a hard 10P deadline to be out of 29–30 Rob-Con—Bristol TN. the building. AUGUST 20 Armed Forces Day. 01 Tisha B’Av. 20–21 Southern Geek Fest—Hattiesburg MS. 04–06 Akaicon—Nashville TN. 25–28 MomoCon—Atlanta GA. 07 Purple Heart Day. 25–29 Atlanta Game Fest 29—Atlanta GA. 08 BD: Jim Woosley. 26–28 Mobicon—Mobile AL. 12 BD: Sue Thorn. 25 National Missing Children’s Day. 12 Comic, Horror & Toy Expo—Cartersville GA. 27 Ramadan (first day). 12 Gump City Comic Con—Montgomery AL. 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. 14 BD: Edward Kenny. 29 Memorial Day. 18–20 Star Fleet International—Kenner LA. 31 Shavuot. 19* TENTATIVE Con†Stellation XXXV Concom Meet- JUNE ing—3P, at Willowbrook Madison. NOTE: This will be 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. at the church’s new location. 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. 19* NASFA Meeting—6:30P Business, 7P Program, at Wil- 03–04 Walker Stalker—Nashville TN. lowbrook Madison. NOTE: This will be at the church’s 06 D-Day Observance. new location. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 09–11 Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo—Atlanta GA. 19–20 Eclipse Con—Hopkinsville KY. 10–11 Con Kasterborous—Huntsville AL. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. 14 Flag Day. 21 Senior Citizens Day. 16–18 Hypericon—Nashville TN. 26 Women's Equality Day. 14 BD: Ali Scanland. 26–27 Brick Universe—Knoxville TN. 17* TENTATIVE Con†Stellation XXXV Concom Meet- 26–27 Onyxcon IX—Atlanta GA. ing—3P, at Willowbrook Madison. NOTE: This will be 31–04 Dragon Con—Atlanta GA. at the church’s new location. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 17* NASFA Meeting—6:30P Business, 7P Program, at Wil- The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the lowbrook Madison. NOTE: This will be at the church’s third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby new location. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. convention being held that weekend—in which case we often 17 BD: Jeff Freeman. move the meeting to the second or fourth Saturday.) The regu- 18 Father’s Day. lar meeting location is the new location of the Madison campus 21 BD: PieEyedDragon. of Willowbrook Baptist Church—446 Jeff Road NW. The Ex- 21 Summer Solstice. ecutive Committee meeting (if scheduled) is before the busi- 22–25 UtopiaCon—Nashville TN. ness meeting. The business meeting is at 6:30P. The program is 23–24 Geekin Out—Dothan AL. at 7P. Anyone is welcome to attend any of the meetings. There 23–25 HamaCon—Huntsville AL. is usually an after-the-meeting meeting with directions avail- 23–25 Sci Fi Summer Con—Atlanta GA. able at the program. 23–25 Fanboy Expo—Knoxville TN. ! 26 Eid al-Fitr. ! 30–02 LibertyCon 30—Chattanooga TN. 30–02 Magic City Con—Birmingham AL. Chesley Awards Noms JULY ! 01 Canada Day. The Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (to “recognize individual works and achievements” 4 in the sf/fantasy art community) has announced the nominees for CHESLEY PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION NOMS the 2017 Chesley Awards. The Chesleys are usually presented at Donato Giancola for Portal Promotional art for Illuxcon Worldcon, but this year they will be given out at NorthAmeriCon Clark Huggins for Advertisement for Reckless Deck Imagine FX ’17 in San Juan Puerto Rico. for La Corona (The Crown) Loteria Lone Boy ! Cynthia Sheppard for 2017 Llewellyn’s Astrological Calendar ! Greg Spalenka for banner art to promote Roxana Illuminated ! Perfume ! CHESLEY COLOR WORK (UNPUBLISHED) NOMS ! John Harris for The Ark, Oil ! Vanessa Lemen for Holding On and Letting Go, Oil on canvas ! Miranda Meeks for December, Digital ! Shreya Shetty for The Dragon Charmer, Digital ! Michael Whelan for In a World of Her Own, Acrylic ! CHESLEY MONOCHROME WORK ! (UNPUBLISHED) NOMS CHESLEY COVER Marcela Bolivar for White Crown, Photoshop ILLUSTRATION (HARDCOVER) NOMS Jana Heidersdorf for Darkness, Acrylics, pencil, and digital Dan dos Santos Fables for Cubs in Toyland by Bill Willingham Travis Lewis for Soul Engine, Graphite (Vertigo) Ruth Sanderson for Luna, Scratchboard Todd Lockwood for Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood Allen Williams for The Fall of Night, Pencil (DAW) CHESLEY THREE DIMENSIONAL ART NOMS Tran Nguyen for Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (Subter- Akihito Ikeda for Nephila, Mixed media ranean Press) Thomas Kuebler for Medusa, Mixed media Cliff Nielsen for Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare (McElder- Forest Rogers for La Belle Crustace, Premier air-dry clay and ry Books) washi paper David Palumbo for Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sander- Virginie Ropars for The Evil Eye, Mixed media son (Tor) Lee Shamel for The Scepter of the Crystal Flame, Mixed media John Picacio for In the House of the Worm by George R.R. CHESLEY ART DIRECTOR NOMS Martin (Baltimore Science Fiction Society) Neil Clarke for Clarkesworld Magazine CHESLEY COVER ILLUSTRATION Irene Gallo for Tor/Tor.com (PAPERBACK OR EBOOK) NOMS Sheila Gilbert and Betsy Wollheim for DAW Books Tommy Arnold for A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson Lauren Panepinto for (Tor.com Publishing) Cynthia Sheppard for Julie Dillon for Beyond the Stars: At Galaxy’s Edge by Assort- CHESLEY LIFETIME ARTISTIC ed Authors (Astral books Digital Services) ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NOMS Sarah Anne Langton for Central Station by Iain McCaig Greg Manchess Hayao Miyazaki () Wendy Pini Berni Rights Gene Mollica for Breath of Earth by Beth Cato (Harper Voyager) ! Victo Ngai for Forest of Memory by (Tor) ! CHESLEY COVER ILLUSTRATION (MAGAZINE) NOMS Galen Dara for Uncanny Issue 10, May/June 2016 Locus Awards Noms Elizabeth Leggett for Lightspeed #69, February 2016 ! David Palumbo for Swallowed Whole, Aliens–Life and ! Death #1 (Dark Horse) ! Paolo Rivera for Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1953 (Dark Horse, ! February 2016) ! Jeremy Wilson for Chimera Brigade #1 by Serge Lehman and Finalists for the 2017 Locus Awards have been announced by Fabrice Colin (Titan Comics) the Locus Science Fiction Foundation . Styled CHESLEY INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION NOMS as finalists, these are the top ten vote getters in each category of Rovina Cai for “Tom, Thom” by K.M. Ferebee (Tor.com) an online poll. This is a single-round voting system, so in fact Kari Christensen for Gethsemoni, Court of the Dead: Chronicle of the winners have already been determined. They will be an- the Underworld by Tom Gilliland (Sideshow Collectibles) nounced at the Locus Awards Weekend , to be held 23–25 June 2017 ranean Press) at the Best Western Executive Inn in Seattle WA. Greg Ruth for “Freedom is Space for the Spirit” by Glen Hirsh- LOCUS AWARDS SF NOVEL NOMS berg (Tor.com) Company Town, Madeline Ashby Ivica Stevanovic for The Bestiary, Ann Vandermeer, ed. (Cen- The Medusa Chronicles, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds tipede Press) Take Back the Sky, CHESLEY GAMING RELATED ILLUSTRATION NOMS Visitor, C.J. Cherryh Mauricio Calle for Encounter at Stygeon Prime—Star Wars: Babylon’s Ashes, James S.A. Corey The Card Game (Fantasy Flight Games) Death’s End, Cixin Liu Cliff Childs for Long-Finned Skywhale Kaladesh card set (WotC) After Atlas, Emma Newman Ryan Pancoast for Inventor’s Apprentice Kaladesh card set (WotC) Central Station, Lavie Tidhar Matthew Stewart for Mastertrinketeer Kaladesh card set (WotC) The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead Ryan Yee for Die Young Kaladesh card set (WotC) Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson 5 LOCUS AWARDS FANTASY NOVEL NOMS “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay,” Alyssa Wong All the Birds in the Sky, LOCUS AWARDS SHORT STORY NOMS Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle “The Story of Kao Yu,” Peter S. Beagle City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Brooke Bolander , N.K. Jemisin “A Salvaging of Ghosts,” Aliette de Bodard Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” Amal El-Mohtar The Wall of Storms, “The City Born Great,” N.K. Jemisin The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville “Seven Birthdays,” Ken Liu The Winged Histories, “Afrofuturist 419,” Nnedi Okorafor The Nightmare Stacks, Charles Stross “Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee,” Alastair Reynolds Necessity, Jo Walton “That Game We Played During the War,” Carrie Vaughn LOCUS AWARDS HORROR NOVEL NOMS “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers,” Alyssa The Brotherhood of the Wheel, R.S. Belcher Wong Fellside, M.R. Carey LOCUS AWARDS ANTHOLOGY NOMS The Fireman, Joe Hill Children of Lovecraft, , ed. Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collec- The Fisherman, John Langan tion, , ed. Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Hidden Youth: from the Margins of History, HEX, Mikki Kendall and Chesya Burke, eds. The Family Plot, Cherie Priest Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner, ed. Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff Invisible Planets, Ken Liu, ed. Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe, eds. LOCUS AWARDS YA BOOK NOMS The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Ten, Crooked Kingdom, , ed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Kelly Barnhill Bridging Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. Lois Lane: Double Down, Gwenda Bond Drowned Worlds, Jonathan Strahan, ed. Truthwitch, Susan Dennard The Big Book of Science Fiction, Ann VanderMeer and Jeff Poisoned Blade, Kate Elliott VanderMeer, eds. Burning Midnight, Will McIntosh LOCUS AWARDS COLLECTION NOMS Goldenhand, Garth Nix Sharp Ends, Joe Abercrombie Revenger, Alastair Reynolds Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens, This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab Eleanor Arnason The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman A Natural History of Hell, LOCUS AWARDS FIRST NOVEL NOMS The Complete Orsinia, Ursula K. Le Guin The Reader, Traci Chee The Found and the Lost, Ursula K. Le Guin Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis Chen and Other Stories, Ken Liu The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi The Best of Ian McDonald, Ian McDonald The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig Dreams of Distant Shores, Patricia A. McKillip Roses and Rot, Kat Howard Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Alastair Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee Reynolds Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine Not So Much, Said the Cat, Infomocracy, Malka Older LOCUS AWARDS MAGAZINE NOMS Everfair, Nisi Shawl Analog Asimov’s Beneath Ceaseless Skies Vigil, Angela Slatter Clarkesworld F&SF LOCUS AWARDS NOVELLA NOMS File 770 Lightspeed Strange Horizons The Lost Child of Lychford, Paul Cornell Tor.com Uncanny The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, LOCUS AWARDS PUBLISHER NOMS Hammers on Bone, Cassandra Khaw Angry Baen DAW The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle Gollancz Orbit Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire Small Beer Subterranean This Census-taker, China Miéville Tachyon Tor The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds LOCUS AWARDS EDITOR NOMS The Dispatcher, John Joseph Adams Neil Clarke Ellen Datlow Pirate Utopia, Gardner Dozois C.C. Finlay Jonathan Strahan A Taste of Honey, Kai Ashante Wilson Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas LOCUS AWARDS NOVELETTE NOMS Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer “The Art of Space Travel,” Nina Allan Sheila Williams Navah Wolfe “Pearl,” Aliette de Bodard LOCUS AWARDS ARTIST NOMS “Red as Blood and White as Bone,” Kinuko Y. Craft Galen Dara Julie Dillon “Foxfire, Foxfire,” Yoon Ha Lee Bob Eggleton Donato Giancola “The Visitor from Taured,” Ian R. MacLeod Victo Ngai John Picacio Shaun Tan “Spinning Silver,” Michael Whelan “Those Laugh,” Geoff Ryman LOCUS AWARDS NON-FICTION NOMS “The Future is Blue,” Catherynne M. Valente Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Mag- The Jewel and Her Lapidary, Fran Wilde azines from 1981–1990, Mike Ashley 6 Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan con.org>, which was held 13–16 April 2017 at the DoubleTree Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction, by Hilton Seattle Airport in SeaTac (Seattle area) WA. The André M. Carrington award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin . The ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Sci- The View From the Cheap Seats, ence Fiction Society . : A History, James Gleick BSFA AWARDS, ETC. The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley Winners of the 2016 British Science Fiction Association Words Are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books 2000– Awards were 2016, Ursula K. Le Guin announced at Innominate , the 68th Eastercon, Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with , Al- held 14–17 April 2017 at the Hilton varo Zinos-Amaro Birmingham Metropole Hotel in LOCUS AWARDS ART BOOK NOMS Birmingham UK. The winners are: : Illustrations, Yoshitaka Amano Novel ...... Kinuko Y. Craft, Beauty and the Beast, Mahlon F. Craft Europe in Winter , Dave Hutchinson (Solaris) Kinuko Y. Craft, Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Color- Short Fiction ...... “Liberty Bird,” Jaine Fenn ing Book (Now We Are Ten, NewCon Press) Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary , John Non-Fiction ...... 100 African Writers of SFF, Geoff Ryman Fleskes, ed. (Tor.com) Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law, Stephanie Artwork ...... Cover for Central Station by Lavie Tidhar, Law Sarah Anne Langton (Tachyon Publications) Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie, Ralph McQuarrie, et al. Also at Eastercon, the Doc Weir Award (for service to fan- Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imag- dom “that deserves a little public recognition”) was awarded to ined, Ron Miller Serena Culfeather and John Wilson. The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, ICG LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Dermot Power, ed. The International Costumers’ Guild has The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Shaun Tan announced Eric Cannon and Sue Kulinyi as winners of their Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie, Charles Vess 2017 ICG Lifetime Achievement Awards. ! ! The winner of the 2017 Compton Crook Award (for “the best first [sf/f/h] Awards Roundup novel of the year written by an individual author”) has been ! announced. Ada Palmer’s Too Like the Lightning took the nod. PULITZER GOES TO GENRE/ADJACENT WORK Palmer will receive a $1000 prize at Balticon 51 , to be held 26–29 May 2017 at the Renaissance Har- Prizes is Colson Whitehead’s The Under- borplace Hotel in Baltimore MD. ground Railroad (). This STOKER AWARDS & OTHER HWA AWARDS genre-bending work includes ele- Winners of the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards (styled as for Superior Achievement in the history of US Civil War under- horror) were announced by the Horror Writers Association ground railroad using the trope of an at StokerCon , actual subterranean railway. The held 27–30April 2017 at the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA. award includes a $15,000 honorarium. Novel ...... The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde) FAAn AWARDS First Novel ...... Haven, Tom Deady (Cemetery Dance) Winners of the 2017 Fan Activity Achievement Awards were announced at Corflu 34 , held 28–30 April 2017 at the Warner Center Short Fiction ...... “The Crawl Space,” Marriott in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles area) CA. (Ellery Queen September/October 2016) Fan Artist ...... Steve Stiles Fiction Collection ...... The Doll-Master and Other Tales Cover ...... BEAM #10, Harry Bell of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious) Genzine ...... Banana Wings, Claire Brialey and Anthology ...... Borderlands 6, Oliva F. Monteleone and Mark Plummer, eds. Thomas F. Monteleone, eds. (Samhain) Letterhack ...... Paul Skelton Non-Fiction ...... Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Perzine ...... The White Notebooks, Pete Young, ed. Ruth Franklin (Liveright) Fanzine Special Issue ...... THEN (book version), Rob Hansen Poetry Collection ...... Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich Fan Writer ...... Andy Hooper (Raw Dog Screaming) Fan Website ...... eFanzines.com, Bill Burns Graphic Novel ...... Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten PHILIP K. DICK AWARD Lore of , James (Moonstone) The winner of the 2017 Philip K. Dick Award (for a “distinguished original science Other HWA Awards were presented the same weekend: fiction paperback published for the first time” during the 2016 Mentor of the Year ...... Linda Addison award year) is The Journals by Claudia Casper (Arse- Silver Hammer ...... James Chambers nal Pulp). A Special Citation for Unpronounceable by Susan Specialty Press ...... Kate Jonez of Omnium Gatherum diRende (Aqueduct Press) was also announced. Lifetime Achievement ...... and The winner was announced at Norwescon 40 were announced during Dracula, David J. Skal Spectrum Fantastic Art Live , held 21–23 April 2017 at the Kansas City Convention Bill Kaffenberger and Gary Don Rhodes Center-Municipal Auditorium Exhibition Hall in Kansas City Magazine ...... Rue Morgue MO. The winners and runners up (styled as and Silver Magazine Runners-up ...... HorrorHound and Video Watchdog Awards) are: Magazine (classic) ...... Famous of Filmland Spectrum Rising Star Award ...... Alexandra Pisano Magazine (classic) Runner-up ...... Scary Monsters Advertising Gold Award ...... Bayard Wu, “Hunting” Article (tie) ...... “Dracula and the It Girl,” Andi Brooks Advertising Silver Award ...... Greg Ruth, “Daredevil” (Scary Monsters #100) and “I Am the of My Kind,” Book Gold Award ...... Brom, “Lamia” Constantine Nasr (Little Shoppe of Horrors #36) Book Silver Award ...... Edward Kinsella III, “Danneee” Article Runners-up ...... “The Great American Werewolf Comic Gold Award .....Jeremy Wilson, “Chimera Brigade #5” Reunion,” David Weiner (Famous Monsters #284) and “A Comic Silver Award ...... Dave McKean, “Black Dog: HorrorHound’s Guide to Documentaries,” Nathan Hanne- The Dreams of Paul Nash” man, (HorrorHound #60) Concept Art Gold Award ...... Sean Murray, Interview ...... Jason Hignite interviews Cassandra Peterson “Court of the Dead: Voxxingard” (HorrorHound #61) Concept Art Silver Award ...... Iain McCaig, “Minion 5” Interview Runner-up ...... Mark Mawston’s expanded Dimensional Gold Award ...... Jesse Thompson, interview with Ray Harryhausen (Scary Monsters #100) “Dress-Up Frog Legs” Column ...... The Doctor Is In-Sane, Dr. Gangrene Dimensional Silver Award ...... Akihito, “Nephila” (Scary Monsters) Editorial Gold Award ..Tim O’Brien, “Beyonce ‘Lemonade’” Column Runners-up ...... Larry Blamire’s Star Turn Editorial Silver Award ...... Galen Dara, “Seven Salt Tears” (Video Watchdog) and It Came from Bowen’s Basement, Institutional Gold Award ...... Bill Carman, John T. Bowen (Rue Morgue) “Ms. Hatter and a Smile” Cover ...... Famous Monsters #284 by Rick Baker Institutional Silver Award ...... Ed Binkley, Cover Runners-up ...... Diabolique #24 by Mark Spears “William Finds Some Flowers and a Giant” Website ...... Bloody Disgusting Unpublished Gold Award ...Karla Ortiz, “The Death I Bring” Website Runners-up ...... Dread Central and Blumhouse Unpublished Silver Award ...Jeffrey Alan Love, “Orange Skies” Multi-Media Site ...... Trailers From Hell 2017 Grand Master Award ...... Bill Sienkiewicz Multi-Media Site Runners-up ...... Shock Waves, The Fantastic ! Films of Vincent Price, and Kid Radio ! Convention ...... Monster Bash ! Convention Runners-up ...... Monsterpalooza and ! HorrorHound Weekend ! Fan Event ...... Tribute to Bernie Wrightson ! (Creature Features, Burbank) ! Fan Event Runner-up ...... Elvira inducted to Horror Host ! Hall of Fame (HorrorHound Weekend) RONDO HATTON AWARDS Horror Host ...... Svengoolie Winners of the 2016 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards Horror Host Runner-up ...... Dr. Gangrene have been announced. A full list (including Horror Comic Book ...... Afterlife with Archie honorable mentions) is available online at . The winners and runners-up are: Horror Comic Book Runners-up ...... ’s Tales Film ...... The Witch for a Halloween Night, Vol. 2 and Haunted Horrors Film Runner-up ...... Deadpool CD ...... Soundtrack, Vols. 1 and 2 TV Presentation ...... Stranger Things CD Runners-up ...... John Carpenter’s Lost Themes II, TV Presentation Runner-up ...... Ash vs. Evil Dead H.P. Lovecraft, and Midnight Syndicate: Zombies! Classic DVD ...... The Thing Collector’s Edition Writer of the Year ...... April Snellings Classic DVD Runner-up ...... Phantasm Remastered Writer Runners-up ...... David Weiner, Nathan Hanneman, Collection ...... Frankenstein: Complete Legacy Collection Larry Underwood, Tim Lucas, Tom Weaver, and Tim Paxton Collection Runner-up ...... Vincent Price Collection III Artist of the Year ...... Mark Maddox Restoration ...... Phantasm Remastered Artist Runners-up ...... Daniel Horne, Scott Jackson, Restoration Runner-up ...... Son Of Frankenstein Gary Pullin, Frank Dietz, Jason Edmiston, L.J. Dopp, Peter Commentary ...... (The Exorcist III) Von Sholly, Mike Hill, Ama Lea, and George Chastain Commentary Runner-up ...... Stuart Cohen (The Thing, 1982) Linda Miller Award for Fan Artist of the Year ...... Malcolm DVD Extra ...... The Thing (Interviews) Gittins DVD Extra Runner-up ....Exorcist III (“Legion” cut of the film); Fan Artist Runners-up ...... John Sargent, Jerrod Brown, Independent Film ...... Hush Eric Swartz, and Belle Dee. Independent Film Runner-up ...... I am the Pretty Thing Special Achievement Award ...... Square That Lives in the House Special Achievement Award ...... Pierre Fournier, Return Short Film ...... H.P. Lovecraft’s the Beast in the Cave to “Frankenstein Lake” Short Film Runner-up ...... Eye of the Beholder Monster Kids of the Year .Don Smeraldi and Vicki Smeraldi Documentary ...... For the Love of Monster Kid Hall of Fame .....Bob Furmanek, John Stanley, Documentary Runner-up ...... Kong: Long Live the King Richard Harland Smith, Vince Rotolo, and Mark Miller 8 WORLD VIDEO GAME HoF INDUCTEES Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, The World Video Game Hall of Fame has announced four new inductees for 2017: TOLKIEN SOCIETY AWARDS ▪ Donkey Kong Winners of the 2017 Tolkien Society Awards (for “excellence in the fields of ▪ Pokemon Red and Green Tolkien scholarship and fandom”) have been announced. ▪ Street Fighter II Artwork ...... “Maglor,” Elena Kukanova BRITISH ACADEMY GAMES AWARDS Article ...... “How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on Winners of the 2017 British Academy Games Awards the Western Front,” Joseph Loconte have been announced. Book ...... A Secret Vice, Dimitra Fimi and Andy Higgins, eds. Artistic Achievement ...... Inside (Playdead) Outstanding Contribution ...... John Garth Audio Achievement ....The Last Guardian (SIE Japan Studio, EDGAR AWARDS genDesign/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe) Winners of the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (for mystery fiction, non-fiction, and TV) have Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe) been announce by the Mystery Writers of America . Some, but by no means all, of the long list of Team17 Digital Ltd) winners are genre adjacent. The winners—and a full list of Debut Game ...... Firewatch (Campo Santo Productions/ nominees—is online at . Campo Santo Productions, Panic Inc.) CLARKE AWARD NOMS Evolving Game ...... Rocket League (Psyonix) The shortlist for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Family ...Overcooked (Ghost Town Games/Team17 Digital Ltd) Award (for “the best Game Design ...... Inside (Playdead) science fiction novel first published in the Unit- Game Innovation ..That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games) ed Kingdom” in 2016) has been announced. The Mobile ...... Pokémon GO ( Inc.) winner will be announced at a 27 July 2017 Multiplayer ...... Overwatch () ceremony in London and will receive a £2017 Music ...... Virginia (Variable State/505 Games) prize. The nominees are: Narrative ...... Inside (Playdead) A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Original Property ...... Inside (Playdead) Stoughton) Performer ...... Cissy Jones as Delilah in Firewatch Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris) BAFTA Ones to Watch Award in Association with After Atlas, Emma Newman (Roc) Dare to Be Digital .....Among the Stones (Bluedoor Games) Occupy Me, Tricia Sullivan (Gollancz) AMD Esports Audience Award (public voted) ..Clash Royale Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing) (Supercell) The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Fleet) AUREALIS AWARDS SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS NOMS Winners of the 2016 Aurealis Awards Nominees for the 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards (for “outstanding achievement in fantasy and horror writers”) have been announced. the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark Children’s Fiction ...... When the Lyrebird Calls, fantastic”) have been announced. Winners will be announced at Kim Kane (Allen & Unwin) Readercon 28 , to be held 13–16 July Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work ...... Negative Space, 2017 at the Quincy Marriott in Quincy (Boston area) MA. Ryan K. Lindsay (Dark Horse Comics) Shirley Jackson Novel Noms YA Short Story ...... “Pretty Jennie Greenteeth,” Leife The Girls, Emma Cline () Shallcross (Strange Little Girls, Belladonna Publishing) The Wonder, Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown) Horror Short Story ...... “Flame Trees,” T.R. Napper Lily, Michael Thomas Ford (Lethe) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2016) Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (Morrow) Horror Novella ...... “Burnt Sugar,” Kirstyn McDermott I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid (Gallery/Scout) (Dreaming in the Dark, PS Australia) Foxlowe, Eleanor Wasserberg (Fourth Estate UK/Penguin US) Fantasy Short Story ...“Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest,” Shirley Jackson Novella Noms Thoraiya Dyer (In Your Face, FableCroft Publishing) “Maggots,” Nina Allan (Five Stories High) Fantasy Novella ...... “Forfeit,” Andrea K. Höst The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01 Publishing) (The Towers, the Moon, self-published) The Warren, (Tor.com Publishing) SF Short Story ...... “Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart,” The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson (Tor.com Publishing) Samantha Murray (Clarkesworld #122) The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing) SF Novella ...... “Salto Mortal,” Nick T. Chan (Lightspeed #73) Muscadines, S.P. Miskowski (Dunhams Manor) Collection ....A Feast of Sorrows, Angela Slatter (Prime Books) Shirley Jackson Novelette Noms Anthology ...... Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015, “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees,” Laird Barron Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, eds. (Twelfth Planet Press) (Autumn Cthulhu) YA Novel ...... Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact, “Breaking Water,” Indrapramit Das (Tor.com 2/10/2016) Alison Goodman (HarperCollins Publishers) “Waxy,” Camilla Grudova (Granta September 2016) Horror Novel ...... The Grief Hole, Kaaron Warren “The Night Cyclist,” Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com 9/21/2016) (IFWG Publishing Australia) “Angel, Monster, Man,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare January 2016) Fantasy Novel ...... Nevernight, Jay Kristoff (Harper Voyager) “Presence,” Helen Oyeyemi (What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours) SF Novel ...... Gemina: Illuminae Files 2, Amie Kaufman Shirley Jackson Short Fiction Noms and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin) “The Apartments,” Karen Heuler (Other Places) Convenors’ Award for Excellence ...... The Rebirth of “Red,” Katie Knoll (The Masters Review 10/7/2016) 9 “Postcards from Natalie,” Carrie Laben (The Dark July 2016) Lawrence (Harper Voyager) “Things With Beards,” Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld June 2016) Sam Green for the cover of The Bands of Mourning by Bran- “Animal Parts,” Irenosen Okojie (Speak, Gigantular) don Sanderson (Gollancz) Shirley Jackson Single-Author Collection Noms Kerby Rosannes for the cover of Nevernight by Jay Kristoff We Show What We Have Learned, Clare Beams (Lookout) (Harper Voyager) A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer) Paul Young for the cover of Wrath by John Gwynne (Tor) Furnace, Livia Llewellyn (Word Horde) CANOPUS AWARDS NOMS Almost Insentient, Almost Divine, D.P. Watt (Undertow) Finalists for the Canopus Awards for Excellence in Interstel- Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt (Shock Totem) lar Writing have been announced Shirley Jackson Edited Anthology Noms by 100 Year Starship <100yss.org>. An Unreliable Guide to London, Kit Caless and Gary Budden, Winners will be announced at a 12 Au- eds. (Influx) gust 2017 ceremony in Los Angeles CA. Autumn Cthulhu, Mike Davis, ed. (Lovecraft eZine Press) Canopus Previously Published The Madness of Dr. Caligari, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. (Fedo- Long-Form Fiction Noms gan and Bremer) The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster (Harper Voyager) Stories, Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay, eds. (Exile Dark Orbit, Carolyn Ives Gilman (Tor) Editions) Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (HarperCollins) The Starlit Wood, Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe, eds. The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor) (Saga) Arkwright, Allen Steele (Tor) EISNER AWARD NOMS Canopus Previously Published Short-Form Fiction Noms Nominees for the 2017 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards “Slow Bullets,” Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon Publications) have “This Long Vigil,” Rhett C. Bruno (Perihelion) been announced by Comic-Con International . Nominees for the full list of 30 categories are too Science Fiction) long for the Shuttle to print, but can be seen online at . log Science Fiction and Fact) EUGIE AWARD NOMS “The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred,” Greg Egan (Asi- Finalists for the 2017 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for mov’s Science Fiction; reprinted by Subterranean Press) Short Fiction (for “stories that are “Whom He May Devour,” Alex Shvartsman (Nautilus) irreplaceable, that inspire, enlighten, and entertain”) have been “Love and Relativity,” Stewart C. Baker (Nature Physics; announced. The winner will receive a $1000 prize at a ceremo- reprinted by Nature and by Flash Fiction Online) ny at Dragon Con , to be held 1–4 Sep- Canopus Previously Published Nonfiction Noms tember 2017 at the Hyatt Regency and other hotels in Atlanta “A Terrestrial Planet Candidate in a Temperate Orbit Around GA. The finalists are: Proxima,” Guillem Anglada-Escude, et al. (Nature) “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” Amal El-Mohtar (The Starlit “A Science Critique of Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson,” Wood: New Fairy Tales) Stephen Baxter, James Benford, and Joseph Miller (Cen- “The City Born Great,” N.K. Jemisin (Tor.com, September tauri Dreams) 2016) Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet, Buzz “Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man,” Suzanne Aldrin and Marianne Dyson (National Geographic) Palmer (Asimov’s , July 2016) “Let’s All Go to Mars,” John Lanchester (London Review of “The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Lumines- Books) cence of Debauchery,” Catherynne M. Valente (Beneath “Our Worldship Broke!,” Jim Beall () Ceaseless Skies, May 2016) Canopus Original Fiction Noms “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay,” Alyssa Wong (Un- “The Quest for New Cydonia,” Russell Hemmell canny Magazine, May 2016) “Luminosity,” Adeene Denton GEMMELL AWARDS NOMS “Mission,” Yoshifumi Kakiuchi The shortlists for the 2017 David Gemmell Awards for fantasy have been announced. “Sleeping Westward,” Lorraine Schein Gemmell Legend Award (Fantasy Novel) Noms Canopus Original Non-Fiction Noms Wrath, John Gwynne (Tor) “Motivatingly Plausible Ways to Reach the Stars,” James Blodgett Nevernight, Jay Kristoff (Harper Voyager) “Microbots—The Seeds of Interstellar Civilization,” Robert The Wheel of Osheim, Mark Lawrence (Harper Voyager) Buckalew The Bands of Mourning, (Gollancz) “An Anthropic Program for the Long-Term Survival of Hu- Warbeast, Gav Thorpe (Black Library) mankind,” Roberto Paura Gemmell Morningstar Award (Fantasy Newcomer) Noms “ Planets, Geoengineering Earth,” James Fleming Infernal, Mark de Jager (Del Rey UK) Canopus Original College Writing Noms Duskfall, Christopher Husberg (Titan) “A Kingdom of Ends,” Ryan Burgess Steal the Sky, Megan E. O’Keefe (Angry Robot) “Ethics in Space,” Greg Becker Snakewood, Adrian Selby (Orbit) SCRIBE AWARDS NOMS Hope and Red, Jon Skovron (Orbit) Nominees for the 2017 Scribe Awards (for “excellence in licensed tie-in writing”) Alessandro Baldaserroni for the cover of Black Rift by Josh have been announced. Many, but by no means all, of these Reynolds (Black Library) are genre or genre-adjacent. The winners will be announced Jason Chan for the cover of The Wheel of Osheim by Mark at San Diego’s Comic-Con . In addi- 10 tion to the categories below, the Enchanted Warrior, Sharon Ashwood (Harlequin Nocturne) International Association of The Champion of Barésh, Susan Grant (self-published) Media Tie-In Writers Where the Wild Things Bite, Molly Harper (Pocket) has announced Bayou Shadow Hunter, Debbie Herbert (Harlequin Nocturne) that their 2017 Faust Award (a The Pages of the Mind, Jeffe Kennedy (Kensington) grandmaster award) goes to Ghost Gifts, Laura Spinella (Montlake) Christie Golden. The Beast, J.R. Ward (New American Library) Scribe Awards Adapted– Golden Heart for Paranormal RomanceNoms General and Speculative Noms Fire’s Rising, Grace Adams Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins Soul Affinity, A.Y. Chao Assassin’s Creed, Christie Golden Constant Craving, Kari W. Cole Suicide Squad, Marv Wolfman Beryl Blue, Time Cop, Janet Halpin Scribe Awards Audio Noms Bless Your Heart and Other Southern Curses, Heather Leonard Dark Shadows: Blood & Fire, Roy Gill The Mer Chronicles: Love’s Diplomatic Act, Kate Ramirez Torchwood: Broken, Joseph Lidster SEIUN AWARDS NOMS Torchwood: Uncanny Valley, David Llewellyn Finalists for the 2017 Seiun Awards have been announced. Doctor Who: Mouthless Dead, John Pritchard Most of the works are in Japanese and thus of limited interest Scribe Awards General Original Noms to Shuttle readers. Finalists in the translated novel and short Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn, Ace Atkins story categories are listed below. Don Pendleton’s The Executioner: Missile Intercept, Michael Black Seiun Foreign Novel Noms Tom Clancy’s True Faith and Allegiance, Mark Greaney Imperial Radch trilogy, Anne Leckie, translated by Hideko Akao Murder Never Knocks, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu, translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa 24: Trial by Fire, Dayton Ward Enchanted Night, , translated by Motoyuki Shibata Scribe Awards Short Fiction Noms The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North, translat- X-Files: “XXX,” Glenn Greenberg ed by Hiromi Amagai X-Files: “An Eye for an Eye,” George Ivanoff Roderick, John Sladek, translated by Kiichiro Yanashita X-Files: “Drive Time,” Jon McGoran United States of Japan, Peter Tieryas, translated by Naoya Nakahara X-Files: “Love Lost,” Yvonne Navarro Treasury 1 (Magnus Ridolph), Jack Vance, translated “A Dangerous Cat,” Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins by Hisashi Asakura and Akinobu Sakai Scribe Awards Speculative Original Noms Seiun Foreign Short Story Noms Warhammer 40,000 Warden of the Blade, David Annandale “Seventh Sight,” Greg Egan, translated by Makoto Yamagishi Assassin’s Creed Heresy, Christie Golden “,” , translated by Norio Ito Supernatural Mythmaker, Tim Waggoner “Simulacrum,” Ken Liu, translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa Star Trek Elusive Salvation, Dayton Ward “The Day the World Turned Upside Down,” Thomas Olde REH FOUNDATION AWARDS NOMS Heuvelt, translated by Jun Suzuki Nominees for the Robert E. 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