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Te Shutle May 2011 The Next NASFA Meeting is 21 May 2011— the More-or-Less Annual Cookout/Picnic No Con†Stellation XXX ConCom Meeting in May

FUTURE PROGRAMS AND ATMMs d Oyez, Oyez d The June program will be Alex White doing: “Live from The Gearheart.” Alex will record a podcast live. Details are not set The next NASFA Meeting will be Saturday 21 May 2011— as of press time, but there may audience participation involved. but not at the regular time or location. Programs for July and further months are being developed. The May Meeting, Program, and ATMM will all be sub- The ATMM for June will be at Russell McNutt’s house. We sumed in the More-or-Less Annual NASFA Cookout/Picnic, are seeking ATMM volunteers for July and most months be- which will be at Sam and Judy Smith’s house in yond. Madison; see the map on page 9 of this issue. CLUB MEETINGS MAY PROGRAM 2011 NASFA meetings are scheduled to be the usual 3rd Sat- Um, see above :-) urday except for July, August, and September. In each of those MAY ATMM months the meeting will be moved to the 2nd Saturday to avoid Um, see above :-) conflicts with various conventions (including Con†Stellation). CONCOM MEETINGS NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE Due to the Picnic/ NASFA has an online calendar on Google. Interested parties Cookout, there will be no can check the calendar online, but you can also subscribe to the Con†Stellation XXX con- calendar and have your Outlook, iCal, BlackBerry, or other com meeting in May. calendar automatically updated as events (Club Meetings, The June concom meet- Concom Meetings, local sf/f events) are added or changed. ing will probably be at 3P on the same day as that month’s club meeting, at the Renasant Bank’s Community Room—the same room used for the club meeting. News & Info The likely plan going forward will be to continue to have concom meetings the same day as club meetings. As we near GOES KLINGON the con and need to go to more than one concom meeting a Renovation , this year’s Worldcon month, the concom schedule will have to adjust. —to be held Wednesday–Sunday 17–21 August 2011—has Continuing Our 31st Year of Publication

Inside this issue… Minutes of the April Meeting ...... 2 Locus Awards Nominations ...... 4 NASFA Calendar ...... 3 Awards Roundup ...... 5 Hugo and Campbell Awards Nominations ...... 3 Letters of Comment ...... 8

Deadline for the June 2011 issue of The1 NASFA Shuttle is Friday 3 June 2011 announced that the Klingon Language Institute will be offering the host. Can you say “unanticipated consequences”? an introductory workshop starting at noon Tuesday 16 NEW ORLEANS TO BID FOR 2018 WORLDCON? August—the day before the start of Worldcon. There is a $10 A bid for the 2018 Worldcon in New Orleans was announced advance registration fee is required for the event. in an advert in the first Chicon 7 progress report . The only contact info pub- lenging, the KLI’s annual summer conference (qep’a’) lished for the bid was email address will be in Reno the several days gmail.com>. before Worldcon. The official verbal battles will run from Sun- Per various online reports, committee members include Jes- day morning Tuesday evening 14–16 August. sica Styons and Rebecca Smith, chair of new NO-area general- NO KLINGON PLEASE, WE’RE ENGLISH interest sf con, CONtraflow. From reports credited to those two Well, English teachers, anyway. Or, well, teachers of any worthies, the bid is in its early stages but wants to gauge inter- sort. Or librarians. Or parents. est and stake out their preferred year. The bid is said to want to Renovation has announced “Teaching SF,” a workshop for pull from the Central Gulf Coast for its committee/staff, not teachers, librarians, and parents on how to use just NOLA. None of the bid committee members were high- as a teaching tool. The workshop will run 9A–6P on the first level members of the last New Orleans Worldcon, but some do day of the convention. Non-convention members may attend date their convention-running experience that far back and for a $40 fee; which includes a Wednesday day pass to attend more. Renovation. There’s a reduce fee for Young Adults (21 or un- der). Full Renovation members can attend free. All workshop attendees (including Renovation members) must register by 30 June 2011. Information on registration, and April Minutes details of the workshop program, can be found at . The workshop is a collaboration of Reading for the Future, The April meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction Inc and AboutSF at the University of Kansas. the Renasant Bank meeting room at 6:18:41P by President TIME TOP 100, WHAT A Mary Lampert and the crickets. “Yay, crickets!” Time magazine’s 2011 list of the 100 “most influential peo- OLD BUSINESS ple in the world” includes George R.R. Martin. This is not the None. first appearance of a genre author (J.K. Rowling has appeared NEW BUSINESS more than once), but is a first for Martin. The full list can be As Publicity Director, Jack got a WLRH sponsorship so we found at can make convention announcements. SFNAL ARTIST ON USPS POSTAGE Steve had been selected to read the voiceover for recording, Hugo-winning artist Donato Giancola has created the art for a pair of US Postal Service stamps; the radio. Steve read a sample promo at the meeting. one celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mercury Project astro- There were Spammish Inquisitions, but fortunately there naut Alan Shepard’s 1961 flight and the other honoring the were no spammish emails to read in response. NASA MESSENGER spacecraft, the first spacecraft to orbit Neither Jack nor Steve were certain which book the Bailey Mercury. Cove Library Science Fiction Book Club was planning to dis- If all goes as planned, this issue of the Shuttle will uses those cuss next. stamps for paper copies. CON BUSINESS According to Con†Stellation XXX con chair Anita, we had a con-com (convention committee meeting). K.O. (Kevin Omel) will serve as head of Operations. Mike K. had planned to bring Con†Stellation XXX flyers, but he was out of them. If you are able to distribute flyers, please email Mike K. for an electronic copy you can print. Promotional bookmarks for Con†Stellation and NASFA were available to hand out. TAFF WINNER TAKES ODD ROUTE Gene asked if we'd started taking orders for Con†Stellation That’s an odd route to the win, not an odd route to the US. XXX t-shirts, and when we will have the final design. We The 2011 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund is an East-to-West year, weren't taking orders yet, and the final design is generally sub- sending a representative from Europe to attend Renovation. mitted about six weeks before the con. Sunn will be in charge The race had four entrants, an unusually high number. The top of t-shirts this year. two vote-getters (and the 4th-place candidate as well), however, ANNOUNCEMENTS fell afoul of a “20% rule” that requires the winner to poll at Mike C. generated a half-sheet ad to promote the convention least 20% of the first place votes cast on each side of the pond and NASFA, something he had wanted to do for years. He (excluding No Preference). passed around a draft copy for club members to inspect. So, it fell to John Coxon as the only fan standing after this Wyman announced that next month's meeting and program rule was applied—and he barely squeaked in. Had he received will be the NASFA picnic, which will be held at Sam and 26 European votes (vs. the 27 he got) or 9 North American Judy's house. He hadn't set up a program for June yet. votes (vs. the 11 he got) he, too, would have been ineligible. Mike C. suggested asking (editorial director of By the way, the theory of this rule is that a winner should Pyr Books) if he has any authors he can suggest who can speak have to make at least some effort to get support from the host at the NASFA meeting. country but also should also not campaign exclusively toward Typically, NASFA picnics begin at 1P, so that is the likely 2 start time this year. 19 Fathers’ Day. Doug moved to adjourn at 6:36:41P. 21 BD: PieEyedDragon. The program featured “Reverend Bob,” a.k.a. Bob Hood, 21 First Day of Summer. webmaster for Steve Jackson games. Doug and Mary hosted JULY the After-the-Meeting Meeting at their house. 01 Canada Day (Fête du Canada). 02 BD: Deb Stone. 04 Independence Day. 07 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: The Stars, My NASFA Calendar Destination, ; 6P. 09 Nunavut Day. MAY 09* Tentative Con†Stellation XXX Concom Meeting—3P; 01 BD: Russell McNutt. at Renasant Bank. 01 May Day (traditional). 09* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Re- 02 May Day (observed). nasant Bank. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. NOTE that 03 BD: Martha Knowles. is the 2nd Saturday instead of the usual 3rd Saturday. 05 Cinco de Mayo. 15–17 LibertyCon 24—Chattanooga TN. 05 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Abarat, Clive 15–17 PersaCon—Huntsville AL. Barker; 6P. 24 BD: Jay Johns. 08 Mothers’ Day. 24 Parents’ Day. 13-15 Gaylaxicon—Atlanta GA. 29 BD: Mark Paulk. 13-15 Tiger Con—Memphis TN. 29–31 Creation: —NashvilleTN. 13-15 Full Moon Horror Festival—Nashville TN. 29–01 Play On Con—Birmingham,AL. 14 BD: Debbie Hughes. AUGUST 14 Sukoshicon—Montgomery AL. 04 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: Little, Big, John 14 Anime Day—Atlanta GA. Crowly; 6P. 16 BD: Linda Bolgeo. 08 BD: Jim Woosley. 19 BD: David O. Miller. 12 BD: Sue Thorn. 19-22 Nebula Awards Weekend—Washington DC. 13* Tentative Con†Stellation XXX Concom Meeting—3P; 20 BD: Mike Glicksohn. at Renasant Bank. 20-22 Dicehead SIEGE—Chattanooga TN. 13* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Re- 20-22 Mobicon—Mobile AL. nasant Bank. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. NOTE that 20-22 ImagiCon—Birmingham AL. is the 2nd Saturday instead of the usual 3rd Saturday. 21* Con†Stellation XXX Concom Meeting—CANCELED 14 BD: Edward Kenny. due to Cookout/Picnic. 18–21 Game Fest South—ChattanoogaTN. 21* NASFA Meeting—More-or-Less Annual NASFA Picnic/ 19–20 Onyx Con III—Atlanta GA. Cookout at Judy and Sam Smith’s house. Starts at 1P. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. 21 Armed Forces Day. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 23 Victoria Day (Fête de la Reine) (Canada). The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the 27 BD: Kathy Paulk. third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby 27-29 Rocket City Furmeet 9—Huntsville AL. convention being held that weekend—in which case we often 27-29 Oasis 24—Orlando FL. move the meeting to the second or fourth weekend.) The regu- 27-29 TimeGate—Atlanta GA. lar meeting location is the Community Room at the Balmoral 30 Memorial Day. branch of Renasant Bank (off Airport Road, near the Parkway). JUNE The Executive Committee meeting (if scheduled) is at 5P. The 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. business meeting is at 6P. The program is at 7P. Anyone is wel- 02 Bailey Cove Library Book Discussion: The Languages come to attend any of the meetings. There is usually an after- of Pao, ; 6P. the-meeting meeting with directions available at the program. 03–05 ConCarolinas—Charlotte NC. 03–05 HeroesCon—Charlotte NC. 03–05 HamaCon 2—Huntsville AL. 03–05 Seishun-Con—Atlanta GA. Hugo and Campbell Noms 04–05 Creation: Supernatural—Nashville TN. 10–12 Sci Fi Summer Con—Atlanta GA. Renovation has announced the nominees for the 13 BD: Bill S. Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award. The 14 Flag Day. awards ceremony will be Saturday 20 August 2011, 14 BD: Ali Scanland. the evening of the last full day of the Worldcon. A 16–19 Stoker Weekend—Long Island NY. total of 1,006 nominating ballots were received. The 17 BD: Jeff Freeman. deadline for online ballots and receipt of paper bal- 17–19 Faerie Escape—Atlanta GA. lots is 31 July 2011 (11:59 PDT). 17–19 Comic & Anime Con—Knoxville TN. There are more than 5 nominees in the Long 18* Tentative Con†Stellation XXX Concom Meeting—3P; Form Editor category due to ties. There are fewer at Renasant Bank. than 5 nominees in the Short Story category due 18* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 7P Program, at Re- to a rule that requires nominees to be on at least nasant Bank. Program: TBD,.ATMM: Russell McNutt’s 5% of the ballots. house. Nominations in a couple of categories caused 3 some controversy online. Some people raised the question BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION—LONG FORM whether Fuck Me, should have been in the Re- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 lated Work category instead of the Short Form Dramatic Pres- How to Train Your Dragon Inception entation. That seemed to blow over rather quicker than the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Toy Story 3 question about Randall Munroe eligibility for Best Fan Artist BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION—SHORT FORM since he makes at least a part of his living from his webcomic : “A Christmas Carol” xkcd. Neither of these questions seems at all likely to have any Doctor Who: “The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang” effect on the nominees list since the administrator preformed Doctor Who: “Vincent and the Doctor” whatever vetting he or she deemed necessary before the an- Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury nouncement. The Lost Thing All that said, by category, the nominees are: BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR—LONG FORM BEST NOVEL Lou Anders Ginjer Buchanan Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) Moshe Feder Liz Gorinsky Nick Mamatas Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit) Beth Meacham Juliet Ulman The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR—SHORT FORM The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz) John Joseph Adams Stanley Schmidt Blackout/All Clear, (Spectra) Sheila Williams BEST NOVELLA BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean) Daniel Dos Santos Bob Eggleton “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon,” Elizabeth Stephan Martiniere Shaun Tan Hand (Stories) BEST SEMIPROZINE “The Sultan of the Clouds,” Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Sep- Clarkesworld Interzone tember 2010) Lightspeed Locus Weird Tales “Troika,” Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines) BEST “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Banana Wings Challenger The Drink Tank Window,” Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010) File 770 StarShipSofa BEST NOVELETTE BEST FAN WRITER “The Jaguar House, in Shadow,” Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s James Bacon Claire Brialey Christopher J. Garcia July 2010) Steven H Silver “Plus or Minus,” James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s December BEST FAN ARTIST 2010) Brad W. Foster Randall Munroe “Eight Miles,” Sean McMullen (Analog September 2010) Maurine Starkey Steve Stiles Taral Wayne “The Emperor of Mars,” Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s June 2010) JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made,” Eric James Stone WRITER—NOT A (Analog September 2010) Saladin Ahmed Lauren Beukes BEST SHORT STORY Larry Correia Lev Grossman Dan Wells “Ponies,” (Tor.com 17 November 2010) All John W. Campbell Award finalists are in their 2nd year of eligibility. “For Want of a Nail,” (Asimov’s De- cember 2010) “Amaryllis,” Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed June 2010) “The Things,” (Clarkesworld January 2010) Locus Awards “Finalists” BEST RELATED WORK Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 The Locus Science Fiction Foundation (as in Locus maga- (1907-1948): Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr. zine) has released the “finalists” for their 2011 Locus Awards. (Tor) The awards uses a single-round voting system so each category The Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing is actually a top-5 list—the winners have already been decided. and Publishing, and Barry N. Malzberg Speaking of winners, those will be announced during the (McFarland) Science Fiction Awards Weekend, to be held 24–26 June 2011 Writing Excuses, Season 4, Brandon Sanderson, Jordan in Seattle WA. Tickets can be purchased at . Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Women Who Love It, Lynne M. Thomas & Tara O’Shea, Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK; Orbit US) eds. (Mad Norwegian) Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon) Zero History, (Putnam; Viking UK) BEST GRAPHIC STORY The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz) The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man, ; art by Peter Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra) Gross (Vertigo) FANTASY NOVEL Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc) Muse, Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio Kraken, China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Del Rey) (Airship Entertainment) Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) Grandville Mon Amour, Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse) The Fuller Memorandum, (Ace; Orbit UK) Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel, Howard Tayler (Hy- The Sorcerer’s House, (Tor) pernode) FIRST NOVEL : Witches, ; art by Mark Buckingham The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade) (Vertigo) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; 4 Orbit US) The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Five: Nine Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor) Black Doves, Roger Zelazny (NESFA) , Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor) EDITOR How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu Gordon Van Gelder (Pantheon) David G. Hartwell Jonathan Strahan YOUNG ADULT BOOK ARTIST Ship Breaker, (Little, Brown) Bob Eggleton Donato Giancola John Picacio Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) Shaun Tan Michael Whelan Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; NON-FICTION Greenwillow) 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy I Shall Wear Midnight, (Gollancz; HarperCol- Fowler and Debbie Notkin, eds. (Aqueduct) lins) Conversations with Octavia Butler, Conseula Francis (Univer- Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster sity Press of Mississippi) UK) Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: NOVELLA 1907–1948: Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr., Bone and Jewel Creatures, (Subterranean) (Tor) The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean) CM Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Vi- “The Mystery Knight,” George R.R. Martin (Warriors) sionary, Mark Rich (McFarland) “Troika,” Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines) Bearings: Reviews 1997–2001, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon) “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s ART BOOK Window,” Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Magazine Bob Eggleton, Dragon’s Domain (Impact) Summer 2010) Spectrum 17, Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner, eds. (Under- NOVELETTE wood) “The Fool Jobs,” (Swords & Dark Magic) Donato Giancola, Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains,” (Underwood) (Stories) Shaun Tan, The Bird King and Other Sketches (Windy Hollow) “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter,” (Strange Ho- and Neil Gaiman, Instructions (Harper) rizons 18–25 January 2010) “Plus or Minus,” James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s December 2010) “Marya and the Pirate,” Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s January Awards Roundup 2010) SHORT STORY ANOTHER DICKHEAD CROWNED “Booth’s Ghost,” (What I Didn’t See and The winner of the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award (for a “distin- Other Stories) guished science fiction “The Thing About Cassandra,” Neil Gaiman (Songs of Love [book] published for the and Death) first time in the United “Names for Water,” Kij Johnson (Asimov’s October–November States as a paperback 2010) original”) was announced “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time,” Catherynne Friday 22 April 2011, at M. Valente (Clarkesworld September 2010) 34 in Sea- MAGAZINE Tac WA. The winner is Analog Asimov’s F&SF The Strange Affair of Subterranean Tor.com Spring Heeled Jack, PUBLISHER Mark Hodder. Addition- Baen Night Shade Books Orbit ally, a special citation Subterranean Press Tor went to Harmony, Project ANTHOLOGY Itoh, translated by Alex- Zombies vs. Unicorns, Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, ander O. Smith. eds. (McElderry) The Philip K. Dick The Beastly Bride, Ellen Datlow and , eds. (Vi- Award is sponsored by king) the Philadelphia Science The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Col- Fiction Society and the Philip Warriors, George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, eds. (Tor) K. Dick Trust . The award ceremony Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders, eds. is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society. This (HarperCollins) year’s judges were William Barton, , Bruce COLLECTION McAllister, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and David Walton. Next Mirror Kingdoms, Peter S. Beagle (Subterranean) year’s judges are Scott Baker, Mark Budz, Roby James, Darrell What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Schweitzer, and Alice K. Turner. Beer) BSFA AWARDS : Selected Stories, Fritz Leiber (Night Shade) Winners of the 2010 British Science Fiction Association The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson Awards were announced at Illustrious 2011, (Night Shade) this year’s British natcon (aka Eastercon). Nominations are by 5 members of BSFA; final voting is by BSFA and Eastercon PRIX AURORA/BORÉAL WINNERS members. The winners are: This is the first year that the Prix Aurora and Prix Boréal Novel ...... The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Gollancz) awards have joined forces. The Auroras were previously given Short Fiction ...... “The Shipmaker,” Aliette de Bodard for both English- and French-language Canadian work while (Interzone 231, TTA Press) the Boréals were for French-language work only. Art ...... The cover of , Joey Hi-Fi (Angry ) Winners of the French-language Prix Aurora/Boréal and Prix Non Fiction ...... “Blogging the Hugos: Decline,” Boréal Awards were announced 15 May 2011 at a ceremony in Paul Kincaid Montreal. See below for the nominees for the English-language ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD Prix , announced at the same time. The winner of the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award (for the best science fiction novel of the year tueuse de dragons, Héloïse Côté (Alire) based on UK first edition Prix Aurora/Boréal Meilleure nouvelle (Best Short Fiction) .. publication) was an- “Pour l’honneur d’un Nohaum,” Philippe-Aubert Côté nounced at the Sci-Fi- (Solaris) London Film Festival Prix Aurora/Boréal Meilleur ouvrage (Best Related Work) ... on 27 Prix Boréal Création artistique audiovisuelle (Audiovisual April 2011. The award Art Award) ...... Sybiline (Covers of Solaris 173, went go to Zoo City, Lau- Solaris 175, and Brins d’éternité 26) ren Beukes (Angry Ro- Prix Boréal Fanédition (Fan Publications) ...... Brins bot). Beukes received a d’éternité (Fanzine) £2011 prize and a com- SEIUN NOMINEES memorative engraved Nominees have been announced for the Seiun Awards, pre- bookend. sented by the Japanese national sf convention. The nominees in This year’s judges were the translated fiction category are listed below. Other categories include Japanese language fiction (long and short form, Media, and Martin Lewis for the Comics, Art, Nonfiction, and an “Open” category. Translated British Science Fiction fiction nominees are: Association, Phil Nanson Seiun Noms: Foreign—Long Form and Liz Williams for the Genesis, Bernard Beckett Science Fiction Founda- World War Z, Max Brooks tion, and Paul Skevington Eifelheim, Michael Flynn for SFCrowsnest.com. Paul Billinger was chair of judges. Hunter’s Run, George R.R. Martin PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDS , China Miéville The Publishing Triangle (“the El Mapa del Tiempo (The Map of Time), Félix J. Palma association of lesbians and gay Farthing trilogy, men in publishing”) gives awards Seiun Noms: Foreign—Short Form for LGBT Fiction, Poetry, and “Pump Six,” Paolo Bacigalupi Non-Fiction. This year’s selection “Exhalation,” Ted Chiang for the Edmund White Award “Crystal Nights,” for Debut Fiction was “The Ray-Gun: A Love Story,” Katharine Beutner for Alcestis “Man in the Mirror,” Geoffrey A. Landis (Soho Press). Beutner retells the “Carry the Moon in My Pocket,” James Lovegrove Greek myth of Alcestis (who sac- “The Beloved Time of Their Lives,” Ian Watson and Robert rificed herself to the gods to save Quaglia her husband’s life) from a SHIRLEY JACKSON NOMS woman’s point of view. Nominees for the 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards (for “outstanding achievement in The winners of the 2010 Ursa horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction”) have Major Awards (for anthropomorphic literature and art) presented at Readercon 22 , to be held were announced Friday 13 May 2011, during Morphicon 14–17 July 2011 at the Boston Marriott Burlington in Burling- in Columbus OH. The winners are: ton MA. The nominees are: Motion Picture ...... How To Train Your Dragon Shirley Jackson Noms: Novel Dramatic Short Work or Series ...... Wallace and Gromit’s The Reapers Are the Angels, Alden Bell (Holt) World of Invention, Episodes 1 to 6 Mr. Shivers, Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit) Novel ...... Shadow of the Father, Kyell Gold Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit) Short Fiction ...... Bridges, Kyell Gold The Silent Land, (Gollancz) Other Literary Work ...... Fur-Piled, Leo Magna Dark Matter, Michelle Paver (Orion) Graphic Story ...... Twokinds, Tom Fischbach A Dark Matter, (Doubleday) Comic Strip ...... Housepets!, Rick Griffin Shirley Jackson Noms: Novella Magazine ...... Heat “Mysterium Tremendum,” (Occultation) Published Illustration ...... Cover for Kyell Gold’s The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS) Shadow of the Father, Sara Palmer One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW) Game ...... Disney Epic Mickey Subtle Bodies, Peter Dubé (Lethe) 6 Chasing the Dragon, Nicholas Kaufmann (ChiZine) Stories, Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, eds., read by Anne The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine) Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Peter Francis James, Katherine Shirley Jackson Noms: Novelette Kellgren, and Euan Morton “–30–,” Laird Barron (Occultation) Audie Noms: Original Work “The Broadsword,” Laird Barron (Black Wings) Fashionably Undead, Meg Cabot, ed., and the Twitterverse, “The Redfield Girls,” Laird Barron (Haunted Legends) read by Sarah Drew “Holderhaven,” Richard Butner (Crimewave 11: Ghosts) Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry, Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse, “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains,” Neil Gaiman read by Katherine Kellgren (Stories) The Alchemist & the Executioness, Paolo Bacigalupi and To- Shirley Jackson Noms: Short Story bias S. Buckell, read by Jonathan Davis and Katherine “six six six,” Laird Barron (Occultation) Kellgren “Booth’s Ghost,” Karen Joy Fowlder (What I Didn’t See and Audie Noms: Solo Narration—Female Other Stories) The Invisible Order: Book One: Rise of the Darklings, Paul “The Foxes,” Lily Hoang (Haunted Legends) Crilley, read by Katherine Kellgren “As Red as Red,” Caitlín R. Kiernan (Haunted Legends) The Magician’s Elephant, Kate DiCamillo, read by Juliet Ste- “The Things,” Peter Watts (Clarkesworld January 2010) venson Shirley Jackson Noms: Single-Author Collection Audie Noms: Children’s Titles for Ages Up to 8 Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade) One Beastly Beast, , read by Stig Wemyss What Will Come After, Scott Edelman (PS) Audie Noms: Classic What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Watership Down, Richard Adams, read by Ralph Cosham Beer) Audie Noms: Fiction The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon) Steve Hockensmith and Jane Austen, read by Katherine Shirley Jackson Noms: Edited Anthology Kellgren My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me, Kate Bern- Audie Noms: Humor heimer, ed. (Penguin) Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, Alan Goldsher, Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor) read by Simon Vance Stories, Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow) Audie Noms: Thriller/Suspense Black Wings, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS) Interface, Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George, read by Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders, eds. Oliver Wyman (HarperCollins) Audie Noms: Literary Fiction AUDIE AWARDS NOMS The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell, read The Audio Publishers Association has by Jonathan Aris and Paula Wilcox announced finalists for the 2011 Audie Awards. A number of Audie Noms: Multi-Voiced Performance the nominees are genre related, not all in the obvious catego- Great Classic Science Fiction: Eight Unabridged Stories, H.G. ries. Winners will be announced at a ceremony to be held 24 Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lester Del Rey, et al., read May 2011in NYC. by Simon Vance, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, et al. Audie Noms: Science Fiction/Fantasy Audie Noms: Package Design Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison, read by Marguerite Ga- Peter & Max, Bill Willingham, read by Wil Wheaton vin Audie Noms: Romance Feed, Mira Grant, read by Paula Christensen and Jessie Bern- Fantasy in Death, J.D. Robb, read by Susan Ericksen stein PRIX AURORA AWARDS NOMS Halo: Evolutions, Anonymous, ed., read by Steve Downes, As noted in a separate article above, the French-language Holter Graham, Frank O’Connor, and Jen Taylor awards formerly part of the Canadian Prix Aurora Awards have The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham, read by Graeme Mal- been combined with the Prix Boréal. Nominees for the English- colm language (and art, and fan) Auroras

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Madison AL 35758 Road Rideout University Drive Slaughter Road Slaughter I-565

Memorial Parkway

From near the I-565/Memorial Parkway intersection, either: (1) Take I-565 West; exit at Madison Boulevard (exit 13); turn right (North) on Slaughter Road; the house is about 3.3 miles ahead, on your right —or— (2) Take University Drive West; stay on University for about 7 miles; turn left (South) on Slaughter Road; the MadisonI-565 Blvd. house is about 1.1 miles ahead, on your left

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