Te Shutle June 2018 The Next NASFA Meeting Will Be the More- or-Less Annual NASFA Cookout/Picnic Sue Thorn’s House; 2P–7P, Saturday 16 June 2018 The August Meeting Resumes at the Regular Time & Location
(due to Not-A-Con 2018). Most 2018 meetings are on the nor- d Oyez, Oyez d mal 3rd Saturday date. The only remaining meeting currently not scheduled for the normal weekend is: The next NASFA Meeting will be 16 June 2018, but NOT •11 August—a week earlier (2nd Saturday) to avoid Worldcon at the regular time or location. The meeting will be subsumed NOT-A-CON 2018 by the More-or-Less Annual NASFA Cookout/Picnic, to be Be sure to mark your October 2018 calendar for Not-A-Con held at Sue Thorns’s house from 2P–7P that day. Sue’s place is 2018, to be held Friday 19 October 2018 & Saturday 21 Octo- 308 Red Oak Road in Madison—see the map below, at right ber 2018. Those who stay over at the Holiday Inn Express for directions. Attendees are asked to bring food to share plus (Huntsville Airport) will also have a Dead Dog Breakfast on
their preferred drink. A grill will be available for your use. Sunday 21 October before heading back to our everyday lives. Westminster Way JUNE PROGRAM & ATMM Pl Point Madison ~3.6 miles The June Program & After-The-Meeting Meeting will also be south of US-72
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Oak St Oak Pension Row Pension ideas, especially if you can run one yourself. Mill Road Wallaka Hwy Triana FUTURE ATMMs Street Sullivan We need hosts for most future months in 2018. Email to volunteer or inquire. October is nullified by Not-A-Con 2018. November may be spoken for, but if that’s the only month for you we can make it work. All 308 Red Oak Road other months are definitely open. Madison AL 35758 FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES/LOCATIONS At present, all 2018 NASFA Meetings are expected to be at Map To NASFA the normal meeting location except for this month (due to the ~1.8 miles More-or-Less Annual NASFA Cookout/Picnic) and October Cookout/Picnic (2P–7P) north of I-565 Continuing Our 38th Year of Publication
Inside this issue… News & Info...... 2 Aurora Awards Nominations...... 4 Minutes of the May Meeting...... 3 Awards Roundup...... 5 NASFA Calendar...... 3 NASA JPL “Travel Poster”—Venus...... 9 Deadline for the July 2018 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Monday 25 June 2018 SHUTTLE DEADLINES not. In this case, there are two elections with separate fees—for In general, the monthly Shuttle production schedule (though the 2020 Worldcon ($50) and the 2019 NASFiC ($30). a bit squishy) is to put each issue to bed about 6–8 days before You can still vote by mail or at the con (or have someone each month’s meeting. Submissions are needed as far in ad- hand deliver your vote to the con). But, if you want to do it all vance of that as possible. electronically you can use links at the URL above to purchase a Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each “Voting Token” in a given race then enter the ID number for month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. that token either on a paper copy of the ballot you subsequently JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST scan, or directly on a PDF (doing markup in your preferred All NASFAns who have email are urged to join our email application). You then email the completed electronic copy of list, which you can do online at . the ballot to Worldcon 76. San José will print the ballot at their The list is usually low traffic, though the rate is rather variable. end and enter it into the pile of paper ballots to be counted. Generally the list is limited to announcements about club activ- Whew… but it can save writing a check or buying a money ities plus the occasional message of general interest to north- order, printing the PDF, finding and addressing an envelope, Alabama sf/f/h/etc. fans. Non NASFAns are both encouraged finding or buying a stamp, and hoping the Post Office delivers and welcomed to join the list, but please only do so if you’re the ballot in time if you’re cutting it close. interested in the above restricted topics. Voting this time around may be simpler in the sense that both NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE races are uncontested. The sole 2020 Worldcon bid is for New NASFA has an online calendar on Google Calendar. Interest- Zealand, which proposes to hold the con 12–16 August 2020 at ed parties can check the calendar online, but you can also sub- several facilities in the same general part of Wellington NZ. On scribe to it and have your Outlook, iCal, or other calendar au- the NASFiC side, a Utah bid proposes to hold the 2019 con in tomatically updated as events (Club Meetings & club-spon- conjunction with the existing Westercon 72 on 4–7 July 2019 at sored cons, local sf/f/h events, etc.) are added or changed. You the Davis Conference Center and the attached Hilton Garden can view the calendar online at . Inn in Layton (Ogden area) UT. Various filing papers for both bids can be found at the Worldcon 76 URL above. SHIMMER PROGRAM WINNERS TO VISIT CHINA The Shimmer Program has been selecting Chinese fans to News & Info travel to Worldcon for a couple of year. Now they have selected a pair of recipients HUGO VOTER PACKET AVAILABLE for their Two-way Exchange Fund to visit Members of this year’s Worldcon (Worldcon 76 , to be held 16–20 August 2018 at the McEnery Sumin and Colin Zhang who traveled from Convention Center in San José CA) may now download the China to attend (and work at) Worldcon 75 2018 Hugo Awards Voter Packet. The packet contains much of in Helsinki last year. Mihaela Marija Perković (Croatia) and the short fiction (short stories, novelettes, and novellas) and se- Pablo M.A Vazquez (Puerto Rico, USA) will each receive lections of works in other categories including several full-length 15,000 RMB (which is intended to cover economy air fare and works. Convention members can retrieve it by category (as zip hotel cost) and assistance planning the trip. files) at . There is a DR. SEUSS ENTERPRISES V. COMICMIX—REMIXED link on that page to look up your membership number and PIN. There’s been some movement in the lawsuit between A similar 1943 Retro-Hugo Voter Packet is said to be in ComicMix and Dr. Seuss Enterprises over the former’s desire preparation. to publish the crowdfunded mashup cum satire Oh, the Places GUFF TRIP REPORT You'll Boldly Go!. Seuss had filed suit on both copyright and 2017 Get Up-and-over Fan Fund winner Donna Maree Han- trademark grounds in late 2016. The trademark portion was son has published a 62-page Trip Report covering her travels to dismissed but later reinstated on a slightly different theory. It Worldcon 75 in Helsinki Finland—26,000(!) words plus pho- has now been re-dismissed based on yet another new theory, tos. It is available in electronic form via Hanson’s website at applying a recent ruling between Fox and record company Em- for a minimum con- pire Distribution over the Fox drama Empire. tribution of $AUD7 (payable by PayPal). All proceeds go to All of this is covered both by the entertainment press (see support GUFF. ) and by legal Site Selection ballots for both the 2020 Worldcon and 2019 analysts (see, e.g., Science Fiction Convention are available as youll-doh-seussian-copyright-dispute-waylaid-by-irrelevant- printed ballots (in Worldcon 76’s Progress Report 3) and as registration-challenge> and ). wsfs/site-selection>. Voting is open at the con or, if you mail/ The copyright part of the suit continues. email a ballot it must be received no later than 11 August 2018. ROMANTIC TIMES CLOSES WSFS rules require that Site Selection voting be done only After the better part of four decades, Romantic Times (RT) on printed ballots (hand delivered, mailed, or onsite). That said, Book Reviews is shuttering its website and associated conven- San José (the administering Worldcon 76) has an available tion, the RT Booklovers Convention. RT was a leading source workaround approved by the bids on each ballot, for which of info on romance books, which genre has an extremely strong keep reading. crossover with sf/f works—especially in the paranormal area. Recall that voting in Site Selection requires that you be a The front page of the RT site fea- member of the administering con (San José) and that you pay tures a “Letter to Our Readers” from publisher Kathryn Falk an Advance Supporting Membership fee for the election in about the closing. That letter indicates that their reviews and which you’re voting. That gives you a Supporting Membership other material will remain available online for about a year in whatever con wins the bid whether you voted for that bid or before the site goes dark forever. 2 21–24 GIJoeCon—Chattanooga TN. May Minutes 22–24 Hamacon—Huntsville AL. by Steve Sloan 22–24 Sci Fi Summer Con—Atlanta GA. 29–01 LibertyCon 31—Chattanooga TN. The May meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction 29–01 Anime Blues Con 8—Memphis TN. Association was called to order on Saturday, May 19, 2018, in 29–01 Fanboy Expo Comic Con—Knoxville TN. the new Madison satellite location of Willowbrook Baptist JULY Church at 6:10:09P by President Mary Lampert and the crick- 01 Canada Day. ets, which had a good echo. 02 BD: Deb Stone. OLD BUSINESS 04 Independence Day. Judy plans to send information she dug up about storage 06–08 Hypericon—Nashville TN. units for the Art Show and Con Suite equipment. 08 Atlanta Comic Convention—Atlanta GA. Dues are still due. 13 Burton Nightmare Bash—Atlanta GA. NEW BUSINESS 13–15 ConGregate 5—High Point NC. We had a guest, Kevin. The club applauded and introduced 13–15 Atlanta Comic Con—Atlanta GA. themselves. Kevin has recently moved back to the Huntsville 14 Knoxville Anime Day—Knoxville TN. area. He previously attended NASFA meetings over 25 years 15 BD: Courtney Clark. ago. 17 Alabama Midterm Primary Runoff. Co-Programming Director Judy is working to get cosplayers 21* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- to give a presentation in either June or July, depending on lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. which month we will hold the NASFA picnic. Watch the Shut- 21 DC ZineFest—Washington DC. tle to find out if we are having the picnic next month. We will 22 Tish’a B’Av. probably hold it at the hotel outside Redstone Arsenal. 22 Parents’ Day. CON BUSINESS 24 BD: Jay Johns. Co-con chair Judy got with Laurie at the hotel. She said we 27 National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. can have red food and drinks if we promise to be adults. How- 27–29 Akaicon—Nashville TN. ever, we will probably limit the red stuff to lasagna and chili. 27–29 Rob-Con—Bristol TN. Jim commented, “If you have to ask it’s a no.” 29 BD: Mark Paulk. General discussion of Not-A-Con continued. AUGUST Not-A-Con will probably start around 4P on Friday, and run 04 Dixie Die-Cast & Toy Show—Cartersville GA. through Saturday night. Membership fees will probably be 07 Purple Heart Day. around $25 per person, but Judy will finalize the price next 08 BD: Jim Woosley. month. Not-A-Con will be very low-key and “chillaxy.” 11* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- Sam moved to adjourn at 6:32:12P. lowbrook Madison. Please Note that this meeting is a The May program was Mike Kennedy’s Short Attention week earlier than usual to accommodate those going to Span Theater. The After the Meeting Meeting was hosted by Worldcon. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. Mary and Doug Lampert at the regular meeting location. 12 BD: Sue Thorn. 14 BD: Edward Kenny. 21 Senior Citizens Day. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. NASFA Calendar 22 Eid al Adha. 25 Anime Getaway—Clarksville TN. JUNE 25–26 A.G.S Con—Mobile AL. 01 BD: Glenn Valentine. 25–26 Brick Universe—Knoxville TN. 02 BD: Lloyd Penney. 25–26 OnyxCon X—Atlanta, GA. 05 Alabama Midterm Primary Election. 26 Women’s Equality Day. 06 D-Day Observance. 26 Comic Book & Toy Show—Columbus, GA. 08–10 Magic City Con—Birmingham AL. 30–03 Dragon Con—Atlanta, GA. 08–10 NuCon—Gadsden AL. 31–02 Mephit Fur Meet—Memphis TN. 08–10 Southern-Fried Gaming Expo—Atlanta GA. SEPTEMBER 09–10 Con Kasterborous—Huntsville AL. 01 National Book Festival—Washington DC. 09 UnPub Mini—Knoxville TN. 03 Labor Day. 10 Laylat al-Qadr. 07–09 OutsideCon—Burns TN. 14 Flag Day. 09 BD: Mike Cothran. 14 BD: Ali Scanland. 10–11 Rosh Hashana. 15 Eid al-Fitr. 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. 16* NASFA Meeting—The Business Meeting, Program, 11 Patriot Day. and ATMM are all subsumed by the More-or-Less An- 12 BD: Pat Butler. nual NASFA Cookout/Picnic, which will be held 2P–7P 12 Muharram. at Sue Thorn’s house (308 Red Oak Road in Madison). 14–16 ScareFest—Lexington KY. 16–17 Blacktasticon—Atlanta GA. 15–16 JapanFest—Atlanta GA. 17 Father’s Day. 15–16 Shoals Geek Expo—Florence AL. 17 BD: Jeff Freeman. 15* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- 21 BD: PieEyedDragon. lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 21 Summer Solstice. 15 Cartersville Comic Con—Cartersville GA. 3 15 JABEcon: Big Rig—Mount Juliet TN. Honey Dill, Ryan Harby and Laura Harby (iamhoneydill.com) 16 Día de la Independencia. Crash and Burn, Kate Larking and Finn Lucullan (Astres Press) 17 Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com) 19 Yom Kippur. Riftworld Legends, #1–4, Jonathan Williams, Daniel Wong, and 20–23 Anime Weekend Atlanta—Atlanta GA. Paris Alleyne (Joe Books) 21–23 FenCon 15—Dallas TX. POEM/SONG AURORA NOMS 21 National POW/MIA Recognition Day. “After Midnight,” David Clink (Compostela: Tesseracts 20) 22–23 Creative Con—Panama City FL. “Card,” Catherine Girczyc (Compostela: Tesseracts 20) 22 Cleveland Geekster—Cleveland TN. “Heaven Is The Hell Of No Choices,” Matt Moore (Polar Bo- 23 Fall Equinox. realis #4) 24 First Day of Sukkot. “Shadows in the Mist,” Lee F. Patrick (Polar Borealis #4) 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. “Cruising Glaciers,” Rhea Rose (49th Parallels: Alternative 30 Last Day of Sukkot. Canadian Histories and Futures; Bundoran Press) 30 Gold Star Mother’s Day. “Meat Puppets,” Lynne Sargent (Polar Borealis #4) OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO “The Canadian Small-Town Denizen and the Distant-Planet The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the Space Traveller,” J.J. Steinfeld (49th Parallels: Alternative third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby Canadian Histories and Futures; Bundoran Press) convention being held that weekend—in which case we often RELATED WORK AURORA NOMS move the meeting to the second or fourth Saturday.) The regu- Enigma Front: The Monster Within, Renée Bennett, ed. lar meeting location is the Madison campus of Willowbrook (Analemma Books) Baptist Church—446 Jeff Road NW. The Executive Commit- On Spec Magazine, The Copper Pig Writers Society tee Meeting (if scheduled) is before the Business Meeting. The The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, Susan Forest Business Meeting is at 6P. The Program is at 6:30P. Anyone is and Lucas K. Law, eds. (Laksa Media) welcome to attend any of the meetings. There is usually an After- Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Lu- the-Meeting Meeting (starting at about 7:30P) either at the cas K. Law and Derwin Mak, eds. (Laksa Media) church or with directions available at the program. 49th Parallels: Alternative Canadian Histories and Futures, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran Press) Compostela: Tesseracts 20, Spider Robinson and James Alan Gardner, eds. (EDGE) Aurora Awards Noms VISUAL PRESENTATION AURORA NOMS Blade Runner 2049 directed by Denis Villeneuve Nominees for the 2018 Aurora Awards Dark Matter, Season 3, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie have been announced by Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Killjoys, Season 3, Michelle Association. Winners will be announced at VCON 42 , Orphan Black, Season 5, John Fawcett and Graeme Manson to be held 5–7 October 2018 at the Sheraton Van- Travelers, Season 2, Brad Wright, Carrie Mudd, John G. Lenic, couver Airport Hotel in Richmond BC. and Eric McCormack NOVEL AURORA NOMS Wynonna Earp, Season 2, Emily Andras The Rebel, Gerald Brandt (DAW) ARTIST AURORA NOMS To Guard Against the Dark, Julie E. Czerneda Samantha M. Beiko, covers for Laksa Media (DAW) Ann Crowe, cover art for Avians by Timothy Gwyn (Five Rivers) All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, A Rivet of Robots: Body of Work James Alan Gardner (Tor) Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press Recipearium, Costi Gurgu (White Cat Publications) Fiona Staples, art for Saga comic series Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit) FAN WRITING AND PUBLICATIONS AURORA NOMS Light of a Distant Sun, Brent Nichols (Bundoran Press) Reflections on Community and Gender in Canadian SFF, YA NOVEL AURORA NOMS Krista D. Ball Maddie Hatter and the Gilded Gauge, Jayne Barnard (Tyche Books) Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais (JenEric Designs) Scion of the Fox, S.M. Beiko (ECW Press) Science literacy for Science Fiction Readers and Writers, Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic) Ron S. Friedman (Quora) The West Woods, Suzy Vadori (Evil Alter Ego Press) Speculating Canada, Derek Newman-Stille, ed. Houses of the Old Blood, Elizabeth Whitton (Kettlescon Press) WARP, Cathy Palmer-Lister, ed. (Montreal Science Fiction and SHORT FICTION AURORA NOMS Fantasy Association) “The Calling,” Elizabeth Grotkowski (Enigma Front: The FAN ORGANIZATIONAL AURORA NOMS Monster Within; Analemma Books) Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, executive, Can*Con, Ottawa “Old Souls,” Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Randy McCharles, chair When Words Collide, Calgary Fiction and Fantasy; Laksa Media) Matt Moore, Marie Bilodeau, Nicole Lavigne, and Brandon “Rose’s Arm,” Calvin D. Jim (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Crilly, co-chairs, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Ottawa Science Fiction and Fantasy; Laksa Media) Hope Nicholson, chair Prairie Comics Festival, Winnipeg “A Human Stain,” Kelly Robson (Tor.com) Sandra Wickham, chair Creative Ink Festival, Burnaby, BC “Gone Flying,” Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (The Sum of Us: FAN RELATED WORK AURORA NOMS Tales of the Bonded and Bound; Laksa Media) S.M. Beiko and Clare C. Marshall, Business BFFs (Podcast) GRAPHIC NOVEL AURORA NOMS Kari Maaren, Monthly Musical Performances at ChiSeries Toronto SIGNAL Saga #0: PanGaea and the Key of Mirrari, Dominic Kraken Not Stirred, Robots vs. Monsters (musical album) Bercier (Mirror Comics Studios) Joshua Pantalleresco, Just Joshing (Podcast) Rock Paper Cynic, Peter Chiykowski (rockpapercynic.com) Steve Swanson, Poster for When Words Collide 4 announced. The awards will be presented at Worldcon 76 to be Awards Roundup held 16–20 August 2018 in San José CA. Analog AnLab Winners NEBULA AWARDS Novella ...... “Nexus,” Michael F. Flynn (March/April 2017) Winners of the 2017 Nebula Awards (and other associated Novelette ...... “For All Mankind,” C. Stuart Hardwick awards) were announced by the Science (July/August 2017) Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the Short Story ...... “Paradise Regained,” Edward M. Lerner 2018 SFWA Nebula Conference, held 17–20 (January/February 2017) May 2018 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Fact Article...... “The Quest for the 2:00 Marathon,” Center in Pittsburgh PA. Winners of the Richard A. Lovett (September/October 2017) Grand Master, Solstice, and O’Donnell Poem (tie)...... “Barriers,” J. Northcutt, Jr. Service awards were previously an- (March/April 2017) and “Hypothesis/Assertion,” nounced. Daniel D. Villani (March/April 2017) Novel ...... The Stone Sky, Cover ...... July/August 2017, Rado Javor N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US, Orbit UK) Novella...... All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing) Novelette...... “A Human Stain,” Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/2017) Short Story...... “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™,” Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex August 2017) Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presenta- tion...... Get Out (written by Jordan Peele) Andre Norton Award for Outstanding YA Science Fiction or Fantasy Book...... The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen) Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award...... John C. “Bud” Sparhawk Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award...... Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master...... Peter S. Beagle BRITISH BOOK AWARDS HAVE GENRE LINKS Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award Winners Two winners of the 2018 British Book Awards have genre ties, and both Connie Willis (November/December 2017) come back to the same author. Philip Pullman won in the Au- Novelette ...... “Books of the Risen Sea,” Suzanne Palmer thor of the Year category. The audiobook of his La Belle (September/October 2017) Sauvage: The Book of Dust (narrated by Martin Sheen, Pen- Short Story...... “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles,” guin Random House UK Audio) took the prize for Audiobook Sean Monaghan (January/February 2017) of the Year. Poem...... “Titan’s Magic Islands,” Geoffrey A. Landis NEUKOM AWARDS (July/August 2017) Winners of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Cover Artist...... Eldar Zakirov (November/December 2017) Awards for Speculative Fiction have been announced by the Neukom Insti- Winners of the 2018 Norma K Hemming Awards (for “excellence in the explo- each receive a $5,000 honorarium and will “participate in an ration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class event at Dartmouth that will include a panel on the speculative or disability in speculative fiction” published in fiction genre.” The winners are: the previous two years) were announced at Open Category (tie)...... On the Edge of Gone, Continuum XIV: Conjugation , held 8–11 June 2018 at the Jasper Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon) Hotel in Melbourne VIC, Australia. The awards Debut Speculative Fiction ...... Best Worst American, are presented by the Australian Science Fiction Juan Martinez (Small Beer) Foundation in two length categories, divided at GENRE WIN IN BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD 17,500 words. The winners are: The winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award Fiction category was The Invented Long Work...... Terra Nullius, Claire G. Coleman, (Hachette) Part, Rodrigo Fresán (translated from Spanish by Will Vander- AUSTRALIAN SHADOWS AWARDS hyden, Open Letter Books). The winning author and translator Winners of the 2017 Australian Shadows Awards longlist, but The Invented Part was the only one that made the (for “horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian with- 10-book shortlist. in the calendar year”) were also announced at Continuum XIV. ANALOG ANLAB AND ASIMOV’S READERS’ AWARDS The awards are presented by the Australasian Horror Writers The winners for the 2017 Analog Science Fiction and Fact Association. The winners are: Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) and Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and Criticism...... The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have been Body Horror Book, Claire Fitzpatrick (Oscillate Wildly Press) 5 Comic/Graphic Novel ...... No Award Edited Work...... Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1, Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira, and Bryce Stevens, eds. (IFWG Publishing) LAMBDA AWARDS Collected Work...... Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Winners of the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards (aka the “Lammys”—for “the best lesbian, Short Fiction...... “The Banksia Boys,” Matthew J Morrison gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year”) were an- (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #66) nounced at the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremo- Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction ...... “Ismail’s ny, held 4 June 2018 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Per- Expulsion,” Brian Craddock (Between the Tracks: Tales forming Arts in New York NY. Several winners have genre ties from the Ghost Train, Things in the Well) —these include: Novel...... Corpselight, Angela Slatter (Jo Fletcher Books) LGBTQ SF/F/Horror ...... Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor) AUDIE AWARDS Lesbian Fiction...... Her Body and Other Parties, Winners of the 2018 Audie Awards (for “distinction in audiobooks and spoken word en- Transgender Fiction...... Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best tertainment”) were announced at the Audies Gala, held 31 Transgender Speculative Fiction, Bogi Takács, ed. (Lethe) May 2018 at the New York Historical Society in New York LGBTQ Erotica...... His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica, NY. A number of winners have genre ties—those include: Steve Berman, ed. (Unzipped) Audiobook of the Year...... Lincoln in the Bardo, LGBTQ Graphic Novels ...... My Favorite Thing is Monsters, George Saunders (read by George Saunders, Nick Of- Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) ferman, David Sedaris, et al., Random House Audio) TOMORROW PRIZE AND ROSWELL AWARD Fantasy...... The Strange Case Winners and runners up for the Tomorrow Prize and the Roswell Award (for LA high school and adult short science fic- How to Save the World by Accident, Justin Lee Anderson tion respectively) were announced at LitFest Pasadena . Additionally, the Green Feather Award and the Literary Fiction & Classics...... House of Names, Women Hold Up Half the Sky Award (each previously an- Colm Tóibín (read by Juliet Stevenson, et al., Simon & Schuster) nounced) were presented. Narration by the Author or Authors...... Norse Mythology, Tomorrow Prize (short sf by LA County high school Neil Gaiman (read by Neil Gaiman, HarperAudio) students) ...... “Addiction,” Kalila Papanikolas Paranormal ...... Curse on the Land, Tomorrow Prize 2nd Place...... “The Demiurge,” Bry LeBerthon Faith Hunter (read by Khristine Hvam, Audible) Tomorrow Prize 3rd Place.. “Relinquished Cities,” Sarah Krausz Science Fiction ...... Provenance, Roswell Award (short sf by adults)...... “Pod,” Kit Gower Ann Leckie (read by Adjoa Andoh, Hachette) Roswell Award 2nd Place...... “A New Place,” James Sowka Short Stories/Collections...... The Language of Thorns: Roswell Award 3rd Place...... “Dark Ages,” Chloe Cole Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic, Leigh Bardugo Green Feather Award ...... “Let Her Play,” Aisling Murran (read by Lauren Fortgang, Audible) Women Hold Up Half the Sky Award...... “Equality Day,” GAYLACTIC SPECTRUM AWARD Mindy Quigley The winner of the 2017 Gaylactic Spectrum Award (Novel SPECIAL SATURN AWARDS category) was announced at Gay- The Saturn Awards Organization (a division of the Academy of Science Fic- course Atlanta Airport Hotel in Atlanta GA. The winner is tion, Fantasy, and Horror Films) has announced several Mother of Souls, Heather Rose Jones (Bella). Nominally the special 2018 Saturn Awards. The awards will be pre- Gaylactic Spectrum Awards also include Short Fiction and sented (along with those for winners in the 40+ regu- Other Works categories in which awards are given every other lar categories) at a ceremony on 27 June 2018. The year, but they have been “rolled over” to the 2018 judging cy- special Saturn Awards will go to: cle. Apparently, a lack of volunteer judges has slowed down Dr. Donald A. Reed Founder’s Award...... Guillermo del Toro these two awards, Producers Showcase Award...... Jason Blum BISEXUAL BOOK AWARDS Filmmakers Showcase Award...... Jake Kasdan Winners of the 2017 Bisexual Book Awards were announced Dan Curtis Legacy Award ...... Sarah Schecter by the Bi Writers Association at the Bi- Special Achievement Award...... Don Mancini sexual Book Awards ceremony, held 2 June 2018 at the West- URSA MAJOR AWARDS beth Artists Community in New York NY. Some winners have Winners of the 2017 Ursa Major Awards (aka the Annual Anthropomorphic Literature and Speculative Fiction...... The Rules and Regulations for Arts Awards) were announced at FurDU Mediating Myths & Magic, F.T. Lukens (Duet) 2018 , held 4–6 May 2018 Fiction...... Her Body and Other Parties, at the Mantra on View in Surfers Paradise Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf) (Gold Coast City area) QLD, Australia. Erotic Fiction...... Rescues and the Rhyssa, The winners are: TS Porter (Less Than Three) Motion Picture...... Guardians of the Teen/YA Fiction ...... In Other Lands, Galaxy Vol. 2, directed by James Gunn Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth House) Dramatic Series or Short Work...... Duck Bi Writer of the Year...... Peggy Seeger for Tales, Season 1 (reboot), directed by First Time Ever (Faber & Faber) John Aoshima and Dana Terrace 6 Novel ...... The Wayward Astronomer, (Palgrave Macmillan) Geoffrey Thomas (Corvus Publishing) Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcen- Short Fiction ...... “Lieutenant Kruger and dence in Middle-earth, Lisa Coutras (Palgrave Macmillan) the Mistress Jade Trophy Game,” Kathy Garrison Kellogg There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien, (The Cross Time Cafe) Verlyn Flieger (Kent State University Press) Non-Fiction Work...... Furry Nation, Joe Strike (Cleis Press) The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Other Literary Work...... Dogs of War, C.S. Lewis, & Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain, Fred Patten, ed. (FurPlanet Productions) Sørina Higgins (Apocryphile) Graphic Story ...... DreamKeepers #340–385, Beren and Lúthien, Christopher Tolkien, ed. (Houghton Mifflin David Lillie and Liz Lillie (www.dreamkeeperscomic.com) Harcourt) Comic Strip...... Housepets!, Rick Griffin Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in (www.housepetscomic.com) Myth and Fantasy Studies Noms Magazine ...Dogpatch Press, Patch Packrat, ed. (dogpatch.press) Otherworlds: Fantasy & History in Medieval Literature, Aisling Published Illustration....Cover for The Wayward Astronomer Byrne (Oxford University Press) by Geoffrey Thomas, David Lillie (Corvus Publishing) Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Game...... Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall, Finji) Identity, Ideology, Dimitra Fimi (Palgrave MacMillan) Website ...... Inkbunny (inkbunny.net) Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press) Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith, Elizabeth M. Sanders (McFarland) The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, Mark J.P. CÓYOTL AWARDS Wolf, ed. (Routledge) Winners of the 2017 Cóyotl Awards (for JOHN W. CAMPBELL MEMORIAL AWARD NOMS “excellence in anthropomorphic literature”) were announced at Finalists for the 2018 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Furlandia , held 25–27 May 2018 at the (for “the best science- Aloft Portland Airport at Cascade Station in Portland OR. The fiction novel of the [previous] year”) have been announced. winners are: The award will be presented at the 2018 Campbell Conference, Novel ...... Kismet, Watts Martin (Argyll Productions) to be held 22–24 June 2018 at the University of Kansas and Novella...... Dragon Fried Cheese, sponsored by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction Madison Keller (Hundeliebe Publishing) . The finalists are: Short Story ...... “Behesht,” Dwale (www.furaffinity.net) The Rift, Nina Allan (Titan) Anthology ...... Arcana: A Tarot Anthology, Tropic of Kansas, Christopher Brown (HarperCollins) Madison Scott-Clary, ed. (Thurston Howl Publications) Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich (Harper) GRAND PRIX DE L’IMAGINAIRE The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley (Saga) Winners of the 2018 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (for sf/f published in France) have been announced. The Stargazer’s Embassy, Eleanor Lerman (Mayapple) Most of the works are of limited interest to our English-lan- Austral, Paul McAuley (Gollancz) guage audience, but in the translated categories the winners are: Autonomous, Annalee Newitz (Tor) Foreign Novel...... Galápagos Regained (L’Arche de Darwin), After the Flare, Deji Bryce Olukotun (Unnamed) James Morrow (Au diable vauvert) New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) Foreign Short Fiction...... Dancing on Air and Other Stories The People’s Police, Norman Spinrad (Tor) (Danses aériennes), Nancy Kress (Le Bélial’) Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD) MYTHOPOEIC AWARDS NOMS The Genius Plague, David Walton (Pyr) Finalists for the 2018 Mythopoeic Awards (for works related to “the Inklings” [J.R.R. Nominees for the 2018 Manly Wade Wellman Award (for “outstanding achievement” in a sf/f have been announced. Winners will be announced at Mythcon novel by a North Carolina author) have been announced by the 49 , to be held North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation. Voting is by 20–23 July 2018 at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta GA. In addition members of several NC genre cons (illogiCon, ConCarolinas, to the categories below, the Alexei Kondratiev Award will be ConTemporal, ConGregate). The winner will be announced at given for the best student paper presented at the convention. ConGregate 5 , to be held 13–15 July Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Noms at the Red Lion Hotel in High Point NC. The nominees are: Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, John Crowley (Saga) Frost & Filigree, Natania Barron (Falstaff Books) The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster) Amazing Grace, John G. Hartness (Falstaff Books) Snow City, G.A. Kathryns (Sycamore Sky) The Stravinsky Intrigue, Darin Kennedy (Curiosity Quills Press) Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing) Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty (Orbit) The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau) Scourge, Gail Z. Martin (Solaris) Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature Noms EUGIE AWARD NOMS Tumble and Blue, Cassie Beasley (Dial) Finalists for the 2018 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury) Short Fiction (aka the Pashmina, Nidhi Chanani (First Second) Eugie Award) have been announced. The winner will be an- The Song from Somewhere Else, A.F. Harrold (Bloomsbury) nounced at Dragon Con 2018 , to be Frogkisser!, Garth Nix (Scholastic) held 30 August–3 September 2018 at the Hyatt Regency in Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies Noms Atlanta GA. The winner will receive a plaque and a $1000 prize. Tolkien, Self and Other: This Queer Creature, Jane Chance Finalists will receive a commemorative pin. The finalists are: 7 “Infinite Love Engine,” Violet Allen (Lightspeed April 2017) Most of the categories cover works in Spanish, but there are “Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance,” Tobias S. Buckell categories for fiction translated into that language. There may (Cosmic Powers) also be items of interest to our English-speaking readership in “The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard),” Matthew some of the other categories. Winners will be announced at Kressel (Tor.com 3/15/2017) HispaCon , the Spanish natcon, “And Then There Were (N-One),” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny which is generally (but not always) held in the last quarter of the March/April 2017) calendar year. For the translated categories, the nominees are: “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand,” Fran Wilde Ignotus Awards Foreign Novel Noms (Uncanny September 2017) The Fireman (Fuego), Joe Hill (Nocturna) ELGIN AWARDS NOMS The Stars Are Legion (Las estrellas son legión), Kameron Hur- Candidates for the 2018 Elgin Awards (for the “best book and best chapbook [of sf/f poet- The Fifth Season (La quinta estación), N.K. Jemisin (B) ry] published in the preceding year”) have been announced by Behind Her Eyes (Detrás de sus ojos), Sarah Pinborough the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. With 21 (Alianza) chapbooks and 30 full-length books nominated, the lists are a The Atrocity Archives (El archivo de atrocidades), Charles bit long for the Shuttle to print, but can be seen on SFPA’s web- Stross (Insólita) site at . Ignotus Awards Foreign Story Noms TÄHTIFANTASIA AWARD NOMS The Abbot’s Ghost (El espectro del abad), Louisa May Alcott Nominees for the 2018 Tähtifantasia Award (for the best (Pulpture) fantasy book translated into Finnish) have been announced. “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight” (“Tres tazas de aflicción a Most (but not all) of these were translated from English. la luz de las estrellas”), Aliette de Bodard (Cuentos para Beauty Is A Wound (Kauneus on kirous), Eka Kurniawan Algernon May 2017) (translated by Jaana Kapari-Jatta, Gummerus) The New Mother (Nueva madre), Eugene Fischer (Cerbero) The Beginning Place (Ikuisen hämärän maa), Ursula K. Le “The Sea of Trees” (“El mar de árboles”), Rachel Swirsky Guin (translated by Jyrki Iivonen, Vaskikirjat) (Dark Fantasies) Tímakistan (Aika-arkku), Andri Snær Magnason (translated “October Film Haunt: Under the House” (“La quedada fílmica de from Icelandic [The Time Casket] by Tapio Koivukari, octubre: Bajo la casa”), Michael Wehunt (Un lugar mejor) Aula & Co) GEFFEN AWARDS NOMS The Bone Clocks (Luukellot), David Mitchell (translated by Nominees for 2018 Geffen Awards (for Einari Aaltonen, Sammakko) Hebrew sf/f) have been announced. The list includes three Mistborn: The Final Empire (Viimeinen valtakunta), Brandon awards for translated sf, fantasy, and YA works. The source Sanderson (translated by Mika Kivimäki, Jalava) material is all in Hebrew, but lists of titles in all Geffen cate- IGNOTUS AWARDS NOMS gories are available on both the File 770 and Locus (Spanish sf/f awards) have been announced. 2018-geffen-awards-finalists> websites.
Late Breaking News: Tony Awards
The 2018 Tony Awards were presented 10 June in a cere- mony broadcast from Radio City Music Hall. One genre Play (vs. Musical) took home multiple awards— Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two won for Best Play as well as for Direction (John Tiffany), Sound Design (Gareth Fry), Lighting Design (Neil Austin), Scenic Design (Christine Jones), and Costume Design (Kat- rina Lindsay). One genre Musical also got a nod—SpongeBob Square- Pants: The Musical won for Scenic Design (David Zinn).
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