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The FACT Sheet The FACT Sheet The Fandom Association of Central Texas July, 2010 2009 Nebula Awards The 2009 Nebula Awards were announced in June: Short Story: Spar, Kij Johnson Novelette: Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast, Eugie Foster Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi Support Recycled Reads SciFi Bradbury Award, Best Dramatic Production: Event August 21-22! District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell Recycled Reads is planning an SF event for the Andre Norton Award: The Girl Who weekend before ArmadilloCon (August 21-22). They Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own will also be publicizing ArmadilloCon 32! Making, Catherynne M. Valente Please be sure to visit Recycled Reads the weekend before ARmadilloCon 32 to support the Austin Public ArmadilloCon 32 Almost Here! Library and to take advantage of some great deals on If you have not already done so, please register for SF. Their prices are $2 for hard-cover, $1 for soft- ArmadilloCon 32. Go to www.ArmadilloCon.org. cover, with some special items priced as marked. The SF section in the store is about half ex-library and A Few Notes About AC32 Special half donations with a mix of vintage and new, sci-fi and fantasy. They will also be offering a number of Guest Michael Bishop signed copies. Michael Bishop had a story on the ballot for the Recycled Reads is run primarily by volunteers with 2009 Nebula Awards. If you have not done so, find a materials withdrawn from the Library’s collection and donations. The store gives books a second chance and is an active participant in the City’s Zero Waste UPUPCOMING FACT EVENTS Plan by ensuring obsolete materials are kept out of landfills. Items Recycled Reads is unable to sell go to Saturday, July 10, 1-3 PM: FACT Board Meeting Books Beyond Borders, which through Project School (Manchaca Branch, Austin Public Library, 5500 House provides books and funding to third-world Manchaca Rd). The monthly meeting of the FACT schools and libraries. board of directors is open to all FACT members and other individuals who have business to discuss. 2010 John W. Campbell Award Saturday, July 10, 3:30 - 5 PM: ArmadilloCon 32 Finalists Include ArmadilloCon 32 Meeting. ConComm meets at Buffet Palace, West Special Guest Nancy Kress! Gate Blvd. Tuesday, July 20, 7-8PM: North Austin Reading The finalists for the 2010 John W. Campbell Group (Austin Public Library, Milwood Branch, Memorial Award for best SF novel have been 12500 Amherst). Anathem by Neal Stephenson. announced. The award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, to be held Tuesday, August 2, 7-8PM: North Austin July 16-18, at the University of Kansas. Reading Group (Austin Public Library, North Village Branch, 2505 Steck). Bitter Angels by C.L. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood (Talese) Anderson. The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) Transition, Iain M. Banks (Orbit) Saturday, August 14, 1-3 PM: FACT Board (Manchaca Branch, Austin Public Library, Makers, Cory Doctorow (Tor) Meeting 5500 Manchaca Rd). The monthly meeting of Steal Across the Sky, Nancy Kress (Tor) the FACT board of directors is open to all FACT Gardens of the Sun, Paul McAuley (Pyr) members and other individuals who have business The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey) to discuss. Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz) Friday, August 27 - Sunday, 29: ArmadilloCon Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (Ballantine 32. Renaissance Hotel Austin. Don’t miss it! Spectra) Sunday, August 29, Time TBA: WWW: Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Gollancz) Reading Group @ ArmadilloCon. The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry The Caryatids, Bruce Sterling (Del Rey) Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) Saturday, Sept. 11, 6PM. Gaming (FACT member home, 4209 Dauphine Dr.) The FACT Sheet - July 2010 - Page 2 The FACT Sheet - July 2010 - Page 3 copy of “Vinegar Peace, or the Wrong-Way Used-Adult Best Novella: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Orphanage” (Asimov’s, July 2008), or look for it at the Baker (Subterranean) convention! Best Novelette: ‘‘By Moonlight’’, Peter S. Beagle Mr. Bishop was the first week instructor at this (We Never Talk About My Brother) year’s Clarion West Writers’ Workshop in Seattle. He Best Short Story: ‘“An Invocation of Incuriosity,” will be teaching at the Shared Worlds conference at Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth) Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, July Best Anthology: The New Space Opera 2, Gardner 18-31. Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins You can read another recent work of his, “The Australia) Library of Babble,” online at Subterranean Press’s Best Collection: The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene website: http://tinyurl.com/librarybabble Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS) Best Non-Fiction Book/Art Book: Cheek by Jowl, 2010 Locus Awards Announced Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct) The 2010 Locus Awards winners were announced at the annual Science Fiction Awards Weekend, held Connect with FACT online: June 25-27, 2010, in Seattle. For an entertaining account of the proceedings, see the June 27 entry - Group List: groups.google.com/ on Nancy Kress’s blog at http://www.sff.net/people/ nankress/. group/factlist Best SF Novel: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor) - Website: www.fact.org Best Fantasy Novel: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) - Facebook: ArmadilloCon Best First Novel: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) Convention Best Young Adult Book: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK) - Twitter: armadillocon32 ARMADILLOCON 32 RachelCaine Austins Literary FSF Convention Guest of Honor Author of The Weather Warden Series Renaissance Hotel Austin August 27-29, 2010 NancyKress Toastmistress Author of Beggars in Spain go to www.armadillocon.org IlonaAndrews to buy your ticket today! Urban Fantasy Special Guest Author of Magic Bites series MichaelBishop CatConrad Steampunk Special Guest Artist Guest Award -winning author of www.ArtistsInResidence.com/Cat No Enemy But Time ElspethBloodgood AnneSowards Fan Guest Editor Guest Conestoga www.ArmadilloCon.org Editor for Ace Books & Roc The FACT Sheet - July 2010 - Page 2 The FACT Sheet - July 2010 - Page 3 Best Artist: Michael Whelan Bullington (Orbit) Best Editor: Ellen Datlow The Adamantine Palace, Stephen Deas (Gollancz) Best Magazine: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science The Drowning City, Amanda Downum (Orbit) Fiction Lamentation, Ken Scholes (Tor) Best Book Publisher: Tor The Ravenheart Award for Best Fantasy Cover Art: Summer Film Releases Didier Graffet & Dave Senior (Illustration) and Laura Brett (Art Direction) for the cover of Best We are half way through the summer fi lm season. Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz) The following may interest SF fans: Jackie Morris (Illustration) and Dominic Forbes Despicable Me (July 9) Animated, from Universal. (Art Direction) for the cover of The Dragon Keeper by Stars Steve Carell. Robin Hobb (Voyager) The Girl Who Played with Fire (July 9) Limited Larry Rostant (Illustration) and Loulou Clarke (Art release, looks interesting. Direction) for the cover of Fire by Kristin Cashore Predators (July 9) (Gollancz) [Rec] 2 (July 9) Jon Sullivan (Illustration) for the cover of Empire by Inception (July 16) Cast includes Michael Caine and Graham McNeill (Black Library) Leonardo DiCaprio. Jon Sullivan (Illustration) and Sue Michniewitz (Art The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (July 16) Stars Nicolas Direction) for the cover of The Cardinal’s Blades by Cage. Pierre Pevel (Gollancz) Salt (July 23). Thriller starring Angelina Jolie. Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (July 30) Shortlist for 2010 Sunburst Tales from Earthsea (August 13). Based on LeGuin, directed by Miyazaki. Awards Piranha 3-D (August 20) Starring Elizabeth Shue Finalists for the Sunburst Award for Canadian and Richard Dreyfuss. Literature of the Fantastic have been announced. The Last Exorcism (August 27) Winners will be announced this fall. Adult: 2010 David Gemmell Legend The Mystery of Grace, Charles de Lint (Tor) Awards Indigo Springs, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor) Makers, Cory Doctorow (Tor) The 2009 David Gemmell Legend Awards winners The Sunless Countries, Karl Schroeder (Tor) have been announced: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Best Fantasy Novel: Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) Empire: The Legend of Sigmar, Graham McNeill Young Adult: (Black Library) Give Up the Ghost, Megan Crewe (Henry Holt) Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz, Orbit) Amy By Any Other Name, Maureen Garvie (Key The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan & Brandon Porter) Sanderson (Tor) Half World, Hiromi Goto (Penguin) The Cardinal’s Blades, Pierre Pevel (Gollancz) Wondrous Strange, Lesley Livingston (HarperTeen) Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson (Tor) The Hunchback Assignment, Arthur Slade (Lamb) The Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer: FACToids and Friends The Cardinal’s Blades, Pierre Pevel (Gollancz) The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, Jesse Neal Barrett, Jr.’s “At the Store” is available online at the Subterranean Press website: http: //tinyurl.com/nealstorestory AC 32 Special Guest Michael Bishop’s story “The Library of Babble,” is available online at Subterranean Press’s website: http://tinyurl.com/ librarybabble You might enjoy a recent article by Ben Bova on the topic of science fi ction conventions.http:// tinyurl.com/bovaoncons The De Dion and Bouton Road Motor, Scientifi c American Supple- Rachel Caine’s Total Eclipse (Weather Warden ment. Vol. XLII., No. 1082, September 26, 1896 series #9) will be released in paperback on August The FACT Sheet - July 2010 - Page 4 3 -- just in time to pick up a copy at ArmadilloCon. Adult memberships $35 until March 29. http:// Caine is busy these days. Kiss of Death (Morganville www.armadillocon.org Vampires Book 8) was released April 27, and Ghost Aug.
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