Te Shutle August 2018 The Next NASFA Meeting is 6P Saturday 11 August 2018 at Willowbrook Madison PLEASE NOTE: This is a week earlier than the usual schedule

change. Sue Thorn and Judy Smith will host. The party will d Oyez, Oyez d start at 3P with the gift exchange at 4P. There are other programs in work, but they have not yet been The next NASFA Meeting will be one week earlier than definitized. Judy and Sue are always looking for new program usual—11 August 2018—but at the at the regular time (6P) ideas, especially if you can run one yourself. and the regular location. The Madison campus of Willowbrook FUTURE ATMMs Baptist Church is at 446 Jeff Road—see the map at right for We need hosts for most future months in 2018–19. Email directions. See the map on page 2 for a closeup of parking at to volunteer or inquire. The Octo- the church and how to find the meeting room (“The Huddle”), ber 2018 ATMM is nullified by Not-A-Con. November 2018 which is close to one of the back doors toward the north side of may be spoken for, but if that’s the only month for you then we the church. Please don’t try to come in the (locked) front door. can make it work. Pretty much all other months are open.

AUGUST PROGRAM New Church ~0.8 miles “Microbes: The Unseen but Not Forgotten Passengers in Location north of US 72 Space Exploration”—when we think of passengers going to Willowbrook Madison Map To space we are usually thinking of astronauts, right? It is easy to forget about the smallest organism also going along for the ride 446 Jeff Road NW New into the daunting terrain of space. Learn more from Mark E. Huntsville AL 35806 Meeting Wilson—Boeing Associate Technical Fellow and Boeing Des- ignated Expert in Microbiology—who will describe the micro- Location bial control options for the ISS and Space Exploration. Road Jeff AUGUST ATMM US 72W Kroger Fuel Mary and Doug Lampert will host the August After-the- (aka University Drive) Center Meeting Meeting at the church. The usual rules apply—that is, Kroger Shopping please bring food to share and your preferred drink. Also, Center

please stay to help clean up. We need to be good guests and Slaughter leave things at least as clean as we found them. Road FUTURE PROGRAMS Old Church •October—The program will be subsumed by Not-A-Con 2018. Location •December—Christmas Party and White Elephant gift ex- Continuing Our 38th Year of Publication

Inside this issue… News & Info...... 2 World Awards Nominations...... 5 Minutes of the July Meeting...... 3 Awards Roundup...... 5 NASFA Calendar...... 4 Art by Jose Sanchez...... 9 Deadline for the September 2018 issue of The NASFA Shuttle is Monday 27 August 2018 FUTURE CLUB MEETING DATES/LOCATIONS At present, all 2018 NASFA Meetings are expected to be at News & Info the normal meeting location except for October (due to Not-A- Con 2018). Most 2018 meetings are on the normal 3rd Saturday HUGO/RETRO-HUGO VOTING CLOSED date. This month (August) is the only meeting currently not Voting for the 2018 Hugo Awards (and associated non-Hu - scheduled for the normal weekend. gos) and 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards closed at the end of NOT-A-CON 2018 July (PDT). Winners will be announced during Worldcon 76 Be sure to mark your October 2018 calendar for Not-A-Con , to be held 16–20 August 2018 at the 2018, to be held Friday 19 October–Saturday 20 October. The McEnery Convention Center in San José CA. Retro-Hugo win- official start time is 4P Friday and the con will run through at least ners will be announced on the con’s opening night—Thursday 10P Saturday. Those who stay over at the Holiday Inn Express 16 August. Winners of the Hugos, John W. Campbell Award for (Huntsville Airport) will also have a Dead Dog Breakfast on Best New Writer, and WSFS Award for Best Young Adult Book Sunday 21 October before we head back to our everyday lives. will be announced at a ceremony on Sunday evening, 19 August. Memberships are $25 (see Sam Smith). T-shirts—art by WORLDCON LIVE EVENT COVERAGE ANNOUNCED David O. Miller—will be available (see Judy Smith). Worldcon 76 plans to live-stream video of the Hugo Awards SHUTTLE DEADLINES Ceremony beginning when the doors open, about an hour be- In general, the monthly Shuttle production schedule (though fore the Sunday ceremony. Text-only live coverage (through a bit squishy) is to put each issue to bed about 6–8 days before CoverItLive) is to be provided by . the corresponding monthly meeting. Submissions are needed as The convention also plans to live stream the Masquerade on far in advance of that as possible. Saturday 18 August, again beginning when the doors open. Please check the deadline below the Table of Contents each Check the convention website and TheHugoAwards website month to submit news, reviews, LoCs, or other material. (URLs above) for additional details as the time nears. JOINING THE NASFA EMAIL LIST WORLDCON FINALIST ASSISTANCE PROJECT All NASFAns who have email are urged to join our email Speaking of the Hugos, not all finalists can afford to attend list, which you can do online at . the convention. A GoFundMe project (with a $10,000 goal) has The list is usually low traffic, though the rate is variable. Gen- been started to assist finalists in this . It’s organized by Branson Roskel- plus the occasional message of general interest to north-Al- ley . abama sf/f/h/etc. fans. Non NASFAns are both encouraged and WORLDCON PROGRAM SCHEDULE SET welcomed to join the list. The full schedule for Worldcon 76’s programming has been NASFA CALENDAR ONLINE released and NASFA has an online calendar on Google Calendar. Interest- is available for online viewing or downloading to your smart- ed parties can check the calendar online, but you can also sub- phone (using the Grenadine app). scribe to it and have your Outlook, iCal, or other calendar au- Or, perhaps, one should say it’s been re-released. tomatically updated as events (Club Meetings & club-spon- The first version was criticized for issues such as program sored cons, local sf/f/h events, etc.) are added or changed. You participant bios/pics and lack of participation by a number of can view the calendar online at . Hugo finalists. Some of the bio pics were used without permis-

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Willowbrook at Madison (New Location) 446 Jeff Rd NW Huntsville AL 35806 2 sion and some of the bios themselves were awkwardly re-writ- TOR CHANGES LIBRARY E-BOOK POLICY ten by Worldcon staff including mis-gendering some partici- Major genre book publisher Tor Books (an arm of Macmil- pants (e.g., using the wrong pronoun[s]). Author Mary Robi- lan) has announced a four-month wait after a new Tor book is nette Kowal offered to recruit an outside team to help reorga- released before they’ll sell e-books to libraries for electronic nize the program and the offer was accepted by chair Kevin lending. This is officially a trial project, but no end date has Roche. No program will please everyone, but initial reports are been announced. The intent is to establish if electronic lending that this version is an improvement over the initial version. has an impact on e-book retail sales. Tor/Macmillan has an email address for feedback . WELCOME TO THE NEW ACADEMY (NOT THE) SAME AS THE OLD ACADEMY Shuttle readers may recall that #MeToo scandals at the Swedish Academy led to suspension of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. PARATUS SPACE SIMULATOR LAUNCH PARTY That left a big vacuum. Swedish journalist Alexandra Pascalidou The Paratus space simulator (“Built By Engineers, Made for founded a temporary organization—The New Academy Prize in Gamers”) is having a launch party in Huntsville on Saturday 25 Literature —to fill that vacuum. August 2018 from 12N–6P at Innerspace Brewing Company The organization took nominations from Swedish librarians (2414 Clinton Avenue West, Huntsville AL 35801). and has been taking public votes (though the final selection will Join the Intrepid Few! Paratus space simulators will be at be up to a jury). The winner of the million kronor prize (that’s Innerspace Brewing for our launch party. Take a ride in the new over $100,000) will be announced 14 October 2018 and the or- simulator for free, enjoy live music by Foot Pound Force , and check out the special Paratus ale. are familiar genre names. Locus Magazine has a list of those at For more information, visit either (Face- . book Event page) or , or email them at . July Minutes by Steve Sloan

The July meeting of the North Alabama Science Fiction As- sociation was called to order on Saturday, July 21, 2018, in the new Madison satellite location of Willowbrook Baptist Church at exactly 6:00:00P to the second by President Mary Lampert. Do we want to keep the crickets chirping until enough people arrive? Not really. OLD BUSINESS Nada. NEW BUSINESS Sam reported that Irwin Strauss aka Filthy Pierre sent a letter to Not-A-Con, saying that Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine will include Not-A-Con in its convention listings with correct ART EXHIBIT TO COINCIDE WITH NOT-A-CON details, and will describe it as a low-key relaxacon. A temporary public art exhibit in downtown Huntsville will Sam received a “body bag” a return envelope containing a dead open the same day as Not-A-Con 2018. The relaxacon runs 19– issue of the Shuttle. [Actually, it was a zine from another group, 20 October while Intrude, featuring giant inflatable rabbits, will but I mistook it for a Shuttle and thus confused the issue. -ED] be in Big Spring Park 19–28 October . the rest of this year. The rabbits vary in size (from 10–23 feet tall) and “[t]he Next month’s NASFA program will be a presentation about public is welcome to gently interact with the bunnies and share microbes hitching rides into space. their experience with the exhibit using the hashtag #IntrudeHsv.” Sam had the Not-A-Con receipt book on him, so he sold DIY MARS ROVER several convention memberships. Individual Not-A-Con mem- NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Insti- berships are $25. tute of Technology have released open source plans so you can ⏸ The meeting was suspended for several minutes until Judy build your own Mars rover—kind of . The suspension for this six-wheeled rover is indeed NOT-A-CON BUSINESS modeled on that used in real Mars Co-con chair Judy said that there will be a Not-A-Con, and rovers, though the end result is rather there will also be a Not-a-T-Shirt. Not-A-Con will have a little scaled down and not designed to programming, including two readings, a “night at the movies,” survive the Martian environment. and opening and closing ceremonies. Room blocks for the con The plans uses almost all COTS hotel (the Holiday Inn Express near Sullivan) end in September. (commercial off-the-shelf) parts and The con will officially run from 4P Friday to 10P Saturday. the project is intended for high Doug moved to adjourn at 6:23:18P. school and above students or enthu- The July program was a presentation by North Alabama siasts. It’s not a particularly cheap Cosplayers Club . The project—the designers estimate you’ll After-the-Meeting Meeting was hosted by Mary and Doug need a budget of about $2,500. Lampert at the regular meeting location. 3 08 Columbus Day/Native Americans’ Day/Indigenous NASFA Calendar People’s Day. 08 Thanksgiving Day (Canada). AUGUST 10–11 Stranger Con—Nashville TN. 04 Dixie Die-Cast & Toy Show—Cartersville GA. 10–13 Fall For The Book—Fairfax VA. 07 Purple Heart Day. 11–14 Anthro Southeast—Chattanooga TN. 08 BD: Jim Woosley. 12 Día de la Raza/Columbus Day (Mexico). 11* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- 12–14 Conapalooza—Kingsport TN. lowbrook Madison. Please Note that this meeting is 15 BD: Robert Buelow. a week earlier than usual to accommodate those going to 16 Boss’s Day. Worldcon. Program: Boeing Associate Technical Fellow 19–20*Not-A-Con 2018 at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Mark E. Wilson will speak on “Microbes: The Unseen Huntsville Airport (8956 Madison Boulevard, Madison but Not Forgotten Passengers in Space Exploration.” AL 35758). Dead Dog breakfast at the hotel Sunday the ATMM: Doug and Mary Lampert will host at the church. 21st. The Business Meeting, Program, and ATMM are 12 BD: Sue Thorn. all subsumed by the con. 14 BD: Edward Kenny. 19–21 Bigfoot Day Celebration—Kingsport TN. 16–20 Worldcon 76—San José CA. 19–21 PhreakNic 22—Nashville TN. 21 Senior Citizens Day. 19–21 Full Moon Festival—Nashville TN. 21 BD: Deborah Denton. 19–20 Wizard Weekend—Athens GA. 22 Eid al Adha. 20 Wizard Pub Crawl—Athens GA. 25 Anime Getaway—Clarksville TN. 20–21 Gump City Comic Con—Montgomery AL. 25–26 A.G.S Con—Mobile AL. 20–21 Memphis Comic Expo—Memphis TN. 25–26 Brick Universe—Knoxville TN. 25 BD: Marie McCormack. 25–26 OnyxCon X—Atlanta GA. 25–28 Atlanta Game Fest 32—Atlanta GA. 26 Women’s Equality Day. 26–28 Atlanta Steampunk Expo—Atlanta GA. 26 & Toy Show—Columbus GA. 26–28 Hallowcon—Dalton GA. 30–03 Dragon Con—Atlanta GA. 26–28 Walker Stalker—Atlanta GA. 31–02 Mephit Fur Meet—Memphis TN. 31 Halloween. SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER 01 National Book Festival—Washington DC. 02 Día de Muertos. 03 Labor Day. 02–04 SphinxCon—Atlanta GA. 07–09 OutsideCon—Burns TN. 02–04 Post-ApocalyptiCon—Cleveland TN. 09 BD: Mike Cothran. 03 Con Plus One—Online. 10–11 Rosh Hashana. 03–04 Rocket City NerdCon—Huntsville AL. 11 BD: Ray Pietruszka. 03–04 Con-Fuzion—Muscle Shoals AL. 11 Patriot Day. 04 Daylight Saving Time ends. 12 BD: Pat Butler. 06 Election Day. 12 Muharram. 09 Potter Pub Crawl—Atlanta GA. 14–16 ScareFest—Lexington KY. 09–11 Aethercon VII—Online. 15–16 JapanFest—Atlanta GA. 09–11 Grand Ole Gameroom Expo—Franklin TN. 15–16 Shoals Geek Expo—Florence AL. 09–11 Wizard World—Montgomery AL. 15* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- 10 Wizard’s Ball 5—Atlanta GA. lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: TBD. 10–11 Stranger Con—Nashville TN. 15 Cartersville Comic Con—Cartersville GA. 11 Veterans Day/Remembrance Day. 15 JABEcon: Big Rig—Mount Juliet TN. 12 Veterans Day (Observed). 16 Día de la Independencia. 16–18 CONjuration—Atlanta GA. 17 Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. 16–18 Memphis Comic and Fantasy Convention—Memphis TN. 19 Yom Kippur. 17* NASFA Meeting—6P Business, 6:30P Program, at Wil- 20–23 Anime Weekend Atlanta—Atlanta GA. lowbrook Madison. Program: TBD. ATMM: Mike 21–23 FenCon 15—Dallas TX. Kennedy (tentative). 21 National POW/MIA Recognition Day. 19 Aniversario de la Revolución Mexicana. 22–23 Creative Con—Panama City FL. 21 The Prophet’s Birthday. 22 Cleveland Geekster—Cleveland TN. 22 Thanksgiving Day. 23 Fall Equinox. 22 BD: Nancy Renee Peters. 24 First Day of Sukkot. 23 BD: Mike Kennedy. 26 BD: Jenna Victoria Stone. 29 BD: Howard Camp. 30 Last Day of Sukkot. 30 BD: Joshua Kennedy. 30 Gold Star Mother’s Day. 30 BD: Richard Gilliam. OCTOBER 30–02 Louisville Supercon—Louisville KY. 01 Shmini Atzeret. 30–02 Yama-Con—Pigeon Forge TN. 02 Simchat Torah. OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO 04–07 Pirate Festival—Tybee Island GA. The North Alabama Science Fiction Association meets on the 04–07 SIEGE—Atlanta GA. third Saturday of each month. (Unless there is a large nearby 05–07 Imaginarium—Louisville KY. convention being held that weekend—in which case we often 05–07 Monsterama—Atlanta GA. move the meeting to the second or fourth Saturday.) The regu- 4 lar meeting location is the Madison campus of Willowbrook “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™,” Rebecca Baptist Church—446 Jeff Road NW. The Executive Commit- Roanhorse (Apex Magazine, August 2017) tee Meeting (if scheduled) is before the Business Meeting. The “The Birding: A Fairy Tale,” Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Business Meeting is at 6P. The Program is at 6:30P. Anyone is Horizons 12/18/2017) welcome to attend any of the meetings. There is usually an “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand,” Fran Wilde (Un- After-the-Meeting Meeting (starting at about 7:30P) either at canny Magazine, September–October 2017) the church or with directions available at the program. “Carnival Nine,” Caroline M. Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/11/2017) WORLD FANTASY AWARDS ANTHOLOGY NOMS The New Voices of Fantasy, Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weis- World Fantasy Awards Noms man, eds. (Tachyon Publications) Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, , ed. (Pegasus Nominations for the 2018 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. Winners will be The Book of Swords, , ed. (Bantam Books US; announced at World Fantasy Convention 2018 , to be held 1–4 November 2018 at the Renaissance Balti- The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, Mahvesh Murad more Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore MD. In addition to the and Jared Shurin, eds. (Solaris US; Solaris UK) competitive categories, Charles de Lint and Elizabeth Woll- The Best of Subterranean, William Schafer, ed. (Subterranean Press) heim will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards. WORLD FANTASY AWARDS COLLECTION NOMS WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOVEL NOMS Wicked Wonders, Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications) The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager) Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado (Gray- Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, (Saga Press) wolf Press; Serpent’s Tail UK) The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim (Saga Press) Powers, (Baen Books) Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory (Bond Street Books CA; Knopf Tender, (Small Beer Press) US; riverrun UK) The Emerald Circus, Jane Yolen (Tachyon Publications) The Changeling, Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau; Canongate Press UK) WORLD FANTASY AWARDS ARTIST NOMS Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Gregory Manchess Victo Ngai WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOVELLA NOMS Omar Rayyan Rima Staines Fiona Staples The Teardrop Method, Simon Avery (TTA Press) WORLD FANTASY AWARDS SPECIAL In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications) AWARD (PROFESSIONAL) NOMS Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing) Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson, for Writ- Passing Strange, Ellen Klages (Tor.com Publishing) ing Madness (Centipede Press) The Black Tides of Heaven, JY Yang (Tor.com Publishing) C.C. Finlay, for F&SF editing WORLD FANTASY AWARDS SHORT FICTION NOMS Irene Gallo, for art direction at Tor Books and Tor.com “Old Souls,” Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Greg Ketter, for DreamHaven Books Fiction and Fantasy) Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright Publishing Corp.) WORLD FANTASY AWARDS SPECIAL AWARD (NON-PROFESSIONAL) NOMS Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Ad- venture Fantasy Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali and Jen R. Albert, for PodCastle Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine

Awards Roundup

CLARKE AWARD The winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award (for “the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previ- ous year”) was announced 18 July 2018 at a London ceremony. The award (which included a £2018 cash prize and a commemorative engraved bookend) went to Dreams Before the Start of Time, Anne Charnock (47North). 5 MYTHOPOEIC AWARDS Fame, Achievement, and Chrysalis (emerging writer/artist) Winners of the 2018 Mythopoeic Awards categories. and the Alexei Kondratiev Award were announced ESFS Hall of Fame Awards by the Mythopoeic Society at Mythcon 49 Author ...... Anna Starobinets (Russia) , held 20–23 July 2018 at the Ritz- Magazine...... Angle Mort (France) Carlton Downtown in Atlanta GA. The Publisher...... Zhupansky (Ukraine) winners are: Promoter...... Jukka Halme (Finland) Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature...... Garth Nix Translator ...... Ylva Spångberg (Sweden) for Frogkisser ESFS Achievement Awards Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy ...... Michael Work of Fiction ...... The House of Binding Thorns, Levy and Farah Mendelsohn for Children’s Fantasy Litera- Aliette de Bodard (France) ture: An Introduction Work of Art ...... Cover for Junker’s i Vailiant protiv sila tame, Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies...... Sorina Higgins Sebastijan Čamagajevac (Croatia) for The Inklings and King Arthur Fanzine...... Journey Planet, March 2017 (Ireland) Fantasy Award for Adult Literature...... John Crowley Work for Children (tie)...... Moj brat živi u kompjuteru, for Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr Branka Primorac (Croatia) and Das Sagenbuch zum Alexei Kondratiev Award (best paper presented at Mythcon Stephansdom, Barbara Schinko (Austria) by an undergrad or grad student)...... Megan Fontenot Internet Publication, Other than a Fanzine ...... nooSFere for “No Pagan Ever Loved His God: Tolkien, Thompson, (France) and the Beautification of the Gods” Dramatic Presentation ...... Valerian and the City of a PRISM AWARDS Thousand Planets (France) Winners of the 2018 PRISM Awards for the Best in ESFS Chrysalis Awards LGBTQAI+ Comics (to “recognize, Martin Hatala (Slovakia) Yaryna Katorozh (Ukraine) promote and celebrate diversity and excellence in the field of Maksim Kutuzau (Belarus) Věra Mertlíková (Czech Republic) queer comics”) were announced at San Diego Comic-Con, held Sinéad O’Heart (Ireland) Verena Petrasch (Austria) 18–22 July 2018. The winners are: Nicolas Sarter (France) Daniel Timariu (Romania) Short Form Comics...... To Measure, Noella Whitney N3F AWARDS Webcomics...... O Human Star, Blue Delliquanti Winners of several awards sponsored by the National Fanta- Small–Midsize Press Comics and Graphic Novels ...... The sy Fan Federation have been announced. Most of Boys Who Became Hummingbirds, Daniel Heath Justice them fall under the 2018 Neffy Awards heading (given for various activities and works Mainstream Comics and Graphic Novels ...... The Witch Boy, of sf/f/etc.). The 2018 Kaymar Award (a lifetime achievement award for “work for Anthologies ...... Dates: An Anthology of Queer Historical the benefit of the club and its members”) and a “Life Member” Fiction Volume 2, Zora Gilbert and Cat Parra, eds. award were also announced. SEIUN AWARDS N3F Neffy Awards Winners of the 2018 Seiun Awards were announced at the 57th Japan Science Shorter Work...... “And Then There Were (N-One),” Fiction Convention in Minakami, Japan. Most of the awards Sarah Pinsker are for Japanese-language works, and thus of little direct inter- Book Editor...... Toni Weisskopf est to predominately Anglophone Shuttle readers. In the trans- Film...... Thor: Ragnarok lated categories, the winners are: Fanzine...... Tightbeam Translated Novel ...... Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel, Blog ...... Mad Genius Club translated by Chiori Sada (Tokyo Sogensha) TV Show ...... Supergirl Translated Story ...... “Folding Beijing,” Jingfang Hao, Anime...... The Ancient Magus Bride translated by Ken Liu and Mayumi Ōtani (SF Magazine Graphic Art Publication ...... Jean Grey April 2017) N3F Other Awards TÄHTIFANTASIA AWARD Life Member Award...... Jon Swartz The winner of the 2018 Tähtifantasia Award MUNSEY AWARD (for the best fantasy book translated into Finnish) was an- The winner of the 2018 Munsey Award (for service to the nounced at Finncon 2018 <2018.finncon.org/?lang=en>, held pulp community) was announced at PulpFest 2018 , held 26–29 July 2018 at the The winner is (Luukellot), DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh—Cranberry in Mars David Mitchell, translated by Einari Aal- (Pittsburgh area) PA. The winner is William Lampkin (“free- tonen. lance writer/editor and publication designer”). ESFS AWARDS ENNIE AWARDS & SPOTLIGHT WINNERS Winners of the 2018 European Sci- Winners of the 2018 EN World RPG Awards ence Fiction Society Awards (for “excellence in tabletop role- esfs-awards> were announced at Euro- playing gaming”)—and associated Judges Spotlight winners— con 40 , held were announced at Gen Con 2018 , held 19–22 July 2018 in Amiens France. Win- 2–5 August 2018 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indi- ners were announced in Grandmaster, Hall of anapolis IN. The Judges’ Spotlight Winners were: 6 Production Values Gold ...... : The RPG (Arc Dream Publishing) Production Values Silver...... Star Trek Adventures: Collectors Edition Core Rulebook (Modiphius Entertainment) RPG Related Product Gold...... Khan of Khans (Chaosium Inc.) RPG Related Product Silver...... Dresden Files Cooperative Card Game (Evil Hat Productions) Rules Gold ...... Delta Green: The RPG (Arc Dream Publishing) Rules Silver...... Star Trek Adventures: Core Rulebook (Modiphius Entertainment) Setting Gold...... Harlem Unbound (Darker Hue Studios) FAITH–The Sci-Fi RPG 2.0 (Burning Games) Setting Silver...... Frostbitten and Mutilated Fever Swamp (Melsonian Arts Council) (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Operation Unfathomable (Hydra Cooperative) Supplement Gold...... Reign of Terror (Chaosium) Pip System Corebook (Third Eye Games) Supplement Silver.... Shadowrun Dark Terrors (Catalyst Game Labs) Winterhorn (Bully Pulpit Games) Website Gold...... Blades in the Dark SRD The winners and runners up for the ENnie Awards (styled as Gold and Silver Awards) are: Website Silver...... Elven Tower Adventure Gold...... The Dark of Hot Springs Island Writing Gold...... Harlem Unbound (Darker Hue Studios) (Swordfish Islands) Writing Silver...... Frostbitten and Mutilated Adventure Silver...... Delta Green: A Night at the Opera (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) (Arc Dream Publishing) Product of the Year Gold ...... Zweihänder Grim & Perilous Aid/Accessory Gold...... Hex Kit (Cone of Negative Energy) RPG (Grim & Perilous Studios) Aid/Accessory Silver...... Conan GM Screen Product of the Year Silver...... Delta Green: The RPG (Modiphius Entertainment) (Arc Dream Publishing) Art (Cover) Gold...... Harlem Unbound (Darker Hue Studios) Fan’s Choice, Best Publisher Gold ...... Wizards of the Coast Art (Cover) Silver..... Critical Role: Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Fan’s Choice, Best Publisher Silver...... Chaosium Inc. (Green Ronin) BAEN FANTASY ADVENTURE AWARD Art (Interior) Gold.....City of Mist (Son of Oak Game Studio) Also at Gen Con, the winner of the 2018 Baen Fantasy Ad- Art (Interior) Silver...... Frostbitten & Mutilated venture Award contest was announced. The winner is Blog Gold...... Gnome Stew “Dragon’s Hand,” David VonAllmen. He’ll Blog Silver...... Sly Flourish receive a trophy and a $500 package of Baen Cartography Gold...... The Midderlands—An OSR Books, plus the story will be published on the Setting & Bestiary (MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing) Baen Books website (and paid for at indus- Cartography Silver...... Starfinder Pact Worlds (Paizo Inc.) try-standard rates), Electronic Book Gold...... Delta Green: A Night at the Opera DIANA JONES AWARD (Arc Dream Publishing) The winner of the 2018 Diana Jones Electronic Book Silver...... Scenario from Ontario Award for Excellence in Gaming was announced 1 Au- Family Product Gold ...... Khan of Khans (Chaosium Inc.) gust 2018 at the annual Diana Jones Award Family Product Silver...... Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse Party (held the night before the Gen Con (Shoreless Skies Publishing) games convention opens to the public). The Free Product Gold ...... Runequest: Quickstart Rules winner is the Actual Play movement—the and Adventure (Chaosium Inc.) practice of recording and internet broadcast- Baen FAA Free Product Silver...... Tabletop Audio ing game sessions. Free Game Gold ...... High Plains Samurai: Legends EISNER AWARDS (Broken Ruler Games) Winners of the 2018 Comic Industry Awards Free Game Silver...... Saga of the Goblin Horde (Zadmar Games) Game Gold ...... Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG were announced by San Diego Comic-Con, held 18–22 July Grim & Perilous Studios) 2018. In addition to the “normal” categories, a number of Eis- Game Silver...... Delta Green: The RPG (Arc Dream Publishing) ner Hall of Fame and related category winners were an- Miniatures Product Gold .....Star Trek Adventures Miniatures: nounced. The Next Generation (Modiphius Entertainment) HoF Judges’ Choices...... Carol Kalish and Jackie Ormes Miniatures Product Silver...... Double-Sided Dry-Erase Tiles HoF Voters’ Choices...... Charles Addams, , (Gaming Paper) Dave Gibbons, and Monster/Adversary Gold ...... Frostbitten and Mutilated Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award...... Frederick Joseph, (Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Comics4Kids Monster/Adversary Silver...... Down Darker Trails Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award .....Joe (Chaosium Inc.) Murchison Kelly and Dorothy Woolfolk Organized Play Gold...... Lost Tales of Myth Drannor Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award ...... Hamish (D&D Adventurers League) Steele (writer/artist, Pantheon) and Pablo Tunica (artist, Organized Play Silver...... End of the Line (Michael Maenza) TMNT Universe) Podcast Gold ...... Miskatonic University Podcast Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award...... Norma Podcast Silver...... Fear of a Black Dragon Comics, Barcelona, Spain 7 Writer/Artist ...... Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics) Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team ...... Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC) Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)...... Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image) Cover Artist ...... Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image) Coloring ...... Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics) Lettering...... , Usagi Yojimbo, Groo: Slay of the Gods (Dark Horse) Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism ...... , Dan Nadel, Timothy Hodler, and Tucker Stone, eds. (Fantagraphics) Comics-Related Book...... How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden (Fantagraphics) Academic/Scholarly...... Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Arizona Press) Publication Design ...... Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, designed by Phil Balsman, Akira Saito (Veia) Digital Comic ...... Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, Shannon Wheeler, and Gideon Kendall (comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates) Short Story ...... “A Life in Comics: Webcomic ...... The Tea Dragon Society The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green,” Nick Sousanis , Katie O’Neill, (Oni Press) (Columbia Magazine, Summer 2017) SCRIBE AWARDS Single Issue/One-Shot...... Hellboy: Krampusnacht, Winners of the 2018 Scribe Awards (for “excellence in licensed tie-in writing”) were an- Continuing Series...... Monstress, nounced by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writ- Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image) ers. The winners are: Limited Series ...... Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Short Story (tie)...... “Banana Republic,” Jonathan Maberry Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel) and “Ganbatte,” Keith DeCandido New Series ...... Black Bolt, Adapted Speculative and General ...... Doctor Who: Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward (Marvel) The Pirate Planet, James Goss Early Readers (0–8) ....Good Night, Planet, Liniers (Toon Books) Original Speculative ...... The Librarians and Kids (9–12)...... The Tea Dragon Society, Katie O’Neill (Oni) the Mother Goose Chase, Greg Cox Teens (13–17) ..Monstress, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image) Original General ...... Don Pendleton’s Humor .....Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly) The Executioner Fatal Prescription, Michael A. Black Anthology...... Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology by YA Original ...... X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, Creators of Color, Taneka Stotts, eds. (Beyond Press) Jonathan Maberry Reality-Based...... Spinning, Tillie Walden (First Second) Audio ...... Warhammer 40,000: Agent of the Throne, Graphic Album—New ...... My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Blood and Lies, John French Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics) IAMTW 2017 Faust Award (Grandmaster)...... Greg Cox Graphic Album—Reprint...... Boundless, THUMPING GOOD READ AWARD Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly) The winner of the 2018 WHSmith Thumping Good Read Adaptation from Another Medium...... Kindred, Award (sponsored by UK bookseller WHSmith ) has been announced. The award—which carries (Abrams ComicArts) a £10,000 prize—has been restarted after a hiatus of over a U.S. Edition of International Material ...... Run for It: decade. The winner is paranormal fantasy Silent Companions, Stories of Slaves Who Fought for the Freedom, Marcelo Laura Purcell (Raven). D’Salete, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics) U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia...... My Brother’s Husband, vol. 1, Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii (Pantheon) Archival Collection/Project—Strips ...... Celebrating Snoopy, Charles M. Schulz, Alexis E. Fajardo, and Dorothy O’Brien, eds. (Andrews McMeel) Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books...... Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, Katsuhiro Otomo; Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, and Lauren Scanlan, eds. (Kodansha) Writer (tie) ...... Tom King, Batman, Batman Annual #2, Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, and Mister Miracle (DC) and Marjorie Liu, Monstress (Image) 8 RITA AND GOLDEN HEARTS AWARDS All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai (Dutton) Winners of the 2018 RITA Awards and Golden Heart Awards The Clash of Eagles Trilogy (Clash of Eagles, Eagle in Exile, were announced by the Romance Writers of America 19 July 2018 at a Denver ceremony. Some of these Once There Was a Way, Bryce Zabel (Diversion Books) overlap genre interests. A list can be found on the File 770 blog SUNBURST AWARDS NOMS . Shortlists for the 2018 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in JAMES WHITE AWARD Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced. Winners will be announced in the Competition (for unpublished Fall. The awards include cash prizes (C$1,000 for the Adult and short stories of 1,000–6,000 words by non-professional writers) YA categories; C$500 for the short story category). has been announced. The winner—Dustin Blair Steinacker Sunburst Awards Adult Fiction Noms for “Two Worlds Apart”—will receive a £200 prize and publi- The Bone Mother, David Demchuk (ChiZine Publications) cation in Interzone. A special commendation also went to Gus- American War, Omar El Akkad (Penguin Random House) tavo Bondoni for “A Sip of Pombe.” Sputnik’s Children, Terri Favro (ECW) SIDEWISE AWARDS NOMS Jade City, Fonda Lee (Orbit) Nominees for the 2017 Sidewise Awards for Alternate Histo- Son of a Trickster, Eden Robinson (Penguin Random House) ry have been announced. Win- Sunburst AwardsYA Fiction Noms ners will be announced at Worldcon 76 in San José. The Painting, Charis Cotter (Penguin Random House) Sidewise Awards Short Form Noms The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline (Dancing Cat Books) “N’oublions Jamais,” Tom Anderson and Bruno Lombardi Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic) (Altered Europa, Martinus Publishing) Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor/Forge) “The Twenty Year Reich,” Dave D’Alessio (Altered Europa, Dragonfly Song, Wendy Orr (Pajama Press) Martinus Publishing) Sunburst Awards Short Story Noms “Sun River,” (Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales “The Beautiful Gears of Dying,” Sandra Kasturi (The Sum of Us) from Egypt, Twopenny Books) “Spiked,” Rich Larson (Abyss & Apex June 2017) “Zigeuner,” Harry Turtledove (Asimov’s September–October 2017) “Meridian,” Karin Lowachee (Where the Stars Rise) Sidewise Awards Long Form Noms “Hacker’s Faire,” Rati Mehrotra (Cast of Wonders March 2017) The Berlin Project, Gregory Benford (Saga Press) “Animate,” Kate Story (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate A Time of Need, Brent Harris (Insomnia Publishing) Change)

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