Volume 24 Number 12 Issue 294 May 2012 A WORD FROM THE EDITOR The 2012 Hugo and John W. Campbell Award Nominees A fun month. OASFiS was represented at the (source Chicon 7 website) UCF Bookfair. The picnic was great. Thank You 1101 valid nominating ballots were received and counted. Susan Cole and Bonny Bealle and everyone who Best Novel (932 ballots) helped out. The Hugo Nominees were announced Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor) online on April 7. There are a lot of great nominees. A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin (Bantam Spectra) Deadline by Mira Grant (Orbit) Next month we will have the Nebula winners, Embassytown by China Miéville (Macmillan / Del Rey) some pictures from OASIS and a review or 2. Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (Orbit) Till next time. Best Novella (473 ballots) Countdown by Mira Grant (Orbit) . “The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2011) “Kiss Me Twice” by Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's, June 2011) “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” by Kij Johnson (Asimov's, September/October 2011) “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” by Ken Liu (Panverse 3) Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld / WSFA) Best Novelette (499 ballots) Leviathan Wakes “The Copenhagen Interpretation” by Paul Cornell (Asimov's, July by 2011) James A. Corey “Fields of Gold” by Rachel Swirsky (Eclipse Four) (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck) “Ray of Light” by Brad R. Torgersen (Analog, December 2011) The Human population is expanding in the Solar “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com) System. The governments of Earth and Mars are the major “What We Found” by Geoff Ryman (The Magazine of Fantasy & powers. Then there are colonies in the asteroid belt and moons Science Fiction, March/April 2011) of Jupiter and Saturn. The Epstein Drive makes routine travel Best Short Story (593 ballots) to the outer Solar System feasible. There is a movement in the “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by E. Lily Yu asteroid belt population to achieve political independence. (Clarkesworld, April 2011) They are loosely organized as the Outer Planets Alliance “The Homecoming” by Mike Resnick (Asimov's, April/May 2011) (OPA). Tension between the major parties is inevitable. “Movement” by Nancy Fulda (Asimov's, March 2011) Jim Holden is the executive officer on the Cantenbury. “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (The Magazine of Fantasy & On a routine water run from Saturn to the Belt, the Canterbury Science Fiction, March/April 2011) finds an abandoned ship, the Scopuli. Holden takes a team to “Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: investigate the ship and while they are on the Scopuli, the Prologue” by John Scalzi (Tor.com) Canterbury is destroyed by unknown agency. The transmitter which led the Canterbury to the Scopuli has Martian (Continued on page 2) OASFiS Event Horizon Vol 24 Issue 294, May 2012. Published Monthly by the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society (OASFiS). All rights reserved by original Authors and Artists. Editor: Juan Sanmiguel, 1421 Pon Pon Court, Orlando, FL 32825. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year and entitle the subscriber to membership in the Society. Attending Memberships are $25.00 per year. Extra memberships to family members are $6.00 per year when only one newsletter is sent to the household. To subscribe or join OASFiS, send a check or money order to: OASFiS, PO Box 592905, Orlando, FL 32859-2905. To submit Articles, Artwork or Letters of Comment to the Event Horizon, send them to the Editor's address above or [email protected]. For additional information, call our Voice Mail at (407) 823-8715. OASFiS is a state chartered not for profit corporation whose goal is the promotion of Science Fiction in all its forms. All opinions expressed herein are solely those of the Author(s) and in no way Page two May 2012 May OASFiS Calendar OASFiS People OASFiS Business Meeting Sunday, May 13 1:30 PM, Brick and Fire Pasta and Steve Cole 407-275-5211 Pizza Parlor (Downtown Orlando, 1621 South Orange Ave [email protected] Orlando, Florida 32806) Susan Cole 407-275-5211 [email protected] SciFi Light Arthur Dykeman 407-328-9565 On hiatus this month due to OASIS. [email protected] Steve Grant 352 241 0670 [email protected] Mike Pilletere [email protected] To contact for more info: David Ratti 407-282-2468 OASFiS Business Meeting 407-823-8715 [email protected] Juan Sanmiguel 407-823-8715 [email protected] Patricia Wheeler 407-832-1428 Best Related Work (461 ballots) [email protected] The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Third Edition edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls, and Graham Sleight Any of these people can give readers information about the (Gollancz) club and its functions. To be included in the list call Juan Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and Other Observations about Science Fiction Movies by Daniel M. Kimmel (Fantastic Books) Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) (512 ballots) The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of “The Doctor's Wife” (Doctor Who), written by Neil Gaiman; Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and directed by Richard Clark (BBC Wales) Strange Literature by Jeff VanderMeer and S. J. Chambers “The Drink Tank's Hugo Acceptance Speech,” Christopher J (Abrams Image) Garcia and James Bacon (Renovation) Wicked Girls by Seanan McGuire “The Girl Who Waited” (Doctor Who), written by Tom MacRae; Writing Excuses, Season 6 by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales) Howard Tayler, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Jordan Sanderson “A Good Man Goes to War” (Doctor Who), written by Steven Best Graphic Story (339 ballots) Moffat; directed by Peter Hoar (BBC Wales) Digger by Ursula Vernon (Sofawolf Press) “Remedial Chaos Theory” (Community), written by Dan Harmon Fables Vol 15: Rose Red by Bill Willingham and Mark and Chris McKenna; directed by Jeff Melman (NBC) Buckingham (Vertigo) Best Semiprozine (357 ballots) Locke & Key Volume 4, Keys to the Kingdom written by Joe Apex Magazine edited by Catherynne M. Valente, Lynne M. Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW) Thomas, and Jason Sizemore Schlock Mercenary: Force Multiplication written and illustrated Interzone edited by Andy Cox by Howard Tayler, colors by Travis Walton (The Tayler Lightspeed edited by John Joseph Adams Corporation) Locus edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al. The Unwritten (Volume 4): Leviathan created by Mike Carey New York Review of Science Fiction edited by David G. and Peter Gross. Written by Mike Carey, illustrated by Peter Hartwell, Kevin J. Maroney, Kris Dikeman, and Avram Grumer Gross (Vertigo) Best Fanzine (322 ballots) Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) (592 ballots) Banana Wings edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer Captain America: The First Avenger, screenplay by Christopher The Drink Tank edited by James Bacon and Christopher J Markus and Stephan McFeely, directed by Joe Johnston (Marvel) Garcia Game of Thrones (Season 1), created by David Benioff and D. File 770 edited by Mike Glyer B. Weiss; written by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Bryan Journey Planet edited by James Bacon, Christopher J Garcia, et Cogman, Jane Espenson, and George R. R. Martin; directed by al. Brian Kirk, Daniel Minahan, Tim van Patten, and Alan Taylor SF Signal edited by John DeNardo (HBO) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, screenplay by Best Fancast (326 ballots) Steve Kloves; directed by David Yates (Warner Bros.) The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe Hugo, screenplay by John Logan; directed by Martin Scorsese Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, and (Paramount) Tansy Rayner Roberts (presenters) and Andrew Finch (producer) Source Code, screenplay by Ben Ripley; directed by Duncan SF Signal Podcast, John DeNardo and JP Frantz, produced by Jones (Vendome Pictures) Patrick Hester (Continued on page 3) Page three May 2012 SF Squeecast, Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Philip K. Dick Award Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente (source Locus website) StarShipSofa, Tony C. Smith Best Professional Editor - Long Form (358 ballots) The winner Lou Anders The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Mordern Liz Gorinsky (Orbit) Anne Lesley Groell Patrick Nielsen Hayden Special Citation Betsy Wollheim The Compnay Man, Robert Jackson Bennett, (Orbit) Best Professional Editor - Short Form (512 ballots) The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished John Joseph Adams science fiction published in paperback original form in the US Neil Clarke and is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society. Stanley Schmidt Jonathan Strahan 2012 BSFA Award Winners Sheila Williams (source Locus Website) Best Professional Artist (399 ballots) Dan dos Santos Winners of the 2012 BSFA Awards have been announced: Bob Eggleton Michael Komarck Best Novel Stephan Martiniere The Islanders, Christopher Priest (Gollancz) John Picacio Best Short Fiction Best Fan Artist (216 ballots) Brad W. Foster “The Copenhagen Interpretation”, Paul Cornell Randall Munroe (Asimov’s July 2011) Spring Schoenhuth Best Non-Fiction Maurine Starkey Steve Stiles The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, John Clute, Taral Wayne Peter Nicholls, David Langford, & Graham Sleight, eds. (SF Gateway) Best Fan Writer (360 ballots) James Bacon Best Art Claire Brialey Cover of Ian Whates’s The Noise Revealed, Christopher J Garcia Dominic Harman (Solaris) Jim C. Hines The awards are voted on by members of BSFA and the British Steven H Silver Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). Winners were John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (396 ballots) announced during the 2012 Eastercon, held April 6-9, 2012 at the Award for the best new professional science fiction or fantasy Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London. writer of 2010 or 2011, sponsored by Dell Magazines (not a Hugo Award).