And still the awards keep coming. These are some of the awards that have been announced over the last couple of weeks.
Sunburst Awards
The shortlists have been announced for the Sunburst Awards for excellence in Canadian literature of the fantastic. The full lists are here.
Adult Fiction
Spells of Blood and Kin, Claire Humphrey
The Witches of New York, Ami McKay
Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel
Necessity, Jo Walton
Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson
Prometheus Award
The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the winners of the Prometheus Awards for works that examine the meaning of freedom.
Best Novel
The Core of the Sun, Johanna Sinisalo
Hall of Fame
“Coventry”, Robert A. Heinlein (1940)
Special Award
Freefall, a webcomic by Mark Stanley
Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
Seabury Quinn, who died in 1969, has been named as the winner of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award which is intended to honour lesser-known sf and fantasy writers.
For those wanting to rediscover this writer, a number of Quinn’s better-known science fiction works are included in The Seabury Quinn Collection.
Seiun Awards
The winners of the Japanese science fiction awards have been announced. The awards for work in translation are:
Best Translated Novel
United States of Japan, Peter Tieryas, translated by Naoya Nakahara
Best Translated Story
“Backward, Turn Backward”, James Tiptree, Jr., translated by Kazuko Onoda (Crown of Stars)
“Simulacrum”, Ken Liu, translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa
Dark Orbit
From Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder.
Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate.
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