2012 Nebula Award winners announced!

The 2012 Nebula Awards were presented May 18, 2013 in a ceremony at  SFWA’s 48th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, held in San Jose CA. Gene Wolfe was honored with the 2012 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for his lifetime contributions and achievements in the field.    The winners are:

Novel:  2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Novella: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress

Novelette: Close Encounters by Andy Duncan (in The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)

Short Story: Immersion by Aliette de Bodard (in Clarkesworld 6/12)

Andre Norton Award for YA SF-F book:  Fair Coin by E.C. Myers

You can see the whole list here on Locus online.

New graphic novels and manga on order —-

I just put through an order of graphic novels and manga for our GN (graphic novel) section.   Here’s a sampling of some of the shiny titles that will be hitting the shelves:

Amazing Agent Jennifer 2 by Nunzio DePhillips et al

Batman: The Night of Owls (The new 52)

Draupadi: The Fire-Born Princess by Saraswati Nagpal

John Henry: The Steam Age by Dwayne Harris et al

Julio’s Day by Gilbert Hernandez

Marble Season by Gilbert Hernandez

Scott Pilgrim 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness — COLOR edition  by Bryan Lee O’Malley

The Sleeper Omnibus by Ed Brubaker et al

Watchmen: The Deluxe Edition by Alan Moore

Bakuman 20 by Tsugumi Ohba

Black Bird Volumes 14, 15, and 16 by Kanoko Sakurakouji

Bleach 56 and 57 by Tite Kubo et al

Dengeki Daisy 11 and 12 by Kyousuke Motomi

The Drops of God 2, 3 and 4 by Tadashi Agi

Gate 7 volumes 3 and 4 by Clamp

Inuyasha 16 by Rumiko Takahashi

Naruto 62 by Masahi Kishimoto

Pandora Hearts 12 by Jun Mochizuki

Wandering Son 4 and 5 by Shimura Takako

2013 Locus Awards Finalists !!!

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2013 Locus Awards.  Winners will be announced during the Locus Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 28-30, 2013.

I have looked at the list, and we have all of the nominees for the first four categories (click HERE to see the entire list).   Apparently, our group has excellent taste — we’ll be reading two of the nominated books, Redshirts and vN.  

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

• The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK)    SF-F BAN
• Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)   SF-F BUJ
• Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)   SF-F COR
• 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)    SF-F ROB
• Redshirts, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)   SF-F SCA

FANTASY NOVEL

• The Killing Moon, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)    SF-F JEM
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)   SF-F KIE
• Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)   F KOW
• Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers (Morrow; Corvus)    SF-F POW
• The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)   SF-F STR

YOUNG ADULT BOOK

• The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown; Atom)    TN BAC
• Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)    TN DOC
• Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)    SF-F MIE
• Dodger, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)     Jh PRA
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends; Much-in-Little ’13)   Jh VAL

FIRST NOVEL

• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13)    SF-F AHM
• vN, Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot US; Angry Robot UK)   SF-F ASH
• Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Random House; Doubleday UK)    Jh HAR
• The Games, Ted Kosmatka (Del Rey; Titan)      SF-F KOS
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove; Corvus)    SF-F WIL

Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold —

I found this on Harper Voyager, so passing it along to everyone —- considering that we just discussed one of her books, the timing on this is nice.      Doesn’t she look comfy in this photo?  The Author’s Road stopped by her house for this interview.   I know at least one person in this group who would love to stop by her house and hang out ……

Follow-up post on Alien — Director’s Cut

There’s still time to get a ticket for the screening of Alien: The Director’s Cut on Thursday, May 16th.   I just checked and they are still 51 people below where they need to be to actually have the event.   You have until May 9th to get a ticket —- click HERE for the full info.

Alien — Director’s Cut — on May 16th

I’m posting this up, in case anyone is interested:

Alien: Director’s Cut  Thursday, May 16 9:00pm – 11:27pm

in Woodridge, IL at Hollywood Blvd. – http://www.atriptothemovies.com/index.php?src=

$10.00 General(There is a one item minimum purchase per person required – full menu, bar & to-your-seat service is available throughout the film.)

 

NOTE: This movie event will only happen if enough people pre-register!

Go online to reserve your ticket ASAP: https://www.tugg.com/events/3815, and then invite anyone else who might be interested!

Note: the website asks for a credit card for the $10, but they won’t charge it until the event is definite… and they need 62 more people to commit by Thursday, May 9 to make it definite!

Our May selection : Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a low-life postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.   (summary courtesy of Goodreads).

We’ll be meeting on Wednesday, May 29th at 7:00 pm in Meeting Room B to discuss this book — everyone is welcome to come and share their thoughts!