S-a anunţat câştigătorul premiului Crawford pentru debut în fantasy – Genevieve Valentine cu Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, o fascinantă poveste steampunk ce se petrece în lumea circului.
Celelalte excelente nominalizări au fost: Read more…
Nominalizările British Science Fiction Association pentru cel mai bun roman:
Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith (Newcon Press)
Embassytown by China Mieville (Macmillan) (recenzie în Galileo si CititorSF)
The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz) (recenzie în Galileo)
By Light Alone by Adam Roberts (Gollancz) (recenzie în Galileo)
Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Nu-mi vine să cred cât de bine arată lista de nominalizări; Read more…
Nominalizarile Philip K. Dick Award din 2011:
1 edition (August 9, 2011)
Fingers and other fantastic stories [Kindle Edition]
Marian Coman (Author),
Carmen Dumitru (Translator), Raluca Chirvase (Translator)
Stories: 4
Infiinţat în 2006, cel mai important festival de film de animaţie din România şi singurul din Bucureşti, a devenit, pe parcursul ultimilor cinci ani, unul dintre cele mai importante evenimente culturale din Capitală şi unul dintre cele mai importante festivaluri de film de animaţie din Europa Centrală şi de Est. Adunând, pe parcursul primelor patru ediţii, 35.000 de spectatori şi proiectând 1313 filme de animaţie (lung şi scurt metraj, precum şi videoclipuri muzicale şi clipuri publicitare), anim’est este festivalul de film cu cea mai spectaculoasă creştere în rândul publicului bucureştean. Read more…
Scriitorul Dan Dobos a reusit recent sa finalizeze ultimul sau roman intitulat DemNet. Acesta poate fi comandat doar online la adresa de aici sau tastand http://dandobos.ro/magazin/ in browserul favorit. Pretul este mai mult decat accesibil si anume 36 de RON.
În 2082, natura umană a suferit modificări profunde. Cetăţenii din spaţiul DemNet pot alege să devină nemuritori, beneficiază de tinereţe veşnică şi sănătate perfectă cu ajutorul celulelor Nanosan, de stabilitate financiară absolută prin UniTrez. Pentru ca orânduirea perfectă să fie completă, mai rămâne doar un singur pas: instaurarea obligativităţii participării la consultările electorale zilnice.
Întreaga lume civilizată aşteaptă cu încântare momentul în care va fi atinsă culmea ultimă a democraţiei. Igor Lemme şi Îngerii săi au însă alte planuri…
Autorul spune despre roman urmatoarele : Read more…
“The Sacred Band”: Book Three of the Acacia Trilogy
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David Anthony Durham
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Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 04 October 2011
Format: Hardback 576 pages
Categories: Fantasy
Varianta paperback va aparea doar de la 31 ianuarie 2012. Si un interviu luat cu ocazia lansarii aici. (click me)
“Durham brings his sci-fi Acacia Trilogy to a satisfying close. Samuel R. Delany meets Cormac McCarthy meets J.R.R. Tolkien as the striking and subtly powerful Corinn Akaran settles into queenship over the Known World just in time to take up arms with the Other Lands…. [Durham] takes time to paint scenes in words that other writers might brush away…and [his] pages are full of thrilling action that would do Tolkien proud. A close, yes—but with wiggle room for more Acacian adventures. At any rate, on the strength of this installment, Durham’s many fans will be clamoring for more.”.—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Provides the best of both worlds: epic world-changing conflict and touching character-centered story. What else could you possibly want?” —Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Wise Man’s Fear, a #1 New York Times bestseller
“The conclusion of Durham’s trilogy…ties the threads of these separate stories unto a satisfying climactic world-changing battle. Strong writing, intriguing characters, and a richly detailed background—along with the possibility for future development of Durham’s scenario—make this fantasy epic a winner for those who enjoy large-scale fantasy along the lines of George R.R. Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” series.—Library Journal
Durham’s sprawling epic fantasy trilogy comes to an end with this final volume. … Readers who began the Acacia trilogy with the first book, when the Akaran siblings’ father was overthrown by a warlord, will find themselves immersed in this absorbing, far-reaching conclusion and the many story lines it wraps up.”—Booklist
BEST NOVEL (AUGUST DERLETH FANTASY AWARD): Demon Dance de Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths)
BEST NOVELLA: “Humpty’s Bones” de Simon Clark (Telos)
BEST SHORT STORY: “Fool’s Gold” de Sam Stone (The Bitten Word editat de Ian Whates/ NewCon Press)
BEST COLLECTION: Full Dark, No Stars de Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
BEST ANTHOLOGY: Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories editata de Johnny Mains (Noose & Gibbet)
BEST NON-FICTION: Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong (Telos)
BEST ARTIST: Vincent Chong
BEST SMALL PRESS: Telos Publishing
BEST MAGAZINE/PERIODICAL: Black Static (Andy Cox (ed.)/TTA Press)
BEST COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL: At the Mountains of Madness de Ian Culbard (Self Made Hero)
BEST FILM: Inception (Christopher Nolan/Syncopy Films)
BEST TELEVISION: Sherlock (Steven Moffat/BBC)
KARL EDWARD WAGNER SPECIAL AWARD: Terry Pratchett
SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER: Robert Jackson Bennett, pentru Mr. Shivers (Orbit Books)
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Desi zvonuri au circulat inca din 2009 se pare ca abia recent King a dezvaluit ca Dr. Sleep va fi o continuare la romanul sau The Shining. Ideea din spatele povestii ar fi urmatoarea:
we would see the emotionally scarred Danny Torrance now a 40-year-old orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill in upstate New York. But Danny’s real job is to “visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers.” And on the side, Danny bets on the horse races, a trick he learned from his old friend Dick.
….I knew that there were bad people in this story that were like vampires, only that what they sucked out was not blood, but psychic energy from special people like Danny Torrance. And I came to realize that these people were called The Tribe and that they move around a lot. Their leader is a woman called Rose [unintelligible] they all have these kinda pirate names, because pirates is sort of what they are.
Castigatorii premiilor Campbell si Sturgeon Awards de anul acesta sunt:
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Sean A. Wallace, taticul Prime Books (cu autori sau editori in portofoliu ca, John Joseph Adams, KJ Bishop, Theodora Goss, Nick Mamatas, Sarah Monette, Tim Pratt, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Jeff VanderMeer) si primul editor care a publicat City of Saints and Madmen, lucreaza la o antologie tematica intitulata, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk . Ce e cu original cred ca au fost scrise special pt antologie.
“Steampunk: Looking to the Future through the Lens of the Past” by Ekaterina Sedia (introduction)
“Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer
“The Steam Dancer (1896)” by Caitlin R. Kiernan
“Icebreaker” by Elise Tobler (original)
“Tom Edison and His Amazing Telegraphic Harpoon” by Jay Lake
“The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball” by Genevieve Valentine
“Clockwork Fairies” by Cat Rambo
“The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jala-ud-din Muhammed Akbar” by Shweta Narayan
“Prayers of Forges and Furnaces” by Aliette de Bodard (original)
“The Effluent Engine” by N.K. Jemisin
“The Clockwork Goat and the Smokestack Magi” by Peter M Ball
“The Armature of Flight” by Sharon Mock
“The Anachronist’s Cookbook” by Catherynne M. Valente
“Numismatics in the Reigns of Naranh and Viu” by Alex Dally MacFarlane (original)
“Zeppelin City” by Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn
“The People’s Machine” by Tobias Buckell
“The Hands That Feed” by Matthew Kressel
“Machine Maid” by Margo Lanagan
“To Follow the Waves” by Amal El-Mohtar
“Clockmaker’s Requiem” by Barth Anderson
“Dr. Lash Remembers” by Jeffrey Ford
“Lady Witherspoon’s Solution” by James Morrow
“Reluctance” by Cherie Priest
“A Serpent in the Gears” by Margaret Ronald
“The Celebrated Carousel of the Margravine of Blois” by Megan Arkenberg
“Biographical Notes To ‘A Discourse On The Nature Of Causality’ by Benjamin Rosenbaum” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
“Clockwork Chickadee” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“Cinderella Suicide” by Samantha Henderson
“Arbeitskraft” by Nick Mamatas (original)
“To Seek Her Fortune” by Nicole Kornher-Stace
“The Ballad of the Last Human” by Lavie Tidhar (original)
Horror Writers Association a publicat lista castigatorilor din 2010 a Bram Stoker Awards:
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