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April 22, 2007
Locus Awards Announcement
The finalists for the Locus Awards are listed here here and the winners will be announced on June 16 at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Seattle (during the Science Fiction Museum's Hall of Fame weekend). Good luck to all the nominees in the various categories.
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Thomas D. Clareson Award Announcement
The IAFA would like to offer its most heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Michael Levy for winning the 2007 Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service. As reported on the SFRA website, the "award is presented for outstanding service activities-promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations." Dr. Levy is Chair of the Department of English at the University Wisconsin-Stout and is currently the Immediate Past President of the IAFA. Congratulations on the well-deserved win.
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April 20, 2007
Jamie Bishop, Victim of Virginia Tech Shootings
It is with a heavy heart that we announce Jamie Bishop, son to SF author and New York Review of Science Fiction friend and contributor Michael Bishop, was among the slain at Virginia Tech. Jamie was a cover artist for Golden Gryphon Press and taught German at Virginia Tech where his classroom was part of the second wave of violence that rocked the university. The Jamie Bishop and Jocelyne Couture-Nowak Scholarships have been set up and will be awarded annually to German and French majors at Virginia Tech. Donations may be made payable to the Virginia Tech Foundation for the Jamie Bishop Scholarship (for German Majors) or the Jocelyne Couture-Nowak Scholarship (for French majors). A full news story can be found here.
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April 12, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
As reported by the New York Times, Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11th. The full story can be found here.
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April 09, 2007
Philip K. Dick Award Announcement
It was announced at Norwescon 30, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2006 in the U.S.A. is:
Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (Bantam Spectra)
Special citation was given to:
Carnival by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society. The 2006 judges were Geary Gravel, Anne Harris, Christine Mains (chair), Kristine Smith, and Mark W. Tiedemann.
The 2007 judges are Steve Miller, Chris Moriarty, Steven Piziks, Randy Schroeder, and Ann Tonsor Zeddies.
For more information, contact the award administration:
David G. Hartwell (914) 769-5545.
Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551
For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, http://www.psfs.org/, contact: Gary Feldbaum (215) 563-2511
For more information about Norwescon, http://www.norwescon.org/, contact NorthWest SF Society: (360) 438-0871
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April 05, 2007
Bokenkamp from Stanford Named 2007 Dell Magazines Award Winner
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) and Asimov's Science Fiction magazine have named Natty Bokenkamp the winner of the 2007 Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing for his short story "The Uncanny Valley." Bokenkamp is an undergraduate at Stanford University.
First Runner-up for the 2007 award is Rahul Kanakia, also of Stanford, for his short story, “Money is the Best Damn Thing There Is.”
Second Runner-up for the 2007 award is Natty Bokenkamp of Stanford for the short story, “Cargo.”
Third Runner-up for 2007 is Rahul Kanakia from Stanford for “The Silent Horde.”
Honorable Mention for the 2007 award goes to Stephen Leech of the University of South Florida for his short story, “The Whale-Zeppelin Canard,” and to Eliza Blair of Swarthmore College for her short story, “Tangle,” and to Seth Dickinson of the University of Chicago for his short story, “Claymore Three-Zulu.” Blair was first runner-up for the award in both 2005 and 2006.
Bokenkamp received $500 for the award and an expense-paid trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the annual Conference on the Fantastic, March 14-18, where he received the award from Sheila Williams, Editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, during the conference awards banquet. Kanakia and Leech also attended the conference and received their awards from Williams during the awards banquet.
The deadline for submissions for the 2008 Dell Magazines Award is postmarked by January 8, 2008. Submissions should be sent to: Dell Magazines Award, School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, Fla. 33620. For more information or submission guidelines contact Award Administrator Dr. Rick Wilber at the School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler, Tampa, Fla. 33620 at (813) 974-6792 or RWilber@cas.usf.edu or see the magazine's website at www.Asimovs.com, or Wilber’s website at http://www.rickwilber.com/dell%20award.htm
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts is a worldwide network of scholars, educators, writers, artists, filmmakers, critics, editors, publishers, and performers who share an interest in studying and celebrating the fantastic in all artforms, disciplines and media: literature, art, film, drama, music, philosophy, religion, the sciences, popular culture, and interdisciplinary areas. IAFA publishes an interdisciplinary quarterly, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, the IAFA Newsletter, and an annual IAFA Membership Directory. IAFA also sponsors and organizes the annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, (ICFA) which hosts the world's broadest and largest selection of scholarly papers on the fantastic and has become the major forum for the exchange of ideas and dissemination of scholarship on the fantastic.
The Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing is co-sponsored by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and supported by the School of Mass Communications, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
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April 01, 2007
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Masthead Changes
The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (JFA) is pleased to announce recent changes to its editorial masthead. After many years of devoted service, W. A. Senior has passed the editorial torch to Brian Attebery who has now officially taken over as the new JFA Editor. There have also been changes to the Associate Editors roster, which now consists of: Bryan Dietrich, Graham J. Murphy, Donald Palumbo, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Kelly Searsmith, and Maureen Kincaid Speller. Reviews Editors are Jeffrey Weinstock and Dale Knickerbocker and Editorial Assistants Monty Vierra and Kristi N. Austin. Brian, the Editorial Staff, and the Editorial Board look forward to the challenges ahead as they lead JFA into a new phase of scholarly work on the fantastic.
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