Locus, March 2014
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2013 Nebula Awards Ballot • Sulway Wins Tiptree • Samatar Wins Crawford Award • Buchanan Retires • Little, Brown UK Buys Constable & Robinson • Open Road Buys E-Reads • World Fantasy 2014 Judges Announced • Stoker Preliminary Ballot
2013 NEBULA AWARDS BALLOT
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have released the final ballot for the 2013 Nebula Awards.
NOVEL
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (Morrow; Headline Review)
Fire with Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Red: First Light, Linda Nagata (Mythic Island)
A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper)
NOVELLA
‘‘Wakulla Springs’’, Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages (Tor.com 10/2/13)
‘‘The Weight of the Sunrise’’, Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s 2/13)
‘‘Annabel Lee’’, Nancy Kress (New Under the Sun)
‘‘Burning Girls’’, Veronica Schanoes (Tor.com 6/19/13)
‘‘Trial of the Century’’ Lawrence M. Schoen (www.lawrencemschoen.com; World Jumping)
Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M. Valente (Subterranean)
NOVELETTE
‘‘Paranormal Romance’’, Christopher Barzak (Lightspeed 6/13)
‘‘The Waiting Stars’’, Aliette de Bodard (The Other Half of the Sky)
‘‘They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass’’, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Asimov’s 1/13)
‘‘Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters’’, Henry Lien (Asimov’s 12/13)
‘‘The Litigation Master and the Monkey King’’, Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/13)
‘‘In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind’’, Sarah Pinsker (Strange Horizons 7/1 – 7/8/13)
SHORT STORY
‘‘The Sounds of Old Earth’’, Matthew Kressel (Lightspeed 1/13)
‘‘Selkie Stories Are for Losers’’, Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons 1/7/13)
‘‘Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer’’, Kenneth Schneyer (Clockwork Phoenix 4)
‘‘If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love’’, Rachel Swirsky (Apex 3/13)
‘‘Alive, Alive Oh’’, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Lightspeed 6/13)
RAY BRADBURY AWARD
Doctor Who: ‘‘The Day of the Doctor’’
Europa Report
Gravity
Her
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Pacific Rim
ANDRE NORTON AWARD
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black (Little, Brown; Indigo)
When We Wake, Karen Healey (Allen & Unwin; Little, Brown)
Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
Hero, Alethea Kontis (Harcourt)
September Girls, Bennett Madison (Harper Teen)
A Corner of White, Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine)
Final ballots are due March 30, 2014 (only active SFWA members are eligible to vote). Winners will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on May 17, 2014, during the Nebula Awards Weekend (May 15-18, 2013) at the San Jose Marriott, San Jose CA. Details at
SULWAY WINS TIPTREE
N.A. Sulway (2013)
N.A. Sulway’s Rupetta (Tartarus) is the winner of the 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, given annually to works of science fiction or fantasy that explore and expand gender roles. Sulway will receive $1,000 in prize money, original artwork created to honor the winning work, and chocolate. She will be honored at a ceremony during WisCon 38, May 23-26, 2014 in Madison WI.
The Tiptree jury released an ‘‘honor list’’ recognizing other works worthy of note: Big Mama Stories, Eleanor Arnason (Aqueduct 2013); ‘‘Heaven Under Earth’’, Aliette de Bodard (Electric Velocipede #24 Summer ‘12); Hild, Nicola Griffith (Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013); The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine 2013); Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit 2013); September Girls, Bennett Madison (HarperTeen 2013); All Our Pretty Songs, Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s 2013); Electric Lady, Janelle Monae (Bad Boy Records 2013); The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker (Harper 2013); Sea Change, S.M. Wheeler (Tor 2013).
Jurors were Ellen Klages (chair), Christopher Barzak, Jayna Brown, Nene Ormes, and Gretchen Treu. For more:
SAMATAR WINS CRAWFORD
Sofia Samatar (2013)
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press) won the 2014 Crawford Memorial Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts for an outstanding first fantasy book. According to award administrator Gary K. Wolfe, the novel won broad support from the nominating committee. The other books included on this year’s Crawford shortlist are Yoon Ha Lee’s story collection Conservation of Shadows (Prime Books), Helene Wecker’s novel The Golem and the Jinni (Harper), and N.A. Sulway’s novel Rupetta (Tartarus Press).
Participating in this year’s nomination and selection process were Farah Mendlesohn, Cheryl Morgan, Ellen Klages, Graham Sleight, Liza Groen Trombi, Stacie Hanes, Karen Burnham, Candas Jane Dorsey, Jedediah Berry, and Jonathan Strahan.
The IAFA’s Distinguished Scholarship Award will be presented to Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., and Vera Cuntz-Leng will receive the Jamie Bishop Memorial Award for a work of scholarship written in a language other than English.
The awards will be presented on March 22, 2014 during the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando FL.
BUCHANAN RETIRES
Ginjer Buchanan (2011)
Ginjer Buchanan, 69, is retiring as head of Ace and Roc, effective at the end of March, 2014 – after ‘‘30 years almost to the day!’’ She told us, ‘‘Science fiction and fantasy has been part of my life all of my life. I was a fan for many years before I was a pro, and though I am retiring from ‘doing it for a living’ I’m not retiring from my love of the genre. I’ll be around at conventions, for a goodly long while to come. I’m looking forward to spending time with my many fan friends – and with many of my authors, who have become friends.’’
Buchanan has a master’s in social work, and was employed as a social worker in Pittsburgh before moving to New York and spending 13 years working for a foster care and adoption agency. In the ‘70s she began doing freelance work for various SF publishers, including a stint as consulting editor for the Star Trek novel line at Pocket Books. In 1984 she accepted a job as a full-time editor at Berkley. She rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief of the two Penguin US SF/F imprints, Ace and Roc, acquiring for both.
She has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Editor, Long Form five times, most recently in 2011. She was a World Fantasy Award finalist in the Special Award, Professional category, along with editor Susan Allison, in 2006. In 2013 she received a Solstice Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in recognition for her contributions to SF, and the Skylark award from NESFA for her service to the field.
Her husband, editor John Douglas – ‘‘a mere tad of 65’’ – is not yet retiring, and Buchanan has no major plans for her retirement. ‘‘I’ve been telling people I intend to do as little as possible – which means, for one thing, reading what I want to read when I want to read it!’
LITTLE BROWN UK BUYS CONSTABLE & ROBINSON
Little, Brown UK has purchased Constable & Robinson, effective immediately.
Constable & Robinson, with its eight trade imprints, will retain its name and w
ill become its own division of Little, Brown Book Group. All contracts will be honored, and existing arrangements with authors, freelancers, distributors, and retailers will remain unchanged for now.
Constable & Robinson CEO Nova Jayne Robinson will be ‘‘leaving the business to focus on the online businesses that I have developed in recent years’’ and to work on the Robinson Psychology Trust charity. Managing director Pete Duncan will run the division, reporting to publisher David Shelley. Constable & Robinson publishes fiction and nonfiction in various genres, including a great deal of SF/F via their ‘‘Mammoth Book’’ reprint anthologies.
OPEN ROAD BUYS EREADS
Digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media has announced the acquisition of E-Reads, the e-book publisher run by literary agent Richard Curtis. E-Reads was founded in 1999 and is ‘‘the oldest independent digital publisher in the field,’’ with a catalog of about 1,200 mostly backlist SF/fantasy titles. The deal should close on April 1, 2014, after which the E-Reads website will be closed and the acquired titles incorporated into the Open Road site. The acquisition will increase the Open Road e-book catalog to about 5,400 titles.
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WORLD FANTASY 2014 JUDGES ANNOUNCED
The judges for the 2014 World Fantasy Awards have been empaneled. All forms of fantasy qualify; only living authors and editors are eligible; all books must have a 2013 publication date and all magazines a 2013 cover date.
To be considered for awards, all materials must be received by all five judges and the convention by June 1, 2014. Addresses for the judges are: Andy Duncan, 38 Teaberry Lane, Frostburg MD 21532-2301; Kij Johnson, University of Kansas, Department of English, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 3001, Lawrence KS 66045 (short works only may be sent electronically to
338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH, United Kingdom; John Klima, 205 S. Greenfield Avenue, Waukesha WI 53186 (short works only may be sent electronically to
Meare, Glastonbury BA6 9TL, United Kingdom.
A copy should also go to: Peter Dennis Pautz, President, World Fantasy Awards Association, PO Box 43, Mukilteo WA 98275-0043. Packages should be labeled ‘‘Promotional materials – not for sale or resale – no commercial value – World Fantasy Awards materials.’’
Winners will be announced at the 2014 World Fantasy Awards Banquet and Ceremony during the 40th World Fantasy Convention, November 6-9, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington VA. Life Achievement nominees will not be released; the winner will be announced in advance of the banquet.
STOKER PRELIMINARY BALLOT
The 2013 Stoker Preliminary Ballot has been released by the Horror Writers Association.
Superior Achievement in a Novel: Darkbound, Michaelbrent Collings (self-published); The Colony: Genesis, Michaelbrent Collings (self-published); The Asylum, John Harwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); NOS4A2, Joe Hill (Morrow); Doctor Sleep, Stephen King (Scribner); Malediction, Lisa Morton (Evil Jester); Evil and the Mask, Fuminori Nakamura (Soho Crime); A Necessary End, Sarah Pinborough & F. Paul Wilson (Thunderstorm/Maelstrom); The Heavens Rise, Christopher Rice (Gallery); Only the Thunder Knows, Gord Rollo (JournalStone).
Superior Achievement in a First Novel:
Pivot, L.C. Barlow (self-published); Whisper, Michael Bray (self-published); Poe, J. Lincoln Fenn (47North); Cain’s Blood, Geoffrey Girard (Touchstone); Candy House, Kate Jonez (Evil Jester); Losing Touch, Christian A. Larsen (Post Mortem); The Year of the Storm, John Mantooth (Berkley); The Evolutionist, Rena Mason (Nightscape); Redheads, Jonathan Moore (Samhain). Stoker’s Manuscript, Royce Prouty (Putnam).
Superior Achievement in a YA Novel: The Adventures of Kyle McGerrt: Hunt for the Ghoulish Bartender, Charles Day (Blood Bound). Special Dead, Patrick Freivald (JournalStone); Unbreakable, Kami Garcia (Little, Brown); Project Cain, Geoffrey Girard (Simon & Schuster); Truly, Madly, Deadly, Hannah Jayne (Sourcebooks Fire); Sick, Tom Leveen (Abrams); Dog Days, Joe McKinney (JournalStone); In the Shadow of Blackbirds, Cat Winters (Abrams).
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction: ‘‘The Bluehole’’, Dale Bailey (F&SF 5-6/13); ‘‘The Great Pity’’, Gary Braunbeck (Chiral Mad 2); Three Chords of Chaos, James Chambers (Dark Quest); ‘‘The Slaughter Man’’, Benjamin K. Ethridge (Limbus, Inc.); ‘‘No Others Are Genuine’’, Gregory Frost (Asimov’s 10-11/13); House of Rain, Greg F. Gifune (DarkFuse); Baggage of Eternal Night, Eric J. Guignard (JournalStone); The Deceived, Dustin LaValley (Thunderstorm); East End Girls, Rena Mason (JournalStone); Astoria, S.P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum).
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction:
‘‘The Book With No End’’, Colleen Anderson (Bibliotheca Fantastica); ‘‘Primal Tongue’’, Michael Bailey (Zippered Flesh 2); ‘‘Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy’’, Max Booth III (Chiral Mad 2); ‘‘Snapshot’’, Patrick Freivald (Blood & Roses); ‘‘Night Train to Paris’’, David Gerrold (F&SF 1-2/13); ‘‘The Hunger Artist’’, Lisa Mannetti (Zippered Flesh 2); ‘‘Black Tea’’, Samuel Marolla (Black Tea and Other Tales); ‘‘The Slipway Grey’’, Helen Marshall (Chilling Tales); ‘‘The Geminis’’, John Palisano (Chiral Mad 2); ‘‘Code 666’’, Michael Reaves (F&SF 3-4/13).
Superior Achievement in an Anthology: Horror Library: Volume 5, R.J. Cavender & Boyd E. Harris, ed. (Cutting Block); Blood Rites: An Invitation to Horror, Marc Ciccarone, ed. (Blood Bound); After Death…, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon); Barbers & Beauties, Michael Knost & Nancy Eden Siegel, eds. (Hummingbird House); Tales of Jack the Ripper, Ross E. Lockhart, ed. (Word Horde); Bleed, Lori Michelle, ed. (Perpetual Motion Machine); The Grimscribe’s Puppets, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., ed. (Miskatonic River). Shadow Masters: An Anthology from the Horror Zine, Jeani Rector, ed. (Imajin); Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One, Anthony Rivera & Sharon Lawson, eds. (Grey Matter).
Superior Achievement in a Collection: North American Lake Monsters: Stories, Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer); The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade); They Might Be Demons, Max Booth III (Dark Moon); Fresh Cut Tales: A Collection of Dark Fiction, Kenneth W. Cain (Distressed Press); The Tears of Isis, James Dorr (Perpetual Motion Machine); The Crossroads: A Collection of Narrative Horror, K. Trap Jones (Hazardous Press); The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories, Caitlìn R. Kiernan (Subterranean); Deeply Twisted, Chantal Noordeloos (TMH Publishing); Dance of the Blue Lady, Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon); Flowers of the Sea, Reggie Oliver (Tartarus); Bible Stories for Secular Humanists, S.P. Somtow (Diplodocus).
Superior Achievement in NonFiction: Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic, Barbara Brodman & James E. Doan, eds. (Fairleigh Dickinson); Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror, Gary William Crawford, ed. (Scarecrow); Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction, William F. Nolan (Hippocampus); The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures, Jarkko Toikkanen (Palgrave Macmillan); Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors, Robert H. Waugh, ed. (Scarecrow); The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan).
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection: The Horror Show, Vincenzo Bilof (Bizarro Pulp); Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012, Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance); Scenes Along the Zombie Highway, G.O. Clark (Dark Regions); Luminous Worlds, David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Dark Regions); The Sex Lives of Monsters, Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen); Dangerous Dreams, Marge Simon & Sandy DeLuca (Elektrik Milk Bath); Four Elements, Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob & Linda Addison (Bad Moon/Evil Jester); Demonstra: A Poetry Collection, Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press); Hysteria: A Collection of Madness, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming).
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel: Fatale Book Three: West of Hell, Ed Brubaker (Image); Alabaster: Wolves, Caitlín R. Ki
ernan (Dark Horse); Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice, Brandon Seifert (Image); Sin Titulo, Cameron Stewart (Dark Horse); Colder, Paul Tobin (Dark Horse).
As there are only five works nominated in the Graphic Novel category, they will proceed directly to the final ballot.
Horror Writers Association members will vote to choose final nominees from this list, and then vote again to determine winners. The final ballot will be announced February 23, 2014.
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PEOPLE AND PUBLISHING
MILESTONES
WALTER JON WILLIAMS is now represented by JABberwocky Literary Agency.
JAY LAKE, 49, who has terminal cancer, has joined a National Institute of Health cancer trial to undergo experimental treatment.
AWARDS
George Saunders (2007)
GEORGE SAUNDERS’s Tenth of December is a finalist for new UK literary award the Folio Prize. The winner will be announced March 10, 2014, and will receive £40,000.
BOOKS SOLD
STEPHEN KING’s Revival sold to Scribner in the US and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK.
KIT REED’s next novel sold to David G. Hartwell at Tor via John Silbersack of Trident Media Group.
L.E. MODESITT, JR. sold and delivered a new Saga of Recluce novel to David G. Hartwell at Tor.
HARRY TURTLEDOVE sold standalone alternate histories The House of Daniel and God Wills It to Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor via Russell Galen of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency.
LAURA ANNE GILMAN’s Silver on the Road (launching the Devil’s West series) and two more books sold to Joe Monti at Saga Press via Barry Goldblatt of Barry Goldblatt Literary.
TOM PICCIRILLI sold Blue Autumn to Kate Miciak at Random House via David Hale Smith of Inkwell Management.
ADAM CHRISTOPHER sold The L.A. Trilogy, ‘‘set in an alternative 1960s Los Angeles and starring a robot detective and his boss, pitched as inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of science fiction in a letter to his agent,’’ to Paul Stevens at Tor via Stacia Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.
LYDIA MILLET’s mermaid novel Mermaids in Paradise sold to Tom Mayer at Norton via Maria Massie at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin.