Nominados a los Nebula 2015

Ya conocemos los nominados a los premios Nebula este año. Son los siguientes:

Novela

Raising Caine, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu (Saga)
Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, Lawrence M. Schoen (Tor)
Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)

Novella

Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager Impulse)
‘‘The Bone Swans of Amandale’’, C.S.E. Cooney (Bone Swans)
‘‘The New Mother’’, Eugene Fischer (Asimov’s 4-5/15)
‘‘The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn’’, Usman T. Malik (Tor.com 4/22/15)
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
‘‘Waters of Versailles’’, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 6/10/15)

Novelette

‘‘Rattlesnakes and Men’’, Michael Bishop (Asimov’s 2/15)
‘‘And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead’’, Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed 2/15)
‘‘Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds’’, Rose Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/11/15)
‘‘The Ladies’ Aquatic Gardening Society’’, Henry Lien (Asimov’s 6/15)
‘‘The Deepwater Bride’’, Tamsyn Muir (F&SF 7-8/15)
‘‘Our Lady of the Open Road’’, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 6/15)

Relato corto

‘‘Madeleine’’, Amal El-Mohtar (Lightspeed 6/15)
‘‘Cat Pictures Please’’, Naomi Kritzer (Clarkesworld 1/15)
‘‘Damage’’, David D. Levine (Tor.com 1/21/15)
‘‘When Your Child Strays From God’’, Sam J. Miller (Clarkesworld 7/15)
‘‘Today I Am Paul’’, Martin L. Shoemaker (Clarkesworld 8/15)
‘‘Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers’’, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)

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Premio Ray Bradbury presentación dramática

Ex Machina, escrito por Alex Garland
Inside Out, Screenplay por Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; historia original por Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Jessica Jones: AKA Smile, Teleplay por Scott Reynolds & Melissa Rosenberg; historia por Jamie King & Scott Reynolds
Mad Max: Fury Road, escrito por George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
The Martian, Screenplay por Drew Goddard
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, escrito por Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt

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Premio Andre Norton a novela juvenil de ciencia ficción y fantasía
Seriously Wicked, Tina Connolly (Tor Teen)
Court of Fives, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan UK 5/14; Amulet)
Archivist Wasp, Nicole Kornher-Stace (Big Mouth House)
Zeroboxer, Fonda Lee (Flux)
Shadowshaper, Daniel José Older (Levine)
Bone Gap, Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray)
Nimona, Noelle Stevenson (HarperTeen)
Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!

C.J. Cherryh nombrada Gran Maestra de la Ciencia Ficción

Ya es oficial. C.J. Cherryh, la renombrada escritora de Cyteen y Downbelow Station ha sido nombrada Gran Maestra de la Ciencia Ficción por la SFWA.

Sus primeras declaraciones fueron:

“I never expected this. I’m honored to join the ranks of so many illustrious writers. I have a lot of books left to write, a lot of books I want to write, stories I want to tell. I thank my publishers, who keep me in print—I thank my agent, as well. I thank everybody, profoundly, who gives me the chance to do that. And I plan to keep the books coming.”

¡Enhorabuena a C.J.! Y ahora corro a actualizar la sopa de letras de mañana para que esté completa.

Finalistas premios Aurealis 2015

Se han anunciado los finalistas de los premios Aurealis. Son los siguientes:

Mejor ficción para niños

A Week Without Tuesday, Angelica Banks (Allen & Unwin)

The Cut-Out, Jack Heath (Allen & Unwin)

A Single Stone, Meg McKinlay (Walker Books Australia)

Bella and the Wandering House, Meg McKinlay (Fremantle Press)

The Mapmaker Chronicles: Prisoner of the Black Hawk, A.L. Tait (Hachette Australia)

Mejor novela gráfica / trabajo ilustrado

The Undertaker Morton Stone Vol.1, Gary Chaloner, Ben Templesmith, and Ashley Wood (Gestalt)

The Diemenois, Jamie Clennett (Hunter Publishers)

Unmasked Vol.1: Going Straight is No Way to Die, Christian Read (Gestalt)

The Singing Bones, Shaun Tan (Allen & Unwin)

Fly the Colour Fantastica, varios autores (Veriko Operative)

Mejor historia juvenil

“In Sheep’s Clothing”, Kimberly Gaal (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #61)

“The Nexus Tree”, Kimberly Gaal (The Never Never Land, CSFG)

“The Miseducation of Mara Lys”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)

“The Heart of the Labyrinth”, DK Mok (In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett, Sorin Suciu)

“Blueblood”, Faith Mudge (Hear Me Roar, Ticonderoga Publications)

Welcome to Orphancorp, Marlee Jane Ward (Seizure)

Mejor relato horror

“Bullets”, Joanne Anderton (In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep, AHWA)

“Consorting with Filth”, Lisa L Hannett (Blurring the Line, Cohesion Press)

“Heirloom Pieces”, Lisa L Hannett (Apex Magazine, Apex Publications)

“The Briskwater Mare”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)

“Breaking Windows”, Tracie McBride (Aurealis #84)

“Self, Contained”, Kirstyn McDermott (The Dark, TDM Press)

Mejor novella horror

“Night Shift”, Dirk Flinthart (Striking Fire, FableCroft Publishing)

“The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)

“The Miseducation of Mara Lys”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)

“Wages of Honey”, Deborah Kalin (Cherry Crow Children, Twelfth Planet Press)

“Sleepless”, Jay Kristoff (Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, Penguin)

“Ripper”, Angela Slatter (Horrorology, Jo Fletcher Books)

Mejor relato fantasía

“The Giant’s Lady”, Rowena Cory Daniells (Legends 2, Newcon Press)

“The Jellyfish Collector”, Michelle Goldsmith (Review of Australian Fiction Vol. 13 Issue 6)

“A Shot of Salt Water”, Lisa L Hannett (The Dark, TDM Press)

“Almost Days”, DK Mok (Insert Title Here, FableCroft Publishing)

“Blueblood”, Faith Mudge (Hear Me Roar, Ticonderoga Publications)

“Husk and Sheaf”, Suzanne Willis (SQ Mag 22, IFWG Publishing Australia)

Mejor novella fantasía

“Lodloc and The Bear”, Steve Cameron (Dimension6, coeur de lion)

“Defy the Grey Kings”, Jason Fischer (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Firkin Press)

“Broken Glass”, Stephanie Gunn (Hear Me Roar, Ticonderoga Publications)

“The Flowers that Bloom Where Blood Touches the Earth”, Stephanie Gunn (Bloodlines, Ticonderoga Publications)

“Haunting Matilda”, Dmetri Kakmi (Cthulhu: Deep Down Under, Horror Australis)

“Of Sorrow and Such”, Angela Slatter (Tor.com)

Mejor relato ciencia ficción

“2B”, Joanne Anderton (Insert Title Here, Fablecroft)

“The Marriage of the Corn King”, Claire McKenna (Cosmos)

“Alchemy and Ice”, Charlotte Nash (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #61)

“Witnessing”, Kaaron Warren (The Canary Press Story Magazine #6)

“All the Wrong Places”, Sean Williams (Meeting Infinity, Solaris)

Mejor novella ciencia ficción

“Blood and Ink”, Jack Bridges, Prizm Books

“The Molenstraat Music Festival”, Sean Monaghan (Asimov’s Science Fiction)

“By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers”, Garth Nix (Old Venus, Random House)

Mejor colección

The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After, Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)

Striking Fire, Dirk Flinthart (FableCroft Publishing)

Cherry Crow Children, Deborah Kalin (Twelfth Planet Press)

To Hold the Bridge, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin)

The Fading, Carole Nomarhas (autopublicada)

The Finest Ass in the Universe, Anna Tambour (Ticonderoga Publications)

Mejor antología

Hear Me Roar, Liz Grzyb (ed.) (Ticonderoga Publications)

The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014, Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene (eds.) (Ticonderoga Publications)

Bloodlines, Amanda Pillar (ed.) (Ticonderoga Publications)

Meeting Infinity, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), (Solaris)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 9, Jonathan Strahan (ed.) (Solaris)

Focus 2014: highlights of Australian short fiction, Tehani Wessely (ed.) (FableCroft Publishing)

Mejor novela juvenil

In The Skin of a Monster, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)

Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)

The Fire Sermon, Francesca Haig (HarperVoyager)

Day Boy,Trent Jamieson (Text Publishing)

Illuminae, Amie Kaufman y Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)

The Hush, Skye Melki-Wagner (Penguin Random House Australia)

Mejor novela horror

No se ha anunciado

Mejor novela fantasía

In The Skin of a Monster, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin)

Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club, Alison Goodman (HarperCollins)

Day Boy,Trent Jamieson (Text Publishing)

The Dagger’s Path, Glenda Larke (Hachette Australia)

Tower Of Thorns, Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)

Skin, Ilka Tampke (Text Publishing)

Mejor novela ciencia ficción

Crossed, Evelyn Blackwell (autopublicada)

Clade, James Bradley (Penguin)

Illuminae, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Allen & Unwin)

Their Fractured Light, Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Allen & Unwin)

Renegade, Joel Shepherd (Kindle Direct)

Twinmaker: Fall, Sean Williams (Allen & Unwin)

Premio Sara Douglass a la mejor serie

The Chronicles of King Rolen’s Kin [The King’s Bastard (2010), The Uncrowned King (2010), The Usurper (2010), The King’s Man (2012), King Breaker (2013)], Rowena Cory Daniells (Solaris Press)

The Watergivers [The Last Stormlord (2009), Stormlord Rising (2010), Stormlord’s Exile (2011)], Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)

The Lumatere Chronicles [Finnikin of the Rock (2008), Froi of the Exiles (2011), Quintana of Charyn (2012)], Melina Marchetta (Penguin Random House)

Sevenwaters [Daughter of the Forest (2000), Son of the Shadows (2001), Child of the Prophecy (2002), Heir to Sevenwaters (2009), Seer of Sevenwaters (2011), Flame of Sevenwaters (2013)], Juliet Marillier (Pan Macmillan Australia)

The Laws of Magic [Blaze Of Glory (2007), Heart Of Gold (2007), Word Of Honour (2008), Time Of Trial (2009), Moment Of Truth (2010), Hour Of Need (2011)], Michael Pryor (Random House Australia)

Creature Court [Power and Majesty (2010), Shattered City (2011), Reign of Beasts (2012)], Tansy Rayner Roberts (HarperVoyager)

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!

Portada y sinopsis de Invasive

Aquí os traigo la portada y la sinopsis de la nueva novela de Chuck Wendig, que está alcanzado niveles “sandersonianos” de publicación. Parece un thriller, al estilo de Zer0es, aunque la información es escasa.

Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.

Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. “I’ve got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,” he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn’t say.

What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible—someone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering who—and why—will take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predicted—a new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.

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Kai Ashante Wilson gana el premio Crawford

Se ha anunciado el ganador del premio Crawford, al mejor primer trabajo de ficción fantástica. El afortunado ha sido Kai Ashante Wilson por The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps.

Los finalistas del premio fueron:

Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Bloomsbury)
Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings (Saga Press)
Indra Das, The Devourers (Penguin India;
Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Tor);
Adrienne Celt, The Daughters (Liveright)

¡Enhorabuena al ganador!

Portada y sinopsis de Jeroun : The complete omnibus

Zachary Jernigan ha confirmado la publicación como omnibus de sus dos novelas hasta ahora, No return y Shower of stones.

El libro se llamará Jeroun : The complete omnibus, y el autor lo considera como una segunda oportunidad para sus novelas, que quizá pasaron desapercibidas en un primer lanzamiento.

Aquí tenéis la portada y la sinopsis:

Collected in a single omnibus edition, both novels set in Zachary Jernigan’s critically-acclaimed, genre-bending world of fierce sensuality, dangerous alchemy, and awakening gods.

The Needle extends over the heads of all who live upon Jeroun. Composed of iron spheres massive enough to affect the tides, it is the god Adrash’s ultimatum to the people on the planet below:

Prove yourselves worthy, or be destroyed.

Vedas is a member of the Black Suits, an order of men and women who show their opposition to Adrash by staging battles in the streets. After witnessing the death of a child in his care, knowing himself to be responsible, he sets off on a journey to the decennial fighting tournament in Danoor.

Traveling with him across the continent are Churls, a mercenary haunted by the ghost of her daughter, and Berun, a constructed man possessed by the soul of his creator. Both come to understand that Vedas’s victory would start an all-out religious war.

Unbeknownst to these three travelers, the aristocratic outbound mage Ebn and her protégé Pol use powerful alchemy to travel into space. Their plan: engage Adrash in ways that threaten to bring the god’s wrath down upon the world.

Meanwhile, one of the world’s deepest secrets is gradually revealed. A madman, insisting he is the link to an ancient world, a pantheon of forgotten gods, offers the most tempting lie of all…

Hope.

Jeroun collects the two novels ​No Return and Shower of Stones in a single new omnibus edition. Together these works combine the mythic inventiveness of early Roger Zelazny and Samuel R. Delany, the dark weirdness of China Miéville, and the dramatic scope of George R. R. Martin, creating a literary science fiction epic that defies easy categorization, resulting in one of the most critically acclaimed narratives of recent years.

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Nominados a los premios BSFA 2015

Se han dado a conocer los nominados a los premios BSFA, son los siguientes:

Mejor novela
Dave Hutchinson, Europe at Midnight
Chris Beckett, Mother of Eden
Aliette de Bodard, The House of Shattered Wings
Ian McDonald, Luna: New Moon
Justina Robson, Glorious Angels

Mejor relato
Aliette de Bodard, “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight”
Paul Cornell, “The Witches of Lychford”
Jeff Noon, “No Rez”
Nnedi Okorafor, “Binti”
Gareth L. Powell, “Ride the Blue Horse”

Mejor no-ficción
Nina Allan, “Time Pieces: Doctor Change or Doctor Die”
Alisa Krasnostein y Alexandra Pierce, Letters to Tiptree
Jonathan McCalmont, “What Price Your Critical Agency”
Adam Roberts, Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014
Jeff VanderMeer, “From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer’s Surreal Journey”

Mejor arte
Jim Burns, Portada de Pelquin’s Comet, Newcon Press
Vincent Sammy, “Songbird”, Interzone 257
Wayne Haag, “Bus Stop”, Interzone 253
Sarah Anne Langton, Portada de  Jews Versus Zombies, Jurassic London

¡Enhorabuena a los nominados!

Habrá segunda temporada de The Expanse

Syfy sigue confiando en la que ha sido su serie estrella esta temporada, The Expanse. Según hemos podido saber, el canal de ciencia ficción ha renovado la serie para otra temporada, encargando 13 episodios que se emitirán a principios del año que viene.

Según el presidente del canal:

The Expanse is firing on all cylinders creatively, building a passionate fan base among viewers and critics alike, and delivering on Syfy’s promise of smart, provocative science fiction entertainment,”

Contenidos de Clockwork Phoenix 5

Mike Allen ha publicado los que serán los contenidos de Clockwork Phoenix 5. Serán los siguientes:

“The Wind at His Back” de Jason Kimble
“The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me” de Rachael K. Jones
“The Perfect Happy Family” de Patricia Russo
“The Mirror-City” de Marie Brennan
“The Finch’s Wedding and the Hive That Sings” de Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Squeeze” de Rob Cameron
“A Guide to Birds de Song (After Death)” de A.C. Wise
“The Sorcerer of Etah” de Gray Rinehart
“The Prime Importance of a Happy Number” de Sam Fleming
“Social Visiting” de Sunil Patel
“The Book of May” de C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez
“The Tiger’s Silent Roar” de Holly Heisey
“Sabbath Wine” de Barbara Krasnoff
“The Trinitite Golem” de Sonya Taaffe
“Two Bright Venuses” de Alex Dally MacFarlane
“de Thread of Night and Starlight Needle” de Shveta Thakrar
“The Games We Play” de Cassandra Khaw
“The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts” de Keffy R.M. Kehrli
“Innumerable Glimmering Lights” de Rich Larson
“The Souls of Horses” de Beth Cato

Aquí tenéis la portada también:

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