World Fantasy Award Winners Announced!
We got these bad mummies from Tor.com: BEST NOVEL Winner: Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit) The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday) Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK) Redemption In Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer) BEST NOVELLA Winner: “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon,” Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales) Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean) The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS) The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine) “The Mystery Knight,” George R.R. Martin (Warriors) “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window,” Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010) BEST SHORT FICTION Winner: “Fossil-Figures,” Joyce Carol Oates (Stories: All-New Tales) “Beautiful Men,” Christopher Fowler (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts) “Booth’s Ghost,” Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories) “Ponies,” Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10) “Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us,” Mercurio D. Rivera (Black Static 8-9/10) BEST ANTHOLOGY Winner: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin) The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime) Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor) Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow; Headline Review) Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS) Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (Eos) BEST COLLECTION Winner: What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer) The Ammonite Violin & Others, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean) Holiday, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon) Sourdough and Other Stories, Angela Slatter (Tartarus) The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon) BEST ARTIST Winner: Kinuko Y. Craft Vincent Chong Richard A. Kirk John Picacio Congrats to all the winners! ———————————————————– Shaun’s take: I’m a little sad that Lauren Beukes didn’t win, but Nnedi Okorafor is amazing too (and she gets mad credit from me for being so willing to say what she feels and believes). I just have a soft spot for Beukes, I guess. Those South African writers are making me fall head over heels!
Episode 72 — Torture Cinema Meets Jason X
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow5.9–TortureCinemaMeetsJasonX/Sandf–Episode5.9–TortureCinemaMeetsJasonX.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSYou voted for it, so we have to watch it. Today is our super special Halloween edition of Torture Cinema…and we’re watching Jason X, one of those awful science fiction horror flicks. Thanks, guys. We love you too. But to make things a little more interesting, we’ve decided to start including a little acting into this feature. Every Torture Cinema episode will feature a special one act play, in which we re-enact a scene from the movie in question. Granted, our acting is about as bad as the movies we have to watch, but at least we’re funny, right? We hope you enjoy it! Note: If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): (Note: the WordPress.com audio plugin isn’t working and I don’t have time to fix it. Clicking the link below should allow you to stream from the site, though. RSS subscribers will likely see the little audio thing.) Episode 72 — Download (MP3) Intro and Torture Cinema Meets Jason X (0:00 – 35:57) Jason X (IMDB) Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks! Thanks for listening. See you next week.
? of the Week: Is Amazon Devaluing Books?
Over at RT Book Reviews they’re wondering whether Amazon has an impact on how we value books. Amazon is the premiere source for cheap books, as we all know, but is its aggressive practices to make books cheaper and more accessible to consumers good for writers? From the article: But many authors and industry insiders worry that Amazon’s extremely low price scheme will end up devaluing authors’ work. Discussing Amazon’s low prices, Carina Press’ Angela James tweeted, “Don’t train readers to believe the full value of a book was in the paper it was printed on, not your creative content!” And author Moira Rogers replied via tweet, “Or the difference in prices between formats. I do think the devaluation of the story goes a lot deeper than e-books.” To piggy back onto their concerns, we’d like to know what you think. Is Amazon devaluing books or the creative process? Let us know in the comments.
