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Best Novels Of 2007 Include Alternate Present And Near Future Stories You've chosen the winners of this year's Locus Awards for science fiction novels, stories, novellas, story collections, first novels and a few other categories. Locus has announced the finalists — including Charles Stross' Halting State, Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union, Ian McDonald's Brasyl, William Gibson's Spook Country and Joe Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine, for best novel — and the actual winners will be announced June 21 in Seattle. Image from Halting State's UK cover. [Locus, via SF Awards Watch]

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Make your voice heard, in possibly the most democratic set of science fiction awards of all. The Locus Awards are accepting your votes — including write-in votes for things not on the ballot — until April 15. You don't have to pay anything, attend a convention, or even subscribe to Locus Magazine to vote. As long as you put in a name and email address, your vote will count. [Locus Ballot, via SF Awards Watch]

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Sample The Hugo Selections Online

You can read several of the stories and novellas on the Hugo nominations list, including Elizabeth Bear's "Tideline," Ted Chiang's "The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate," Gene Wolfe's "Memorare" and Nancy Kress' "The Fountain of Age" online. The novel nominees include Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union, Charles Stross' Halting State, Ian McDonald's Brasyl, and John Scalzi's The Last Colony. Long-form dramatic presentation nominees include Heroes season one, while short-form dramatic presentation nominees include two Doctor Who stories, a Torchwood episode, Battlestar Galactica's "Razor" and an episode of the fan-produced Star Trek: Phase II.

11:00 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Is Orson Scott Card Bad For Teens? The controversy over Orson Scott Card receiving an ALA award for young adult literature has reached the Feminist SF blog, which argues that you can't separate Card's work from his homophobic views. And also, his opinions have demonstrably shaped his work. Do Card's anti-gay essays make him an unfit guide to teenagers growing into self-awareness? Or should we celebrate his work and ignore his gay-baiting? [FeministSF, via SFAwardsWatch]

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Doris Lessing Deserves A Nobel For Her Contributions To Sci-Fi

Doris Lessing was one of the first literary authors to venture into science fiction. She wrote about aliens and space wars at a time when the genre was still shedding its embarrassing pulp tatters. And while most literary authors have just lifted well-worn plot devices from science fiction, Lessing actually innovated within the genre. So it's especially awesome that she's the first science fiction author to win a Nobel Prize. More »

6:10 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By charliejane
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