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Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writer's Association (HWA) for "superio...
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 Article: Naming the Stars: The Awards of Science Fiction (part 1 of 2), by Greg Beatty
Each award is given to recognize a specific type of achievement in the field; each is also given in memory of a giant in science fiction.
The Sturgeon Award was established in 1987 as a short fiction equivalent to the Campbell.
As the list of awards and deaths indicates, these awards also recognize a sort of passing of the guard, a sense that the early founders are passing on and that their memories should be kept alive.
www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020415/awards.shtml   (3573 words)

  
 The SF Site: Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is awarded every year to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during the previous calendar year.
The Award was established with a generous grant from Arthur C. Clarke with the intention of encouraging science fiction in Britain.
The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society.
www.sfsite.com /depts/awd01.htm   (785 words)

  
 Owl Goingback: Biography
His novel Crota won the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and was one of four finalists in the Best Novel category.
The Bram Stoker Awards are given annually by voting members of the Horror Writers Association and are considered the highest honor a writer can receive in the horror genre.
The award was presented at the 1998 Annual National Convention of the International Reading Association.
www.owlgoingback.com /Bio.html   (288 words)

  
 Literature | Vampires.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His short stories are characterised by their economy of style and the efficient way in which the various threads within them are neatly resolved.
His friendship with the Goncourts was of short duration; his frank and practical nature reacted against the ambience of gossip, scandal, duplicity, and invidious criticism that the two brothers had created around them in the guise of an 18th-century style salon.
Martin was a prolific author of short fiction in the 1970s, and won several Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards before he started to turn his attention to novels late in the decade.
www.vampires.com /taxonomy/term/1?from=20   (6782 words)

  
 Horror Writers Association - Stoker Awards
To ameliorate the competitive nature of awards, the Stokers are given "for superior achievement," not for "best of the year," and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties fairly probable.
The award itself is an eight-inch replica of a fanciful haunted house, designed specifically for HWA by sculptor Steven Kirk.
The winners are announced and the awards presented at a gala banquet held in conjunction with HWA's annual conference, usually in June.
www.horror.org /stokers.htm   (466 words)

  
 Bram Stoker Award Winners
The Bram Stoker Awards are given out each year by members of the Horror Writers Association.
The Bram Stoker Awards were presented May 26th, 2001 at the World Horror Convention in Seattle, Washington.
The Stoker Awards were given out at the HWA Conference in Los Angeles over the weekend of June 24-26, 2005.
dpsinfo.com /awardweb/stokers   (1361 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annuals are always a treat; read this one and The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois and you'll have a fairly complete overview of speculative fiction from 1998 as well as hours of great reading.
Cuff" (which won the Stoker award for Best Long Fiction in 1999), a fl comedy of revenge gone awry.
Their "years best" collection for 2000 includes Ursula Le Guin twice, and this authors writing is little more then fanciful icing to make her de-hydrated cause (feminism in this case) more palatable.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312209622?v=glance   (2372 words)

  
 Locus Online: 2004 News Archive
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has won its court case to win property tax exemption as a nonprofit organization whose properties are "used exclusively for a charitable or educational purpose to promote the general welfare of the people of the state".
Best known as the translator of Robert A. Heinlein and Frank Herbert, he wrote numerous SF and YA novels in Japanese, and had one story, "The Legend of the Paper Spaceship", translated into English in 1978.
Awards presented at this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts included the William L. Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist to K.J. Bishop, author of The Etched City, and the Distinguished Scholarship Award to Spanish translator and editor Marcial Souto • Previous Crawford and other IAFA awards winners
www.locusmag.com /2004/News/2004NewsArchive.html   (5428 words)

  
 P.D. Cacek's Bibliography - Awards and Citations
Metalica, (ss) [Winner: HWA Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction of 1996] [Honorable Mention: YBFH-10].
Leavings, (nv) [Nominated: HWA Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction of 1997].
Night Prayers, (novel) [Nominated: HWA Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel of 1997].
www.pdcacek.com /biblio10.htm   (152 words)

  
 Tomfolio.com: Fiction: Horror, Bram Stoker Award
Bram Stoker Award winner, World Fantasy Award finalist.
The author's third volume of short fiction, a marvelous collection of macabre and monstrous tales.
Collection of five novellas including "Dying in Bangkok," the 1994 winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novelette.
www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=3816   (315 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Thomas Ligotti Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He descibes his worldview as profoundly nihilistic, and has stated he suffered from anxiety for much of his life: these have both been prominent themes in his work.
Ligotti generally avoids the explicit violence common in some recent horror fiction, preferring to establish an intesely disquieting, nihilistic atmosphere through the use of subtlety and repetition.
He has stated he prefers short stories to longer forms, both as a reader and writer, though he has recently written a novella.
www.ipedia.com /thomas_ligotti.html   (522 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Del Stone, Jr.]
He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary horror field, but has also published science fiction.
Del's novel Dead Heat won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award.
He has won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors.
www.dragoncon.org /people/stoned.html   (327 words)

  
 Neil Gaiman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I've been remiss in posting awards nominations and things here, which is mostly because I forget, so for those of you keeping track of such things...
The Eisner award nominations are out at for example http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=3505 and Sandman: Endless Nights has been nominated for a few, as has It Was A Dark and Silly Night...
The Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker award nominations are also up -- Sandman: Endless Nights and Wolves in the Walls are both nominated...
www.neilgaiman.com /journal/2004_04_11_archive.asp   (2029 words)

  
 [Eggplant Literary Productions, Inc.] Blood Magic-=Jintsu=-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This short but potent collection of cross-genre fiction never fails to exceed your expectations; just when you think you've got her work figured out, Lucy Snyder blindsides you--as a damn good storyteller should.
Author: Lucy Snyder is a Texas native whose fiction has appeared in a variety of print and electronic publications.
His short story, "The Night the Comic Bombed," is currently recommended for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction.
www.eggplant-productions.com /jintsu/etext.asp?id=4   (747 words)

  
 Books Literature refdesk.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A Short History of the World - by H.G. Wells, 1922 - "Wellsâs two-volume Outline of History published in 1920 was the first general history constructed on an evolutionary, sociological, and anthropological basis.
This hypertext of the novel and related materials is designed as a unique means of exploring the text of the novel, and of augmenting its study, for all levels of readers.
The Harvard Classics The Shelf of Fiction - The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume ã5-foot shelf of booksä and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction.
www.refdesk.com /books.html   (2623 words)

  
 Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Tesseracts 6: Introduction
The prominent American editor Judith Merril had relocated to Toronto a decade earlier, and McClelland and Stewart had done a mass-market collection of her short fiction, Survival Ship and Other Stories, in 1973.
Trophies for the best novel and short story of the year in each official language are given at the Canadian National SF Convention, or "CanVention," which alternates between eastern and western Canada.
Yes, Canadian speculative fiction has come a long way in the twenty-odd years since the days of that high-school SF club.
www.sfwriter.com /t6intro.htm   (890 words)

  
 Libertarian Futurist Society
Grossberg is founder and a past board president of the Libertarian Futurist Society, which sponsors the Prometheus Awards for outstanding libertarian science fiction.
Besides Science Fiction, he is interested in computer privacy and security, freedom of speech, individualist Anarchist and Atheist philosophy and history as well as business, economics, nanotechnology etc. In addition to the LFS, he is involved to varying degrees with Alcor, Foresight Institute, Extropy Institute, Resources for Independent Thinking and Association of Libertarian Feminists.
It's the story of a young girl in the 22nd Century who must fight the sexual exploitation of her era to pursue a career as a performer of "lasegraphy", a classical form of visual music evolved from the current laser shows.
www.lfs.org /aboutus.htm   (2123 words)

  
 Horror Writers Association - Stoker Award Ballots
Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot for Works Published in 2004
Prepared by the Bram Stoker Awards Committee for the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
Voting HWA members, please note that links for contacting authors/publishers about copies of various works and for locating works posted online are available on the 2003 recommendations page in the Members Only area of this web site.
www.horror.org /stokerballots.htm   (1534 words)

  
 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2001040913   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The latter was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Horror Novel.
His award-nominated short fiction has appeared in most major genre magazines, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's, and SF Age, as well as such highly regarded anthologies as Little Deaths, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Dreaming Down Under, and Centaurus.
A collection of his short work, The Lady of Circumstances, was published in 1999.
www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/hol055/2001040913.html   (204 words)

  
 Awards and Recognition -- Hot Biscuit Productions, Inc.
Tina Jen's "Blues Born" was a Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction (from the Horror Writers Association).
William Gagliani's "Until Hell Calls Our Names" received the 1999 Darrell Award for the Best MidSouth Short Story of 1998, and Steve Rasnic Tem's "What Slips Away" was selected to be included in the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Number 9 -- 1999 from Carrol and Graf).
The Guardian received an Honorable Mention in the Best Midsouth SF/F/H Novel category of the 2000 Darrell Awards.
members.aol.com /beecherhbp/Monsters/awards.html   (205 words)

  
 One Woman's Writing Retreat: About Bruce Holland Rogers
His work includes science fiction, fantasy, literary, mystery, and experimental fiction.
He has taught non-credit courses for the University of Colorado, Carroll College, the University of Wisconsin, and the private Flatiron Fiction Workshop.
He has received both the Bram Stoker award for best short story "Dead Boy at Your Window", which first appeared in The North American Review (November/ December 1998), and the Nebula award for best short story "Thirteen Ways to Water" (1998).
www.prairieden.com /interviews/rogers_bio.html   (184 words)

  
 Beatrice.com
And the short stories in Simplify run the gamut over such a long period of time, nearly 10 years, that my evolution as a writer and as a person start to become clear.
From everything I've heard, the short story market is supposedly dead...unless you can live by eating the free issues the literary journals offer witers as payment.
Jonathan Lethem's going to be at Makor next month, and he discusses short story writing with the 92Y bloggers, along with the Mets, Marvel comics, and why he wrote his Brooklyn novels outside the city: "There’s something about the slight feeling of exile that brings my imaginative relationship with this place to life."
beatrice.com   (4555 words)

  
 ABOUT THE EDITOR
As fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, Ellen Datlow earned a reputation for encouraging and developing an entire generation of fiction writers, and has published some of today's biggest names in the SF, fantasy and horror genres.
She was then the editor of Event Horizon: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, a Webzine founded in September 1998 that remained active until December 1999.
During that period, Event Horizon published "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link, winner of the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story — only the second story published on the Internet to win the World Fantasy Award.
www.scifi.com /scifiction/editor.html   (343 words)

  
 Incidental Pieces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Whether or not you agree with me, it’s still the best way to see whether or not your work and TAR are potentially a good fit.
Uniting the leading literary weblogs for the purpose of drawing attention to the best of contemporary fiction, authors and presses that are struggling to be noticed in a flooded marketplace.
“It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda”; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language.
amimckay.blogspot.com   (14587 words)

  
 e-books Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
IEEE must be the best place in the world for technical documents, unless four million downloaders are all wrong.
Indeed the total UK book market was worth around three billion pounds sterling in 2003, which in a country of around sixty million population translates to about fifty pounds spent on books each year for every man, woman and child.
Headlining in fiction is the fact that it was a Dan Brown year, the controversial author taking out the top three spots with The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and Deception Point.
www.e-book.com.au /main.html   (9221 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Buy this book with The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth An...
This collection is short on fantasy and long on horror--with special emphasis on sadomasochism, which, in the hands of an author like Kathe Koja, can result in a darkly illuminating story about sexual fantasies sometimes better left unrealized.
Grant Morrison gives us an offensive story about a blind heroine who is urinated upon and slashed with a razor before being clamped to a "Chair of Final Submission." But Datlow and Windling, who edited the earlier volumes in this series, offer entertaining fare as well, including several appearances by good old-fashioned vampires.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312078889?v=glance   (2498 words)

  
 -- Ellen Datlow --
There are over 300 stories to cover, so if you're a person who loves short speculative fiction, add your voice.
November: SciFi.com has announced its intent to discontinue Sci Fiction, the Hugo Award winning fiction site edited by Ellen Datlow, at the end of 2005.
The KGB Fantastic Fiction readings, curated by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant, take place the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm ET at the infamous east village bar KGB.
www.datlow.com   (411 words)

  
 George Guthridge Home Page
- Winner 1998 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel
George is an expert in accelerated learning, the teaching of writing, and teaching "in the bush." He is also a national award winner in fiction writing and the creator of Reversed Instruction, an internationally acclaimed toolbox for teaching precision in writing.
The Mirror of Lop Nor, in Immortal Unicorn.
www.uaf.edu /bbc/fac-staff/guthridge/Guthridge.html   (99 words)

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