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	Locus Award -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Locus Awards are presented to winners of (additional info and facts about Locus Magazine) Locus Magazines annual readers' poll, which was established in the early (The cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven) '70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to (additional info and facts about Hugo Awards) Hugo Awards voters.
		Over the decades the Locus Awards have often drawn more voters than the (French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)) Hugos and (An immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space) Nebulas combined.
		In recent years Locus Awards are presented at an annual banquet, and unlike any other award, explicitly honor (The proprietor of a newspaper) publishers of winning works with certificates.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/locus_award.htm (148 words)

	AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information and Photographs -- http://www.awardweb.info
		Awarded annually for distinguished SF published as a paperback original in the U.S. To the International Fantasy Awards.
		The award is adminstered by the Permanent Trustee Co Ltd of Sydney.
		Sponsored by Vogel's Bread, it is awarded to a writer under 35 years of age for an original unpublished manuscript of fiction or Australian history or biography.
	dpsinfo.com /awardweb (1471 words)

	The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Locus Awards
		The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Locus Awards
		are presented to winners of Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll, which was established in the early '70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters.
		Locus publishes a "recommended reading" list in its February issue, when the poll ballot is distributed.
	www.locusmag.com /SFAwards/Db/Locus.html (211 words)

	(Unofficially) Peter S. Beagle: Awards and Nominations
		August 2000 - Tamsin awarded the 2000 Mythopoetic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.
		In 1987, Locus also proclaimed The Last Unicorn as the #5 All-Time Fantasy Novel, ahead of T.H. White's classic "The Once and Future King", but ultimately edged out by a pair of Tolkeins, a Le Guin, and a novel by Gene Wolfe.
		Note: Locus Award information taken from the SF Site pages, with other information from Award Web.
	www.peterbeagle.com /awards (351 words)

	Welcome to Clarion South: Australia's first Clarion Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was born in Jamaica and grew up in the Caribbean before eventually settling in Canada in her teens; she is renowned for incorporating elements of Caribbean folklore in her speculative fiction.
		She has won three Aurealis Awards for horror, and one for fantasy; has been nominated twice for the British Science Fiction Association award; and has received an Australia Council fellowship for established writers.
		She has won the Ditmar and Aurealis awards and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award as editor of She's Fantastical, an anthology of Australian women's non-realist writings.
	users.bigpond.net.au /eltham/clarionsouth/tutors.htm (599 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Greg Egan
		His novella "Oceanic" won the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, and the Asimov's Readers Award for best novella of 1998.
		As he digs deeper into the case and discovers the true nature of his employer's secret research project, he is forced to confront the emergence of a frightening new biotechnology that challenges the convictions of his own homosexuality.
		Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/GregEganeBooks.htm (1004 words)

	Dan Simmons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.
		Ilium is described as an "epic tale that spans 5,000 years and sweeps across the entire solar system, including themes and characters from Homer's The Iliad and Shakespeare's The Tempest." In July 2004, Ilium received a Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2003.
		Children of the Night (1992) - Locus Award 1993 (Horror)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Simmons (303 words)

	Allen Steele - Author Biography
		His novella "`...Where Angels Fear to Tread'" (Asimov's, Oct./Nov. `97), upon which Chronospace is based, received the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the Asimov's Readers Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Award in 1998, and was also nominated for the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and Seiun awards.
		He was First Runner-Up for the 1990 John W. Campbell Award, received the Donald A. Wollheim Award in 1993, and the Phoenix Award in 2002.
		Steele serves on the Board of Advisors for both the Space Frontier Foundation and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he is a former member of the SFWA Board of Directors.
	www.allensteele.com /bio.htm (569 words)

	Awards and Nominations #20
		Will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN Center USA West at the organization's annual awards in Los Angeles tonight, October 25.
		Locus Award, Best First Novel in 2000 for Brown Girl in the Ring.
		Received an award for his Service to SFWA Award with Pamela Sargent at the 2000 Nebula Banquet.
	www.msu.edu /~clarion/newsletter/awards20.html (1594 words)

	sffworld.com - 2004 Locus Awards Winners
		Winners of the 2004 Locus Awards are announced in Locus Magazine's July 2004 issue, along with complete results of this year's readers poll.
		For the past several years Locus Awards winners have been announced at a banquet during Westercon; however this year arrangements could not be made with the Westercon committee.
		The awards will officially be presented at a ceremony at Worldcon in Boston, Friday 3 September at 11 a.m.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/printthread.php?t=8261 (458 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Ursula K. Le Guin
		Among the honors her writing has received are a National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Howard Vursell Award of the American Academy of Art and Letters, etc.
		This Nebula and Locus Award winner focuses on the bittersweet ruminations of an old woman who began a social movement in her youth, and the culmination of her life as a public figure on the day before the Revolution begins.
		Hugo nominated "The Bones of the Earth" is a tale of the relationship between apprentice and teacher, and of ultimate sacrifice.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/UrsulaKLeGuineBooks.htm (1160 words)

	SF-Lovers - Reference:Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are a variety of awards given to individuals, and their works, in the genre each year.
		Many of the awards bear the name of a great person from the past who helped shape the field.
		From awards given by fans (such as the Hugo Awards) to awards given from professionals in the field (such as the Nebula Awards), if you're looking for the best of SF, Fantasy or Horror, look no further.
	www.sflovers.org /Reference/awards.html (137 words)

	The 2002 Isaac Asimov Award
		This year she told Rick that she was worried about hogging the award, but he assured her that each of her stories would stand anonymously on its own merits.
		One, Gary R. Porter of St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, received his award for "Judge and Jury." Gary is working on a degree in education, and is an avid reader of Joe Haldeman and other hard SF writers.
		The award is also supported by the School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
	www.asimovs.com /_issue_0207_08/2001.shtml (885 words)

	Locus Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following authors won the most awards in the fiction-area (as of July 2005)
		About the Locus Awards at The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards
		This page was last modified 11:04, 22 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Locus_Award (187 words)

	Pat Cadigan
		She has won a World Fantasy Award and the 1988 Locus Award [for her short story 'Angel', included in Patterns ], and she has several times been a finalist for the Hugo Award as well as the Nebula.
		Her first novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K.Dick Memorial Award.
		Patterns, her short fiction collection, won the 1990 Locus Award for best short-story collection, and was nominated for the Bram Stoker and the Thorpe Menn Awards.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/pat_cadigan.html (240 words)

	The Works of David Brin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Brin's second novel, Startide Rising, won the prestigious Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in 1983.
		A later novel, The Postman, received the John W. Campbell Award and the Locus Award, and was a Nebula and Hugo finalist.
		The Uplift War, a 1987 novel, was a New York Times best-seller and recipient of that year's Hugo and Locus Awards.
	www.gayspermbank.com /brin (652 words)

	2005 Readers' Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It’s hard to believe that we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing at the 2004 Conference of the Fantastic in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in late March.
		The award is co-sponsored by two organizations that strongly believe in promoting the works of early career writers, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and our own magazine.
		In 2005, the award’s name is changing to the Dell Magazine Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.
	www.asimovs.com /_issue_0501/readersaward.shtml (897 words)

	Dragon*Con Biography: [Ray Bradbury]
		Ray Bradbury is one of the immortals among us, whose classic works of SF, fantasy and horror will be read a thousand years from now by our descendents and the inhabitants of the planets of a thousand distant stars.
		He has won the Gandalf Award for Lifetime Contribution to Fantasy (in 1980), and published his first story in 1941.
		His novels include Fahrenheit 451 (Locus Award, 1987; Prometheus Award, 1984), The Halloween Tree, Death is a Lonely Business, Something Wicked This Way Comes (Locus Award, 1987), A Graveyard for Lunatics, Green Shadows and White Whale.
	www.dragoncon.org /people/bradbur.html (296 words)

	Mormon SF Bibliography: Awards
		“Dogwalker.” [Locus Award 1990; Hugo Award nominee 1990]
		“The Fringe.” [Hugo Award nominee 1986; Nebula Award nominee 1985]
		“Mikal’s Songbird.” [Nebula Award nominee 1978; Hugo Award nominee 1979]
	www.mormonsf.org /awards.html (995 words)

	: Fiction Bibliography
		The awards were first given out in 1966.
		Locus: Given out annually by the readers of Locus magazine for the best in science fiction and fantasy for the previous year.
		This award was first given out in 1971 and was discontinued after 1996.
	www.xmission.com /~tyranist/biblio/awardwinners.html (122 words)

	Eastern Standard Tribe
		My second novel Eastern Standard Tribe, is a finalist for this year's Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
		Locus Magazine is the leading trade mag for science fiction, and the Locus Poll -- from which the Locus Award nominees and winners are drawn -- is the field's popular award with the widest participation (wider even than the Hugos).
		The Locus Award winners will be announced this July 4th weekend, at Calgary's Westercon.
	www.craphound.com /est/000378.html (141 words)

	Arrell Gibson Award/Oklahoma Center for the Book
		Hart is the first author to win all three major mystery awards for her novels—the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity awards.
		She has won each award twice, and is the only author to be nominated seven times for the coveted Agatha Award.
		He was also recipient of the University of Oklahoma Distinguished Alumna Award, the Governors Arts Award, and the Curtis Benjamin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing.
	www.odl.state.ok.us /ocb/pastgib.htm (3246 words)

	The Seattle Public Library: Reading List [Detail List]
		The world of Science Fiction and Fantasy is large and diverse, ranging from gripping adventure to social and cultural critique to mind-bending speculation.
		Ex-con Shadow is recruited by a rag-tag confederation of old mythic gods to help them do battle with their replacements: new deities such as television, credit cards, and the Internet.
		As tensions between men and machines reach the breaking point, seven space travelers make a pilgrimage the planet Hyperion, there to state their cases and seek salvation from the mysterious Shrike.
	www.spl.org /?pageID=collection_readinglists_category_detail&cid=1070906259359 (999 words)

	About Peter S. Beagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Innkeepeer's Song, published in 1993, is a dark and brooding work based on a song Beagle had written and performed in which three mysterious women arrive late one night at an inn, wreck the place, and run off with the stable boy, and won the Locus Award for the best fantasy novel of 1993.
		His fable in which Death is invited to a party, "Come Lady Death" was elected by members of SFWA to the Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998.
		The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith, eds.
	www.tachyonpublications.com /author/Peter_Beagle.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/newbooks.html (677 words)

	AwardWeb: Hugo Award Winners from the 2000s
		The 2003 Hugo Awards were given out at Torcon 3 on Saturday, August 30.
		The 2004 Hugo Awards were given out at Noreascon 4 on Saturday, September 4.
		The 1954 Retrospective Hugos were awarded at Noreascon 4 on Friday, September 2.
	dpsinfo.com /awardweb/hugos/00s.html (1050 words)

	Hugo Awards - Boise Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Hugo Award is an annual award presented by the World Science Fiction Society for the best work of the previous year in the science fiction and fantasy genres.
		The awards take their name from Hugo Gernsback, called "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction" in the 1960 award granted him by the Society.
		The Hugos encompass a wide range of prizes, including awards for novels as well as shorter works, and recognition of industry professionals and lay enthusiasts such as editors and artists.
	www.boisepubliclibrary.org /Ref/topics/hugo.shtml (3133 words)

	Web Resources: Arts and Humanities: Readers Advisory: Book Awards: SciFi and Fantasy - MCPL
		The Hugo Award is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society.
		The Philip K. Dick Award is given to a distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during the award year in the U.S.A. (93 hits)
		This award is given for the best in Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
	www.mcpl.lib.mo.us /Links/Arts_and_Humanities/Readers_Advisory/Book_Awards/SciFi_and_Fantasy (168 words)

	Tim Powers' Personal Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, Science fiction and fantasy novelist Tim Powers is recognized for his intricately plotted stories filled with well-rounded and often outlandish characters.
		In many of his novels, including The Anubis Gates and The Stress of Her Regard, Powers deals with time travel, and these historical fantasies are often populated by authentic figures.
		Powers won his first Dick award for his action-packed science fiction mystery and horror thriller The Anubis Gates.
	home.earthlink.net /~ellendebrock/anubis/personal.htm (848 words)

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