Canadian SF Works Database

K.V. Johansen's young adult fantasy novel Nightwalker, the first book in her Warlocks of Talverdin series, received the 2008 Ann Connor Brimer Award this week at the Atlantic Book Awards. There's more about Nightwalker and its sequel at http://www.pippin.ca/kvj/Nightwalker.htm and the awards website is at http://www.writers.ns.ca/bookfest08/win.html

You can vote for the Auroras online now here.

Paper ballots are here.

You can download it here.

Ballots should be mailed to:

Prix Aurora Awards 2008
1432 Velvet Road
Gibsons BC V0N 1V5

Online voting should be available soon.

Postmark deadline is 7 May 2008. It costs $5 to vote.

Note: Deadline for paper-mail ballots: postmarked by 7 May 2008.

Best Long-Form Work in English:
As Fate Decrees by Denysé Bridger (EDGE Publishing)
New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central Publishing)
The Moon Under Her Feet by Derwin Mak (Windstorm Creative)
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor/Analog)
Cry Wolf by Edo van Belkom (McClelland & Stewart)

Best Long-Form Work in French:
Alegracia et les Xayiris by Dominic Bellavance (Les Six Brumes)
La-haut sur la Colline by Claude Bolduc (Solaris)
Cimetière du musée by Diane Boudreau (du Phoenix)
Le Parasite by Georges LaFontaine (Guy Saint-Jean)
Arielle Queen by Michel J. Lévesque (Les Intouchables)

Best Short-Form Work in English:
"Falling" by David Clink (On Spec)
"Saturn in G Minor" by Stephen Kotowych (Writers of the Future XXIII)
"Metamorphoses in Amber" by Tony Pi (Abyss & Apex)
"The Dancer at the Red Door" by Douglas Smith (Under Cover of Darkness)
"Like Water in the Desert" by Hayden Trenholm (Challenging Destiny)

Best Short-Form Work in French:
"Le Luthier" by Mathieu Fortin (Solaris)
"Les Lucioles d'Alliante" by Michèle Laframboise (QUAD9)
"L'Ancienne famille" by Michel J. Lévesque (Les Six Brumes)
"Le sang noir" by Michel J. Lévesque (Solaris)
"Sur la plage des Èpaves" by Laurent MacAllister (Solaris)

Best Work in English (Other):
Polaris: A Celebration of Polar Science edited by Julie E. Czerneda (Star Ink)
Under Cover of Darkness edited by Julie E. Czerneda & Jana Paniccia (DAW)
Tesseracts Eleven edited by Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips (Edge)
Neo-opsis edited by Karl Johanson
On Spec Magazine edited by Diane Walton

Best Work in French (Other):
No nominations.

Artistic Achievement:
Lar deSouza (for On Spec Winter 2000; Parsec Spring/Summer 2007)
Ronn Sutton Elvira (for Mistress of the Dark #165-166)
Stephanie Ann Johanson (for Neo-opsis #11 interior illustrations)
Jean-Pierre Normand
Martin Springett

Fan Achievement (Fanzine):
Dale Spiers for Opuntia

Fan Achievement (Organizational):
Debbie Hodgins (KAG)
Penny Lipman (Masquerades)
Roy Miles (IDIC)
Joan Sherman (IDIC)
Geoffrey Toop (DWIN)

Fan Achievement (Other):
Paul Bobbitt (editor of The Voyageur)
Judith Hayman (filk performances)
Peggy Warner LaLonde (filk performances)
Martin Springett (filk performances)
Larry Stewart (MC)

Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback is one of five finalists for the 2008 Best Novel Hugo Award and Toronto artist Taral -- next year's Worldcon Fan Guest of Honour -- is one of five finalists for the 2008 Best Fan Artist Hugo Award.

The full list of Hugo nominees is here.

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ROMANS

Bilodeau, Stéphan et Charbonneau, Martin - À vous de jouer, 4 - La sorcière d'Hanz (ADA)

De Vailly, Sylvie-Catherine - Les enfants de Poséidon, 3. Le retour des Atlantes (La Semaine)

Fortin, Laura-Lou - Projet Ambiphémure (ADA)

Fortin, Mathieu - Le loup du Sanatorium (Six brumes)

Hotte, Sylvain - Darhan, 7. L'Empereur Océan (Les Intouchables)

Lévesque, Michel J. - Arielle Queen, 5. Bunker 55 (Les Intouchables)

Perrier, Dominique - Glaces obscures (Glénat Québec)

Trenholm, Hayden. DEFINING DIANA. Bundoran Press Publishing House

Vernon, Steve GYPSY BLOOD. Five Star Press

Willett, Edward. MARSEGURO. DAW Books

Vernon, Steve PLAGUE MONKEY SPAM. Bad Moon Books

Sellar, Gord. "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues." Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2008

Kelly, Michael. "Like a Gift From the Ocean." Not One of Us #39, April 2008

Kelly, Michael. "Nervous Goats, Huddling in the Dark." Nossa Morte #2, February 2008

Marlowe, Paul. "The Resident Member." Something Wicked, Issue №7

Rimar, Mike. "The Price of Victory." Golden Visions Magazine, Issue 01, January 2008

Silvia Moreno-Garcia. "The House That Ate Gothic." Hub, March 2008

Silvia Moreno-Garcia. "The Moon is Shattered." Byzarium, February 2008

Silvia Moreno-Garcia. "The River-Hag." Coyote Wild, March 2008

Berman, Michael, ed. THE EVERYDAY FANTASTIC: ESSAYS ON SCIENCE FICTION AND HUMAN BEING (essays inspired by the 2005 "Uses of the Science Fiction Genre" conference at Brock University), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, March 2008.

Sawyer, Robert J. IDENTITY THEFT AND OTHER STORIES (collection). Red Deer Press, May 2008

Vernon, Steve. WICKED WOODS: GHOST STORIES FROM OLD NEW BRUNSWICK (a collection of 24 tales of ghosts, lake monsters and a cannibal queen) Nimbus, April 2008

Kotowych, Stephen

QUILL & QUIRE, the Canadian publishing trade journal, has just released (as the cover story in its March 2008 issue) its first-ever list of "The CanLit 30: The most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing."

Only three authors made the list, and all of them have genre associations: Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, and Robert J. Sawyer.

More details here.

I've added a section to the 2007 - Publications in English wiki, at the very end, listing Canadians eligible for nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. One nominates for this award on the Hugo ballot, and the award is presented during the Hugo ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention, which in 2008 will be held in Denver. The award is sponsored by Dell Magazines, publishers of Analog and Asimov's. I'm aware of four Canadians who are eligible: Stephen Kotowych, Tony Pi, Jerome Steuart, and Sarah Totton; if you know of others, please add them. There are links in the wiki to pages about each of these writers.