Canadian SF Works Database

Peter de Jager -- a past columnist for the Aurora Award-winning fanzine Voyageur -- has just received the Lifeboat Foundation's Guardian Award for his efforts to avert the Y2K problem; Peter lives in Brampton, Ontario.

Details are here and here.

All the details are here.

The Aurora Award-winning website MADE IN CANADA -- Don Bassie's elaborate and detailed repository of information about Canadian science fiction and fantasy -- is no more. It had been hosted on Yahoo's Geocities service, and, in a spectacular act of online genocide, Yahoo wiped out all free Geocities sites on 26 October 2009. Don's site had been an enormous asset to us all, and it's terrible that it's gone. For the record, the URL for it was www.geocities.com/canadian_SF. Don had stopped updating the site -- which won Auroras in 2000, 2003, and 2004 -- some time ago, but it was still an enormously valuable historical resource.

Thank God for the Internet Archives. The most recent version from there, dated August 2004, can be accessed here. Sadly, it only contains bits and pieces of the now-gone full site, though.

All the winners (and the nominees) are listed here. Congratulations to all -- and special congrats to Liana Kerzner for running a flawless, wonderful Aurora banquet.

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother has just won the Prometheus Award (for Libertarian SF); it will be presented to him at the Worldcon in Montreal. Details are here.

(And it should be noted that Montrealer Donald Kingsbury's 1982 Courtship Rite was a finalist this year for the Prometheus Hall of Fame award.)

SF Scope has the scoop.

See here.

Way to go, Tanya! Details are here.

On Friday, May 29, Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God won the Audible Publishers Associaton's Audie Award for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Audiobook of 2009. Details are here.

James Alan Gardner's Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" has now also been nominated for The Theodore Sturegon Memorial Award. Details are here.

See here.