Canadian SF Works Database

James Alan Gardner's "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" was accidentally left off the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's final ballot for the Nebula Awards released last week; that ballot was corrected today to include Gardner's novelette.

The finalists for the 2009 Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association -- the top awards in the audiobook industry -- include two Canadians in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Category: Kenneth Oppel and Robert J. Sawyer. The nominees are:

Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer, Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Audible, Inc.

Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke, Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer, Audible, Inc.

Ghost Radio, by Leopoldo Gout, Narrated by Pedro Pascal, HarperAudio

Skybreaker, by Kenneth Oppel, Narrated by David Kelly, Full Cast Audio

Sunrise Alley, by Catherine Asaro, Narrated by Hillary Huber, Blackstone Audio, Inc.

The winner will be announced at the Audies gala on Friday, May 29, 2009, at the New York Historical Society in New York City.

UPDATE: The winner was Calculating God, by Robert J. Sawyer, Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Audible, Inc.

Clint Budd points out that single-author collections compete in the Long-Form, rather than the Other Works, category for the Aurora Awards. I've updated the descriptions of the categories in the "2008 - Publications in English" SF Wiki, and moved five collections from the Other Category to the Long-Form category. -- Robert J. Sawyer, co-administrator of the Canadian SF Works Database

Congrats, Guy! The full list of winners, as announced in November 2008 at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary, is here.

The power of the Aurora! :)

ABC has bought television rights to Robert J. Sawyer's novel Flashforward, winner of the 2000 Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English. They have committed to produce a pilot, which is slated for filming in February 2009; the script has been written by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga. Goyer will direct, and Sawyer will serve as consultant. More details here in Sawyer's blog (and, from there, you can read the Hollywood Reporter article).

(Pictured left to right: David S. Goyer, Robert J. Sawyer, Brannon Braga)

The finalists for the 2008 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year include three Canadian-authored books:

The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson

Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer

Axis by Robert Charles Wilson

The full list of nominees is here.

See here. Cool!

The winners of the 2008 Prix Aurora Awards were announced Sunday 18 May 2008 at Keycon 25 in Winnipeg:

Lifetime Achievement:
Dennis Mullin

Best Long-Form Work in English:
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)

Best Long-Form Work in French:
Cimetière du musée by Diane Boudreau (du Phoenix)

Best Short-Form Work in English:
"Like Water in the Desert" by Hayden Trenholm (Challenging Destiny)

Best Short-Form Work in French:
"Sur la plage des Èpaves" by Laurent MacAllister (Solaris)

Best Work in English (Other):
Under Cover of Darkness edited by Julie E. Czerneda & Jana Paniccia (DAW)

Best Work in French (Other):
No nominations.

Artistic Achievement:
Lar deSouza

Fan Achievement (Fanzine):
No award.

Fan Achievement (Organizational):
Penny Lipman

Fan Achievement (Other):
Paul Bobbitt (editor of The Voyageur)

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

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)