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News | Voting on the David Gemmell Long List Opens on Friday, May 13

Note: In my continuing effort to highlight other awards (besides Hugos), here you go!

THE DAVID GEMMELL AWARDS FOR FANTASY:

VOTING ON LONGLISTS OPENS ON FRIDAY 13 th MAY

 

The longlists for 2016’s Gemmell Awards will be revealed and opened for voting at

midday (GMT), Friday 13th May on the awards website – www.gemmellawards.com

 

Staged annually since 2009, the awards consist of three categories:

The Legend Award (best novel)

The Morningstar Award (best debut)

The Ravenheart Award (best cover art)

 

This year, there are 48 contenders for the Legend Award, 6 for the Morningstar and 39 for the Ravenheart.

The awards are determined by an open vote, and 2015 saw a record total of 36,759 votes cast.

 

Voting on the longlists closes at midnight (GMT) on Friday 24 th June.

The shortlists will be opened for voting at midday (GMT) on Friday 8th July and close at midnight (GMT) on Friday 19th August.

The presentation ceremony will take place at 8pm, Saturday 24th September at Fantasycon 

 

2016 marks the eighth year of the awards’ existence, and the tenth anniversary of the untimely death of fantasy author David Gemmell, in whose memory the awards were created.

The David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy were established with the aim of celebrating the best in fantasy fiction and art, and commemorating one of its legendary authors.  Since their inaugural year, the awards have been won by authors including  Andrezj Sapowski, Graham McNeill, Brandon Sanderson, Pierre Pevel, Patrick Rothfuss, Helen Lowe, Brent Weeks, John Gwynne, Brian McLellan and Mark Lawrence, and artists including Didier Graffet, Raymond Swanland, Jason Chan and Sam Green.

The Awards continue to pursue their three aims – to raise public awareness of the fantasy genre, to celebrate the history and cultural importance of fantasy literature and to appreciate and reward excellence in the field.

Fantasycon is the British Fantasy Society’s annual conference and has been part of the UK scene since its inception in 1972.  Past guests include Joan Aiken, Clive Barker, Terry Brooks, Ramsey Campbell, Raymond E Feist, Jasper Fforde, Joanne Fletcher, James Herbert, Robert Holdstock, Tom Holt, Stephen Jones, Graham Joyce, Tanith Lee, Anne McCaffrey, George RR Martin, Sarah Pinborough, Terry Pratchett, Michael Marshall Smith and Tad Williams. 

This year’s Guests of Honour are Costa Book Award winner Frances Hardinge,  leading British horror author Adam Nevill, and bestselling fantasy author Scott Lynch.   

 

The Gemmell Awards official website can be found on this website and its Facebook page.

SPFBO 2016 – The Order Of Things

I’m finally getting around to listing how I plan to tackle my list of books, the order I will be reading them in, groupings, and whatever else. I didn’t group these by any system other than saying, “Hey husband, pick six numbers between one and thirty.” I will do what I did last year, and give each book a mini-award, and I will do brief reviews of each book, even if I didn’t finish them. In that case I will say what it was that stopped me from finishing it. I will be constructive, because what’s the point of any of this if I’m not. Click on the links for each book to learn more about them.

Some groups might not take as much time for me to get through. Two weeks per group is a pretty wide margin, but life happens and I’m running two websites now so I’m giving myself a goal date for each group. I might discuss a group sooner than the date, but I absolutely will have it talked about on the website by the date I list under each group (unless something happens, in which case I’ll be honest about the need to push the date back and my estimation for how far back I need to push it – sorry folks, but that’s the best I can do with my various medical complexities). Honestly, if life stays on a low medical keel (for me), then I anticipate that it won’t take me this long to get through each group. It all just depends on my fantastic falling apart body, and whether or not it has other plans for me.

Full disclosure, I think I went through my list and fixed any errors, but I’m tired. If anyone sees books listed twice, then let me know and I’ll fix it.

Also, for fun, Mark Lawrence is listing the top three covers from all of us who are doing the SPFBO. Check it out.

Group 1:

It Takes a Thief to Catch A Sunrise by Rob J. Hayes

Blackbird by L.E. Harrison

A Lonely Magic by Sarah Wynde

Glyphbinder by T. Eric Bakutis

Duel of Fire by Jordan Rivet

The Last Kinmark by Josh Brannan

Goal date: May 24

Group 2:

A New Plague by Benny Hinrichs

The Way Knight by Alexander Wallis

The SatNav of Doom by Will MacMillan Jones

The Mages of Bennamore by Pauline M Ross

Because of Her Shadow by Jason Dias

Honor Among Orcs by Amalia Dillin

Goal date: June 7

Group 3:

Impossible Paradise by Leeland Artra

Wanderers by Richard Bamberg

Alice’s Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts by DeAnna Knippling

The Blood-Tainted Winter by T.L. Greylock

Captain Hook and the Curse of Peter Pan by Jeremiah Kleckner

Triad by Guy Estes

Goal date: June 21

Group 4:

Elona: Patterner’s Path by Steve Turnbull

Ocean Gods, Roman Blades by Andrew Knighton

The Emerald Serpent by Karen Simpson Nikakis

Fionn: Defence of Rath Bladhma by Brian O’Sullivan

Blood Song by Robert Mullin

Wrath of the Fallen by Kris Jerome

Goal date: July 5

Group 5:

Ravinor by Travis Peck

Six Celestial Swords by T.A. Miles

They Mostly Come Out At Night by Benedict Patrick

Before the Full Moon Rises by MJ Bell

Sparks and Shadows by Kendrick von Schiller

Shadows and Starstone by Cheryl S. Mackey

Goal date: July 19

I’ve already started working on the first group (insert evil laughter here).

Roses and Rot – Kat Howard

About the Book

Imogen and her sister Marin have escaped their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, be it art or love.

What would you sacrifice in the name of success? How much does an artist need to give up to create great art?

Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn’t imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program—Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that there’s more to the school than meets the eye. Imogen might be living in the fairy tale she’s dreamed about as a child, but it’s one that will pit her against Marin if she decides to escape her past to find her heart’s desire.

336 pages (hardcover)

Publishing on May 17, 2016

Published by Saga Press

Author’s webpage

Buy the book

This book was sent by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Roses and Rot was a book I was really looking forward to reading. I love fairytales. I love it when authors subvert fairytales, and I knew that I was in for something special in that regard as soon as my hands touched this book.

My biggest qualm is one that I want to get out of the way right away. The ARC I got said that the publisher was planning YA blogger outreach, which is fine, but the more I read this book the more I figured that this could be considered new adult, but I really think marketing it as young adult is misguided.

Anyway…

Roses and Rot is, in its heart, a fairytale and it’s a story of kinship, love, and relationships. Roses and Rot does a lot of things beautifully, but one thing that it does best is subverting these fairytale tropes in delightfully subtle ways. The book starts with two sisters, Imogen and Marin, both of whom are ridiculously talented, lived in the same very broken home, and despite moving away, never lost their intense bond.

Marin (a dancer) got accepted to this prestigious arts college in Vermont, and eventually convinces her writer sister to attend it with her. They arrive separately, but instantly come together like they had never been apart. They are opposites in so many ways, but Howard allows them to compliment each other perfectly. They bounce off of each other, and connect well, which creates a really dynamic story in their relationship, as well as in the world around them.

The school itself is fantastic, and it is delightfully real. It highlights one of Howard’s real writing strengths, and that’s with atmosphere. She can write one of the most lonely, strange, otherworldly places I’ve ever read. Slowly she strips away our reality until it is hard to tell where reality stops, and other begins. It’s subtly done, just as so much of the rest of this brilliant book. It’s subtle and slow, and by the time it’s happened, you don’t realize it has happened.

This book really got under my skin quickly. I started reading it because I was interested in the sisters and their relationship. I kept reading it because the school was so real to me. And then the school was so strange to me. And then there was magic. Then by the time I finished the book I had spent so much time amazed by the book that I hadn’t even realized I’d read the thing in the first place. I think I just absorbed it.

Things start happening in the book, and quickly all the stuff you enjoyed at the start of the novel starts warping into something else entirely. For example, the sister bond is still there throughout the novel, and they remain close, but when they start competing for the same position, some darker feelings come out. They start to argue, and they never lose that bond, but it becomes twisted a bit, and tainted a little as they both enter a completion for something that neither of them really understands.

Melete, the school, was absolutely fantasticly crafted, but Melete is not the only place where this novel takes place, and that other place(s) felt just as well crafted, but never managed to hold my interest quite as much as Melete. The atmosphere was excellent, but it never felt as real to me as Melete, nor as addicting.

There is some romance in this novel, though the sibling bond absolutely takes center stage, which I enjoyed. My complaint here is that the romance seemed to come out of nowhere early on, and felt kind of baseless. The men were attractive, and that instant attraction was a huge piece of it, but I kept thinking that there had to be something else that kept these women interested in these men. I just didn’t see it, I guess.

All of that being said, this book was one of the best books I’ve read so far this year. It’s dark and delightful, and it kind of creeps under your skin and infects you with its subversive tones before you even realized it happened. There are so many quotable passages because Howard is one holy hell of a writer. Really, it’s the atmosphere and the subtle tones that surprised me the most. This book has a lot of layers to it. If you’re one of those people who lies it when someone takes a fairytale and completely warps it, then you really need to get your hands on this book, because damn.

 

4/5 stars

 

 

Macro Monday

This week has been hard, so I needed something pretty. So here is a marigold, after a rain storm, during a brilliant golden sunset.

Enjoy.

Announcing Our Words

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been a bit distracted recently. Well, I’ve been working hard on a lot of things. One of the things I’ve been working hard on is Our Words, the website I’m building that is going to focus on disabilities in speculative fiction.

As with most of the best laid plans, things have dramatically changed and I had a powerful, soul searching moment where I realized I either had to pull the trigger, like now, or I was never, ever going to do it. I pulled the trigger and just launched the website because I knew if I didn’t do it now, I never would. Things are much different than I thought they’d be, and I think that’s sad in some ways, terrifying in others. But it is the way it is.

Life is all about change. Or something.

I’m scared right now. This project is so important to me, but I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been this nervous about doing something in my life. I haven’t been sleeping well due to worry and anxiety with how this will go, how it will be received, how it will all roll out, and more. I just want this launch to be over so I know if I need to hide or not.

Anyway, I hesitate to say too much here because I wrote a thing you can read on Our Words explaining what the website is about, where I’m coming from, where I want to go, and what to expect in the short term. For a website launch, this really isn’t that exciting for reasons you’ll see when you pop over there, but for numerous and varied reasons, I felt like now was the time to get SOMETHING out there, to put down at least one footprint, maybe plant a seed and see what grows.

I’m literally shaking as I write this.

Enough delaying. Time to rip off the band-aid. Head over to Our Words, and check out the two posts I have up today.

www.our-words.com

Cover Art Reveal | The Dragon’s Legacy – Deborah A. Wolf

It brings me incredible pleasure to do this cover art reveal. I have already read this book, and I have already loved this book. I’ve enjoyed watching Deborah Wolf move through the writing, editing, and various other phases of publishing. I’ve loved the artistic renditions she’s sent me. It’s been an absolute blast to watch this all happen from the sidelines. And no one deserves it more.

You guys, I loved this book so hard. It is so diverse, and full of strong women and strange, beautiful, complex cultures that are very different than my own. The world building is detailed, just how I like it, and the writing is smooth, and addicting. The plot is intricate. This is the kind of book you can lose some time reading, and you won’t complain, because every minute spent reading it is a minute well spent.

This book, folks, is one you really need to keep your eyes on. This is the epic fantasy novel I’ve been looking for. No joke.

So, here is the cover art and various other official things.

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THE DRAGON’S LEGACY is a saga of epic fantasy in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay’s THE SARANTINE MOSAIC and the darker folkloric tales of ARABIAN NIGHTS. THE DRAGON’S LEGACY is a journey of life and loss, of hope and heartbreak, sorcerers and swords and sand.

Lots and lots of sand.

It is a story of ruthless ambition and desperate love, powerful magic and impossible enemies, and hope in the face of despair.

It is also a story of middle-aged cannibals, kick-ass battles, giant freaking spiders and a young woman’s quest to lose her virginity. None of which will matter if the Dragon wakes up…

The first book in this saga is THE DRAGON’S LEGACY, and will be published in hardcover by Titan Books in Spring 2017

Deborah A. Wolf was born in a barn and raised on wildlife refuges, which explains rather a lot.  As a child, whether she was wandering down the beach of an otherwise deserted island or exploring the hidden secrets of Alaska with her faithful dog Sitka, she always had a book at hand.  She opened the forbidden door, and set foot upon the tangled path, and never looked back.

Deborah currently lives in northern Michigan with her kids (some of whom are grown and all of whom are exceptional), an assortment of dogs and horses, and one cat whom she suspects is possessed by a demon.

SPFBO Round Two – An Overview & Favorite Cover Art

The Overview

Well, this weekend my thirty books for the SPFBO arrived. I’ve been poking around in my stash all day, mentally organizing them, going over my system and various things like that.

Mostly, my system will be the same this time around, with one exception. I will still write a mini review for each book, but I’m not going to make myself read each word of each book like I did before. I enjoyed doing that, but it took up a lot of time. If a book doesn’t wow me within a certain amount of time, I’ll put it aside. It will still get a mini review. It will still get an award (people seemed to really like that last time around and I liked doing it), I’m just not going to make myself read every word of every book unless said book is unputdownable.

There is only so much time…

Other than that, things will basically be the same. I’m going to break my pile up into manageable chunks, randomly (My husband is the randomizer. I’ve assigned each book a number and he’s randomly picking the numbers that go into each group. He has no idea why he’s picking numbers, he just is, and that works for both of us.) Each round will have a winner of that round. In the end, I will pick a winner based off of my own inner juju.

Wow, isn’t that scientific.

As soon as I’m done organizing my manageable chunks, I’ll write another post saying what book will be in what chunk, so if you’re interested you’ll know what to look for in what week (unless life happens and my reviews/reading gets delayed).

And there you go. I am really, really excited to start on this.

The Cover Art

Last year in the SPFBO Round 1, I learned two important things:

Money spent on a professional editor is SO WORTH IT.
Money spent on amazing cover art is SO WORTH IT.

Today I’ll address cover art (in a general way), because really that’s just about as far as I’ve managed to get so far in my organization process. They say first impressions are the most important, and I can tell you that cover art is your first impression. If the cover on the book is fantastic, I’ll be so much more likely to actually be interested in it, pick it up, and open it. Your cover art represents your book. You don’t want something paltry and thrown together to represent a book you’ve spent so much time, energy, and emotion on, do you?

I didn’t think so.

I had some epic cover art last year, and I have some that have bowled me over this year. Just for fun I figured I’d show you some of the cover art in my stash that impresses me the most (so far). For a first impression, these authors nailed it. I’m not going to put an About the Book up (mostly because I just got the books today, worked a full day, had two kids that demanded to be entertained, did some photography business stuff, and had to do other things like eat and exist, so I just haven’t had time). You guys can click on each cover for their respective Goodreads pages to learn more about them yourselves.

To summarize, cover art matters. It’s expensive and takes time to create, but that is money and time well spent. It will help sell your book. It will get people interested in your book. It represents your book.

Now, onto specifics.

I was floored when I started browsing through this year’s batch. There are so many books with fantastic cover art in my group! I’m amazed!! The quality is so high, I had a hard time picking some favorites to show. I like being wowed, so looking at my books has been a thrill. I will say that just because some books are shown here, does not mean that these are the only worthwhile covers I have in my batch. I honestly had a very, very hard time narrowing down a handful to show off. You’ll see the rest when I write up my mini reviews.

I will say, if the actual text of these books follows the quality of the cover art, then I highly doubt I’ll be “Did Not Finish”-ing any of my books. I hope that’s the case!

Keep in mind, art is funny. What pleases me, might displease you. My opinion, unfortunately, is not gospel.

Anyway, onto the covers (in no particular order).

This one is my favorite.

Bring on the SPFBO Round 2!

Macro Monday – erm… Montage Monday

This Saturday was my birthday. We have a habit in our family of not really doing presents as much as something special. I got a few presents. My kids got me a really pretty wind chime. I went out to lunch and ate chicken kebabs. My husband baked me a cake. My real present, however, was going to Red Butte Gardens and spending an afternoon doing some photography. I got a wide angle lens a few months ago as a YAY REMISSION present, but I’ve been too busy/sick/alive to use it. So I got the husband, and the kids, and my macro and wide angle lenses and just WENT. It was BLISS.

So, you get a sequence of photos this week from my Red Butte Gardens excursion.

As a fun (to me) side note, I have started an account on 500px to post my photos, start a portfolio, hopefully give myself somewhere I can actually send prospective clients to look at my work. If you are interested, or want to pretend to care, you can see what I have uploaded (so far) here. As a fun aside, YES YOU CAN BUY PRINTS of any of the photos on my 500px account. Just contact me for prices. I’ve had a few people suggest I start a store on Etsy for my photography, but for some reason that terrifies me. I’ll probably bite the bullet and do it eventually.

ANYWAY…

Here are the photos for this week.

I also went back and processed some photos from February. This photo was a HUGE chance, very different from my usual style, and it made me pretty terrified to post it. The more I look at it, the more I like it, so I’m shoving it here. I took this in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. I loved the color of the horse, and I loved the way the setting sun looked. So…. here you go.

The Clarke Award Shortlist

Two things.

First, my Other Awards post has been ridiculously popular, so I’m going to update my list with the added suggestions and (drum roll, please) organize it for easy browsing! Depending on if people continue to care, I may add a permanent link to it for easy accessing purposes.

Secondly, due to the fact that I am interested in these awards that are not the Hugos, I am going to try to post regular updates for a few of them here. Yes, you can see these updates on other venues, like Locus, but I’ll try to make it so you can also see them here.

I try to have cool content. (snort)

In that respect, today the Clarke Award shortlist was announced, and I’m ashamed to admit I’ve only read one (1) book on this list! I must rectify that, as I’ve only heard good things about all of these books.

They are:

A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

A rollicking space adventure with a lot of heart

When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn’t expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possibly want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and some distance from her past.

And nothing could be further from what she’s known than the crew of the Wayfarer.

From Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the chatty engineers who keep the ship running, to the noble captain Ashby, life aboard is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. That is until the crew is offered the job of a lifetime tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet. Sure, they’ll earn enough money to live comfortably for years, but risking her life wasn’t part of the job description.

The journey through the galaxy is full of excitement, adventure, and mishaps for the Wayfarer team. And along the way, Rosemary comes to realize that a crew is a family, and that family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe… as long as you actually like them.

Europe at Midnight by David Hutchinson

In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.

For an intelligence officer like Jim it’s a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England’s interests. It’s hard to keep on top of it all.

But things are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has appeared who may hold the key to unlocking Europe’s most jealously guarded secret.

The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor

A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell….

The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful, memorable, superhuman women.

Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7.

Then one evening, Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated by his death and Tower 7’s refusal to answer her questions, Phoenix finally begins to realize that her home is really her prison, and she becomes desperate to escape.

But Phoenix’s escape, and her destruction of Tower 7, is just the beginning of her story. Before her story ends, Phoenix will travel from the United States to Africa and back, changing the entire course of humanity’s future.

Arcadia by Ian Pears

Henry Lytten – a spy turned academic and writer – sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.

He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world – a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the rules of his world, he is launched on a life-changing journey.

Lytten also imagines a different society, highly regulated and dominated by technology, which is trying to master the science of time travel.

Meanwhile – in the real world – one of Lytten’s former intelligence colleagues tracks him down for one last assignment.

As he and his characters struggle with questions of free will, love, duty and the power of the imagination, Lytten discovers he is not sure how he wants his stories to end, nor even who is imaginary.

Way Down Dark by J.P. Smythe

Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. Generations later, they are still searching . . .

Every day aboard the interstellar transport ship Australia is a kind of hell, where no one is safe, no one can hide. Indeed, the only life Chan’s ever known is one of endless violence. A life of survival. Fiercely independent and entirely self-sufficient, she has learned to keep her head down as much as possible, careful not to draw attention to herself amidst the mayhem. For theAustralia is a ship of death, filled with murderous gangs and twisted cults, vying for supremacy in a closed environment with limited resources and no hope.

And then one day Chan makes an extraordinary discovery–there may be a way to return the Australia to Earth. But doing so will only bring her to the attention of the fanatics and murderers who control life aboard the ship, putting her and everyone she loves in terrible danger.

Is it worth endangering her life and the lives of her few friends and loved ones for an uncertain return to a home world that may be uninhabitable? Especially since to do so she must descend into the deep dark in the bowels of the ship, which is piled high with the bodies and the secrets of the dead .

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A race for survival among the stars… Humanity’s last survivors escaped earth’s ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?

WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age – a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind’s worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

 

Congratulations to all of the authors on this list! Now, if you will excuse me I have a bunch of books to hunt down.

OTHER Awards – A List

Does anyone else feel like the Hugo Award pool has been peed in? I know I do, and I don’t really have a fondness for swimming in pee-pools. Last year with the Puppygate to-do I turned away from the Hugos and started really eyeing a lot of awards that I never paid attention to before. You know what I discovered? There are a ton of genre awards out there that I never really looked at before, and I really should have.

I don’t know what the answer is to the Hugo problem. It’s a complex situation and I’m not really going to extrapolate on it here. I will say that this whole Puppygate situation is teaching me a few things. You know what? The Hugos aren’t everything. They aren’t the only award out there, and they absolutely aren’t the only award people should be paying attention to.

I decided to poll my Facebook friends and Twitterverse with what awards they pay attention to, so I could make a list. If you’re burnt out with the Hugos, and the drama and politicizing aren’t doing it for you anymore, don’t feel like you’re left out. There are other playgrounds we can enjoy, and should enjoy, and other awards that deserve attention.

Below is a list of awards that I now watch, and other people have told me to look out for, as well as their links. This is, by no means, a complete list, so feel free to add to it in the comments! This list is in no particular order.

(I should note there were a handful of awards that, for some reason, I couldn’t find the exact website of said award, so I linked it to the Locus News page that talks about that respective award. I also tried to keep the awards listed genre specific.)

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Nebula Awards

Philip K. Dick Award

Arthur C. Clarke Award

World Fantasy Award

Parsec Awards

Dragon Awards

Bram Stoker Awards

British Fantasy Awards

James Tiptree Jr. Literary Award

The Kitschies

The David Gemell Awards for Fantasy

The Mythopoeic Awards

The RITA Awards

The RT Book Awards

Aurealis Awards

The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards

Parallax Awards

The Prix Aurora Awards

The Sunburst Award

The Seiun Awards

The Locus Award

The Ditmar Awards

The Endeavour Award

Sidewise Awards for Alternative History

Xingyun Award