Two of the finalists for this year's Prometheus Awards, given out by the Libertarian Futurist Society, are Cory Doctorow and Jo Walton for, respectively, their novels Little Brother and Half a Crown.

The winners will be announced at Anticipation, the Worldcon in Montreal, in August.

Cory Doctorow's YA novel Little Brother (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK) is on the ballot for the 2009 Hugo Awards.

In other Hugo news related to Canadian authors, the novella "True Names" by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2) is also on the ballot, as is James Alan Gardner's novelette "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" (Asimov's, February 2008).

All three of these works are available for free downloads. See the Hugo page on the Anticipation Worldcon site.Read more

The nominees for the 2009 Prix Aurora Awards have been announced, and include:

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• After the Fires, Ursula Pflug (Tightrope Books)
• Identity Theft and Other Stories, Robert J. Sawyer (Red Deer Press)
• Impossibilia, Douglas Smith (PS Publishing)
• Defining Diana, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press); and
• Marseguro, Edward Willett (DAW Books)

Cory Doctorow's YA novel Little Brother (Tor) and James Alan Gardner's novelette "The Ray-Gun: A Love Story" (Asimov's, Feb. 2008) have made it to the Nebula Awards final ballot.

The Nebulas will be presented on the weekend of April 24 to 26 in Los Angeles.

Guy Gavriel Kay has won the 2009 World Fantasy Award in the Novel category for Ysabel (Viking Canada/Penguin Roc). The awards ceremony took place on November 2nd in Calgary.

Here's the full list of winners and nominees.

Winners of this year's Robert A. Heinlein Award, given to recognize outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space, are Spider Robinson and Ben Bova. The award consists of a sterling silver medal, bearing the image of Robert A. Heinlein, and a certificate.Read more

Guy Gavriel Kay's novel Ysabel (Viking Canada/Penguin Roc) has been nominated for a 2008 World Fantasy Award. The awards will be presented at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary on November 2nd.

Jo Walton's novel Ha'penny (Tor) has co-won a Prometheus Award (with Harry Turtledove's The Gladiator) for Best Novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society.

On June 21st, Cory Doctorow won a 2008 Locus Award for his novella "After the Siege."

The Locus Awards are voted by readers of Locus Magazine in an annual poll.