The shortlist for the 2007 Nebula Awards has been released, and three Canadians are on it:

• In the Novel category, Nalo Hopkinson for The New Moon's Arms (Warner);
• In the Novella category, Matt Hughes for "The Helper and His Hero" (F&SF February and March 2007); and
• In the Novelette category, Geoff Ryman for "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter" (F&SF October/November 2006).

The Nebula Awards ceremony will take place in Austin, Texas on Saturday, April 26.Read more

After six rounds of a 2007 poll headed, "From the following, choose your favourite novel of fantastic fiction published by the mainstream press," we have a winner: Salamander, by Thomas Wharton.

And what is the prize for Salamander as the winner? Er... acclaim!

The 2007 Aurora Award winners have been announced. (On the Aurora announcement page, the winners are highlighted in red or orange [depending on which browser is used] in the lists of finalists.)

Posted on August 18, 2007

The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce an award for Canadian young adult (YA) literature of the fantastic, starting in 2008. The eligibility requirements of the YA award are the same as for the adult award except for the age of the audience to which the work is addressed. The winner of the annual YA award will also receive a medallion and prize of $1,000.

In addition, the Committee is happy to announce that jurors will henceforth receive an honorarium of $500.

Announced at the Campbell Conference, held July 6–8 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, was the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story of 2006: "The Cartesian Theater" by Robert Charles Wilson, which was originally published in Futureshocks (Roc, 2006), ed. by Lou Anders, and reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2007 (Cosmos Books, 2007), ed. by Rich Horton.Read more

Mark Frutkin's Fabrizio's Return has won a Trillium Book Award.

And, as mentioned in a previous blog entry, Peter Watts's Blindsight is a finalist for a John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

Jo Walton's Farthing, which is a "Recommended Reading" choice of the Sunburst jury (scroll down on the 2007 Shortlist page), is a nominee for a Quill Award in the science fiction/fantasy/horror category.Read more

Two Canadian publishers and four Canadian authors are among the finalists for the John W. Campbell Award for the best SF novel of 2006:Read more

• Ben Bova, Titan (Tor)
• Nick DiChario, A Small and Remarkable Life (Robert J. Sawyer Books)
• David Louis Edelman, Infoquake (Pyr)
• M. John Harrison, Nova Swing (Gollancz)
• Jack McDevitt, Odyssey (Ace)
• James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder (William Morrow)

Two of Robert Charles Wilson's works are finalists for the 2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best SF short fiction. Bob's fellow finalists are Paolo Bacigalupi, Michael F. Flynn, Jeffrey Ford, Ian McDonald, Paul Melko, Robert Reed, M. Rickert, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Christopher Rowe, William Shunn, and Michael Swanwick.Read more

Canadian Jo Walton is a finalist for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History in the category of 2006 Best Long-Form Alternate History for her novel Farthing (Tor, 2006).

The winners will be announced at Archon 31/TuckerCon/9th NASFiC, the 2007 North American Science Fiction Convention, the weekend of August 2-5, 2007, in Collinsville, Illinois (St. Louis, Missouri area).

Jo was also a Nebula Nominee for the same work.