13 May 2008

Gene Colan Ill
Comic book artist Gene Colan is suffering from liver failure and his family is trying to meet medical expenses. Colan worked on Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, and Howard the Duck. Clifford Meth has organized a fundraiser to help the family pay for treatment.

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Diver Changes Agencies
Agent Lucienne Diver has announced that she is leaving Spectrum Literary Agency after fifteen years in order to move to The Knight Agency. Diver has represented Marjorie M. Liu, Susan Krinard, Rachel Caine, Carol Berg and Lynn Flewelling, among others.

Obituaries
Filker Lois Mangan (b.1946) died on May 10. Mangan was inducted as a member of the Filk Hall of Fame in 2006. Mangan began her fannish career running Boskone filksings and went on to contribute to the NESFA Hymnal. She ran filk programming at Noreascons 3 and 4 and was also a member of M.A.S.S.F.I.L.C.

Cartoonist Ted Keys (b.1912) died on May 3. Keys created the characters of Hector Peabody and Sherman for Jay Ward’s Rocky and Friends. Before that, Keys created the comic strip Hazel, which was turned into a sitcom in the 1960s. Keys also wrote feature length films including the genre film “The Cat from Outer Space.”

2 May 2008

Arthur C. Clarke Award
Richard Morgan’s novel Black Man (published as Thirteen in the United States) won this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. Carrying a prize of £2008, the award was presented during Sci-Fi London 7, an annual science fiction film festival.

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Shirley Jackson Nominees
The nominees for the first Shirley Jackson Award, established to recognize outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic, have been announced. The winners will be announced on July 20 at Readercon in Burlington, MA.

Novel
Baltimore, by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Generation Loss, by Elizabeth Hand
Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow
The Terror, by Dan Simmons
Tokyo Year Zero, by David Peace

Novella
12 Collections, by Zoran Zivkovic
Illyria, by Elizabeth Hand
The Mermaids, by Robert Edric
"Procession of the Black Sloth," by Laird Barron
The Scalding Rooms, by Conrad Williams
"Vacancy," by Lucius Shepard

Novelette
"The Forest," by Laird Barron
"The Janus Tree," by Glen Hirshberg
"The Swing," by Don Tumasonis
"The Tenth Muse," by William Browning Spencer
"Thumbprint," by Joe Hill

Short Story
"Holiday," by M. Rickert
"The Monsters of Heaven," by Nathan Ballingrud
"A Murder of Crows," by Elizabeth Ziemska
"Something in the Mermaid Way," by Carrie Laben
"The Third Bear," by Jeff VanderMeer
"Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse," by Andy Duncan

Collection
The Bone Key, by Sarah Monette
The Entire Predicament, by Lucy Corin
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, by Laird Barron
Like You'd Understand, Anyway, by Jim Shepard
Old Devil Moon, by Christopher Fowler

Anthology
At Ease with the Dead, edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden
Dark Delicacies 2, edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb
Inferno, edited by Ellen Datlow
Logorrhea, edited by John Klima
Wizards, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

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FAAn Awards
The FAAn Awards were presented at Corflu Silver on April 28 in Las Vegas. The FAAn awards are voted on by SF fans before and at the annual Corflu, a convention focusing on fanzine writing.
Fanzine: Prolapse
Fan Artist: Dan Steffan
Fan Writer: Arnie Katz
Letterhack (Harry Warner Memorial Award): Robert Lichtman
New Fan: John Coxon
Fan Website: eFanzines.com
Number One Fan Face: Arnie Katz

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