Author: Cheryl Morgan

Israeli fandom has spoken, and the 2010 Geffen Award winners have been announced. Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov take the honours for translated works. Full details at SF Awards Watch.

Via the indispensable World SF blog, we discover that Inter Nova, a magazine based in Germany, has gone fully online. It publishes in English, but aims to publish primarily authors from outside of the English-speaking world. Translation services may be available in the future, but for now submissions must be in English. Interested authors should note that the magazine is strictly science fiction, no fantasy or horror. Presumably the decision of the editors is final in deciding what that means. The site currently has contributions from Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Croatia, South Africa, Israel and England in addition to Germany.

Two very interesting interviews turned up in our blog feeds today. The first is at Techland where Lev Grossman interviews Paolo Bacigalupi about his sudden rise to fame, and the pair exchange some snark about literary fiction. And if you think that Paolo really has been an overnight success, go read the interview and find out how long you have to labor in obscurity before you get that sort of success.

The other interview is at World SF where Charles A. Tan talks to Indian SF writer, Samit Basu. There are some fascinating comments about the rapidly changing nature of the book market in India, and about the status of SF and fantasy in India. Also Samit is kind enough to quote Cheryl Morgan.

It is that time of year again: time to celebrate all of those wonderful books that have attracted the ire of self-appointed guardians of public morality. Here are The Guardian and GalleyCat highlighting some of the many events planned for the week.

The Apex Book Company has announced the table of contents for volume 2 in Lavie Tidhar’s Apex Book of World SF anthology series. This really is an international affair, with contributors from far and wide around the globe, including Malawi, Peru, Cuba, India and Finland, to name but a few. The featured authors include Fábio Fernandes, who was a guest on The Salon last issue, and Lauren Beukes, whom we interviewed. The full list of stories can be found here.

Author Jay Lake reports that the growth removed from his liver recently has been tested and pronounced non-cancerous by his doctors. Further chemotherapy is therefore not required. We are delighted to hear this, and look forward to very many new Jake Lake novels and stories in future years.

Angry Robot Books have announced re-issues of two classic early steampunk novels by K.W. Jeter: Infernal Devices and Morlock Night. John Coutlhart, whose work adorns our first ever issue, did the cover art. We think it is gorgeous. Take a look.

The winners of the 2010 Norton Awards are Trina Robbins (writer) and Boilerplate (work, by Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett). Further details on Science Fiction Awards Watch.

The September issue of the Chinese Science Fiction Newsletter is now available online. It includes news of various projects to publish Chinese SF, both in the original language and in translation.

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer have announced the nominees for the 2010 Last Drink Bird Head Awards, which “celebrate those in the genre community who enrich us with their time, energy, and words, for causes greater than themselves.” The full list is available here. The Neil Clarke Special Achievement Award, which does not have a nomination stage, goes to L. Timmel Duchamp.

The British Fantasy Awards were announced at FantasyCon last night. Our sister site, Science Fiction Awards Watch, has the list of winners.

Tor UK, publishers of Neal Asher, Mark Charan Newton, Alan Campbell and many others has launched an email newsletter to keep fans up to date with the latest developments. You can sign up here.

Angry Robot, the new company that publishes, amongst other people, our friends Colin Harvey and Lauren Beukes, has launched in the USA and Canada. Much robotic excitement can be found over at their website.

From Jeff VanderMeer comes the sad news that the ground-breaking Best American Fantasy anthology series has been canceled. Larry Nolen, who had taken over as series editor, has posted the list of stories he and guest editor, Minister Faust, would have been considering for inclusion in the fourth volume of the series. Check out the list at Larry’s blog, the stories are well worth a look.

Colleen Lindsay has left her position as an agent with FinePrint Literary Management and is taking up a job doing online PR for Penguin. Lindsay was previously in PR with Random House before taking up agenting. We wish her all the best in her new job.

John Scalzi’s novel, The Last Colony [Purchase], and Greg Egan’s story, “Dark Integers”, have won the translated fiction categories in this year’s Seiun Awards in Japan. For the full results see SF Awards Watch.