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Nebula Awards Showcase 2015
''Nebula Awards Showcase 2015'' is an anthology of science fiction short works edited by American writer Greg Bear. It was first published in trade paperback by Pyr in December 2015. Summary The book collects pieces that won or were nominated for the Nebula Awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story for the year 2013 (presented in 2014), as well as the piece that won the Andre Norton Award for that year, a tribute to 2013 grand master winner Samuel R. Delany and a representative early story by him, nonfiction pieces related to the awards, and the three Rhysling Award and Dwarf Stars Award-winning poems for 2013, together with an introduction by the editor. The pieces winning the Best Novel and Andre Norton awards are represented by excerpts; the non-winning pieces nominated for these awards and for Best Novella are omitted. Contents *"The Long, Hot Summer of Science Fiction" ntroduction(Greg Bear) *" If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" est Short Story winner, 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to no more than one living writer of fantasy or science fiction. It was inaugurated in 1975 when Robert Heinlein was made the first SFWA Grand Master and it was renamed in 2002 after the Association's founder, Damon Knight, who had died that year. The presentation is made at the annual SFWA Nebula Awards banquet, commonly during May, but it is not one of the Nebulas—which recognize the preceding calendar year's best works of SF and fantasy, selected by vote of all Association members. SFWA officers and past presidents alone submit Grand Master nominations and the final selection must be approved by a majority of that group. The recipient is announced in advance, commonly during the preceding calendar year, which is the publication year and official award year for the Nebulas. History The Grand Master Award was originally limited to six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliette De Bodard
Aliette de Bodard is a French-American speculative fiction writer. Writing de Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has been published in '' Interzone'', '' Hub magazine'', ''Black Static'', ''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'', '' Asimov's'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', ''Apex Magazine'', among others. She won the 2012 Nebula Award and Locus Award for Best Short Story for her short story "Immersion". She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for "The Waiting Stars". Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction. Her Xuya Universe novella '' The Tea Master and the Detective'' won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and is nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novella . Her novelette "The Jaguar House, in Shadow" was nominated for bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (born 7 March 1968) is an American/German writer of science fiction and fantasy, and aviation non-fiction. She grew up in Los Angeles and Germany. She is currently resident in Tallinn, Estonia. Wrigley's short story "Alive, Alive Oh", published in the June 2013 issue of ''Lightspeed Magazine'', was a nominee for the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. She has written bespoke near-future science fiction for Thales Group and NATO and serialised fiction at Serial Box. Aviation Sylvia Spruck Wrigley is a pilot and an aviation author who has written several books on aviation. Aviation bibliography * "Without a Trace: 1970–2016", May 2019 * "Without a Trace: 1881–1968", March 2018 * "The Mystery of Malaysia Flight 370", May 2014 * "Why Planes Crash: Case Notes 2001", May 2013 * "You Fly Like A Woman", December 2011 * "Monthly column in Piper Flyer", 2007–2008 Aviation media appearances * Air Crash Investigation Season 21, 2021 * Aircrash Confid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Schneyer
Kenneth Schneyer is an American teacher, attorney and author of speculative fiction.Schneyer, Kenneth.Bio" Profile on livejournal page. Accessed Mar. 29, 2019.Schneyer, Kenneth Life Schneyer was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from the Cranbrook Schools in 1978 and received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1983. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986 and has worked as an attorney, judicial clerk, clerk-typist, dishwasher, computer programmer, project manager, actor/director and fiction writer. As an attorney he worked for Judge William R. Beasley of the Michigan Court of Appeals, and for the Boston corporate law firm of Bingham, Dana, & Gould. He is currently a college professor at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he has been Practicum Director and Assistant Dean of the School of Technology (now the College of Engineering & Design) and served on the Faculty Council and the University Curriculum Committee. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selected Program Notes From The Retrospective Exhibition Of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer
"Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" is a 2013 fantasy story by Kenneth Schneyer. It was first published in the Mythic Delirium Books anthology ''Clockwork Phoenix 4''. An audio version was subsequently released on ''PodCastle'', read by Peter Wood. Plot summary Rather than being a conventional narrative, "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" is presented as a set of notes and discussion questions from an art museum's posthumous exhibition of the paintings of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer — a woman who was able to see things that other people were not. Schneyer has stated that the story is about ghosts, and that the narrator is intended to be a "curator who (...) entirely misunderstand(s) the story that was being told by the paintings." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Samatar
Sofia Samatar (born October 24, 1971) is an American poet, novelist and educator from Indiana. Early life Samatar was born in 1971 in northern Indiana, United States. Her father was the Somali scholar, historian and writer Said Sheikh Samatar. Her mother is a Swiss-German Mennonite from North Dakota. Sofia's parents met in 1970 in Mogadishu, Somalia, while her mother was teaching English. Samatar attended a Mennonite high school before studying at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English. In 1997, Samatar earned a Master's degree in African languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in 2013 in contemporary Arabic literature. She is an Assistant Professor of English at James Madison University. Career Samatar's first novel ''A Stranger in Olondria'' was published in 2013. Samatar has also published qasīdas in English and collaborated with her brother on a book of illustr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Kressel
Matthew Kressel is a multiple Nebula, World Fantasy Award, and Eugie Award nominated author and coder. His short stories have been published in Tor.com, io9.com, Lightspeed Magazine, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Apex Magazine, and many other magazines and anthologies. His first novel ''King of Shards'' was released in 2015. As a coder, he created the Moksha submissions system, a manuscript submissions system in use by some of the largest speculative fiction publishers today. He is the founder of the speculative fiction magazine Sybil's Garage and the publishing house Senses Five Press. Currently he is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group and the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan. Life Kressel grew up on Long Island in a conservative Jewish family. He currently lives in Brooklyn. Kressel worked in downtown Manhattan during the September 11 attacks. He said that prior to the attack he used to "look up at the Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sounds Of Old Earth
"The Sounds of Old Earth" is a science fiction short story by American writer Matthew Kressel, published in the January 2013 issue of'' Lightspeed Magazine''. The story was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story and was included in the book '' Nebula Awards Showcase 2015''. Plot summary Abner, an old man who once designed technology to protect against toxins in Earth's atmosphere, has been laid off, and is now one of the few left on the planet. Most have relocated to New Earth, and Old Earth is now condemned. Shortly before the demolition is set to begin, Abner meets a group of teenage delinquents and invites them into his home, where he keeps frogs. He gets to know Lin, one of the teenagers, who will shortly be relocated to a lower-class planet called Wal-Mart Toyota, and tells her he plans to stay. The next day, the teenagers are gone. The story then follows Abner's description of his first visit to New Earth. Abner goes to his son Josef's home for his grandson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky (born April 14, 1982, in San Jose, California) is an American literary, speculative fiction and fantasy writer, poet, and editor living in Oregon. She was the founding editor of the PodCastle podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010. She served as vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013. She has been published in such literary publications as ''PANK'', the ''Konundrum Engine Literary Review'', and the '' New Haven Review''. Her speculative fiction work has appeared in numerous markets including ''Tor.com'', '' Subterranean Magazine'', ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', Fantasy Magazine, '' Interzone'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', and Weird Tales, and collected in a variety of year's best anthologies, including Gardner Dozois's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'', Rich Horton's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy'', Jonathan Strahan's ''Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year,'' and Jeff & Ann VanderMeer's ''Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love
"If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" is a short story by American writer Rachel Swirsky. It was first published in ''Apex Magazine'' in 2013. Synopsis As a paleontologist lies in a coma, his fiancée tells him how things would be different if he were a '' Tyrannosaurus rex''. Reception "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. At ''Kirkus Reviews'', critic Ana Grilo describes it as "beautiful", "powerful", and "intense", and "almost like a piece of poetry", but questions whether it can truly be considered speculative fiction. The story was at the center of the Sad Puppies controversy; it was held up as an example of "message fiction" by its detractors, symptomatic of an alleged clique of " social justice warriors" who they claimed were controlling the awards. It was strongly criticized by authors such as John C. Wright and Sarah Hoyt Sarah A. Hoyt (born November 18, 1962) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |