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Tlotlo Tsamaase
Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana speculative fiction writer and poet whose stories and poems have been nominated for or won numerous awards. She is currently represented by Naomi Davis of BookEnds Literary Agency. Her fiction has appeared in ''Clarkesworld Magazine'', ''The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 1'', ''Futuri uniti d'Africa'', ''Terraform'', ''Strange Horizons'', '' Africanfuturism: An Anthology'', and more. Awards and nominations , - ! scope="row" , 2011 , ''Unlettered Skies of the Sublime'' , Best Novel , Bessie Head Short Story Awards , , , , - ! scope="row" rowspan="2", 2017 , ''I Will Be Your Grave'' , Best Poem , Rhysling Award , , , , - , ''Virtual Snapshots'' , , Nommo Award , , , , - ! scope="row" rowspan="3", 2021 , rowspan="2" , ''The Silence of the Wilting Skin'' , LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror , 33rd Lambda Literary Awards , , , , - , Best Novella , rowspan="2", Nommo Award , , , , - , ''Behind O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. It is connected to Zambia across the short Zambezi River border by the Kazungula Bridge. A country of slightly over 2.3 million people, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. About 11.6 percent of the population lives in the capital and largest city, Gaborone. Formerly one of the world's poorest countries—with a GDP per capita of about US$70 per year in the late 1960s—it has since transformed itself into an upper-middle-income country, with one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Modern-day humans first inhabited the country over 200,000 years ago. The Tswana ethn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
33rd Lambda Literary Awards ...
The 33rd Lambda Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, there was no public ceremony; instead, the winners were announced in a livestreamed virtual gala. Nominees were announced in March 2021.Jim Provenzano"Lambda Literary Awards 2021 finalists announced" ''Bay Area Reporter'', March 15, 2021. Special awards Nominees and winners References {{Lambda Literary Awards Lambda 2021 in LGBT history Lambda Literary Awards Lists of LGBT-related award winners and nominees Lambda Lambda Lambda (}, ''lám(b)da'') is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar lateral approximant . In the system of Greek numerals, lambda has a value of 30. Lambda is derived from the Phoenician Lamed . Lambda gave ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calenda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction
''The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction'' is an anthology of African speculative fiction edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. Background Ekpeki was inspired to publish the book after the positive reception of his earlier African speculative fiction anthology, ''Dominion,'' to "create more spaces for the works of speculative fiction writers of African descent to be appreciated". All the stories in the anthology are reprints of stories first published elsewhere. Contents Themes Parenthood, family, and relationships to the past are themes across many stories in the anthology. Both straight and queer points of view are explored. Stories in the anthology include the genres of Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, high fantasy, hard science fiction, horror, slipstream, climate fiction, cyberpunk, and weird fiction. Reception Fiona Moore in a British Science Fiction Association review describes the anthology as "a good general representation of the state of SFF in Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki or Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald is a Nigerian speculative fiction writer and editor residing in New York. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in ''Omenana Magazine'', Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores', ''Tor.com'', ''Strange Horizons'', ''Uncanny Magazine'', NBC and more. He is a member of thAfrican Speculative Fiction Society SFWA, HWA, and Codex Writers Group. Awards and nominations , - ! scope="row" , 2019 , "The Witching Hour" , Best short story , Nommo Award , , , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , "Ife-Iyoku" , Best short story , Nommo Award , , , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon'' , Short fiction , British Science Fiction Association Award , , , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , '' Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora'' , Best Anthology , This is Horror , , Notes , , - ! scope="row" , 2020 , ''Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wole Talabi
Wole Talabi is a Nigerian author of speculative fiction and editor. The ''Scientific American'' described him as an author who "...blends transhumanism and the Turing test". He is considered to be among the Third Generation of Nigerian Writers. Awards and recognition * Winner of ROSL Readers' Award in Caine Prize For African Writing. *Nominated for 2021 Locus Award for Best Anthology. *Winner for 2018 Nommo Award for Best Speculative fiction short story. *Finalist for Baen Books Baen Books () is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher an ...' 2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award. Bibliography Anthologies *''Incomplete Solutions'' (2019) *''Anthologies'' *''Lights Out: Resurrection'' (2016) *'' Africanfuturism: An Anthology'' (2020) Short Fiction *''Zombies'' (2013) *''Crocodile Ark'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Magazine
Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, ''Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' The Dark Magazine'', and '' Fantasy Magazine''. He has been nominated a number of times by both the Hugo Awards and the World Fantasy Awards, won three Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards, and has served as a World Fantasy Award judge. Career Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip J. Harbottle, and released ''Fantasy Annual'', a paperback magazine of British authors including E.C. Tubb, John Russell Fearn, and Sydney Bounds. In 1999, the Cosmos Books name was licensed to Wildside Press and output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. He also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In mid-2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Area Reporter
The ''Bay Area Reporter'' is a free weekly newspaper serving the LGBT communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the largest-circulation LGBT newspapers in the United States, and the country's oldest continuously published newspaper of its kind. Background Co-founded by Bob Ross and Paul Bentley on April 1, 1971, the ''Bay Area Reporter''—known by locals for most of its history by the initials ''B.A.R.'' that were included in its nameplate until April 2011—was originally distributed to gay bars in the South of Market, Castro District, and Polk Gulch areas of San Francisco. Today, the paper is distributed throughout the Bay Area and beyond. History The ''Bay Area Reporter'' has evolved to become one of the most respected LGBT community newspapers in the United States. Its annual Pride issue in June is the largest and most-read edition of the year. It also features its reader's choice awards on its anniversary in the first week of April, with a special "BESTIES: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nommo Award
The Nommo Award is a literary award presented by ''The African Speculative Fiction Society''. The award is named after the Nommo. The awards recognize works of speculative fiction by Africans, defined as "science fiction, fantasy, stories of magic and traditional belief, alternative histories, horror and strange stuff that might not fit in anywhere else." The Nommo Awards have four categories for best Novel, Novella, Short Story, and Graphic Novel. Winners and short list nominees Novel The Novel Award is also known as ''The Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African''. Novella Short Story Graphic Novel The African Speculative Fiction Society The African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) promotes science fiction and fantasy by Africans. Its 58 charter members include writers, editors, artists and publishers. Members nominate and vote on the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction.“The ASFS will provide a place where writers, readers, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhysling Award
__NOTOC__ The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. Unlike most literary awards, which are named for the creator of the award, the subject of the award, or a noted member of the field, the Rhyslings are named for a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story " The Green Hills of Earth".David Langford"Rhysling Award."''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', 3rd edition (online). Ed. John Clute, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls. 2013. Accessed 19 February 2013 The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines. The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. The nominated works are then compiled into an anthology called '' The Rhyslin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
