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William Atheling Jr. Award
The William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review are a Special Category under the Ditmar Awards. "The Athelings", as they are known for short, are awarded for excellence in science fiction and speculative criticism, and were named for the pseudonym used by James Blish for his critical writing. William Atheling Jr. Award nominees and winners Winners are in bold. 1976 * Algis Budrys - Foundation & Asimov * James Gunn - Alternative Worlds * David Ketterer - New Worlds For Old * George Turner - Paradigm and Pattern; Form and Meaning in "The Dispossessed" * George Turner - Philip Dick by 1975 1977 * Susan Wood - Women and Science Fiction, ''Algol'', 33, 1978 * John Bangsund - Parergon Papers 10, ANZAPA, Oct 1978 * John McPharlin - On The Ebb Tide of the New Wave, Auto Delerium, March 1978 * Lloyd Biggle Jr - The Morasses of Academe Revisited, ''Analog'', Sept 1978 (...must be filled in—see listed reference) 1998 * Katharine and Darren Maxwell – X-files episode reviews (''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditmar Awards
The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest. SF fandom has a life of its own, but not much in the way of formal organization (although .... The award is similar to the Hugo Award but on a national rather than international scale. They are named for Martin James Ditmar "Dick" Jenssen, an Australian fan and artist, who financially supported the awards at their inception. The current rules for the award (which had for many years been specified only in the minimalist "Jack Herman constitution") were developed in 2000 and 2001 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Blish
James Benjamin Blish () was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his ''Cities in Flight'' novels and his series of ''Star Trek'' novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel ''A Case of Conscience'' won the Hugo Award. He is credited with creating the term "gas giant" to refer to large planetary bodies. Blish was a member of the Futurians. His first published stories appeared in ''Super Science Stories'' and ''Amazing Stories''. Blish wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen name William Atheling Jr. His other pen names included Donald Laverty, John MacDougal, and Arthur Lloyd Merlyn. Life Blish was born on May 23, 1921, at East Orange, New Jersey. While in high school, Blish self-published a fanzine, called ''The Planeteer'', using a hectograph. The fanzine ran for six issues. Blish attended meetings of the Futurian Science Fiction Society in New York City during this period. Futurian members Damon Knight a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Paulsen
Steven Paulsen (born 1955) is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world. He is the author of the best selling children's book, ''The Stray Cat'', which has seen publication in several foreign language editions. His short story collection, ''Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Supernatural''), won the 2018 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work, and his short stories have appeared in anthologies such as ''Dreaming Down-Under'', '' Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror'', ''Strange Fruit'', ''Fantastic Worlds'', ''The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror'', and ''Cthulhu Deep Down Under: Volume 3''. Paulsen has also written extensively about Australian speculative fiction in various publications including Bloodsongs, Eidolon (Australian magazine), Sirius, Interzone, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Fantasy Annual, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford (born 1954) is an Australian writer, philosopher, and literary critic. Early life and education Blackford was born in Sydney, and grew up in the city of Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, New South Wales. After graduating with first-class honours degrees in both arts and law from the University of Newcastle and University of Melbourne respectively, Blackford was awarded a PhD in English literature, also from Newcastle, on the return to myth in modern fictional narrative (as postulated by Northrop Frye). He completed a Master of Bioethics at Monash University and was awarded a second PhD, in philosophy (also from Monash), for a thesis entitled "The philosophy of human enhancement". His supervisor was Justin Oakley. Career As a fiction writer, Blackford specialises in science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. His work includes four novels published by iBooks, three of them forming an original trilogy (The New John Connor Chronicles) set in the world of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Peek
Ben Peek (born 12 October 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael. Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including '' Fantasy Magazine'' and ''Aurealis''. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes. In 2000, he created a zine called ''The Urban Sprawl Project'', a black and white pamphlet of photography and prose, and this remains the name of his online journal. In 2006 his autobiography, ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth'', was published by Wheatland Press with artwork from Andrew Macrae and Anna Brown. In 2007, ''Black Sheep, a dystopian novel'', was published by Prime Books. In 2007, Peek also began collaborating with artist Anna Brown on ''Nowhere Near Savannah'', an online comic that in part follows on from their original collaboration on ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth''. Peek has claimed that every incident described in ''Nowhere near Savannah'' is true. Peek holds a Bachelor of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tansy Rayner Roberts
Tansy Rayner Roberts (born 22 May 1978) is an Australian fantasy writer. Her short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including ''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'' and ''Aurealis''. She also writes crime fiction as Livia Day. Biography Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. She currently lives with her husband and two children in Tasmania. Work In 1998, Roberts won the inaugural George Turner Prize for ''Splashdance Silver'' (1998, Bantam). A sequel, ''Liquid Gold'', and the chapbook novelette ''Hobgoblin Boots'' are also both set in the comic fantasy world of 'Mocklore.' The books have subsequently been republished in ebook by FableCroft Publishing, with a third novel in the series, ''Ink Black Magic'', also being published by FableCroft Publishing in 2013. ''Ink Black Magic'' was shortlisted for the Best Fantasy Novel category of the 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditmar Award Results
The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest and best-known science fiction, fantasy and horror award, presented annually since 1969, usually at the Australian "Natcon". The historical nominations and results (listed in boldface) of the Award follow. 1969: Eighth Australian Science Fiction Convention, Melbourne Best Australian Science Fiction of any length, or collection * ''Pacific Book Of Australian SF'', John Baxter * ''False Fatherland'', A. Bertram Chandler * "Final Flower", Stephen Cook Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection * ''An Age'', Brian Aldiss * ''Camp Concentration'', Thomas M. Disch * ''The Ring of Ritornel'', Charles Harness Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction * Brian Aldiss * R.A. Lafferty * Samuel R. Delany * Roger Zelazny Best Australian Amateur Science Fiction Publication or Fanzine * ''Australian Science Fiction Review'', John Bangsund * ''The Mentor'', Ronald L Clarke * ''Rataplan'', Leigh Edmonds 1970: Ninth Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
