The nominees for science fiction & fantasy’s 2008 Hugo Award & John W. Campbell Awards have been posted. The most interesting in nominee is probably The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon, which has also been nominated for a Nebula and an Edgar Award for the Best Mystery Novel of the year.
Archive for March, 2008
2008 Hugo Nominees
March 25, 2008Dingo
March 25, 2008
Dingo by Charles de Lint (Puffin, hardcover, $11.99) is a young adult contemporary fantasy told from the point of view of 17-year-old Miguel. Miguel’s life is thrown on end when he meets and falls instantly in love with Lainey, a gorgeous redhead who has just moved from Australia. To his shock, he soon learns that Lainey and her twin sister are shape-shifting dingoes who are hiding from a powerful ancestor who needs their blood to escape his prison. Miguel will do everything in his power to help, but will it be enough? As in many of his other novels, de Lint combines contemporary urban life with mythical elements in this satisfying story of young love and teenage bravado.
Check availability of Charles de Lint novels at Fiction Addiction.
Reminder: Beth Webb Hart Signing
March 24, 2008Remember, Christian author Beth Webb Hart will be signing at Fiction Addiction tomorrow, March 25th, from 12-2pm. If you can’t make the signing, just call us at 864-609-9394 and we’ll be happy to reserve a personalized copy for you.
Arthur C. Clarke Has Died
March 20, 2008Noted science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died Wednesday in Sri Linka at the age of 90. Clarke is perhaps best known for his work with Stanley Kubrick to create the film 2001: A Space Odyssey based on his short story “The Sentinel” and for the phrase “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
2008 Thriller Award Nominees
March 20, 2008The nominees for the 2008 Thriller Awards, sponsored by the International Thriller Writers, are:
Best Novel
- No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
- The Watchman by Robert Crais
- The Ghost by Robert Harris
- The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
- Trouble by Jesse Kellerman
Best First Novel
- Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
- Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
- From the Depths by Gerry Doyle
- Volk’s Game by Brent Ghelfi
- Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Best Paperback Original
- The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco
- A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
- The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli
- The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
- Shattered by Jay Bonansinga
SC Author a Finalist for PEN/Faulkner Award
March 14, 2008
Ron Rash’s short story collection Chemistry and Other Stories was one of the 4 runnerups for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award. The award went to Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man.
Rash lives in Clemson, SC and is the Parris chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University, where he teaches creative writing.
His novels have one a variety of awards, including Saints at the River, which was the 2005 SEBA Best Fiction Book of the Year.
Something Rotten
March 10, 2008
Something Rotten by Alan Gratz is a young adult mystery novel that has been nominated for the 2008 SIBA Children’s Book Award. I was given a copy at the 2007 SIBA trade show, but it got lost in my stacks and stacks of reading material and I just got arround to reading it last night.
Gratz’s book takes place in Denmark, TN, where our hero, 17-year-old Horatio Wiles, is visiting his friend Hamilton Prince for the summer. The visit was set up months ago, before Hamilton’s father died of cancer and his mother remarried his father’s brother, Claude. Their first day in Denmark, Horatio & Hamilton visit the family’s paper mill and discover a videotape of Hamilton’s dad claiming that he was murdered. The two friends immediately begin to investigate, but will they be able to close in on the killer before the killer closes in on them?
Something Rotten is a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a likeable, wisecracking hero in Horatio Wilkes.
Check availability of Alan Gratz books at Fiction Addiction.
2008 SIBA Book Awards
March 8, 2008In 1999, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) launched the SIBA Book Awards, which honors the best in Southern literature in 5 categories: Cooking, Children’s, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
Beginning this year, the SIBA Awards Ceremony will be held at the Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day weekend in Decatur, GA.
View the long list of nominees and vote for the future winners. If you guess the correct Award winner in each of the five categories, you’ll be entered to win a prize.
Children’s Book Information
March 6, 2008For parents and kids wanting information on great children’s and young adult books, The Horn Book Magazine, the leading periodical about children’s literature, now offers a free email newsletter. To subscribe, click here.
I also highly recommend the blog Collecting Children’s Books, which turned me onto my favorite children’s book of 2007, The Wild Girls.
