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              Shortlisted titles for the second annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize were announced July 22, 2023. Date and place for announcement of the winner have not been released. Rebecca Campbell’s title was also a Philip K. Dick Award finalist. Khalid’s title was nominated for The Kitschies. Lemberg’s collection […]

< http://www.sfadb.com/Prometheus_Awards_2023 > Winners of this year’s Prometheus Awards for pro-freedom works are David Freer’s Cloud-Castles and Robert A. Heinlein’s “Free Men.” The awards will be presented in an online ceremony in mid-August, date and time to be announced.

< http://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame_2023 > Inductees announced in June 2023 are John Carpenter, N.K. Jemisin, Dune, and Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Sources: Locus Online and File 770) < http://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame_2021 > Inductees announced in 2021, but apparently not reported by Locus or by File 770, were Nichelle Nichols, Sigourney Weaver, Godzilla, and A Trip to the Moon. (Sources: […]

          < http://www.sfadb.com/Hugo_Awards_2023 > < http://www.sfadb.com/Lodestar_Award_2023 > < http://www.sfadb.com/Astounding_Award_for_Best_New_Writer_2023 > Winners will be announced October 21, 2023, at the Chengdu Worldcon in Chengdu, China. Some stats on the nominees in the top four fiction categories: Novel nominees: Moreno-Garcia: first Hugo nomination ever. This novel placed 3rd in the Locus Poll for […]

    < http://www.sfadb.com/The_Kitschies_2023 > Winners of this year’s Kitschies, for “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic,” announced June 24, 2023, are novels by W.P. Wiles and Julia Armfield, and the cover art by Klara Smith for a novel by Michelle Penn.