{"id":10084,"date":"2011-12-01T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2011-11-30T21:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T08:53:23","slug":"awards-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/12\/01\/awards-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards Catch Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I received an email from the Science Fiction Writers of America<\/a> advising me that nominations for the 2011 Nebula Awards were now open and would close on February 15, 2012 (not quite “tomorrow” but suddenly feeling horribly close.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>But wasn’t just the Nebula Award<\/strong> just awarded, I asked myself plaintively—but no, it was in fact way back on May 21, with the award for Best Novel going to Connie Willis for Blackout\/All Clear<\/strong><\/em>. (To see the Nebula Award winners in other categories, click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Blackout\/All Clear<\/strong><\/em> also won the Hugo Award<\/strong> in August (I posted the fiction winners here<\/a>.) The Sir Julius Vogel Awards<\/strong> were made locally in June and I posted on the Award ceremony here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>May, June and August—but wait, there is more! I posted the finalists for the World Fantasy Award<\/strong> here<\/a> in August, but omitted to blog the result which came out more recently, over the weekend of 27-30 October. You can see the full results here<\/a>, but the award for Best Novel went to Nnedi Okorafor for Who Fears Death<\/em><\/strong> [DAW.]<\/p>\n

In terms of catch up, an award I missed completely this year—having read and posted on all the Kids\/YA finalists last year—was the Mythopoeic Awards<\/strong>. \"\"<\/a>These are given annually for a work from the previous year that best exemplifies \u201cthe spirit of the Inklings\u201d (for adult Fantasy) and\u00a0 “the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia” (for Children’s Literature.) This year the Adult award went to Karen Lord for Redemption in Indigo<\/em><\/strong> (Small Beer Press), the Children’s award to The Queen’s Thief<\/em><\/span> series by Megan Whalen Turner.<\/p>\n

And the Mythopoeic Awards, too, I see, are open for nominations until February 7—which leaves me very much with the feeling of: “And so it begins … again …”<\/p>\n

I think that’s one thing about our year of earthquakes here: it feels as though the clock stopped on February 22nd (which it did literally, of course, in some cases) and we’ve been playing catchup ever since. So for the Awards round to be starting again already for next year—well, I have to wonder, have I been ‘lapped’? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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