m. c. de marco

Via SFScope: the Campbell and Sturgeon awards have been announced. The winners were Cory Doctorow, Ian McLeod (a tie), and James Alan Gardner.

Via a mailing list: a somewhat vulgar Cracked story about 6 writers who accidentally produced masterpieces was funny but also educational. Who knew that the Year Without a Summer kept Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin indoors long enough to invent Frankenstein and by extension the entire genre?

Via Science Fiction Awards Watch: the Locus Awards have been announced. Anathem, Lavinia, and Singularity’s Ring were the big winners.

The deadline for Jetse de Vries’ upcoming SHINE anthology (Solaris Books) has been extended to August 1st. See the website for ample advice in addition to the actual guidelines.

The twitter version, Outshine, seems to be tweeting strong. It has its own guidelines.

The aggregator coughs up a couple of interviews with Robert Charles Wilson about his new novel Julian Comstock: a short one at io9 and a three part affair at Tor.com.

Tor.com has a review of Federations, the new anthology edited by John Joseph Adams marred only by issues with the Kindle edition.

[…] would you believe that Harry Turtledove wrote a humorous story about space-faring hamsters?

I found This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams at the library, and Jo Walton’s review of his Dread Empire’s Fall space opera trilogy at Tor.com. Commenters note that WJW is undermined by his breadth: one year he’s David Weber, the next year he’s Iain M. Banks, and now he happens to be … Charlie Stross, according to a few commenters on John Joseph Adams’ Tor.com review of This is Not a Game.