m. c. de marco

Via twitter: nominations for the Nebula Awards are up at sfwa.org. I think the only thing I’ve read this year is Michael Burstein’s “I Remember the Future,” but several of the shorter works are linked so I can catch up.

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

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

Via Tor.com: it’s not too late to enter the contest to design a logo for the Hugos.

The Hugo award is arguably the most coveted honor a work of science fiction or fantasy can receive and yet it has never had an official logo to go with its famous 1950s automobile hood ornament-inspired, needle-nosed, finned rocket statue.

That’s where you come in.

Via SFScope: more Hugo-nominated stories are available online at the Anticipation site.

Nominees for the 2008 Nebula Awards were posted on the Nebula blog last week. Congratulations especially to Odyssey graduate Dave Schwartz, whose Superpowers appears in the Novels category.

Via SF Awards Watch: Craig Engler at SciFi Wire explains how to buy a Hugo award nomination.

Suffice it to say that this is the time when interested parties—those who are eligible to win an award—subtly or not remind their friends and family that voting might be a good idea. And it’s a time when people start speculating on whether an enterprising but not necessarily ethical person could buy their way onto the ballot.

Don’t try this at home, folks.