Posted in Authors, Awards on January 30th, 2007 2 Comments »
World Horror Convention 2007 announced Thursday, January 25, that Joe R. Lansdale has been voted the winner of the 2007 Grand Master Award.
The number of votes cast this year by members of the convention was the highest in the history of the seventeen-year-old award. Previous Grand Masters included Robert Bloch, Stephen King and […]
Posted in Authors, Awards on December 19th, 2006 No Comments »
In the SFWA News:
David Guy Compton will be participating in the 2007 Nebula Awards® Weekend as Author Emeritus.
Born in the United Kingdom, Compton moved to the United States in 1981. Writing as D G. Compton, Guy Compton, or Frances Lynch, he published over 20 SF, romance and mystery novels between 1965 and 1996. His better […]
Posted in Authors on November 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
This from Ron over at GalleyCat:
Buried at the tail end of Mark Sarvas’ interview with Jonathan Lethem comes news of one project on the novelist’s plate: “I’m helping preside over the utter and irreversible canonization of one of my formerly outsider heroes, Philip K. Dick: I’m writing endnotes for The Library of America, which is […]
Posted in Authors, Awards on November 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced yesterday that James Gunn will be honored as the next Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. Gunn, who started writing science fiction in 1948, was a full-time freelance writer for four years and has had nearly 100 stories published in magazines and books.
Gunn was president […]
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