I’ve been told that the #45 yarns will be collected into a print ‘best of’ edition in 2012, which is good news, because I do love my artifacts!
Sean the Bookonaut has already given the new-look e-edition a shot and his review is quite favourable.
Having just had a squiz at the pdf, and it’s come up well, internal artwork included, and it’s cool to see hyperlinks.
It was a big night for Perth’s Adrian Bedford at the Aurealis Awards in Brisbane last night.
Bedford, writing as KA Bedford, has had all four of his novels published by Edge in Canada make the finalist lists of the awards, and last night he scored his second win: for best science fiction novel, Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait. The novel is also a finalist for the Philip K Dick award.
The awards, recognising excellence in Australian speculative fiction, were presented in a sold-out Judith Wright Centre, with Queensland Governor Penelope Wensley in the audience.
Other winners were:
Children’s fiction
Illustrated work/picture book: Richard Harland and illustrator Laura Peterson, The Wolf Kingdom series
Novel: Emily Rodda, The Wizard of Rondo
Illustrated book/graphic novel: Shaun Tan, Tales from Outer Suburbia
Young Adult
Short story: Trent Jamieson, “Cracks”, Shiny #2
Novel: Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Collection: Sean Williams and Russell B Farr (ed), Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams
Anthology: Jonathan Strahan (ed), The Starry Rift
Horror
Short story: Kirstyn McDermott, “Painlessness”, Greatest Uncommon Denominator #2
Novel: John Harwood, The Seance
Fantasy
Short story: Cat Sparks, “Sammarynda Deep”, Paper Cities
Novel: Alison Goodman, The Two Pearls of Wisdom
Science fiction
Short story: Simon Brown, “The Empire”, Dreaming Again
Novel: KA Bedford, Time
Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Peter McNamara Convenors Award: this special award was presented to Jack Dann for his incredible lifetime of achievement in the genre.
This was the first year that prizes were awarded for best collection, anthology and illustrated book/graphic novel.
Fantastic Queensland chairman Damon Cavalchini announced that 2010 would be the last year that FQ would host the awards as their contract with awards founders Chimaera Publications will expire, and a new team to organise the awards for 2011 and onwards is needed.