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ALASTAIR REYNOLDS turned in On the Steel Breeze to Gollancz.

  CHARLES STROSS handed in the latest Laundry novel, The Rhesus Chart, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.

  JO WALTON delivered novel My Real Children and essay collection What Makes This Book So Great to Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor.

  ALLEN STEELE handed in V-S Day to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.

  JACK McDEVITT turned in Starhawk, a Pricscilla ‘‘Hutch’’ Hutchins novel, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.

  DEBORAH DOYLE & JAMES D. MACDONALD turned in Emergency Magical Services to Teresa Nielsen Hayden for Tor.

  DAVID WEBER handed in new Safehold novel Like a Mighty Army to Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor.

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  MIKE MOSCOE delivered To Do or Die (sold with title The Hounds of War) to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace. Writing as MIKE SHEPHERD, he delivered Vicky Peterwald: Target to Buchanan at Ace.

  DAVID S. GOYER & MICHAEL CASSUTT delivered Heaven’s Fall, third in the Heaven’s trilogy, to Ace.

  GREG VAN EEKHOUT turned in the sequel to his forthcoming California Bones to Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor.

  CRAIG SHAW GARDNER handed in Temporary Monsters to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.

  E.E. KNIGHT’s Vampire Earth novel Baltic Gambit was delivered to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.

  PAUL CRILLEY delivered The Osiris Curse: A Tweed & Nightingale Adventure to Lou Anders at Pyr.

  CHRIS MARIE GREEN turned in Another One Bites the Dust, a Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire novel, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace.

  TOM LLOYD handed in Moon’s Artifice to Gollancz.

  ANTOINE ROUAUD delivered fantasy debut Path of Anger to Gollancz.

  JEFF VANDERMEER handed in Wonderbook: An Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, ‘‘the world’s first fully illustrated creative writing guide,’’ to David Cashion at Abrams Image.

  PUBLISHING

  SIMON SPANTON has been promoted to associate publisher of Gollancz, and GILLIAN REDFEARN promoted to deputy publishing director. CHARLIE PANAYIOTOU is now editorial manager.

  KELLY O’CONNOR has joined Morrow/Voyager as assistant editor, replacing WILL HINTON, who is now an editor at Orbit. LINDSAY HALL has joined Orbit as an administrative assistant.

  LAURA ANNE GILMAN is now senior editor at Entangled Publishing.

  MEDIA

  OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’s Kindred will be adapted as a graphic novel by DAMIAN DUFFY with illustrations by JOHN JENNINGS for Carol Burrell at Abrams ComicArts via Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.

  JIM BUTCHER’s The Aeronaut’s Windlass, first in the Cinder Spires series, will be adapted as a graphic novel for Inklit via Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

  EDWARD WILLETT’s ‘‘slightly fantastical’’ play As Time Goes By: A Love Story with Music and Ghosts will be staged November 7-10, 2013 at the Regina Lyric Musical Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

  JASON MOTT’s The Returned, about dead loved ones returning to life, was optioned by ABC Studios for development as a TV series.

  JAMES L. SUTTER sold Pathfinder Tales novel The Redemption Engine, sequel to Death’s Heretic; MIKE STACKPOLE sold Pathfinder Tales novel The Crusader Road; HOWARD ANDREW JONES delivered the Pathfinder Tales novel Stalking the Beast, sequel to Plague of Shadows; CHRIS WILLIRCH turned in Pathfinder Tales novel The Dagger of Trust; and WENDY N. WAGNER handed in Pathfinder Tales novel Skinwalkers, all to Paizo Publishing.

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  MAIN STORIES

  2012 Nebula Awards Winners • Spectrum 20 Awards Winners • Beckett Wins Clarke Award • 2013 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Finalists • 2012 Aurealis Awards • Asimov’s Readers’ & Analog AnLab Awards

  2012 NEBULA AWARDS WINNERS

  Winners and Accepters (l to r): standing: Michael Payne, Jacob Weisman (for Nancy Kress), Nick Sagan (for Carl Sagan), E.C. Myers, Steven H Silver (for Andy Duncan), Kim Stanley Robinson, Kate Baker (for Beast of the Southern Wild); seated: Ginjer Buchanan, Aliette de Bodard, Gene Wolfe

  BEST NOVEL

  2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

  BEST NOVELLA

  After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)

  BEST NOVELETTE

  ‘‘Close Encounters’’, Andy Duncan (The Pottawatomie Giant & Other Stories)

  BEST SHORT STORY

  ‘‘Immersion’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12)

  RAY BRADBURY AWARD

  Beasts of the Southern Wild

  ANDRE NORTON AWARD

  Fair Coin, E.C. Myers (Pyr)

  SOLSTICE AWARDS

  Ginjer Buchanan

  Carl Sagan

  SERVICE TO SFWA AWARD

  Michael Payne

  DAMON KNIGHT MEMORIAL GRAND MASTER

  Gene Wolfe

  The winners of the 2012 Nebula Awards were presented during the Nebula Awards Weekend (May 16-19, 2013) on May 18, 2013 at the San Jose Hilton in San Jose CA. Complete coverage of the awards weekend will appear in the July issue.

  SPECTRUM 20 AWARDS WINNERS

  Spectrum Awards judges and annual art book editors Cathy & Arnie Fenner have announced that Flesk Publications will take over publication of the series from Underwood Books beginning with next year’s Spectrum 21. The Fenners are also stepping down as judges, with John Fleskes replacing them.

  ‘‘Dragon Empress’’ by Dan Dos Santos; Cover for Daredevil #10 by Paolo Rivera; Cathy & Arnie Fenner name Brom 2013’s Grand Master

  Winners of the Spectrum 20 Awards for the best in contemporary fantastic art were announced during a ceremony May 18, 2013 in Kansas City MO as part of Spectrum Fantastic Art Live 2.

  Advertising – Gold Award: Dan Dos Santos for ‘‘Dragon Empress’’. Advertising – Silver Award: Android Jones for ‘‘Ganeshatron’’.

  Book – Gold: David Palumbo for ‘‘Fed’’. Book – Silver: Charles Vess for ‘‘Tanglewood: I Didn’t Know She Was a Bottle Witch’’.

  Comics – Gold: Paolo Rivera for Daredevil #10 cover. Comics – Silver: David Petersen for Mouse Guard Black Axe #4, page 19.

  Concept Art – Gold: Allen Williams for ‘‘Tree of Tales’’. Concept Art – Silver: Daniel Dociu for ‘‘Guild Wars 2, Norn Lodge’’.

  Dimensional – Gold: Virginie Ropars for ‘‘Acanthopis III’’. Dimensional – Silver: David Meng for ‘‘Sashimi’’.

  Editorial – Gold: Sam Bosma for ‘‘Stability’’. Editorial – Silver: Sam Weber for ‘‘Cancer Monster’’.

  Institutional – Gold: Kekai Kotaki for ‘‘Stampede’’. Institutional – Silver: Lucas Graciano for ‘‘Dragon Swarm’’.

  Unpublished – Gold: Cory Godbey for ‘‘The Fish Master’’. Unpublished – Silver: Andrew Mar for ‘‘Tell-Tale Heart’’.

  Brom was named the Spectrum 2013 Grand Master. For more: .

  ‘‘Tree of Tales’’ by Allen Williams; ‘‘Sashimi’’ by David Meng;‘‘Fed’’ by David Palumbo

  BECKETT WINS CLARKE AWARD

  Chris Beckett, Prof. Ian Stewart (presenter)

  Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus) is the winner of the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award, announced during a ceremony at the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival, May 1, 2013, in London. Beckett received a £2,013 prize and a commemorative engraved bookend.

  The other nominees were: Nod, Adrian Barnes (Bluemoose); Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann); The Dog Stars, Peter Heller (Headline); Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit); and 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit).

  This year’s judges were Juliet E. McKenna and Ruth O’Reilly for the British Science Fiction Association, Nickianne Moody and Liz Williams for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Rob Grant for SF-FI-LONDON. Andrew M. Butler is chair of judges. Tom Hunter is award director. For more: .

  2013 CAMPBELL AND STURGEON AWARD FINALISTS

  Finalists for the 2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Theodore Sturg
eon Memorial Award have been announced.

  The Campbell nominees are: The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit); Any Day Now, Terry Bisson (Overlook); Existence, David Brin (Tor); The Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross (Tor); Empty Space, M. John Harrison (Gollancz; Night Shade ’13); Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit); Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey); The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz; Tor); Blue Remembered Earth, Alastair Reynolds (Ace); Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer, Adam Roberts (Gollancz); 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit); Slow Apocalypse, John Varley (Ace); and Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (Grove).

  The Campbell Awards were founded in 1973 to honor the best SF novel of the year. Nominees are submitted by publishers, with winners selected by a seven-member committee chaired by James E. Gunn. This year’s committee includes Gregory Benford, Paul Di Filippo, Sheila Finch, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul Kincaid, Christopher McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, and T.A. Shippey.

  Finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short fiction of 2012 are: ‘‘Things Greater Than Love’’, Kate Bachus (Strange Horizons 3/19/12); ‘‘Immersion’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 6/12); ‘‘Scattered Along the River of Heaven’’, Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld 1/12); ‘‘The Grinnell Method’’, Molly Gloss (Strange Horizons 9/3/12 & 9/10/12); After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Nancy Kress (Tachyon); ‘‘The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future’’, Jay Lake (Subterranean Spring 2012); ‘‘The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species’’, Ken Liu (Lightspeed 8/12); ‘‘Mono No Aware’’, Ken Liu (The Future Is Japanese); ‘‘Nahiiku West’’, Linda Nagata (Analog 10/12); Eater of Bone, Robert Reed (PS Publishing); ‘‘The Peak of Eternal Light’’, Bruce Sterling (Edge of Infinity); ‘‘(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky’’, E. Catherine Tobler (Clarkesworld 11/12). ‘‘Close Encounters’’ by Andy Duncan (The Pottawottamie Giant) was a finalist, but Duncan, a juror, removed it from consideration.

  The finalists were chosen by a committee of reviewers, editors, and readers familiar with the field, chaired by Christopher McKitterick. The current jury consists of Elizabeth Bear, Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Kij Johnson, George Zebrowski, and Noël Sturgeon, Trustee of the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Estate.

  Winners of both awards will have their names inscribed on permanent trophies and will also receive personal trophies to take home. The permanent Sturgeon trophy is in the shape of a Q with an arrow through it, to represent Sturgeon’s motto: ‘‘Ask the next question.’’ The awards will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, to be held July 13-16, 2013 at the Oread Hotel in Lawrence KS. For more information, visit or write to James Gunn, Department of English, University of Kansas, 3114 Wescoe Hall, Lawrence KS 66045-2115, or e-mail .

  2012 AUREALIS AWARDS

  Winners have been announced for the 2012 Aurealis Awards, honoring SF, fantasy, and horror by Australians: Best Science Fiction Novel: The Rook, Daniel O’Malley (Harper Collins). Best Science Fiction Short Story: ‘‘Significant Dust’’, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape). Best Fantasy Novel: Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin). Best Fantasy Short Story: ‘‘Bajazzle’’, Margo Lanagan (Cracklescape). Best Horror Novel: Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott (Xoum). Best Horror Short Story: ‘‘Sky’’, Kaaron Warren (Through Splintered Walls). Best Young Adult Novel (tie): Dead, Actually, Kaz Delaney (Allen & Unwin); Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin). Young Adult Short Story: ‘‘The Wisdom of the Ants’’, Thoraiya Dyer (Clarkesworld 12/12). Best Collection: That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote, K.J. Bishop (self-published). Best Anthology: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 6, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Night Shade). Best Children’s Fiction (told primarily through words): Brotherband: The Hunters, John Flanagan (Random House Australia). Best Children’s Fiction (told primarily through pictures): Little Elephants, Graeme Base (author and illustrator) (Viking Penguin). Best Illustrated Book/Graphic Novel: Blue, Pat Grant (author and illustrator) (Top Shelf Comix). Kate Eltham received the Peter McNamara Convenors’ Award for Excellence, and Laura Goodin was given the Kris Hembury Encouragement Award. Winners were announced on May 18, 2013 at the annual Aurealis Awards ceremony at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney, Australia.

  ASIMOV’S READERS’ & ANALOG ANLAB AWARDS

  2012 Asimov’s Readers’ & Analog AnLab Awards Winners (l to r): Derek Künsken, Stanley Schmidt, Catherine Shaffer, Edward M. Lerner, Richard A. Lovett, Sheila Williams, Alan Beatts, Trevor Quachri, Joe Haldeman

  The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards and the Analog 2012 AnLab Awards were presented at a breakfast celebration at the Affinity restaurant on May 18, 2013 during the Nebula Awards Weekend in San Jose CA.

  The Asimov’s Readers’ Awards winners are: Best Novella: ‘‘Murder Born’’, Robert Reed (2/12). Best Novelette: ‘‘The Way of the Needle’’, Derek Künsken (3/12). Best Short Story (tie): ‘‘Final Exam’’, Megan Arkenberg (6/12) and ‘‘Sexy Robot Mom’’, Sandra McDonald (4-5/12). Best Poem: ‘‘Future History’’, Joe Haldeman (2/12). Best Cover Artist: Laura Diehl.

  The AnLab Awards winners are: Best Novella: ‘‘Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light’’, Richard A. Lovett & William Gleason (7-8/12). Best Novelette: ‘‘Ninety Thousand Horses’’, Sean McMullen (1-2/12). Best Short Story: ‘‘Titanium Soul’’, Catherine Shaffer (6/12). Best Fact Article: ‘‘Faster Than a Speeding Photon’’, Edward M. Lerner (1-2/12). Best Cover: Michael Whelan for October 2012.

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  THE DATA FILE

  SFWA Election Results • Clarion West Gets NEA Grant • Rep. Canterbury Proposes Required SF Reading • Fickling Goes Indie • Legal News • Publishing News • Announcements • Awards News • World Conventions News • Book News • Book Trends • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received

  SFWA ELECTION RESULTS

  Steven Gould (2013); Rachel Swirsky (2013)

  The results of the SFWA officers’ election were announced. As of July 1, 2013, the new board will be: president: Steven Gould; vice-president: Rachel Swirsky; secretary: Susan Forest; treasurer: Bud Sparhawk; south/central regional director: Lee Martindale; overseas regional director: Tansy Rayner Roberts. There were 516 ballots cast by the April 26, 2013 deadline, up from 395 last year. Of those, 23 were discarded as invalid due to lack of the required cover sheets, down from 87 invalid ballots last year.

  CLARION WEST GETS NEA GRANT

  Clarion West has received a $10,000 Art Works Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to support its six-week Summer Writers Workshop, as well as its monthly one-day workshops for Pacific Northwest Writers. This is part of a plan by the NEA to award $26.3 million in grants to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide. Thirteen different disciplines are represented by the grants, and Clarion West is listed as the example of the kind of organization they’re looking for in the literature category.

  REP CANTERBURY PROPOSED REQUIRED SF READING

  Representative Ray Canterbury, a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, has proposed bill HB 2983, which would require the integration of science fiction literature into middle-and high-school reading curricula, as a means of promoting interest in the subjects of math and science. The bill stipulates that the West Virginia State Board of Education ‘‘shall prescribe minimum standards by which samples of grade-appropriate science fiction literature are integrated into the curriculum of existing reading.’’ Bill HB 2983 was introduced on March 19th and currently has seven co-sponsors in addition to representative Canterbury.

  FICKLING GOES INDIE

  David Fickling is leaving Random House Children’s UK after 12 years as editor there – and he’s taking his imprint with him. David Fickling Books will become an independent publisher beginning in July, with Fickling as chairman and Simon Mason as managing director. The company will remain in the existi
ng office in Oxford, and plans to publish from 25-30 books per year. Books previously published under the imprint will be gradually transitioned to other Random House UK imprints. Fickling praised Random House and his colleagues in a statement, noting that, ‘‘We’re going to want to form partnerships, one of which I hope will be with Random House.’’

  LEGAL NEWS

  Macmillan has finalized their settlements with both the state attorneys general and the consumer class action members regarding alleged price-fixing. Macmillan will pay $20 million in the settlement, plus $3 million to cover costs of litigation and investigation, $2.475 million for plaintiff attorney fees, and $1,000 to each of the named plaintiffs in the class action, for a total of $26.25 million.

  Apple continues to fight the Department of Justice’s allegations that it colluded in price-fixing with five of the Big 6 publishers when they began selling e-books on the agency model. In a filing on April 26, 2013, Apple insisted that the publishers all negotiated with the company separately, and that each ended up with different agreements. In a second filing, Apple argued that their agreements helped push e-book sales, and that prices actually decreased, on average, from $7.97 to $7.34. The Justice Department countered with a filing that says Apple’s then-CEO Steve Jobs ‘‘conceded the price-fixing conspiracy,’’ allegedly telling his biographer that Apple ‘‘told the publishers, ‘We’ll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway.’’

  The CEOs of the publishing companies that settled with the Department of Justice will testify in the trial, which begins June 3, 2013. They are expected to testify to Apple’s role in organizing the move to agency pricing as part of a conspiracy to fix prices.

  Three writers filed suit April 26, 2013 in New York federal court against Author Solutions, the self-publishing company owned by Penguin, for ‘‘breach of contract, unjust enrichment, California unfair competition law, and New York general business law.’’ The writers allege that Author Solutions ‘‘fails at the most basic task of a publisher: paying its authors their earned royalties and providing its authors with accurate statements…. fails to take diligent care of its authors’ works, making numerous and egregious publisher errors’’ – which the authors are then charged to correct – and that the company’s ‘‘services, which can cost authors tens of thousands of dollars, likewise fail to deliver what they promise: more book sales and more opportunities for authors.’’ They conclude that Author Services is in fact ‘‘a printing service that fails to maintain even the most rudimentary standards of book publishing, profiting not for its authors but from them.’’ They seek $5 million in punitive damages. Author Solutions does not comment on legal actions. The judge in this case is Denise Cote, the same judge overseeing the ongoing antitrust lawsuits and settlements between the Department of Justice, Apple, and several major publishers.