Posts Tagged ‘awards’

Aurora voting deadline soon

datePosted on 22:03, May 16th, 2010 by Murray Moore

The deadline for online voting in the 2010 Prix Aurora Awards is soon: May 22, noon, Central Daylight Time.

Hugo nominations announced!

datePosted on 17:31, April 4th, 2010 by Alex

The Hugo nominations have been announced and are online on the Aussiecon 4 web site.

SFContario would like to congratulate our Author Guest of Honour, Michael Swanwick, who received a nomination in the category of Best
Related Work for Hope in the Mist, a study of British author Hope Mirrlees. We would also like to congratulate Editor Guest of Honour
Patrick Nielsen Hayden, a nominee in the Best Editor, Long Form category.

Further congratulations go out to our Toastmaster, Robert J. Sawyer, who received a nomination for Best Novel for WWW:Wake.
Additional congratulations are due to Rob, as the pilot episode for the series FlashForward, “No More Good Days,” based on Rob’s novel
of the same name, was nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

Additionally, we’d also like to highlight nominations for other Toronto authors and fans:

  • Robert Charles Wilson in the category “Best Novel” for his novel Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
  • Peter Watts in the category “Best Novelette” for his story “The Island” (published in The New Space Opera 2)
  • Lloyd Penney in the category “Best Fan Writer”
  • Taral Wayne in the category “Best Fan Artist”
  • Aurora Award Nominees

    datePosted on 17:30, February 28th, 2010 by Diane

    The Aurora award nominees have been announced. Congratulations to all the nominees and to concom member Sue Posteraro Jeffers in particular. Yay Sue!!

    planning Hugo recommendations

    datePosted on 01:09, February 25th, 2010 by Alex

    We’re putting together a Hugo recommendation page, similar to the Aurora recommendation page we put up recently. If you’d like your suggestions to be included on our page, please contact Diane at program2010-at-sfcontario-dot-ca.