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Happy New Year, Everybody!

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Amazing how fast these past ten years have gone. Ten years ago today, I’d just lost my job in San Francisco due to dot com bubble burst, and was wondering what I was going to do next. Looking back, I can’t believe how much was packed into just ten years. Most of it is friendships I treasure that I didn’t even have in Jan 1, 2001. (A lot of it is family I didn’t have then either!). But Pyr itself will be turning five years old this March. I was collating our awards information yesterday, and so I’ll use this occasion to reflect back on some of Pyr’s accomplishments in the 00s.  Frankly I’m flabbergasted.

  •  2009 Chesley Award for Best Art Director: Lou Anders
  • 2009 Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form, nominee: Lou Anders 
  • 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novella, nominees:“True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
  • 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, nominee: “The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
  • 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award nominees: “True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
  • 2009 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award nominee: “The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
  • 2009 Locus Award for Best Novella, Finalists: “True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow (Fast Forward 2)
  • 2009 Locus Award for Best Short Story, Finalists: “The Kindness of Strangers” by Nancy Kress (Fast Forward 2)
  • 2008 Philip K Dick Award, nominee: Fast Forward 2, edited by Lou Anders
  • 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel nominee: Ian McDonald Brasyl
  • 2008 Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form, nominee: Lou Anders
  • 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Joe Abercrombie
  • 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: David Louis Edelman
  • 2008 Philip K. Dick Award nominee: Adam Roberts Gradisil
  • 2007 Quill Award nominee: Ian McDonald, Brasyl
  • 2007 Hugo Award for Best Editor Long Form nominee: Lou Anders
  • 2007 Chesley Award for Best Art Director nominee: Lou Anders
  • 2006 World Fantasy Award – Special Award, Professional nominee: Lou Anders
  • 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel nominee: David Louis Edelman, Infoquake
  • 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award winner: John Meaney, Paradox
  • 2005 Philip K Dick Award nominee: Justina Robson, Silver Screen
  • 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Chris Roberson
  • 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee: Chris Roberson

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Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: 2009 Year-End Awards

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Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist has posted their 2009 Year-End Awards. Ian McDonald’s Cyberabad Dayscomes in at #8 in their TOP 10 SPECULATIVE FICTION TITLES OF 2009, while the UK edition of Jasper Kent’s Twelve comes in at #6 and gets “BEST DEBUT” (we’re publishing in 2010. Please wait for it.) Kay Kenyon’s City Without End, just misses the Top Ten at #13. Meanwhile, I’m honored to have gotten the MVP AWARD. Pat writes:

The heart and soul behind the Pyr imprint, this man is pretty damn close to being a genius. Though he’s the head of a smaller publishing house and hence cannot compete financially with the genre powerhouses, Lou Anders always managed to put out a wide array of quality speculative fiction titles every year. He’s like the general manager of a small-market team who always finds a way to get the players he needs for the team to make the playoffs. And with what he and the Pyr crew has in store for 2009 as they celebrate the imprint’s 5th anniversary, this could be Pyr’s biggest year yet! Long live!=)

Probably not a genius. But smart enough not to argue with this.

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A World Too Near up for 2009 Endeavour Award

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I am extremely pleased to report the news that Kay Kenyon’s A World Too Nearis a finalist for the 2009 Endeavour Award!!

The winner will be announced at OryCon, which will be held in Portland November 27-29 (and at which Yours Truly will be attending as an Editor GoH). The winner will receive a grant of $1,000 and an engraved glass plaque.

The Endeavour Award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. The judges this year are: Joe Haldeman, John Helfers, and Sarah Zettel.

The other finalists are: Anathem by Neal Stephenson, Ill Met in the Arena by Dave Duncan, Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Stories by Ken Scholes, and Space Magic by David Levine.

Congratulations to all the nominees!

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Fast Forward 2: Awards and Best of’s Round Up

The anthology itself is a Philip K. Dick Award nominee.

Hugo Award nominees:

Best Novella – “True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow
Best Novelette – “The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award nominees:

“True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow
“The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi

2009 Locus Award Finalists:

Best Novella: “True Names” by Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow
Best Short Story: “The Kindness of Strangers” by Nancy Kress

The Year’s Best Science Fiction, volume 26, edited by Gardner Dozois:

“The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“An Eligible Boy” by Ian McDonald

Year’s Best SF 14, edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer:

“Mitigation” by Tobias Buckell & Karl Schroeder

The Best SF and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Strahan:

“The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2009, edited by Rich Horton:

“Catherine Drewe” by Paul Cornell

Not too shabby, no?

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FF2 up for the PKD: 2008 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced

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Fast Forward 2has just been shortlisted for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award, with the result that I can barely type let alone think. So in lieu of being eloquent, here’s the press release:

The judges of the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce six nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award:

EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos Books)
ENDGAME by Kristine Smith (Eos Books)
FAST FORWARD 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)
JUDGE by Karen Traviss (Eos Books)
TERMINAL MIND by David Walton (Meadowhawk Press)
TIME MACHINES REPAIRED WHILE-U-WAIT by K. A. Bedford (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)

First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 10, 2009 at Norwescon 32 at the Doubletree Seattle Airport Hotel, SeaTac, Washington.

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society. Last year’s winner was NOVA SWING by M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra) with a special citation to FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN by Minister Faust (Del Rey). The 2008 judges are Tobias Buckell, M. M. Buckner (chair), Walter Hunt, Rosemary Kirstein, and William Senior.

For more information, contact the award administration:

David G. Hartwell (914) 769-5545.

Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551

For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, http://www.psfs.org/:

Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 563-2511

For more information about the Philip K. Dick Trust: www.philipkdick.com

For more information about Norwescon: http://www.norwescon.org/:

Contact NorthWest SF Society: (360) 438-0871

Congrats to all the nominees, and a special shout of gratitude to everyone who contributed to Fast Forward 2!

Update 1/14/09: Kristine Smith’s Endgame is apparently ineligible. It has been removed from the list, and replaced with my friend Jeff Carlson’s Plague War. Congratulations Jeff! 

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What a great word "Endeavour" is.

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Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky: Book One of The Entire and The Roseis among the nominees for this year’s 2008 Endeavour Award, given “for a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.”

The award is announced annually at OryCon, held in Portland, Oregon. The next award will be presented at OryCon 30 (November 2008) for a book published during 2007. The award is accompanied by a grant of $1,000.

The finalists for 2008 are:

The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari
Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest
Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper

Congratulations to Kay, and to all the nominees!

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Brasyl Wins the BSFA award

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The British Science Fiction Association Awards were given out at this weekend’s Eastercon in London. I’m very happy to hear that Ian McDonald’s Brasylwas the winner in the novel category. Congratulations to Ian and to his editor at Gollancz, that man of impeccable tastes, the wonderful Simon Spanton!

(Ian also took the 2005 BSFA for River of Gods,and the 2006 short fiction award for “The Djinn’s Wife,” set in the world of River. Look for a collection of these future-India short stories, Cyberabad Days, in early ’09.)

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3 Years Old – Happy Birthday Pyr

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I just realized Pyr is three years old this month. Let’s recap, shall we:

  • 2008 Hugo Award nominee – Best Novel: Ian McDonald, Brasyl
  • 2008 Hugo Award nominee – Best Professional Editor, Long Form: Lou Anders
  • 2008 John W. Campbell Best New Science Fiction Writer Award nominee: Joe Abercombie, David Louis Edelman
  • 2008 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award nominee: Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself
  • 2008 Silver Spectrum Award – Book Cover: Stephan Martiniere’s illustration for Kay Kenyon’s forthcoming City Without End
  • 2008 Nebula Award nominee: Mary Turzillo’s “Pride” (published in Fast Forward 1)
  • 2007 American Library Association’s Reading List Awards: Ian McDonald’s Brasyl, Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky
  • 2007 Philip K. Dick Award nominee: Adam Roberts, Gradisil
  • 2007 Quill Award nominee: Ian McDonald, Brasyl
  • 2007 Hugo Award nominee – Best Professional Editor, Long Form: Lou Anders
  • 2007 Chesley Award winner – Best Cover Illustration: Stephan Martiniere’s cover for Ian McDonald’s River of Gods
  • 2007 Chesley Award nominee – Best Art Director: Lou Anders
  • 2006 World Fantasy Award nominee – Special Award, Professional: Lou Anders
  • 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel nominee: David Louis Edelman, Infoquake
  • 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award winner: John Meaney, Paradox
  • 2005 Philip K Dick Award nominee: Justina Robson, Silver Screen
  • 2006 John W Campbell Best New Science Fiction Writer nominee: Chris Roberson
  • 2005 John W Campbell Best New Science Fiction Writer nominee: Chris Roberson

Not too shabby for three years, no?

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