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>>2004 IHG Living Legend, Special Award and nominations announced//

The International Horror Guild has, for the first time, named two recipients for its annual Living Legend Award. Judges are, additionally, making a rare "Special Award." Honored as Living Legends are Stephen King and Everett F. Bleiler; Jack Cady is recognized with a posthumous Special Award.

>>AUDIO/REVIEWS/ IMPERATIVE
REACTION/ REDEMPTION//
>>WILL CAUSE ADDICTION//
>>author/FLMR//
>>date/ MARCH 2004//
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>>AUDIO/REVIEWS/ DISMANTLED/ POSTNUCLEAR//
>>WILL CAUSE JOY//
>>author/ZLAYA//
>>date/ MARCH 2004//
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>>AUDIO/REVIEWS/ ICON OF COIL/ MACHINES ARE US//
>>WILL CAUSE HYSTERIA//
>>author/FLMR//
>>date/ MARCH 2004//
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>>WINNERS OF 2003 NEBULA AWARDS//

Novel:
"The Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon

Novella:
"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

Novelette:
"The Empire of Ice Cream", by Jeffrey Ford

Short Story:
"What I Didn't See", by Karen Joy Fowler

Scripts
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, Peter Jackson

>>2003 PHILLIP K. DICK AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED//

It was announced Friday at Norwescon 27, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2003 in the U.S.A. is:

"Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan

Special citation was given to:

"Dante's Equation" by Jane Jensen

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society//

>>2003 HUGO AWARDS NOMINATIONS//

Noreascon Four, the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Boston, September 2-6, 2004, has released nominations for this year's Hugo Awards:

NOVEL
"Blind Lake" by Robert Charles Wilson, "Humans" by Robert J. Sawyer, "Ilium" by Dan Simmons, "Paladin of Souls" by Lois McMaster Bujold and "Singularity Sky" by Charles Stross.

NOVELLA
"The Cookie Monster" by Vernor Vinge, "The Empress of Mars" by Kage Baker, "The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon Williams, "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" by Connie Willis, " Walk in Silence" by Catherine Asaro.

NOVELETTE
" Bernardo's House" by James Patrick Kelly, "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford, "Hexagons" by Robert Reed, " Into the Gardens of Sweet Night" by Jay Lake, "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick and "Nightfall" by Charles Stross.

>>Nominations for SHORT STORY, RELATED BOOK, DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: LONG FORM, DRAMATIC PRESENTATION: SHORT FORM, PROFESSIONAL EDITOR, PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (?), SEMIPROZINE, FANZINE, FAN WRITER and FAN ARTIST were also released///

>>FEATURED UPCOMING RELEASE//

"Medicine Road #1"

"Medicine Road" will be a series of linked short novels by Charles de Lint, profusely illustrated by Charles Vess. Each of the projected three volumes will feature various combinations of the seven red-haired Dillard sisters (from "Seven Wild Sisters") as well as new characters introduced as the stories progress. The first book will be set in the Sonoran Desert around Tucson, Arizona, with excursions north. The first volume has just been submitted for printing, enjoy the poem which opens "Medicine Road", and tells what came before the novel:

"Red Dog chasing, Jackalope
out in the badlands, that's the way it can go
driven by hunger, looking for something
deep in the desert, deep in the soul..."

>>AUDIO/REVIEWS/BRAINCLAW/
INSEKT/ANGEL//
>>WILL CAUSE JOY//
>>author/FLMR//
>>date/ APRIL 2004//
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>>AUDIO/REVIEWS/WUMPSCUT/
BONE PEELER//
>>WILL CAUSE ADDICTION//
>>author/ZLAYA//
>>date/ MARCH 2004//
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>>AUDIO/REVIEWS/
YELWORC/ TRINITY//
>>WILL CAUSE ADDICTION//
>>author/ZLAYA//
>>date/ MARCH 2004//
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>>AUDIO/REVIEWS/ AND ONE/ AGGRESSOR (US)//
>>WILL CAUSE HYSTERIA//
>>author/ZLAYA//
>>date/ MARCH 2004//
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>>EVENTS//

     "Finding the Future: A Science      Fiction Conversation", a feature-length      documentary about science fiction and      fandom, including conversations with
     Ben Bova, Robert Silverberg, David
     Brin, Cory Doctorow, Mike Resnick and      others, will screen at the New York      Independent Film & Video Festival
      on Sunday, 2 May

>>AWARDS//

The Sapphire Awards 2003

     Novel Length Fiction:

     First Place: "Tinker", by Wen Spencer
     Second Place: "Dance With The Devil"
                            by Sherrilyn Kenyon
     Third Place: "Skyfall",
                      by Catherine Asaro

Short Fiction:

     First Place: “Moonglow”,
                       by Catherine Asaro
     Second Place: “Phantom Lover”,
                            by Sherrilyn Kenyon
     Third Place: “The Star Queen”,
                         by Susan Grant

>>BILL LEEB//
>> author/ FLMR//
>> date/ NOVEMBER 2003//
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>>KRISTY THIRSK//
>> author/ FLMR//
>> date/SEPTEMBER 2003//
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>>IN STRICT CONFIDENCE/ HOLY//
>>WILL CAUSE HYSTERIA//
>>author/FLMR//
>>date/ FEBRUARY 2004//
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>>SEABOUND/ BEYOND FLATLINE//
>>WILL CAUSE BLACKOUTS//
>>author/ FLMR//
>>date/ FEBRUARY 2004//
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>>GRENDEL/ PRESCRIPTION: MEDICIDE//
>>WILL CAUSE HYSTERIA//
>>author/DJ CYBERCHRIST//
>>date/ MARCH 2004//
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