Sarà la stagione.
Ecco un po’ di premi assegnati recentemente, ad alcune opere che hanno già raggiunto i nostri scaffali, e molte altre che speriamo di vedere tradotte anche nel nostro paese.

Arthur C. Clarke Award:  a Jane Rogers,  per The Testament of Jessie Lamb.
Compton Crook Award  (per il romanzo d’esordio): a T.C. McCarthy, per Germline.
Heinlein Award: a Stanley Schmidt.
Independent Book Blogger Awards (presentato per la prima volta quest’anno), per la categoria News Editoriali: a Victoria Strauss per il blog Writer Beware

e poi…

Candidati al British Fantasy Awards (categoria romanzo):

• Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
• Stephen King, 11.22.63
• Kim Lakin-Smith, Cyber Circus
• George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons;
• Adam Nevill, The Ritual
• Jo Walton, Among Others

Verranno scelti due vincitori, uno per il fantasy (Holdstock Award) e uno per l’horror (Derleth)

Candidati al John W. Campbell Memorial:

• Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
• Kathleen Ann Goonan, This Shared Dream
• Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse
• China Mieville, Embassytown
• Christopher Priest, The Islanders
• Joan Slonczewski, The Highest Frontier
• Michael Swanwick, Dancing with Bears
• Lavie Tidhar, Osama
• Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse
• Gene Wolfe, Home Fires
• Rob Ziegler, Seed

Candidati al Premio Locus

SF NOVEL

• James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
• Stephen King, 11/22/63
• China Mieville, Embassytown
• Charles Stross, Rule 34
• Vernor Vinge, The Children of the Sky

FANTASY NOVEL

• George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
• Terry Pratchett, Snuff
• Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
• Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
• Jo Walton, Among Others

E per chiudere…

Candidati al Mythopoeic award  (fantasy):

ADULT LITERATURE

• Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places
• Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
• Richard Parks, The Heavenly Fox
• Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
• Jo Walton, Among Others

CHILDREN’S

• Lisa Mantchev, Theatre Illuminata series (Eyes Like Stars, Perchance to Dream, So Silver Bright)
•  Tamora Pierce, _Beka Cooper_ series (Terrier, Bloodhound, Mastiff);
• Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze;
• Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races;
• Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

SCHOLARSHIP: INKLINGS

• Jason Fisher, ed., Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays;
• Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, The Art of the Hobbit;
• Carl Phelpstead, Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity;
• Sanford Schwartz, C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy
• Steve Walker, The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style

SCHOLARSHIP: OTHER

• Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Fairy Tales: A New History
• Bonnie Gaarden, The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Cheek by Jowl
• Darrell Schweitzer, The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews
• Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films

ADDENDUM!
All’ultimo minuto, aggiungiamo i Candidati ai Sidewise Awards – premi per le migliori storie ucroniche e storia alternativa

Short Form

• Michael F. Flynn, “The Iron Shirts” (Tor.com)
• Lisa Goldstein, “Paradise Is a Walled Garden” (Asimov’s, 8/11)
• Jason Stoddard, “Orion Rising” (Panverse 3, edited by Dario Ciriello, Panverse Publishing)
• Harry Turtledove, “Lee at the Alamo” (Tor.com)

Long Form

• Robert Conroy, Castro’s Bomb (Kindle)
• Robert Conroy, Himmler’s War (Baen Books)
• Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed (Putnam)
• Ian R MacLeod, Wake Up and Dream (PS Publishing)
• Ian McDonald, Planesrunner (Pyr)
• Ekaterina Sedia, Heart of Iron (Prime)
• Lavie Tidhar, Camera Obscura (Angry Robot)

Interessante notare che fra i candidati per la categoria della narrativa lunga compare anche un romanzo autoprodotto e pubblicato direttamente attraverso Amazon/Kindle.