Science Fiction Awards Watch

Via a very happy John Scalzi (and Kate Baker guest blogging while he’s on vacation) we learn that this year’s Seiun Awards have been announced. The official website is in Japanese, which we can’t read, but someone has posted the winners to Wikipedia. Unofficially, this is what we think we winners list is:

Best Novel: Guin [...]

This year’s Seiun Award nominations have been announced. For those who don’t read Japanese, here are the nominees in the short foreign fiction category:

“Dark Integers”, Greg Egan
“The Fluted Girl”, Paolo Bacigalupi
“Beggars in Spain”, Nancy Kress
“A Crab Must Try”, Barrington J. Bayley
“Unsound Variation”, George R. R. Martin
“Tryst in Time”, C. [...]

The winners of the 2009 Seiun Awards have been announced at T-Con 2009 in Japan. They are as follows:

Japanese Novel: <harmony/>, Project Itoh (Hayakawa Publishing)
Japanese Story: “Peer Peer Douga at the South Pole”, Housuke Nojiri (Hayakawa’s SF Magazine Apr, May 2008)
Foreign Novel: Spin, Robert Charles Wilson, translated by Mogi Takeshi (Tokyo Sogensha)
Foreign Story: “The Merchant [...]

Petréa Mitchell has made a valiant attempt to translate the rest of the Seiun Award ballot for us. You can find her work in comments here. Interesting to see Dark Knight up for a Seiun.

If we had been thinking clearly and not distracted by other things over the weekend we might have remember to go and check cataly’s LiveJournal (and thanks to F.Dreier for reminding us). Here are the Japanese fiction nominees in this year’s Seiun Awards. The notes are all cataly’s.
Novels

From The New World, Yusuke Kishi (Kodansha)
The [...]

Further to yesterday’s news, the full list of Seiun Award nominees is apparently available in Japanese here. The nominees for foreign language short fiction are as follows:

“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, Ted Chiang
“The Cambist and Lord Iron : A Fairy Tale of Economics”, Daniel Abraham
“A Billion Eves”, Robert Reed
“All Seated on the Ground”, Connie [...]

John Scalzi, whose Google-Fu is truly awesome, has found us the nominees for this year’s Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel. They are as follows:

Spin, Robert Charles Wilson
The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi
Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds
Light, M. John Harrison
The Urth of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
Sun of Suns, Karl Schroeder
Seeker, Jack McDevitt

The report comes from a [...]

The winners of the 2008 Seiun Awards were announced at DAICON 7, the 47th Nippon SF convention, earlier today. Thanks to Takeo Hosoi, we have the list of winners:

Japanese Novel: Toshokan Sensou (Series: Library Wars) by Hiro Arikawa (Ascii MediaWorks)
Japanese Story: “Chinmoku no Furaibai” (“Silent Fly-by”) by Housuke Nojiri (Chinmoku no Furaibai (Hayakawa Publishing))
Foreign Novel: [...]

Huge thanks to Takeo Hosoi for sending us this year’s nominee lists for the Seiun Awards. The email adds that that winners will be announced at Daicon 7, the 47th Japanese Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Kishiwada, Osaka, August 23-24, 2008. That suggests that the Seiun winners will not be known at Worldcon. [...]

The Nippon 2007 newsletter are now all available online. From those we gleaned the following:
Golden Duck Awards

Picture Book: Scott Nickel and Steve Harpster(Illustrator) for Night of the Homework Zombies (Stone Arch Books)
Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades: Mark Jansen and Barbara Day Zinicola for Apers (Dailey Swan Publishing)
Hal Clement Award for Young Adults: Pete Hautman [...]

Our apologies for not getting these on line quite as quickly as we did the Hugo Awards; unfortunately, Our Man in Yokohama had a critically conflicting appointment with the Seiun Awards Ceremony. Here are the results from the convention newsletter:

Japanese Long Fiction: Japan Sinks, Part 2 — Sakyo Komatsu and Koshu Tani (Shogakukan)
Japanese [...]

As we mentioned yesterday, with Worldcon being in Japan, the Seiuns get their own award ceremony entirely separate from the Hugos. However, somewhat to our surprise, we could not find the 2007 Seiun nominees anywhere online except on the official Japanese SF Fan Group web site, which is in Japanese.
A certain amount of scrambling around [...]

Most of the attention on Saturday is going to be on the Hugo Award results but, as Worldcon regulars know, the Hugo ceremony is home to a number of other awards:

The First Fandom Hall of Fame Award acknowledges the life-long enthusiasm of one of the self-styles dinosaurs of fandom;
The Big Heart Award is another fan [...]