Science Fiction Awards Watch

More Seiun News

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 Willis
  • “The Summer Isles”, Ian R MacLeod
  • “Singing My Sister Down”, Margo Lanagan

And what a cracking list that is. Many thanks to Tensor who provided the information.

One Response to “More Seiun News”

  1. on 12 Apr 2009 at 9:53 pmF. Dreier

    The link below has an English translation of the Japanese novel and short story nominee lists. It also names the translators of the foreign works and includes publication info:

    http://cataly.livejournal.com/4601.html