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World as in “World Series”?

November 18th, 2009 by

Over at the World SF News blog Lavie Tidhar questions the “world” credentials of various science fiction awards and events.

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3 Responses to “World as in “World Series”?”

  1. on 01 Dec 2009 at 5:37 pm1 Paul

    Somewhat related: I think you folks are missing Germany’s annual Kurd Laßwitz Preis, named after author Kurd Lasswitz. Here’s the link, according to Locus:

    http://www.epilog.de/Dokumente/Preise/SF/Lasswitz/BG.html

  2. on 01 Dec 2009 at 6:31 pm2 Cheryl

    That site hasn’t been updated since 2007. Can anyone tell us whether the prize is still being awarded? And if so, how does it work? (our German is not good.)

  3. on 01 Dec 2009 at 10:40 pm3 Paul

    Not sure what’s going on. Glasshouse by Charles Stross recently won the prize for Best Foreign Novel. He posted a video on YouTube in September 2009 with this note:

    “Glasshouse won the Kurd Laßwitz Pries, a German award similar to the Nebulas, in the Best Foreign Novel category. This is the presentation and my acceptance at Penta-Con, Dresden, 12th September 2009. In German, subtitled version to follow.”