Science Fiction Awards Watch

Rani Graff writes from Israel with news of the 2010 Geffen Award nominees.

Best Translated Science Fiction Novel

• Olympos, Dan Simmons (Opus Press)
• Tau Zero, Poul Anderson (Moby Dick Publishing)
• Issac Asimov’s Collected Short Stories, Vol. 1 (Moby Dick Publishing)
• Blindsight, Peter Watts (Kidmat Eden Publishing)
• The Dragon’s Nine Sons, Chris Roberson (Graff Publishing)

Best Translated Fantasy Novel

• Nation, Terry Prachett (Kidmat Eden Publishing)
• Archer’s Goon, Diana Wynne Jones (Graff Publishing)
• Wintersmith, Terry Prachett (Kidmat Eden Publishing)
• Dead Until Night, Charlaine Harris
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (the series) by Rick Riordan (Graff Publishing)

Best Israeli Short Story

• “I remember Alberta and the Flying Horses”, Raz Greenberg (Don’t Panic)
• “Doctor Watson and Mr. Holmes – Or the affair of the Fannington House Curse”, Vered Tochterman (Once Upon a Time in the Future)
• “Got Lost, Be Back Soon”, Rotem Baruchin (Once Upon a Time in the Future)
• “And Everything is Totally True”, Yael Furman (Once Upon a Time in the Future)
• “120 Basic Rules for the Antropologist”, Karen Landsman (Once Upon a Time in the Future)

Best Israeli Novel

• The Doe and the Hummingbird, Y. Kamin (Kidmat Eden Publishing)
• To Be (Chon Levi’s Fifth), Yoav Avni (Zmora Bitan Publishers)
• The Jorney to the Kingdom of Oridor, Michal Aharoni Regev (Arye Nir Publishing)
• The War Painter, Or Garor (Toby Press)
• Shattered Glass on the Fabric of Sanity, Rein Ginsburg (Gvanim Publishing)
• A Fictional Murder, Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv (Odyssey Publishing)

The winners will be announced at Icon in Tel Aviv in September.