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J. G. Ballard has died
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The author J. G. Ballard, famed for novels such as Crash and Empire of the Sun, has died aged 78 after a long illness.
His agent Margaret Hanbury said the author had been ill "for several years" and had died on Sunday morning.
Despite being referred to as a science fiction writer, Jim Ballard said his books were instead "picturing the psychology of the future".
His most acclaimed novel was Empire of the Sun, based on his childhood in a Japanese prison camp in China.
Source: BBC News.
Discuss this article in the forums (0 replies).Hugo awards nominees announced
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This year's Hugo awards nominees for best novel are:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
Anticipation site has links to home pages and other category nominees.
Discuss this article in the forums (0 replies).Baby Doll by Sinisalo a Nebula nominee
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The Nebula nominees are announced and the Risingshadow.net staff is really excited about the nomination of Johanna Sinisalo's Baby Doll in the novelette category!
Congratulations Johanna!
Novels category nominees:
Little Brother - Doctorow, Cory
Powers - Le Guin, Ursula K.
Cauldron - McDevitt, Jack
Brasyl - McDonald, Ian
Making Money - Pratchett, Terry
Superpowers - Schwartz, David J.
Photo by Heini Lehväslaiho.
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Philip José Farmer has died
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Philip José Farmer, a prolific and popular science fiction writer who shocked readers in the 1950s by depicting sex with aliens and challenged conventional pieties of the genre with caustic fables set on bizarre worlds of his own devising, died on Wednesday, February 25th. He was 91 and lived in Peoria, Illinois.
Source: The New York Times.
Discuss this article in the forums (0 replies).Thesis about Soviet chilren's fantasy fiction
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A thesis about Soviet children's fantasy fiction (Fantastic in Form, Ambiguous in Content: Secondary Worlds in Soviet Children's Fantasy Fiction) by Jenniliisa Salminen was examined in Turku University on February 13, 2009.
The thesis can be found here: https://oa.doria.fi/handle/10024/43575
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