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Hugo Award For Best Series
The Hugo Award for Best Series is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The award is available for series of science fiction or fantasy stories consisting of at least 3 published works totaling at least 240,000 words, with at least one work released or translated into English during the previous calendar year. A losing finalist becomes eligible again with the publication of at least two new works totaling at least 240,000 words. The Hugo Award for Best Series has been awarded annually since 2017. It was first presented in that year as a one-time special Hugo Award in advance of a vote to make it a permanent category, and was ratified as such by members of the World Science Fiction Society that year. An earlier series award was given to Isaac Asimov for his ''Foundation'' series in 1966 for Best All-Time Series. In addition to the regular Hugo Awards, beginning in 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie (born March 2, 1966) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Her 2013 debut novel ''Ancillary Justice'', which features artificial consciousness and gender-blindness, won the 2014 Hugo Award for "Best Novel", as well as the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the BSFA Award for Best Novel, BSFA Award. The sequels, ''Ancillary Sword'' and ''Ancillary Mercy'', each won the Locus Award and were both nominated for the Nebula Award. ''Provenance (novel), Provenance'', published in 2017, and ''Translation State'', published in 2023, are also set in the ''Imperial Radch'' universe. Leckie's first fantasy novel, ''The Raven Tower'', was published in February 2019. Career Having grown up as a science fiction fan in St. Louis, Missouri, Leckie's attempts in her youth to get her science fiction works published were unsuccessful. One of her few publications from that time was an unattributed bodice-ripper in ''True Confessions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliette De Bodard
Aliette de Bodard (born November 10, 1982) is a French-American speculative fiction writer. She has received accolades including the British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Ignyte Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award. Writing De Bodard published her first short story in 2006. In 2007, she was a winner of Writers and Illustrators of the Future, Writers of the Future, and in 2009 was a finalist for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has been published in ''Interzone (magazine), Interzone'', ''Hub Magazine'', ''Black Static'', ''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'', ''Asimov's Science Fiction, Asimov's'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', ''Apex Magazine'', among others. Her short story "The Shipmaker" won the 2010 BSFA Award, British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction. She won the 2012 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, Nebula Award for her short story "Immersion". She also won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, Nebula Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of London (book Series)
The ''Rivers of London'' series (alternatively, the ''Peter Grant'' or the ''PC Grant'' series) is a series of urban fantasy novels by English author Ben Aaronovitch, and comics/graphic novels by Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, illustrated by Lee Sullivan. Bibliography Novels and novellas Short Stories ''Tales from the Folly'' ''Tales from the Folly,'' a short story collection, was published in November 2020. It contains the following stories: PART ONE: THE PETER GRANT STORIES * The Home Crowd Advantage * The Domestic * The Cockpit * The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny * King of the Rats * A Rare Book of Cunning Device PART TWO: THE OTHERS' STORIES * A Dedicated Follower of Fashion * Favourite Uncle * Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List * Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby * Moment One: Nightingale - London September 1966 * Moment Two: Reynolds - Florence, Az. 2015 * Moment Three: Tobias Winter - Meckenheim 2012 Graphic novels The graphic novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little, Brown And Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries, it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily Dickinson's poetry and '' Bartlett's Familiar Quotations''. Since 2006, Little, Brown and Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group. History 19th century Little, Brown and Company had its roots in the book selling trade. It was founded in 1837 in Boston by Charles Little and James Brown. They formed the partnership "for the purpose of Publishing, Importing, and Selling Books". It can trace its roots before that to 1784 to a bookshop owned by Ebenezer Battelle on Marlborough Street. They published works of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, and specialized in legal publishing and importing titles. The company was the most extensive law publisher in the United States, and also the largest importer of standard English law an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DAW Books
DAW Books is an American science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded by Donald A. Wollheim, with his wife, Elsie B. Wollheim, following his departure from Ace Books in 1971. The company claims to be "the first publishing company ever devoted exclusively to science fiction and fantasy." The first DAW Book published was the 1972 short story collection ''Spell of the Witch World'' by Andre Norton. Overview In its early years under the leadership of Wollheim and his wife Elsie, DAW gained a reputation of publishing popular, though not always critically acclaimed, works of science fiction and fantasy. Nevertheless, in the 1970s the company published numerous books, most of these paperback originals, by award-winning authors such as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Jerry Pournelle, and Roger Zelazny. In 1982, C. J. Cherryh's ''Downbelow Station'' became the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for Hugo Award for Best Novel, best novel. Until June 1984, all DAW books were charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October Daye
''October Daye'' is a ''New York Times'' Best Selling series of urban fantasy novels by American author Seanan McGuire. They follow October "Toby" Daye, a half- fae changeling and reluctant hero of the realm. Overview After being missing for fourteen years, private investigator October "Toby" Daye returns to a human world that presumes her dead. Reluctantly, she returns to the politics and dangers of faerie society and gradually becomes both feared and celebrated as a hero among the fae. In addition to episodic villains, the series contains several overarching plot lines and antagonists. The demigod-like Firstborn Eira Rosynhwyr repeatedly confronts Toby in her attempts to gain power. The local Queen has a seemingly unfounded vendetta against Toby. Centuries-old conflict between Oberon, Titania, Maeve, and Janet of Caughterha threatens the safety of Toby and her allies. Books # ''Rosemary and Rue:'' After attempting to cut off ties to all her friends and allies in Faerie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orbit Books
Orbit Books is an international publisher that specialises in science fiction and fantasy books. It is a division of Lagardère Publishing. History Orbit Books was founded in 1974 as part of the Macdonald Futura publishing company. In 1992, its parent company was bought by Little, Brown & Co., at that stage part of the Time Warner Book Group. In 1997, Orbit acquired the Legend imprint from Random House. In 2006, Orbit's parent company Little, Brown was sold by Time Warner to the French publishing group Hachette Livre. By summer 2006, Orbit began to expand internationally, with the establishment of Orbit imprints in the United States and Australia. Orbit Publishing Director Tim Holman relocated to New York to establish Orbit US as an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA. In June 2007, Orbit appointed Bernadette Foley as publisher for Orbit Australia, an imprint of Hachette Livre Australia. In 2009 Orbit expanded to France, used by the publisher Calman Levy. Authors * Rachel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Expanse (novel Series)
''The Expanse'' is a series of science fiction novels (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, '' Leviathan Wakes'', was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. The complete series was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2017. It later won, following its second nomination for the same award in 2020. The book series is made up of nine novels and nine novellas compiled in ''Memory's Legion''. The series was adapted for television by the Syfy Network, also under the title of '' The Expanse''. When Syfy canceled the TV series after three seasons, Amazon acquired it and produced three more seasons; all six seasons are streamed on Amazon Prime Video. Series overview Novels Short stories and novellas The book ''Memory's Legion'' is a collection of all eight short stories and novellas, except for "The Last Flight of the Cassandra" (which remains exclusiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles. History Tor was founded by Tom Doherty, Harriet McDougal, and Jim Baen in 1980. (Baen founded his own imprint three years later.) They were soon joined by Barbara Doherty and Katherine Pendill, who then composed the original startup team. '' Tor'' is a word meaning a rocky pinnacle, as depicted in Tor's logo. Tor Books was sold to St. Martin's Press in 1987. Along with St. Martin's Press; Henry Holt; and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, it became part of the Holtzbrinck group, now part of Macmillan in the US. In June 2019, Tor and other Macmillan imprints moved from the Flatiron Building, to larger offices in the Equitable Building. Imprints Tor is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group. The Forge imprint publishes an array of fictional titles, including historical no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Craft Sequence
''The Craft Sequence'' is a series of urban fantasy novels by American author Max Gladstone. It currently consists of six novels, beginning with ''Three Parts Dead'' (2012). The sequence received critical acclaim. It was nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Series. Plot Three Parts Dead Forty years before the start of the novel, Craftspeople and gods fight in the God Wars. Seril, the moonlight goddess of the city of Alt Coulumb, is killed. The Guardians of Seril, gargoyles, are exiled from Alt Coulumb. Alexander Denovo, a powerful Craftsman, is hired to resurrect Seril. He uses Seril's corpse to create a replacement goddess named Justice. As the novel begins, Tara Abernathy is a student of the Craft. The Craft is a system of magic based on contracts and laws. She discovers that Professor Denovo has been stealing his students’ powers and controlling their minds. She burns Denovo's laboratory and is exiled from the school as punishment. Tara is hired by Elayne Kavarian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baen Books
Baen Books () is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. After his death in 2006, he was succeeded as publisher by long-time executive editor Toni Weisskopf. History Baen Books was founded in 1983 out of a negotiated agreement between Jim Baen and Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster was undergoing massive reorganization and wanted to hire Baen to head and revitalize the science fiction line of its Pocket Books division. Baen, with financial backing from some friends, counteroffered with a proposal to start up a new company named Baen Books and provide Simon & Schuster with a science fiction line to distribute instead. According to ''Locus''s 2004 Book Summary, Baen Books was the ninth most active publisher in the U.S. in terms of most books published in the genres indicated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ty Franck
Ty Corey Franck (born May 18, 1969) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for co-authoring '' The Expanse'' with Daniel Abraham under the pseudonym James S. A. Corey, as well as '' Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series'' (2014) and ''The Expanse: Expanded'' (2016). The Expanse novels have been adapted into the television series ''The Expanse'' (2015–2022), with both Franck and Abraham serving as writers and producers on the show. Franck wrote the ''Star Wars'' novel '' Honor Among Thieves'' (2014) with Abraham and used the pen name James S. A. Corey again. In addition to his own work, Franck has served as personal assistant to George R. R. Martin and has written for Martin's ''Wild Cards'' universe. ''Leviathan Wakes'', book one of ''The Expanse'', was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, while '' The Expanse series'' was nominated in 2017 and again in 2020 where it won. Career ''The Expanse'' In 2011, Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
