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Phoenix Award (science Fiction)
The Phoenix Award is a lifetime achievement award for a science fiction professional "who has done a great deal for Southern Fandom." The Phoenix is given annually by DeepSouthCon, a bidded convention held in different states of the former Confederacy. There is no standard shape or image for the Phoenix as each host convention creates their own unique interpretation of the award. The Phoenix is presented in conjunction with Rebel Award for a science fiction fan meeting similar criteria. The award recipients are chosen by the host convention. List of Phoenix Award winners * 2024: Milton J. Davis * 2023: John G. Hartness * 2022: Eric Flint†, David B. Coe * 2021: Allen Wold * 2020: Les Johnson * 2019: Faith Hunter * 2018: Joseph Green * 2017: Simon Hawke, Aaron Allston * 2016: Eugie Foster, Jana Oliver * 2015: Robert Asprin† & Diana Rowland * 2014: Steve Jackson * 2013: Robert Jordan† * 2012: John Ringo * 2011: Selina Rosen * 2010: Jerry Pournelle * 2009: Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Rowland
Diana Rowland is an urban fantasy writer and is best known for her Kara Gillian Series and White Trash Zombie Series. She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a crime scene investigator, and a morgue assistant. She presently lives in south Louisiana with her husband and her daughter. Diana Rowland is a graduate of the 1998 Clarion West Writers Workshop Clarion West is a non-profit organization best known for their intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in speculative fiction. The Six-Week Workshop is a space for writing short stories and learning how to worksho .... In 2005, Rowland won first place in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future contest for her short story "Schroedinger's Hummingbird." This was her first time entering the contest. In 2011 Rowland was nominated for an RT Reviewer's Choice award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist for her charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Elmore
Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games, comics, magazines, and fantasy books. His list of work includes illustrations for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Dragonlance'', and his own comic strip series ''SnarfQuest''. He is author of the book ''Reflections of Myth''. Early life and education Elmore was born August 5, 1948, in Louisville, Kentucky, and grew up in Grayson County, Kentucky, Grayson County in midwestern Kentucky. Elmore described his school days by saying, "The rural school I attended didn't have any art program, so I spent my time drawing - and daydreaming. I was a pretty bad student ... I was always getting into trouble for drawing in class. I wish I had a quarter for every drawing of mine a teacher destroyed." He majored in art at Western Kentucky University. Career A month after graduating from college, Elmore was drafted into the U.S. Army and stationed in Germany. After leaving the serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Shelley
Rick Shelley (January 1, 1947 – January 27, 2001) was an American writer of primarily military science fiction. He was born in Kankakee, Illinois. Bibliography Varayan Memoir Varay is a medieval land situated between our world and the all magical world of Fairy. The Varayan Memoir follows the adventures of Gil Tyner a college student turned medieval adventurer. * Son of the Hero (1990) * The Hero of Varay (1991) * The Hero King (1992) Seven Towers * The Wizard at Mecq (1994) * The Wizard at Home (1995) Second Commonwealth War * The Buchanan Campaign (1995) * The Fires Of Coventry (1996) * Return to Camerein (1997) 13 Spaceborn * Until Relieved (1994) * Side Show (1994) * Jump Pay (1995) Dirigent Mercenary Corps This is the story of Lon Nolan, and his progression through the ranks of The Dirigent Mercenary Corps. (DMC) He was originally a cadet at a military academy for the North American Army in Colorado Springs Colorado Springs is the most populous city in El Paso Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of ''Reason'' magazine. Benford wrote the Galactic Center Saga science fiction novels, beginning with '' In the Ocean of Night'' (1977). The series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life. In 1969 he wrote "The Scarred Man", Republished on author's website at http://www.gregorybenford.com/extra/the-scarred-man-returns/ . the first story about a computer virus (based on a real computer virus he had spread), published in 1970. Biography Benford was born in Mobile, Alabama and grew up in Robertsdale and Fairhope. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa, he received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1963 from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, followed by a Master of Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack L
Jack Lukeman (born Seán Loughman 11 February 1973), usually simply known as Jack L, is an Irish songwriter, musician, record producer, vocal artist and broadcaster. Early life Lukeman was born as Seán Loughman in St Vincent's Hospital, Athy; son of Seán Loughman, who was a mechanic, and his wife, Rose. Lukeman grew up in Bennetsbridge, near Athy, County Kildare. Lukeman attended a youth club in Athy known as Aontas Ogra at the age of 12 years old, where he was involved in artistic ventures as well as playing music there. He left school at 15. After spending a short period in the family business, he began playing music full-time at 18 cutting his teeth on the Bohemian busking scene around Europe in the early 90s. Playing across Holland, Belgium and Germany sometimes playing with art rock band Serious Women with David Constantine and Martin Clancy whom he has continued to collaborate with over the years. His first vocal performance can be heard on Serious Women's album 38SCR, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kessel
John Joseph Vincent Kessel (born September 24, 1950) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is a prolific short story writer, and the author of four solo novels, '' Good News From Outer Space'' (1989), ''Corrupting Dr. Nice'' (1997), '' The Moon and the Other'' (2017), and ''Pride and Prometheus'' (2018), and one novel, ''Freedom Beach'' (1985) in collaboration with his friend James Patrick Kelly. Kessel is married to author Therese Anne Fowler. Education Kessel obtained a B.A. in Physics and English from the University of Rochester in 1972, followed by a M.A. in English from University of Kansas in 1974, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1981, where he studied under science fiction writer and scholar James Gunn. Since 1982 Kessel has taught classes in American literature, science fiction, fantasy, and fiction writing at North Carolina State University, and helped organize the MFA Creative Writing program at NCSU, serving as its first d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Deitz
Thomas Franklin Deitz (January 17, 1952 – April 27, 2009) was an American fantasy novelist, professor, and artist from Georgia. He was best known for authoring the ''David Sullivan'' contemporary fantasy series, though he also authored three other fantasy series and a standalone novel set in the same universe as the ''David Sullivan'' series. He was an assistant professor at Gainesville State College, where he was named faculty member of the year in 2008, and an adjunct professor at two other colleges. Deitz was awarded the Phoenix Award in 2007 for contributions toward Southern science fiction and fantasy fandom. Deitz died on April 27, 2009, of heart failure after having a heart attack in January of the same year. Biography Thomas Franklin Deitz was born January 17, 1952, in Georgia. He earned both a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in medieval English from the University of Georgia. Deitz won the Phoenix Award in 2007 for lifetime achievement in promoting Southern fandom. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Baen
James Patrick Baen (, beɪn , ; October 22, 1943 – June 28, 2006) was a U.S. science fiction publisher and editor. In 1983, he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure, fantasy, military science fiction, and space opera genres. Baen also founded the video game publisher, Baen Software. In late 1999, he started an electronic publishing business called Webscriptions (since renamed to Baen Ebooks), which is considered to be the first profitable e-book vendor. Biography Jim Baen was born in Pennsylvania. He left his stepfather's home at the age of 17 and lived on the streets for several months before joining the United States Army; he served in Bavaria. After stints at City College of New York and as the manager of a folk music coffee shop (a "basket house") in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, he started his publishing career in the complaints department of Ace Books. In 1972, he got the job of an assistant Gothics editor. Magazine edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McCammon
Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three ''New York Times'' bestsellers ('' The Wolf's Hour'', ''Stinger'', and ''Swan Song'') and around 5 million books in print. Since 2002, he's written ten books in a historical mystery series featuring an 18th-century magistrate’s clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America. Personal life His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon lives in Birmingham. He has a daughter, Skye, with his former wife, Sally Sanders. Career McCammon has published multiple award-winning books, including '' Mine'' in 1990 and ''Boy's Life'' in 1991. After the release of'' Gone South'', McCam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and ergonomics, human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in ''Gizmodo'', he was described as "a tireless ambassador for the future." Pournelle's hard science fiction writing received multiple awards. In addition to his solo writing, he wrote several novels with collaborators including Larry Niven. Pournelle served a term as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Pournelle's journalism focused primarily on the computer industry, astronomy, and space exploration. From the 1970s until the early 1990s, he contributed to the computer magazine ''Byte (magazine), Byte'', writing from the viewpoint of an intelligent user, with the oft-cited credo, "We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selina Rosen
Selina Rosen (born February 2, 1960) is a U.S. science fiction publisher, editor, and author. In 1995 she founded her own publishing house, Yard Dog Press, specializing in the adventure, fantasy, and science fiction genres. She is the 2011 recipient of the Phoenix Award The Phoenix Award annually recognizes one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not then win a major literary award. It is named for the mythical bird phoenix that is reborn from its own ashes, signifying the boo ..., a lifetime achievement award for a science fiction professional, presented by the Southern Fandom Confederation. Rosen's published works include fantasy ''Jabone's Sword'' and ''Sword Masters''; dark fantasy/horror ''The Boat Man'', ''Fright Eater'', ''Gang Approval'', ''The Host'' and ''Material Things''; humorous ''The Bubba Chronicles'', ''The Ghost Writer'', ''How I Spent the Apocalypse'', ''Queen of Denial'', and ''Recycled''; science fiction ''Chains of Freedom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
