DUFF Nominations Open
Nominations for the 2012 Down Under Fan Fund race are now open, but the nominating/voting schedule this year is short...
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Tag Archives: Australia
Writer Paul Haines Dies
Writer Paul Haines (1970-2012) was born in New Zealand and lived in Australia. His brief career earned him multiple Aurealis and Ditmar awards, and resulted in three collections...
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Book Four of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle, Inheritance, goes on sale November 8
The concluding volume of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance cycle quadrology, Inheritance, will be published November 8...
Read more [...] Fantastic Fiction at KGB Online Raffle is a Success
The raffle in support of New York City's Fantastic Fiction at KGB Readings Series was a huge success, and will fund the series for two more years...
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Australian Ditmar Award Final Ballot for 2010
The nominees for this year's Australian fan-awarded Ditmars have been announced. They are...
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Aussiecon 4 announces at-the-door membership rates
At-the-door membership rates to this year's World Science Fiction Convention have been announced. They will be about 20% higher than current registration rates...
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2010 Prometheus Award Winners
The winners of the 2010 Prometheus Awards (ceremony to come at WorldCon) are Dani and Eytan Kollin's The Unincorporated Mann and Poul Anderson's "No Truce with Kings"...
Read more [...] Broderick and Barnes’s award-nominated The Book of Revelation republished as Dark Gray
When it was first published (only in Australia) in 1997, Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes's The Book of Revelation was a finalist for the Aurealis and Ditmar awards. Now it's been re-released much more widely as Dark Gray...
Read more [...] 2010 WorldCon Membership Rates Increasing
Attending membership rates for this year's WorldCon will increase on 1 May 2010, and remain at this new rate until the close of pre-con registration, on 31 July...
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AHWA’s 2009 Australian Shadows Award Nominees
The Australian Horror Writers Association have expanded the number of categories in their annual Australian Shadows Award from one to three, and announce this year's finalists...
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2009 Aurealis Award Winners
The winners of this year's Aurealis Awards, for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, are...
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World Literature Today’s special science fiction issue
The University of Oklahoma's World Literature Today is planning a special science fiction issue, and paying $200-$300 for short stories...
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WorldCon 2010 taking applications for art show and dealers’ room
Next year's WorldCon is now taking applications for art show and dealers' room space, but there's a major difference with how this art show will be run...
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Australian actor Ray Barrett dies
Australian actor Ray Barrett (1927-2009) starred in Gerry Anderson's supermarionation series Stingray and Thunderbirds...
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GUFF 2010 nominations now open
Nominations for the Going Under Fan Fund, which will send a European fan to next year's WorldCon in Australia, are now open...
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