And speaking of awards and honors and such, Peter Dinklage has another laurel to go with his Emmy and Scream Awards. GQ has named him “Stud of the Year.”
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Congratulations to Peter. For more details, check out the GQ website:
http://www.gq.com/moty/2011/peter-dinklage-gq-men-of-the-year-issue
I am sure Tyrion would be delighted for him.
((As magazine awards go, GQ clearly beats the Locus Awards, I must say))
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Everybody and his mother-in-law are running polls these days, as year’s end edges near.
So for those who enjoy casting ballots and voicing your opinion, here’s a few places to make your voice heard.
GOODREADS is now on to the semifinals in its balloting for the best books of 2011. (A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is still contending, both in the fantasy category, and for book of the year).
http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011
Meanwhile, the PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS has opened balloting for their 2012 awards. HBO’s series GAME OF THRONES is contending in Best Cable Drama.
http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/vote/votenow.jsp
People’s Choice has a zillion categories, so you can also vote for your favorite network shows, movies, music, etc.
And over at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, they’re picking the Entertainers of the Year, and it seems I am one of the candidates. (No one is more suprised at this than I am).
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/11/17/entertainers-of-the-year-2011-vote/3/
Vote early and often.
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The Goodreads Choice Awards:
http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011
Cast your votes for your favorite books of 2011.
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Hey, cool. GAME OF THRONES has just been nominated in eight categories for this year’s SCREAM Awards. We’re a finalist for:
BEST TV SHOW
BEST FANTASY ACTOR- Sean Bean
BEST FANTASY ACTRESS- Lena Heady
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR- Peter Dinklage
BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE: FEMALE- Emilia Clarke
BEST ENSEMBLE
MOST MEMORABLE MUTILATION – Head Covered in Molten Gold
and finally, the “big one,” the category called THE ULTIMATE SCREAM.
The nominees were chosen by a distinguished panel of judges whose numbers included Tim Burton, Darren Aronofsky, Edgar Wright, George Romero, Matthew Vaughn, Damon Lindelof, Neil Gaiman, Wes Craven, Robert Rodriguez, and others.
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in LA on October 15, to be telecast on SPIKE.
And while the judges picked the nominees, it’s the fans, viewers, and public who decide the victors. To cast your vote, check out the Scream website at http://www.spike.com/events/scream-awards-2011/
Congratulations to HBO, to David and Dan, and to all our nominees. It’s not every day you can contend for “Most Memorable Mutilation.”
Meanwhile, over at Airlock Alpha, GAME OF THRONES took home three PORTAL AWARDS:
BEST ACTOR: Sean Bean
BEST SERIES
BEST EPISODE: Winter Is Coming
For the rest of the winners, go to http://www.spoilertv.com/2011/08/2011-portal-award-winners-game-of.html
Congratulations to the Portal winners as well. And to the “differently victorious.” It’s an honor just to be nominated….
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Dunk and Egg are contending in another tourney. The third of my Dunk & Egg novellas, “The Mystery Knight,” has been announced as a finalist for this year’s World Fantasy Award.
Here’s the full list of this year’s nominees:
BEST NOVEL
* Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot)
* The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
* The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
* Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Roc; Harper Voyager UK)
* Redemption In Indigo, Karen Lord (Small Beer)
* Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
BEST NOVELLA
* Bone and Jewel Creatures, Elizabeth Bear (Subterranean)
* The Broken Man, Michael Byers (PS)
* !œThe Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon!, Elizabeth Hand (Stories: All-New Tales)
* The Thief of Broken Toys, Tim Lebbon (ChiZine Publications)
* !œThe Mystery Knight!, George R.R. Martin (Warriors)
* !œThe Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window!, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)
BEST SHORT FICTION
* !œBeautiful Men! , Christopher Fowler (Visitants: Stories of Fallen Angels and Heavenly Hosts)
* !œBooth’s Ghost!, Karen Joy Fowler (What I Didn’t See and Other Stories)
* !œPonies!, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
* !œFossil-Figures!, Joyce Carol Oates (Stories: All-New Tales)
* !œTu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us!, Mercurio D. Rivera (Black Static 8-9/10)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
* The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
* My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
* Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
* Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow; Headline Review)
* Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
* Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (Eos)
BEST COLLECTION
* What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
* The Ammonite Violin & Others, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
* Holiday, M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
* Sourdough and Other Stories, Angela Slatter (Tartarus)
* The Third Bear, Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)
BEST ARTIST
* Vincent Chong
* Kinuko Y. Craft
* Richard A. Kirk
* John Picacio
* Shaun Tan
SPECIAL AWARD, PROFESSIONAL
* John Joseph Adams, for editing and anthologies
* Lou Anders, for editing at Pyr
* Marc Gascoigne, for Angry Robot
* Stéphane Marsan & Alain Névant, for Bragelonne
* Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi, for ChiZine Publications
SPECIAL AWARD, NON-PROFESSIONAL
* Stephen Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, & Amanda Foubister, for Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010
* Alisa Krasnostein, for Twelfth Planet Press
* Matthew Kressel, for Sybil’s Garage and Senses Five Press
* Charles Tan, for Bibliophile Stalker
* Lavie Tidhar, for The World SF Blog
The winners will be announced Halloween weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California. The award is a wonderfully gloomy bust of H.P. Lovecraft sculpted by Gahan Wilson.
I have one Howie on my awards shelf already, a best novella award for my werewolf story “The Skin Trade,” published lo these many years ago when the world was young… but he has a lonely look about him, and ‘twould be nice to have another. Hey, it’s always nice to get a little head. Not that I’m expecting to win. Unlike the Hugo and the Nebula, the World Fantasy Award is juried, so one never knows how it’s going to turn out.
“The Mystery Knight” was published in WARRIORS, the big crossgenre anthology I edited with Gardner Dozois. If you’d like to check it out, paperback copies are available from Amazon and other on-line bookshops.
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It must be awards season.
First there was the nomination for the Critics Choice Award. Now I’m told that GAME OF THRONES has been nominated for the PORTAL AWARDS.
http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/8537/game-of-thrones-fringe-lead-2011-portal-awards.html
This award, I’m pleased to say, did not neglect our actors. My congratulations to Sean Bean, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, and Isaac Hempstead-Wright. And of course to David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
Good luck, all.
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The Jack Vance tribute anthology that I co-edited with Gardner Dozois, SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH, has been announced as one of the finalists on this year’s shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards. We’re in the Best Anthology category, natch.
LOCUS has a full list of nominess available at http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/06/2010-british-fantasy-award-nominees/
Needless to say, Gardner and I are thrilled by the news. It’s a great honor for us, and for Jack Vance, without whose seminal work modern fantasy would look very, very different.
If you haven’t read the book yet, hey, never too late… and after you’ve read these Vance tributes, by our all-star lineup of writers, go and read some of Jack’s own books. Fantasy doesn’t get much better.
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