2022 Hugo Awards Winners

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Barbara E. Hill

Congrats to all the winners and nominees for this year’s Hugo Awards. Can’t wait to see what 2023 brings!

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Celebrating 2016 Nebula Award Winners

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Barbara E. Hill

Congratulations to the 2016 Nebula Award winners and nominees!

We would also like to compliment ALL of the participants, panelists and volunteers that made the conference possible.  It was truly one of the very best so far!

If you have not attended the annual SFWA conference before, you are missing the very best of professional SF/F conferences!

 

 

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Congrats 2016 Hugo Award winners!

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Barbara E. Hill

2016We are so very proud to be part of this amazing community that so soundly triumphed and showed the Sad Puppies the door with a resounding slam!  Click the link below to see the wonderful slate of winning authors this year that are well worth reading (if you haven’t done so already).  Some of our favorite authors are here, so please celebrate this world-changing genre by checking out the works that were awarded with one of our industry’s top two awards.

Hope to see you all next year in Helsinki!

2016 Hugo Awards

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Lawrence M. Schoen 2014 Nebula Award Nominee

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Barbara E. Hill

NFPpageCoverCongrats to fellow Noble Lawrence M. Schoen for his 2014 Nebula Award nomination for his novella “Calendrical Regression” published by our own NobleFusion Press.  This is Lawrence’s third nomination and deservedly so – the latest installment in his Conroyverse is a delightful romp through time and space with the best buffalito companion a hypnotist could wish for.  Click to take a look!

Nebulacolor-150x150And a Svenkali assassin versus The Amazing Conroy’s effort to regress a Mayan mystic just takes it to a whole ‘nuther level of epic and culinary proportion!

 

We hope to see you in Chicago in June!

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Cover Reveal for Lawrence Schoen’s “Barsk”

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Mike Higgins

Lawrence’s wonderfully mind-bending novel Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard is coming–the cover looks fantastic!
http://www.lawrencemschoen.com/news/cover-reveal-barsk-the-elephants-graveyard/

Barsk is here!

Barsk is Coming in December!

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Story seeds picked from the Internet chaff

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Mike Higgins

I usually avoid the “Top 10 Whatever” headlines that have become mostly linkbait and generally contain little (or no!) substance. But when it comes from a fun site like Ancient Origins, it can be a great source of material for stories. I wouldn’t go to them for definitive research, but as an intriguing starting place? Absolutely. So, here are the Top 10 Archeological Discoveries of 2014.

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The 30 Sci-Fi Stories Everyone Should Read

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Barbara E. Hill

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30 Sci-Fi Stories Everyone Should Read

This month fellow Kansans James Gunn and Chris McKitterick (renowned and gifted Science Fiction writers/scholars/professors) contributed to Popular Mechanic’s recent list of the top 30 must read stories in the genre.

While not all of them are all-time classic SF must-reads (although Jim and Chris’ picks are totally spot on perfect), they are all super reads and worth checking out.  You can’t go wrong with any of them.  And, if for no other reason, the cover art is worth a gander since they are the original artwork from the first editions – many of which are over 50 years old.  Great art and literature is timeless!

Enjoy.

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Why Today’s Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Mike Higgins

“Reading science fiction is like an ethics class for inventors, and engineers and designers should be trying to think like science fiction authors when they approach their own work. ”

For me, THIS is one of the great powers of speculative thinking.

And this article is one of the reasons I enjoy the Atlantic. Long, but worth it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/why-todays-inventors-need-to-read-more-science-fiction/279793/

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Profile of a Pioneer: Science Fiction, Software, & 49 Years’ Innovating

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Mike Higgins

An interesting article about Dana Paxson, a long-time IT professional and industry “outsider” who is trying to change the way science fiction is produced and consumed.  And, it blends a story about a guy who builds art from found things with a guy who can read octal as if it were plaintext–a Noble Fusion.

http://www.idgconnect.com/abstract/3723/profile-pioneer-science-fiction-software-49-years-innovating

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6-Word Science Fiction Short Stories

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Barbara E. Hill

Writing science-fiction and fantasy is a specialized form of literary art that is at the far right of the “inspiring and thought-provoking” bell curve.  The short-story is an art form all of it’s own and demands a steady and trained hand.  Combining the two is down right daunting and one of the most noble and rewarding challenges of all.  We are fans.

But a good science fiction/fantasy/horror short story written with only 6 words leaves us speechless.

So for your pleasure, Wired Magazine commissioned 6-word short stories from some of the best talent: Joss Whedon, Eileen Gunn, William Shatner and more.  This was published quite some time ago, but since time is a construct for the mind we decided to post this anyway.  Enjoy!

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

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