Last Call
Tonight is the last night to nominate Canadian fiction for an Aurora Award!
The following is a repost of the original post I put up with all the pertinent details:
From the Prix Aurora website:
The Prix Aurora Awards are Canada’s National Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards. They are Canadian Fans’ way of recognizing the best in genre creativity and activity of the previous calendar year (January 1st to December 31st 2010).
Why am I telling you this? Voting is free and registration is simple — just sign up to be a member and you can nominate every year. And don’t worry, you don’t have to vote in every category. Just fill in what you know.
This is not an entirely selfless announcement I do have four stories eligible for the Aurora awards in the Best Short Fiction Category:
- “Digital Rights” Writers of the Future 26. Available here: http://www.amazon.ca/Ron-Hubbard-Presents-Writers-Future/dp/1592128475 (read the story free until the end of April)
- “The Kol Effect” Neo-Opsis #19. Available here: http://www.neo-opsis.ca/Nineteen
- “John’s List” War of the Worlds: Frontlines. Available here: http://www.amazon.ca/War-Worlds-Frontlines-J-Schnarr/dp/0973483725
- “The Monastery” Not One of Us – Hidden Issue. Available here: http://not-one-of-us.com/issues/hidden.php
But there’s many fine Canadian writers out there. Tony Pi, Leah Bobet, Peter Watts and many others have eligible work. A full list can be found here.
And consider On Spec (editor Diane Walton) and Neo-Opsis (editor Karl Johanson) for Best Related Work – English.
Brent Knowles
Former lead designer at BioWare (Dragon Age: Origins, Neverwinter Nights). Creator of Raiders of the Serpent Sea.
2 Comments
Robert
Hi Brent,
Just to say thanks for Digital Rights, I thoroughly enjoyed
it! It shows you are a master craftsman of language; I found the
writing very lucid, evocative and creative. Now I understand why you
don’t look back at game design – you’ve certainly got something to be very proud
of in your new career. I smiled at the phrase ‘code does not ooze’, and for some
evil reason, Act 3 of Dragon Age 2 came to mind at that point!
I wrongly predicted that the climax of the story would
be Izzy facing her carbon copy, where the copy would symbolize her fears about
what lurked in the unexplored parts of her own mind (after having been
subjected to desparate circumstances). Probably because I’d read in the Economist a few
months back about progress being made to ‘download’ the human brain onto some digital storage device, and found that idea disturbing. Glad you
didn’t do that ending though – would have been too clichéd for a short story.
Anyway, I look forward to your next work!
Take care,
Robert
Brent Knowles
Robert,
I’m glad you enjoyed the story!
I’m a big fan of the download the brain into a machine scenario and several of my stories explore that… I think I’m equally fascinated and horrified by the idea.
Thanks,
Brent