Oct 162010
The countdown to Columbus and World Fantasy is one. Less than two weeks till I get there, and with deadlines bearing down Gary and I fired up Skype and discussed the World Fantasy Awards, mortality, the AUS/USD exchange rate, The Hobbit getting the green light, and, in response to a follow-up question in comments, even more on novellas. We hope you enjoy.
On a related note, I’ll be travelling next weekend so we’re not sure if we’ll get a podcast recording session, but we will make every effort to do so. And if we don’t, we’ll make up for it in Columbus!
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Another suggested topic….
Will Iain M. Banks ever win a major award for a Culture novel ?
Thanks for the novella talk. I agree with Mr Wolfe, novellas are getting more difficult to
find on the bookstore shelf. Although, I did recently find the Hugo Showcase 2010 from Prime Books. The first such collection of Hugo winners in 16 years. Nice to see !
I also looked at the Novella award winners (Hugo,Nebula,Locus, Asimov’s, and Analog) of the last two decades and also found very few in print.
The last major collection I could find was published in 1980 “The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels” Ed Silverberg & Greenberg
If a publisher took the pick of the litter of the recent (last twenty years) novella award winners and put together a similar edition I’d be the first in line to pick up a copy.
By the way – I’d say Banks is long overdue for his Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards.