Monday, April 12, 2010

Cover Art: Coralie Bickford-Smith


Coralie Bickford-Smith, a senior cover designer at Penguin Books, has launched her own website.  Her clothbound designs are absolutely beautiful.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Awards: 2010 Hugo Nominees

BEST NOVEL (699 nominating ballots)
  • Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (Tor)
  • The City & The City by China MiĆ©ville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
  • Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
  • Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
  • Wake by Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)
  • The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)
BEST NOVELLA (375 nominating ballots)
  • “Act One” by Nancy Kress (Asimov’s 3/09)
  • The God Engines by John Scalzi (Subterranean)
  • “Palimpsest” by Charles Stross (Wireless)
  • Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow (Tachyon)
  • “Vishnu at the Cat Circus” by Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days)
  • The Women of Nell Gwynne’s by Kage Baker (Subterranean)