Free The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 25 (Mammoth Books) by Gardner Dozois

Big Bang”; Best Dramatic Presentation (long form),
Inception
; Best Graphic Story,
Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse
, by Kaja and Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio; Best Semiprozine,
Clarkesworld
; Best Fanzine,
The Drink Tank
; Best Fan Writer, Claire Brialey; Best Fan Artist, Brad W. Foster; plus the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer to Lev Grossman.
    The 2010 Nebula Awards, presented at a banquet at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2011, were: Best Novel,
Blackout/All Clear
, by Connie Willis; Best Novella, “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window,” by Rachel Swirsky; Best Novelette, “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made,” by Eric James Stone; Best Short Story (tie), “Ponies,” by Kij Johnson and “How Interesting: A Tiny Man,” by Harlan Ellison; Ray Bradbury Award,
Inception
; the Andre Norton Award to
I Shall Wear Midnight
, by Terry Pratchett; and Solstice Awards to Alice Sheldon (aka James Tiptree, Jr.) and Michael Whelan.
    The 2011 World Fantasy Awards, presented at a banquet on October 30, 2011, in San Diego, California, during the Twentieth Annual World Fantasy Convention, were: Best Novel,
Who Fears Death
, by Nnedi Okorafor; Best Novella, “The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s
Bellerophon
,” by Elizabeth Hand; Best Short Story, “Fossil-Figures,” by Joyce Carol Oates; Best Collection,
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories
, by Karen Joy Fowler; Best Anthology,
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me,
edited by Kate Bernheimer; Best Artist, Kinuko Y. Craft; Special Award (Professional), to Marc Gascoigne, for
Angry Robot;
Special Award (Non-professional), to Alisa Krasnostein, for
Twelfth Planet Press;
plus the Life Achievement Award to Peter S. Beagle and Angélica Gorodischer.
    The 2010 Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writers of America on June 19, 2011, at the Long Island Marriott Hotel in Uniondale, New York, were: Best Novel,
A Dark Matter,
by Peter Straub; Best First Novel,
Black and Orange,
by Benjamin Kane Ethridge and
Castle of Los Angeles,
by Lisa Morton; Best Long Fiction,
Invisible Fences,
by Norman Prentiss; Best Short Fiction, “The Folding Man,” by Joe R. Lansdale; Best Collection,
Full Dark, No Stars,
by Stephen King; Best Anthology,
Haunted Legends,
edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas; Non-fiction,
To Each Their Darkness,
by Gary A. Braunbeck; Best Poetry Collection,
Dark Matters,
by Bruce Boston; plus Lifetime Achievement Awards to Ellen Datlow and Al Feldstein.
    The 2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award was won by
The Dervish House,
by Ian McDonald.
    The 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Story was won by “The Sultan of the Clouds,” by Geoffrey A. Landis.
    The 2011 Philip K. Dick Memorial Award went to
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack,
by Mark Hodder.
    The 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award was won by
Zoo City,
by Lauren Beukes.
    The 2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award was won by
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg,
by Dubravka Ugresic.
    The 2011 Sidewise Award went to
When Angels Wept,
by Eric G. Swedin (Long Form) and “A Clash of Eagles,” by Alan Smale (Short Form).
    The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award went to Katherine MacLean.
     
    Dead in 2011 or early 2012 were: Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee and SFWA Grandmaster Anne McCaffery , 85, the first woman to win a Hugo and Nebula Award, author of more than a hundred books, including the famous and bestselling Pern series, whose best-known works are probably “Weyr Search,” “Dragonriders,” and
The White Dragon,
the first SF novel to make the
New York Times
Best Seller List, a friend; Hugo, Nebula, and Tiptree award-winner Joanna Russ , 74, SF writer and critic, author of such acclaimed books as
The Female Man, Picnic on Paradise,
and
And Chaos Died,
as well as much short fiction years ahead of its time, such as “Nobody’s Home,” “When It Changed,” “Souls,” and the
Alyx
stories,