On VoyagerOnline Kim Westwood shares how her Aurealis Award short-listed story Nightship came to be. The latest Terra Incognita SF Podcast has Kim reading the story.
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Ditmar Awards
Nominations for the 2009 Ditmar Awards are due to close on the 4th of May.
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The Literature of Prediction
From ABC RN's Ockham's Razor: "Janice McAdam from Sydney has degrees in physics and children's literature and calls herself a 'lapsed physicist'. Today she talks about the genre of science fiction as a prediction into the future."
Audio available to stream or download for a limited time. A transcript is also available.
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The Fairytale Godmother
Folklorist Jack Zipes talks to The Book Show about Angela Carter and "her Gothic twist on tales like Cinderella and Puss in Boots."
Audio available streaming or for download for a limited time.
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Aurealis Awards Photos
The Aurealis Awards have posted a Flickr photoset of images from this year's Aurealis Awards Ceremony by Elleni Toumpas, including a picture of our own Aurealis Magazine Editor, Stuart Mayne.
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Author Interviews
Catch some recent interviews with Australian authors, including Karen Miller at Blogging the Muse, Steven Amsterdam at LiteraryMinded, Jenny Blackford at The Specusphere, Alison Goodman at Nethspace, and Kim Falconer via Voyager Online.
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Good news for Richard Harland
Richard Harland has secured a US deal for his steampunk/Victoriana novel Worldshaker. As well, Richard's short story A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead has been selected for Tor's Year's Best Fantasy 2009 anthology, along with Kim Wilkins' The Forest.
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Shaun Tan Spotlight
Tor.com's resident Art Director Irene Gallo featured Shaun Tan in her Hugo Nominee Spotlight series.
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We Love YA
New YA Blog, We Love YA, is run by a group of Australian and New Zealand readers, reviewers and writers. Launched last week, they've posted a couple items of interest to SF readers; an interview with Michael Pryor, and an interview with Sarah Foster of Walker Books.
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CBCA Shortlist
The shortlist for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards has been released. Lots of SF authors on the list including Melina Marchetta, Shaun Tan, Emily Rodda, and D.M. Cornish. The winners will be announced on Friday, 21 August 2009.
Found via InsideADog.com
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