Awards News
Winners of the first Carl Brandon Society Awards are Walter Mosley and Susan Vaught. Mosley’s novel 47 receives the society’s “Parallax Award” for works of speculative fiction created by people of color; Vaught’s YA novel Stormwitch receives the society’s “Kindred Award” for works of speculative fiction dealing with issues of race and ethnicity.
Deaths
* SF/fantasy writer Arthur Porges, born 1915, died Friday, May 12th, 2006. He wrote dozens of stories in fantasy and mystery magazines from the early 1950s through 2005, including five stories in F&SF since 2003, with Ash-Tree Press publishing collection The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections in 2002. His most-often reprinted stories were “The Fly” (1952) and “The Ruum” (1953).
* Film producer, director, and writer Val Guest died May 10th, 2006, in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 94. He directed SF films The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957), and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), among many others.
Source: Locus Magazine