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All 2008 Parsec Award Winners & Nominees

August 31, 2008 By News Droid 8 Comments

The Winners and Nominees of the 2008 Parsec Awards are:

Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form)

Winner — “Red Man” – Scott Sigler

Nominees

  • “Metamor City: Huntress,” –
  • “Kissyman” – Scott Sigler
  • “Delve”, Variant Frequencies – Matt Wallace

  • Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form)

    Winner — “Heaven – Season Four: Wasteland” – Mur Lafferty

    Nominees

  • “The Arwen, Season 2: Ulliam” – Tim Callahan
  • “Beautiful Red” – M. Darusha Wehm
  • “How to Succeed in Evil” – Patrick McLean
  • “Passenger” – Scott Sigler
  • “Snipe Hunt” – Scott Sigler

  • Best Speculative Fiction Story (Long Form)

    Winner — “Playing for Keeps” – Mur Lafferty

    Nominees

  • “Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword” – Tee Morris
  • “J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son: Destruction” – J. C. Hutchins
  • “Full Share” – Nathan Lowell
  • “South Coast” – Nathan Lowell

  • Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form including Independents)

    Winner — “Space Casey” – Christiana Ellis

    Nominees

  • “Decoder Ring Theatre”
  • “Maudelayne” – BrokenSea
  • “Outlaw” – The Thriller Miniseries
  • Star Trek: Unity

  • Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form including Independents)

    Winner — “Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword” — Tee Morris

    Nominees

  • “Once Upon a Time in Vegas” – Pendant Productions
  • The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd
  • “Ulysses Galactic Guides and Bounties Inc” – BrokenSea
  • Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery

  • Best Speculative Fiction Video Podcast

    Winner — “Stranger Things”

    Nominees

  • Calls for Cthulhu
  • “Moron Life: The Vaudcast” – Sound Stages
  • “Space Adventure”

  • Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast

    Winner — Variant Frequencies

    Nominees

  • “Decoder Ring Theatre”
  • “Hall of Mirrors: Tales of Horror and the Grotesque”
  • “The Metamor City Podcast” – The Seanachai, Patrick McLean
  • Well Told Tales



  • Best Speculative Fiction Comedy/Parody Podcast

    Winner — Short Cummings Audio

    Nominees

  • A Different Point of View
  • Calls for Cthulhu
  • Geek Survival Guide
  • Space Casey

  • Best Speculative Fiction Fan Podcast

    Winner — Galactica Quorum

    Nominees

  • A Different Point of View
  • Doctor Who: Tin Dog Podcast: Torchwood
  • The GeekSpin
  • The Signal

  • Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast

    Winner — Slice of SciFi

    Nominees

  • Geek Radio Daily
  • PodCulture
  • Skepticality – Science and Revolutionary Ideas
  • Television Zombies

  • Best Writing-related Podcast

    Winner — Adventures in Scifi Publishing

    Nominees

  • I Should Be Writing
  • The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy
  • Tale Chasing

  • Best “Infotainment” Cast

    Winner — The Weird Show

    Nominees

  • The GeekSpin
  • Geologic Podcast
  • Pod Culture
  • The Signal

  • Best Gaming Podcast

    Winner — The Game Kennel

    Nominees

  • Brilliant Gameologists
  • CoH Podcast
  • Family Night
  • Out of Character
  • WoW Radio : Octale and Hordak vs The World

  • Congratulations to this year’s Winners & Nominees!

    Filed Under: Awards News

    Comments

    1. V says

      August 31, 2008 at 12:38 pm

      Congratulations on winning the Parsec Award.

    2. Arkle says

      August 31, 2008 at 9:01 pm

      Yeah Mark! The Weird Show is awesome.

    3. CPrompt^ says

      September 1, 2008 at 3:11 pm

      Congrats on the Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast award! Truly a great show you have here!

    4. Indiana Jim says

      September 1, 2008 at 5:54 pm

      Tee Morris wins at last! Congratulations to the beard!

    5. Scott Sigler says

      September 2, 2008 at 4:58 pm

      Typo in the short story section. I didn’t write the Metamora City story, let’s get that guy his props.

    6. Ed from Texas says

      September 3, 2008 at 2:30 am

      That would be Chris Lester, and Huntress is a fine little story.

    7. Michele says

      September 3, 2008 at 4:25 pm

      Congrats on winning the Parsec!

      Michele
      Galactica Quorum
      “It’s a Frakkin’ Podcast”

    8. Chris Lester says

      September 4, 2008 at 3:54 am

      Thanks for the support, Scott and Ed! It was an honor to see Metamor City make the finals in its first year of production.

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