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Who Won #ScienceFiction Hugo #Awards, and Why It Matters | WIRED #diversity #books #SciFi
SINCE 1953, TO be nominated for a Hugo Award, among the highest honors in science fiction and fantasy writing, has been a dream come true for authors who love time travel, extraterrestrials and tales of the imagined future. Past winners of the rocket-shaped trophy—nominated and voted on by fans—include people like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, and Robert A. Heinlein. In other words: the Gods of the genre.
But in recent years, as sci-fi has expanded to include storytellers who are women, gays and lesbians, and people of color, the Hugos have changed, too. At the presentation each August, the Gods with the rockets in their hands have been joined by Goddesses and those of other ethnicities and genders and sexual orientations, many of whom want to tell stories about more than just spaceships. READ MORE: Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters | WIRED.
Novelist Finds That #Books About #Women Don’t Win Major #Awards | Jezebel #sexism #genderequality
We already knew that publishing is hard for women. VIDA’s annual count is a persistent reminder that, while the gender gap in publishing has begun to close, it’s still far from approaching equality.
But novelist Nicola Griffith had a feeling that it just wasn’t women writers that were underrepresented; books about women were absent as well. “I’ve been counting, subconsciously then consciously, for 20 years when I was first published and started to see how skewed the playing field was,” Griffith told Fusion. So Griffith gathered the data, and published it on her blog last week.
She found that regardless of the gender of the author, major awards overwhelming favored books about men and boys. READ MORE: Novelist Finds That Books About Women Don’t Win Major Awards | Jezebel
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Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone voted UK’s favourite children’s book | theguardian.co.uk and The Best YA Novel of All Time bracket game: And the winner is… | EW. From mid-November Harry Potter Stamps Coming to USPS | BookRiot
- 100 Notable Books of 2013 | TNYT
- National Book Award Winners 2013 | HuffPo
- A Former Apple Executive’s Obsessive Search For Sherlock Holmes | Forbes
- Unseen JD Salinger stories leaked on to filesharing site | theguardian
- 5 Series You Probably Missed as a Kid (But Should Read as an Adult) | The Millions
- Everything I Knew About Dating I Learned From 19th Century Novels. Huge Mistake. | HuffPo
- Cary Elwes writing a book on making ‘The Princess Bride’ | LA Times
- Macmillan relaunches online teen platform | The Bookseller
- Ryan wins Guardian First Book Award | The Bookseller
- Dillon wins Best Book at Comic Awards | The Bookseller
- At NYU, Experts Debate Future of Book | PublishersWeekly
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- Kindle launches in Australia | The Bookseller
- Digital Census: Tablets closing on Kindle | The Bookseller
- Amazon Updates Fire OS With Deep Goodreads Integration, Better Enterprise Support, “Second Screen” & More | TechCrunch
- Amazon Paperwhite Update Brings Goodreads, Kindle FreeTime & Cloud Collections To E-Reader Owners | TechCrunch
- Vote: What is the best YA novel of all time? The final four | EW
- Nifty Teas Inspired By Classics | BookRiot
- 15 Books That Will Make You A Better Teacher | BuzzFeed
- ‘Masterpiece,’ an Italian Reality Show for Writers | NYT
- Flavorwire: 15 Works of Dystopian Fiction Everyone Should Read and 10 Great Books Contemporary Culture Has Forgotten
- Bowker Names Smashwords as the Biggest Fish in the Indie eBook Publishing Pond | Teleread
- What 20 years of best sellers say about what we read | USAToday
- Price Cuts Bite Into Korean Book Sales, Fixed Price Considered | PublishingPerspectives
- Fans Spend $150K to Help Save a Beloved Indie Comic Publisher | WIRED
- Follett makes 570 redundant | The Bookseller
- Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award | Quill & Quire although Academic calls Eleanor Catton’s Governor General’s win “a literary scandal” | Q & Q
- LGBT: Mari Hannah wins Polari First Book Prize | The Bookseller and Solomon wins Green Carnation | The Bookseller
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- Rogers removes digital magazines from libraries | Quill & Quire
- Canada Reads 2014: Meet the Top 10 | CBC Books
- Malala Yousafzai: Backlash Escalates As Private Schools In Pakistan Ban Her Book | International Business News
- 6 Unexpected Ways Writing Can Transform Your Health | HuffPo
- Usborne wins children’s science book prize | The Bookseller
- Indie booksellers pick Christmas ‘top 10’ | The Bookseller
- Tina Brown Declares End of Reading | NYMag
- Futurebook Digital Census reveals pricing split | The Bookseller
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‘City on Fire,’ a Debut Novel, Fetches Nearly $2 Million | TNYT
Donna Tartt’s novel “The Goldfinch” has 771 pages. “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, is 834 pages long. And then there is “City on Fire,” the 900-page debut novel that took the publishing industry by storm last week. It was even more evidence that the long novel is experiencing a resurgence, as a dozen publishers competed for the rights to release the book, set in New York City in the 1970s.
- Amazon Convinces U.S. Postal Service to Start Making Sunday Deliveries | AllThingsD
- Comics Lovers Rejoice! Because You Just Got Yourself A New Museum | HuffPo
- What’s the best YA novel of all time? Round 3 | EW
- Did everyone get the first line of Beowulf wrong.. or did Seamus Heaney get it right? | Melville House
- As You Wish! ‘The Princess Bride’ Is Coming To The Stage | HuffPo
- Why we need an LGBT book award | theguardian
- Banning Uniquely Compelling and Poignant | PW for book reviews.
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Hey MPAA, Why Are PG-13 Movies More Violent Than R-Rated Ones? | Flavorwire
A new study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds something more disturbing: though initial PG-13 films contained about as much gun violence as G or PG-rated pictures, “since 2009, PG-13-rated films have contained as much or more violence as R-rated films” (emphasis mine). And hey, funny story, that rise matches gun violence off-screen too.
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Amazon signs up for ‘future of streaming’ ORBX | CNET – Amazon becomes the first major partner to agree to use lightweight new technology from Mozilla and OTOY for streaming games, video, and software. More Amazon news: Amazon employee rebukes wife over Jeff Bezos biography | the guardian. Also: Amazon Offers Kindles, Cut of E-Book Sales to Indie Bookstores | PCMag – another take: Amazon’s New Kindle Offer Rejected by Indie Bookstores | WIRED.
Confessions of a Booker Prize Judge | BookRiot
Stuart Kelly…offers Book Riot some insights into the pressures and the joys of choosing a Booker winner, why a graphic novel should win it one day, why The Luminaries changes what the novel can do, and what impact the Americans will have under the redrawn eligibility criteria for the prize.
Agatha Christie and Poirot scoop best ever status from Crime Writers | Telegraph
The Crime Writers Association crowned Agatha Christie best ever author and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd best ever novel, while Scandinavian crime missed out
- Lerner Digital Launches Android Ebook App with 3,000 Titles | The Digital Shift
- Haruki Murakami: Literary Ambassador | The Millions
- Final Doctor Who e-book author revealed as Neil Gaiman | BBC Newsbeat
- Handwritten Manuscripts You Can Read Online | BookRiot
- Fantagraphics Turns to Kickstarter to Fund its Spring 2014 List | Publishers Weekly
- 12 Must-Read Books For Fall | HuffPost
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Swedish Theaters Now Using Bechdel Test To Rate Films On Gender Bias
A group of four movie theaters in Sweden have adopted a new rating system to expose gender bias–if a film passes the Bechdel Test, it gets an A rating. Qualifying films must a.) have at least two women with names, who b.) talk to each other and c.) talk about something other than a man. The paradox of this test is that it seems simple enough to meet these requirements, and yet countless films fail to do so each year.