Book Received, October 9 — October 15

Book Received, October 9 — October 15

question

Why are so many characters in the Foundation tv show apparently of Florinian descent? Did the Empire relocate them to Trantor?

2021 Aurora Award Winners

Best Novel

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Random House Publishing Group

Best Young Adult Novel

Flights of Marigold, Susan Forest, Laksa Media Groups Inc.

Best Novelette/Novella

“Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County“, Derek Künsken, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July/Aug

Best Short Story

“All Cats Go to Valhalla“, Chadwick Ginther, Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas, Tyche Books

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

It Never Rains, Kari Maaren, webcomic

Best Poem/Song

“Nidhog“, Jo Walton, The Book of Dragons, Harper Voyager

Best Related Work

On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers Society

Best Visual Presentation

The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, Netflix

Best Artist

Samantha M. Beiko, cover for Flights of the Marigold, Laska Media Group

Best Fan Writing and Publication

Polar Borealis, Issues #13 to #16, edited by R. Graeme Cameron

Best Fan Related Work

When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair, online festival

Inductees to the Hall of Fame

Jean-Louis Trudel
Stan Hyde
Monica Hughes (Accepted on Monica’s behalf by her daughter Adrienne Hughes)