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2011 Aurealis Awards

coeurdelion — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:09:05 +0000

Congratulations to all the Aurealis Awards winners including us for Rob Stephenson’s SF short story ‘Rains of LaStrange’!

CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through words)

City of Lies by Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)

CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through pictures)

Sounds Spooky by Christopher Cheng (author) and Sarah Davis (illustrator) (Random House Australia)

YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY

“Nation of the Night” by Sue [...]

Ditmar 2012

coeurdelion — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:38:28 +0000

It’s Ditmar voting time again. Despite being the biggest and most eclectic anthology of Australian Science Fiction produced last year, Anywhere but Earth didn’t gather any Ditmar love, but we congratulate those lucky individuals that did garner enough votes to make it onto the list. You can vote for your favourites at the Ditmar wiki.

Best Novel The [...]

Pyro update 2

coeurdelion — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:53:06 +0000

Decidedly NOT final cover art

Time rolls along and things appear to be on schedule for our launch of Pyrotechnicon at Conflux 8.

The draft text has had a thorough going over, not least by polyglot Wendy Waring who did excellent work checking on the French, German and Latin spelling and grammar. And after a quick turnaround [...]

Chronos Awards

coeurdelion — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:31:45 +0000

The short list for this years’ Victorian Chronos Awards has been announced with a nice surprise: Steve Cameron’s Anywhere But Earth short story ‘So Sad, The Lighthouse Keeper’ has been shortlisted in the short fiction category. Go Steve!

The awards will be announced at Continuum in Melbourne on the weekend of 8-11 June.

Best Long Fiction

Black Glass, Meg [...]

Voyager farewell and hello

coeurdelion — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:25:20 +0000

Changes are happening at Voyager, HarperCollins Australia’s SF and Fantasy imprint, with the imminent departure of publisher Stephanie Smith who is retiring at the end of the month.

Stephanie’s contribution to the development and ongoing success of Australian speculative fiction both here and abroad cannot be underestimated. In her long tenure as Voyager publisher, she has nurtured [...]

Aurealis Award Shortlist 2011

coeurdelion — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:27:30 +0000

The Aurealis Awards shortlist for works published in 2011 has just been announced. Congratulations to all on the shortlist including the three authors with stories in Anywhere but Earth: Penelope Love, Rob Hood and Robert N Stephenson.

FANTASY NOVEL

The Undivided by Jennifer Fallon (HarperVoyager) Ember and Ash by Pamela Freeman (Hachette) Stormlord’s Exile by Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager) Debris by Jo [...]

Ditmar votes

coeurdelion — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:19:46 +0000

It’s Ditmar time again. For those eligible to vote, here’s the coeur de lion recommendations:

Best Collected Work

Anywhere but Earth, Keith Stevenson, Coeur de Lion Publishing.

Best novella/ novelette

“SIBO”, Penelope Love “Space Girl Blues”, Brendan Duffy

Best short story

“Alien Tears”, Wendy Waring “An Exhibition of the Plague”, Richard Harland “At The End There Was a Man”, Lee Battersby “Beautiful”, Cat [...]

Safe Journey, Paul

coeurdelion — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:51:37 +0000

Paul Haines died last monday after a long battle with cancer. Paul was a close friend and, in a professional capacity, had a long association with coeur de lion publishing. Our first anthology c0ck featured not one but two Paul Haines stories, the Ditmar-winning ‘The Devil in Mr Pussy’ (which you can hear Paul read on [...]

Thirteen O’Clock

coeurdelion — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:13:52 +0000

‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ So begins 1984, one of the best known and bleakest dystopian novels of the last hundred years.

But sometimes clocks striking thirteen is a reason to celebrate! Spot the seemless segue and welcome the latest, darkest webzine to the internet. Thirteen [...]

24 Hour Book

coeurdelion — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:10:08 +0000

We’re very excited about if:book Australia’s 24 Hour Book. Not only because it’s a cool challenge for this digital publishing age, but also because Keith Stevenson, coeur de lion publisher and editor, has been selected to be Lead Editor on the project.

Here’s what if:book Australia have to say -

The 24-Hour Book

24 hours.

9 writers.

1 book.

On 11 [...]