Pam and George honored by SFWA

At the SFWA Nebula Awards Banquet tonight, George Zebrowski
and Pamela Sargent were honored with a "Service to SFWA"
award by President Paul Levinson. Between the two of them, they
have given well over 25 years of service to this organization
since its founding in 1965! George was editor of the SFWA Bulletin
from 1970-1975. Pamela and George were its editors again from
1983-1991. Further, George oversaw SFWA's annual Nebula Awards
volume for 12 years. Pamela edited three of them. George served
on other committees. What makes this extraordinary service even
more impressive is that George and Pamela managed it while turning
out some great writing, which continues full court. Pamela is
a Nebula-award winner ("Danny Goes to Mars," best novelette,
1992) and George won the Campbell for best novel (Brute Orbits)
last year.

CONGRATULATIONS Pam and George!

Signing at NYC during the Nebula Awards

Pamela Sargent will be one of the many authors at a major booksigning to be held at Barnes & Noble, north corner of Union Square (East 17th Street), in New York City on May 19, 2000, from 7 to 9 PM. At least seventy-five notable science fiction and fantasy authors will be on hand for this event, sponsored by the Science-fiction and Fantasy Authors of America in conjunction with their annual Nebula Awards weekend.

News about third Venus book

A press
release regarding the third Venus book.

Shortlisted for Sidewise Award

The judges
for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History are pleased to announce
the finalists for the 1998 Sidewise Awards. The awards will be
presented at Aussiecon, the 57th World Science Fiction Convention,
held from September 2 - September 6. For more information, please
contact Steven Silver (shsilver@ameritech.net) or see our website
at http://www.skatecity.com/ah/sidewise/.

LONG FORM: (60,000 words or longer or complete series)

• Greg Bear, Dinosaur Summer, Warner 1998; Voyager 1998
  
• Stephen Fry, Making History, Hutchinson 1996; Random House 1998
  
• Pamela Sargent, Climb the Wind, HarperPrism 1998
  

SHORT FORM: (shorter than 60,000 words)

• Stephen Baxter & Arthur C. Clarke, "The Wire Continuum," Playboy, 1/98
  
• Ian R. MacLeod, "The Summer Isles," Asimov's 10-11/98
  
• Robert Silverberg, "Waiting for the End," Asimov's 10-11/98
  
• Howard Waldrop, "US," Event Horizon 10/14/98

"Hillary Orbits Venus" in Amazing

"Hillary Orbits Venus," an alternative
present, is a feature story in the Spring 1999 issue of HREF="http://www.wizards.com/Amazing/Welcome.html">Amazing Stories,
available at your newstand now. While in high school, Hillary
Rodham wrote to NASA to ask how to prepare for a career as an
astronaut. The answer she received was disappointing: NASA wasn't
interested in accepting females for astronaut training. Sargent's
story explores what might have been-and what might be today--if
Hillary had received a different answer.