The 75th World Science Fiction Convention, Worldcon 75, was held in Helsinki, Finland, from August 9th to August 13th, 2017. The 2017 Hugo Awards, presented at Worldcon 75, were: Best Novel, The Obelisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin; Best Novella, “Every Heart a Doorway,” by Seanan McGuire; Best Novelette, “The Tomato Thief,” by Ursula Vernon; Best Short Story, “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” by Amal El-Mohtar; Best Graphic Story, Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening, by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda; Best Related Work, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, by Ursula K. Le Guin; Best Professional Editor, Long Form, Liz Gorinsky; Best Professional Editor, Short Form, Ellen Datlow; Best Professional Artist, Julie Dillon; Best Dramatic Presentation (short form), The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”; Best Dramatic Presentation (long form), Arrival; Best Semiprozine, Uncanny; Best Fanzine, Lady Business; Best Fancast, Tea and Jeopardy; Best Fan Writer, Abigail Nussbaum; Best Fan Artist, Elizabeth Leggett; Best Series, The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold; plus the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer to Ada Palmer.
The 2016 Nebula Awards, presented at a banquet at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 20, 2017, were: Best Novel, All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders; Best Novella, “Every Heart a Doorway,” by Seanan McGuire; Best Novelette, “The Long Fall Up,” by William Ledbetter; Best Short Story, “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” by Amal El-Mohtar; Ray Bradbury Award, Arrival; the Andre Norton Award to Arabella of Mars, by David D. Levine; the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award to Toni Weisskopf and Peggy Rae Sapienza; the Kevin O’ Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award to Jim Fiscus; and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award to Jane Yolen.
The 2017 World Fantasy Awards, presented at a banquet on November 5, 2017, at the Wyndham Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, during the Forty-third Annual World Fantasy Convention, were: Best Novel, The Sudden Appearance of Hope, by Claire North; Best Long Fiction, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, by Kij Johnson; Best Short Fiction, “Das Steingeschöpf,” by G. V. Anderson; Best Collection, A Natural History of Hell, by Jeffrey Ford; Best Anthology, Dreaming in the Dark, edited by Jack Dann; Best Artist, Jeffrey Alan Love; Special Award (Professional), to Michael Levy and Farah Mendlesohn for Children’s Fantasy in Literature: An Introduction; Special Award (Non-Professional), to Neile Graham, for fostering excellence in the genre through her role as Workshop Director, Clarion West. Plus Lifetime Achievement Awards to Terry Brooks and Marina Warner.
The 2016 Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writers Association on April 29, 2017, during StokerCon 2017, in a gala aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, were: Superior Achievement in a Novel, The Fisherman, by John Langan; Superior Achievment in a First Novel, Haven, by Tom Deady; Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel, Snowed, by Maria Alexander; Superior Achievement in Long Fiction, The Winter Box, by Tim Waggoner; Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, “The Crawl Space,” by Joyce Carol Oates; Superior Achievment in a Fiction Collection, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, by Joyce Carol Oates; Superior Achievement in an Anthology, Borderlands 6, edited by Oliva F. Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone; Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, by Ruth Franklin; Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection, Brothel, by Stephanie M. Wytovich; Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, by James Chambers; Superior Achievment in a Screenplay, The Witch.
The 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award was won by: Central Station, by Lavie Tidhar.
The 2016 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Story was won by: “The Future is Blue,” by Catherynne M. Valente.
The 2017 Philip K. Dick Memorial Award went to: The Mercy Journals, by Claudia Casper.
The 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award was won by: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead.
The 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award was won by: When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore.
The 2017 Sidewise Award for Alternate History went to (Long Form): Underground Airlines, by Ben H. Winters and (Short Form): “Treasure Fleet,” by Daniel M. Bensen and “What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa,” by Adam Rovner (tie).
Dead in 2017 or early 2018 were:
URSULA K. LE GUIN, 88, winner of six Nebula Awards, including SFWA’s Grand Master Award, four Hugos, three World Fantasy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and three James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Awards, perhaps the best SF writer of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, author of such classic novels as The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, the fantasy Earthsea series, and others, much of whose best work is collected in the recent omnibus The Hainish Novels and Stories; BRIAN W. ALDISS, 92, one of the giants of twentieth-century science fiction, winner of SFWA’s Grand Master Award, author, anthologist, critic, and genre historian, author of many novels and short stories, among them classics such as The Long Afternoon of Earth, Non-stop, The Malacia Tapestry, Greybeard, and the Helliconia trilogy; JERRY POURNELLE, 84, Campbell Award winner, technical writer and SF author, best known to genre audiences for his collaborative novels with Larry Niven, such as The Mote in God’s Eye and Footfall, although he also wrote solo novels such as A Spaceship for the King and The Mercenary, as well as a long-running column for computer magazine Byte; WILLIAM SANDERS, 75, SF, mystery, fantasy, and Alternate History author, winner of two Sidewise Awards for alternate history, whose numerous and critically acclaimed short stories were collected in East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith, author as well of novels such as Journey to Fusang and The Wild Blue and Gray, as well as many mystery novels, and nonfiction historical study Conquest: Hernando de Soto and the Indians: 1539–1543; EDWARD BRYANT, 71, winner of two Nebula Awards, prolific short story writer whose short stories were collected in Cinnabar, Particle Theory, Predators and Other Stories, and others, a friend for many years; SUSAN CASPER, 69, anthologist and SF/fantasy/horror writer, co-editor of Ripper!, whose many short stories were posthumously collected in Up the Rainbow: The Complete Short Fiction of Susan Casper, wife and companion for forty-seven years of SF editor Gardner Dozois; LEN WEIN, 69, a giant of the comics industry, co-creator of Wolverine, Swamp Thing, Storm, and many other comics characters, husband of photographer and fan Christine Valada, a friend for many years; BERNIE WRIGHTSON, 68, famous comics and horror illustrator, co-creator of Swamp Thing; KIT REED, 85, prolific SF writer whose novels include Armed Camps, Little Sisters of the Apocalypse, The Night Children, Where, and Mormama, and whose numerous stories were collected in Mister Da V. and Other Stories, The Attack of the Giant Baby, The Story Until Now, and others; JULIAN MAY, 86, SF writer, author of The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King, Jack the Bodiless, Orion Arm, Conqueror’s Moon, and many other novels; author and scientist YOJI KONDO, 84, who wrote SF as ERIC KOTANI, author of the Island Worlds series (written with John Maddox Roberts), Act of God, The Island Worlds, and Between the Stars, as well as nonfiction such as Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generation Space Ships; COLIN DEXTER, 86, famous British mystery writer, best known for his long-running series about the cases of Inspector Morse, which inspired a series of the same name on British television, as well as two series spun-off from the original series later on; J. P. DONLEAVY, 91, Irish American writer, best known for his novel The Ginger Man; GRANIA DAVIS, 73, author and anthologist, author of The Rainbow Annals and Moonbird, perhaps best known in the genre for co-editing posthumous collections of the short work of her late husband, Avram Davidson, such as The Avram Davidson Treasury, a friend; HILARY BAILEY, 80, British author and editor, co-edited Volume 7 of the New Worlds anthology series with Charles Platt, perhaps best known for her story “The Fall of Frenchy Steiner”; WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, 89, horror writer, author of The Exorcist; JEFF CARLSON, 47, SF author of Plague Year, Plague War, and Plague Zone; MARIE JOKOBER, 75, Canadian author of historical, SF, and fantasy fiction; MUSTAFA IBN ALI KANSO, 57, Arab Brazilian SF writer; NANCY WILLARD, 80, who wrote more than seventy books of fiction and poetry, some SF; PAULA FOX, 93, children’s book writer; ANNE R. DICK, 90, writer and poet, widow of the late Philip K. Dick; MIKE LEVY, 66, SF scholar, founder of British critical zine Foundation; JOHN HURT, 77, acclaimed movie actor, known for his roles in A Man for All Seasons, Alien, 1984, The Elephant Man, and, most recently, as Ollivander the wand maker in the Harry Potter films; HARRY DEAN STANTON, 91, movie actor known for his roles in Alien, Escape from New York, and Paris, Texas; BILL PAXTON, 61, actor, best known for his roles in Aliens, Titanic, Twister, Apollo 13, and television’s Big Love; MARTIN LANDAU, 89, television and movie actor, known for his roles in the original Mission: Impossible and the movie Ed Wood; ROBERT HARDY, 91, actor best known for playing Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter movies; ADAM WEST, 88, famous as television’s Batman in the 1960s; ROGER MOORE, 89, played James Bond in seven James Bond films, also known as TV’s The Saint; POWERS BOOTHE, 68, actor, best known for his roles in television’s Deadwood and as the villainous head of Hydra in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; MIGUEL FERRER, 61, known for his roles in television’s Twin Peaks and NCIS: Los Angeles; JERRY LEWIS, 91, comedian and actor once famous as half of the Martin and Lewis comedy duo with Dean Martin, also made solo movies such as the original The Nutty Professor NELSAN ELLIS, 39, famous for his role as Lafayette Reynold’s in HBO’s True Blood; RICHARD HATCH, 71, star of the original Battlestar Galactica, also had a role in the remake; STEPHEN FURST, 63, actor, best known for his role as Flounder in Animal House; BARBARA HALE, 94, who played Perry Mason’s secretary Della Street in the original Perry Mason TV series, as well as in all the many Perry Mason TV movies that followed; IRWIN COREY, 102, comedian, known as “the world’s foremost authority”; NEIL FINGLETON, 36, known as the giant Mag the Mighty on HBO’s Game of Thrones; JUNE FORAY, 99, voice actor who provided the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel as well as many other animated characters; PETER SALLIS, 96, voice actor who provided the voice of Wallace in Wallace and Gromit; JONATHAN DEMME, 73, writer, director, and producer of The Silence of the Lambs; GEORGE A. ROMERO, 77, filmmaker, best known for Night of the Living Dead; TOBE HOOPER, 74, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist; scientist, fan, folksinger JORDIN KARE, 60; bookseller and fan DWAIN KAISER, 69; British con runner and fan MIKE DICKINSON, 69; JOAN LEE, 93, wife of comics industry giant Stan Lee.