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8
British indy presses win World Fantasy / IHG Awards
Posted in: Press Room on 8th November 2006 by UKSFBN admin
Great news for the UK indy press scene at the weekend, as first Telos Books and then two publications from PS Publishing were announced as the winners of a couple of genre publishing's most prestigious awards.
Telos Books won a World Fantasy Award in the 'Special Award - Non-Professional' category. This the third year running that a UK small press has received the award (the winner in 2005 was Robert Morgan's Sarob Press, with Ray Russell and Rosalie Parker's Tartarus Press winning in 2004).
Telos was established by David Howe and Stephen Walker in 2001 and their first publication was a collection of short fiction to accompany the Urban Gothic TV series. They soon branched out into publishing Doctor Who novelisations - David Howe is a lifelong Who fan and the author of several guides to the series - until the BBC revoked their license in the run-up to the launch of the first of the new Russell T. Davies scripted series.
Telos now publishes original science fiction, horror and crime, alongside classic reprints and the in-house series of Time Hunter titles, a self-confessed spin-off from the original Doctor Who titles.
Meanwhile, Pete Crowther's PS Publishing - already the recipient of a raft of awards stretching back to 2001 - is celebrating a double win at this year's International Horror Guild Awards.
The first PS winner was Joe Hill for his rather superb collection of horror short fiction, Twentieth Century Ghosts, which has already won the William L. Crawford, Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Awards this year, and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award as well.
The second PS winner was the in-house fiction magazine Postscripts. The quarterly mag which, despite only running to eight issues so far, has already published some of the biggest names in genre fiction and is set to go from strength to strength in future issues, beat off some particularly impressive competition to take this year's award.
Publisher Pete Crowther was, to put it mildly, a bit gob-smacked. In his acceptance speech - delivered on the day by brit horror afficianado Stephen Jones - Pete said it was: "something of a surprise; an outright shock, in fact... pipping to the post the likes of Ellen Datlow's SciFiction, Bill Schafer's Subterranean Magazine (in the first issue of which I was honored to have a story), William Jones's The Book of Dark Wisdom and, wait for it, Gordon Van Gelder's F&SF. I tell you, I have an entire wall of shelves devoted solely to F&SF, going right back to number #1... this is a very strange sensation indeed."
Pete is currently on a subscription drive to get more genre readers to sign up to receive regular issues of Postscripts. One good reason for doing so is the annual Christmas present that Pete sends out to subscribers. Last year it was an exclusive Gene Wolfe [wiki] novella, and this year Elizabeth Hand has penned a novelette that will be sent out to everyone who has a current four-issue subscription at the end of the year.
Subscription information is available at www.pspublishing.co.uk if it sounds like something you might be interested in.
So, congratulations to all the winners, and here's hoping for similar UK success in next year's awards!
Source: Telos Books / PS Publishing
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