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Another round-up of shorter news items, with links out to more information, including details of a Terry Gilliam signing in London, a new Warren Ellis novel, an interview with fantasy author Robert Holdstock and more...

• BSFA Awards shortlist
  The 2006 BSFA Award shortlist has been posted on the British Science Fiction Association website. The awards for Best Novel, Best Short Fiction and Best Artwork will be voted for by members of the BSFA and this year's Eastercon, with the winners announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday, April 7th.
  [posted by Ariel]
• Terry Gilliam signing
  Director Terry Gilliam will be appearing at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, from 1-2 p.m. on Saturday 3rd February to promote the DVD release of his latest movie, Tideland. More information from www.forbiddenplanet.com.
  [posted by Ariel]
• La Jetee online
  And Google Video currently has the full (26:36 minute) version of La Jetee, which was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Joe Gordon of FP Blog fame, sent us the heads-up, saying: "This is one of those movies you hear about at talks and conventions, but rarely actually get to see. As with all time travel tales you know not to think about it too closely or both hemisphere of your brain will fold themselves into an endless Möbius loop."
  [posted by Ariel]
• New Warren Ellis novel
  Warren Ellis's second novel, Listener has been bought by US publisher William Morrow, who describer it as "a near-future sci-fi tale about a British journalist who has been embedded with audio implants, turning him into an objective 'listening post', sent to investigate the last outpost of life in the US after it has been decimated by a military biological weapon."
  [posted by Ariel]
• Robert Holdstock Interview
  The Broken Kings [Amazon], part three of Robert Holdstock's Merlin Codex, is out now, and there's a background Q&A with the author at www.orionbooks.co.uk.
  [posted by Ariel]
• David Lee Stone update
  The author of the best-selling Illmoor Chronicles series dropped us a line last week to say: "Illmoor #6, The Coldstone Conflict [Amazon] is out now in hardback, as is the paperback of Illmoor #5, The Vanquish Vendetta [Amazon]. Davey Swag, my pirate comedy, is still scheduled for January 2008. I'm also about to deliver a new comic-fantasy about druids." More info from www.illmoorchronicles.com.
  [posted by Ariel]
• A Man Rides Through, again...
  Gollancz are re-issuing Stephen Donaldson's classic fantasy duology Mordant's Need [Amazon] in a single-volume hardback. More details at www.orionbooks.co.uk.
  [posted by Ariel]
• Locus Cover Gallery
  Locus Online has compiled a gallery page of cover images of all their books and magazines received in 2006. A great way of seeing if there are any titles you missed out on last year (I spotted a good half-dozen on my first pass-through).
  [posted by Ariel]
• 2006 Nebula prelims
  The prelimnary ballot for the 2006 Nebula Awards has been posted on sfwa.org. The final ballot will be mailed to SWFA members in March, and the winners announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet in May.
  [posted by Ariel]
• Colin Harvey's Lightning Days
  Debut Brit author Colin Harvey has dropped us a line to let us know that his novel Lightning Days, an apocalyptic tale of neanderthals, sauroids, and alternate universes, is available now from US small press Swimming Kangaroo books.
  [posted by Ariel]

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