<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Archives - T.R Napper</title> <atom:link href="http://nappertime.com/tag/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>http://nappertime.com/tag/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction/</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:53:38 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-AU</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <image> <url>http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-36-Streets-penguin-32x32.jpg</url> <title>The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Archives - T.R Napper</title> <link>http://nappertime.com/tag/the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>Award Eligibility – Ditmars</title> <link>http://nappertime.com/award-eligibility-ditmars-2/</link> <comments>http://nappertime.com/award-eligibility-ditmars-2/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[T. R. Napper]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:46:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[A Marked Man]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ditmar Award]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ditmars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grimdark]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Highway Requiem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nomination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vote]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nappertime.com/?p=5132</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://ditmars.sf.org.au/nominations/nominations.html">Ditmar Awards Voting is open</a>. For the uninitiated, the Ditmars are the annual Australian peer-voted awards for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.</p> <p>What does peer-voted mean? Well, that you are either attending the National Convention, or that you are …</p> <p>The post <a href="http://nappertime.com/award-eligibility-ditmars-2/">Award Eligibility – Ditmars</a> appeared first on <a href="http://nappertime.com">T.R Napper</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://ditmars.sf.org.au/nominations/nominations.html">Ditmar Awards Voting is open</a>. For the uninitiated, the Ditmars are the annual Australian peer-voted awards for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.</p> <p>What does peer-voted mean? Well, that you are either attending the National Convention, or that you are ‘active in fandom’. What does the latter mean?</p> <p>As I understand it: if you’ve been to a convention in Australia, or are in an Oz spec-fic discussion group (online or live), or if you’re simply a fan of Australian speculative fiction,<a href="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-5135 alignright" src="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-300x300.jpg 300w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-150x150.jpg 150w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-768x768.jpg 768w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-500x500.jpg 500w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-800x800.jpg 800w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-600x600.jpg 600w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram-48x48.jpg 48w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-instagram.jpg 1080w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a> you’re eligible. Which is to say, if you’re reading this, you can probably vote. If you are new to the Ditmars, feel free to nominate me as a ‘referee’ (this aspect will be clear <a href="https://ditmars.sf.org.au/nominations/nominations.html">once you’ve seen the nomination form)</a>. Note that voting closes on <strong><span style="color: #ffff00;">June 13</span>. </strong></p> <p>Okay, enough preamble. I had two works published last year (three, actually, but <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743030/aliens-bishop-by-t-r-napper/">Aliens: Bishop</a> is not eligible) that I am very proud of – if you’ve read and enjoyed them, I’d appreciate your nomination (If <a href="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-bigger.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-5133 alignleft" src="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-bigger-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a> you’ve not read them and want to, please email me at voight0kampff@gmail.com, and I’ll send you a free copy).</p> <p>In the short fiction category, I have ‘<span style="color: #ffff00;"><strong>Highway Requiem</strong></span>’, which first appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’m particularly proud of this story. It’s subsequently been bought as a re-print for a ‘year’s best’ anthology, coming out in late 2024.</p> <p>In the Novella/Novelette category I have ‘<span style="color: #ffff00;"><strong>A Marked Man</strong></span>’, published by the excellent Australian magazine <a href="https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-36/">Grimdark</a>. It’s my first foray into fantasy. I must have done something right, as it was nominated in the Best Fantasy Novella category in the Aurealis Awards.<a href="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-5052 alignright" src="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-225x300.jpg 225w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-768x1024.jpg 768w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-500x667.jpg 500w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-800x1067.jpg 800w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-600x800.jpg 600w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-300x400.jpg 300w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website-48x64.jpg 48w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Marked-Man-website.jpg 1350w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></p> <p>Normally at this point I nominate stories by other Australian writers, but confess I have not kept up my reading this year on Australian Speculative Fiction. I <strong>have</strong> read a tonne of Australian stories – I was a judge for the Aurealis Awards in the Graphic Novel category, and I’m currently a judge for the ACT Book of the Year, but neither of these fit neatly into the categories of the Ditmars. They <a href="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-5134 alignleft" src="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-225x300.jpeg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-500x667.jpeg 500w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-800x1067.jpeg 800w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-600x800.jpeg 600w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-300x400.jpeg 300w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2-48x64.jpeg 48w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ditmars-Highway-Requiem-2.jpeg 960w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a>have no Graphic Novel award, and ACT Book of the Year has almost no speculative fiction (I wish it had more, but that is a separate discussion).</p> <p>I will note that C. H. Pearce is a <a href="https://www.chpearce.net/portfolio">very fine artist</a>, and is worthy of your consideration in the “Best Fan Artist” category.</p> <p>That’s it. Whether or not <a href="https://ditmars.sf.org.au/nominations/nominations.html">you vote for my work</a>, I encourage you to seek out Australian writers. We’ve an incredibly talented (and largely undiscovered) crop of genre authors down here, deserving of your attention. To name but a few: seek out Dan O’Malley if you like contemporary fantasy, Aaron Dries or Kaaron Warren if you’re into horror, Luke Arnold (yes, the actor from Black Sails) if you enjoy a fantasy/noir mashup, or Max Barry if you’re into SF.</p> <figure id="attachment_4983" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4983" style="width: 205px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-4983 size-medium" src="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-205x300.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="300" srcset="http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-205x300.jpg 205w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-699x1024.jpg 699w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-768x1125.jpg 768w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-1048x1536.jpg 1048w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-1398x2048.jpg 1398w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-500x733.jpg 500w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-800x1172.jpg 800w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-1280x1876.jpg 1280w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-600x879.jpg 600w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-300x440.jpg 300w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo-48x70.jpg 48w, http://nappertime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ditmar-solo.jpg 1784w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4983" class="wp-caption-text">With last year’s award, for ’36 Streets’</figcaption></figure> <p>The post <a href="http://nappertime.com/award-eligibility-ditmars-2/">Award Eligibility – Ditmars</a> appeared first on <a href="http://nappertime.com">T.R Napper</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://nappertime.com/award-eligibility-ditmars-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>