Winners of this year's Robert A. Heinlein Award, given to recognize outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space, are Spider Robinson and Ben Bova. The award consists of a sterling silver medal, bearing the image of Robert A. Heinlein, and a certificate.

Guy Gavriel Kay's novel Ysabel (Viking Canada/Penguin Roc) has been nominated for a 2008 World Fantasy Award. The awards will be presented at the World Fantasy Convention in Calgary on November 2nd.

Jo Walton's novel Ha'penny (Tor) has co-won a Prometheus Award (with Harry Turtledove's The Gladiator) for Best Novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society.

On June 21st, Cory Doctorow won a 2008 Locus Award for his novella "After the Siege."

The Locus Awards are voted by readers of Locus Magazine in an annual poll.

Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms (Grand Central Publishing), Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback (Tor) and Robert Charles Wilson's Axis (Tor) are among the 14 finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel.

No Canadians are finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction) this year.

Nalo Hopkinson and Guy Gavriel Kay are among the finalists for the Mythopoeic Society's 2008 scholarship and literature awards.

All the nominees for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature are:

On Thursday, June 5, 2008, Phyllis Gotlieb was presented the first SF Canada Lifetime Achievement Award at a reception at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy in Toronto, in recognition of an outstanding and groundbreaking body of work in science fiction.

Ms. Gotlieb, 82, of Toronto is considered to be one of the founders of contemporary Canadian science fiction and has been a prominent voice in the field for over four decades.

On May 8th, Kenneth Oppel's novel Darkwing won a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award in the category of YA/Middle Reader.

Darkwing is also shortlisted for a Sunburst.

Nalo Hopkinson's 2007 novel The New Moon's Arms (Warner) won the Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English on May 18th at KeyCon 25 in Winnipeg. The full list of Aurora finalists and winners is here.