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The 14th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as NyCon II or NEWYORCON, was held on 31 August–3 September 1956 at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City, United States.
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Cheryl Morgan is a British science fiction critic and publisher. She has won Hugo Awards for her work on the fanzine Emerald City from 1995 to 2006, and as non-fiction editor of Clarkesworld magazine from 2009 to 2011. Morgan was the first openly trans person to win a Hugo Award, and is currently the editor of the science fiction magazine Salon Futura.
Kameron Hurley is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2014, Hurley won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer and Best Related Work. Hurley also won the 2014 Locus Award for Best Nonfiction, the 2011 Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, presented by the British Fantasy Society, and the 2011 Kitschies for Best Debut Novel. Her work has also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the BSFA Award, and the Nebula Award; shortlisted for a Locus Award for Best First Novel; and made the Tiptree Award Honor List "for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender." Her 2019 novel The Light Brigade was nominated for a Best Novel Hugo Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and The Dragon Award for Best Military SFF Novel, and won the Premio Ignotus Award for foreign novel.
Ann Leckie is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Her 2013 debut novel Ancillary Justice, in part about artificial consciousness and gender-blindness, won the 2014 Hugo Award for "Best Novel", as well as the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the BSFA Award. The sequels, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy, each won the Locus Award and were nominated for the Nebula Award. Provenance, published in 2017, is also set in the Imperial Radch universe. Leckie's first fantasy novel, The Raven Tower, was published in February 2019.
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- ↑ "2005 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- 1 2 "2006 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- 1 2 "2010 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- 1 2 "2012 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "The Nova Awards: Past Winners". Novacon. 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "Banana Skins". Fancyclopedia. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "Award Juries". Arthur C. Clarke Award. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "Claire Brialey". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "Claire Brialey wins Best Fanwriter Hugo". British Science Fiction Association. 24 October 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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