Simon R. Green, Paul Di Filippo, Liz Williams, and Todd McCaffrey share their love of Andre Norton in the video below.
The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for the best young adult science fiction and fantasy published in the last year. The 2015 Andre Norton Awards will be announced in conjunction with the Nebula Award this weekend.
“People thought she was a man,” says fellow science-fiction author Todd McCaffrey of Andre Norton. Born Alice Mary Norton, she was a science fiction writer who legally changed her name to better appeal to what was thought to be a male-dominated genre. Says Todd McCaffrey: “Andre Norton is probably the biggest groundbreaker for women in science fiction.”
The nominees are:
- Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan (Random House)
- Salvage, Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow)
- Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
- Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King (Little, Brown)
- Dirty Wings, Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, Leslye Walton (Candlewick)
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