January 8 - The Science Fiction Romance newsletter is pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual Sapphire Award for the Best Science Fiction Romance of the Year: First Place: Patricia White, A Wizard Scorned, Hard Shell Word Factory Second Place: Jennifer Dunne, Raven's Heart, New Concepts Publishing Third Place: Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon, Penguin Nominated books could be from any genre, provided that they had a first publication date between December 1997 and November 1998, and that both science fiction and romance were intrinsic to the story. The ten books receiving the most nominations advanced to finalists status, and the readers of SF Romance were polled to determine the winners. "1998 will be remembered as the year that electronic books came of age," said contest coordinator Patricia Bray. "In the past years as print publishers became less receptive to futuristic romance, many sf romance authors moved to non-traditional formats such as epublishing. Fans of science fiction romance were quick to embrace this new technology, and both the first and second placed winners were published as electronic books." The Science Fiction Romance newsletter is an international forum for the readers and writers of the science fiction romance subgenre, and is distributed monthly to subscribers throughout the world. An electronic edition is available through the internet. For more information, visit the website, http://members.aol.com/sfreditor/ Back to White Knight #12 Table of Contents Back to White Knight List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Pegasus-Unicorn Productions This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com