New lines of the chronicle - Aelita-94.

                    NEW LINES OF THE CHRONICLE

                          AELITA-94

   From May 20 to 22, another festival took place in Yekaterinburg
science fiction "Aelita-94".
   This year's Aelita Prize laureate is Gennady Martovich
PRASHKEVICH for the “Spy” cycle, which currently includes
five stories published in collections and magazines. Comment-
ries are unnecessary.
   This time the Start prize for the best debut book went to An-
drey SHCHERBAK-ZHUKOV for the collection "Tales of Strange Love". For the first time
in the history of domestic prizes, the author receives a major literary
a prize for publication in an amateur edition (the book was published
510 copies in total).
   The prize named after I. Efremov was not awarded this year - it was not possible
find a sponsor who would finance it.
   According to various sources, during "Aelita" there were
seminars on science fiction, fan press, bibliography, role-playing
new games and aspiring authors.
   Everything was, in general, like in the good old days... Only
There are noticeably fewer people.
   Inflation...



                    BELYAEV PRIZE - 94

  Vladimir MIKHAILOV (Moscow) * - for the trilogy "Captain Uldemir"
(in connection with the release of the final novel "Lord");
  Andrey LAZARCHUK (Krasnoyarsk)* - for a collection of stories and short stories
the call of the "Holy month of Rin";
  Alexander SHCHERBAKOV (St. Petersburg) - for the translation of the novel Ro-
Bertha Heinlein's "The Moon Is Hard"stem";
  Lev MINTs (Moscow) - for the scientific and artistic "Indian book"
gu";
  Yuliy DANILOV (Moscow) - for the translation of the book by Georgy (George)
Gamow's "The Adventures of Mr. Tompkins";
  PUBLISHING HOUSE "NORTH-WEST" - for a series of domestic fantasy-
tics.

   JURY: Andrey Balabukha, Alexander Bransky, Anatoly Britikov,
Lemir Makovkin, Boris Romanovsky.

  * This year two prizes were awarded in the domestic category
fiction: since it was decided not to award a prize in the category
criticism and journalism due to the lack of worthy candidates
Comrade