The SFWA blog reports that Joss Whedon will be this year's recipient of the recently resurrected Bradbury award for excellence in screenwriting.

“Like everyone who picks up a pen, I was a rabid Bradbury fan and as greatly influenced by him as any other writer I read,” Whedon said. “To receive the award named for him is an honor I'd not dreamed of. In my defense, it didn't exist back then. What did exist were the very lovely, very twisted and very human stories that warped my impressionable mind, and that I have tried, in whatever medium they will let me, to measure up to.”


The award will be presented at the Nebula Award Weekend® in Los Angeles, Calif., April 24-26.