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Sometimes I feel like Bart Simpson when he keeps on reaching for the doughnut Lisa Simpson has electrified. Each year, I eagerly await the shortlists for the Arthur C Clarke and Hugo Awards; each year, I’m disappointed by the novels or short fiction chosen by one or both. I have already written about the Clarke [...]
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Yesterday, the Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist was announced. And it goes like this: Greg Bear, Hull Zero Three (Gollancz) Drew Magary, The End Specialist (Harper Voyager) China Miéville, Embassytown (Macmillan) Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press) Charles Stross, Rule 34 (Orbit) Sheri S Tepper, The Waters Rising (Gollancz) Well, I didn’t [...]
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… or something like it. It’s back to the day job after the past fortnight’s frenzied festivities. I spent Christmas in Denmark with relatives, where it was very cold and very white. Happily, Denmark is a nice country, and so much more civilised than the UK. I spent the New Year at home doing absolutely [...]
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So Ursula K LeGuin’s Powers, a YA novel, has won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Patrick Ness’ The Knife of Never Letting Go, also a YA novel, has co-won the Tiptree Award. Not to mention the two YA novels on the Hugo shortlist – Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, and The Graveyard Book [...]
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Oh well. It doesn’t much resemble the shortlist I predicted in this post – I guessed The Quiet War and Anathem, but not the others. The shortlist goes like this: The Quiet War, Paul J McAuleyAnathem, Neal StephensonSong of Time, Ian R MacLeodHouse of Suns, Alastair ReynoldsThe Margarets, Sherri S TepperMartin Martin’s on the Other [...]
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Niall Harrison on Torque Control has posted the long list for this year’s Arthur C Clark Award. It’s the first time they’ve done this. I think it’s a good idea. I’m not going to repeat the list, nor am I going to turn it into one of those “memes” – you know the sort, the [...]
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It’s that time of year again. The shortlists for the 2008 BSFA Awards have been announced. And they go something like this: Best Novel Flood by Stephen Baxter The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod Anathem by Neal Stephenson I’ve not read any of the four, although I do have [...]
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Gosh. I’ve been a member of the British Science Fiction Association for nearly twenty years. And… they’ve just announced their shortlist for the 2007 BSFA Awards. Plenty of others have already repeated the lists below, and/or commented on it. But I thought I’d do it anyway. Best Novel: Alice in Sunderland – Bryan Talbot Black [...]
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