The Guardian have just announced the Pullman has won the Carnegie of Carnegie vote ahead of Phillipa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden. He joked that the initials were right but perhaps it was the wrong book.
Will Northern Lights last another 60 years though and still be influential? I suspect so, and rather more than Harry Potter. […]
Mike Wood has won the first annual Jim Baen Memorial Short Story contest. The story will be published in Jim Baen’s Universe magazine and centres around a girl born on a starship and the implications that arise.
Toni Weisskopf of Baen books commented “I was also favorably impressed by the positive spirit toward space science and […]
Well damn me. The right book won last night’s Clarke award. Given the shortlist this year I was having kittens about the winner. M John Harrison’s Nova Swing may not be everybodys cup of tea but it is a great book which packs so many ideas into a small space.
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Awards season trundles on with the Carnegie awards for childrens writing.
Intriguingly they’ve started a Carnegie of Carnegies with the association that judges them providing a provisional list which includes Pullman, Alan Garner, Phillipa Pearce and Mary Norton but doesn’t inlcude either Tolkien or CS Lewis. Definitely one to mull over but the fantasy in there […]
Just had an email from Stan Nicholls who received an award for Lifetime Achievement Award for “Contributions to Literature” at the Trolls & Legendes Festival in Belgium. Alan Lee won the Lifetime Achievement for Contributions to the Visual Arts. Congrats, Stan!
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s End of the World Blues won the award for best novel over the weekend. I’ve got an interview with him here. Ian Macdonald walked away with the short story prize and Fangorn took best artist.
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Lydia Millet’s Oh Pure and Radiant Heart is one of those books which makes you sit and think about the world and reminds you of stuff happening anyway. If the authors currently hacking the century like Neal Stephenson and his spelunking into the inner cogs and James Morrow are taking on the zealots for both […]
End of the World Blues - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Nova Swing - M John Harrison
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart- Lydia Millet
Hav - Jan Morris
Streaking - Brian Stableford
Gradisil - Adam Roberts
There are interviews with both Jon Courtenay Grimwood and M John Harrison. Both are taken from my earlier blog but they discuss these books.
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The shortlists for the 2006 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) awards were announced yesterday, 14th January, as follows:
Best Novel
Darkland - Liz Williams (Tor)
End of the World Blues - Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz)
Icarus - Roger Levy (Gollancz)
The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow (Weidenfield & Nicholson)
Nova Swing - M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
Best Short Fiction
The Djinn’s Wife, Ian […]