Last night or early this morning (all I know is it was in my inbox this morning) the Aurealis Awards nominees were announced. Some brief thoughts: (1) I see 6 science fiction novels, 4 of which are written by women. Wasn’t it proven on the internet with maths that women don’t write science fiction? (2) …
Tag Archive: Aurealis Awards
Apr 12
Mea Culpa
On April Fool’s day I wrote this post asking someone out there to go “Chris Priest” on the Aurealis awards. In the post I made the statement that no-one had bothered to comment on the awards ballot, apart from the odd congratulatory pat on the back. Well, I was wrong. A recent episode of the …
Apr 01
Going Chris Priest on the Aurealis Awards
Unless you’ve been away from the Internet for the last week, you’ll know that Christopher Priest went ballistic on this years Clarke Awards short list. What you might have missed is that a week or so before the Clarke Awards list was released the short list for Australia’s premier genre award (also judged by a …
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