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Brief Thoughts on The Kitschies shortlist
While everyone else is discussing The Hugo Award finalists, I thought I’d have a brief chat...
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Brief Thoughts on the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018 Submissions List
This is not a longlist!
Read MoreWeek 22: Some of the nicest Spiders you’re ever likely to meet
Books Read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Currently Reading The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (1) When the Clarke Award nominees were announced Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time was described on my Facebook and...
Read MoreWeek 10: Definitely not a LONGLIST, Overbearing Angels and the Deconstruction of Myth
Books Read The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard Mother of Eden by Chris Beckett Currently Reading Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson (1) Earlier this week Tom Hunter, the Award Director for the Arthur C Clarke...
Read MoreAn Analysis of 2015’s Literary and Genre Awards: Part 3 – Subjectivity
What you’re all dying to know in this the third and final part of my analysis of Literary and Genre Awards is what were the best and worst shortlists for 2015. Of course the subjectivity here is all mine and the mileage...
Read MoreSo Who Should Have Won This Year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award
The shortlist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award was as a follows (with handy hyper-links to my not so concise reviews): The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey (Orbit) The Book Of Strange New Things –...
Read MoreBook Review: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
What’s It About Imagine a near future where the European Union has been dissolved and the continent has splintered into hundred of tiny nations and polities and republics. A Europe where three apartment buildings, ruled...
Read MoreBook Review: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
What’s It About Jesuits head off into space to make first contact with aliens and things go horribly wrong…. … no, that’s The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell… A Christian missionary named Peter heads...
Read MoreAnd the winner of the Clarke Award is….
… the magnificent Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – most definitely one of my favourite books for the 14/15 award season period.* (Thanks to Jonathan Strahan for pointing this out to me on Facebook this...
Read MoreAnd the Clarke Award Shortlist has been announced
If you’re looking to wash the sour taste of the Hugo Awards out of your mouth, you might want to consider these six novels that were just announced as the nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Awards: The Girl With All The...
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