Arthur C. Clarke Award

Countdown to Octocon.....

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:26 GMT

His latest book The Execution Channel has already been shortlisted for the BSFA Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Ken MacLeod's Website John Vaughan Those who have seen him (or rather experienced him) at previous Octocons will know ...

Kazuo Ishiguro – “Never Let Me Go”

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:26 GMT

This novel was the Booker Prize runner-up; a nominee for James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. I wasn’t over-enamoured with the book but it put me in mind of a John Wyndham novel. ...

Interview with Richard Morghan - Interviews (SD #56)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:11 GMT

I’m well contented with winning the Arthur C. Clarke award instead! SD: What do you think about the blooming "political correctness" in America in recent years and don't you feel it is a form of severe censure? ...

BOOK REVIEW: MultiReal by David Louis Edelman

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:00 GMT

Related posts. The Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist 2008 - a Round-up Review (3); 2007 Nebula Award longlist announced (2); Yet more free fiction (0); Wolfram’s Magnum Opus Online (1); Wish Sir Arthur C Clarke a happy birthday (2)

6 Science Fiction Classics To Help You Choose The Next President

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:20 GMT

What it's about: This Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel takes place in a future dystopian US governed by religious fundamentalists. Women are no longer allowed to learn to read. Because of declining fertility, fertile women (like the ...

The Sparrow (novel)

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:51 GMT

It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis and the British Science Fiction Association Award. It was followed by a sequel, Children of God, in 1998. The title refers to Matthew 10:29-31, ...

Spirit

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:49 GMT

I mentioned in the links roundup that Gwyneth Jones has put the full text of her Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel Bold as Love online; this came to me via Futurismic, since the feed of Gwyneth’s blog seems not to be playing nicely ...

Free Book: Gwyneth Jones' Bold As Love

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:05 GMT

From Amazon: "Rock and roll rules in British author Jones's Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning novel, the first of a four-book series. In the near future, the UK is dissolving and the government, to placate the masses, ...

Inspirational Saying

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:58 GMT

The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Award and was short-listed for the Ritz Hemingway Prize and the Booker Prize for Fiction. ...

Book 50 of 50

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:03 GMT

Another short-listed title from this year's Arthur C Clarke Award, there's nothing particularly original here. The Handmaid's Tale meets The Death of Grass in a traditional British cosy catastrophe - with lesbians. ...