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Angry Robot’s World Fantasy Award nominees
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Well, what a nice surprise! They just announced the nominees for this year’s World Fantasy Awards, to be presented at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California in late October. And (as you could probably tell by the fact that we’re banging on about it!) we are well represented!
Best novel – Among the strong shortlist, a certain ZOO CITY by the irrepressible Lauren Beukes (coff*Arthur C Clarke Award*coff)
Best artist – Nominations for Robot pals Vincent Chong (Matt Richter series, Darkness Falling cover) and John Picacio (US Zoo City cover)
Special Award, Non-Professional – Our very own Lavie Tidhar, for his acclaimed World SF blog
Special Award, Professional – Modesty almost but not quite prevents me from mentioning that on the shortlist of very esteemed editors and publishers is… Marc Gascoigne “for Angry Robot”.
Thanks to everyone who had a hand in this. Best of luck to all of the above, and congrats to absolutely everyone who made it onto a very strong set of shortlists this year. We are humbled to be counted alongside such great company. And as always, fantasy fiction is the real winner. Pop-fizz-clink-schlurp!
Best of 5, Best of 20
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It’s an absolute joy to be able to announce that Gary McMahon’s superior horror novel, Pretty Little Dead Things, is shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society’s Best Novel award. Congratulations to Gary, and to the 4 other nominees.
You can read a sample, below, and pick up a copy from all good bookshops.
In other news, Zinzi December, the troubled protagonist in the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, has been named by SFX Magazine as one of The 20 Greatest Heroes of SF Literature. You can also read an extract from Zoo City, below.
Sample chapters (click for full screen):
Zoo City wins the Arthur C Clarke Award
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Can we get a Hell, Yeah!
We are absolutely delighted, nay, thrilled, nay, ecstatic to announce that Zoo City by the incomparable Lauren Beukes, has won the 25th Arthur C Clarke Award.
At a star-studded ceremony at the Apollo in central London, Lauren picked up the award. As this post is being published while Lauren is still on stage, it’s a bit early to get her initial reactions and post photos, but you can hear an interview with her, and hear her read a snippet from the book at EscapePod (if it’s not there yet, check back in half an hour or so). There will also be an interview at io9.com going online, soon, as well as features at My Favourite Books and Floor to Ceiling Books and the World SF Blog.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to be going – that champagne isn’t going to drink itself, you know…
Update with some more groovy links…
• The Guardian have film of Lauren’s big moment.
• And Sam jordison followed up with an enthusiastic paen to Lauren and Zoo City on the Guardian website.
• UK publishing bible The Bookseller did us proud.
• Strange Horizons’ Niall Harrison had some thoughtful comments.
• SFX Magazine coverage.
• SciFi Now coverage.
• Here’s New Scientist‘s take.
• And the British Library are including Zoo City in this summer’s massive exhibition, Out of This World.
More Awards News
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Following the win for Joey Hi-Fi’s Zoo City art in Saturday’s British Science Fiction Awards, and Aliette de Bodard’s win for Best Short Story (The Shipmaker, Interzone), last night there were further nominations announced – this time for the Hugos and the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Aliette de Bodard (left) is nominated for a Best Novelette Hugo for The Jaguar House, In Shadow (Asimov’s), Lauren Beukes (right) picks up a nomination for Best New Writer in the John W Campbell Award and John Picacio picks up yet another nomination for the Best Professional Artist Hugo (John produced the exceptional cover to the US edition of Zoo City, below).
Congratulations to all the nominees. A full list can be found at the Renovation (WorldCon) website, here. The winners will be announced during a ceremony at Renovation in Reno (August).
And don’t forget, while we’re in Award Mode, Zoo City has also been shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London this Wednesday.
Simply The Best
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See this? According to members of the British Science Fiction Association, and EasterCon 2011, this is the best cover to any science fiction novel published during the whole of 2010 in the UK. We agree. Our congratulations go to the brilliant artist, Joey Hi-Fi.
Congratulations also, to Lauren Beukes. Though Zoo City didn’t win the BSFA Award for Best Novel, it was voted onto the shortlist, making it one of the best 5 SF novels of last year.
And congratulations to our own Aliette de Bodard, who won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Story (For The Shipmaker, published by Interzone).
Get Walking the Tree for a quid!
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To celebrate the fact that Kaaron Warren has just been nominated for a Ditmar award for her book Walking the Tree, we have dropped the price of the eBook – for 48 hours only!
So, from now (midday GMT, March 29th) until the same time on the Thursday 31st, you can buy Walking the Tree as an eBook for just £1 (which works out to US $1.60ish), instead of the usual price of £4.49.
You can buy this an an ePub file from angryrobotstore.com
So don’t get caught out – go and get yourself a copy before it is too late!
Zoo City eBook – Special Offer
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To celebrate Zoo City making the shortlist of the Arthur C Clarke Award (and don’t forget – it’s still on the shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel) we’re dropping the price of the eBook – for 3 days, only!
From now (that’s midday GMT, March 4th) until the same time Monday 7th, you can buy Zoo City as an eBook for just £1 (that’s about US$1.60), instead of the usual price of £4.49.
You can buy this as an ePub file from angryrobotstore.com.
Got a Kindle? You can convert the ePub free of charge using Calibre (a free download), or a whole host of other free conversion tools (Google is your friend).
Zoo City makes the Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist
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Last week, the Arthur C Clarke Award administrators listed the 54 novels that had been nominated by their publishers for the award. Since then, there has been much speculation (and many wildly inaccurate guesses!) as to the final six.
Well, we’re absolutely thrilled to announce that Zoo City by our very own Lauren Beukes has made the shortlist in this, the award’s 25th year. It’s a fascinating list, with no publisher achieving more than one finalist. It’s a list we would never have been able to predict, though (as in previous years) it’s a selection that will spark a lot of debate – and that’s a great thing.
The winner – to be picked by a committee of the great and good – will be announced at a ceremony during SciFi London on April 27th.
And the shortlist is:
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
Generosity by Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
Declare by Tim Powers (Corvus)
Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
Congratulations to all the finalists, but most especially to Lauren.
An interview with Mike Shevdon plus the Nebulas
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Over at MyBookishWays.com, our very own Mr Mike Shevdon has been interviewed about his books, his writing and his free time*. Head there now, read the interview, and you can also be in with a chance to win signed copies of his two highly-acclaimed novels, Sixty-One Nails and The Road to Bedlam.
There’s something about not being able to write things down – to have to keep it all in your head at once – that helps me resolve problems by extending the horizon and seeing the big picture. It’s worked so often that it’s now referred to as ‘steaming the brain’ by the family.
And if you’ve had your head in the sand for the last 24 hours, you can’t help but notice that the Nebula Awards Shortlists have just been announced.
With so much great reading on the list, it’d be unfair for us to single anyone out. But we’re going to, anyway.
Congratulations to Aliette de Bodard, whose The Jaguar House, In Shadow is shortlisted for Best Novelette.
It’s a great list, and congratulations to all the nominees!
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*No, we don’t know what that expression means, either.
More Pornoprizes for Angry Robot
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Well, we had to make you click on the link somehow, didn’t we? :-)
We announced earlier that Maurice Broaddus has won the Golden Tentacle Kitschie for Best Debut Novel, and we heard 
mere minutes ago, that Lauren Beukes has won the coveted Red Tentacle Award for Best Novel of 2010 (that best elevates the tone of geek culture) for her brilliant Zoo City.
So, you know – woohoo! and Congratulations, Lauren!
