Category Archive: Awards
YBT on BSFA Award Shortlist
Saturday, February 6th, 2010I'm more chuffed than a chaffinch (who, I assume, are so-called from their enormous capacity for chuffed-ness) that Yellow Blue Tibia has been shortlisted for the BSFA award. Best of all, just look at the stratospheric calibre of the other three titles! That's pretty pleasing company to be keeping, I don't mind telling you.
Guardian Book Blog
Friday, September 25th, 2009And by way of following up the previous post, here's something I wrote for the Guardian Book Blog on that very subject. Let the record show: the final portion of the last sentence of the first paragraph read, when I submitted it: '...my reaction was compounded of one part vainglorious ego-puff, one part genuine [...]
Booker Prize 2009
Monday, September 21st, 2009Or, rather, nothing to do with the Booker prize 2009. Kim Stanley Robinson has edited a New Scientist science fiction special, which starts with a Robinsonian editorial:
British science fiction is now in a golden age.
I say this as a happy fan and an awed colleague: the range, depth, intensity, wit and beauty of the [...]
Catch-up 2: Sideways
Monday, August 10th, 2009I was, as I reported, chuffed to have been nominated for the Sideways award; but I did not expect to win it. The reason for this was that the shortlist contained two books that were, I thought, clearly better than mine: Terry Pratchett's Nation and Jo Walton's Half a Crown. I genuinely expected [...]
Awards and notables
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009I can claim merely a fraction (and not a large fraction, neither) of the credit for this: but I'm delighted nevertheless that 2008's Riffing on Strings, Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory, edited by Sean Miller & Shveta Verma (a varied collection of essays and creative pieces, including my story 'S-Bomb') has has won an [...]
Swiftly shortlisted for 2009 Sidewise Award
Friday, May 8th, 2009And there was much rejoicing. In my house at any rate.