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Adam Roberts is the author of a growing number of science fiction novels, short stories, essays and other writings. This site contains not just his blog, but everything you could ever want to know about everything Adam has ever published. And more...

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Category Archive: Awards

*Yellow Blue Tibia* has been shortlisted for the 2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

The headline there says it all: I'm absolutely delighted to have been named a finalist for this prestigious award. Just look at the company I'm keeping!

Clarke result

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

... and the winner was: Miéville's The City and the City, as if you didn't know. Ah well: it's a superb novel. The ceremony was as it always is: good to see lots of people there, meet old friends and put faces to a couple of internet names. Stephen Hunt reports that Sean Pertwee was [...]

Clarke Award tonight

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Very exciting. For the record, I predict a win for either Miéville or Jones, with Robinson running a good race and coming up on the right hand side. I haven't yet got around to reading Far North, so can't say whether it does or doesn't have a chance, or does or doesn't deserve the prize [...]

Clarke Award Shortlisting for YBT

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

I am absolutely delighted to be shortlisted for this year's Arthur C Clarke Award. Spirit by Gwyneth Jones The City & The City by China Miéville Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson Far North by Marcel Theroux Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding As I was saying to somebody else, [...]

YBT on BSFA Award Shortlist

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

I'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, 2009

And 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 pride [...]

Booker Prize 2009

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Or, 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 [...]

Catch-up 2: Sideways

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I 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 one of [...]

Awards and notables

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I 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, 2009

And there was much rejoicing. In my house at any rate.