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Nominalizările British Science Fiction Association pentru cel mai bun roman:

Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith (Newcon Press)

Embassytown by China Mieville (Macmillan) (recenzie în Galileo si CititorSF)

The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz) (recenzie în Galileo)

By Light Alone by Adam Roberts (Gollancz) (recenzie în Galileo)

Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)

Nu-mi vine să cred cât de bine arată lista de nominalizări; Read more…

British Science Fiction Association Awards au fost anuntate. Castigatorii sunt :

Best Novel: The Night Sessions, Ken MacLeod, Orbit (7 Aug 2008)

A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it’s a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It’s been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history …After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels – after Armageddon and the Flood – came the Great Rejection. The first Enlightenment separated church from state. The Second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there’s no persecution, but the millions who still believe and worship are a marginal and mistrusted minority. Now someone is killing them. At first, suspicion falls on atheists more militant than the secular authorities. But when the target list expands to include the godless, it becomes evident that something very old has risen from the ashes. Old and very, very dangerous…

• Best Short Fiction: “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
• Best Non-Fiction: Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn
• Best Artwork: Cover of Subterfuge (ed. Ian Whates), Andy Bigwood

Lista cu restul nominalizarilor o gasiti aici.

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Intre timp am descoperit ca s-a decernat si premiul Philip K Dick . Se pare ca juriul nu s-a putut hotara si a ales doi castigatori. Si romanele, respectiv autorii laureati, sunt:

Terminal Mind, David Walton (Meadowhawk Books)

Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, the son of a rich politician, lives in a world of expensive parties and frivolous biological mods, a sharp contrast to the poor underworld of his best friend, Darin Kinsley. When the two accidentally release a sophisticated virus called a ‘slicer’ into the net, Mark must try to stem the tide of casualties before the charged political situation explodes. But the slicer is more than a virus. To destroy it, Mark must first sort truth from lies, not only for himself, but for the mind of the child who holds his fate.

Emissaries for the Dead, Adam-Troy Castro (Eos)

Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe’s dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under order from the Diplomatic Corps, Counselor Andrea Cort has come to this cylinder world where an indentured human community hangs suspended high above a poisoned, acid atmosphere. Her assignment is to choose a suitable homicide suspect from among those who have sold their futures to escape existences even worse than this one. And no matter where the trail leads her she must do nothing to implicate the hosts, who hold the power to obliterate humankind in an instant.

But Andrea Cort is not about to hold back in her hunt for a killer. For she has nothing to lose and harbors no love for her masters or fellow indentures. And she herself has felt the terrible exhilaration of taking life . . .

Au fost anuntate nominalizarile la British Science Fiction Association AWARDS . Premiile vor fi prezentate in aprilie la Eastercon LX.

Best Novel

Flood by Stephen Baxter
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Best Short Fiction

“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (Eclipse 2)
“Crystal Nights” by Greg Egan (Interzone 215)  [pdf]
“Little Lost Robot” by Paul McAuley (Interzone 217) [pdf]
“Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment” by M. Rickert (F&SF, Oct/Nov 2008.)

Best Non-Fiction

“Physics for Amnesia” by John Clute (talk given at the Gresham College Symposium “Science Fiction as a Literary Genre”)
Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films by Roz Kaveney (I.B. Tauris)
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon)
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan)

Best Artwork

Cover of Subterfuge, ed. Ian Whates, by Andy Bigwood
Cover of Flood by Stephen Baxter, by Blacksheep
Cover of Swiftly by Adam Roberts, by Blacksheep
Cover of Murky Depths 4, by Vincent Chong
Cover of Interzone 218, by Warwick Fraser Coombe

Artwork-urile nu mi se par asa de reusite. Doar doua m-au atras. Flood si  Swiftly de alaturi. Aveti link-urile, sariti cu parerea