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May. 9th, 2011 10:04 pmThe winner of the 25th Arthur C. Clarke Award is South African writer Lauren Beukes for her novel Zoo City.Guardian also has the awarding ceremony video. And here is the interview with the winner.
I'm so happy that the books from different parts of the world are starting to sip into English language SF and are being noticed. Many of the authors being noticed are writing in English like Ekaterina Sedia and Hannu Rajaniemi but they bring different perspective nevertheless. And there are writers like Sergey Lukyanenko and Andrzej Sapkowski whose works are being translated. Exchanging ideas - should do genre good.
In other award news you can still vote for Gemmell Awards - Legend, Ravenheart and Morningstar. This truly unique award in it's wide availability - true Internet popularity poll. So what you did like the best?
And here's a present - Orbit has reduced the price of the ebook versions of their 2 Hugo nominated books to $2.99. So if you wanted to read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin, and Feed by Mira Grant this is your chance to get them real cheap. I sure did.
I'm so happy that the books from different parts of the world are starting to sip into English language SF and are being noticed. Many of the authors being noticed are writing in English like Ekaterina Sedia and Hannu Rajaniemi but they bring different perspective nevertheless. And there are writers like Sergey Lukyanenko and Andrzej Sapkowski whose works are being translated. Exchanging ideas - should do genre good.
In other award news you can still vote for Gemmell Awards - Legend, Ravenheart and Morningstar. This truly unique award in it's wide availability - true Internet popularity poll. So what you did like the best?
And here's a present - Orbit has reduced the price of the ebook versions of their 2 Hugo nominated books to $2.99. So if you wanted to read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin, and Feed by Mira Grant this is your chance to get them real cheap. I sure did.
