BSFA AWARDS
So, ladies and gentlemen, there’s only a week left to get your votes in for the shortlist for this year’s BSFA Awards… the closing date is Saturday, January 19 (midnight, GMT) you can see the current list of nominated works by clicking here - if you’re a BSFA member and haven’t already submitted your favourite works of 2007, then get a move on.
The top five most nominated items in each area will make the final shortlist and the winner will be announced at Eastercon.
You can nominate as many works as you like.
My novel nominations for this year are going to be:
Ascent, Jed Mercurio, Jonathon Cape 2007
Brasyl, Ian McDonald, Gollancz 2007
Halting State, Charles Stross, Ace Books, 2007
Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson, HarperCollins 2007
Spook Country, William Gibson, Viking, 2007
The Execution Channel, Ken MacLeodOrbit 2007
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon, Fourth Estate, 2007
My short story nominations:
“Ack-Ack Macaque” - Gareth Lyn Powell (Interzone 212)
“Bossanova” - Steve Aylett (Postscripts Summer)
“Grey Matter” - Shaun C Green (Nostalgia for Infinity)
“Hormiga Canyon” - Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling (Asimov’s, August)
“Roxie” - Robert Reed (Asimov’s, July)
“Tears for Godzilla” - Daniel Kaysen (Interzone 209)
“The Alchemist and the Merchant’s Gate” - Ted Chiang (F&SF, September)
“The Flag Game” - Marianne de Pierres (Hub 34)
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” - Jay Caselberg (Electric Velocipede 12)
“The Good Detective” - M John Harrison (Interzone 209)
“The Sledgemakers Daughter” - Alistair Reynolds (Interzone 209)
“Toys” - Dev Agarwal (Aeon 12)
Artwork
I haven’t made up my mind yet, but the covers of Interzone 208 & 211 will be there and the cover of Postscripts 12.
1958 Novel
To celebrate 50 years of the BSFA, this year’s awards have an extra category - the best novel of 1958.
There’s some pretty strong contenders, Blish’s A Case of Conscience and Aldiss’s Non-Stop will be a hard pair to beat - I’d like to see John Christopher’s The Caves of Night (which I think is under-rated) and Eric Frank Russell’s Wasp (which I loved when I was a kid when I first read it, and I like even better when I went back to it recently) make the shortlist.
Kind of you to suggest Caves of Night is under-rated but it’s hard to see by what stretch of imagination it could qualify for a BSFA award. But thanks all the same!
Sam Youd
Well, I’m not going to argue with you Mr Youd - you wrote the thing. My memory has it as a genre novel - a sort of horror story although there are no supernatural elements - maybe that’s just because you wrote it? Maybe because I’m a claustrophobe who finds the idea of being trapped under ground utterly terrifying (which is why I avoid the Tube as much as possible)? Anyway that bit where they find the cave with the dead animals and the hole above that they can’t reach - that has featured in more than a few of my nightmares.
(I can’t believe I’m replying to a message from the man who wrote The White Mountains - the seven-year-old me would be so impressed right now… Thanks for dropping by.)
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