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By: BSFA Awards: Short Fiction « Torque Control

BSFA Awards: Short Fiction « Torque Control — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:24:25 +0000

[...] is moving on and I don’t seem to be getting around to it. So I’m just going to do what Martin did, and list the stories I’m planning to nominate for the BSFA Awards. You can also see what [...]

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:59:57 +0000

[...] I am lacking an adjective for exactly how proud I am that my flash fiction story, ‘Grey Matter’, has been nominated for a BSFA Award. It’s one of a dozen nominations Martin McGrath put forward. [...]

By: Martin McGrath

Martin McGrath — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:16:10 +0000

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.)

By: Sam Youd

Sam Youd — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:30:27 +0000

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