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China Miéville won the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Iron Council, which is also on the shortlist for the 2005 Hugo Awards. I personally thought it weaker than Miéville’s prior work (which is all far more fantasy than sf), particularly Perdido Street Station, which won the Clarke Award in 2001.
The Clarke Award was […]
Kurt Vonnegut‘s 1961 short story “Harrison Bergeron” was cited in a brief filed with the Kansas Supreme Court in a lawsuit over funding of public schools. The story, which appears in Welcome to the Monkey House, is about a future in which the 211th, 212th and 213th Amendments to the US Constitution require hampering anyone’s […]
Over the course of my sf reading, I have not followed the Nebula Awards as closely as the Hugo Award. This year’s winners were announced last night with Lois McMaster Bujold’s Paladin of Souls winning for best novel. It also won the 2004 Hugo Award for best novel. Looks like another book to add to […]
It looks like the bookstore scene in the Twin Cities is taking another hit. Bound to be Read has announced it is closing its St. Paul store. (Via Blog of a Bookslut). The closing comes just after readers of City Pages selected it as the best independent bookstore in the Twin Cities.
This also follows […]
Charles Stross, whose Iron Sunrise is one of five nominees for the Hugo Award for best novel, has a lengthy blog post on why all the nominees are British. It is well worth reading in its entirety but here’s some excerpts:
American SF is going through a gloom-laden period induced by external social conditions[.]
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