News from Murder One
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Science Fiction:
Last Saturday, the 19th May, the Arthur C. Clarke Award was announced.
The event was held at the Science Museum and the evening was a lively
and enthusiastic collection of the great and the good. The buzz was
largely generated by the shortlist itself which was one of the strongest
and most exciting for several years. With Ken MacLeod, Octavia Butler,
Mary Gentle, and three of the new boys in Adam Roberts, China Mieville,
and Alastair Reynolds it cannot have been an easy task to decide the
ultimate winner. Pat Cadigan (twice winner of the award) announced the
chosen one, pausing to make an appropriate 2001 referenced joke, as
China Mieville with Perdido Street Station and it was with all due
respect to the remaining shortlisted authors, a popular decision.
Ian McDonald, Ares Express(signed copies). One young woman becomes the
person upon whom the future-or futures-of Mars depends. Driven away from
the locomotive that has always been her home by the thought of a boring
marriage and an all-consuming wanderlust, she consults her dead twin,
Little Pretty One, about her future. But that future will take in
religious cults, artificial intelligences that are as gods and the gods
themselves. UK Hardcover, #16.99
Brian Lumley, Necroscope:Avengers. A cruise ship is a great place to get
away from the world. It is also a terrific nesting ground for a Lord and
Lady of the Wamphyri on the run from E-Branch and the new Necroscope,
Jake Cutter. By the time anyone figures out what happened to the
suddenly silenced ship and it's crew and passengers it will be too late,
much too late. Third in the E-Branch series. US Hardcover, #18.99
David Hartwell, Ed., Years Best SF 6. Hartwell is back with the sixth
annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and
just plain great science fiction. Includes stories from: Brian Aldiss,
Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, and many
others. US Paperback, #6.99.
Nick Waterman. Senior Systems Administrator, So-Net, Sony UK
mailto:nick-sig@ http://www.nilex.co.uk/~nick/
AX25:G7RZQ@#32.GBR.EU #include <stddisclaimer> Team *AMIGA*!
Science Fiction:
Last Saturday, the 19th May, the Arthur C. Clarke Award was announced.
The event was held at the Science Museum and the evening was a lively
and enthusiastic collection of the great and the good. The buzz was
largely generated by the shortlist itself which was one of the strongest
and most exciting for several years. With Ken MacLeod, Octavia Butler,
Mary Gentle, and three of the new boys in Adam Roberts, China Mieville,
and Alastair Reynolds it cannot have been an easy task to decide the
ultimate winner. Pat Cadigan (twice winner of the award) announced the
chosen one, pausing to make an appropriate 2001 referenced joke, as
China Mieville with Perdido Street Station and it was with all due
respect to the remaining shortlisted authors, a popular decision.
Ian McDonald, Ares Express(signed copies). One young woman becomes the
person upon whom the future-or futures-of Mars depends. Driven away from
the locomotive that has always been her home by the thought of a boring
marriage and an all-consuming wanderlust, she consults her dead twin,
Little Pretty One, about her future. But that future will take in
religious cults, artificial intelligences that are as gods and the gods
themselves. UK Hardcover, #16.99
Brian Lumley, Necroscope:Avengers. A cruise ship is a great place to get
away from the world. It is also a terrific nesting ground for a Lord and
Lady of the Wamphyri on the run from E-Branch and the new Necroscope,
Jake Cutter. By the time anyone figures out what happened to the
suddenly silenced ship and it's crew and passengers it will be too late,
much too late. Third in the E-Branch series. US Hardcover, #18.99
David Hartwell, Ed., Years Best SF 6. Hartwell is back with the sixth
annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and
just plain great science fiction. Includes stories from: Brian Aldiss,
Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, and many
others. US Paperback, #6.99.
Nick Waterman. Senior Systems Administrator, So-Net, Sony UK
mailto:nick-sig@ http://www.nilex.co.uk/~nick/
AX25:G7RZQ@#32.GBR.EU #include <stddisclaimer> Team *AMIGA*!