Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
We are delighted to
announce that the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year
is now open for submissions for titles published in 2023.
The prize is
open to novels written in English by an author of any nationality, provided
that the novel is published for the first time by a UK publisher between 1
January and 31 December of the year for which submissions are open.
Would you like to know more? Email us here.
Not one, not two, but
three Clarke Award winners in conversation
Join Laura Jean McKay and Ned Beauman in conversation with Lauren Beukes this
Thursday at Waterstones Trafalgar Square.
BOOK TICKETS
BLACK TO THE FUTURE is an
Afro-Futurist celebration of outstanding Black artists, a space for visionary
imaginings to thrive.
BTTF begins as British Black History month ends; launching late October and
running until US Black History Month in February 2024, to accompany the British
Library’s upcoming major exhibition: Fantasy: Realms of Imagination.
Curated, founded and directed by Irenosen Okojie MBE, in collaboration with the
Royal Society of Literature and the British Library.
Events Programme
"Good news,
everyone!"
THE CORAL BONES, shortlisted for the Clarke Award 2023,
has been acquired by Jo Fletcher Books with a new print edition coming early
2024 and an ebook version
available now!
Spiders
win! Spiders win! All hail Portia, and her spider kin!
Monolith-sized congratulations to Adrian Tchaikovsky who has scooped the Hugo
Award for Best Series at the Chengdu Worldcon,
the 81st World Science Fiction Convention on October 21, 2023 in Chengdu,
China.
The series began with the hugely popular Clarke Award winner CHILDREN OF TIME,
and includes sequels CHILDREN OF RUIN and CHILDREN OF MEMORY.
Locus Magazine has the complete list
of winners and nominees.
HAL's Book Club
Special: ANCILLARY JUSTICE
Orbit Books has announced a special 10th anniversary
edition of the record-breaking masterpiece that won the Hugo, Nebula
and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
This edition will feature a striking new cover, stained edges and illustrated
endpapers, a foil case, reversible cover and a new introduction from the
author.
Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the
Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same year.
