Margaret Atwood, author of such celebrated work as The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, is no stranger to success. Her previous awards include the Booker Prize, the Nebula Award and the Arthur C Clarke award and she has been awarded with no less than 24 honourary degrees, including from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. The latest award to come
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Following on from our post just yesterday, announcing The Underground Railroad was in the running for the Booker Prize, Colson Whitehead’s novel has been confirmed as the winner of the 2017 Arthur C Clarke award. Whitehead’s novel has been collecting accolades and awards across the entire scope of literary world, uniting the experts of the literary and science fiction worlds
Read moreHaving already taken home the 2017 Pulitzer prize, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction (from the US based National Book Foundation) and being one of six nominees for the Arthur C Clarke Award, The Underground Railroad has been taking the literary world by storm. The latest accolade to come the way of this exciting novel is to be included
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In celebration of an emerging new genre we can announce a new award ceremony, the SplatterPunk awards! Certainly not to everyone’s tastes, the genre of SplatterPunk is characterised by extreme violence written in gory, graphic detail. Whereas many horror authors will attest to the power of letting the reader’s imagination run wild, pointing them in the right direction without letting
Read moreA slightly lesser known award, The Scribe awards recognise the world of “media tie-in” writing. While this field suffers from a lack of the prestige that the pure Science Fiction and Fantasy fields enjoy there is some excellent work in the area and the Scribe awards work to highlight this fact. If you believe, and you won’t be alone, that
Read moreCongratulations to all the 2016 Nebula Award Winners! The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has released the list of Nebula Award winners for 2016. The Nebula is one of the most prestigious awards in the SFF world and it is an outstanding achievement to be one of the selected winners.
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Gollancz have just announced that the world audio rights for David Gemmell’s complete works have been acquired, jointly, by Orion Audio and Hachette Audio. Gemmell is an outstanding figure in British Fantasy, his first work, Legend, being published back in 1984. He continued to enjoy success with his Drenai series, of which Legend is the first installment, up until 2004
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The Parsec Awards have now closed their nomination process and have invited the nominated parties to submit samples of their work for review by the committee. With over 400 nominees, we don’t envy the committee the workload! You can see the full list of nominees, along with the details of whether their sample has been received, on the Parsec Site
Read moreAngry Robot have announced the signing of a new author to their stable, Jasmine Gower. Her debut novel, Moonshine, is scheduled for release by the publisher in February 2018 and follows the story of Daisy Dell. Daisy has inherited the gift of magical power in the form of heirlooms from her grandmother, in a world where magic is prohibited.
Read moreA month ago, we introduced you to The Power. Naomi Alderman’s Science Fiction thriller had the privelege of being included on the shortlist for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction. We are delighted to report that The Power beat off some tough competition to win the Award! Congratulations to Naomi Alderman!
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