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Arthur C. Clarke Awards

  • A Word About Awards

    What is it about awards and the striving for prizes? We humans get a big thrill out of the drama of it all. My recent posts have covered some of the biggest speculative fiction awards. I’ve been reading the nominated… Continue reading

  • The Arthur C. Clarke Awards short list: Final words

    The novels short-listed for this major speculative fiction award include: In my last post, I reviewed the novels by by Green and Woolf. The first post in this series reviewed the novels by Armfield and Bradley. Service Model, Adrian Tchaikovsky(2024,… Continue reading

  • The Arthur C. Clarke Awards short list, continued

    The novels short-listed for this major speculative fiction award include: In my last post, I reviewed the novels by Armfield and Bradley. This post reviews the novels by Green and Woolf. Extremophile, Ian Green (2024, Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury) What an… Continue reading