Best Novel
- Flood by Stephen Baxter
- The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
- The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
I've not read any of the four, although I do have The Night Sessions and plan to read it soon. I'm a bit behind on my Baxter reading, although eventually I would have got to Flood. The Harkaway I've heard good-ish things about, but not enough to make me want to shell out for a new hardback by an author I've never read before. Anathem.... Well, I hated the Baroque Cycle, so I'm certainly not going to buy Stephenson's latest brick in hardback.
And yes, I know there are such things as libraries. But I already have enough unread books of my own to keep me reading for several years, so why would I join a library?
Um, it seems The Gone-Away World is available in A-format paperback already. I might well get a copy, then...
Best Short Fiction
- 'Exhalation' by Ted Chiang (Eclipse 2)
- 'Crystal Nights' by Greg Egan (Interzone 215)
- 'Little Lost Robot' by Paul McAuley (Interzone 217)
- 'Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment' by M Rickert (F&SF, Oct/Nov 2008)
Best Non-Fiction
- 'Physics for Amnesia' by John Clute
- Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films by Roz Kaveney (IB Tauris)
- What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon)
- Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan)
Best Artwork
- Cover of Subterfuge, ed. Ian Whates, by Andy Bigwood
- Cover of Flood, Stephen Baxter, by Blacksheep
- Cover of Swiftly, Adam Roberts, by Blacksheep
- Cover of Murky Depths 4 by Vincent Chong
- Cover of Interzone 218 by Warwick Fraser Coombe
2 comments:
Exhalation was fantastic. I too hope they put it online soon as I would love to be able to point people to it. Of course I think it would be great if they bought Eclipse 2 as well!
Glad I don't have to choose the cover art winner. There is a really nice variety there and not one leaps out to me and screams "I'm the best!!!".
I thought Anathem was a very enjoyable novel. But then again I'm a big Stephenson fan and did read the Baroque Trilogy in its entirety. Certainly built up the arm muscles, holding those heavy hard covers.
Anathem is considerably more readable than the aforementioned tomes.
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