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Science Fiction Awards Presented Last Week

The Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards were announced last week.

The Nebula Awards are presented for the best fiction in several categories. They are awarded annually at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America awards banquet, which was held in Austin on April 26. In addition, SFWA awards the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master title for lifetime achievement in science fiction or fantasy writing.

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is presented annually to the best science fiction novel published in the UK. The award was presented at an official ceremony held in London, Piccadilly on April 30.

The winners of both are as follows:

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Richard Morgan. Thirteen (published in the UK as Black Man)
Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public condemned the supersoldiers as dangerous mutants, dooming the thirteens to forced exile on Earth's distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back - and into a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man. That was before a police sting landed him in prison - a fate worse than Mars, and much more dangerous.

The Nebula Awards

Novel
Michael Chabon. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
A murder mystery based on the premise that a Jewish settlement was created in Alaska following World War II. In the small town of Sitka, Alyeska, Detective Meyer Landsman finds the body of a prominent town figure who has ties to organized crime. As Landsman digs deeper, he discovers that this is only the tip of the iceberg--and all signs point to a greater danger lurking in the shadows.

Grand Master
Michael Moorcock

You can find the winners for the other Nebula categories on SFWA news page.

2008 Edgar Awards

The 2008 Edgar Awards for mysteries were annouced last night in New York City. The winners are:

Best Novel

John Hart. Down River
Adam Chase has a violent streak, and not without reason. As a boy in Rowan County, he saw things that no child should see, suffered wounds that cut to the core and scarred him. The trauma left him passionate and misunderstood - a fighter. After being narrowly acquitted of a murder charge, Adam is hounded out of the only home he's ever known, exiled for a sin he did not commit. For five long years he disappears, fading into the faceless gray of New York City. Now he's back and nobody knows why - not his family or the cops, not the enemies he left behind. But Adam has his reasons.

Best YA & Children's Novels

Young Adult
Tedd Arnold. Rat Life

Juvenile

Katherine Marsh. The Night Tourist
After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.

New Titles Cataloged Lists Updated

The New Titles Cataloged in the Past 30 Days have been updated for April 2008.

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