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The shortlist for the 2014 Arthur C Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel of the year 2014 have just been announced. The books in contention are:

• God’s War by Kameron Hurley (Del Rey)
• The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann (Gollancz)
• Nexus by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)
• The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
• The Machine by James Smythe (Blue Door)
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit)

The books were selected from 121 eligible submissions, the highest number received in the award’s 28-year history. The winner will be announced on Thursday 1 May at a ceremony at the Royal Society in London, as part of SCI-FI-LONDON . They’ll receive a cheque for £2014, and a commemorative engraved bookend.

“Choosing a shortlist of six books from a submissions list that went well over 100 titles for the first time in the award’s history was always going to be a challenge,” says Arthur C Clarke Award director Tom Hunter. “There were tough calls to make, but from those decisions our judges have created an innovative and thoughtful shortlist that reflects both the strengths and health of contemporary science fiction.”

Making a nod to last year’s controversial all-male shortlist and the recent Hugo-gate , he adds:

“For the Clarke Award it’s the shortlist announcement that fans the flames (or flames the fans) of our community. With others it’s the choice of ceremony host. However no award seeks to generate controversy for its own sake. Debate is vital, but perhaps more important is a sense of celebration, and I hope this year to see a lot of well-deserved congratulations shared with our shortlisted authors as well as welcoming the critical response to the judge’s choice of books.

“I expect a lot of that attention will again focus on the number of books submitted by female science fiction writers, which was why we chose to emphasise this statistic in an announcement earlier this year. Where approximately one in four submitted titles were by women this year, one in three made it through to the discussion list of 30 titles from which the judges made their final selection today: A ratio which carried through into the final six shortlisted titles, two of which are by new female authors.”

The judging panel for this year’s award are Duncan Lawie and Ian Whates of the British Science Fiction Association , Sarah Brown and Lesley Hall of the Science Fiction Foundation and Georgie Knight of SCI-FI-LONDON . Andrew M Butler is the Chair of the Judges.

Award director Tom Hunter has written a blog about the judging process, which you can read here.

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The organisers of the Arthur C Clarke Award have revealed the line-up of books submitted for consideration to win the 2014 award. A total of 121 eligible books were put forward by 42 separate publishing imprints, the most ever received by the award and smashing the previous high record set only last year of 82 books received from 32 publishing imprints.

This is not a long list in the traditional sense, rather a list of every eligible title submitted for consideration by the award’s judges. The figures show that Gollancz submitted the most books (14), followed by Orbit and Titan (both publishers submitting 11 books). The information offers a snapshot of the current state of science fiction publishing, and helps readers everywhere to breakdown, analyse and enjoy the full range of submitted titles in as many creative ways as possible before the official short list of six is announced on Tuesday 18 March.

Award Director Tom Hunter says: “We’ve seen a rapid rise in the number of books being put forward to the award in the last couple of years, but we still thought last year’s record number of 82 books from 30 separate publishing imprints was going to prove a high mark. To put this year’s rise in context, when I first became involved with the award eight years ago, we were receiving approximately 40 books a year in full, so between 2013 and 2014 we’ve jumped up by the total number of books we were receiving only a few years ago, which is simply amazing.”

To what does Hunter attribute this rapid rise? “I think we can identify several key reasons,” he continues. “The first is simply that the award is becoming increasingly well known, and more publishers outside of the SF genre core are getting in touch to put work forward. Likewise those same publishers are also going through changes of their own, and we’ve seen a real positive switch towards genre prizes from mainstream publishers – it’s definitely a case of them calling us to put books forward, not us chasing around trying to get specific titles sent in for consideration. I also suspect these changes reflect a broader popular cultural shift, and I’m not surprised that the publishing industry is increasingly recognising the commercial potential of science fiction and fantasy, or the advantage of publishing towards a readership that is both highly engaged and highly communal, especially online where long term word of mouth can have an amazingly positive and powerful effect for authors. An effect we’ve started to think of unofficially as the power of the Geek Pound.”

The judging panel for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014 are:

Duncan Lawie, British Science Fiction Association
Ian Whates, British Science Fiction Association
Sarah Brown, Science Fiction Foundation
Lesley Hall, Science Fiction Foundation
Georgie Knight, SCI-FI-LONDON film festival
Andrew M Butler represents the Arthur C Clarke Award in a non-voting role as the Chair of the Judges.

The award was originally established by a generous grant from Sir Arthur C Clarke with the aim of promoting science fiction in Britain, and is currently administered by the Serendip Foundation, a voluntary organisation created to oversee the on-going running and development of the award.

This year’s winner – to be revealed at the Royal Society on Thursday 1 May as part of the SCI-FI-LONDON festival – will be presented with a cheque for £2014.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend. Click through to see the full line-up…

Books submitted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014

Here’s the full list of 121 books that will be judged ahead of the March shortlist…

Finches Of Mars (opens in new tab) by Brian W Aldiss (The Friday Project)

iD (opens in new tab) by Madeline Ashby (Angry Robot)

Jupiter War (opens in new tab) by Neal Asher (Tor)

Maddaddam (opens in new tab) by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)

The Beautiful Land (opens in new tab) by Alan Averill (Titan)

Fortune’s Pawn (opens in new tab) by Rachel Bach (Orbit)

The Gods Of Atlantis (opens in new tab) by Alan K Baker (Snowbooks)

Dream London (opens in new tab) by Tony Ballantyne (Solaris)

Gideon Smith And The Mechanical Girl (opens in new tab) by David Barnett (Snowbooks)

Lexicon (opens in new tab) by Max Berry (Mulholland Books)

Proxima (opens in new tab) by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)

The Beauty Of Murder (opens in new tab) by AK Benedict (Orion)

Terra (opens in new tab) by Mitch Benn (Gollancz)

The Shining Girls (opens in new tab) by Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins)

Without Warning (opens in new tab) by John Birmingham (Titan)

The Aylesford Skull (opens in new tab) by James P Blaylock (Titan)

What Lot’s Wife Saw (opens in new tab) by Ionna Bourazopoulou (Black & White Publishing)

Tourmaline (opens in new tab) by James Brogden (Snowbooks)

Bedlam (opens in new tab) by Christopher Brookmyre (Orbit)

The Serene Invasion (opens in new tab) by Eric Brown (Solaris)

Arctic Rising (opens in new tab) by Tobias S Buckell (Del Rey)

The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier (opens in new tab) by Jack Campbell (Titan)

Dreams And Shadows (opens in new tab) by Robert C Cargill (Gollancz)

The Bone Dragon (opens in new tab) by Alexia Casale (Faber & Faber)

The Lives Of Tao (opens in new tab) by Wesley Chu (Angry Robot)

The Mad Scientist’s Daughter (opens in new tab) by Cassandra Rose Clarke (Angry Robot)

Conquest (opens in new tab) by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard (Headline)

Abaddon’s Gate (opens in new tab) by James A Corey (Orbit)

The Secret Knowledge (opens in new tab) by Andrew Crumey (Dedalus)

Homeland (opens in new tab) by Cory Doctorow (Titan)

Pirate Cinema (opens in new tab) by Cory Doctorow (Titan)

The Rapture Of The Nerds (opens in new tab) by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (Titan)

The Arrows of Time (opens in new tab) by Greg Egan (Gollancz)

The Circle (opens in new tab) by Dave Eggers (Hamish Hamilton)

Fearsome Dreamer (opens in new tab) by Laure Eve (Hot Key Books)

The Fictional Man (opens in new tab) by Al Ewing (Solaris)

Queen Of Nowhere (opens in new tab) by Jaine Fenn (Gollancz)

Seoul Survivors (opens in new tab) by Naomi Foyle (Jo Fletcher Books)

The Stranger’s Shadow (opens in new tab) by Max Frei (Gollancz)

Convergence (opens in new tab) by Mike French (Elsewhen Press)

The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (opens in new tab) by Neil Gaiman (Headline)

Marauder (opens in new tab) by Gary Gibson (Tor)

The Falling Sky (opens in new tab) by Pippa Goldschmidt (Freight)

Ectopia (opens in new tab) by Martin Goodman (Barbican Press)

Parasite (opens in new tab) by Mira Grant (Orbit)

2121 (opens in new tab) by Susan Greenfield (Head of Zeus)

Shopocalypse (opens in new tab) by David Gullen (Clarion)

The Humans (opens in new tab) by Matt Haig (Canongate)

Crash (opens in new tab) by Guy Haley (Solaris)

Stray (opens in new tab) by Monica Hesse (Hot Key Books)

Wolfhound Century (opens in new tab) by Peter Higgins (Gollancz)

The Folded Man (opens in new tab) by Matt Hill (Sandstone Press)

The Secret Of Abu el Yezdi (opens in new tab) by Mark Hodder (Del Rey)

A History Of The Future In 100 Objects (opens in new tab) by Adrian Hon (Skyhook)

The Darwin Elevator (opens in new tab) by Jason M. Hough (Titan)

Dust (opens in new tab) by Hugh Howey (Century)

Valour’s Choice (opens in new tab) by Tanya Huff (Titan)

Apocalypse Now Now (opens in new tab) by Charlie Human (Century)

God’s War (opens in new tab) by Kameron Hurley (Del Rey)

Phoenicia’s Worlds (opens in new tab) Benjamin Jeapes (Solaris)

Alias Hook (opens in new tab) by Lisa Jensen (Snowbooks)

The Clone Rebellion: The Clone Republic (opens in new tab) Stephen L. Kent (Titan)

The Curiosity (opens in new tab) by Stephen Kiernan (John Murray Press)

Doctor Sleep (opens in new tab) by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Gardener From Ochakov (opens in new tab) by Andrey Kurkov (Harvill Secker)

Autodrome (opens in new tab) by Kim Lakin-Smith (Snowbooks)

Ancillary Justice (opens in new tab) by Ann Leckie (Orbit)

Familiar (opens in new tab) by Robert J Lennon (Serpent’s Tail)

The Detainee (opens in new tab) by Peter Liney (Jo Fletcher Books)

The Best Of All Possible Worlds (opens in new tab) by Karen Lord (Jo Fletcher Books)

Age Of Voodoo (opens in new tab) by James Lovegrove (Solaris)

The Disestablishment Of Paradise (opens in new tab) by Philip Mann (Gollancz)

The Night Itself (opens in new tab) by Zoe Marriott (Walker Books)

We Are Here (opens in new tab) by Michael Marshall (Orion)

Evening’s Empires (opens in new tab) by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)

Starhawk (opens in new tab) by Jack McDevitt (Headline)

Planesrunner (opens in new tab) by Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher Books)

Love Minus Eighty (opens in new tab) by Will McIntosh (Orbit)

Resonance (opens in new tab) by John Meaney (Gollancz)

The Fall (opens in new tab) by Claire Merle (Faber & Faber)

The Eidolon (opens in new tab) by Libby McGugan (Solaris)

The Man With The Compound Eyes (opens in new tab) by Wu Ming-Yi (Harvill Secker)

Hidden Among Us (opens in new tab) by Katie Moran (Walker Books)

The Curve Of The Earth (opens in new tab) by Simon Morden (Orbit)

Nexus (opens in new tab) by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)

More Than This (opens in new tab) by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)

Sufficiently Advanced Technology (opens in new tab) by Christopher Nuttall (Elsewhen Press)

A Tale For The Time Being (opens in new tab) by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate)

Reviver (opens in new tab) by Seth Patrick (Macmillan)

Red Moon (opens in new tab) by Benjamin Percy (Hodder & Stoughton)

Ack-Ack Macaque (opens in new tab) by Gareth L Powell (Solaris)

The Long War (opens in new tab) by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Doubleday)

Fiddlehead (opens in new tab) by Cherie Priest (Tor)

The Adjacent (opens in new tab) by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)

Abyss (opens in new tab) by Tricia Rayburn (Faber & Faber)

On The Steel Breeze (opens in new tab) by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)

Cooking With Bones (opens in new tab) by Jess Richards (Sceptre)

Shaman (opens in new tab) by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)

Gemsigns (opens in new tab) by Stephanie Saulter (Jo Fletcher Books)

Limit (opens in new tab) by Franz Schätzing (Jo Fletcher Books)

The Bone Season (opens in new tab) by Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)

Life On The Preservation (opens in new tab) by Jack C Skillingstead (Solaris)

Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore (opens in new tab) by Robin Sloan (Atlantic Books)

The Age Of Scorpio (opens in new tab) by Gavin G Smith (Gollancz)

The Machine (opens in new tab) by James Smythe (Blue Door)

Arteess: Conflict (opens in new tab) by James Starling (Elsewhen Press)

Fiend (opens in new tab) by Peter Stenson (William Heinemann)

Neptune’s Brood (opens in new tab) by Charles Stross (Orbit)

Theatre Of The Gods (opens in new tab) by M Suddain (Jonathan Cape)

The City Of Devi (opens in new tab) by Manil Suri (Bloomsbury)

Osiris (opens in new tab) by EJ Swift (Del Rey)

Blood Donors (opens in new tab) by Steve Tasane (Walker Books)

Strange Bodies (opens in new tab) by Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber)

The Violent Century (opens in new tab) by Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)

Your Brother’s Blood (opens in new tab) by David Towsey (Jo Fletcher Books)

Necessary Evil (opens in new tab) by Ian Tregillis (Orbit)

The Coldest War (opens in new tab) by Ian Tregillis (Orbit)

The Healer (opens in new tab) by Antti Tuomainen (Harvill Secker)

Ecko Burning (opens in new tab) by Danie Ware (Titan)

Shackleton’s Man Goes South by Tony White (The Science Museum)

The Ace Of Skulls (opens in new tab) by Chris Wooding (Gollancz)

You can visit the official site of the Arthur C Clarke Award for more information. Subscribe to SFX magazine (opens in new tab) – which one again supports the award as a media partner – for monthly book news, interviews and reviews. We’ll report on the shortlist and the winner here on the SFX website .

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A month or so back, we reported news of a mysterious project on the official Gerry Anderson Facebook page . Now we finally know what Gemini Force One is.

GF1 is a brand new series of books about a secret organisation “involved in rescues and averting disasters and terrorist events” – an area where the Anderson brand has previous form. The concept and story were written by Anderson before he died last year, and author MG Harris ( The Joshua Files) has been recruited by the Gerry Anderson Estate to complete the first book. A Kickstarter campaign to raise money to fund the self-publishing of the novel has launched today .

The plan is to release the first GF1 to Kickstarter backers in April 2014, with a full launch of the book in August 2014 to tie in with the 50th anniversary of Thunderbirds going into production in 1964. Longer term, the goal is to turn the series into a film or television series, with vehicles designed by Andrew Probert ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ) and Dominic Lavery ( New Captain Scarlet ).

Gerry Anderson developed and wrote Gemini Force One between 2008 and 2011, with some additions in 2012. As his Alzheimer’s disease worsened, however, he found it harder to make progress with the book. Harris was recruited, the press release says, because of all the authors Gerry’s son Jamie met to discuss the project, “she is the one who understood what Gerry Anderson concepts were all about, and how to keep it as close as possible to the original idea.” She’ll be using his notes and audio recordings to complete the book as Gerry would have wanted.

So if you want to play a part in the latest Gerry Anderson adventure, you can contribute to GF1 ‘s Kickstarter fund .

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The judging panel named Beckett , who follows in the illustrious footsteps of Margaret Atwood, Christopher Priest and China Miéville, as the 27 ^th winner of the annual prize. His novel ( recipient of five stars in SFX ‘s review ) won out against a shortlist of Adrian Barnes’ Nod , Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker , Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars , Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion and Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 . Beckett now takes home a cheque for £2013, and membership of an illustrious club.

View our photo gallery from the evening!

” Dark Eden fuses rich biological and sociological speculation,” said chair of the judges Andrew M Butler. “Beckett really makes you care for characters who are stranded light years from an Earth they have never really known. It’s a great book, and this is a well-deserved win for Chris Beckett.”

“I remember sitting at the 2005 Easter SF Convention with Chris Beckett, about the time I took him on as an agency client,” added Beckett’s agent John Jarrold. “I read his first novel, The Holy Machine , and saw exactly why it had such a buzz in the genre. Cool yet involving, and deeply intelligent. Since then his short fiction (his collection The Turing Test won the Edge Hill Prize against opposition from a Booker Prize winner and two other Booker shortlisted authors) and novels have more than fulfilled the promise I saw. Winning the Arthur C Clarke Award for Dark Eden isn’t a final culmination, it’s simply a mark of how special a talent his is. Can’t wait for the future books…!”

The Award was presented at the Royal Society in London yesterday, the grandstand finale of an evening that had kicked off with the ” 2001 Days Later: Living In The Future ” panel discussion. With SFX Editor-in-Chief Dave Bradley in the chair, panelists Professor Ian Stewart FRS, Professor Sheila Rowan, Rachel Armstrong and Adrian Hon talked about what technological advancements the world might realistically be seeing in the next 2001 days (that’s about five years). With a mathematician, an expert on gravitational waves, a pioneer in the field of living architecture and a top software developer among them, the group discussed topics like the mathematics of biological systems, SF staples like teleportation and faster-than-light travel and building a sustainable interstellar spacecraft within 100 years. You can watch a video of the whole panel and award at the Royal Society site.

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Audiences in the afternoon were also treated to a Write The Future mini-conference devoted to science and science fiction. Follow the hashtag #WTF13 on Twitter to see what people thought of the afternoon’s presentations.

Gela’s Ring , the sequel to Dark Eden , will initially be published as a serial over twelve months from Easter 2013 in the new online magazine Aethernet . Corvus will then publish it in physical form in the Spring of 2014.

SFX is proud to be the media partner for the Arthur C Clarke Award and you can find out more about the award at its official website . Visit the website of the Royal Society to find out more about the venue. WTF 2013, the Arthur C Clarke Award and the 2001 Days Later panel were also associated with the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival which is running this week too.

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Gone Online can be played at www.gone-online.com over a six week period. It draws on content from all five of the books so far and leads up to the much-anticipated publication of Light . Starting with four games at launch – “Zeke Zap”, “Word Search”, “Hacker” and a Gone quiz. There will be further games and challenges released on a weekly basis until the winner is announced.

The winner of the game – the highest scorer at the end of the six weeks – will win an iPad and the chance to meet Michael Grant in a private capsule on the EDF Energy London Eye on 4 May. Participation will also be rewarded with prizes along the way, including signed editions and book tokens as well as never-before-seen content such as extra chapters and video messages from the author.

Michael Grant comments, “ If you’ve been reading the Gone series all along, you probably know that we have reached the end. I have to admit that I felt a bit sad typing the last sentence of Light . It seemed strange that I would no longer be spending quite as much time with the gang. I was concerned that some of you, the true fans, might have a bit of withdrawal. So now you can play the game, which is all about the Gone universe. You do have to read the books to play some of the games so I consider this gaming of the best kind.”

Gone Online is hosted on a dedicated website and can also be played on smart phones. Players of any age can take part. You don’t have to be a fan of the books, but it will help.

After the initial six week competition, fans of Gone Online can continue to play, though there won’t be any more prizes.

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BBC Books have announced the release of a new Doctor Who ebook, The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery, which purports to be written by a character from the show itself.

The book actually features in “The Angel Take Manhattan” and those of you who like putting two and two together will probably make four. It’s novella length.

Published on 4 October on the usual digital outlets (priced £1.99), it’s the first Doctor Who title from BBC Books to be published only in epub format, and the first to be written exclusively from the perspective of a character within the show – Melody Malone, who not only runs her own agency, she also happens to be the author of a successful series of novels, featuring one Melody Malone.

Here’s the BBC’s synopsis:

“On some days, New York is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

“This was one of the other days…

“Melody Malone, owner and sole employee of the Angel Detective Agency, has an unexpected caller. It’s movie star Rock Railton, and he thinks someone is out to kill him. When he mentions the ‘kiss of the Angel’, she takes the case. Angels are Melody’s business…

“At the press party for Railton’s latest movie, studio owner Max Kliener invites Melody to the film set of their next blockbuster. He’s obviously spotted her potential, and Melody is flattered when Kliener asks her to become a star. But the cost of fame, she’ll soon discover, is greater than anyone could possibly imagine.

“Will Melody be able to escape Kliener’s dastardly plan – before the Angels take Manhattan?”

Read our “The Angels Take Manhattan” preview.

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Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite – the Grisha. Could she be the key to unravelling the dark fabric of the Shadow Fold and setting Ravka free?

The Darkling, a creature of seductive charm and terrifying power, leader of the Grisha. If Alina is to fulfil her destiny, she must discover how to unlock her gift and face up to her dangerous attraction to him.

But what of Mal, Alina’s childhood best friend? As Alina contemplates her dazzling new future, why can’t she ever quite forget him?

This first book in the Grisha series is out now.

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Fancy a free ebook to browse over the Easter break?

Anarchy Books is offering its anthology, V ivisepulture – with stories by authors such as Guy N Smith ( Night of the Crabs , Sabat , The Sucking Pit ), Neal Asher ( Prador Moon , Gridlinked , Brass Man ) and Ian Watson ( The Books Of Mana ) – free to download for a limited period.

Vivisepulture is available as a free download for five days only, from midnight 6 April until 11.59pm on 10 April 11.

This promotion is to celebrate Anarcy’s Easter Anarchy Releases – seven new novels by authors including Eric Brown ( Helix , The Kings Of Eternity , Necropath ), film director Paolo Sedazzari ( The Toybox ), Gareth L Powell ( The Last Reef , Recollection ) and Luis Villazon.

Anarchy will also be releasing a new punk album by The Mice called Young Punks , to run alongside Paolo Sedazzari’s novel/oral history by the same name.

Visit www.anarchy-books.com for more details.

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She won the Best Novel award for Demon Dance , and Best Short Story for “Fool’s Gold”.

Writing on her blog (opens in new tab) , she said, “I want to say a huge thanks to every one of my readers who voted for Demon Dance to win The August Derlerth award for Best Novel and for ‘Fool’s Gold’ for Best Short Fiction. I’m completely overwhelmed by your support. Without readers there would be no need for writers and so you are the most important people to me.

“It was pointed out to me this weekend that I am now the first woman to win the award for Best Novel in 31 years of the British Fantasy Society’s 40 year history. I realise this is a very great honour and I was very proud and very moved (bursting into a blubbering wreck as I received Best Short Fiction).”

Here are the full results:

KARL EDWARD WAGNER SPECIAL AWARD: Terry Pratchett

BEST NOVEL: Demon Dance , Sam Stone (House of Murky Depths)

BEST NOVELLA: Humpty’s Bones , Simon Clark (Telos)

BEST SHORT STORY: “Fool’s Gold”, Sam Stone, from The Bitten Word , ed. Ian
Whates (NewCon Press)

BEST ANTHOLOGY: Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror
Stories , Johnny Mains (ed.) (Noose & Gibbet)

BEST COLLECTION: Full Dark, No Stars , Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)

BEST NON-FICTION: Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong (Telos)

BEST ARTIST: Vincent Chong

BEST COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL: At the Mountains of Madness: a Graphic Novel , Ian Culbard (Selfmadehero)

BEST MAGAZINE/PERIODICAL: Black Static , Andy Cox (ed.) (TTA Press)

BEST SMALL PRESS: Telos Publishing

BEST FILM: Inception

BEST TELEVISION: Sherlock*

SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER: Robert Jackson Bennet, for Mr Shivers (Orbit)

(* Hang on, if the British Fantasy Society can award Sherlock , does that mean SFX can start covering it?)

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