By His Things Will You Know Him, “An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter,” Institute for the Future
The 2013 Prix Aurora Award ballot has been announced, and I’m delighted to see that my novel Pirate Cinema is up for the prize in the Young Adult category. The Auroras are a people’s choice award given for Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and I’m delighted to be recognised in the land of my birth! The whole ballot is a great signpost to some wonderful Canadian literature, and the young adult section is particularly strong:
Best YA Novel – English
Above by Leah Bobet, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic
The Calling by Kelley Armstrong, Harper Teen
Dissolve by Neil Godbout, Bundoran Press
Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero by Michell Plested, Five Rivers
Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow, TOR Teen
Under My Skin: Wildlings Series (Book 1) by Charles de Lint, Razorbill Canada
I was delighted today to discover that my novel Pirate Cinema had been nominated for the Libertarian Futurist Society’s annual Prometheus Award, amid a slate of absolutely wonderful books:
Arctic Rising, Tobias Buckell (Tor)
The Unincorporated Future, Dani & Eytan Kollin (Tor)
Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Darkship Renegades, Sarah Hoyt (Baen)
Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez (Penguin)
I was proud as punch to win the award for my novel Little Brother, and I’m very excited to be back on the roster. Many thanks to the jurors.
The 43d Locus Poll and Survey is open for your picks of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past year, as well as your survey answers (Locus has been collecting detailed statistical information about science fiction readers for, well, 43 years now). You needn’t be a subscriber to fill in the survey, though subscribers’ votes are weighted more heavily in the awards.
I’d be remiss if I failed to mention that I have two books on the ballot this year: Rapture of the Nerds (with Charlie Stross) and Pirate Cinema; they’re in some very good company as well.
