Aug 222016
The Clarke Awards 2016!
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This week it’s the 30th Arthur C. Clarke Award! On the shortlist are Becky Chambers, Dave Hutchinson, Nnedi Okorafor, JP Smythe and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Who’s going to win? |
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<Update: winner announced – see below!>
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And the winner is…
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ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY with CHILDREN OF TIME!
Check out this and more on the brilliant shortlisted books below…
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THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL, ANGRY PLANET |
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Dec |
Becky Chambers |
9781473619814 |
PB |
£8.99 |
Hodder |
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Firefly meets Mass Effect in this thrilling self-published debut! |
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When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn’t expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that’s seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past. |
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But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptillian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. Life on board is chaotic, but more or less peaceful – exactly what Rosemary wants. |
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Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. They’ll earn enough money to live comfortably for years… if they survive the long trip through war-torn interstellar space without endangering any of the fragile alliances that keep the galaxy peaceful. |
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But Rosemary isn’t the only person on board with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed. |
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Read an extract of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet on Carabas here! |
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WAY DOWN DARK |
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Apr |
JP Smythe |
9781444796339 |
PB |
6.99 |
Hodder |
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There’s one truth on Australia |
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You fight or you die. |
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Usually both. |
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Imagine a nightmare from which there is no escape. |
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Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one. |
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This is a hell where no one can hide. |
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The only life that Chan’s ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive. |
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This is a ship of death, of murderers and cults and gangs. |
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But there might be a way to escape. In order to find it, Chan must head way down into the darkness – a place of buried secrets, long-forgotten lies, and the abandoned bodies of the dead. |
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This is Australia. |
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Seventeen-year-old Chan, fiercely independent and self-sufficient, keeps her head down and lives quietly, careful not to draw attention to herself amidst the violence and disorder. Until the day she makes an extraordinary discovery – a way to return the Australia to Earth. But doing so would bring her to the attention of the fanatics and the murderers who control life aboard the ship, putting her and everyone she loves in terrible danger. |
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And a safe return to Earth is by no means certain. |
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Read an extract from Way Down Dark on Carabas here! |
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