{"id":423,"date":"2006-01-31T23:26:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/31\/another-award-post\/"},"modified":"2006-01-31T23:26:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T03:26:32","slug":"another-award-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/31\/another-award-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Award Post…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I see that the shortlist<\/a> is out now for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke award<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Kazuo Ishiguro \u2013 Never Let Me Go
\nKen MacLeod \u2013 Learning the World
\nAlastair Reynolds \u2013 Pushing Ice
\nGeoff Ryman \u2013 Air
\nCharles Stross \u2013 Accelerando
\nLiz Williams \u2013 Banner of Souls<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This one is almost as hard to call as the BSFA list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obviously the Ryman would be a fine pick, and I’d be equally happy with the MacLeod. And you know, I’d be almost as happy with Liz Williams winning–Banner of Souls was a good read (although, I have to admit, not up to the bar set by Air) and Liz has consistently been good; I also really dug her first Inspector Chen book<\/a>, and am looking forward to the second one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m a little ashamed to admit I haven’t read the Reynolds–it’s on the list, since I quite liked his first four books, but I’ve haven’t got to it yet. <\/p>\n

The Ishiguro wasn’t as much to my taste as the others, although I can admit to its objective quality. And, as with the BSFA list, I continue to be confused by the overhyping of the craftmanlike Accelerando.<\/p>\n

Still, there’s nothing on there that would really seem like a “bad win” to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I see that the shortlist is out now for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke award: Kazuo Ishiguro \u2013 Never Let Me Go Ken MacLeod \u2013 Learning the World Alastair Reynolds \u2013 Pushing Ice Geoff Ryman \u2013 Air Charles Stross \u2013 Accelerando Liz Williams \u2013 Banner of Souls This one is almost as hard to call as the BSFA list.… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-6P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}