Live! Via text messages from Liz. The nominees. And the winners are …
Best Artwork — cover of Subterfuge, by Andy Bigwood
Best Non-Fiction — Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn
Best Short Fiction — “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
Best Novel — The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
Congratulations to all the winners!




April 11, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Congratulations to the winners.
But I must say… “the night sessions? really?”
April 11, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Interesting, isn’t it? I’ll also be interested to see how the others ranked, if the voting breakdown is released.
April 11, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I quite liked The Night Sessions when I read it. It might have fallen short of being perfect but there was a lot explored and the whole idea of it had quite an futuristic take on present.
Plus Scotland was a character, which quite rare.
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