Arthur C. Clarke Award

Vencedor 2016

O Arthur C. Clarke Award é oferecido ao melhor romance de ficção científica publicado no Reino Unido. O vencedor foi anunciado a 24 de Agosto de 2016 numa cerimónia apresentada pela Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, em Londres. Children of Time de Adrian Adrian Tchaikovsky foi o grande vencedor deste ano. O autor disse espantado "I think I'm about to die" e ainda falou do seu livro e dos outros romances nomeados: "It’s a book about spiders, but it’s also a book about empathy. One of the things that struck me about the shortlist for this year is empathy as a theme that runs through a lot of these books. Empathy across races, across borders… One of the things the book is about is the ability of humanity to seize value in things that are different, and the danger when that doesn’t happen. I guess what I’m saying is, the spiders are not from outer space after all, they are, in a way, in all of us."

Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publicado a 4 de Junho de 2015 pela PanMacmillan

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?

WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

Philip K. Dick Award

Vencedor 2016

Já foi anunciado o vencedor do prémio Philip K. Dick que premeia romances de ficção científica em paperback publicados pela primeira vez no ano anterior. O vencedor foi apresentado a 25 de Março de 2016, na Norwestcon 39 em SeaTac, Washington.

Vencedor:

Apex de Ramez Naam (Angry Robot Books)

Menção honrosa:
Archangel de Marguerite Reed (Arche Press)

Prémio Booker

O prémio Booker (Man Booker Prize) existe desde 1969 normalmente atribuído a autores do Reino Unido, Commonwealth, República da Irlanda e Zimbabué que escrevam em língua inglesa. É a segunda vez que o prémio está disponível para autores de qualquer nacionalidade que escrevam originalmente em inglês e que sejam publicados no Reino Unido.

O vencedor foi anunciado a 13 de Outubro de 2015 na London’s Guildhall com transmissão da BBC. O vencedor, Marlon James, de 44 anos e actualmente a residir em Minneapolis, é o primeiro jamaicano a vencer o prémio.

Marlon James (Jamaica)

A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld Publications)

A Brief History of Seven Killings is a 686-page epic with over 75 characters and voices. Set in Kingston, where James was born, the book is a fictional history of the attempted murder of Bob Marley in 1976. Of the book, the New York Times said: ‘It’s like a Tarantino remake of “The Harder They Come”, but with a soundtrack by Bob Marley and a script by Oliver Stone and William Faulkner...epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly complex.'

Referring to Bob Marley only as ‘The Singer’ throughout, A Brief History of Seven Killings retells this near mythic assassination attempt through the myriad voices – from witnesses and FBI and CIA agents to killers, ghosts, beauty queens and Keith Richards’ drug dealer – to create a rich, polyphonic study of violence, politics and the musical legacy of Kingston of the 1970s. James has credited Charles Dickens as one of his formative influences, saying ‘I still consider myself a Dickensian in as much as there are aspects of storytelling I still believe in—plot, surprise, cliffhangers’ (Interview Magazine).

 

Fonte: Site Man Booker Prize

Prometheus Awards

Vencedor 2015

Os Prometheus Awards são atribuídos pela Libertarian Futurist Society a romances de ficção científica que se focam na política e na ordem social implícitos por filosofias libertárias. O prémio foi estabelecido por L. Neil Smith em 1979, mas começou a ser atribuído anualmente a partir de 1982. O vencedor da edição de 2015 foi Daniel Suarez com o romance Influx.

Influx, Daniel Suarez

Theodore Sturgeon Award

Vencedor 2015

O vencedor do prémio Theodore Sturgeon, que elege o melhor conto de ficção científica publicado no ano anterior, é "The Man Who Sold the Moon", Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future).

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Vencedor 2015

Station Eleven, de Emily St. John Mandel venceu o prémio Arthur C. Clarke Award que premeia o melhor romance de ficção científica publicado no ano anterior. O prémio foi apresentado numa cerimónia numa livraria em Londes perante uma audiência de escritores de ficção cinetífica, editores, académicos e fãs.

Station Eleven

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. 

One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.

Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm is a line from Star Trek: “Because survival is insufficient.” But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.

Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

Philip K. Dick Award

Vencedor 2015

O vencedor do prémio Philip K. Dick, anunciado a 6 de Abril de 2015, é The Book of the Unnamed Midwife de Meg Elison (Sybaritic Press). O livro foi eleito o melhor livro de Ficção científica publicado em paperback nos E.U.A. em 2014. O livro Elysium de Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct Press) mereceu uma menção especial.