Arthur C Clarke Award

[tamaranth]

I very much enjoyed the Clarke Award festivities yesterday at London's Science Museum, despite the fact that being in the Wellcome Wing, right at the back of the place, feels like being several miles underground on the set of an 80s SF movie: and made me terribly claustrophobic. More SF luminaries than ... well, I didn't take a stick with me, or I could have shook it at 'em.

I didn't expect Gwyneth Jones' Bold as Love to win, but I'm extremely glad it did, since it's the most cheering and addictive novel I've read for years. Next instalment (Castles Made of Sand) out in June ...

And here we present:
Master of Ceremonies China Mieville, in a Suit. ("It's not for me, China: it's for a friend ...")


Happy Gwyneth (who dressed to match the Award)


tamaranth and half of fishlifter, discussing That Zip.

Comments

That's my allocation for this year, then...

[fishlifter.livejournal.com]

...of photos including my face where I don't look like an alien (swisstone has several from Eastercon which include parts of my leg, and they also look human). Thanks for posting it, and congratulations to Paul B for taking it.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

The China Mieville pic looks a bit odd. Like he had his Ready Brek or something.

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

I quite fancy him in that picture.

[kjersti.livejournal.com]

*mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Me too, as I already told tamaranth.

Nyeh, nyeh, we *all* fancy China Mieville??

CC

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Actually he looks like he's been cut and pasted from a different picture, and not blended back in round the edges properly...

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

Cool!
I liked "Bold As Love" - possibly not as much as you did, but I still really liked it. It really all came together for me when they played 'the national anthem'.

God. I really wish that was the national anthem. I'd stand for that....

June you say? Brilliant. I'm looking forward to the sequel.

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

rock and roll really is the new politics then ;-) Bryan's doing more art for the second book too...