AncalagonTheBlack Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 The British Science Fiction Association announced the winners for their annual BSFA Awards at Satellite EasterCon today in Glasgow, Scotland. Best NovelTie Winner: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit)Tie Winner: Ack-Ack Macaque by Gareth L. Powell (Solaris)God’s War by Kameron Hurley (Del Rey)Evening's Empires by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)Best Short FictionWinner: “Spin” by Nina Allan (TTA Press)“Selkie Stories are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons)“Saga’s Children” by E.J. Swift (The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium)“Boat in the Shadows Crossing” by Tori Truslow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)Best ArtworkWinner: Book cover for Dream London by Joey Hi-fi (Solaris)Poster for Metropolis by Kevin Tong (tragicsunshine.com)Editorial illustration for “The Angel at the Heart of the Rain” by Richard Wagner (Interzone)Best Non-FictionWinner: Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams Image)Going Forth by Night by John J. Johnston (Unearthed, Jurassic)Sleeps with Monsters by Liz Bourke (Tor.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Ack-Ack Macaque? What the hell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Ack-Ack Macaque? What the hell? I'd never heard of it either. The blurb for it on Goodreads suggests the plot may be as bizarre as the title: In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed 'Ack-Ack Macaque'. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he's starting to doubt everything, including his own existence. A century later, in a world where France and Great Britain merged in the late 1950s and nuclear-powered Zeppelins encircle the globe, ex-journalist Victoria Valois finds herself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man who butchered her husband and stole her electronic soul. Meanwhile, in Paris, after taking part in an illegal break-in at a research laboratory, the heir to the British throne goes on the run. And all the while, the doomsday clock ticks towards Armageddon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 A lot of these are £2.99 on amazon uk at the moment. I may give a few of them a try. I'm on the fence about Ancilliary justice, I like the concept but all anyone ever talks about is the gender neutrality - I'm not sure if I want to read a book just about that. To be fair I don't think it is just about that but that seems to be what 90% of the discussion is about it, I keep seeing ack-ack macaque displayed prominently in my local forbidden planet. I thought it was just in the vein of "pride and prejudice with zombies"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 I think the discussion about gender in Ancillary Justice is overstated, personally. I'm really not sure why everyone gravitated to it quite so much. Not that it isn't good, but it's not even the most interesting aspect of the book, to my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 I think the discussion about gender in Ancillary Justice is overstated, personally. I'm really not sure why everyone gravitated to it quite so much. Not that it isn't good, but it's not even the most interesting aspect of the book, to my mind. That's promising. I guess it's a bit like how there was an obsession with hand gestures in "the long price" series but when I read it,it was a minor thing, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Yeah I loved Ancillary Justice but I didn't even know people were making a big deal of the "gender issue" til after. It's really just a tiny piece of the story. Hah, I love the hand gestures in Long Price. Very Greek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Yeah I loved Ancillary Justice but I didn't even know people were making a big deal of the "gender issue" til after. It's really just a tiny piece of the story. Hah, I love the hand gestures in Long Price. Very Greek. Amazon uk has put the price back up (probably because it won). I find it hard to buy something once I know it was possible to get it cheaper. Will wait until it's on offer again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Yeah I loved Ancillary Justice but I didn't even know people were making a big deal of the "gender issue" til after. It's really just a tiny piece of the story. Hah, I love the hand gestures in Long Price. Very Greek. I think the gender neutrality in AJ or the poses in LP are more part of the world-building than part of the story itself, if you took either of them out then they'd barely change the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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