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Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice Wins Clarke Award

Published Thu, 01 May 2014 15:15:29 -0500

Last updated Thu, 01 May 2014 15:16:55 -0500

By Alasdair Stuart

Ann Leckie's debut novel, Ancillary Justice, continues to sweep the board this awards season. The story of a female soldier, and former starship AI, on a mission of vengeance it's a sweeping, ambitious, immensely fun novel that has already won the The Kitschies Golden Tentacle prize for best first novel, the British Science Fiction Association award for best novel, and been nominated in the best novel category for this year's Hugo Awards.

Speaking for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Director Tom Hunter said:

There's always something extra special when a new or first time writer wins a prize like the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Ancillary Justice is very special indeed.

I have personally been recommended this book more times than any other last year, always by people whose opinions I trusted, and what has been really interesting to me is that the people making those recommendations were people I would usually think of as having all kinds of different kinds of tastes in their science fiction reading. Clearly this explains all of the attention Ancillary Justice has been getting across the field of SF awards, and I couldn't be more delighted to see Ann join the ranks of Arthur C. Clarke winners.

The judging panel for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013 were:

Duncan Lawie, British Science Fiction Association
Ian Whates, British Science Fiction Association
Sarah Brown, Science Fiction Foundation
Lesley Hall, Science Fiction Foundation
Georgie Knight, SCI-FI-LONDON film festival

Andrew M. Butler represented the Arthur C. Clarke Award in a non-voting role as the Chair of the Judges.

Ancillary Justice is also a finalist for the Best Novel Hugo, to be presented at LonCon later this year along with:

Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross

Parasite by Mira Grant

Warbound, Book III of The Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia

Parasite by Mira Grant

Here's hoping it gets the clean sweep. Congratulations, Ann

Alasdair Stuart is a freelance journalist. He hosts the award-winning horror podcast Pseudopod (www.pseudopod.org), co-hosts the award-winning podcast Escape Pod (www.escapepod.org) and doesn't take cheap shots. Follow him on twitter at @AlasdairStuart

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