amazon.com - 6/27/2009
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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Readers as yet unfamiliar with Link ( Magic for Beginners ) will be excited to discover her singular voice in this collection of nine short stories, her first book for young adults. The first entry, The Wrong Grave, immediately demonstrates her rare ...
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2009 Locus Award Winners
Locus Online News —
Winners of the 2009 Locus Awards were announced at a ceremony and banquet June 27, 2009 in Seattle WA during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend. Science Fiction Novel : Anathem , Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow ) Fantasy Novel : Lavinia , Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt) First Novel : Singularity's Ring , Paul Melko (Tor) Young-Adult Book : The Graveyard Book , Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, Bloomsbury ) Novella : "Pretty Monsters", Kelly Link ( Pretty Monsters ) Novelette : "Pump Six", Paolo Bacigalupi ( Pump Six and Other Stories ) Short Story : "Exhalation", Ted Chiang ( Eclipse Two ) Anthology : The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual ...
2009 Locus Award Winners
Fantasy Book Critic —
From Locus Magazine website: Winners of the 2009 Locus Awards were announced at a ceremony and banquet June 27, 2009 in Seattle WA during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend. Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow) Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula ...
2009 Locus Award winners announced
OF Blog of the Fallen —
Taken from the Locus Online site, with commentary to follow: Science Fiction Novel: Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow) Solid, unsurprising choice. I enjoyed reading this back in January, although it wasn't Stephenson's strongest work, in my opinion. Fantasy Novel: Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt) One of my favorite 2008 reads and a novel that I gave up trying to write a review of, due to how many layers of connection and interpretation there are between this and Vergil's epic poem. First Novel: Singularity's Ring, Paul Melko (Tor) Have this ...
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