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Paul Kincaid's From the Hardest Part, April 2016: Clarke Award shortlist, Nick Wood, Jenni Fagan, Ali Shaw, and Jurassic London's Extinction Event
Posted on 2016-05-09 at 15:41 by montsamu
[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]
From the Other Side, April 2016 By Paul Kincaid
This year will see the presentation of the 30th Arthur C. Clarke Award, so, for reasons that I am sure made sense when they were explained to me, everything is running late. The award ceremony isn’t until August, and the shortlist has only just been announced. The six books this year are:
Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged jenni fagan, jurassic london, nick wood, paul kincaid
Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, July 2014: Irregularity edited by Jared Shurin, and other happenings and books pre-LonCon
Posted on 2014-08-01 at 17:52 by montsamu
From the Other Side, July 2014
By Paul Kincaid
Most disturbing news of the month came right at the beginning of July when we learned that Terry Pratchett had pulled out of this summer’s International Discworld Convention in Manchester because of what he calls ‘The Embuggerance’. So far his early-onset Alzheimer’s disease has not affected his attendance at events like that, but now, as he says, it ‘is finally catching up with me’. Though he still seems to be keeping up with his writing schedule. In the
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