Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Writer in residence up for BSFA best novel

Congratulations to Ken MacLeod - writer in residence on the Edinburgh Napier Creative Writing MA - whose most recent novel has been shortlisted for the 2012 British Science Fiction Awards.

Intrusion is one of five books nominated in the Best Novel category, alongside Dark Eden by Chris Beckett, Empty Space: a Haunting by M. John Harrison, Jack Glass by Adam Roberts, and 2312 by Kim Stanley-Robinson.

Organised by the British Science Fiction Association, the prestigious BSFA Awards have been running for more than 50 years. The winners will be announced at the 2013 Eastercon in Bradford at the end of March.

Ken has previously won the BSFA best novel award for The Sky Road (1999) and The Night Sessions (2008), along with many other accolades.