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Clarke Award Winner

April 29th, 2009 by Editors

The winner of this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award was announced this evening in London. The word on Twitter is that the award, and the £2009 cash prize, has been won by Ian R MacLeod for Song of Time (PS Publishing). No official confirmation yet.

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3 Responses to “Clarke Award Winner”

  1. on 29 Apr 2009 at 3:12 pm1 Graham

    Well, I was there and saw Macleod pick up the award and make a graceful acceptance speech…does that count as official?

  2. on 29 Apr 2009 at 3:36 pm2 Cheryl

    Oh, I think we can take the word of the editor of Foundation as authoritative on issues related to British SF. :-)

    Thank you!

  3. on 30 Apr 2009 at 3:05 am3 Marc Platt

    And SFcrowsnest.com – one of the three organisations supplying a judge for the awards – ran the news yesterday ten minutes after the award was granted – see story on Google News Search or direct at http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz13836.php

    Marc