Prometheus Award Winners
Jul. 23rd, 2008 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollVia ffutures and papersky:
This year produced a tie for the Prometheus Award:
Jo Walton's Ha'Penny
Harry Turtledove's The Gladiator
Both are published by Tor Books. This is the first tie ever for this award and also the first time in the 29 year history of this award that a female author has won [1] (A number of women have won the Hall of Fame Award and by "a number", I mean the number two). Congratulations to both winners.
I assume that for the purposes of this award, Harry Turtledove will be considered some kind of left-leaning [2] Celt. Oddly, I don't think I ever saw Gladiator, let alone read it.
Rather than split the award money in two, my impression is that the two winners will each get one full ounce of gold. Sadly, this is in the shape of a coin and not a small statuette of Ayn Rand strangling Tommy Douglas.
Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange got the Hall of Fame Award.
1: Ah, you giddy Libertarians. You always know how to make the Hugos look gender balanced.
2: By the standards of the US. Yeah, yeah, bar so low we needed to dig a trench for it.
This year produced a tie for the Prometheus Award:
Jo Walton's Ha'Penny
Harry Turtledove's The Gladiator
Both are published by Tor Books. This is the first tie ever for this award and also the first time in the 29 year history of this award that a female author has won [1] (A number of women have won the Hall of Fame Award and by "a number", I mean the number two). Congratulations to both winners.
I assume that for the purposes of this award, Harry Turtledove will be considered some kind of left-leaning [2] Celt. Oddly, I don't think I ever saw Gladiator, let alone read it.
Rather than split the award money in two, my impression is that the two winners will each get one full ounce of gold. Sadly, this is in the shape of a coin and not a small statuette of Ayn Rand strangling Tommy Douglas.
Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange got the Hall of Fame Award.
1: Ah, you giddy Libertarians. You always know how to make the Hugos look gender balanced.
2: By the standards of the US. Yeah, yeah, bar so low we needed to dig a trench for it.
