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Clarke Awards 2007 official announcement of winner
05/05/2007 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Tah da, Nova Swing by M. John Harrison and published by Gollancz was the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, one of the UK's main prizes for science fiction literature. Buy Nova Swing in the USA - or Buy Nova Swing in the UK  The announcement was made at the award’s official ceremony held in London, Piccadilly on the evening of Wednesday 2nd May 2007 as part of an event in partnership with the opening of this year’s Sci-Fi-London Film Festival.
The annual award is presented for best science fiction novel of the year and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.
Speaking about the winning novel, Chair of the Judges Paul Billinger said, “In M. John Harrison’s Nova Swing we have a triumphant return to the world first seen in his earlier acclaimed novel, Light. This is a vividly and richly described world, full of Harrison’s unique interpretations, and is his most lyrical and affecting book to date.”
The winner receives a prize of £2007 and a commemorative engraved bookend.
The judging panel for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award were Niall Harrison and Claire Weaver for the British Science Fiction Association, Pat Cadigan and Graham Sleight for the Science Fiction Foundation and Dave Palmer for the Science Museum. Paul Billinger represents the Arthur C. Clarke Award as the Chair of Judges.
They've got a new web site too over at: http://www.clarkeaward.com
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