Bad Blood has been longlisted for the 2009 Manchester Book Awards. The shortlist will be decided by the young people of Manchester in November and there will be an award ceremony at the City of Manchester Stadium, Wed March 11, 2009, for the shortlisted authors.
August 12, 2008
10 SF titles
Sara W asked me to recommend some science-fiction titles to her. An insto-list of good SF follows. I’m limiting myself to ten titles or I’ll be here all day.
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
- Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
- Drinking Sapphire Wine, Tanith Lee
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (short stories), James Tiptree Jr
- Palace, Katherine Kerr and Mark Kreighbaum
- Permutation City, Greg Egan
- Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge
- Steel Beach, John Varley
- The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin
- Xenogenesis trilogy, Octavia Butler