GAIMAN’S GRAVEYARD BOOK BURIED UNDER NUMEROUS AWARDS
www.guardian.co.uk: Neil Gaiman’s sweep of this year’s children’s fiction prizes with The Graveyard Book continued today after the Booktrust teenage prize came his way at a ceremony in London.
Gaiman’s spooky tale of a boy who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard after his parents and sister are murdered by a serial killer, has already won America’s major children’s fiction prize, the Newbery medal, as well taking the Locus young adult award and the Hugo best novel prize. It is also longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie medal, and shortlisted for the World Fantasy award. Perhaps understandably for a man this busy, he accepted the prize in absentia.
Speaking from the States, where he has lived since 1992, Gaiman said that he was “thrilled and very surprised” at the win, but confessed that “the trouble with saying that is that you always sound vaguely insincere – people assume that with each award the book wins, saying you are surprised is less and less plausible.”
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20 MUST READ SCI-FI NOVELS FOR 2010
www.io9.com: You’ve got a list of books to read today, but what will you be yearning to read next year? We’ve picked out 20 scifi and contemporary fantasy books coming out next year that have us filled with excitement.
Many publishers haven’t firmed up their winter releases for next year, so most of these books are coming in spring and summer 2010. Keep on the lookout for them!
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WEREWOLVES ARE THE RECESSIONS FAVE MONSTER
www.huffingtonpost.com: This past Sunday, The Werewolf’s Guide To Life co-author Bob Powers (me) participated in a Werewolves Vs. Vampires debate on NPR’s All Things Considered, in a chat with Joe Garden, co-author of The New Vampire’s Handbook. It was a brief segment in advance of this Friday’s release of New Moon, but we were happy to put in a few words in support of the werewolf lifestyle.
There was one question in this debate that we wish we’d had more time to address, and it’s been on our minds ever since. Moderator Guy Raz brought up the fact that werewolves have seen a recent increase in popularity, at least as far as their representation in pop culture and fiction is concerned (New Moon, The Wolfman remake, Teen Wolf coming to MTV, etc).
The question is, why now? As with most everything else, we’re blaming the economy. We believe that the plight of the werewolf reflects the American economic mood at the current moment.
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So, what do you think of todays book news?
Will you pick up any of the Sci-Fi novels suggested? Are you loving the lycans too?
