http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/adam roberts http://io9.com/tag/adam roberts Congratulations to Genevieve Valentine, who won the 2012 William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for her novel Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti. This award celebrates the best debut fantasy novel published in the previous year, and the runners up were Erin Morgenstern for The Night Circus, Téa Obreht for The Tiger's Wife, Stina Leicht for Of Blood and Honey, and Ransom Riggs for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. More »
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Kim Stanley Robinson insisted that Adam Roberts' Yellow Blue Tibia should have won the prestigious Booker Prize, but now that wrong has been somewhat righted, as Roberts' book is one of four finalists for the best-novel British Science Fiction Awards. More »
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Amazon.com's editors have released their list of the top ten science fiction and fantasy books of 2009, and it includes some pleasant surprises. More »
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If you wish science fiction would have a bit more actual science (and focus on the near future instead of the year 5 billion), you'll be thrilled that When It Changed, an anthology pairing scientists and SF authors, is out. More »
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Why hasn't a science fiction novel ever won England's prestigious Booker Prize? Kim Stanley Robinson asked the question in an essay in New Scientist magazine, and now it's become a war of words over the age-old SF-vs-lit issue. More »
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The five books chosen for the 2009 Hugo Awards shortlist are largely mediocre, insists up-and-coming author Adam Roberts. But the interesting part isn't his critiques of Gaiman, Doctorow, Stross, and Scalzi, it's his ideas of what make a great novel. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5317710&view=rss&microfeed=true Right after I got done reading the A.I. anthology We Think Therefore We Are, and appreciating Adam Roberts' Garden-Of-Eden story "Adam Robots" as one of the collection's most thought-provoking stories, Pyr Books' Lou Anders posted a rundown of all of Roberts' novels and an explanation of why he deserves more literary fame as a post-modern trickster: More »
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A new anthology gives some hints at the cutting edge of storytelling about artificial intelligences. We Think Therefore We Are, just out from Daw, includes a number of brilliant concepts amidst mostly lukewarm writing. More »
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