Tentacles and Tiptrees

[ann_leckie]

There will be a couple of posts in quick succession today, since a lot has happened in the past couple weeks but it doesn’t seem like it should all be lumped together.

So. Awards! In chronological order!

Ancillary Justice was awarded the Kitschies Golden Tentacle for best debut. This is very much an honor. Just its being on the shortlist was amazing. Here’s that list:

A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

Stray by Monica Hesse

Nexus byRamez Naam

Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Those are some fabulous books! And someone (more than one someone!) thought Ancillary Justice belonged on that list. Chuffed doesn’t even begin to describe it.

My awesome UK editor Jenni Hill attended the ceremony, and accepted my (completely adorable) tentacle trophy on my behalf.

And then! Because that was somehow not sufficient awesome! The Tiptree winner and honor list have been announced. The winner is Rupetta by N.A. Sulway. Which I have not read, but I am looking forward to reading it. I generally try to pick up a copy of the Tiptree winner(s) when I’m at Wiscon, if I don’t already have one. Which I usually don’t–I look forward to the Tiptree announcement partly because it’s so often awarded to a book that I have never heard of and am glad to be introduced to.

So that is, of course, its own kind of awesome, but cast your eyes over the honor list. Yes, Ancillary Justice is on it. Nicola Griffith’s Hild is too, and Electric Lady (my book is on a list with Janelle Monae!!!) and “Heaven Under Earth” by Aliette de Bodard and more things, some of which I am unfamiliar with but that won’t be true for long if I can help it.

So, happy award dance!!!!

Mirrored from Ann Leckie.

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I read Ancillary Justice in January, while on a trip to deal with difficult family stuff. I found it absorbing, interesting, challenging, and not at all concerned with family issues, which was a great relief. It's on my Hugo noms list. Thanks for writing it.

I had thought I'd have something more insightful to say about it -- engages with difficult issues, pays attention to problems of empire without actually being Romans in space, comes up with clever way to shift attention from gender to class -- but my insight drawer is empty right now.

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh, thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :D

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on all the award listings. :)

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D I am really, really pleased and also really, really flabbergasted!