1998 Arthur C Clarke Award

Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan wins the Arthur C Clarke Award

Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan, published by Orion, has won the 1998 Arthur C Clarke Award, given annually by a panel of judges for an SF novel published in the previous year. The result was announced this evening at a reception at the Science Museum in London. The award, consisting of £1,000 and a book-end, was presented by David Pringle. The award administrator is Paul Kincaid. Thanks to Simon Bisson for the use of his mobile phone as a hotline to Plokta HQ.

The shortlist consisted of (links in square brackets are to amazon.com or amazon.co.uk):

• Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan [US pb] [UK pb] [UK hb] [UK tpb]
• Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes [US pb] [US hb] [UK pb] [UK hb] [UK tpb]
• Time on My Hands by Peter Delacorte [US tpb] [US hb] [UK hb] [UK tpb]
• The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod [US hb] [UK hb] [UK pb]
• The Extremes by Chris Priest [US hb] [UK hb] [UK pb]
• Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair [UK hb]

Tricia Sullivan, Chris Priest, Ken MacLeod and Alison Sinclair were present at the ceremony.

The British Science Fiction Association also presented a special award to David Pringle, editor of the British SF magazine Interzone.

The Science Museum is now a partner in the administration of the award, with the Science Fiction Foundation and the British Science Fiction Association. The award was established in 1986 by Sir Arthur C Clarke to encourage quality SF writing, and he remains in close touch with it.

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Awards Administrator Paul Kincaid and nominee Chris Priest in front of the Mighty Duplicating Engines of the Science Museum

Tricia Sullivan - winner of the 1998 Arthur C Clarke award for Dreaming in Smoke

-- Mike Scott

19 May 1999