Film, shameless self promotion, bad puns, real ale, cheese, whining about bad corporate service. Nonvoting chair of judges™️ for Clarke Award. Opinions mine.
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
23 Jul 2024
CFP: Special Issue of Extrapolation: Science Fictional Ecologies in Contemporary Art
deadline for submissions: November 1, 2024
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
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@Andrew_M_Butler, chair of the @ClarkeAward judges, talks us through their six-book shortlist for the title of science fiction novel of the year.
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
15 May 2024
Congrats to my old mate Sherryl for this coming out — I wrote a chapter for it about Bucky Fuller geodesic domes and how the hippy counterculture took them up in the architecture of Drop City onwards.
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
16 May 2024
Two wonderful shortlists have landed in the campus bookshop for 2024 - we’ve got the jitters for the @jhalakprize !
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
13 May 2024
✨The shortlist 2024!✨
CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
IN ASCENSION by Martin MacInnes
THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Ray Nayler
SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh
COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY by Isabel Waidner
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
22 Apr 2024
📡 117 books from 50 publishers.
The complete submissions list for the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year 2024!
#sciencefiction #books #awards
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
16 Aug 2023
Ned Beauman wins Arthur C Clarke award for ‘bleakly funny’ novel theguardian.com/books/2023/a…
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
16 Aug 2023
Huge congratulations to @NedBeauman, the winner of this year's @ClarkeAward 👏👏👏
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
26 Jul 2023
@ExtrapolationSF 64.2 features Elio Baldi on violence, the humanness of things, and the thingness of humans in Nicoletta Vallorani’s Avrai i miei occhi. Book reviews by @docfantasy_ & @anaklimchy. @Andrew_M_Butler @gerrycanavan @alyxpryn🤖
Browse online: bit.ly/EXTR64-2
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
7 Jun 2023
And now, the actual @ClarkeAward shortlist. First impressions are more positive than not. briardenebooks.uk/2023/06/07…
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
7 Jun 2023
Tom Watson's Metronome has been shortlisted for this year's #ClarkeAward! 🥳
7 Jun 2023
✨The shortlist has landed!✨
We're delighted to announce the shortlist for the 37th Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
Read the full story on the @sciencemuseum blog: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ar…
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
7 Jun 2023
✨The shortlist has landed!✨
We're delighted to announce the shortlist for the 37th Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
Read the full story on the @sciencemuseum blog: blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ar…
#clarkeaward
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
4 Jun 2023
🛰️On the blog: "5 judges, 988,172,368 possible shortlist combinations."
The complete list of eligible titles submitted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award 👇
medium.com/@clarkeaward/5-ju…
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
11 Mar 2023
I hope we are all now agreed that we are much more shocked by the comparison that Lineker made than we are by what the government is trying to do to prevent asylum seekers from getting to Britain.
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
26 Oct 2022
I am very overwhelmed, very honoured and very grateful. Thank you to everyone who made this happen. There are many of you. There aren't enough words. Can't reply to everything tonight, so more tomorrow. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
26 Oct 2022
We're delighted to announce that ✨DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA✨ by @HJosephineGiles is the 36th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year!
Monolith-sized thanks to our fantastic judges and to @sciencemuseum for hosting us!
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
26 Oct 2022
Such a delight to host @ClarkeAward this evening as part of #SMLates celebrating Science Fiction @sciencemuseum, and such a privilege to get to open the envelope and read @HJosephineGiles Deep Wheel Orcadia as this year's winner! Congratulations!!! #ClarkeAward
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Andrew M Butler retweeted
8 Jul 2022
The #ClarkeAward 2022 shortlist is here!
Deep Wheel Orcadia – Harry Josephine Giles
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine
A River Called Time – Courttia Newland
Wergen: The Alien Love War – Mercurio D. Rivera
Skyward Inn – Aliya Whiteley
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