Well he may be bent out of shape over the Clarke Award short list, but author Christopher Priest can be happy that his novel The Islanders won a 2011 BFSA Award for Best Novel.

The 2012 Hugo Awards nominations are out, and amongst the typical gritty fantasy and zombie apocalypse novels are Jo Walton's Among Others, which sounds genuinely intriguing.

Simon Morden's Samuil Petrovitch thrillers: a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic, near-future London, wins this year's Philip K. Dick Award.

Author Christopher Priest whips out his epeen and gets in a nerd rage over the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist. Is it because it's that bad? Or is it because he's not on it this year?

2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner Redwood and Wildfire, by Andrea Hairston, is about a hoodoo woman who migrates from backwoods Georgia north to modern Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.