{"id":611,"date":"2006-01-23T07:23:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/01\/23\/bsfa-awards-nominees-announced\/"},"modified":"2006-01-23T07:23:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T23:23:49","slug":"bsfa-awards-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/01\/23\/bsfa-awards-nominees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"BSFA Awards nominees announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dang, those Brits know how to put together an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsfa.co.uk\/index.cfm\/section.awards\" target=\"_blank\">awards shortlist<\/a>. The good folk over at the British Science Fiction Association have announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsfa.co.uk\/index.cfm\/section.awards\" target=\"_blank\">2005 Awards Shortlists<\/a>. The novel category includes Jon Courtenay Grimwood&#8217;s <strong>9Tail Fox<\/strong>, Charles Stross&#8217;s <strong>Accelerando<\/strong>, Geoff Ryman&#8217;s <strong>Air<\/strong>, Ken Macleod&#8217;s <strong>Learning the World<\/strong>, and Justina Robson&#8217;s <strong>Living Next Door to the God of Love<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s as good a shortlist as I&#8217;ve seen for any award in recent years. I&#8217;d hate to have to pick a winner amongst them &#8211; they&#8217;re all very fine books &#8211; but the Ryman and Stross books are both extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dang, those Brits know how to put together an awards shortlist. The good folk over at the British Science Fiction Association have announced their 2005 Awards Shortlists. The novel category includes Jon Courtenay Grimwood&#8217;s 9Tail Fox, Charles Stross&#8217;s Accelerando, Geoff Ryman&#8217;s Air, Ken Macleod&#8217;s Learning the World, and Justina Robson&#8217;s Living Next Door to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2006\/01\/23\/bsfa-awards-nominees-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BSFA Awards nominees announced<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}