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April 5, 2010
Contact: Jill Maxick, 800-853-7545
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Pyr Announces Four Award Nominations, Citations and Wins
Author Ian McDonald, Editor Lou Anders, and Artist Stephan Martiniere Recognized
Amherst, NY -- Pyr, a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Prometheus Books, is proud to announce two Hugo Award nominations and to congratulate Pyr author Ian McDonald on accolades for his books
Cyberabad Days and
Desolation Road.
The
2010 Hugo Award ballot was announced yesterday, Easter Sunday, at Odyssey 2010, this year’s Eastercon. We are thrilled to celebrate our two nominees:
· Pyr Editorial Director
Lou Anders, nominated for the fourth consecutive year in the “Best Editor - Long Form” category.
· Ian McDonald's
“Vishnu at the Cat Circus” from
Cyberabad Days
, nominated in the “Best Novella” category.
The Hugos are international, fan-voted awards. All members of the World Science Fiction Society are eligible to vote. The Hugo Awards Ceremony will be held at this year’s World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), ‘Aussiecon 4’ in Melbourne, Australia on September 5, 2010.
McDonald’s original novella “Vishnu at the Cat Circus”--which closes out the
Cyberabad Days collection and serves as a sequel to
River of Gods--will be included in the Twenty-Seventh Annual Edition of Gardner Dozois'
The Year's Best Science Fiction.
Lou Anders says, “I’m enormously honored to be nominated in the ‘Best Editor - Long Form’ category for the fourth year in a row. I'm equally, if not more gratified, to see Ian McDonald in the ‘Best Novella’ category. Ian is one of science fiction's premiere authors and he is at the top of his game.”
Anders’ fourth consecutive Hugo Award nomination coincides with Pyr’s fifth anniversary celebration.
“We're extremely pleased and grateful for the tremendous reception Pyr has received,” says Prometheus Books President Jonathan Kurtz. “The taste, vision, and stewardship of Editorial Director Lou Anders has been instrumental in shaping the brand since March 2005.”
In related news, Ian McDonald's
Cyberabad Days was given a
2010Philip K. Dick Award Special citation. The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.
Additionally, cover artist Stephan Martiniere has won the
British Science Fiction Association Award for “Best Artwork” for the cover of
Desolation Road
by Ian McDonald.
Pyr has published six books by Ian McDonald:
River of Gods; Brasyl;Desolation Road; Cyberabad Days; Ares Express and
The Dervish House(forthcoming in July 2010).
is that it reminded me of a Steven Moffat episode of Doctor Who," says Rob Will Review. He goes on to say that the book is "one of the best time travel novels I’ve read. The novel also deserves high marks for including numerous gay characters who are as sensitively drawn as they are three-dimensional and non-stereotypical. End of the Century succeeds on every level–as an intricate puzzle, as a reunion with characters readers of Roberson’s previous books will have grown very fond of, as a fascinating character study of new heroines and heroes from various eras, all of whom are unknowingly bound by a single quest, and, most of all, as an excellent story wonderfully told. As the Tenth Doctor might say, 'This is brilliant!'”
, is up for Best Collection. Meanwhile, Pyr itself breaks into the top five for Best Publisher.
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