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06-17-2007, 09:11 AM
My novella Missile Gap (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/) has just won the Locus award (http://www.locusmag.com/2007/06_LocusWinners.html) for best novella of 2006. (The entire thing is online here (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/) if you want to read it.)
I wasn't able to make it to Seattle for the award ceremony, so I asked Gardner Dozois (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Dozois) to accept it on my behalf. Without him, this novella wouldn't have been written. He commissioned it for the anthology One Million AD (http://www.sffworld.com/brevoff/346.html). He's the one who kept badgering me to produce it when I was ready to throw in the towel; it wasn't an easy birth, and without his encouragement it wouldn't have made it out into the world. I'd also like to thank Bill Schaeffer of Subterranean Press for publishing it as a stand-alone novella. Finally, mad props to long-term fan and critic James Nicoll, who came up with the original insane setting — then kindly gave me permission to take his idea and run with it.
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I wasn't able to make it to Seattle for the award ceremony, so I asked Gardner Dozois (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Dozois) to accept it on my behalf. Without him, this novella wouldn't have been written. He commissioned it for the anthology One Million AD (http://www.sffworld.com/brevoff/346.html). He's the one who kept badgering me to produce it when I was ready to throw in the towel; it wasn't an easy birth, and without his encouragement it wouldn't have made it out into the world. I'd also like to thank Bill Schaeffer of Subterranean Press for publishing it as a stand-alone novella. Finally, mad props to long-term fan and critic James Nicoll, who came up with the original insane setting — then kindly gave me permission to take his idea and run with it.
(Original Post) (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/brief_announcement.html)