The Kitschies 2015
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
London :
March 4, 2015
Eligibility Year: 2014
Eligibility Year: 2014
Red Tentacle (novel)
- Winner: Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith (Egmont)
- Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Peripheral, William Gibson (Viking)
- The Race, Nina Allan (NewCon)
- The Way Inn, Will Wiles (4th Estate)
Golden Tentacle (debut Novel)
- Winner: Viper Wine, Hermione Eyre (Jonathan Cape)
- The Girl in the Road, Monica Byrne (Blackfriars)
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (self-published)
- Memory of Water, Emmi Itäranta (HarperCollins)
- The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara (Atlantic)
Inky Tentacle (cover Art)
- Winner: Glenn O'Neill for Tigerman by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann)
- Rafaela Romaya & Yehring Tong for The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Canongate)
- design by Steve Marking; lettering by Kimberly Glyder for The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
- Ben Summers for A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Emily Carroll & Sonja Chaghatzbanian for Through the Woods by Emily Carroll (Faber and Faber)
Invisible Tentacle (natively Digital Fiction)
- Winner: Kentucky Route Zero, Ace III (Cardboard Computer)
- 80 Days (created/curated by Jeff Noon @jeffnoon, Ed @3dgriffiths, James Knight @badbadpoet, violet sprite @gadgetgreen, Richard Biddle @littledeaths68, Mina Polen @polen, Uel Aramchek @ThePatanoiac, Graham Walsh @t_i_s_u, Vapour Vox @Wrong_Triangle)
- echovirus12 (Inkle Studios and Meg Jayanth)
- The Sailor's Dream (Simogo)
Remarks:
Novel and debut winners were selected by judges Kate Griffin, Adam Roberts, Frances Hardinge, Kim Curran, and Glen Mehn. Judges for art were Jim Kay, Siân Prime, Dapo Adeoloa, and Ed Warren. This year includes a new category, Invisible Tentacle.
All of this year's winners and finalists were first-time finalists for this award, and only four of them -- Nina Allan, William Gibson, Emmi Itäranta, and Nnedi Okorafor -- have previous nominations for any of the awards compiled in this database (as of this posting).
Novel and debut winners were selected by judges Kate Griffin, Adam Roberts, Frances Hardinge, Kim Curran, and Glen Mehn. Judges for art were Jim Kay, Siân Prime, Dapo Adeoloa, and Ed Warren. This year includes a new category, Invisible Tentacle.
All of this year's winners and finalists were first-time finalists for this award, and only four of them -- Nina Allan, William Gibson, Emmi Itäranta, and Nnedi Okorafor -- have previous nominations for any of the awards compiled in this database (as of this posting).
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