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Hot off the Clarke Award presses: "Nova Swing by M. John Harrison, published by Gollancz in the UK, is the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK’s premier prize for science fiction literature.

The announcement was made at the award’s official ceremony held in London, Piccadilly on the evening of Wednesday 2nd May as part of an exclusive event in partnership with the opening of this year's Sci-Fi-London Film Festival.

The annual award is presented for best science fiction novel of the year and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.

Speaking about the winning novel, Chair of the Judges Paul Billinger said: "In M. John Harrison's Nova Swing we have a triumphant return to the world first seen in his earlier acclaimed novel, Light. This is a vividly and richly described world, full of Harrison’s unique interpretations, and is his most lyrical and affecting book to date."

The winner receives a prize of &pound2007 and a commemorative engraved bookend.

The judging panel for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award were Niall Harrison and Claire Weaver for the British Science Fiction Association, Pat Cadigan and Graham Sleight for the Science Fiction Foundation and Dave Palmer for the Science Museum. Paul Billinger represents the Arthur C. Clarke Award as the Chair of Judges.

Congratulations to M. John Harrison, and commiserations to the other short-listed authors: Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Lydia Millet, Jan Morris, Adam Roberts and Brian Stableford.

Source: Clarke Award press release

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