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Awards & Accolades Archive
Transition is a 2010 Campbell Award Finalist
June 23rd, 2010 in Awards & Accolades
Iain [M] Banks' current novel, Transition, has been named as a finalist for the prestigious 2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
From the announcement on the Awards website:
The Award will be presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as the focal point of a weekend of discussions about the writing, illustration, publishing, teaching, and criticism of science fiction.
It looks like a particularly strong Finalists list this year, although of course we're all rooting for a Transition win.
Matter shortlisted for 2009 Prometheus Award
March 26th, 2009 in Awards & Accolades, Global
Iain's latest Culture novel, Matter - currently available in the UK, US and Australia in Orbit paperback - has been shortlisted for the 2009 Prometheus Award.
This award is given by the Libertarian Futurist Society in recognition of the best pro-freedom novel published during the previous year.
The award will be presented during Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, which takes place from August 6-10, 2009, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Congratulations to Iain on his nomination!
Iain Banks named in Times list of '50 greatest postwar writers'
February 21st, 2008 in Awards & Accolades, Global
Iain Banks has been named alongside 49 other British literary luminaries in the (London) Times' list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
In their quick summary of Mr Banks' achievements to-date, they note:
"Although reviewers of Iain Banks
'The Steep Approach to Garbadale' short-listed for new Scottish fiction prize
January 23rd, 2008 in Awards & Accolades, Global
The Clare Maclean prize for Scottish Fiction is a new award that will be announced by the organisers of Aye Write!, the Bank of Scotland Book Festival on March 15th.
The Steep Approach to Garbadale is one of six short-listed novels, all of which were first published in 2007, that have been nominated for the inaugural award. Fingers crossed!