Volume 26, Number 4, Summer, 2008

2008 Prometheus Awards News

The 2008 Prometheus Awards for Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30pm in

Best Novel Winners show their awards
Harry Turtledove and Jo Walton, co-winners of the Prometheus Award for Best Novel, for The Gladiator and Ha'penny, respectively..
the Denver Convention Center at Denvention, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention. This year marked two firsts in the history of the Prometheus Awards for
Fran Van Cleave holds the Hall of Fame Award
Fran Van Cleave holds the Hall of Fame Award for Anthony Burgess' novel, A Clockwork Orange.
Best Novel: First female winner, and first tie.

Both of the Best Novel winners were on hand for the presentation of the awards, which was hosted by LFS representative, Fred Curtis Moulton. Fran Van Cleave, also representative the LFS accepted the award for Classic Fiction, also known as the Hall of Fame, for Anthony Burgess's savagely dystopian novel, A Clockwork Orange. Burgess died in 1993.

Turtledove made a brief statement followed by Walton. The floor was then opened for questions, and the awards presentation closed with photographs of the winners.

A full WorldCon report with all the speeches will appear in the Fall issue.

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