Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘thrilling’ verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles
by Sarah Shaffi from World news | The Guardian on (#6558G)
Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for making you rethink what science fiction can do'
Poet Harry Josephine Giles's verse novel, Deep Wheel Orcadia, has won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction book of the year.
The book is told in the Orkney dialect and comes with a parallel translation into English.
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