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“Four Black Lives Matter Murals in AR”, Nani Walker
The awards will be voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). The winners will be announced during ConFusion, to be held online April 2-5, 2021. For more information, see the BSFA website.
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This novella, currently available only in audio, is a tight, exciting thriller, blended with emotional nuance and plenty of food for thought.
In the near future, we have become a world of lotus eaters. The global government provides an income to everyone, so no one has to work. Nanites keep everyone young and healthy, and even edit one’s perceptions so that everyone’s sensory experiences can be tailored to personal preferences, known as themes (just like the preferences you set on your computer or phone, but for everything). The nanites can even record a person’s memories, so that a recently dead person’s memories can be updated into a clone. But when Holly Winseed’s clone awakes in a hospital bed, she learns that her original is still alive. However, her beloved husband Jonathan is not. He has been murdered – by original Holly. The government has created this provisional clone, “edited in” combat training and reflexes, and given her four days to find and kill orig
The awards are presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). The shortlists will be announced on March 18, 2021, and winners will be announced June 16, 2021 in a ceremony at the British Library in London, UK. Winners receive £500 worth of books to donate to local libraries, a golden medal, and a £5,000 Colin Mears Award cash prize.
For more information, including full lists, see the CILIP website.
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