{"id":8960,"date":"2018-07-25T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2018-07-25T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T09:30:35","slug":"2018-arthur-c-clarke-award-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/07\/25\/2018-arthur-c-clarke-award-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2018\u00a0Arthur C. Clarke Award announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkeaward.com\/\">Arthur C. Clarke Award<\/a>\u00a0for science fiction has just been awarded to Anne Charnok\u2019s <em>Dreams Before the Start of Time\u00a0<\/em>(47North 2017), a novel set in London in the near future. Infertility is a thing of the past, and artificial wombs eliminate the struggles of pregnancy, and men and women can create children independently. But the novel asks what does it mean to be a parent? A child? A family?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/march-russell.html\">Dr Paul March-Russell<\/a>, Specialist Associate Lecturer in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>\u00a0and editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-foundation.org\/publications\/index.html\"><em>Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was on the panel of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=6458\">judges for the award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul praised the winning title: \u2018I\u2019m delighted that this quiet, beautifully written novel has received one of the genre\u2019s highest accolades. It eschews melodrama and sensation for a methodically thought-out narrative which is all the more human and profound.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Further details of the Arthur C. Clarke Award are available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkeaward.com\/\">www.clarkeaward.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018\u00a0Arthur C. Clarke Award\u00a0for science fiction has just been awarded to Anne Charnok\u2019s Dreams Before the Start of Time\u00a0(47North 2017), a novel set in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/07\/25\/2018-arthur-c-clarke-award-announced\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}