Accelerando nominated for Prometheus Award
I am informed that "Accelerando" has been nominated for the Prometheus Award for the best libertarian novel of 2005. (Novels are nominated by the membership of the Libertarian Futurist Society and the winner is selected form a shortlist of top nominees by a panel of judges.)
This is the first (and so far, the only) award nomination for "Accelerando" as a novel. I'm very pleased, but if it wins it'll be a first ... and the separate nine stories that went into "Accelerando" have been shortlisted for a bucketload of awards already:
- Lobsters
- Hugo Award, best novelette (2002), Nebula Award (2002), Sturgeon Award (2002), Seiun Award (2004)
- Troubadour
- No nominations
- Tourist
- No nominations
- Halo
- Hugo Award, best novelette (2003), Sturgeon Award (2003)
- Router
- BSFA Award (2003)
- Nightfall
- BSFA Award (2004), Hugo Award, best novelette (2004)
- Curator
- No nominations
- Elector
- Hugo Award, best novella (2005)
- Survivor
- No nominations
(NB: this list does not include Locus Readers' Awards or Asimov's SF magazine reader polls – all the stories flagged as "no nominations" received nominations for one or the other of these two.)
Oh, and the punchline: despite this illustrious list, not one of these stories won anything.