Tag Archives: honors and awards

The Tiptree Award

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Matt Ruff

Via Cheryl Morgan: This year’s James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner is Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army, published in the U.S. under the title Daughters of the North. A full list of 2007 Tiptree honorees is here, and Tiptree Award juror … Continue reading →

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The (new and improved) PNBA book award

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Matt Ruff

On Saturday I was in Portland to receive a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association award for Bad Monkeys. This is my second PNBA award—Set This House in Order won in 2004—and I’m pleased to report that the experience does not get … Continue reading →

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Bad Monkeys makes 2007 Editors’ Top 10 list on the SF Site

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Matt Ruff

I’m tied at #5 with Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, and just up ahead at #3 is Joss Whedon with 8th season Buffy. Nice company to be in.

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Bad Monkeys on Locus 2007 recommended reading list

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Matt Ruff

The online list is here, and Claude Lalumière has some nice things to say here. The February print edition of the magazine has more to say about all the recommendations. Locus Online has also posted a tabulation of the SF, … Continue reading →

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Bad Monkeys wins an Alex award

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Matt Ruff

In another pleasant Monday morning surprise, I just found out via sdn that Bad Monkeys has won an Alex award. Congrats to my fellow winners: Ishmael Beah for A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Conn Iggulden for … Continue reading →

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Bad Monkeys nominated for a BSFA award

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Matt Ruff

The British Science Fiction Association have posted the current list of nominees for Best Novel of 2007, and I’m pleasantly surprised to see that Bad Monkeys is on it.

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Bad Monkeys wins a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Matt Ruff

Woot! Congrats to the other winners: Sherman Alexie for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Jim Harrison for Returning to Earth Denis Johnson for Tree of Smoke Lauren Kessler for Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land … Continue reading →

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Bad Monkeys an SF Chronicle holiday pick

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Matt Ruff

Just in time for Black Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle has published its holiday gift-book recommendations, and Bad Monkeys is on the science-fiction list, along with Kage Baker’s The Sons of Heaven, Christopher Barzak’s One For Sorrow, Emma Bull’s Territory, … Continue reading →

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Bad Monkeys makes the Unshelved Book Club

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Matt Ruff

As some of you will already know, there’s an online comic called Unshelved—”the only daily comic strip set in a public library”—put out by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes. On Sundays they do the Unshelved Book Club, a full-page strip, … Continue reading →

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In which I am shortlisted for a Genius Award

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Matt Ruff

No, not one of those Genius Awards, the other kind. Every year Seattle’s alternative weekly newspaper The Stranger runs its own, low-budget version of the MacArthur Fellows Program (a Stranger Genius Award only scores you $5000, but you do get … Continue reading →

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