Вручение 3 февраля 2012 г.

Награда за 2011 год.

За премии боролись 152 книги, предоставленные 38 издательствами или импринтами.

Жюри в литературе:
Лорен Бьюкес (Lauren Beukes),
Ребекка Левин (Rebecca Levene),
Энн Перри (Anne C. Perry,
Джаред Шурин (Jared Shurin).

Жюри в номинации книжных иллюстраций:
Катрин Хемельрик (Catherine Hemelryk),
Крейг Кеннеди (Craig Kennedy),
Даррен Бэнкс (Darren Banks),
Хейли Кэмпбелл (Hayley Campbell).

Премию в номинации "Чёрное щупальце" (выбор судей) получило издательство комиксов и графических романов "Self Made Hero".

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: SFX Weekender 3, Престатин Сэндс, Уэльс. Дата проведения: 3 февраля 2012 г.

Красное щупальце (роман)

Лауреат
Патрик Несс 4.4
Тринадцатилетний Конор вынужден принять известие о скорой смерти матери. Смириться с этим, пережить все ощущения и прийти к пониманию ему помогает монстр из его снов, старое тисовое дерево, превращающееся в чудовище, когда мальчику особенно плохо… Текст и иллюстрации в книге составляют единое целое так, что книга становится не просто литературным произведением, а настоящим арт-объектом.
Чайна Мьевиль 4.1
В далеком будущем человечество колонизировало далекую планету Ариэку, на которой обитают загадочные ариэкей, разумные существа, на уникальном языке которых способны говорить лишь несколько “измененных” людей-послов. Колонистка Эвис Бреннер Чхо вернулась в Посольский город (Embassytown) после нескольких лет полетов в космосе. Она не говорит на языке ариэкей, но сама по себе является его частью, живой фигурой речи. Когда из-за политических интриг на Ариэку прибывает новый посол, хрупкое равновесие между людьми и туземцами нарушается. Близится катастрофа, и Эвис не может решить, кому остаться верной: мужу, которого больше не любит, системе, которой уже не доверяет, или месту в языке, на котором не говорит, но который говорит посредством нее.
Jesse Bullington 4.5
As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent.

She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.
Jane Rogers 0.0
Millions of pregnant women in the not-too-distant future are dying from a rogue virus released in an act of biological terrorism. Nothing less than the survival of the human race is at stake.

Jessie Lamb is just an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl living in extraordinary times, who begins to question her parents' attitudes and behavior in her struggle to become independent. As the world collapses and the certainties of childhood are ripped away, her idealism and courage drive her toward the ultimate act of heroism. But is she being heroic, or innocent and impressionable as her father fears, incapable of understanding where her actions will lead? The riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught with difficult moral choices will make The Testament of Jessie Lamb an instant favorite for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, and Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man.
Lavie Tidhar 3.1
Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King’s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks—experiences that led first to his memorable short story “My Travels with Al-Qaeda” and later to the creation of Osama.

“In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...”

Joe’s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe’s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he’ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul—nor for the choice he will at last have to make...

Золотое щупальце (дебют)

Лауреат
Kameron Hurley 5.0
Nyx had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn't make any difference...

On a ravaged, contaminated world, a centuries-old holy war rages, fought by a bloody mix of mercenaries, magicians, and conscripted soldiers. Though the origins of the war are shady and complex, there's one thing everybody agrees on...

There's not a chance in hell of ending it.

Nyx is a former government assassin who makes a living cutting off heads for cash. But when a dubious deal between her government and an alien gene pirate goes bad, Nyx's ugly past makes her the top pick for a covert recovery. The head they want her to bring home could end the war--but at what price?

The world is about to find out.
Дуглас Хьюлик 4.1
Дорминиканская Империя – могущественное государство, которым с давних времен правит император Стефан Дорминикас. Сами Ангелы разделили его душу на три ипостаси, которые исправно сменяются на престоле под присмотром Магов-Эталонов и верной стражи – Белых и Золотых Кушаков. Но никакая империя не обходится без теневого мира – криминального дна. Этот мир называется Кругом. Водя дружбу с ворами и душегубами, Дрот служит осведомителем одному из главарей Круга, а попутно промышляет контрабандой священных реликвий. Случайно в его руки попадает древняя книга, способная, как выясняется, свергать императоров с трона. Любой обитатель преступного мира с легкостью пойдет на убийство, чтобы заполучить ее.
Эрин Моргенштерн 4.0
Цирк приезжает без предупреждения. Без афиш или какой-либо другой рекламы. Он просто появился из ниоткуда. Под шатром в чёрно-белую полоску скрывается совершенно уникальный опыт, полный захватывающих дух и поражающих воображение вещей. Этот цирк называется «Цирк Сновидений» и открывается только в ночное время. Но за кулисами начинается жесткая конкуренция — соревнование между двумя молодыми магами, Селией и Марко, которые были обучены с детства специально для этой цели, своими инструкторами. Юные маги и не догадываются, что это игра, из которой только один может выйти победителем, так что цирк становится сценой для замечательного боя воображения и сильной воли. Несмотря на их разногласия, Селия и Марко окунаются с головой в любовь, в глубокую, волшебную любовь, которая делает огни ярче и комнаты теплее, всякий раз, когда они прикасаться друг к другу даже кончиками пальцев. Истинная любовь или нет, но игра должна продолжаться, от этого зависят судьбы всех — от обычных артистов этого необычного цирка до смелых воздушных акробатов.
Ренсом Риггз 4.1
Шестнадцатилетний Джейкоб с детства привык к рассказам своего деда о его юности на далёком Уэльском острове, в приюте для странных детей: о чудовищах с тройными языками, о невидимом мальчике, о летающей девочке… Единственным побочным эффектом этих выдумок были ночные кошмары, мучившие подростка. Но однажды кошмар ворвался в его жизнь, убив деда наяву…
Фред Вентурини 0.0
Dale Sampson is a nobody. A small town geek who lives in the shadow of his best friend, the high school baseball star, it takes him years to even gather the courage to actually talk to a girl. It doesn't go well. Then, just when he thinks there's a glimmer of hope for his love life, he loses everything. When Dale runs into the twin sister of the girl he loved and lost, he finds his calling--he will become a samaritan. Determined to rescue her from a violent marriage, and redeem himself in the process, he decides to use the only "weapon" he has--besides a toaster. His weapon, the inexplicable ability to regenerate injured body parts, leads him to fame and fortune as the star of a blockbuster TV reality show where he learns that being The Samaritan is a heartbreaking affair. Especially when the one person you want to save doesn't want saving. The Samaritan is a brutally funny look at the dark side of human nature. It lays bare the raw emotions and disappointments of small town life and best friends, of school bullies and first loves, of ruthless profiteers and self-aggrandizing promoters and of having everything you know about human worth and frailty questioned under the harsh klieg lights of fame.

Чернильное щупальце (иллюстрация на обложке)

Лауреат
Glen Duncan 3.5

Лауреат - художник Питер Медельсунд (за обложку к книге Глена Дункана "Последний вервольф" / Peter Mendelsund, for The Last Werewolf).

Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but you’d never suspect it. Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for you—and a diet with lots of animal protein. Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species. Although he is physically healthy, Jake is deeply distraught and lonely.

Jake’s depression has carried him to the point where he is actually contemplating suicide—even if it means terminating a legend thousands of years old. It would seem to be easy enough for him to end everything. But for very different reasons there are two dangerous groups pursuing him who will stop at nothing to keep him alive.

Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in some magical way deeply human.

One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.
Ben Aaronovitch 3.8

Художник Уолтер Стивен за иллюстрации к книге.
Художник Патрик Ноулз за обложку к книге.

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden... and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.
Umberto Eco 4.0

Сюзанн Дин за обложку к книге.
Джон Спенсер за иллюстрации к книге.

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies, lies just one man?
Simon Morden 0.0

Лорен Панепинто за обложку к книге.

Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor.

He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone - the last city in England. He's lived this long because he's a man of rules and logic.

For example, getting involved = a bad idea.

But when he stumbles into a kidnapping in progress, he acts without even thinking. Before he can stop himself, he's saved the daughter of the most dangerous man in London.

And clearly saving the girl = getting involved.

Now, the equation of Petrovitch's life is looking increasingly complex.

Russian mobsters + Yakuza + something called the New Machine Jihad = one dead Petrovitch.

But Petrovitch has a plan - he always has a plan - he's just not sure it's a good one.
Patrick Ness 4.4

Джим Кей за обложку к книге.

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming… The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself. Darkly mischievous and painfully funny, A Monster Calls is an extraordinarily moving novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.