Вручение 4 марта 2015 г.

Награды за 2014 год.

Финалисты Kitschies' 2014 были отобраны из числа 198 произведений, предоставленных более чем 40 издательствами или импринтами.

Жюри в номинациях «Красное щупальце» и «Золотое щупальце»:
Кэтрин Уэбб (Catherine Webb), она же Кейт Гриффин (Kate Griffin) — британская писательница;
Адам Робертс (Adam Roberts) — профессор английского языка, писатель;
Франсис Хардинг (Frances Hardinge) — британская детская писательница;
Ким Керран (Kim Curran) — автор фантастики для подростков;
Глен Мен (Glen Mehn) — новый руководитель ассоциации The Kitschies.
Жюри в номинации «Невидимое щупальце»:
Лаура Грейс (Laura Grace), Фило ван Кеменаде (Philo van Kemenade) Клэр Реддингтон (Clare Reddington), Джеймс Уоллис (James Wallis) — специалисты в области компьютерных игр и IT-технологий.

Жюри в номинации «Чернильное щупальце»:
Джим Кей (Jim Kay) — британский художник-иллюстратор;
Сиан Прайм (Siân Prime) — руководительница программы творческого обучения;
Дапо Адеолоа (Dapo Adeoloa), он же Дапс (Daps), — художник визуальных эффектов, иллюстратор;
Эд Уоррен (Ed Warren) — креативный директор лондонского рекламного агентства «Creature».

Жюри в номинации «Чёрное щупальце»:
Хлоя Хили (Chloe Healy), Дженни Хилл (Jenni Hill), Глен Мен (Glen Mehn), Марк Чаран Ньютон (Mark Charan Newton), Энн Перри (Anne C. Perry) и Джаред Шурин (Jared Shurin) — организаторы премии.

Премия "Невидимое щупальце" (цифровая публикация):
Лауреат - Kentucky Route Zero, Act III (компьютерная игра)
Номинанты -
Джефф Нун echovirus12 (коллективный аккаунт в твиттере)
80 Days (компьютерная игра)
Sailor's Dream (компьютерная игра)

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: Лондон Дата проведения: 4 марта 2015 г.

Красное щупальце (роман)

Лауреат
Grasshopper Jungle
Andrew Smith 4.2

If you're a fan of John Green, Michael Grant, Stephen King or David Levithan, get your pincers stuck into this. In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It's the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. Funny, intense, complex and brave, Grasshopper Jungle is a groundbreaking, genre-bending, coming-of-age stunner.
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Lagoon
Nnedi Okorafor 3.7
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against time to save the country they love and the world itself… from itself. Lagoon expertly juggles multiple points of view and crisscrossing narratives with prose that is at once propulsive and poetic, combining everything from superhero comics to Nigerian mythology to tie together a story about a city consuming itself.

At its heart a story about humanity at the crossroads between the past, present, and future, Lagoon touches on political and philosophical issues in the rich tradition of the very best science fiction, and ultimately asks us to consider the things that bind us together – and the things that make us human.

‘There was no time to flee. No time to turn. No time to shriek. And there was no pain. It was like being thrown into the stars.’
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Периферийные устройства
Уильям Гибсон 3.9
Бертон служил в корпусе морской пехоты, в элитном подразделении Первой гаптической разведки. Когда он вернулся с войны, посттравматического синдрома у него не нашли, но пенсию по инвалидности дали. А тут у него и тайная подработка появилась: испытывать новую компьютерную игру. Но однажды ему понадобилось уехать в соседний город, и он попросил свою сестру Флинн подменить его на очередном сеансе бетатестирования. Ничего, мол, сложного: патрулируешь на квадрокоптере периметр трех этажей высотки и отгоняешь стрекоз-папарацци. Но Флинн не была готова к тому, что там увидит, — то ли это просто игра, то ли настоящее убийство. И где это — там?
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The Way Inn
Уилл Уайлс 0.0
Up in the Air meets Inception in this smart, innovative, genre-synthesizing novel from the acclaimed author of Care of Wooden Floors—hailed as “Fawlty Towers crossed with Freud,” by the Daily Telegraph—that takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee, and the free wifi, and twists them into a surrealistic nightmare of infinite proportions.

Neil Double is a “conference surrogate,” hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don’t have to. It’s a life of budget travel, cheap suits, and out-of-town exhibition centers—a kind of paradise for Neil, who has reconstructed his incognito professional life into a toxic and selfish personal philosophy. But his latest job, at a conference of conference organizers, will radically transform him and everything he believes as it unexpectedly draws him into a bizarre and speculative mystery.

In a brand new Way Inn—a global chain of identikit mid-budget motels—in an airport hinterland, he meets a woman he has seen before in strange and unsettling circumstances. She hints at an astonishing truth about this mundane world filled with fake smiles and piped muzak. But before Neil can learn more, she vanishes. Intrigued, he tries to find her—a search that will lead him down the rabbit hole, into an eerily familiar place where he will discover a dark and disturbing secret about the Way Inn. Caught on a metaphysical Mobius strip, Neil discovers that there may be no way out.
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The Race
Nina Allan 0.0
Set in a future Great Britain scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, The Race is the first full-length novel from Nina Allan, winner of the 2014 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (Spin, TTA Press), and the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for Best Translated Work (Complications/The Silver Wind, Editions Tristram).
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Золотое щупальце (дебют)

Лауреат
Viper Wine
Гермиона Айр 0.0
At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciously alike. Plump cheeks, dilated pupils, and a heightened sense of pleasure are the first signs that they have been drinking a potent new beauty tonic, Viper Wine, distilled and discreetly dispensed by the physician Lancelot Choice. Famed beauty Venetia Stanley is so extravagantly dazzling she has inspired Ben Jonson to poetry and Van Dyck to painting, provoking adoration and emulation from the masses. But now she is married and her “mid-climacteric” approaches, all that adoration has curdled to scrutiny, and she fears her powers are waning. Her devoted husband, Sir Kenelm Digby – alchemist, explorer, philosopher, courtier, and time-traveller – believes he has the means to cure wounds from a distance, but he so loves his wife that he will not make her a beauty tonic, convinced she has no need of it. From the whispering court at Whitehall, to the charlatan physicians of Eastcheap, here is a marriage in crisis, and a country on the brink of civil war. The novel takes us backstage at a glittering Inigo Jones court masque, inside a dour Puritan community, and into the Countess of Arundel's snail closet. We see a lost Rubens altarpiece and peer into Venetia’s black-wet obsidian scrying mirror. Based on real events, Viper Wine is 1632 rendered in Pop Art prose; a place to find alchemy, David Bowie, recipes for seventeenth-century beauty potions, a Borgesian unfinished library and a submarine that sails beneath the Thames.
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The Girl in the Road
Моника Бирн 0.0
A debut that Neil Gaiman calls “Glorious. . . . So sharp, so focused and so human.” The Girl in the Road describes a future that is culturally lush and emotionally wrenching.

Monica Byrne bursts on to the literary scene with an extraordinary vision of the future. In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, two women embark on vastly different journeys—each harrowing and urgent and wholly unexpected.
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Дневник чайного мастера
Эмми Итяранта 3.7
Первый роман финской писательницы Эмми Итяранта «Дневник чайного мастера» стал победителем конкурса научно-популярной и фантастической литературы, организованного финским издательством «Teос». В этом романе-антиутопии перед читателем предстает мир, который может стать реальностью: нет больше зим, земля превратилась в пустыню, а реки давно пересохли, оставив на поверхности земли лишь шрамы. В нем правят военные, превратившие пресную воду в мощное средство контроля над людьми. Вода распределяется по карточкам, и любое нарушение карается без всякой пощады.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers 3.8
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.

Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.

Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
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The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara 3.8
It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But his discovery has come at a terrible cost, not only for the islanders, but for Perina himself. Disquieting yet thrilling, The People in the Trees is an anthropological adventure story with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide. It marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in American fiction.
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Чернильное щупальце (иллюстрация на обложке)

Лауреат
Tigerman
Nick Harkaway 4.0

Гленн О'Нил за обложку к книге Ника Харкуэя «Tigerman».

Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he’s about to be retired. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu is the ideal place to serve out his time, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community concerned for their own safety. The perfect place for Lester is also the perfect location for a multinational array of shady businesses. Hence the Black Fleet of illicit ships lurking in the bay: spy stations, arms dealers, offshore hospitals, money-laundering operations, drug factories and torture centers. None of which should be a problem, since Lester’s brief is to sit tight and turn a blind eye.

Meanwhile, he befriends a brilliant, Internet-addled street kid with a comic-book fixation who will need a new home when the island dies. When Mancreu’s fragile society erupts in violence, Lester must be more than just an observer: he has no choice but to rediscover the man of action he once was, and find out what kind of hero the island—and the boy—will need.

From the award-winning author of Angelmaker and The Gone-Away World, Tigerman is a novel at once deeply heartfelt and headlong thrilling—about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind.
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Through the Woods
Emily Carroll 4.2

Эмили Кэрролл за обложку к книге Эмили Кэрролл "Through the Woods".
Sonja Chaghatzbanian за обложку к книге Эмили Кэрролл "Through the Woods" (не нашлось пока издание).

Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation “His Face All Red,” in print for the first time.

Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our Neighbor’s House”—though coming back might be a problem. Or find yourself a young bride in a house that holds a terrible secret in “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold.” You might try to figure out what is haunting “My Friend Janna,” or discover that your brother’s fiancée may not be what she seems in “The Nesting Place.” And of course you must revisit the horror of “His Face All Red,” the breakout webcomic hit that has been gorgeously translated to the printed page.

Already revered for her work online, award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll’s stunning visual style and impeccable pacing is on grand display in this entrancing anthology, her print debut.
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A Man Lies Dreaming
Lavie Tidhar 0.0

Бен Саммерс за обложку к книге Леви Тидхара «A Man Lies Dreaming»

Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights imagining another world - a world where a disgraced former dictator now known only as Wolf ekes out a miserable existence as a low-rent PI in London's grimiest streets.

An extraordinary story of revenge and redemption, A Man Lies Dreaming is the unforgettable testament to the power of imagination.
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The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber 3.8

Рафаэла Ромайа и Йеринг Тонг за обложку к книге Мишеля Фейбера «The Book of Strange New Things».

It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter.

Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us.
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