Highland author nominated for top science-fiction award
EASTER Ross author Michel Faber has been shortlisted for UK science-fiction’s most prestigious literary prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Faber, who was born in the Netherlands but has lived in the Highlands since 1993, has been nominated for his most recent novel, The Book of Strange New Things, which follows a Christian missionary’s journey to an alien world.
Also shortlisted for the award, which will be announced on Wednesday 6th May at Foyle’s bookshop in London, are Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, M. R. Carey’s The Girl With all the Gifts, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, Europe In Autumn by Dave Hutchinson and Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta.
All are first time nominees for the award, which is now in its 29th year.
The winner will receive a cheque for £2015 and a commemorative bookend.
Although Faber’s most successful book was his historical novel The Crimson Petal and The White, his debut novel Under the Skin also contained science-fiction elements and was recently filmed with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role.
