BSFA winner announced

Also at the busy EasterCon the winners of this year's British Science Fiction Association awards were announced. It appears the excellent novelist Adam Roberts was bang on the money as the novel he predicted was most likley to win did indeed take the coveted Best Novel prize: Ian McDonald's fascinating, absorbing and exotic near-future, multiple-character tale set in India, River of Gods.

Huge congratulations to Ian for winning this prestigious prize for an amazing book. Personally the list was so damned strong this year I'm glad I wasn't on the judging panel; I'm not sure I could decide, they are all so good! Ken MacLeod may have narrowly missed adding another BSFA to his mantlepiece but the gripping Newton's Wake didn't come away empty-handed, picking up the BSFA award for best cover artwork.

FPI will continue to run our promotion of 25% off not only River of Gods but all of the other shortlisted novels on the BSFA and the Arthur C Clarke awards (the winner of which is announced in May and River of Gods is in the running for this as well), so you still have time to pick up these excellent novels at a great price online and in our paricipating branches (Glasgow, Hanely, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast, Dublin, Nottingham, Derby and Wolverhampton).