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News Arthur C. Clarke Award Martin MacInnes Wins the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award for In Ascension Congratulations to the author! By Molly Templeton | Published on July 25, 2024 Author photo by Rob McDougall Comment 0 Share New Share Author photo by Rob McDougall Martin MacInnes has won the 38th Arthur C. Clarke Award, given to the best science fiction novel published in the previous year, for his novel In Ascension. MacInnes receives £2024 and a trophy. Dr. Andrew M. Butler, chair of the judging panel, said of the book: “As always, the judging session was filled with emotion and intelligence and it took a while for Martin MacInnes’s In Ascension to emerge as the front runner. It shows us, in the words of one judge, ‘vistas between the cellular and the cosmic.’ It’s an intense trip and for once it’s a winner that is in the tradition of Clarke’s own novels.” In Ascension, MacInnes’s third novel, was previously longlisted for the Booker Prize. Writing for The Wall Street Journal, Heller McAlpin said of the book, “Few novels toggle so beautifully between the minute and the vast, the personal and the theoretical, the quotidian and the extraordinary, the knowable and the unfathomable. In Ascension raises big questions about the universe and humanity’s place in it. Even better, it evokes wonder at every turn.” Five other novels were shortlisted for this year’s Clarke award: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan; The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler; Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh; and Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner. The judging panel consisted of Dolly Garland and Stark Holborn for the British Science Fiction Association, Nic Clarke and Tom Dillon for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Glyn Morgan for the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.[end-mark] The post Martin MacInnes Wins the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award for <i>In Ascension</i> appeared first on Reactor.

News shaun of the dead Shaun of the Dead Returns to Theaters for Its 20th Anniversary How’s that for a slice of fried gold? By Molly Templeton | Published on July 25, 2024 Screenshot: Focus Features Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Focus Features Time flies when you’re running away from zombies. Somehow, it’s been twenty whole years since the phrase “You’ve got red on you” was introduced to the public consciousness in Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead. According to Deadline, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the movie will be re-released in theaters, “fully remastered with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos for an elevated experience that highlight subtle details, ultra vivid colors and immersive sound.” You don’t just have red on you; you have ultra vivid red on you. In a statement, Wright said, “Twenty years ago, the worldwide release of Shaun of the Dead changed my life forever. Its reception since then has continued to be incredible, largely due to the passionate fans who have championed it with cricket bats aloft. Now, as we celebrate its bloody 20th anniversary with a brand-new Dolby Atmos and Vision remastered version, I’m beyond excited for everyone to experience it once again on the big screen—the way it was always meant to be seen: large, loud, and with quite a lot of red on it.” A recent oral history of the film at IndieWire is full of delightful details about the making of the film, including the fact that Sade quickly signed off on allowing the filmmakers to smash one of her records against a zombie’s head, and Bill Nighy grumbled about his costumes. (Not dapper enough.) If it’s been a while since you hung out with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and the rest of the extremely well-cast gang, now’s your time. Shaun of the Dead is in theaters August 29th.[end-mark] The post <i>Shaun of the Dead</i> Returns to Theaters for Its 20th Anniversary appeared first on Reactor.