Congratulations on winning. I rate Glasshouse as the best, most interesting and well written story I've read by you. Ken has still won this award by 3 times more than you though :) http://www.lfs.org/awards.htm Been reading your blog for a while thought I'd say 'hi!'

And well deserved too.

Just finished Glasshouse, and enjoyed it immensely.

I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I noticed the similarity between the basic physical kind of society (I.e. habs linked by wormholes, orbiting brown dwarfs - and a passing mention of wormhole routers.) and that in the latter stages of Accelerando. Is it supposed to be a little later in the same post singularity universe (or are they all like that :) )

Anyway. Congrats on the award.

Well deserved, and one of the best libertarian socialist novels (and a good study in sociology). Congrats from me, too!

I find myself thinking, "But James Bond and George Smiley are in the same universe too."

Congratulations, Charlie. A well-deserved award for an excellent book.

Well, I loved it, so obviously it deserves awards.

Congrats Charlie! :-)

Way to go Charlie! Like #6, I loved it so clearly it deserved the award.

Congratulations

Nice way to bookmark the month of August...A Sidewise and a Prometheus.

Good luck tomorrow.

Congratulations

Nice way to bookend the month of August...A Sidewise and a Prometheus.

Good luck tomorrow.

A long and energetic line of dancing conga rats for Charlie! Woohoo!

Congratulation! Dunno if I'd call it "libertarian", but that's OK; it's not as if I know what that word means these days.

I nominated it for a Tiptree, FWIW. (And yes, I did notice the Tiptree reference you snuck in.)

Good. I agree that the Execution Channel deserves something, in due course. But Glasshouse does now.

ATTA boy Charlie! Congrats!

J^2

Congratulations!

Well done mate!

W00t! Grats Charlie! :) I loved Glasshouse.

As I've said before, there's more to libertarianism than the economic policies they're best known for. The basis of it is a love of individualism and personal freedom, something you see in both Charlie's and Ken's works. And even China Miéville -- I'd go so far as to say "Perdido Street Station" or "The Scar" were libertarian.

Socialism and libertarianism spring from the same root.

Congratulations--Glasshouse was absolutely well-done, and what I liked best was how the theme of individualism against the 20th Century (dystopic) cookie-cutter, points-system world was worked into a really good story, told with good pacing and fine attention to the characters--their motives and inner workings.

The award is well-deserved.

Congratulations! A well-deserved recognition. I caught many references to 'The Prisoner' in the book, intended or not.

laughs Congratulations, Ken^H^H^HCharlie!

Congratulations!

As we all know, to parallel the nonspeech by Ken MacLeod, "after dabbling in radical politics," Adolf Hitler emigrated to the United States in 1919 and became a science fiction illustrator, editor and author. He wrote the science-fantasy novel Lord of the Swastika in less than a month in 1953, shortly before dying of cerebral hemorrhage (possibly caused by tertiary syphilis); Lord of the Swastika subsequently wins the Hugo Award."

[Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream; as summarized in wikipedia]

I've just finished reading Glasshouse and really enjoyed it. Congratulations on the award. Be seeing you!

Congratulations on the award!

Caught your reading tonight (I was the guy in the front row, red t-shirt). Can't wait to read it when it finally comes out. Sadly my incorrigible shyness kept me from telling you in person that you are without a doubt one of my favorite writers.

I don't know how you keep up the pace you do. It's either superhuman (in which case, keep it up) or it's gonna put you in an early grave (in which case, for God's sake man take a holiday!)

Glasshouse was an incredible piece of work. Congratulations on the much-deserved award! (And please don't stop writing.) (Ever.)

Congratulations but dont you think you should let someone else win for a change ;)

I'm a bit late Charlie - but congrats. Glasshouse deserved another award and I'm only sorry I couldn't be there/vote.

Well done again

Is there an award for best socialist SF novel?

Dave, I believe that right now that's the Prometheus Award ;)

congratulations!

Well done, mate - by curious coincidence last week we decided that Glasshouse was going to be the book we discussed for the Edinburgh SF Book Group at the end of this month. Now we can add that we are discussing the 'award-winning' Glasshouse! Groovy!

Great!

I presume the "Linebarger Cats" had names like Captain Wow and Melanie and The Lady May?

Just finished "Atrocity Archive, BTW ... ummm .... Is "Jennifer Morgue" available in pbk in the UK (yet?)

Yes it's available.

Congratulations on Prometheus award received for Glasshouse, and sympathy for the one that got away. "'T ain't no bad thing to lose to such a fine author as Ver—" ... oh hell yes, it is.

Re buried references as mentioned above: Just wanted to thank you for the tub-thumping rendition of "First We Take Manhattan" to open the Church service. If Leonard Cohen doesn't work for you in that scene, you can always substitute R.E.M. (more hellish driving tempo than tub-thumping), or Joe Cocker: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-rSe4cBNhSk.

Have a safe trip home!

Well I just finished Rainbows end & I wasn't that impressed - the ideas were great but it didn't seem to have much in the way of narrative drive. I certainly didn't read it in 2 sittings like I did Glasshouse. Next year Charlie.

Chris @34: the other hymn mentioned in the Church service? It's the Horst Wessel Lied (in English, just to confuse people, of course).

Charlie @36:

> the other hymn mentioned in the Church service?

Many congratulations...I was delighted that so many of those commented mentioned GLASSHOUSE, which I'm currently almost at the end of (don't tell me the ending!) It's, wow, stunning. One of the cleverest visions of the present I've ever read, seen through the eyes of a far future human. Are we really that weird?

Phil