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Lancaster resident and co-publisher of the (no longer published) weekly
events listing Something Completely Different has won a prestigious
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of 2000 or 2001
at this year’s SF Worldcon in San Jose, California.
Jo, a popular figure in Lancaster SF circles for many years accepted the
award with a sonnet which she has kindly allowed us to reproduce below!
The John W. Campbell Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year
is one of the three major annual awards for science fiction. The Award
was created to honour the late editor of Astounding Science Fiction
magazine, now named Analog.
Campbell, who edited the magazine from 1937 until his death in 1971, is
regarded by many writers and scholars, the father of modern science fiction.
Writing from Canada, Jo told Virtual-Lancaster she’s presently writing
a novel of manners "in which all the characters are dragons with a tech
level of about 1850, to be called Tooth and Claw."
Jo's Acceptance Sonnet:
I met a traveller from an antique land
who said: I saw the statue that we all revere
stood in the cornfield... hard to understand
it had been standing there five thousand year,
while all the blessings people can command
flowed through his fingers as they stretch outspread.
Yet still his face is carven like a man
thus was the sculptor's skill, the likeness read,
that on his famous face his thoughts appear:
"My name is Oxymandias, know my plan
my skill makes deserts bloom, come, learn and share."
Around the statue's feet, peaceful, serene,
his irrigation flourishing with care
that vast, once desert land, stretches out green."
This sonnet is © Jo Walton, August 2002.
More about the John W. Campbell Award:
Go
Jo Walton's Web Site: Go
Read some of Jo's short stories on the Strange Horizons site: Go
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