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There are still a few things I want to write about WorldCon and the days afterward, but it's been nuts, not only because I came home from Denver with a nice head cold. Before too much more time goes by, however, I wanted to note that my friend and sometime collaborator David Brin walked out of the convention center with a nice new award to add to his collection.

David's novella Sky Horizons (Subterranean Press, 2007), a stand-alone piece which serves as the first part of our work-in-progress Colony High, won the Hal Clement / Golden Duck award for best young adult book of 2007. You can find more about here at
http://www.goldenduck.org/winners.html

Before anyone's eyes explode at the idea that the guys behind books like The Postman and Plague Year could be writing young adult fiction, yes, Colony High is a YA novel, but it's YA in the same way that Ender's Game was originally released as YA. Our ongoing adventure is YA with real meat to it, as so many YA novels are these days... even, shall we say, dark and gritty? We expect grown-ups will dig it as well as any teenager. For example, how do the words "political assassination" strike you as the basis for a sub-plot? Or, for that matter, "sex" or "First Contact" or "biological contamination"? Hee hee.

I'm really looking forward to getting this one complete.

In the meantime, congrats to David!

Labels: David Brin, Hal Clement Award, Sky Horizon, WorldCon report