{"id":38131,"date":"2020-06-29T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38131"},"modified":"2020-06-28T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:49:19","slug":"congratulations-tamsyn-muir-locus-award-2020-for-first-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/06\/29\/congratulations-tamsyn-muir-locus-award-2020-for-first-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Tamsyn Muir: Locus Award 2020 for First Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-37607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gideon-the-Ninth-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gideon-the-Ninth-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gideon-the-Ninth-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Gideon-the-Ninth.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>Last weekend delivered very exciting news for NZ author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tazmuir?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tamsyn Muir<\/a>, as well as for NZ writing and speculative fiction generally. The 2020 Locus Awards were announced during one of the many virtual events that have become de rigeur in 2020&#8212;and Tamsyn Muir received the award for First Book for <strong><em>Gideon The Ninth,<\/em><\/strong> published in 2019 by Tor Books (Macmillan.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a tremendous achievement on the international literary stage and I would like to offer Tamsyn my warmest congratulations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gideon the Ninth<\/em> has garnered a lot of positive notice since it appeared last year, including being nominated for both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2020\/06\/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2020-nebula-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nebula<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2020\/04\/2020-hugo-and-astounding-awards-finalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hugo Awards<\/a>, both in the Best Novel category, the latter of which is yet to be decided. So there&#8217;s still a space to watch&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For the full list of Locus Award nominees and winners, across all categories, click on TOR.com&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2020\/06\/27\/announcing-the-2020-locus-awards-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Announcing The Locus Award 2020 Winners<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>And yes, I have read <em>Gideon the Ninth<\/em> and yes, I did enjoy it. If you&#8217;re wondering why I haven&#8217;t posted on it yet, one reason <em>might<\/em> be time and space &#8212; but the second, more compelling reason, is because I plan on featuring <em>Gideon the Ninth&#8217;s<\/em> worldbuilding, which I enjoyed immensely, in my <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/year-of-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-5-ship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Worldbuilding In Fantasy series on the Supernatural Underground.<\/a> Forthcoming this very Wednesday, July 1, so another space to watch. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, though, as a NZ-er, I&#8217;m just so pleased to see work by a NZ author garnering such accolades. Not least since NZ-based speculative fiction authors in particular pretty much <em>have<\/em> to be published overseas in order to have any hopes of a career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend delivered very exciting news for NZ author Tamsyn Muir, as well as for NZ writing and speculative fiction generally. The 2020 Locus Awards were announced during one of the many virtual events that have become de rigeur in 2020&#8212;and Tamsyn Muir received the award for First Book for Gideon The Ninth, published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38136,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38131\/revisions\/38136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}