Station Eleven wins Arthur C Clarke

Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven (Picador) has won the Arthur C Clarke Award. The prize for science fiction literature this year stood at £2,015. Mandel’s book is a dual narrative, with one strand following the outbreak of a flu that wipes out 99% of the world’s population, and the other looking at survivors of the flu 20 years later. The prize was accepted by on Mandel’s behalf by her editor at Picador, Sophie Jonathan. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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