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Title: Congratulations to Mur Lafferty
Post by: Wilson Fowlie on September 03, 2013, 05:46:32 PM

Mur won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Well done!

ETA: Event pics here (http://strangelove4sf.blogspot.ca/2013/09/2013-hugo-award-winners.html).

Title: Re: Congratulations to Mur Lafferty
Post by: matweller on September 03, 2013, 08:23:21 PM

Awesome! And congrats also to EP frequent flyer Ken Liu! (not present)  ;)

Title: Re: Congratulations to Mur Lafferty
Post by: kibitzer on September 04, 2013, 10:37:57 PM

Oh, fantastic! Huge gratz to Mur!!

Although, it must feel a little strange to receive a "new writer" award?

Title: Re: Congratulations to Mur Lafferty
Post by: Unblinking on October 01, 2013, 02:42:22 PM

Quote from: kibitzer on September 04, 2013, 10:37:57 PM

Oh, fantastic! Huge gratz to Mur!!

Although, it must feel a little strange to receive a "new writer" award?

Yeah, it's kind of a weird category.  Since a lot of her work has been of the self-pub variety, those don't count against you.

Title: Re: Congratulations to Mur Lafferty
Post by: DKT on October 01, 2013, 09:02:27 PM

I believe Lev Grossman won this category when the Magicians came out (2010)...several years after his novels Warp (1997) and Codex (2004) were published.

Anyway, I'm very happy Mur :) I hope this means we get a lot more books from her!