This weekend’s proof that the world is an incredibly strange place right now comes from Eastercon, the annual sci-fi convention held by the British Science Fiction Association. The BSFA awards were announced last night, and… Three Eight One got the most votes in the Best Novel category, so I’m amazed and completely beside myself and I won’t actually believe it until I have the award in my hands, but for now, here’s a long distance picture of said award:

Thanks very much to Amy Borsuk from Solaris, who was kind enough to pick up the award for me and give my speech. (I’ll just thank some people again here, from David Thomas Moore to Tim Stretton, from George Sandison to Christopher Priest, from Max Edwards to my family to Solaris people to everyone at Eastercon and elsewhere who have read Three Eight One, or any of the listed works this year: thank you. I was in great company, particularly all the other works on the Best Novel shortlist. What a year. )

I’ll put up another picture once the award arrives. I have to choose an appropriate place to put it. If I had a hot tub, it would go there. I’ll think about it.