Thursday, April 30, 2009

Rare book award news

Live (well, not quite) from the Arthur C. Clarke awards!

It was all quite heartening even if this sense of continuity and lack of cynicism seemed at odds with the world outside the Apollo Cinema. If anyone was worried about swine flu, for instance, they weren't letting on. As someone pointed out to me, there was no point worrying anyway because the room we were in was so crowded that "we're all fucked anyway. And that's assuming that the tube journey here hadn't got them first".

From the Guardian.