China Mieville won the Arthur C Clarke sci-fi award for a record third time, for The City & the City. In Canada, Jessica Grant won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for Come, Thou Tortoise (Knopf Canada). The WSJ considers tonight’s Edgar Awards, and notes after surveying past results that “winners at tonight’s annual Edgar Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, should relish the victory–the first Edgar is often the last.” The only author to win both best first novel and best novel during their career is Ross Thomas.WSJ
