The Kitschies, sponsored by Fallen London, also saw the Inky Tentacle for best cover won by designer Jet Purdie for the cover art for Sally Gardner’s The Door That Led to Where, while the Invisible Tentacle for “natively digital fiction” went to Life is Strange, by Square Enix Studios. 1 The novel is described as a 'wickedly funny and deeply disturbing novel about a near future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free. Margaret Eleanor Atwood (Ottawa, 18 de noviembre de 1939) es una poeta, novelista, crítica literaria, profesora y activista política canadiense.Es miembro del organismo de derechos humanos Amnistía Internacional y una de las personas que presiden BirdLife International, en defensa de las aves. Talese in the USA and Bloomsbury in the UK.
Judge Nikesh Shukla described it as a “strong, strange political thriller that oozes with one-liners and thrills galore”, saying that “with such a strong shortlist that gave us mermaids, fallen cities, people waking up a different race and more, Making Wolf manages to excite and entertain in equal measure”. The Heart Goes Last is a novel by Margaret Atwood, published in September 2015 by McClelland & Stewart in Canada, Nan A. The Golden Tentacle for best debut, worth £500, went to Tade Thompson’s Making Wolf, the story of a London supermarket security guard who travels home to Nigeria, where he is kidnapped and forced to investigate the murder of a local hero. He promised to match funds raised by the public up to £10,000, and fellow authors were quick to join him, with almost £700,000 raised in total. Last year, Ness began fundraising for Save the Children because “I’m tired of just tweeting my despair about the current refugee crisis that the UK government is responding to with inhumane feebleness”. The Black Tentacle, for “outstanding achievement in encouraging and elevating the conversation around genre literature”, was awarded to “the genre community, personified by Patrick Ness”, for its response to the refugee crisis.
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