Nick Harkaway Takes Kitschies Red Tentacle Award

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Nick Harkaway Takes Kitschies Red Tentacle Award

Posted at 8:04AM Thursday 28 Feb 2013

Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker, which manages to combine a 90-year-old super spy, a clockwork repairman and a cunning plan to destroy every living thing in the universe, has won him the Kitschies Red Tentacle award for the most intelligent, progressive and entertaining speculative novel of the year.

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