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Jeannette Ng (Chinese: 吳志麗) is a British fantasy writer best known for her 2017 novel Under the Pendulum Sun, for which she won the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer at the 2018 British Fantasy Awards. For that work, she was also the winner of the 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, which, largely due to her acceptance speech, was shortly renamed thereafter to the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

Jeannette Ng
Native name	Chinese: 吳志麗
Born	Hong Kong, China
Occupation	Author
Language	English
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Durham University
Genre	Fantasy
Notable works	Under the Pendulum Sun 2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech
Notable awards	Hugo Award for Best Related Work, 2020 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 2019 Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, 2018 British Fantasy Awards

Life and education

Ng was born in Hong Kong, and used her 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer acceptance speech to pay tribute to the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protestors.[1]

She studied at Durham University, earning an M.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.[2] She lives in Durham, England.[3] Ng is a nonbinary woman and uses she or they pronouns.[4][5]

Career

Publications

Ng's 2017 debut novel Under the Pendulum Sun (published by Angry Robot)[2] concerns a fantastical journey in gothic mid-19th century England,[6] and was shortlisted for Starburst's 2017 Brave New Words award[7] and the 2018 Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel at the British Fantasy Awards.[8] It was named by Syfy as one of the "10 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2017"[9] and included in Adam Roberts' list of "The best science fiction and fantasy of 2017" in The Guardian[10] and Jeff Somers' list of "50 of the Greatest Science Fiction & Fantasy Debut Novels Ever Written."[11]

Ng won the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer at the 2018 British Fantasy Awards for Under the Pendulum Sun,[12] and was a 2018 finalist and 2019 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, announced as part of the Hugo Awards.[13]

Her story "How the Tree of Wishes Gained its Carapace of Plastic" is included in the anthology Not So Stories, published April 2018 by Abaddon Books,[14] and was described by Starburst as "a tour de force of the author's talents."[15] Other short stories have been published in Mythic Delirium[3] and Shoreline of Infinity[16] magazines.

John W. Campbell Award and acceptance speech

In 2019, Ng won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, awarded during the Hugo Award ceremony at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention.[17][18]

As part of her acceptance speech, she referred to the award's namesake John W. Campbell as "a fucking fascist", sparking debate in the science fiction and fantasy community.[19][1]

On 27 August, the editor of award sponsors Analog Science Fiction and Fact announced that the award would be renamed the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.[20]

In July 2020, Ng was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Related Work for her 2019 John W. Campbell Award acceptance speech.[21] In her acceptance speech for this award (delivered by video due to the COVID-19 pandemic), she said that "pulling down memorials to dead racists is not the erasing of history, it is how we make history". She also said that "Last time I gave a speech at WorldCon, it was literally hours after a huge march in Hong Kong, my most cyberpunk of cities. Since then, things have gotten worse." "The tactics used to marginalise us, the tear gas used against us, it is the same everywhere. And we defeat it in the same way. And so our coming together is more important than ever before. To write a future of joy and hope and change." "Now is the time. Now is always the time. Free Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time."[22]

Bibliography

Novels

• —— (2017). Under the Pendulum Sun. Angry Robot. pp. 1–409. ISBN 978-0857667274.

Short fiction

Year	Title	Publication	Ref	Notes
2016	"Three Hundred Years"	—— (March 2016). "Three Hundred Years". Mythic Delirium. Mythic Delirium Books. 2 (3).
2017	"Goddess with a Human Heart"	—— (Summer 2017). "Goddess with a Human Heart". Shoreline of Infinity (8).
2018	"How the Tree of Wishes Gained Its Carapace of Plastic"	—— (April 2018). "How the Tree of Wishes...". Not So Stories. Abaddon Books.
	"We Regret to Inform You"	—— (August 2018). "We Regret to Inform You". This Dreaming Isle. Unsung Stories. 364 (6437): 302. Bibcode:2019Sci...364..302L. doi:10.1126/science.364.6437.302. S2CID 206626772.

Essays

• Textile Arts Are Worldbuilding, Too (2019)
• As You Know, Bob... (2019)
• "2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech" (2020)

Awards

Year Awarded	Nominee	Society	Award	Category	Result	Ref
2017	Under the Pendulum Sun	Starburst magazine	Starburst's 2017 Brave New Words Award		Nominated	[7]
2018		British Fantasy Society	British Fantasy Award	Best Newcomer (the Sydney J Bounds Award)	Won	[23][24]
				Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)	Nominated	[8][25]
		World Science Fiction Society	John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer		Nominated	[23]
2019		World Science Fiction Society	John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer		Won	[23][26]
2020	2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech	World Science Fiction Society	Hugo Award	Best Related Work	Won	[23][21]

References

External links

• Official website
• Author page at Angry Robot Books
• Maelstromic Insight: Thoughts and Theories on Game Design for Live Roleplay
• John W Campbell Award acceptance speech
• ISFDB

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