The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North.

It has just won the John Campbell award for best novel of 2014. I'm about a third of the way through and it's amazing. A man is born, lives, dies, and just about immediately finds himself starting that life over again. Then again. Eventually he hooks up with the Cronos Club, and at the end of his eleventh life a young girl tells him a cataclysm is coming, and he must get the word back in time so as to prevent the cataclysm.

I am actually at the Campbell Conference right now -- today is the last day -- and so I've met the wonderful author, as well as various other writers and other s-f geeks. The theme this year is teaching science fiction at the college and university level, and we have guests from various colleges, including Georgia Tech, Arizona State University, Florida Atlantic University, and UC Riverside. Very interesting conference.