The 2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for the best single-author collection has been won by Chris Beckett’s The Turing Test. He won not only the £5000 jury prize but also the £1000 readers’ prize.
It’s a stunning collection, and had to be to beat the other authors on the shortlist, three-quarters of whom had either won or been on the shortlist for the Booker Prize.
Most of the stories first appeared in Interzone, y’know…
