Posted in Clarke Award, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 9 August 2025
Private Rites by Julia Armfield (Fourth Estate)
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre)
Extremophile by Ian Green (Ad Astra)
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer (The Borough)
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK)
Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf (Angry Robot)
I’ve read none of them.
Posted in Events dear boy. Events, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 5 August 2024
This year’s Clarke Award winner is In Ascension by Martin Macinnes.
Macinnes’s novel deals with the ocean depths as well as outer space. Appropriate really as Arthur C Clarke was also interested in both. As well as many outer space works he also wrote The Deep Range.
Posted in Clarke Award, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 19 June 2023
In my absence on holiday the shortlist for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year has been announced.
The list is:-
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick (Gollancz)
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
The Coral Bones by E. J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
Metronome by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)
Posted in Clarke Award, Science Fiction at 12:00 on 3 July 2021
It’s Arthur C Clarke Award time again.
This year’s shortlist is:-
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
Edge of Heaven by R.B. Kelly
The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
I’ve read none of them.
Posted in BSFA Awards, Clarke Award, Science Fiction at 20:00 on 13 June 2019
I see the short list for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award has been announced. I missed it at the time as I was away.
The list is:-
Semiosis by Sue Burke (HarperVoyager)
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Oneworld)
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Simon & Schuster)
Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
I’ve read none of them but note the Tade Thompson was on the BSFA Award list this year (despite doubts as to its eligibility – which would apply equally to the Clarke Award I’d have thought.)
Also on both lists is the Yoon Ha Lee. Having read his Ninefox Gambit I have to say I’m depressed by this.
