The six titles on the 2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist have been announced:
- God’s War, Kameron Hurley (Del Rey UK)
- Ancillary Justice, Anne Leckie (Orbit)
- The Disestablishment of Paradise, Phillip Mann (Gollancz)
- Nexus, Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)
- The Adjacent, Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
- The Machine, James Smythe (Blue Door)
This year’s judges are Duncan Lawie and Ian Whates for the British Science Fiction Association, Sarah Brown and Lesley Hall for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Georgie Knight for SCI-FI-LONDON. Andrew M. Butler is chair of judges. Tom Hunter is awards director.
For those unfamiliar, the Arthur C. Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year (in the view of the panel that year). The award was established with a grant given by Sir Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987 to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The winner will receive a £2014.oo prize and a commemorative engraved bookend, but we are sure that the real prize is earning a place alongside some of Science-Fiction’s literary greats (Atwood, McAuley, Mieville, Priest, Morgan, MacLeod, Beukes – to name but a few!).
The winning title will be announced May 1, 2014, at the Royal Society in London.
Jennie Ivins