There are often questions raised about the diversity of shortlists in Fantasy and Science-Fiction awards. When questions such as these arise for awards which are sent a list of books for consideration by the publishers – like the Clarke Awards – the question of whether the young/old, male/female, ethnic minorities (etc, etc) have been turned away at the shortlisting stage by judges or are simply not being submitted by publishers is an important one. In many cases it is impossible for us readers to know, but the Clarke Awards are doing a very good thing in by being as open as possible with their process and thereby allowing us to follow the award at every step of the way – from submission list to shortlist to winners – and make up our own mind as to whether the shortlist is fair and whether the publisher submitted the right titles that particular year.
This year there are 107 titles from 36 publishers. The shortlist will be announced in April and the winners in May – we shall let you know who makes it through and who wins as soon as we know.
THE Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 SUBMISSION LIST:
- The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams (Del Rey)
- The Race by Nina Allan (NewCon Press)
- Timebomb by Scott K. Andrews (Hodder& Stoughton)
- Babayaga by Toby Barlow (Atlantic Books)
- Resistance by Samit Basu (Titan)
- Ultima by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- War Dogs by Greg Bear (Gollancz)
- Marcher by Chris Beckett (NewCon Press)
- Bowl of Heaven by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven (Titan)
- Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins)
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Hodder& Stoughton)
- Jani and the Greater Game by Eric Brown (Solaris)
- Hurricane Fever by Tobias S. Buckell (Del Rey)
- The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne (Blackfriars)
- Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun (Hogarth)
- The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier by Jack Campbell (Titan)
- The Lost Stars: Imperfect Sword by Jack Campbell (Titan)
- The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero (Del Rey)
- Amnesia by Peter Carey (Faber & Faber)
- The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey (Orbit)
- The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher (Titan)
- Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines (Del Rey)
- Cibola Burn by James A. Corey (Orbit)
- The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (Tor UK)
- Consumed by David Cronenberg (4th Estate)
- Glaze by Kim Curran (Jurassic London)
- Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle (Granta)
- The Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson (Tor UK)
- Peacemaker by Marianne De Pierres (Angry Robot)
- Andromeda’s Fall by William C. Dietz (Titan)
- The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber (Canongate)
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
- Astra by Naomi Foyle (Jo Fletcher Books)
- Extinction Game by Gary Gibson (Tor UK)
- The Peripheral by William Gibson (Viking)
- The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon (Weidenfeld& Nicolson)
- Symbiont by Mira Grant (Orbit)
- Afterparty by Daryl Gregory (Titan)
- The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton (Macmillan)
- Tigerman by Nick Harkaway (Windmill)
- Zodiac Station by Tom Harper (Hodder& Stoughton)
- TimeStorm by Steve Harrison (Elsewhen Press)
- The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder (Del Rey)
- The Monster’s Wife by Kate Horsley (Barbican Press)
- Sand by Hugh Howey (Arrow)
- The Heart of Valour by Tanya Huff (Titan)
- The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot)
- Infidel by Kameron Hurley (Del Rey)
- Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
- Wolves by Simon Ings (Gollancz)
- Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (Harper Voyager)
- Glass Shore by Stefan Jackson (Elsewhen Press)
- The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen (Bantam)
- The Stonehenge Letters by Harry Karlinsky (The Friday Project)
- Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
- Into the Fire by Peter Liney (Jo Fletcher Books)
- The Three by Sarah Lotz (Hodder& Stoughton)
- Descent by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman (Harper Voyager)
- God’s Dog by Diego Marani (Dedalus)
- The Hive Construct by Alexander Maskill (Doubleday)
- Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall (Egmont)
- Defenders by Will McIntosh (Orbit)
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Hodder& Stoughton)
- Future Perfect by Katrina Mountfort (Elsewhen Press)
- The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (Chatto&Windus)
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Orbit)
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder& Stoughton)
- The Bees by Laline Paull (4th Estate)
- After Me Comes The Flood by Sarah Perry (Serpent’s Tail)
- Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell (Solaris)
- The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Doubleday)
- The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz)
- The Forever Watch by David Ramirez (Hodder& Stoughton)
- The Blood Red City by Justin Richards (Del Rey)
- Bête by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Binary by Stephanie Saulter (Jo Fletcher Books)
- Lock In by John Scalzi (Gollancz)
- Fontoon by John Schoneboom (Dedalus)
- Vicious by V.E. Schwab (Titan)
- Sky Pirates by Liesel Schwarz (Del Rey)
- Shanghai Sparrow by Gaei Sebold (Solaris)
- Indigo by Clemens J. Setz (Serpent’s Tail)
- Koko Takes A Holiday by Kieran Shea (Titan)
- A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin (Bantam)
- Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla (The Friday Project)
- The Echo by James Smythe (Harper Voyager)
- No Harm Can Come To A Good Man by James Smythe (The Borough Press)
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Picador)
- The Happier Dead by Iva Stourton (Solaris)
- The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross (Orbit)
- Shadowboxer by Tricia Sullivan (Ravenstone)
- Cataveiro by E.J. Swift (Del Rey)
- Fish Tails by Sheri S. Tepper (Gollancz)
- The Rhymer: AnHerodyssey by Douglas Thompson (Elsewhen Press)
- Sphinx: The Second Coming by James Thornton (Barbican Press)
- A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar (Hodder& Stoughton)
- Annihilation by Jeff Vander Meer (4th Estate)
- Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (4th Estate)
- Acceptance by Jeff Vander Meer (4th Estate)
- Barricade by Jon Wallace (Gollancz)
- My Real Children by Jo Walton (Corsair)
- Firefall by Peter Watts (Head of Zeus)
- The Martian by Andy Weir (Del Rey)
- The Empire of Time by David Wingrove (Del Rey)
- The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanaghira (Atlantic Books)
