2021 Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the 35th Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced:
- Deep Wheel Orcadia, Harry Josephine Giles (Picador)
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)
- A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor UK)
- A River Called Time, Courttia Newland (Canongate)
- Wergen: The Alien Love War, Mercurio D. Rivera (NewCon)
- Skyward Inn, Aliya Whiteley (Solaris)
The winner will receive a check for £2,022 and an engraved bookend in an award ceremony on October 26, 2022 hosted by the Science Museum, London, in partnership with their exhibition Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination.
The 2022 judges are Phoenix Alexander and Nicole Devarenne for the Science Fiction Foundation, Crispin Black and Stark Holborn for the British Science Fiction Association, and Nick Hubble for the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival, with Andrew M. Butler serving as the non-voting Chair of the Judges. Butler says,
I am in awe of the work of our judges this year, reading over 100 titles submitted by 39 publishing imprints and independent authors, and for leading us to this moment. I am also delighted for the opportunity to return both to a live ceremony this year and for it to be held at the Science Museum as one of their Science Fiction exhibition events.
For more information, see the Clark Award website.
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