2023 Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, celebrating the best science fiction novel published in the UK, has been announced:
Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman (Sceptre)- The Red Scholar’s Wake, Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
- Plutoshine, Lucy Kissick (Gollancz)
- The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
- The Coral Bones, E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
- Metronome, Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)
The winner will be announced on August 16, 2023, and receives an engraved bookend and £2,023 in prize money. The 2023 judges are Francis Gene-Rowe and Dave Hutchinson for the British Science Fiction Association, Kate Heffner and Nicholas Whyte for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Georgie Knight for the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival. Andrew M. Butler represented the Clarke Award directors as non-voting Chair of the Judges. Butler says,
This year we’ve shortlisted authors that have never made the Clarke Award’s top six before. It’s always good to see new authors or authors new to science fiction standing out from so many submissions. I look forward to what I suspect will be a passionately argued decision.
For more information, see the Clarke Award website.
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