Beauman Wins Clarke Award
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman (Soho/Sceptre) has won the 2023 annual Arthur C. Clarke Award. Beauman receives £2,023 and an engraved bookend. Other finalists were:
- 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 2023 judges were 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.
For more information, see the Clarke Award website.
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