2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award Eligible Novels
Torque Control has released the list of eligible novels for the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award. From this list of 54 the Clarke jury will select 6 novels for the shortlist to be released on Friday, March 4th. The winner will be announced at SciFi London on April 27th.
If you hurry, you can try your hand at being a Clark juror in Torque Control’s Guess the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist contest. The contest ends Wednesday.
We’ve got about half of the eligible books in our database already and we’ll be adding the missing books in time for Friday’s announcement.
- Black Hand Gang – Pat Kelleher (Abaddon Books)
- Zoo City – Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
- Generosity – Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
- Declare – Tim Powers (Corvus)
- Finch – Jeff VanderMeer (Corvus)
- The Holy Machine – Chris Beckett (Corvus)
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu (Corvus)
- On the Third Day – Rhys Thomas (Doubleday)
- Salvage – Robert Edric (Doubleday)
- Bringing Home the Stars – Jennifer Kirk (DS Press)
- Sylvow – Douglas Thompson (Eibonvale Press)
- Red Plenty – Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber)
- The Birth of Love – Joanna Kavenna (Faber & Faber)
- Paradise – Glenn Myers (Fizz Books)
- A Matter of Blood – Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
- Above the Snowline – Steph Swainston (Gollancz)
- Absorption – John Meaney (Gollancz)
- Eve: The Burning Life – Hjalti Danielsson (Gollancz)
- Guardians of Paradise – Jaine Fenn (Gollancz)
- New Model Army – Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Stone Spring – Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- Terminal World – Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- The Black Lung Captain – Chris Wooding (Gollancz)
- The Dervish House – Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz)
- The Silent Land – Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
- Veteran – Gavin G Smith (Gollancz)
- WWW: Watch – Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
- Zendegi – Greg Egan (Gollancz)
- Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart (Granta)
- For the Win – Cory Doctorow (Harper Voyager)
- Things We Didn’t See Coming – Steve Amsterdam (Harvill Secker)
- C – Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)
- Feed – Mira Grant (Orbit)
- Lightborn – Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
- Surface Detail – Iain M Banks (Orbit)
- The Fuller Memorandum – Charles Stross (Orbit)
- The Restoration Game – Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
- The Unit – Terry DeHart (Orbit)
- The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit)
- Version 43 – Philip Palmer (Orbit)
- The Passage – Justin Cronin (Orion Books)
- Blood and Iron – Tony Ballantyne (Pan Macmillan)
- Empire of Light – Gary Gibson (Pan Macmillan)
- Kraken – China Miéville (Pan Macmillan)
- The Evolutionary Void – Peter F. Hamilton (Pan Macmillan)
- The Reapers are the Angels – Alden Bell (Pan Macmillan)
- The Technician – Neal Asher (Pan Macmillan)
- Zero History – William Gibson (Penguin)
- Pornogram – Osric Allen (Robert Temple)
- The Meat Tree – Gwyneth Lewis (Seren)
- The Age of Zeus – James Lovegrove (Solaris)
- The Noise Within – Ian Whates (Solaris)
- Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
So what have you read from this list and which ones would you put on your own shortlist?
Update – 03/03/11: All the novels are in now. Happy reading.
Space Shuttle Discovery Launch!
Amazing video footage taken from an airplane. I’m in awe and feelin’ a bit sad that there are so few shuttle launches left. Back to capsules atop rockets? Really?
2010 Nebula Award Nominees
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards.
- The Native Star, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
- Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- Echo, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
- Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
- Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, May 21, 2011 in the Washington Hilton, in Washington, D.C.. Visit SWFA for the complete press release and list of nominees in all categories.
2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
Locus Magazine has released their annual Recommended Reading List for 2010. The list is assembled by Locus editors, reviewers and other industry professionals. You can read list related essays by these contibutors in the February issue. In case you were not aware, Locus is now available in digital format so you can subscribe on your Kindle or other devices!
As you can see from the list below we’re missing quite a few of these books in our database. I’ll be adding the rest over the next few days. Be sure to visit Locus to see the complete list of books and categories not covered here.
Update: All the books are in the database now.
Novels – Science Fiction
- Yarn – Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
- Surface Detail – Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Orbit UK)
- Directive 51 – John Barnes (Ace)
- Chill – Elizabeth Bear (Ballantine Spectra)
- Hull Zero Three – Greg Bear (Orbit US)
- CryoBurn – Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
- The Passage – Justin Cronin (Ballantine)
- Zendegi – Greg Egan (Night Shade Books; Gollancz)
- Zero History – William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
- Feed – Mira Grant (Orbit)
- Starbound – Joe Haldeman (Ace)
- Sleepless – Charlie Huston (Ballantine)
- Brain Thief – Alexander Jablokov (Tor)
- The Dervish House – Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
- Terminal World – Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace)
- Birdbrain – Johanna Sinisalo (Peter Owen)
- Blackout / All Clear – Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)
Novels – Fantasy
- The Golden Age – Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland (Dalkey Archive)
- The Bird of the River – Kage Baker (Tor)
- Zoo City – Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot UK; Angry Robot US)
- The Desert Spear – Peter V. Brett (Ballantine Del Rey; HarperVoyager)
- Changeless – Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
- The Wolf Age – James Enge (Pyr)
- Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde (Viking; Hodder & Stoughton)
- Jade Man’s Skin – Daniel Fox (Del Rey)
- The Half-Made World – Felix Gilman (Tor)
- Horns – Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
- Kings of the North – Cecelia Holland (Forge)
- Hespira – Matthew Hughes (Night Shade Books)
- Under Heaven – Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)
- The Bards of Bone Plain – Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
- Kraken – China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Ballantine Del Rey)
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell (Random House)
- Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
- The Folding Knife – K. J. Parker (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- A Matter of Blood – Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
- The House of Discarded Dreams – Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
- A Dark Matter – Peter Straub (Doubleday; Orion)
- The Fuller Memorandum – Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- The Habitation of the Blessed – Catherynne M. Valente (Night Shade Books)
- The Sorcerer’s House – Gene Wolfe (Tor)
Young Adult Books
- Ship Breaker – Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- White Cat – Holly Black (Simon & Schuster/McElderry Books)
- Pathfinder – Orson Scott Card (Simon Pulse)
- Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
- Factotum – D. M. Cornish (Omnibus Australia; Fickling UK; Putnam)
- Thresholds – Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
- Enchanted Glass – Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
- The Boneshaker – Kate Milford (Clarion)
- Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness (Candlewick Press; Walker UK)
- Lord Sunday– Garth Nix (Scholastic Press; HarperCollins UK)
- I Shall Wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; Harper)
- Fever Crumb – Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
- Kid vs. Squid – Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury)
- Behemoth – Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)