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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.

Posted in Awards | Tags: Arthur C. Clarke Award

2 Comments

Emil   |   01 Mar 2011 @ 02:22

I notice already a few novels that cross pollinate the awards, or getting critically positive reviews. If we haven’t seen them on the Nebula ticket (which is disappointing), we’ll certainly see them nominated for the other awards. (1) Zoo City – Lauren Beukes (2) How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu (3) Terminal World – Alastair Reynolds (4) The Dervish House – Ian McDonald (5) The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi (6) Zendegi – Greg Egan (7) The Passage – Justin Cronin (8) Kraken – China Miéville (9) The Evolutionary Void – Peter F. Hamilton. These are the ones I’m really interested in. I’ve just finished Tony Ballantyne’s "Recursion" (check my review a little later) and am very keen to read the sequels and "Twisted Metal", the forerunner for "Blood and Iron." I’ve read Robert Sawyer’s "WWW: Wake" and found it a bore to the extend that I need not read "WWW: Watch." All in all, an impressive list, waiting with abated breath to see who goes on to be outright nominees.

Emil   |   04 Mar 2011 @ 01:46

And, of course, as it goes with awards, only "Zoo City" and "The Dervish House" makes the shortlist. Quite surprising list of nominations, ultimately 🙂

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