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2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner
The Testament of Jessie Lamb, by Jane Rogers (Sandstone Press), has won the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
The announcement was made today at the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival. For the win, Rogers received a check for £2012.00 and a commemorative engraved bookend trophy.
Congratulations to Jane Rogers on her win and to all the nominees:
- Hull Zero Three – Greg Bear (Gollancz)
- The End Specialist – Drew Magary (Harper Voyager)
- Embassytown – China Miéville (Macmillan)
- Rule 34 – Charles Stross (Orbit)
- The Waters Rising – Sheri S. Tepper (Gollancz)
2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist has been announced:
- Hull Zero Three – Greg Bear (Gollancz)
- The End Specialist – Drew Magary (Harper Voyager)
- Embassytown – China Miéville (Macmillan)
- The Testament of Jessie Lamb – Jane Rogers (Sandstone Press)
- Rule 34 – Charles Stross (Orbit)
- The Waters Rising – Sheri S. Tepper (Gollancz)
The winner will be announced on Wednesday May 2nd at an award ceremony held at the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival. The winner will receive a check for £2012.00 and a commemorative engraved bookend trophy.
So what do you think of this lineup? Any surprises in there? Anything the judges missed?
2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner
The 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner has been announced at the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival. The winner is:
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot).
Congratulations to Lauren and all the nominees!
Zoo City is certainly making a splash. My Kindle tells me I’m 24% through it and I can already see why it’s been so popular. What do you think of this result? I know more than a few people around here are going to be mighty excited about this one.
Be sure to check out our 10 Questions – Lauren Beukes interview by Emil Jung. She talks about her writing and about Zoo City in particular.
2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The Shortlist for the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced. The nominees are:
- Zoo City – Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
- The Dervish House – Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
- Generosity -Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
- Declare – Tim Powers (Corvus)
- Lightborn – Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
Congrats to all the nominees. The winner will be announced at SciFi London on April 27th. So, how does this list compare to yours? Declare made the rounds once already when it was first published in the US in 2001 winning the 2001 WFA and being nominated for the Locus Fantasy and Nebula the same year.
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.
2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner – The City & The City
The winner of the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel has been announced. The winner is:
The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
China is now the first author to ever win the Clarke three times and is understandably over the moon with the news pronouncing himself "absolutely gobsmacked" and "incredibly honoured" to win.
Congrats to China Miéville for another win.
The City & The City is really racking up the accolades having just won the 2009 British Science Fiction Association award it’s also still in the running for the 2009 Nebula and the 2010 Hugo and Locus Fantasy awards.
Incredibly, four of China’s books appear on the WWEnd Top Nominated Books of All-Time list.
2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award Short List
Just a week and a half since the announcement of the Long List, the Serendip Foundation has announced the short list of nominees for the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award. They are:
- Spirit, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)
- The City & the City, China Miéville (Macmillan)
- Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Galileo’s Dream, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins)
- Far North, Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber)
- Retribution Falls, Chris Wooding (Gollancz)
The winner will be announced on Wednesday, April 28th at an award ceremony held on the opening night of the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival.
So what do you think of the list? I’m not surprised about The City & the City being in there – Miéville makes most of the lists it seems. I need to get around to reading him some day. There are some tasty covers in that list too. I wonder how much the cover graphics affect the awards?
2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award – The Long List
The Arthur C. Clarke Award jury has released it’s long list of works considered for 2010 through the website Torque Control. The long list will be whittled down to just six by March 31st with the winner being announced on April 28th.
The 41 books considered are listed below and I’ve linked the ones we’ve already got in the WWEnd database. That’s only 11 books so I’ve got a lot of work to do to catch up. I’ll add new links to this list as I get the books loaded up this weekend.
This is the second year they’ve released the long list and I really like that they’re doing this. The long list gives you some insight into what books were considered before they narrowed down to the finalists. There are a lot of worthy books in these lists so it’s great that they’re brining some attention to the honorable mentions that will have just missed the cut. There are several authors here that I’ve never heard of that are now on my radar for further investigation – so it’s working already.
It’s also a great opportunity to speculate on which books will make the short list. So which books have you read and which do you think will end up on the short list? Which would you like to see make the short list?
- Heart of Veridon by Tim Akers (Solaris)
- Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher (Tor)
- Orbus by Neal Asher (Tor)
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
- Twisted Metal by Tony Ballantyne (Tor)
- Transition by Iain Banks (Little, Brown)
- Ark by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- Moxyland by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
- The Accord by Keith Brooke (Solaris)
- Xenopath by Eric Brown (Solaris)
- Seeds of Earth by Mike Cobley (Orbit)
- And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer (Penguin)
- Makers by Cory Doctorow (Voyager)
- The Babylonian Trilogy by Sebastien Doubinsky (PS Publishing)
- The Wild Things by Dave Eggers (Hamish Hamilton)
- Consorts of Heaven by Jaine Fenn (Gollancz)
- The Stranger by Max Frei (Gollancz)
- Concrete Operational by Richard Galbraith (Rawstone Media)
- Nova War by Gary Gibson (Tor)
- Winter Song by Colin Harvey (Angry Robot)
- The Rapture by Liz Jensen (Bloomsbury)
- Spirit by Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)
- Journey into Space by Toby Litt (Penguin)
- The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove (Solaris)
- Halfhead by Stuart B MacBride (HarperVoyager)
- Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
- The City & The City by China Mieville (Macmillan)
- Red Claw by Philip Palmer (Orbit)
- Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager)
- Chasing the Dragon by Justina Robson (Gollancz)
- The City of Lists by Brigid Rose (Crocus)
- Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
- WWW: Wake by Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
- Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
- The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor (Faber & Faber)
- Far North by Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber)
- Before the Gods by KS Turner (Ruby Blaze)
- The Painting and the City by Robert Freeman Wexler (PS Publishing)
- This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams (Orbit)
- Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (Gollancz)
Update: They’re all in now. Happy Reading.
2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner
The winner of the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced. The award and the £2009 cash prize goes to:
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod.
2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced:
Song of Time, Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
The Quiet War, Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
Anathem, Neal Stephenson (Atlantic)
The Margarets Sheri S. Tepper (Gollancz)
Martin Martin’s on the Other Side, Mark Wernham (Jonathan Cape)
Check ’em out on the Clarke page.
