2021 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist For Science Fiction Book Of The Year Announced

The shortlist for the 2021 Arthur C Clarke Award has been announced.

The Arthur C Clarke Award is the UK’s most prestigious prize for literary science fiction published the previous year.

 

The Award was originally established by a generous grant from Sir Arthur C Clarke with the aim of promoting science fiction in Britain, and is currently administered by the Serendip Foundation with Sir Arthur continuing to donate a cash prize via Rocket Publishing, his UK representatives.

The award judges are a voluntary body with members nominated by the award's supporting organisations, currently the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Sci-Fi-London film festival.

 

The 2021 Shortlist

• The Infinite, Patience Agbabi (Canongate)
  
• The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez (Titan)
  
• Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (Head Of Zeus)
  
• Edge Of Heaven, RB Kelly (Newcon)
  
• The Animals In That Country, Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
  
• Chilling Effect,  Valerie Valdes (Orbit)