Clarke Award Nominees

The Science Fiction Awards Watch blog has listed this year's nominations for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

The short list for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award is as follows:

• The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
  
• The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
  
• The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hal
  
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
  
• The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
  
• Black Man (Thirteen) by Richard Morgan
  

The winner will be announced at a ceremony at the Sci-Fi London film festival on April 30th.

The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a shortlist of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.

However according to Torque Control blog, not all is hunky dory as far as fans are concerned with the short list. Comments such as insular and ludicrous were bandied about. Click the Torque Control link to read more.