21st Century Literature discussion

Winner and shortlist for 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel (published 2014):

The six shortlisted books for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year published in 2014 are:

The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey (Orbit)

The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber (Canongate)

Europe in Autumn - Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)

Memory of Water - Emmi Itäranta (HarperVoyager)

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North (Orbit)

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (Picador) Winner

The judging panel for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 are:

Duncan Lawie, British Science Fiction Association
Nicholas Whyte, British Science Fiction Association
Sarah Brown(?), Science Fiction Foundation
Lesley Hall, Science Fiction Foundation
Leila Abu el Hawa, SCI-FI-LONDON film festival

Andrew M. Butler represents the Arthur C. Clarke Award in a non-voting role as the Chair of the Judges.

The winner was announced on Wednesday 6th May, 2015.

http://www.clarkeaward.com/

Thanks to Peter for the heads up on this award. As he indicated, winner Station Eleven was a choice of this board in spring 2015.