12 hours agoThe Nonfiction of J.G. Ballard: An interview with editor Mark BlacklockJ. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century. Often positioned as the flip side of the coin to writers like Sir Arthur C. Clarke (although we’d argue they perhaps had more in common than is popularly assumed…) and with seminal…Books And Authors9 min readBooks And Authors9 min read
Jun 45 judges, 988,172,368 possible shortlist combinationsThe complete list of eligible titles submitted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award — Welcome to the complete reading list of science fiction titles submitted to this year’s Clarke Award judges. As is now traditional, we’re publishing below the full list of eligible titles received by the Clarke Award from which our official shortlist selection is decided. This is released as an open-source resource…Science Fiction4 min readScience Fiction4 min read
May 28“Beyond the Borders — How Science Fiction examines more than just what we already know”Review of the Science Museum, London’s, science fiction exhibition, Voyage to the Edge of Imagination. by Stewart Hotston “In the Science Museum’s Voyage to the Edge of Imagination exhibition we have a chance to explore how this genre of literature (in all its many and varied forms) speaks to us…Science Fiction4 min readScience Fiction4 min read
Nov 19, 2022Chair of Judges speech for the 36th presentation of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardSpeech by Dr Andrew M. Butler, Chair of Judges, introducing the shortlist for the 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction book of the year, Oct 2022. Watching them come and go The judges and the submissions They’re judging the Clarke Award Opening trilogies Pleasure comes and torture goes …Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Jul 8, 2022Submissions list 2022: The complete list of eligible titles submitted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke AwardEvery year, in addition to revealing our award shortlist, we also publish the complete list of eligible titles received in submission. What follows is not a long-list, or some other form of curated list, it is simply the full list of titles considered by this year’s judging panel and from…Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Sep 25, 2021The Apocalypse, and What Happens Next (No Spoilers)Introducing the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2021 shortlist by Andrew M. Butler, Chair of Judges A few years ago, I was asked to write about the future. Or, rather, future studies and futurology. In a lot of futurology there is the sense of a coming apocalypse that would destroy everything…Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Jul 13, 2021Representation mattersAuthor and two-times award judge, Stewart Hotston, takes a deep-dive into diversity within the Clarke Award’s submissions lists Representation matters. Last year, using the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award submission list, I wrote about the problems facing the genre publishing industry here in the UK[1]. Since then we’ve collated the data from 2013 through 2020 to look for progress. We could have gone back further, but there’s nothing…Diversity7 min readDiversity7 min read
Jun 30, 2021Submissions list 2021: The complete list of eligible titles submitted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke AwardFor over a decade now, the Clarke Award has committed itself to publicly sharing the complete list of eligible submissions, as received by our panel of judges, alongside our shortlisted titles and annual winner. This started as a fun way of allowing the science fiction community of fans (and indeed…Publishing5 min readPublishing5 min read
Sep 23, 2020Chair of Judges speech for the 34th presentation of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardWhen a judging meeting that you happen to know is for the Clarke Award starts off by sounding like it is for a Wyndham Award, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. I’m not entirely sure if this has been a cosy catastrophe — I don’t remember Wyndham predicting the Toilet…Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Jul 16, 2020The Good News and the Bad: the Clarke Award submissions list under the lensAuthor and Clarke Award 2020 judge Stewart Hotston on representation and the state of contemporary SF publishing in the UK. This article has some relatively good news and then some particularly bad news. First the good news. Of 121 submissions to the Clarke Award in 2020 from 45 imprints, it…Science Fiction12 min readScience Fiction12 min read
