The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist is out! These are all fantastic books. Top in each column is in bold.
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | ||||
| raters | av rating | owners | av rating | ||
| The Anomaly by Hervé le Tellier | 41415 | 3.83 | 900 | 3.73 | |
| The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard | 1192 | 3.26 | 158 | 4 | |
| Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman | 1236 | 3.83 | 67 | 3.83 | |
| Metronome by Tom Watson | 1721 | 3.77 | 35 | 3.79 | |
| Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick | 145 | 4.06 | 18 | 3.38 | |
| The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift | 19 | 4.53 | 8 | – |
Again, I crunched the numbers a couple of weeks ago, but they won’t have changed much.
The shortlist, alphabetically by author:
