The Clarke Award shortlist is out. Although (as I well know) it's a juried award, the leader on this table has won the award four years out of the last six. (2019, 2017, 2015 and 2014, but not 2018 or 2016.)
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine | 52359 | 4.17 | 564 | 4.11 |
| The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders | 41307 | 3.56 | 481 | 3.77 |
| The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell | 24802 | 3.76 | 227 | 3.61 |
| The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley | 19034 | 3.97 | 265 | 3.86 |
| The Last Astronaut, David Wellington | 6044 | 3.6 | 72 | 3.63 |
| Cage of Souls, Adrian Tchaikovsky | 5761 | 4.12 | 64 | 4 |
A clear leader in all four columns… (Also my personal favourite, of the three I have read.)
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