The Arthur C. Clarke Award submissions list has been published! (Shortlist coming soon.)
Here is my photo of the 98 submitted books, in alphabetical order by title. (One was submitted electronically – see if you can spot the printed out cover.)
I’ve also checked the rankings of each of the submitted books on Goodreads and LibraryThing, noting the number of reported raters and owners respectively, and also the verage ranking on the two systems. As usual, the books are ranked by the geometric average of Goodreads and LibraryThing owners; I have bolded the top 19 in each column (which is almost a quintile, there being 98 books in total).
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | ||||
| raters | av rating | owners | av rating | ||
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | 354710 | 4.25 | 2082 | 4.12 | |
| Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel | 157847 | 4.12 | 2021 | 4.07 | |
| The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd | 51616 | 3.65 | 1156 | 3.53 | |
| Upgrade by Blake Crouch | 67902 | 3.82 | 813 | 3.74 | |
| The Anomaly by Hervé le Tellier | 41415 | 3.83 | 900 | 3.73 | |
| The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi | 34902 | 4.03 | 1007 | 3.95 | |
| The Candy House by Jennifer Egan | 38202 | 3.68 | 846 | 3.78 | |
| How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu | 35442 | 3.86 | 694 | 3.84 | |
| To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara | 32809 | 3.79 | 668 | 3.83 | |
| The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 19317 | 3.62 | 508 | 3.69 | |
| Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez | 18310 | 4.39 | 322 | 3.80 | |
| Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse | 11637 | 4.11 | 338 | 4.14 | |
| The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin | 9509 | 4.15 | 412 | 4.16 | |
| Mickey⁷ by Edward Ashton | 7575 | 3.79 | 213 | 3.76 | |
| Lost In Time by A G Riddle | 12502 | 4.25 | 127 | 3.60 | |
| Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 7774 | 4.22 | 187 | 4.06 | |
| Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata | 8551 | 3.78 | 168 | 3.85 | |
| Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 7316 | 4.11 | 191 | 4.12 | |
| Eversion by Alastair Reynolds | 5061 | 4.02 | 225 | 3.90 | |
| Poster Girl by Veronica Roth | 6156 | 3.67 | 176 | 3.63 | |
| The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal | 3565 | 3.90 | 287 | 3.92 | |
| Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin | 4650 | 3.63 | 220 | 3.81 | |
| The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson | 5983 | 3.87 | 163 | 3.94 | |
| Leech by Hiron Ennes | 3962 | 3.64 | 211 | 3.53 | |
| Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo | 3261 | 3.74 | 195 | 3.67 | |
| The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings | 3734 | 3.64 | 161 | 3.85 | |
| The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews | 3611 | 3.56 | 155 | 3.81 | |
| Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada | 2713 | 3.40 | 161 | 3.59 | |
| The Furrows by Namwali Serpell | 3055 | 3.27 | 112 | 3.08 | |
| Oval by Elvia Wilk | 1694 | 3.38 | 116 | 2.96 | |
| The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard | 1192 | 3.26 | 158 | 4.00 | |
| Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch | 1456 | 3.55 | 99 | 3.14 | |
| Last Exit by Max Gladstone | 1082 | 3.68 | 124 | 3.34 | |
| Speaking Bones by Ken Liu | 1241 | 4.59 | 101 | 4.56 | |
| The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itaranta | 1334 | 3.80 | 81 | 3.50 | |
| Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde | 1415 | 3.86 | 76 | 3.00 | |
| Stars and Bones by Gareth L. Powell | 1188 | 3.68 | 74 | 3.29 | |
| Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser | 1071 | 3.34 | 82 | 3.33 | |
| Until the Last of Me by Sylvain Neuvel | 1195 | 3.83 | 71 | 3.63 | |
| City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 969 | 4.07 | 87 | 3.95 | |
| Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman | 1236 | 3.83 | 67 | 3.83 | |
| Braking Day by Adam Oyebanji | 1103 | 4.03 | 71 | 3.79 | |
| Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot | 1074 | 3.91 | 72 | 3.57 | |
| The Men by Sandra Newman | 1202 | 2.96 | 58 | 2.47 | |
| The Splendid City by Karen Heuler | 468 | 3.03 | 132 | 2.81 | |
| Metronome by Tom Watson | 1721 | 3.77 | 35 | 3.79 | |
| August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White | 742 | 3.87 | 76 | 3.72 | |
| The Stars Undying by Emery Robin | 605 | 3.59 | 87 | 3.70 | |
| The Shadow Glass by Josh Winning | 811 | 4.11 | 52 | 3.69 | |
| The Immortality Thief by Taran Hunt | 808 | 4.16 | 49 | 4.00 | |
| Mindwalker by Kate Dylan | 812 | 4.16 | 42 | 4.00 | |
| The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong | 471 | 3.64 | 50 | 3.67 | |
| The This by Adam Roberts | 339 | 3.87 | 61 | 3.91 | |
| Pod by Laline Paull | 611 | 3.65 | 33 | 4.10 | |
| Neom by Lavie Tidhar | 307 | 3.97 | 62 | 4.27 | |
| Full Immersion by Gemma Amor | 384 | 3.86 | 45 | 3.75 | |
| Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley | 325 | 3.60 | 51 | 3.69 | |
| The Thousand Earths by Stephen Baxter | 497 | 3.93 | 33 | 3.00 | |
| A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers by Jackson Ford | 582 | 4.25 | 23 | 4.10 | |
| 36 Streets by T.R. Napper | 478 | 4.00 | 25 | 3.75 | |
| The Chosen Twelve by James Breakwell | 431 | 3.64 | 27 | 4.13 | |
| Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen | 314 | 4.17 | 33 | 3.07 | |
| Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott | 287 | 3.78 | 29 | 3.50 | |
| The Last Storm by Tim Lebbon | 308 | 3.68 | 26 | 4.00 | |
| Stringers by Chris Panatier | 317 | 3.77 | 25 | 3.50 | |
| A Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares | 198 | 3.57 | 29 | 3.00 | |
| The Flight of the Aphrodite by S J Morden | 275 | 3.85 | 20 | 3.83 | |
| Mercury Rising by R.W.W. Greene | 221 | 3.77 | 24 | 3.75 | |
| Expect Me Tomorrow by Christopher Priest | 119 | 3.61 | 36 | 4.17 | |
| Deep Dive by Ron Walters | 238 | 3.77 | 18 | 4.13 | |
| Glitterati by Oliver K. Langmead | 183 | 3.72 | 21 | 3.92 | |
| Off-Target by Eve Smith | 403 | 4.08 | 8 | – | |
| Lambda by David Musgrave | 159 | 3.27 | 20 | 2.67 | |
| Wormhole by Eric Brown and Keith Brooke | 167 | 3.8 | 17 | 3.92 | |
| Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick | 145 | 4.06 | 18 | 3.38 | |
| Equinox by David Towsey | 263 | 3.45 | 9 | – | |
| Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon | 99 | 3.80 | 23 | 2.50 | |
| HellSans by Ever Dundas | 161 | 3.67 | 14 | 3.00 | |
| Love And Other Human Errors by Bethany Clift | 398 | 4.38 | 5 | 5.00 | |
| Ion Curtain by Anya Ow | 86 | 3.49 | 12 | 4.00 | |
| The Key to Fury by Kristin Cast | 83 | 3.78 | 11 | – | |
| The Fish by Joanne Stubbs | 78 | 3.69 | 6 | 3.50 | |
| Appliance by J.O. Morgan | 63 | 3.56 | 7 | – | |
| Ricky’s Hand by David Quantick | 90 | 3.73 | 4 | – | |
| The Ends by James Smythe | 44 | 4.14 | 7 | 4.33 | |
| The Quickening by Talulah Riley | 134 | 2.92 | 2 | – | |
| The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift | 19 | 4.53 | 8 | – | |
| Outcast by Louise Carey | 44 | 4.05 | 3 | – | |
| New Brighton by Helen Trevorrow | 43 | 3.84 | 2 | – | |
| The Mars Migration by Wayne M. Bailey | 17 | 4.71 | 2 | 5.00 | |
| Hangdog Souls by Marc Joan | 12 | 4.58 | 2 | 4.00 | |
| The Transfer Problem by Adam Saint | 17 | 3.94 | 1 | – | |
| The Visitors by Owen W Knight | 9 | 4.33 | 1 | – | |
| Titan Blue by M.B. Fox | 4 | 4.75 | 1 | – | |
| Harpan’s Worlds: Worlds Apart by Terry Jackman | 1 | 3.00 | 1 | – | |
| Stray Pilot by Douglas Thompson | 0 | – | 2 | – | |
| Prophets of the Red Night by Sophie McKeand | 0 | – | 1 | – | |
| The Hunt – For Allies by David Adams | 0 | – | 1 | – |
I crunched these numbers a couple of weeks ago, and they won’t have changed much in the meantime. I make it 48 by writers who are not men, and 23 by writers who are not white. But my statistics are not authoritative.
This is in no way a guide to the shortlist or the winner, but it does show the extent to which the novels submitted have permeated popular consciousness, at least in the universe of Goodreads and LibraryThing users.
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