Hooray! More details here.
Since I just crunched the numbers for the Clarke submission list, here are the Goodreads/Librarything stats for the BSFA Best Novel shortlist:
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| A Closed and Common Orbit — Becky Chambers | 11905 | 4.42 | 116 | 4.34 |
| Occupy Me — Tricia Sullivan | 712 | 3.41 | 26 | 3.5 |
| Europe in Winter — Dave Hutchinson | 337 | 4.14 | 37 | 3.75 |
| Daughter of Eden — Chris Beckett | 443 | 4.19 | 10 | 4.25 |
| Azanian Bridges — Nick Wood | 198 | 3.7 | 19 | 3.13 |
Best Short Fiction (None appears to be online yet)
- Malcolm Devlin – The End of Hope Street
- Jaine Fenn – Liberty Bird
- Una McCormack – Taking Flight
- Helen Oyeyemi – Presence
- Tade Thompson – The Apologists
- Aliya Whiteley – The Arrival of Missives
Largely for my own reference, the other shortlists are:
Best Non-Fiction
- Rob Hansen – THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980
- Erin Horáková – Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven
- Anna McFarlane – Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
- Paul Graham Raven – New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World
- Geoff Ryman – 100 African Writers of SFF
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer – Introduction to The Big Book of Science Fiction
Best Artwork
- Juan Miguel Aguilera – Cover of The 1000 Year Reich by Ian Watson
- Tara Bush – Transition (Cover of Black Static #53)
- Suzanne Dean and Kai & Sunny – Cover of The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
- David A Hardy – Cover of Disturbed Universes by David L Clements
- Sarah Anne Langton – Cover for Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
- Chris Moore – Cover of The Iron Tactician by Alastair Reynolds
I should possibly point out that just because I’ve read a book doesn’t mean either that I liked it or that I think anyone else should read it. 🙂