Well, not a single one of my predicted six potential Clarke finalists made it. I did better last year, but I was on the jury. The shortlistees placed 4th, 5th, 9th, 18th, 63rd and 67th of my stats ranking of the submissions list.
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | ||||
| raters | rating | owners | rating | ||
| Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | 45631 | 4.14 | 732 | 4.09 | |
| The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler | 19281 | 3.95 | 789 | 3.96 | |
| Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh | 8016 | 4.06 | 551 | 4.05 | |
| In Ascension, Martin MacInnes | 6436 | 3.82 | 271 | 3.71 | |
| The Ten Percent Thief, Lavanya Lakshminarayan | 536 | 3.83 | 41 | 3.50 | |
| Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Isabel Waidner | 322 | 3.86 | 35 | 4.00 | |
So the last two of these will be the ones that nobody saw coming.