The shortlist for the 2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced.
"The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in Britain. The annual award is presented
for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a shortlist of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year."
"On a ravaged, contaminated world, a centuries-old holy war rages, fought by a bloody mix of mercenaries, magicians, and conscripted soldiers. Though the origins of the war are shady and complex, there's one thing everybody agrees on-- there's not a chance in hell of ending it. Nyx is a former government assassin who makes a living cutting off heads for cash. But when a dubious deal between her government and an alien gene pirate goes bad, Nyx's ugly past makes her the top pick for a covert recovery. The head they want her to bring home could end the war-- but at what price? " Discover
" On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren--a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one purpose--to revenge herself on Anaander Mianaai, many-bodied, near-immortal Lord of the Radch." publisher
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
" Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise.The hu
man settlers—farmers and scientists—are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous plant life—never entirely safe—is changing in unpredictable ways, and the imported plantings wither and die. And so the order is given—Paradise will be abandoned. All personnel will be removed and reassigned. And all human presence on the planet will be disestablished. Not all agree with the decision." publisherNexus by Ramez Naam
" In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage - for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes. " publisherThe Adjacent by Christopher Priest
"Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent
militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and
terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out
when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The
authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife
are somehow connected. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to
the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance
aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets
the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars.
In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician of her
escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home. In the
present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and
creates the first adjacency." publisherThe Machine by James Smythe
"Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate near the se
a. She came here to rebuild her life following her husband’s return
from the war. His memories haunted him but a machine promised salvation.
It could record memories, preserving a life that existed before the
nightmares. Now the machines are gone. The government declared them too
controversial, the side-effects too harmful. But within Beth’s flat is
an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back,
that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece." publisher
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