Here are the nominees for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023 science fiction book of the year...
The 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist has been announced - and Gollancz has two titles!!!
THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE by Aliette de Bodard
Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association award for Best Novel, WINNER of the BSFA award for Best Cover, this sweeping sapphic space opera can now add another award nod to the list. It's a stunning romance between a sentient pirate spaceship and the woman she marries in order to find out who killed her first wife. TorDotCom compared the dynamics to that of classic gothic novels, Tasha Suri said it was "so romantic I may simply perish". Inspired by Vietnamese culture, and the famous Chinese pirate Ching Shih, it's the sort of book that will make you go feral with delight.
PLUTOSHINE by Lucy Kissick
Winner of the inaugural Working Class Writers' Prize, PLUTOSHINE was written while Lucy Kissick completed her PhD, looking at the composition of Martian lakes by recreating them in a lab and extrapolating how they interacted with the atmosphere. This novel takes her knowledge of planetary atmospherics and geology and blends them with a thrilling story about terraforming, colonisation, and the impacts on everyone involved.
We're so so delighted to be the publishers of two of the three women shortlisted for the 2023 prize, and that they represent the diverse voices that Gollancz is striving to champion!