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11/02/2004
Shortlist for Clarke Award announced
Six books have been chosen for this year's Arthur C Clarke Award for British science fiction. They are:
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
The Arthur C Clarke award for British science-fiction writing has been running since 1987.
Previous winners include Christopher Priest for The Separation (2003), Gwyneth Jones for Bold As Love (2002), China Miéville for Perdido Street Station (2001), Bruce Sterling for Distraction (2000) and Tricia Sullivan for Dreaming in Smoke (1999).
The judges are Iain Emsley (bookseller and critic), Carol Ann Kerry-Green (reviewer), Dr Mark Bould (academic and critic), and Geoff Ryman (writer). The representative of the Science Museum is Dave Palmer.
This year's winner will be announced in May.
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