Worlds Without End Blog

The Arthur C. Clarke Award jury has released it’s long list of works considered for 2010 through the website Torque Control.  The long list will be whittled down to just six by March 31st with the winner being announced on April 28th.

The 41 books considered are listed below and I’ve linked the ones we’ve already got in the WWEnd database.  That’s only 11 books so I’ve got a lot of work to do to catch up.  I’ll add new links to this list as I get the books loaded up this weekend.

This is the second year they’ve released the long list and I really like that they’re doing this.  The long list gives you some insight into what books were considered before they narrowed down to the finalists.  There are a lot of worthy books in these lists so it’s great that they’re brining some attention to the honorable mentions that will have just missed the cut.  There are several authors here that I’ve never heard of that are now on my radar for further investigation – so it’s working already.

It’s also a great opportunity to speculate on which books will make the short list.  So which books have you read and which do you think will end up on the short list?  Which would you like to see make the short list?

• Heart of Veridon by Tim Akers (Solaris)
• Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher (Tor)
• Orbus by Neal Asher (Tor)
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury)
• Twisted Metal by Tony Ballantyne (Tor)
• Transition by Iain Banks (Little, Brown)
• Ark by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
• Moxyland by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
• The Accord by Keith Brooke (Solaris)
• Xenopath by Eric Brown (Solaris)
• Seeds of Earth by Mike Cobley (Orbit)
• And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer (Penguin)
• Makers by Cory Doctorow (Voyager)
• The Babylonian Trilogy by Sebastien Doubinsky (PS Publishing)
• The Wild Things by Dave Eggers (Hamish Hamilton)
• Consorts of Heaven by Jaine Fenn (Gollancz)
• The Stranger by Max Frei (Gollancz)
• Concrete Operational by Richard Galbraith (Rawstone Media)
• Nova War by Gary Gibson (Tor)
• Winter Song by Colin Harvey (Angry Robot)
• The Rapture by Liz Jensen (Bloomsbury)
• Spirit by Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)
• Journey into Space by Toby Litt (Penguin)
• The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove (Solaris)
• Halfhead by Stuart B MacBride (HarperVoyager)
• Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
• The City & The City by China Mieville (Macmillan)
• Red Claw by Philip Palmer (Orbit)
• Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperVoyager)
• Chasing the Dragon by Justina Robson (Gollancz)
• The City of Lists by Brigid Rose (Crocus)
• Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
• WWW: Wake by Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
• Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
• The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor (Faber & Faber)
• Far North by Marcel Theroux (Faber & Faber)
• Before the Gods by KS Turner (Ruby Blaze)
• The Painting and the City by Robert Freeman Wexler (PS Publishing)
• This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams (Orbit)
• Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (Gollancz)

Update:  They’re all in now.  Happy Reading.

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