Annal:2003 Arthur C. Clarke Award
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Results of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Science Fiction books
- Science Fiction authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 2003 Clarke winner
- Score: 10.53
Christopher Priest excels at rethinking SF themes, lifting them above genre expectations into his own tricky, chilling, metaphysically dangerous territory. The Separation suggests an alternate history lying along a road not taken in World War II. But there are complications.
In 1999, history author Stuart Gratton is intrigued by a minor mystery of the European war which ended on 10 May 1941. The British-German armistice signed that month has had far-reaching consequences, including a resettlement of European Jews in Madagascar.
In 1936, the identical…
- 2003 Campbell 2nd
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 20.53
In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember.
But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.
Dr. Yosil Maharal, a brilliant researcher in artificial…
- 2002 Philip K Dick citation
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 2003 WFA–Novel nominee
- Score: 26.52
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon…
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- 2003 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.53
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been–a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. These are the years of rice and…
- 2003 Nebula winner
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 16.53
In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be taught to get along in the world despite their differences. They will be made active and contributing members of society. But they will never be normal.
Lou Arrendale is a member of that lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the awards of medical science.…
- 2003 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.53
Beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract—a huge, fulminating ocean of radiant energy deep in the galaxy—three objects lie on the barren surface of an asteroid: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of what look like bone dice, and a human skeleton. What they are, and what they mean, are the mysteries explored and unwrapped in Light, M. John Harrison’s astonishing return to the imaginative terrain of science fiction. Three intertwining strands of narrative—one contemporary, the others set in different parts of the galaxy in the year 2400—make up the…
