Annal:2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award
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Results of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in the year 2007. 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.
- 2007 Clarke winner
- 2007 Philip K Dick winner
- Score: 20.57
Vic Serotonin is a “travel agent” into and out of the Saudade Event Site, a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts. His latest client is a woman who’s nearly as unpredictable as the site itself—and maybe just as dangerous. She wants a tour just as a troubling new class of biological artifacts are leaving the site—living algorithms that are transforming the world outside in inexplicable and unsettling ways. Shadowed by a metaphysically inclined detective determined to shut his illegal operation down, Vic must make sense of a universe rapidly veering toward a virulent and viral form of chaos…and a humanity almost lost.
- 2007 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.57
Kit Nouveau didn’t escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock. The pale girl in the black cloak appearing from nowhere and punching an ivory spike into the man’s head on the other hand…
Hav: A Novel
- 2007 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.57
Hav is a magical place, but behind its arcane splendours are darker implications. Morris’s original visit to this prodigy, as recorded in the first part of this book, ends in flight when an unidentified enemy ravages the place.
When she returns some twenty years later, to write the second part of the book, she discovers a city-state that has rebuilt itself, transformed by new energies and now dominated by a totemic tower 2000 feet tall. But as the old Hav was in many ways an allegory of the last century, so the city in its new incarnation offers no less elusive hints, echoes and portents of our twenty-first century world. It remains a beguiling but disturbing enigma of the fancy…
- 2007 Clarke shortlist
- 2007 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 12.57
Not very long from now, if you are wealthy, space can be yours, space to grow. New technology has seeded a rebirth of the pioneer spirit. A new breed of adventurer has slipped the bonds of gravity and begun a fresh life in orbit, free from interference by government, free from the petty concerns of earth.
But tradition, fear, and revenge carry a murderous weight, a gravity that is not so easy to escape. The death of Gradisil’s grandfather, floating high in the uplands above earth, was only the beginning. And now the US government is looking up at the new nation above our heads with jealous eyes.
- 2007 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.57
The three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb-Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi-mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly sixty years after they watched history’s first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert in 1945. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign.
In this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia Millet brings us an apocalyptic fable that marries the personal to the political, confronts the longing for immortality with the desire for redemption, and evokes both the beauty and the tragedy of the nuclear sublime.
- 2007 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 6.57
What is Luck? If it exists at all, where does it come from, and how does it operate? Is it a supernatural force? A genetic gift? Or a quantum phenomenon, a knack for adjusting probability in just the right way? In Streaking, Brian Stableford, one of Britain's most honoured SF and fantasy authors, tackles these questions with all his customary flair, invention, intense logic, and dark wit.
