The shortlist for the 37th Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year has been announced, and it includes authors that have never made the shortlist before.

The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.

“This year we’ve shortlisted authors that have never made the Clarke Award’s top six before,” said Chair of Judges, Dr Andrew M. Butler. “It’s always good to see new authors or authors new to science fiction standing out from so many submissions. I look forward to what I suspect will be a passionately argued decision.”

The six shortlisted books are:

• VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
• THE RED SCHOLAR’S WAKE by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
• PLUTOSHINE by Lucy Kissick (Gollancz)
• THE ANOMALY by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
• THE CORAL BONES by E. J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
• METRONOME by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)

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