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April 27, 2010
An Updated Analysis of the BSFA Award Novel Shortlists Versus The Clarke Award Shortlists
Two years ago I decided to analyse the difference between the BSFA Award novel shortlists and the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlists. Now seems as good as time as any to update the analysis.
As before any errors are sure to be my own, please feel free to point them out in the comments.
Novels which made one shortlist but not the other
According to my numbers there have been:
- 79 novels that have made the BSFA shortlist but not the Clarke, that's 70% of them.
- 119 novels that have made the Clarke shortlist but not the BSFA, that's 79% of them.
- Only 32 novels have made both shortlists, which is less than the last time I did this analysis. Hmmm. I'm more confident of this analysis though. It's still incredibly low.
Winners of the Clarke Award that weren't shortlisted for the BSFA Award
I reckon there are 14 of them:
- Body Of Glass, Marge Piercy (MICHAEL JOSEPH)
- Distraction, Bruce Sterling (MILLENNIUM 1998)
- Dreaming In Smoke, Tricia Sullivan (ORBIT)
- Fools, Pat Cadigan (HARPERCOLLINS UK)
- Iron Council, China Mievelle (MACMILLAN)
- Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (GOLLANCZ)
- Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (HEINEMANN)
- Synners, Pat Cadigan (HARPERCOLLINS)
- The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh (PICADOR 1995)
- The Sea And Summer, George Turner (FABER & FABER)
- Unquenchable Fire, Rachel Pollack (CENTURY)
- Vurt, Jeff Noon (RINGPULL)
- Black Man, Richard Morgan (GOLLANCZ)
- Song Of Time, Ian R. MacLeod (PS PUBLISHING)