Carbon-Based Bipeds: Sept 30th
2024 submissions are open!
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
Welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter for the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
We are delighted to announce that submissions are now officially open for next year’s award.
Clarke Award opens for 2024 titles
The prize is now open to novels written in English by an author of any nationality, provided that the novel is published for the first time by a UK publisher between 1st January and 31st December 2024.
We encourage publishers to submit books from across the range of science fiction genre publishing.
Contact us for our full submissions guidelines.
Deadline for submissions: 31st December, 2024.
This year’s judges are:
Dolly Garland and Gene Rowe representing the British Science Fiction Association.
Nicola Clarke and John Coxon representing the Science Fiction Foundation.
Dr Glyn Morgan, representing the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival.
The Chair of Judges is Dr Andrew M. Butler.
Incoming Transmissions 🛰️
Ada Lovelace Day Live, Tuesday 8th Oct
Our friends Ada Lovelace Day are back at the Royal Institution, London, for their hotly anticipated live ‘science cabaret’ event celebrating the achievements of women in STEM.
Book tickets now to watch online or attend in person.
Ada Lovelace Day founder Suw Charman-Anderson talks to the BBC about why groups supporting women in science, technology, engineering and maths can’t run on inspiration alone!
Station Eleven ten years on
It won the Clarke Award in 2015, and was a source of cosy-comfort reading for many in the real-world pandemic of 2020.
Emily St. John Mandel talks about the book’s legacy ten years on, it’s connections with the “Mandelverse” and what she might change about the book now.
Announcing the inaugural Andromeda Award for best new emerging science fiction and fantasy writers
The newly launched Andromeda Award aims to identify and celebrate the most visionary writers across multiple genres, and is open to original, unagented, unpublished full-length adult works in the English language, in any genres within science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction that do not exceed 120,000 words.
The prize is sponsored by C&W, UTA and Curtis Brown Creative (also part of The Curtis Brown Group) with a financial first prize of $5,000 awarded to the debut novel that demonstrates the most innovation, compelling storytelling, and stylistic promise.
