Congratulations from Orbit to Charles Stross and Greg Bear, as they’ve both been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award!

Charles Stross’s futuristic crime novel RULE 34 was shortlisted today, as was Greg Bear’s mind-bending science fiction thriller –  HULL ZERO THREE.

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a prize for the best science fiction novel published in the UK in the previous year. It’s been running for over twenty-five years now, and previous winners include Orbit author Tricia Sullivan, as well as China Miéville and Lauren Beukes.

RULE 34 is available from Orbit UK in C-format paperback and as an ebook, and the B-format paperback will be published in July.

HULL ZERO THREE is published by Orbit in the US, and by Gollancz in the UK.