The 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Shortlist: An Imaginary Judgement

There are lots of great pieces already about the Clarke Award.Strange Horizons has donea round-up or two that highlights some of this year's discussion. I think Chris Gerwel's piece comparing the Clarke discussion to the Hugo discussion is particularly interesting. To brutally summarise what I took out of it: for the Hugo awards, people blame the award. For the Clarke, people blame everything else.

I've already written about the Hugo awards, my imaginary ballot and why I, as a non-voter, nee...