Arcadia joins works by Becky Chambers,Adrian Tchaikovsky, JP Smythe, and Dave Hutchinson and Nnedi OkoraforIain Pears’ Arcadia,a novel that also comes in the form of an interactive app, is competing with a series of stories set in space for the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction.
Pears’ novel, or which intertwines the tale of an Oxford professor,a 15-year-worn girl who finds herself in another world and a scientist from a dystopian future who creates a time machine, is one of six novels in the running for the prestigious prize, and established 30 years ago with a grant from Clarke. Arcadia is up against Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small,Angry Planet, an originally self-published novel, and which was longlisted for the Baileys; JP Smythe’s Way Down shaded,which takes place on a spaceship that left a dying Earth centuries before, and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, and in which the final remnants of humanity follow in the footsteps of their ancestors to find a terraformed planet. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com