Although the list hasn’t yet been posted on the award’s official site, the Guardian has announced this year’s short list for the Arthur C. Clarke Award (for the best British sf novel of the year).

The nominees are:
God’s War by Kameron Hurley (published by Del Rey)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann (Gollancz)
Nexus by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
The Machine by James Smythe (Blue Door)

The award is judged by a panel which includes Ian Whates and Duncan Lawie from the British Science Fiction Association, Sarah Brown and Lesley Hall from the Science Fiction Foundation, and Georgie Knight from the Sci-Fi-London film festival. The winner of the award (which includes a prize of £2014), will be announced on 1 May 2014.