The full Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist includes God’s War by Kameron Hurley (Del Rey), Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit), Nexus by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot), The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (Gollancz), The Machine by James Smythe (Blue Door) and of course The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann (Gollancz).
The winner of the UK’s top science fiction prize will receive a cheque for £2014, will be announced on 1 May and will join a list of former winners including Margaret Atwood, M John Harrison and China Miéville.
Phillip
Mann (right) was born in Yorkshire. A theatre lover, he studied English and Drama at
Manchester University and later in California. He worked in the New China News
Agency in Beijing for two years and there wrote his first novel. He has lived
in New Zealand since 1969, working as a professional theatre director and writer.
He founded the Dept of Drama at Victoria University in 1970 and retired as
Professor of Drama in 1997.To date he has published 10 novels, in addition to which he has written plays for the theatre and many stories for Radio New Zealand. A volume of his short stories, Maestro and Other Stories is due for publication in May this year.
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