Arthur C. Clarke Shortlist

The shortlist for this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award has been announced:

• Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
  
• Learning The World -- Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
  
• Pushing Ice -- Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
  
• Air -- Geoff Ryman (Gollancz)
  
• Accelerando -- Charles Stross (Orbit)
  
• Banner Of Souls -- Liz Williams (Tor)

Speaking personally (and as a big fan of some of Ishiguro's previous books, such as The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled), one of these things is not like the others; one of these things just doesn't belong. At the moment, I'm rooting for MacLeod, but that may change after I read Pushing Ice.