We are delighted to host this annual award for the best science fiction novel of the year, selected from novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.

The greater purpose of the Award is to promote UK science fiction literature and the sense of wonder, speculation and imagination for which the genre is most renowned.

The shortlist for the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award is:

• Spirit by Gwyneth Jones
  Gollancz
• WINNER - The City And The City by China Miéville
  Macmillan
• Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
  Gollancz
• Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
  HarperVoyager
• Far North by Marcel Theroux
  Faber & Faber
• Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
  Gollancz

The winner is announced on Wed 28 April at the festival.