The Arthur C. Clarke Award is Britain's award for the best science fiction of the year. The shortlist was announced on March 31, 2010, as follows:

The City & The City by China Mieville
Spirit by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Far North: A Novel by Marcel Theroux
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding

The winner will be announced on April 28, 2010, at the opening night of the SciFi London Film Festival. Let's see how many of these books I can read before then!