Arcadia joins works by Becky Chambers, Adrian Tchaikovsky, JP Smythe, Dave Hutchinson and Nnedi Okorafor
Iain Pears’ Arcadia, a novel that also comes in the form of an interactive app, is competing with a series of stories set in space for the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction.
Pears’ novel, which intertwines the story of an Oxford professor, a 15-year-old girl who finds herself in another world and a scientist from a dystopian future who creates a time machine, is one of six novels in the running for the prestigious prize, established 30 years ago with a grant from Clarke. Arcadia is up against Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, an originally self-published novel, which was longlisted for the Baileys; JP Smythe’s Way Down Dark, which takes place on a spaceship that left a dying Earth centuries before, and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, in which the last remnants of humanity follow in the footsteps of their ancestors to find a terraformed planet.
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