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The shortlist for the first SF Debuts Prize has been revealed, featuring six science fiction novels.
Launched by Hodder & Stoughton and the Science Museum to celebrate the museum’s exhibition “Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination”, the writing prize aims to champion science fiction storytelling and discover some of the exciting talent of the future.
The six-strong shortlist is made up of Saturnine by Chris Chiam, Emotional Transport by Ruth E Newton, Children of Clay by Alexander James, The Forest That Eats Bone by Laura Tisdall, Twice-World by Richard Caves and The Measurement Problem by David Whitmarsh.
The winner will receive £4,000, alongside a full critique of their work, a six-month-long mentoring programme with Hodderscape editorial director Molly Powell, and introduction to three literary agents. The runner up will receive £2,000, alongside a full critique of the work submitted, and the rest of the shortlist will receive a cash prize of £800, and feedback from the judging panel.
The winner will be selected in January 2023 by a panel of well-known SF authors and industry figures, including Gaby Lee, genre fiction buyer at Waterstones, Jo Fletcher, previously publisher at Jo Fletcher Books and associate publisher at Gollancz, Stevie Finnegan, agent at Zeno Agency, and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, a Sri Lankan activist and researcher and author of The Salvage Crew.