161: You Pay Your Money, You Send Your Books

John, Alison and Liz read the Clarke Award shortlist.

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Content warnings this episode: Gun control and dystopian government (The Dream Hotel), body dysmorphia (Luminous), child abuse (The Salt Oracle)

The Arthur C Clarke Award

Medium

Substack

Website

This year’s shortlist

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

Luminous by Sylvia Park

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm