![]() ![]() The animalled are people who carry the guilt of another human being’s death in an unusually literal way, manifested in the form of animals which they must keep near them at all times. Zoo City is the Johannesburg ghetto where the “animalled” live. The point is that the Clarke Award did its job, by finding a bloody good book and shouting to the world about it. For me the better view is that the boundaries aren’t the point. ![]() That caused some controversy, with many arguing that it wasn’t science fiction at all but rather a fantasy novel which shouldn’t even have been shortlisted (hardcore genre fans can get very bullish about defending genre boundaries). Lauren Beukes’ second novel, Zoo City, won the prize back in 2011. In part that’s because I don’t read enough science fiction to otherwise be on top of what’s coming out, but it’s also because it’s a well curated prize that really does tend to catch much of what’s most exciting in the field. ![]() Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature is one of the very few literary prizes I pay any attention to. ![]()
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