OUSFG Award Shortlists

These are the OUSFG Award shortlists, whittled in a more-or-less arbitrary way from the OUSFG Award Candidates. The hope is that everyone will try to formulate a considered opinion on them so that they can contribute to the Balloon Debate? which determines the OUSFG Award Winners.

2008/09 (<http://community.livejournal.com/ousfg/20657.html>)

• God Is Dead? by Ron Currie? (1 Aug 2008)
• The Execution Channel? by Ken Mac Leod (6 Mar 2008)
• Red Seas Under Red Skies? by Scott Lynch? (29 Jul 2008)
• Bad Monkeys? by Matt Ruff (7 Jul 2008)
• The Family Trade? (Merchant Princes? 1) by Charles Stross

2007/08 (<http://community.livejournal.com/ousfg/18627.html>)

• Scar Night? by Alan Campbell?
• The Ladies Of Grace Adieu And Other Stories? by Susanna Clarke?
• The Fourth Bear? by Jasper Fforde
• The Lies Of Locke Lamora? by Scott Lynch?
• The Atrocity Archives? by Charles Stross

2006/07

• Fly By Night? by Frances Hardinge?
• Learning The World? by Ken Mac Leod
• Gifts Book? by Ursula Le Guin
• House Of Storms? by Ian R Mac Leod
• Temeraire Book? by Naomi Novik?
• Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds

2005/06

• Stories Of Your Life And Others? by Ted Chiang
• Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell? by Susanna Clarke?
• River Of Gods? by Ian Mc Donald?
• Cloud Atlas? by David Mitchell?
• The Time Travellers Wife? by Audrey Niffenegger?

2004/05 (<http://community.livejournal.com/ousfg/14445.html>)

• Coalescent Book by Stephen Baxter
• The Portrait Of Mrs Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford
• The Light Ages by Ian R Macleod
• The Separation by Christopher Priest
• Set This House In Order? by Matt Ruff