The preceding few class , there ’s been a run negotiation in the U.K. over the fact that major honour , like the BSFA Awards and the Clarke Awards , tend to feature right smart more male source on their shortlists . This year , both awards are trying to address that in unlike way .
Top image : God ’s War by Kameron Hurley , UK Cover
First , the Clarke Awards isputting out two disjoined longlists : one have 33 books by women , and one featuring books by men . These are all of the books under thoughtfulness for the honour , and there ’s no warrant that any of these books will make it onto the shortlist . But the fact that 33 out of 82 book on the entire longlist are by women means the odds are at least better , correct ?
Last year , the Clarke Awards run into criticism for throw an all -male shortlist , and this newfangled list of books by cleaning lady is think to respond to that . The Guardian quote director Tom Hunter as saying he hopes release gender - segregated longlists will “ be a confirming contribution towards further raising the profile of women writers ofscience fictionin the UK and beyond . ” ( As fight to ghettoize the distaff source , which is also a possible outcome . )
Meanwhile , the BSFA Awards , which also had an all - male person shortlist last year , put out this year ’s short list , containing two women : Kameron Hurley and Ann Leckie . ( Plus Paul McAuley , Gareth L. Powell and Christopher Priest . ) Lauren Beukes and Ruth Ozeki fell just short of making it onto the shortlist , awards chief Donna Scotttold the Guardian . Hurley is quoted as enounce , “ Let ’s be actual . We ’re two out of five on the right novel shortlist , whichisn’t even conservation of parity … So I ’m notgoing to hop-skip up and down like ‘ rah - rah no more sexism ! ’ But it ’s betterthan we ’ve see in a while . ”
In any character , neither of these motion seems potential to end the debate over sexuality parity in SF awards — in the U.K. or elsewhere . That wo n’t happen until we all get used to seeing lineups of winners and nominees that reflect the actual diversity of the best writers of SF today .
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