Stories set in varied worlds ranging from a devastated Paris to a sinister planet with a incestuous population among contenders for this year’s prestigious honours
A Paris ruined by war, a dark planet peopled by the incestuous descendants of two abandoned astronauts and the dangerous surface of the moon are some of the settings for the year’s best science fiction novels, as chosen by the members of the British Science Fiction Association.
French-American writer Aliette de Bodard is shortlisted for the BSFA best novel prize for The House of Shattered Wings, which takes place in a devastated Paris after the Great Magicians’ War. Chris Beckett, whose novel Dark Eden won him the Arthur C Clarke award, makes the cut for follow-up Mother of Eden, set generations after the incestuous offspring of astronauts have dispersed across their dark planet.
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