The six shortlisted books for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best sf novel published in 2014 are:

• The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey (Orbit)
• The Book Of Strange New Things – Michel Faber (Canongate)
• Europe In Autumn – Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
• Memory Of Water – Emmi Itäranta (HarperVoyager)
• The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August – Claire North (Orbit)
• Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel (Picador)

The finalists were selected from a list of 107 individual eligible submissions.

The judging panel for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 are:

• Duncan Lawie, British Science Fiction Association
• Nicholas Whyte, British Science Fiction Association
• Sarah Brown, Science Fiction Foundation
• Lesley Hall, Science Fiction Foundation
• Leila Abu El Hawa, SCI-FI-LONDON film festival

Andrew M. Butler represents the Arthur C. Clarke Award in a non-voting role as the Chair of the Judges.

The winner will be presented with a £2015.00 prize and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend, at a ceremony in London on May 6.