Powers is Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award

Powers has been shortlisted for the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke award for the best science fiction published in the U.K.

...and this year's list also sees an author coming in the other direction, with a nomination for Generosity by Richard Powers. Powers, a previous winner of the US National Book Award and the WH Smith literary award, has often written about science in the past, and Generosity explores the biochemistry of happiness.