The Clarke shortlist: Goodreads/LibraryThing stats
Following on from my post on the long list, here are the Goodreads and LibraryThing ownership and ratings stats for the shortlist.
The one that I really didn't see coming was Dreams Before the Start of Time, which I really liked (though I liked the other three BSFA finalists more).
Note the high reader ratings for Sea of Rust, though it's also worth saying that it's tough to maintain high average ratings as the number of readers goes up, so Borne is doing well too.
| Goodreads | LibraryThing | |||
| owners | av rating | owners | av rating | |
| American War — Omar El Akkad | 70396 | 3.83 | 632 | 3.86 |
| Borne — Jeff VanderMeer | 50713 | 3.91 | 565 | 3.9 |
| Gather the Daughters — Jennie Melamed | 16643 | 3.66 | 130 | 3.48 |
| Spaceman of Bohemia — Jaroslav Kalfař | 9580 | 3.87 | 122 | 4.1 |
| Sea of Rust — C. Robert Cargill | 8563 | 4.14 | 113 | 4.14 |
| Dreams Before the Start of Time — Anne Charnock | 816 | 3.51 | 24 | 3.3 |
The one that I really didn't see coming was Dreams Before the Start of Time, which I really liked (though I liked the other three BSFA finalists more).
Note the high reader ratings for Sea of Rust, though it's also worth saying that it's tough to maintain high average ratings as the number of readers goes up, so Borne is doing well too.
