The Guardian comments on the Clarke shortlist

The Guardian comments on the Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist in Clarke prize moves beyond sci-fi:

The Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction casts a strikingly wide net this year, with literary fiction and a novel for young adults joining the usual run of stories of androids and genetic engineering all on the shortlist

It's "the usual run of " which sounds condescending. Couldn't they have written the article without that tone? Slightly annoying. Meanwhile Sarah Hall has commented on her inclusion:

"Any collapsing of imposed literary boundaries heartens me, and the possibility that writers might be freer to exercise imaginative versatility is tremendously exciting."