How do you win a Booker prize?

The Man Booker Prize is probably the biggest literary award in the UK and the BBC has an interesting article about it:

Martyn Goff, who ran the award for 35 years, says the key is literary tourism - taking the reader somewhere they are not familiar with.

"It's going to give people information and feeling about something they knew very little about indeed," he explains.

"Yes, there should be a strong plot. But also there should be a description of something that most of us don't know anything about - Rushdie with India as it was, that sort of thing. People are very taken with that."

So does the same apply in Science Fiction?

Clearly something new in a SF novel is appealing, but then there's also the case that a lot of SF is built upon other SF; that old conversation with the genre discussion. I don't think it's as a clear cut (is it ever?!).