2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner announced

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes has been declared the best science fiction novel of the year and the 25th winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Published by Angry Robot Books, the novel is set in an alternate modern Johannesburg where psychic criminal guilt can take physical animal form and has been described as "Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler” and a novel that “sinks its claws into you."