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[james_davis_nicoll]

Until then, let's look at the 54 novels submitted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award:

[corrections and clarifications solicited]

Book                                                      Protagonist          Author
                                                           F       M            F  M
Black Hand Gang by Pat Kelleher                                    X               X 
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes                                  X                    X
Generosity by Richard Powers                               X       X               X 
Declare by Tim Powers                                              X               X
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer                                           X               X 
Holy Machine by Chris Beckett                                      X               X
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe 
 by Charles Yu                                                     X               X
On the Third Day by Rhys Thomas                               ?                    X
Salvage by Robert Edric                                            X               X
Bring Home the Stars by Jennifer Kirk                              X            X
Sylvow by Douglas Thompson                                 X       X               X 
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford                                ?                    X
The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna                        X       X            X
Paradise by Glenn Myers                                       ?                    X
A Matter of Blood by Sarah Pinborough                              X            X  
Above the Snowline by Steph Swainston                              X            X
Absorption by John Meaney                                  X       X               X  
Eve: The Burning Life by Hjalti Danielsson                 X       X               X
Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn                                X            X
New Model Army by Adam Roberts                              n/a?                   X
Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter                             X                       X 
Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds                                X               X
The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding                            X               X 
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald                             ?                    X
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi                               X               X
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce                            X       X               X
Veteran by Gavin G Smith                                           X               X 
Watch by Robert J Sawyer                                   X  n/a  X               X 
Zendegi by Greg Egan                                       X                       X 
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart                       X               X
For the Win by Cory Doctorow                               X       X               X
Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steve Amsterdam                 ?                   X
C by Tom McCarthy                                                  X               X
Feed by Mira Grant                                         X       X            X    
Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan                                       X            X
Surface Detail by Iain M Banks                             X                       X
The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross                            X               X
The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod                        X                       X
The Unit by Terry DeHart                                   X       X               X
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi                        X       X               X 
Version 43 by Philip Palmer                                        X               X
The Passage by Justin Cronin                               X       X               X
Blood and Iron by Tony Ballantyne                                  X               X
Empire of Light by Gary Gibson                             ?       X               X 
Kraken by China Miéville                                           X               X
The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton                 X       X               X
The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell                   X                       X
The Technician by Neal Asher                                       X               X
Zero History by William Gibson                             X       X               X   
Pornogram by Osric Allen                                       ?                   X 
The Meat Tree by Gwyneth Lewis                             X       X             X
The Age of Zeus by James Lovegrove                         X                       X
The Noise Within by Ian Whates                                     X               X
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness                            X       X               X   

Red Plenty doesn't seem to be SF but rather historical. Same for Birth of Love.