Arthur C Clarke Award
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a juried award, sponsored initially by Arthur C. Clarke (author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, and other seminal works). It is given to the best SF novel published each year in the UK (not necessarily by a British writer).
Scope
SF novels published in the UK.
SF novels published in the UK.
What
Originally £1000, donated by Clarke; the amount increased to £2001 in 2001 and increases by £1 each year so the total is always the same as the year. The trophy is an engraved bookend.
Originally £1000, donated by Clarke; the amount increased to £2001 in 2001 and increases by £1 each year so the total is always the same as the year. The trophy is an engraved bookend.
Process
The winning book is chosen by a panel of judges currently invited from the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.
The winning book is chosen by a panel of judges currently invited from the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.
Official Site
http://www.clarkeaward.com/
http://www.clarkeaward.com/
— Winners by Year —
| — 2025 — | Annie Bot, Sierra Greer |
| — 2024 — | In Ascension, Martin MacInnes |
| — 2023 — | Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman |
| — 2022 — | Deep Wheel Orcadia, Harry Josephine Giles |
| — 2021 — | The Animals in that Country, Laura Jean McKay |
| — 2020 — | The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell |
| — 2019 — | Rosewater, Tade Thompson |
| — 2018 — | Dreams Before the Start of Time, Anne Charnock |
| — 2017 — | The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead |
| — 2016 — | Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| — 2015 — | Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel |
| — 2014 — | Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie |
| — 2013 — | Dark Eden, Chris Beckett |
| — 2012 — | The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Jane Rogers |
| — 2011 — | Zoo City, Lauren Beukes |
| — 2010 — | The City & the City, China Miéville |
| — 2009 — | Song of Time, Ian R. MacLeod |
| — 2008 — | Black Man, Richard Morgan |
| — 2007 — | Nova Swing, M. John Harrison |
| — 2006 — | Air, Geoff Ryman |
| Paul Kincaid (honorary award) | |
| — 2005 — | Iron Council, China Miéville |
| — 2004 — | Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson |
| — 2003 — | The Separation, Christopher Priest |
| — 2002 — | Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones |
| — 2001 — | Perdido Street Station, China Miéville |
| — 2000 — | Distraction, Bruce Sterling |
| — 1999 — | Dreaming in Smoke, Tricia Sullivan |
| — 1998 — | The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell |
| — 1997 — | The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh |
| — 1996 — | Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley |
| — 1995 — | Fools, Pat Cadigan |
| — 1994 — | Vurt, Jeff Noon |
| — 1993 — | Body of Glass, Marge Piercy |
| — 1992 — | Synners, Pat Cadigan |
| — 1991 — | Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland |
| — 1990 — | The Child Garden, Geoff Ryman |
| — 1989 — | Unquenchable Fire, Rachel Pollack |
| — 1988 — | The Sea and Summer, George Turner |
| — 1987 — | The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood |
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