Arthur C Clarke Award
Established in 1986, the Arthur C Clarke Award is given annually for the best science fiction novel published in the UK the previous year. It has since become the most prestigious awards for Science Fiction within the UK.
The award began with a grant from Arthur C Clarke himself, with the aim of promoting science fiction, the first winner being Margaret Atwood for The Handmaid's Tale. Winners are chosen from a shortlist by a panel of judges who include of critics, fans and writers. Currently those include members of the British Science Fiction Associated (BSFA), the Science Fiction Foundation and the Science fiction London film festival.
Presented here is a complete list of all the award winners and nominations, with winners listed next to the date and nominees below.
- 2024 - In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- - Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- - Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
- - The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
- - Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- - The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
- 2023 - Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
- - The Coral Bones Unsung Stories by E. J. Swift
- - Metronome by Tom Watson
- - The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
- - The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
- - Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick
- 2022 - Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
- - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- - A River Called Time by Courttia Newland
- - Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley
- - Wergen: The Alien Love War by Mercurio D. Rivera
- 2021 - The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
- - The Infinite by Patience Agbabi
- - The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
- - Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang
- - Edge of Heaven by RB Kelly
- - Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
- 2020 - The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
- - Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
- - The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
- - The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
- - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- 2019 - Rosewater by Tade Thompson
- - Semiosis by Sue Burke
- - Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
- - Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
- - The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
- - The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley
- 2018 - Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
- - Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
- - American War by Omar El Akkad
- - Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
- - Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
- - Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
- 2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- - Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- - After Atlas by Emma Newman
- - Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
- - Central Station by Lavie Tidha
- 2016 - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- - Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
- - The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
- - Arcadia by Iain Pears
- - Way Down Dark by J.P. Smythe
- 2015 - Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
- - The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey
- - The Book Of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
- - Europe In Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
- - Memory Of Water by Emmi Itäranta
- - The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August by Claire North
- 2014 - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- - God’s War by Kameron Hurley
- - The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
- - Nexus by Ramez Naam
- - The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
- - The Machine by James Smythe
- 2013 - Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
- - Nod by Adrian Barnes
- - Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
- - The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- - Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
- - 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 2012 - The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
- - Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
- - The End Specialist by Drew Magary
- - Embassytown by China Miéville
- - Rule 34 by Charles Stross
- - The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper
- 2011 - Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
- - Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
- - The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
- - Generosity by Richard Powers
- - Declare by Tim Powers
- - Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
- 2010 - The City & The City by China Miéville
- - Spirit by Gwyneth Jones
- - Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
- - Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
- - Far North by Marcel Theroux
- - Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
- 2009 - Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
- - The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
- - House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- - Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- - The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
- - Martin Martin’s on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
- 2008 - Black Man by Richard Morgan
- - The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
- - The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
- - The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
- - The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
- - The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
- 2007 - Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
- - End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- - Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
- - Hav by Jan Morris
- - Gradisil by Adam Roberts
- - Streaking by Brian Stableford
- 2006 - Air by Geoff Ryman
- - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- - Learning The World by Ken MacLeod
- - Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
- - Accelerando by Charles Stross
- - Banner Of Souls by Liz Williams
- 2005 - Iron Council by China Miéville
- - River of Gods by Ian McDonald
- - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- - Market Forces by Richard Morgan
- - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- - The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
- 2004 - Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- - Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
- - Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
- - Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
- - Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
- - Maul by Tricia Sullivan
- 2003 - The Separation by Christopher Priest
- - Kil'n People by David Brin
- - Light by M. John Harrison
- - The Scar by China Miéville
- - Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
- - The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 2002 - Bold As Love by Gwyneth Jones
- - Pashazade - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- - Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton
- - The Secret of Life by Paul J. McAuley
- - Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson
- - Passage by Connie Willis
- 2001 - Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
- - Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- - Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
- - Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
- - Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
- - Salt by Adam Roberts
- 2000 - Distraction by Bruce Sterling
- - Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
- - The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
- - Silver Screen by Justina Robson
- - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- - A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
- 1999 - Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
- - Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
- - Time On My Hands by Peter Delacorte
- - The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
- - The Extremes by Christopher Priest
- - Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
- 1998 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- - Titan by Stephen Baxter
- - Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
- - Days by James Lovegrove
- - Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
- - The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper
- 1997 - The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
- - Voyage by Stephen Baxter
- - Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
- - Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- - Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
- - Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood
- 1996 - Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
- - The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
- - Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
- - The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
- - The Prestige by Christopher Priest
- - The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- 1995 - Fools by Pat Cadigan
- - Mother of Storms by John Barnes
- - North Wind by Gwyneth Jones
- - Pasquale's Angel by Paul J. McAuley
- - Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
- - Alien Influences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- 1994 - Vurt by Jeff Noon
- - A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
- - Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
- - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- - The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
- - The Broken God by David Zindell
- 1993 - Body of Glass by Marge Piercy
- - Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- - Hearts, Hands and Voices by Ian McDonald
- - Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
- - Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
- - Correspondence by Sue Thomas
- - Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle
- - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- 1992 - Synners by Pat Cadigan
- - Eternal Light by Paul J. McAuley
- - Raft by Stephen Baxter
- - White Queen by Gwyneth Jones
- - Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo
- - The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
- 1991 - Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland
- - Rats & Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
- - Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- - Red Spider, White Web by Misha Nogha
- - Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter
- - The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
- 1990 - The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
- - A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
- - A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
- - Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
- - Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park
- - Ivory by Mike Resnick
- - Neverness by David Zindell
- 1989 - Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
- - Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
- - Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
- - Rumours of Spring by Richard Grant
- - Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
- - Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
- - Whores of Babylon by Ian Watson
- 1988 - The Sea and Summer by George Turner
- - Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
- - Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
- - Aegypt by John Crowley
- - Replay by Ken Grimwood
- - Gráinne by Keith Roberts
- - Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H.F. Saint
- 1987 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- - The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
- - Eon by Greg Bear
- - Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
- - Escape Plans by Gwyneth Jones
- - The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
- - Queen of the States by Josephine Saxton
- - Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
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