News for 2026

At a packed event in Patch St Paul's, London, the 40th Arthur C Clarke Award winner was announced. It was slightly delayed by a celestial event that clearly hadn't got the message, an occurrence that would undoubtedly have made the late Sir Clarke chuckle.

The winning novel was When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift, a notable novel about climate change that appears uniquely relevant as we in the UK go through the 5th Heatwave of the...

Ty Ogunade has won the 2026 Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour, with his cyberpunk novel A Blade Drawn from Envy. The winner was announced this evening at a ceremony in London, hosted by Gollancz.

The Future Worlds Prize is now in its sixth year, and if you haven't come...

The fortieth Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist was announced today, and I was lucky enough to be in the room for it, at King's College London as part of the Digital Futures Institute festival. The shortlist reveal followed the festival's keynote, with Samira Ahmed, who asked whether analogue technology is our storytelling saviour or merely a nostalgic retreat, and made the case for why analogue needs to survive...