Who won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2026?

“When There Are Wolves Again” by E.J. Swift won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2026.

Who are the most recent Arthur C. Clarke Award winners?

2026: “When There Are Wolves Again” by E.J. Swift; 2025: “Annie Bot” by Sierra Greer; 2024: “In Ascension” by Martin MacInnes; 2023: “Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman; 2022: “Deep Wheel Orcadia” by Harry Josephine Giles.

Has anyone won the Arthur C. Clarke Award more than once?

Yes - 3 authors have: China Miéville (2001, 2005, 2010); Geoff Ryman (1990, 2006); Pat Cadigan (1992, 1995).

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Awarded by a panel of judges appointed by the Serendip Foundation, in partnership with the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) and the Science Fiction Foundation (SFF)

An annual British award given to the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous calendar year, established in 1987 with funding from author Arthur C. Clarke and widely regarded as one of the most prestigious science fiction awards in the UK.

Latest winner · 2026

When There Are Wolves Again · E.J. Swift

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2026

When There Are Wolves Again
E.J. Swift
Won 1 more award
Won
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Shortlisted
Luminous
Silvia Park
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Salt Oracle
Lorraine Wilson
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
Shortlisted

2025

Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
Won
Extremophile
Ian Green
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Private Rites
Julia Armfield
Shortlisted
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
Maud Woolf
Shortlisted

2024

In Ascension
Martin MacInnes
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
Isabel Waidner
Shortlisted
Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Ten Percent Thief
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Shortlisted

2023

Venomous Lumpsucker
Ned Beauman
Won
Metronome
Tom Watson
Shortlisted
Plutoshine
Lucy Kissick
Shortlisted
The Anomaly
Hervé Le Tellier
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Coral Bones
E. J. Swift
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Red Scholar's Wake
Aliette de Bodard
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2022

Deep Wheel Orcadia
Harry Josephine Giles
Won
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
A River Called Time
Courttia Newland
Shortlisted
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Skyward Inn
Aliya Whiteley
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Wergen: The Alien Love War
Mercurio D. Rivera
Shortlisted

2021

The Animals in That Country
Laura Jean McKay
Won
Chilling Effect
Valerie Valdes
Shortlisted
Edge of Heaven
RB Kelly
Shortlisted
The Infinite
Patience Agbabi
Shortlisted
The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez
Shortlisted
Vagabonds
Hao Jingfang
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2020

The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shortlisted
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Last Astronaut
David Wellington
Shortlisted
The Light Brigade
Kameron Hurley
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2019

Rosewater
Tade Thompson
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Revenant Gun
Yoon Ha Lee
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Semiosis
Sue Burke
Shortlisted
The Electric State
Simon Stålenhag
Shortlisted
The Loosening Skin
Aliya Whiteley
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2018

Dreams Before the Start of Time
Anne Charnock
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
American War
Omar El Akkad
Shortlisted
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Gather the Daughters
Jennie Melamed
Shortlisted
Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill
Shortlisted
Spaceman of Bohemia
Jaroslav Kalfar
Shortlisted

2017

The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 3 more awards
Won
A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
After Atlas
Emma Newman
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Central Station
Lavie Tidhar
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Occupy Me
Tricia Sullivan
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2016

Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Won
Arcadia
Iain Pears
Shortlisted
Europe at Midnight
Dave Hutchinson
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Book of Phoenix
Nnedi Okorafor
Shortlisted
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Shortlisted
Way Down Dark
James Smythe
Shortlisted

2015

Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Nominated for 4 more awards
Won
Europe in Autumn
Dave Hutchinson
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Memory of Water
Emmi Itäranta
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2014

Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
God's War
Kameron Hurley
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Nexus
Ramez Naam
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Adjacent
Christopher Priest
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Disestablishment of Paradise
Phillip Mann
Shortlisted
The Machine
James Smythe
Shortlisted

2013

Dark Eden
Chris Beckett
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
2312
Kim Stanley Robinson
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Angelmaker
Nick Harkaway
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Intrusion
Ken MacLeod
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Nod
Adrian Barnes
Shortlisted
The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Shortlisted

2012

The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Jane Rogers
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Embassytown
China Miéville
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Hull Zero Three
Greg Bear
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Rule 34
Charles Stross
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The End Specialist
Drew Magary
Shortlisted
The Waters Rising
Sheri S. Tepper
Shortlisted

2011

Zoo City
Lauren Beukes
Nominated for 3 more awards
Won
Declare
Tim Powers
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Generosity: An Enhancement
Richard Powers
Shortlisted
Lightborn
Tricia Sullivan
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness
Shortlisted
The Dervish House
Ian McDonald
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2010

The City & the City
China Miéville
Won 4 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Far North
Marcel Theroux
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Galileo's Dream
Kim Stanley Robinson
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Retribution Falls
Chris Wooding
Shortlisted
Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant
Gwyneth Jones
Shortlisted
Yellow Blue Tibia
Adam Roberts
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2009

Song of Time
Ian R. MacLeod
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Martin Martin's on the Other Side
Mark Wernham
Shortlisted
The Margarets
Sheri S. Tepper
Shortlisted
The Quiet War
Paul J. McAuley
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2008

Black Man
Richard K. Morgan
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall
Shortlisted
The Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
The H-Bomb Girl
Stephen Baxter
Shortlisted
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
Shortlisted
The Red Men
Matthew de Abaitua
Shortlisted

2007

Nova Swing
M. John Harrison
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Won
End of the World Blues
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Gradisil
Adam Roberts
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Hav
Jan Morris
Shortlisted
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Lydia Millet
Shortlisted
Streaking
Brian Stableford
Shortlisted

2006

Air
Geoff Ryman
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Won
Accelerando
Charles Stross
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Banner of Souls
Liz Williams
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Learning the World
Ken MacLeod
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Pushing Ice
Alastair Reynolds
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2005

Iron Council
China Miéville
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Market Forces
Richard K. Morgan
Shortlisted
River of Gods
Ian McDonald
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The System of the World
Neal Stephenson
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Shortlisted

2004

Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Coalescent
Stephen Baxter
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Darwin's Children
Greg Bear
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Maul
Tricia Sullivan
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Midnight Lamp
Gwyneth Jones
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2003

The Separation
Christopher Priest
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Kiln People
David Brin
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Light
M. John Harrison
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
Shortlisted
The Scar
China Miéville
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 4 more awards
Shortlisted
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2002

Bold As Love
Gwyneth Jones
Nominated for 3 more awards
Won
Fallen Dragon
Peter F. Hamilton
Shortlisted
Mappa Mundi
Justina Robson
Shortlisted
Pashazade
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Passage
Connie Willis
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Secret of Life
Paul J. McAuley
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2001

Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 5 more awards
Won
Ash: A Secret History
Mary Gentle
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Cosmonaut Keep
Ken MacLeod
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Salt
Adam Roberts
Shortlisted

2000

Distraction
Bruce Sterling
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Manifold: Time
Stephen Baxter
Shortlisted
Silver Screen
Justina Robson
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Bones of Time
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Shortlisted

1999

Dreaming in Smoke
Tricia Sullivan
Won
Cavalcade
Alison Sinclair
Shortlisted
Earth Made of Glass
John Barnes
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Cassini Division
Ken MacLeod
Nominated for 5 more awards
Shortlisted
The Extremes
Christopher Priest
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Time on My Hands
Peter Delacorte
Shortlisted

1998

The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
Won 1 more award
Won
Days
James Lovegrove
Shortlisted
Glimmering
Elizabeth Hand
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Nymphomation
Jeff Noon
Shortlisted
The Family Tree
Sheri S. Tepper
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Titan
Stephen Baxter
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

1997

The Calcutta Chromosome
Amitav Ghosh
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Sheri S. Tepper
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Looking for the Mahdi
N. Lee Wood
Shortlisted
The Engines of God
Jack McDevitt
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Voyage
Stephen Baxter
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

1996

Fairyland
Paul J. McAuley
Nominated for 3 more awards
Won
Happy Policeman
Patricia Anthony
Shortlisted
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Prestige
Christopher Priest
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Star Fraction
Ken MacLeod
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Time Ships
Stephen Baxter
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted

1995

Fools
Pat Cadigan
Won
Alien Influences
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Shortlisted
Mother of Storms
John Barnes
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
North Wind
Gwyneth Jones
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Pasquale's Angel
Paul J. McAuley
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Towing Jehovah
James K. Morrow
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted

1994

Vurt
Jeff Noon
Won
A Million Open Doors
John Barnes
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Ammonite
Nicola Griffith
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
The Broken God
David Zindell
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Michael Swanwick
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

1993

Body of Glass
Marge Piercy
Won
Correspondence
Sue Thomas
Shortlisted
Destroying Angel
Richard Paul Russo
Shortlisted
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Hearts, Hands and Voices
Ian McDonald
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Lost Futures
Lisa Tuttle
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Stations of the Tide
Michael Swanwick
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

1992

Synners
Pat Cadigan
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
Eternal Light
Paul J. McAuley
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Raft
Stephen Baxter
Shortlisted
Subterranean Gallery
Richard Paul Russo
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Hyperion Cantos
Dan Simmons
Shortlisted
White Queen
Gwyneth Jones
Shortlisted

1991

Take Back Plenty
Colin Greenland
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Farewell Horizontal
K. W. Jeter
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Rats and Gargoyles
Mary Gentle
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Red Spider, White Web
Misha Nogha
Shortlisted
The City, Not Long After
Pat Murphy
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

1990

The Child Garden
Geoff Ryman
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
A Child Across the Sky
Jonathan Carroll
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
A Mask for the General
Lisa Goldstein
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Desolation Road
Ian McDonald
Shortlisted
Ivory
Mike Resnick
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Neverness
David Zindell
Shortlisted
Soldiers of Paradise
Paul Park
Shortlisted

1989

Unquenchable Fire
Rachel Pollack
Won
Empire of Fear
Brian Stableford
Shortlisted
Kairos
Gwyneth Jones
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Life During Wartime
Lucius Shepard
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas
Michael Bishop
Shortlisted
Rumours of Spring
Richard Grant
Shortlisted
Whores of Babylon
Ian Watson
Shortlisted

1988

The Sea and Summer
George Turner
Won
Aegypt
John Crowley
Shortlisted
Ancient of Days
Michael Bishop
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Fiasco
Stanisław Lem
Shortlisted
Gráinne
Keith Roberts
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
H. F. Saint
Shortlisted
Replay
Ken Grimwood
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

1987

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 4 more awards
Won
Eon
Greg Bear
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Escape Plans
Gwyneth Jones
Shortlisted
Green Eyes
Lucius Shepard
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Queen of the States
Josephine Saxton
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Samuel R. Delany
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Memory of Whiteness
Kim Stanley Robinson
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Ragged Astronauts
Bob Shaw
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

Frequently asked questions

Who won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2026?: “When There Are Wolves Again” by E.J. Swift won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2026.
Who are the most recent Arthur C. Clarke Award winners?: 2026: “When There Are Wolves Again” by E.J. Swift; 2025: “Annie Bot” by Sierra Greer; 2024: “In Ascension” by Martin MacInnes; 2023: “Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman; 2022: “Deep Wheel Orcadia” by Harry Josephine Giles.
Has anyone won the Arthur C. Clarke Award more than once?: Yes - 3 authors have: China Miéville (2001, 2005, 2010); Geoff Ryman (1990, 2006); Pat Cadigan (1992, 1995).