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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.

Search through 6,630 awarded or nominated books

2026

  1. Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Matt Dinniman

    Shortlisted
  2. Luminous

    Silvia Park

    Shortlisted
  3. The Dream Hotel

    Laila Lalami

    Shortlisted
  4. The Salt Oracle

    Lorraine Wilson

    Shortlisted
  5. There Is No Antimemetics Division

    qntm

    Shortlisted
  6. When There Are Wolves Again

    E.J. Swift

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. Annie Bot

    Sierra Greer

    Won
  2. Extremophile

    Ian Green

    Shortlisted
  3. Private Rites

    Julia Armfield

    Shortlisted
  4. Service Model

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Shortlisted
  5. The Ministry of Time

    Kaliane Bradley

    Shortlisted
  6. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

    Maud Woolf

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. In Ascension

    Martin MacInnes

    Won
  2. Chain-Gang All-Stars

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Shortlisted
  3. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

    Isabel Waidner

    Shortlisted
  4. Some Desperate Glory

    Emily Tesh

    Shortlisted
  5. The Mountain in the Sea

    Ray Nayler

    Shortlisted
  6. The Ten Percent Thief

    Lavanya Lakshminarayan

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. Venomous Lumpsucker

    Ned Beauman

    Won
  2. Metronome

    Tom Watson

    Shortlisted
  3. Plutoshine

    Lucy Kissick

    Shortlisted
  4. The Anomaly

    Hervé Le Tellier

    Shortlisted
  5. The Coral Bones

    E. J. Swift

    Shortlisted
  6. The Red Scholar's Wake

    Aliette de Bodard

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. Deep Wheel Orcadia

    Harry Josephine Giles

    Won
  2. A Desolation Called Peace

    Arkady Martine

    Shortlisted
  3. A River Called Time

    Courttia Newland

    Shortlisted
  4. Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Shortlisted
  5. Skyward Inn

    Aliya Whiteley

    Shortlisted

  6. Wergen: The Alien Love War

    Mercurio D. Rivera

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. The Animals in That Country

    Laura Jean McKay

    Won
  2. Chilling Effect

    Valerie Valdes

    Shortlisted
  3. Edge of Heaven

    RB Kelly

    Shortlisted
  4. The Infinite

    Patience Agbabi

    Shortlisted
  5. The Vanished Birds

    Simon Jimenez

    Shortlisted
  6. Vagabonds

    Hao Jingfang

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. The Old Drift

    Namwali Serpell

    Won
  2. A Memory Called Empire

    Arkady Martine

    Shortlisted
  3. Cage of Souls

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Shortlisted
  4. The City in the Middle of the Night

    Charlie Jane Anders

    Shortlisted
  5. The Last Astronaut

    David Wellington

    Shortlisted
  6. The Light Brigade

    Kameron Hurley

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. Rosewater

    Tade Thompson

    Won
  2. Frankenstein in Baghdad

    Ahmed Saadawi

    Shortlisted
  3. Revenant Gun

    Yoon Ha Lee

    Shortlisted
  4. Semiosis

    Sue Burke

    Shortlisted
  5. The Electric State

    Simon Stålenhag

    Shortlisted
  6. The Loosening Skin

    Aliya Whiteley

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Dreams Before the Start of Time

    Anne Charnock

    Won
  2. American War

    Omar El Akkad

    Shortlisted
  3. Borne

    Jeff VanderMeer

    Shortlisted
  4. Gather the Daughters

    Jennie Melamed

    Shortlisted
  5. Sea of Rust

    C. Robert Cargill

    Shortlisted
  6. Spaceman of Bohemia

    Jaroslav Kalfar

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead

    Won
  2. A Closed and Common Orbit

    Becky Chambers

    Shortlisted
  3. After Atlas

    Emma Newman

    Shortlisted
  4. Central Station

    Lavie Tidhar

    Shortlisted
  5. Ninefox Gambit

    Yoon Ha Lee

    Shortlisted
  6. Occupy Me

    Tricia Sullivan

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. Children of Time

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Won
  2. Arcadia

    Iain Pears

    Shortlisted
  3. Europe at Midnight

    Dave Hutchinson

    Shortlisted
  4. The Book of Phoenix

    Nnedi Okorafor

    Shortlisted
  5. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    Becky Chambers

    Shortlisted
  6. Way Down Dark

    James Smythe

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. Station Eleven

    Emily St. John Mandel

    Won
  2. Europe in Autumn

    Dave Hutchinson

    Shortlisted
  3. Memory of Water

    Emmi Itäranta

    Shortlisted
  4. The Book of Strange New Things

    Michel Faber

    Shortlisted
  5. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    Claire North

    Shortlisted
  6. The Girl with All the Gifts

    M. R. Carey

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. Ancillary Justice

    Ann Leckie

    Won
  2. God's War

    Kameron Hurley

    Shortlisted
  3. Nexus

    Ramez Naam

    Shortlisted
  4. The Adjacent

    Christopher Priest

    Shortlisted
  5. The Disestablishment of Paradise

    Phillip Mann

    Shortlisted
  6. The Machine

    James Smythe

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. Dark Eden

    Chris Beckett

    Won
  2. 2312

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Shortlisted
  3. Angelmaker

    Nick Harkaway

    Shortlisted
  4. Intrusion

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  5. Nod

    Adrian Barnes

    Shortlisted
  6. The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. The Testament of Jessie Lamb

    Jane Rogers

    Won
  2. Embassytown

    China Miéville

    Shortlisted
  3. Hull Zero Three

    Greg Bear

    Shortlisted
  4. Rule 34

    Charles Stross

    Shortlisted
  5. The End Specialist

    Drew Magary

    Shortlisted
  6. The Waters Rising

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. Zoo City

    Lauren Beukes

    Won
  2. Declare

    Tim Powers

    Shortlisted
  3. Generosity: An Enhancement

    Richard Powers

    Shortlisted
  4. Lightborn

    Tricia Sullivan

    Shortlisted
  5. Monsters of Men

    Patrick Ness

    Shortlisted
  6. The Dervish House

    Ian McDonald

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. The City & the City

    China Miéville

    Won
  2. Far North

    Marcel Theroux

    Shortlisted
  3. Galileo's Dream

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Shortlisted
  4. Retribution Falls

    Chris Wooding

    Shortlisted
  5. Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant

    Gwyneth Jones

    Shortlisted
  6. Yellow Blue Tibia

    Adam Roberts

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Song of Time

    Ian R. MacLeod

    Won
  2. Anathem

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted
  3. House of Suns

    Alastair Reynolds

    Shortlisted
  4. Martin Martin's on the Other Side

    Mark Wernham

    Shortlisted
  5. The Margarets

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Shortlisted
  6. The Quiet War

    Paul J. McAuley

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. Black Man

    Richard K. Morgan

    Won
  2. The Carhullan Army

    Sarah Hall

    Shortlisted
  3. The Execution Channel

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  4. The H-Bomb Girl

    Stephen Baxter

    Shortlisted
  5. The Raw Shark Texts

    Steven Hall

    Shortlisted
  6. The Red Men

    Matthew de Abaitua

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. Nova Swing

    M. John Harrison

    Won
  2. End of the World Blues

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    Shortlisted
  3. Gradisil

    Adam Roberts

    Shortlisted
  4. Hav

    Jan Morris

    Shortlisted
  5. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

    Lydia Millet

    Shortlisted
  6. Streaking

    Brian Stableford

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. Air

    Geoff Ryman

    Won
  2. Accelerando

    Charles Stross

    Shortlisted
  3. Banner of Souls

    Liz Williams

    Shortlisted
  4. Learning the World

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  5. Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Shortlisted
  6. Pushing Ice

    Alastair Reynolds

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. Iron Council

    China Miéville

    Won
  2. Cloud Atlas

    David Mitchell

    Shortlisted
  3. Market Forces

    Richard K. Morgan

    Shortlisted
  4. River of Gods

    Ian McDonald

    Shortlisted
  5. The System of the World

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted
  6. The Time Traveler's Wife

    Audrey Niffenegger

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. Quicksilver

    Neal Stephenson

    Won
  2. Coalescent

    Stephen Baxter

    Shortlisted
  3. Darwin's Children

    Greg Bear

    Shortlisted
  4. Maul

    Tricia Sullivan

    Shortlisted
  5. Midnight Lamp

    Gwyneth Jones

    Shortlisted
  6. Pattern Recognition

    William Gibson

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. The Separation

    Christopher Priest

    Won
  2. Kiln People

    David Brin

    Shortlisted
  3. Light

    M. John Harrison

    Shortlisted
  4. Speed of Dark

    Elizabeth Moon

    Shortlisted
  5. The Scar

    China Miéville

    Shortlisted
  6. The Years of Rice and Salt

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Bold As Love

    Gwyneth Jones

    Won
  2. Fallen Dragon

    Peter F. Hamilton

    Shortlisted
  3. Mappa Mundi

    Justina Robson

    Shortlisted
  4. Pashazade

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    Shortlisted
  5. Passage

    Connie Willis

    Shortlisted
  6. The Secret of Life

    Paul J. McAuley

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. Perdido Street Station

    China Miéville

    Won
  2. Ash: A Secret History

    Mary Gentle

    Shortlisted
  3. Cosmonaut Keep

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  4. Parable of the Talents

    Octavia E. Butler

    Shortlisted
  5. Revelation Space

    Alastair Reynolds

    Shortlisted
  6. Salt

    Adam Roberts

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. Distraction

    Bruce Sterling

    Won
  2. A Deepness in the Sky

    Vernor Vinge

    Shortlisted
  3. Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted
  4. Manifold: Time

    Stephen Baxter

    Shortlisted
  5. Silver Screen

    Justina Robson

    Shortlisted
  6. The Bones of Time

    Kathleen Ann Goonan

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. Dreaming in Smoke

    Tricia Sullivan

    Won

  2. Cavalcade

    Alison Sinclair

    Shortlisted
  3. Earth Made of Glass

    John Barnes

    Shortlisted
  4. The Cassini Division

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  5. The Extremes

    Christopher Priest

    Shortlisted
  6. Time on My Hands

    Peter Delacorte

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. The Sparrow

    Mary Doria Russell

    Won
  2. Days

    James Lovegrove

    Shortlisted
  3. Glimmering

    Elizabeth Hand

    Shortlisted
  4. Nymphomation

    Jeff Noon

    Shortlisted
  5. The Family Tree

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Shortlisted
  6. Titan

    Stephen Baxter

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. The Calcutta Chromosome

    Amitav Ghosh

    Won
  2. Blue Mars

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Shortlisted
  3. Gibbon's Decline and Fall

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Shortlisted
  4. Looking for the Mahdi

    N. Lee Wood

    Shortlisted
  5. The Engines of God

    Jack McDevitt

    Shortlisted
  6. Voyage

    Stephen Baxter

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. Fairyland

    Paul J. McAuley

    Won
  2. Happy Policeman

    Patricia Anthony

    Shortlisted
  3. The Diamond Age

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted
  4. The Prestige

    Christopher Priest

    Shortlisted
  5. The Star Fraction

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  6. The Time Ships

    Stephen Baxter

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. Fools

    Pat Cadigan

    Won
  2. Alien Influences

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Shortlisted
  3. Mother of Storms

    John Barnes

    Shortlisted
  4. North Wind

    Gwyneth Jones

    Shortlisted
  5. Pasquale's Angel

    Paul J. McAuley

    Shortlisted
  6. Towing Jehovah

    James K. Morrow

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. Vurt

    Jeff Noon

    Won
  2. A Million Open Doors

    John Barnes

    Shortlisted
  3. Ammonite

    Nicola Griffith

    Shortlisted
  4. Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted
  5. The Broken God

    David Zindell

    Shortlisted
  6. The Iron Dragon's Daughter

    Michael Swanwick

    Shortlisted

1993

  1. Body of Glass

    Marge Piercy

    Won
  2. Correspondence

    Sue Thomas

    Shortlisted
  3. Destroying Angel

    Richard Paul Russo

    Shortlisted
  4. Doomsday Book

    Connie Willis

    Shortlisted

  5. Hearts, Hands and Voices

    Ian McDonald

    Shortlisted
  6. Lost Futures

    Lisa Tuttle

    Shortlisted
  7. Red Mars

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Shortlisted
  8. Stations of the Tide

    Michael Swanwick

    Shortlisted

1992

  1. Synners

    Pat Cadigan

    Won
  2. Eternal Light

    Paul J. McAuley

    Shortlisted
  3. Raft

    Stephen Baxter

    Shortlisted
  4. Subterranean Gallery

    Richard Paul Russo

    Shortlisted
  5. The Hyperion Cantos

    Dan Simmons

    Shortlisted
  6. White Queen

    Gwyneth Jones

    Shortlisted

1991

  1. Take Back Plenty

    Colin Greenland

    Won
  2. Farewell Horizontal

    K. W. Jeter

    Shortlisted
  3. Rats and Gargoyles

    Mary Gentle

    Shortlisted

  4. Red Spider, White Web

    Misha Nogha

    Shortlisted
  5. The City, Not Long After

    Pat Murphy

    Shortlisted
  6. Use of Weapons

    Iain M. Banks

    Shortlisted

1990

  1. The Child Garden

    Geoff Ryman

    Won
  2. A Child Across the Sky

    Jonathan Carroll

    Shortlisted
  3. A Mask for the General

    Lisa Goldstein

    Shortlisted
  4. Desolation Road

    Ian McDonald

    Shortlisted
  5. Ivory

    Mike Resnick

    Shortlisted
  6. Neverness

    David Zindell

    Shortlisted
  7. Soldiers of Paradise

    Paul Park

    Shortlisted

1989

  1. Unquenchable Fire

    Rachel Pollack

    Won
  2. Empire of Fear

    Brian Stableford

    Shortlisted
  3. Kairos

    Gwyneth Jones

    Shortlisted
  4. Life During Wartime

    Lucius Shepard

    Shortlisted
  5. Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas

    Michael Bishop

    Shortlisted
  6. Rumours of Spring

    Richard Grant

    Shortlisted
  7. Whores of Babylon

    Ian Watson

    Shortlisted

1988

  1. The Sea and Summer

    George Turner

    Won
  2. Aegypt

    John Crowley

    Shortlisted
  3. Ancient of Days

    Michael Bishop

    Shortlisted
  4. Fiasco

    Stanisław Lem

    Shortlisted
  5. Gráinne

    Keith Roberts

    Shortlisted

  6. Memoirs of an Invisible Man

    H. F. Saint

    Shortlisted
  7. Replay

    Ken Grimwood

    Shortlisted

1987

  1. The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

    Won
  2. Eon

    Greg Bear

    Shortlisted
  3. Escape Plans

    Gwyneth Jones

    Shortlisted
  4. Green Eyes

    Lucius Shepard

    Shortlisted
  5. Queen of the States

    Josephine Saxton

    Shortlisted
  6. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

    Samuel R. Delany

    Shortlisted
  7. The Memory of Whiteness

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Shortlisted
  8. The Ragged Astronauts

    Bob Shaw

    Shortlisted