Book award · Science fiction published in the UK

Arthur C. Clarke Award: winners & nominees

A juried prize for the best science fiction novel first published in the UK, awarded since 1987.

Wins recorded

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2025

✦Annie Bot — Caragh M. O'Brien· Overall
✦Private Rites — Julia Armfield· Overall
✦The Ministry of Time — Kaliane Bradley· Overall
✦Extremophile· Overall
✦Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock· Overall
✦Service Model — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024

🏆In Ascension — Martin MacInnes· Overall
✦Corey Fah Does Social Mobility — Isabel Waidner· Overall
✦Some Desperate GloryEmily Tesh· Overall
✦Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future — Lavanya Lakshminarayan· Overall
✦Chain-Gang All-Stars — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah· Overall
✦The Mountain in the Sea — Ray Nayler· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023

🏆Venomous Lumpsucker — Ned Beauman· Overall
✦Plutoshine — Lucy Kissick· Overall
✦Metronome· Overall
✦The Anomaly — Hervé Le Tellier· Overall
✦The Red Scholar's Wake — Aliette de Bodard· Overall
✦The Coral Bones· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2022

🏆Deep Wheel Orcadia — Harry Josephine Giles· Overall
✦Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro· Overall
✦Skyward Inn· Overall
✦A River Called Time — Courttia Newland· Overall
✦A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine· Overall
✦Wergen: The Alien Love War· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2021

🏆The Animals in That Country — Laura Jean McKay· Overall
✦Chilling Effect — Valerie Valdes· Overall
✦The Vanished Birds — Simon Jimenez· Overall
✦Edge of Heaven· Overall
✦Vagabonds — Hao Jingfang· Overall
✦The Infinite — Patience Agbabi· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020

🏆The Old Drift — Namwali Serpell· Overall
✦Cage of Souls — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Overall
✦The City in the Middle of the Night — Charlie Jane Anders· Overall
✦A Memory Called Empire — Arkady Martine· Overall
✦The Light Brigade — Kameron Hurley· Overall
✦The Last Astronaut — David Wellington· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2019

🏆Rosewater — Tade Thompson· Overall
✦Revenant Gun — Yoon Ha Lee· Overall
✦The Electric State — Simon Stålenhag· Overall
✦The Loosening Skin· Overall
✦Semiosis — Sue Burke· Overall
✦Frankenstein in Baghdad — Ahmed Saadawi· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018

🏆Dreams Before the Start of Time — Anne Charnock· Overall
✦Borne — Jeff VanderMeer· Overall
✦Gather the Daughters — Jennie Melamed· Overall
✦ C. Robert Cargill· Overall
✦American War — Omar El Akkad· Overall
✦Spaceman of Bohemia — Jaroslav Kalfař· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2017

🏆The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead· Overall
✦Ninefox Gambit — Yoon Ha Lee· Overall
✦A Closed and Common Orbit — Becky Chambers· Overall
✦After Atlas — Emma Newman· Overall
✦Occupy Me — Tricia Sullivan· Overall
✦Central Station — Lavie Tidhar· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016

🏆Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky· Overall
✦The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet — Becky Chambers· Overall
✦Europe at Midnight — Dave Hutchinson· Overall
✦The Book of Phoenix — Nnedi Okorafor· Overall
✦Way Down Dark — James Smythe· Overall
✦Arcadia — Iain Pears· Overall

Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015

🏆Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel· Overall
✦Memory of Water — Emmi Itäranta· Overall
✦Europe in Autumn — Dave Hutchinson· Overall
✦The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August — Catherine Webb· Overall
✦The Girl with All the Gifts — Mike Carey· Overall
✦The Book of Strange New Things — Michel Faber· Overall

From Wikipedia

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. It is named after British author Arthur C. Clarke, who gave a grant to establish the award in 1987. The book is chosen by a panel of judges from the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation, and a third organisation, which as of 2019 is the Sci-Fi-London film festival. The award has been described as "the UK's most prestigious science fiction prize".

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