# Arthur C. Clarke Award

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".
Any "full-length" science fiction novel written or translated into English is eligible for the prize, provided that it was first published in the United Kingdom during the prior calendar year. There is no restriction on the nationality of the author, and the publication history of works outside the United Kingdom is not taken into consideration. Books may be submitted for consideration by their publishing company, and, beginning in 2016, self-published titles have been eligible with certain qualifications. An official call for entries is issued to UK publishers every year and members of the judging panel and organisation committee also actively call in titles they would like to see submitted. A title must be actively submitted in order to be considered. The judges form a shortlist of six works that they feel are worthy of consideration, from which they select a winning book. The winner receives an engraved bookend and a prize consisting of a number of pounds sterling equal to the current year, such as £2012 for the year 2012. Prior to 2001, the award was £1000.
During the 36 nomination years, 147 authors have had works nominated, 33 of whom have won. China Miéville has won three times, while Pat Cadigan and Geoff Ryman have won twice each; no other author has won multiple times. Stephen Baxter and Gwyneth Jones have the most nominations, at seven each, and Baxter has the most nominations without winning. Neal Stephenson has won once out of six nominations; Ken MacLeod and Kim Stanley Robinson have also been nominated six times. Paul J. McAuley and Miéville have been nominated five times; McAuley has one win, whereas MacLeod and Robinson have none.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners
Winners and nominees :
| Year | Author | Novel | Publisher |
| 1987 | Margaret Atwood* | The Handmaid's Tale | McClelland & Stewart |
| 1987 | Bob Shaw | The Ragged Astronauts | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1987 | Greg Bear | Eon | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1987 | Samuel R. Delany | Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | Grafton |
| 1987 | Gwyneth Jones | Escape Plans | Allen & Unwin |
| 1987 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Memory of Whiteness | Futura/Macdonald |
| 1987 | Josephine Saxton | Queen of the States | The Women's Press |
| 1987 | Lucius Shepard | Green Eyes | Chatto & Windus |
| 1988 | George Turner* | The Sea and Summer | Faber and Faber |
| 1988 | Stanisław Lem | Fiasco | André Deutsch Publishing |
| 1988 | Michael Bishop | Ancient of Days | Grafton |
| 1988 | John Crowley | Aegypt | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1988 | Ken Grimwood | Replay | Grafton |
| 1988 | Keith Roberts | Gráinne | Kerosina Books |
| 1988 | H. F. Saint | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | Viking UK |
| 1989 | Rachel Pollack* | Unquenchable Fire | Century Publishing |
| 1989 | Brian Stableford | Empire of Fear | Simon & Schuster UK |
| 1989 | Michael Bishop | Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas | Grafton |
| 1989 | Richard Grant | Rumours of Spring | Bantam UK |
| 1989 | Gwyneth Jones | Kairos | Unwin Hyman |
| 1989 | Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime | Grafton |
| 1989 | Ian Watson | Whores of Babylon | Grafton |
| 1990 | Geoff Ryman* | The Child Garden | Unwin Hyman |
| 1990 | Jonathan Carroll | A Child Across the Sky | Century Publishing |
| 1990 | Lisa Goldstein | A Mask for the General | Arrow Books |
| 1990 | Ian McDonald | Desolation Road | Bantam UK |
| 1990 | Paul Park | Soldiers of Paradise | Grafton |
| 1990 | Mike Resnick | Ivory | Century Publishing |
| 1990 | David Zindell | Neverness | Grafton |
| 1991 | Colin Greenland* | Take Back Plenty | Unwin Hyman |
| 1991 | Mary Gentle | Rats and Gargoyles | Bantam UK |
| 1991 | Iain M. Banks | Use of Weapons | Macdonald Publishing |
| 1991 | Misha Nogha | Red Spider, White Web | Morrigan Publications |
| 1991 | K. W. Jeter | Farewell Horizontal | Grafton |
| 1991 | Pat Murphy | The City, Not Long After | Pan Books |
| 1992 | Pat Cadigan* | Synners | HarperCollins |
| 1992 | Paul J. McAuley | Eternal Light | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1992 | Stephen Baxter | Raft | Grafton |
| 1992 | Gwyneth Jones | White Queen | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1992 | Richard Paul Russo | Subterranean Gallery | Grafton |
| 1992 | Dan Simmons | The Hyperion Cantos | Headline Publishing Group |
| 1993 | Marge Piercy* | Body of Glass | Michael Joseph |
| 1993 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | HarperCollins UK |
| 1993 | Ian McDonald | Hearts, Hands and Voices | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1993 | Richard Paul Russo | Destroying Angel | Headline Publishing Group |
| 1993 | Michael Swanwick | Stations of the Tide | Legend Publishing |
| 1993 | Sue Thomas | Correspondence | The Women's Press |
| 1993 | Lisa Tuttle | Lost Futures | Grafton |
| 1993 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book | New English Library |
| 1994 | Jeff Noon* | Vurt | Ringpull |
| 1994 | John Barnes | A Million Open Doors | Millennium |
| 1994 | Nicola Griffith | Ammonite | Grafton |
| 1994 | Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash | Roc UK |
| 1994 | Michael Swanwick | The Iron Dragon's Daughter | Millennium |
| 1994 | David Zindell | The Broken God | HarperCollins UK |
| 1995 | Pat Cadigan* | Fools | HarperCollins UK |
| 1995 | John Barnes | Mother of Storms | Millennium |
| 1995 | Gwyneth Jones | North Wind | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1995 | Paul J. McAuley | Pasquale's Angel | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1995 | James K. Morrow | Towing Jehovah | Arrow Books |
| 1995 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Alien Influences | Millennium |
| 1996 | Paul J. McAuley* | Fairyland | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1996 | Ken MacLeod | The Star Fraction | Legend Publishing |
| 1996 | Patricia Anthony | Happy Policeman | New English Library |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | HarperCollins UK |
| 1996 | Christopher Priest | The Prestige | Simon & Schuster UK |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson | The Diamond Age | Viking UK |
| 1997 | Amitav Ghosh* | The Calcutta Chromosome | Picador |
| 1997 | Stephen Baxter | Voyage | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1997 | Jack McDevitt | The Engines of God | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Blue Mars | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1997 | Sheri S. Tepper | Gibbon's Decline and Fall | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1997 | N. Lee Wood | Looking for the Mahdi | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1998 | Mary Doria Russell* | The Sparrow | Black Swan |
| 1998 | Stephen Baxter | Titan | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1998 | Elizabeth Hand | Glimmering | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1998 | James Lovegrove | Days | Phoenix Books |
| 1998 | Jeff Noon | Nymphomation | Doubleday |
| 1998 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Family Tree | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 1999 | Tricia Sullivan* | Dreaming in Smoke | Millenium |
| 1999 | John Barnes | Earth Made of Glass | Orion Publishing Group |
| 1999 | Peter Delacorte | Time on My Hands | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 1999 | Ken MacLeod | The Cassini Division | Orbit Books |
| 1999 | Christopher Priest | The Extremes | Simon & Schuster UK |
| 1999 | Alison Sinclair | Cavalcade | Millennium |
| 2000 | Bruce Sterling* | Distraction | Millennium |
| 2000 | Stephen Baxter | Manifold: Time | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 2000 | Kathleen Ann Goonan | The Bones of Time | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 2000 | Justina Robson | Silver Screen | Macmillan UK |
| 2000 | Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon | Heinemann |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge | A Deepness in the Sky | Millennium |
| 2001 | China Miéville* | Perdido Street Station | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2001 | Octavia E. Butler | Parable of the Talents | The Women's Press |
| 2001 | Mary Gentle | Ash: A Secret History | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2001 | Ken MacLeod | Cosmonaut Keep | Orbit Books |
| 2001 | Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2001 | Adam Roberts | Salt | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2002 | Gwyneth Jones* | Bold As Love | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2002 | Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Pashazade | Earthlight |
| 2002 | Peter F. Hamilton | Fallen Dragon | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2002 | Paul J. McAuley | The Secret of Life | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 2002 | Justina Robson | Mappa Mundi | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2002 | Connie Willis | Passage | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 2003 | Christopher Priest* | The Separation | Scribner UK |
| 2003 | David Brin | Kiln People | Orbit Books |
| 2003 | M. John Harrison | Light | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2003 | China Miéville | The Scar | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Moon | Speed of Dark | Orbit Books |
| 2003 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Years of Rice and Salt | HarperCollins |
| 2004 | Neal Stephenson* | Quicksilver | Heinemann |
| 2004 | Stephen Baxter | Coalescent | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2004 | Greg Bear | Darwin's Children | HarperCollins UK |
| 2004 | William Gibson | Pattern Recognition | Viking Press |
| 2004 | Gwyneth Jones | Midnight Lamp | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2004 | Tricia Sullivan | Maul | Orbit Books |
| 2005 | China Miéville* | Iron Council | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2005 | Ian McDonald | River of Gods | Simon & Schuster |
| 2005 | David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Sceptre |
| 2005 | Richard K. Morgan | Market Forces | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2005 | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife | Jonathan Cape |
| 2005 | Neal Stephenson | The System of the World | Heinemann |
| 2006 | Geoff Ryman* | Air | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2006 | Ken MacLeod | Learning the World | Orbit Books |
| 2006 | Alastair Reynolds | Pushing Ice | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2006 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Faber and Faber |
| 2006 | Charles Stross | Accelerando | Orbit Books |
| 2006 | Liz Williams | Banner of Souls | Tor UK |
| 2007 | M. John Harrison* | Nova Swing | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2007 | Jon Courtenay Grimwood | End of the World Blues | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2007 | Lydia Millet | Oh Pure and Radiant Heart | Heinemann |
| 2007 | Jan Morris | Hav | Faber and Faber |
| 2007 | Adam Roberts | Gradisil | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2007 | Brian Stableford | Streaking | PS Publishing |
| 2008 | Richard K. Morgan* | Black Man | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2008 | Matthew de Abaitua | The Red Men | Snowbooks |
| 2008 | Sarah Hall | The Carhullan Army | Faber and Faber |
| 2008 | Steven Hall | The Raw Shark Texts | Canongate Books |
| 2008 | Ken MacLeod | The Execution Channel | Orbit Books |
| 2008 | Stephen Baxter | The H-Bomb Girl | Faber and Faber |
| 2009 | Ian R. MacLeod* | Song of Time | PS Publishing |
| 2009 | Paul J. McAuley | The Quiet War | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2009 | Alastair Reynolds | House of Suns | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2009 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | Atlantic Books |
| 2009 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Margarets | HarperCollins |
| 2009 | Mark Wernham | Martin Martin's on the Other Side | Jonathan Cape |
| 2010 | China Miéville* | The City & the City | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2010 | Gwyneth Jones | Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2010 | Adam Roberts | Yellow Blue Tibia | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2010 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Galileo's Dream | HarperCollins |
| 2010 | Marcel Theroux | Far North | Faber and Faber |
| 2010 | Chris Wooding | Retribution Falls | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | Lauren Beukes* | Zoo City | Angry Robot |
| 2011 | Patrick Ness | Monsters of Men | Walker Books |
| 2011 | Ian McDonald | The Dervish House | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | Richard Powers | Generosity: An Enhancement | Atlantic Books |
| 2011 | Tim Powers | Declare | Corvus Books |
| 2011 | Tricia Sullivan | Lightborn | Orbit Books |
| 2012 | Jane Rogers* | The Testament of Jessie Lamb | Sandstone Press |
| 2012 | Greg Bear | Hull Zero Three | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2012 | Drew Magary | The End Specialist | HarperCollins Voyager |
| 2012 | China Miéville | Embassytown | Macmillan Publishers |
| 2012 | Charles Stross | Rule 34 | Orbit Books |
| 2012 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Waters Rising | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2013 | Chris Beckett* | Dark Eden | Corvus |
| 2013 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2312 | Orbit Books |
| 2013 | Nick Harkaway | Angelmaker | Heinemann |
| 2013 | Peter Heller | The Dog Stars | Headline Publishing Group |
| 2013 | Ken MacLeod | Intrusion | Orbit Books |
| 2013 | Adrian Barnes | Nod | Bluemoose Books |
| 2014 | Ann Leckie* | Ancillary Justice | Orbit Books |
| 2014 | Kameron Hurley | God's War | Del Rey Books |
| 2014 | Phillip Mann | The Disestablishment of Paradise | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2014 | Ramez Naam | Nexus | Angry Robot |
| 2014 | Christopher Priest | The Adjacent | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2014 | James Smythe | The Machine | Blue Door |
| 2015 | Emily St. John Mandel* | Station Eleven | Picador |
| 2015 | Michel Faber | The Book of Strange New Things | Canongate Books |
| 2015 | Dave Hutchinson | Europe in Autumn | Solaris Books |
| 2015 | Claire North | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Orbit Books |
| 2015 | M. R. Carey | The Girl with All the Gifts | Orbit Books |
| 2015 | Emmi Itäranta | Memory of Water | HarperVoyager |
| 2016 | Adrian Tchaikovsky* | Children of Time | Tor Books |
| 2016 | Becky Chambers | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2016 | Dave Hutchinson | Europe at Midnight | Solaris Books |
| 2016 | Nnedi Okorafor | The Book of Phoenix | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2016 | Iain Pears | Arcadia | Faber and Faber |
| 2016 | James Smythe | Way Down Dark | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2017 | Colson Whitehead* | The Underground Railroad | Fleet Publishing |
| 2017 | Becky Chambers | A Closed and Common Orbit | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2017 | Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit | Solaris Books |
| 2017 | Emma Newman | After Atlas | Roc Books |
| 2017 | Tricia Sullivan | Occupy Me | Gollancz Books |
| 2017 | Lavie Tidhar | Central Station | PS Publishing |
| 2018 | Anne Charnock* | Dreams Before the Start of Time | 47North |
| 2018 | Omar El Akkad | American War | Picador |
| 2018 | Jeff VanderMeer | Borne | HarperCollins |
| 2018 | Jennie Melamed | Gather the Daughters | Tinder Press |
| 2018 | C. Robert Cargill | Sea of Rust | Gollancz Books |
| 2018 | Jaroslav Kalfar | Spaceman of Bohemia | Sceptre |
| 2019 | Tade Thompson* | Rosewater | Orbit Books |
| 2019 | Sue Burke | Semiosis | HarperVoyager |
| 2019 | Yoon Ha Lee | Revenant Gun | Solaris Books |
| 2019 | Ahmed Saadawi | Frankenstein in Baghdad | Oneworld Publications |
| 2019 | Simon Stålenhag | The Electric State | Simon and Schuster |
| 2019 | Aliya Whiteley | The Loosening Skin | Unsung Stories |
| 2020 | Namwali Serpell* | The Old Drift | Hogarth Press |
| 2020 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Cage of Souls | Head of Zeus |
| 2020 | Charlie Jane Anders | The City in the Middle of the Night | Tor Books, Titan Books |
| 2020 | David Wellington | The Last Astronaut | Hachette |
| 2020 | Kameron Hurley | The Light Brigade | Saga Press, Angry Robot |
| 2020 | Arkady Martine | A Memory Called Empire | Tor Books |
| 2021 | Laura Jean McKay* | The Animals in That Country | Scribe |
| 2021 | Patience Agbabi | The Infinite | Canongate Books |
| 2021 | Simon Jimenez | The Vanished Birds | Titan Books |
| 2021 | Hao Jingfang | Vagabonds | Head of Zeus |
| 2021 | RB Kelly | Edge of Heaven | NewCon Press |
| 2021 | Valerie Valdes | Chilling Effect | Orbit Books |
| 2022 | Harry Josephine Giles* | Deep Wheel Orcadia | Picador |
| 2022 | Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | Tor UK |
| 2022 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun | Faber and Faber |
| 2022 | Courttia Newland | A River Called Time | Canongate Books |
| 2022 | Aliya Whiteley | Skyward Inn | Solaris Books |
| 2022 | Mercurio D. Rivera | Wergen: The Alien Love War | NewCon Press |
| 2023 | Ned Beauman* | Venomous Lumpsucker | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2023 | E. J. Swift | The Coral Bones | Unsung Stories |
| 2023 | Tom Watson | Metronome | Bloomsbury |
| 2023 | Hervé Le Tellier | The Anomaly | Michael Joseph |
| 2023 | Aliette de Bodard | The Red Scholar's Wake | Gollancz Books |
| 2023 | Lucy Kissick | Plutoshine | Gollancz Books |
| 2024 | Martin MacInnes* | In Ascension | Atlantic Books |
| 2024 | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Chain-Gang All-Stars | Harvill Secker |
| 2024 | Isabel Waidner | Corey Fah Does Social Mobility | Hamish Hamilton |
| 2024 | Ray Nayler | The Mountain in the Sea | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| 2024 | Emily Tesh | Some Desperate Glory | Orbit Books |
| 2024 | Lavanya Lakshminarayan | The Ten Percent Thief | Solaris Books |