Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a prize for excellent science fiction writing. It is a British award for a science fiction novel from the year before. To win, the novel must be published first in the United Kingdom. The winner gets money as a prize. The prize amount increases each year. It is a number of pounds sterling equal to the year of the prize (£1987 for the first prize in 1987, and £2011 for the most recent prize).

The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke gave money to start the prize. The first prize was given in 1987.  A group of judges choose the winning book. Judges come from the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and a third group. Now, that third group SF Crowsnest. The Serendip Foundation manages the prize.  Recently, the award has been presented on the first night of the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.

List of winners
 1987: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 
 1988: The Sea and Summer by George Turner 
 1989: Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
 1990: The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman 
 1991: Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland 
 1992: Synners by Pat Cadigan 
 1993: Body of Glass by Marge Piercy (published as He, She and It in the U.S.) 
 1994: Vurt by Jeff Noon 
 1995: Fools by Pat Cadigan 
 1996: Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley 
 1997: The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh 
 1998: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 
 1999: Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan 
 2000: Distraction by Bruce Sterling 
 2001: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville 
 2002: Bold As Love by Gwyneth Jones
 2003: The Separation by Christopher Priest
 2004: Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
 2005: Iron Council by China Miéville
 2006: Air by Geoff Ryman
 2007: Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
 2008: Black Man by Richard Morgan
 2009: Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
 2010: The City and the City by China Miéville
 2011: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes 
 2012: The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
 2013: Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
 2014: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
 2015: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
 2016: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
 2018: Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock

 Related pages 

 Hugo Award

 Other websites 
 Official Arthur C. Clarke Award site
 Reviews of current and previous winners 
 Interview with Tom Hunter, Administrator of the Arthur C. Clarke Awards 
 List of all winning and nominated novels

References

Category:Literary awards
Category:Science fiction awards
Category:Lists of books