Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the UK's premier prize for science fiction literature.

Best Book Awards

2018
American War by Omar El Akkad
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

2017
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (winner)

2016
Arcadia by Iain Pears
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (winner)
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Way Down Dark by J P Smythe

2015
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Europe In Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Girl With All The Gifts by M R Carey
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (winner)

2014
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (winner)
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
God's War by Kameron Hurley
The Machine by J P Smythe
Nexus by Ramez Naam

2013
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (winner)
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
Nod by Adrian Barnes

2012
Embassytown by China Miéville
The End Specialist by Drew Magary
Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
Rule 34 by Charles Stross
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers (winner)
The Waters Rising by Sheri S Tepper

2011
Declare by Tim Powers
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Generosity by Richard Powers
Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (winner)

2010
The City & the City by China Miéville (winner)
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Spirit by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts

2009
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
The Margarets by Sheri S Tepper
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
Song of Time by Ian R MacLeod (winner)

2008
Black Man by Richard K Morgan (winner)
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
The H-bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua

2007
End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay-Grimwood
Gradisil by Adam Roberts
Hav by Jan Morris
Nova Swing by M John Harrison (winner)
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
Streaking Venus by Raud A Kennedy

2006
Accelerando by Charles Stross
Air by Geoff Ryman (winner)
Banner of Souls by Liz Williams
Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

2005
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Iron Council by China Miéville (winner)
Market Forces by Richard K Morgan
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2004
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (winner)

2003
Kil'n People by David Brin
Light by M John Harrison
The Scar by China Miéville
The Separation by Christopher Priest (winner)
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

2002
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones (winner)
Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton
Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson
Pashazade by Jon Courtenay-Grimwood
Passage by Connie Willis
The Secret of Life by Paul McAuley

2001
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (winner)
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Salt by Adam Roberts
A Secret History by Mary Gentle

2000
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Distraction by Bruce Sterling (winner)
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
Time by Stephen Baxter

1999
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan (winner)
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Time On My Hands by Peter Delacorte

1998
Days by James Lovegrove
The Family Tree by Sheri S Tepper
Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (winner)
Titan by Stephen Baxter

1997
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh (winner)
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S Tepper
Looking for the Mahdi by N Lee Wood
Voyage by Stephen Baxter

1996
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Fairyland by Paul McAuley (winner)
Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter

1995
Alien Influences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Fools by Pat Cadigan (winner)
Mother of Storms by John Barnes
North Wind by Gwyneth Jones
Pasquale's Angel by Paul McAuley
Towing Jehovah by James Morrow

1994
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
The Broken God by David Zindell
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Vurt by Jeff Noon (winner)

1993
The Broken Land by Ian McDonald
Correspondence by Sue Thomas
Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
He, She and It by Marge Piercy (winner)
Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

1992
Eternal Light by Paul McAuley
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Raft by Stephen Baxter
Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo
Synners by Pat Cadigan (winner)
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones

1991
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Farewell Horizontal by K W Jeter
Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland (winner)
Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks

1990
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman (winner)
Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
Ivory by Mike Resnick
A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
Neverness by David Zindell

1989
The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
Rumors Of Spring by Richard Grant
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack (winner)

1988
Aegypt by John Crowley
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
Drowning Towers by George Turner (winner)
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
Grainne by Keith Roberts
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H F Saint
Replay by Ken Grimwood

1987
Aztechs by Lucius Shepard
Eon by Greg Bear
Escape Plans by Gwyneth Jones
The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
Queen of the States by Josephine Saxton
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R Delany