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The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a juried award for science fiction novels published in the United Kingdom. It supplies a different perspective from fan and professional voting. Clarke records in this catalog are novels, not a separate novella prize. Official award site ↗
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by Kim Stanley Robinson
Novel · 2012
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between.
by Becky Chambers
Novel · 2016
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace was forced to reboot and reset.
by Vernor Vinge
Novel · 1999
A Deepness in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set 30,000 years previous) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2021
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2019
Poetry, politics, and a murder at the heart of an irresistible empire.
by John Barnes
Novel · 1992
Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures. But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan.
by Courttia Newland
Novel · 2021
A 2021 science fiction novel by Courttia Newland. Clarke recognition.
by Charles Stross
Novel · 2005
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will.
by Emma Newman
Novel · 2016
Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems...
by Geoff Ryman
Novel · 2005
Air, also known as Air: Or, Have Not Have, is a 2005 novel by Geoff Ryman.
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Novel · 1994
On the planet Bountiful, under a harsh, harsh sun, human settlers live peacefully alongside aliens known as Dancers for their magical rituals. The colony children, in particular, are fascinated by their alien friends.
by Omar El Akkad
Novel · 2017
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
by Nicola Griffith
Novel · 1993
Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women.
by Neal Stephenson
Novel · 2008
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable — yet strangely inverted — world.Fraa Erasmas is a young…
by Michael Bishop
Novel · 1985
A 1985 science fiction novel by Michael Bishop. Clarke recognition.
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2013
A starship’s intelligence. One remaining body. A very personal reckoning.
by Nick Harkaway
Novel · 2012
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
by Sierra Greer
Novel · 2024
Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning isn't always good enough, but she's trying really hard.
by Iain Pears
Novel · 2015
In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie.
by Mary Gentle
Novel · 2000
Ash: A Secret History is a historical fantasy novel by British author Mary Gentle first published in 2000. Set in the 15th century, the alternate history posts a fantastical "true" history of the world.
by Liz Williams
Novel · 2004
One of Mars's most elite warriors, Dreams-of-War, must travel to Earth. where she has been assigned to guard a very special child. But someone else is speeding towards the same planet with a different agenda.
by Richard Morgan
Novel · 2007
Black Man (published as Thirteen, stylised as Th1rte3n, in North America and later UK editions) is a 2007 science fiction novel by the British author Richard Morgan. It won the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Novel · 1996
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster.
by Marge Piercy
Novel · 1992
He, She, and It (retitled Body of Glass in the United Kingdom) is a 1991 cyberpunk novel by American writer Marge Piercy. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1993.
by Gwyneth Jones
Novel · 2001
Bold As Love, first published in 2001, is a science fiction novel by British writer Gwyneth Jones. It is the first of a series of five books written by Gwyneth Jones and set in a near-future version of the United Kingdom. The full title of the novel is Bold as Love: a Near Future Fantasy.
by Jeff VanderMeer
Novel · 2017
In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm.
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novel · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Clarke recognition.
by Alison Sinclair
Novel · 1998
A 1998 science fiction novel by Alison Sinclair. Clarke recognition.
by Lavie Tidhar
Novel · 2016
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Novel · 2022
She felt their eyes, all those executioners… Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry.
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novel · 2015
Humanity’s last hope has a civilization of its own.
by Valerie Valdes
Novel · 2019
A 2019 science fiction novel by Valerie Valdes. Clarke recognition.
by David Mitchell
Novel · 2004
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.
by Stephen Baxter
Novel · 2003
Stephen Baxter possesses one of the most brilliant minds in modern science fiction. His vivid storytelling skills have earned him comparison to the giants of the past: Clarke, Asimov, Stapledon.
by Isabel Waidner
Novel · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novel by Isabel Waidner. Clarke recognition.
by Ken MacLeod
Novel · 2000
Cosmonaut Keep is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2000. It is the first book in the Engines of Light Trilogy, a 2001 nominee for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for best novel.
by Neal Stephenson
Novel · 1999
Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
by Chris Beckett
Novel · 2012
Dark Eden is a social science fiction novel by British author Chris Beckett, first published in the United Kingdom in 2012. The novel explores the disintegration of a small group of a highly inbred people, descendants of two individuals whose spaceship crashed on a rogue planet they call Eden.
by Greg Bear
Novel · 2001
Greg Bear's Nebula Award--winning novel, Darwin's Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution--one that would alter our species forever.
by James Lovegrove
Novel · 1997
A 1997 science fiction novel by James Lovegrove. Clarke recognition.
by Harry Josephine Giles
Novel · 2021
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a science-fiction novel by Harry Josephine Giles. It is a verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect of the Scots language in parallel with an English translation. The book won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was published by Picador Poetry in 2021.
by Richard Paul Russo
Novel · 1992
A 1992 science fiction novel by Richard Paul Russo. Clarke recognition.
by Bruce Sterling
Novel · 1998
It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets.
by Connie Willis
Novel · 1992
Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree.
by Tricia Sullivan
Novel · 1998
Dreaming in Smoke is a science fiction novel by American writer Tricia Sullivan. The book is Sullivan's third science fiction novel and was first published as a hardcover by Millennium (an imprint of Orion Publishing Group) in January 1998. The novel won the 1999 Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel.
by Anne Charnock
Novel · 2017
A 2017 science fiction novel by Anne Charnock. Clarke Award winner.
by Matt Dinniman
Novel · 2020
The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.
by John Barnes
Novel · 1998
A novel on the Thousand Cultures, as Earth's colonies are known. Comprising more than a thousand planets, each has a unique civilization. The protagonists are two Earth agents--a married couple--sent to negotiate peace between warring Tamils and neo-Mayan Indians.
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