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2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award: science fiction winners and finalists

Every science fiction novel and novella recognized by the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award, winners first, with page counts, reader ratings and a link to each book.

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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Dark Eden by Chris Beckett, book cover

Dark Eden

by Chris Beckett

Novel · 2012

Clarke winner

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.

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, book cover

2312

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Novel · 2012

Nebula winnerClarke recognitionHugo recognitionLocus recognition

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.

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway, book cover

Angelmaker

by Nick Harkaway

Novel · 2012

Clarke recognition

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.

Intrusion by Ken MacLeod, book cover

Intrusion

by Ken MacLeod

Novel · 2012

Clarke recognition

Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child.

Nod by Adrian Barnes, book cover

Nod

by Adrian Barnes

Novel · 2012

Clarke recognition

Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and theyve all shared the same golden dream.

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