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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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Novel · 2003
Midnight Lamp, first published in 2003, is a science fiction novel by British writer Gwyneth Jones. It is the third of a series of five books set in a near-future version of the United Kingdom. It was nominated for both the 2003 BSFA, and the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
by Patrick Ness
Novel · 2010
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
by John Barnes
Novel · 1994
In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.
Novel · 2005
Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, Never Let Me Go is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.
Novel · 1988
Neverness is a science fiction novel by American writer David Zindell, published in 1988. The related novelette "Shanidar" won the Writers of the Future contest in 1985. Zindell has said that it was partly based on Le Morte d'Arthur, with the pilots as "knights zipping around the universe in search of the Holy Grail".
by Ramez Naam
Novel · 2012
The Nexus Trilogy is a postcyberpunk thriller novel trilogy written by American author Ramez Naam and published between 2012-2015. The novel series follows the protagonist Kaden Lane, a scientist who works on an experimental nano-drug, Nexus, which allows the brain to be programmed and networked, connecting human minds together.
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2016
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics.
Novel · 2012
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.
Novel · 1994
Two travelers cross a ruined Europe. Alien contact unsettles human loyalties.
Novel · 2006
Nova Swing is a science fiction novel by M. John Harrison published in 2006. It takes place in the same universe as Light. The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick Awards in 2007.
by Jeff Noon
Novel · 1997
Nymphomation is a novel by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1997.
Novel · 2016
A winged stranger pursues a killer. His briefcase contains an impossibility.
by Lydia Millet
Novel · 2005
Three physicists enter the future. A librarian believes their story.
Novel · 1998
Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous bigot wins his way into the White House. Lauren Olamina leads a new faith group directly opposed to the new government.
Novel · 2001
A new identity promises privilege. A murder threatens everything.
Novel · 1994
Pasquale's Angel is an alternate history novel by Paul J. McAuley, published in 1994. Set in early 16th-century Florence, the novel depicts a world where Leonardo da Vinci has abandoned art for engineering, triggering an industrial revolution during the Italian Renaissance.
Novel · 2001
One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before.
Novel · 2000 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia.
Novel · 1988
It is 1982. The United States has a permanent Moonbase. Richard M. Nixon is in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency." And an eccentric novelist named Philip K. Dick has just died in California. Or has he?
by Lucy Kissick
Novel · 2022
An engineer brings light to Pluto. A silent child holds secrets.
Novel · 2024
Three sisters inherit a house. The world keeps filling with water.
Novel · 2005
In 2057, Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper mine comets for their ice, but when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is assigned to follow it.
Novel · 1986
Magdalen occupies competing realities. Others keep defining her identity.
Novel · 2003 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Volume One of The Baroque Cycle (Not to be confused with Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle 1) Quicksilver is a massive, exuberant and wildly ambitious historical novel that's also Neal Stephenson's eagerly awaited prequel to Cryptonomicon--his pyrotechnic reworking of the 20th century, from World War II…
Novel · 1991
Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee Sequence, although the Xeelee are not present. Raft was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992.
by Misha
Novel · 1990
An artist resists a ruined world. A killer stalks its outcasts.
by Ken Grimwood
Novel · 1986 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again.
Novel · 2009
Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay. A womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, running contraband, robbing airships and making a nuisance of themselves.
Novel · 2000
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself.
by Yoon Ha Lee
Novel · 2018
Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy.
by Ian McDonald
Novel · 2004
River of Gods is a 2004 science fiction novel by British writer Ian McDonald. It depicts a futuristic India in 2047, a century after its independence from Britain, characterized both by ancient traditions and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligences, robots and nanotechnology.
Novel · 2017
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
Novel · 2011
Head of the Rule 34 Squad monitoring the Internet for illegal activities, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh investigates the link between three ex-con spammers who have been murdered.
by Adam Roberts
Novel · 2001
Salt is a novel by British science fiction author Adam Roberts.
Novel · 2017
Humanity is gone. Its machines still fight to survive.
by Sue Burke
Novel · 2018
"Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits...Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools."--
Novel · 2024
Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault - that is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.
Novel · 1999
Anjuli O'Connell has a memory like a computer, a boyfriend who is slowly turning into a cyborg, a friend who wishes he was nothing more than a mind inside of a computer and a mystery to resolve that questions all the wisdom about artificial intelligence…
Novel · 2021
Skyward Inn is a 2021 science fiction novel by British writer Aliya Whiteley. The novel was a finalist for the 2021 BSFA Award for Best Novel and Arthur C. Clarke Award, as well as being named one of the five best science fiction novels of the year by the Financial Times.
Novel · 1992
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic.
by Paul Park
Novel · 1987
Where the seasons last for generations, hard winter makes for hard religion.
by Emily Tesh
Novel · 2022
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth.
Novel · 2008
Song of Time may refer to: Song of Time: Live at the Vision Festival, a 2004 album by NAM Song of Time, a 1996 Magic: The Gathering novel by Teri McLaren Song of Time, a 2008 novel by Ian R. MacLeod
Novel · 2017
Spaceman of Bohemia is a science fiction novel written by Jaroslav Kalfař in 2017.
Novel · 2008
A loyal servant faces betrayal. Interstellar power offers little protection.
Novel · 1984
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. It is part of what would have been a "diptych", in Delany's description, of which the second half, The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities, remains unfinished.
Novel · 2014
After the collapse, a traveling theater keeps something human alive.
Novel · 1991
The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in possession of forbidden technological knowledge.
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