Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. It is named after British author Arthur C. Clarke, who gave a grant to establish the award in 1987. The book is chosen by a panel of judges from the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation, and a third organisation, which as of 2019 is the Sci-Fi-London film festival. The award has been described as "the UK's most prestigious science fiction prize".
Any "full-length" science fiction novel written or translated into English is eligible for the prize, provided that it was first published in the United Kingdom during the prior calendar year. There is no restriction on the nationality of the author, and the publication history of works outside the United Kingdom is not taken into consideration. Books may be submitted for consideration by their publishing company, and, beginning in 2016, self-published titles have been eligible with certain qualifications. An official call for entries is issued to UK publishers every year and members of the judging panel and organisation committee also actively call in titles they would like to see submitted. A title must be actively submitted in order to be considered. The judges form a shortlist of six works that they feel are worthy of consideration, from which they select a winning book. The winner receives an engraved bookend and a prize consisting of a number of pounds sterling equal to the current year, such as £2012 for the year 2012. Prior to 2001, the award was £1000.
During the 33 nomination years, 131 authors have had works nominated, 29 of whom have won. China Miéville has won three times, while Pat Cadigan and Geoff Ryman have won twice each; no other author has won multiple times. Stephen Baxter and Gwyneth Jones have the most nominations, at seven each, and Baxter has the most nominations without winning. Neal Stephenson has won once out of six nominations; Ken MacLeod and Kim Stanley Robinson have also been nominated six times. Paul J. McAuley and Miéville have been nominated five times; McAuley has one win, whereas MacLeod and Robinson have none.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.* Winners
| Year | Author | Novel | Publisher | Ref. |
| * | ' | McClelland & Stewart | ||
| ' | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Eon | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | Grafton | |||
| Escape Plans | Allen & Unwin | |||
| ' | Futura/Macdonald | |||
| Queen of the States | ||||
| Green Eyes | Chatto & Windus | |||
| * | ' | Faber and Faber | ||
| Fiasco | André Deutsch Publishing | |||
| Ancient of Days | Grafton | |||
| Aegypt | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Replay | Grafton | |||
| Gráinne | Kerosina Books | |||
| Memoirs of an Invisible Man | Viking UK | |||
| * | Unquenchable Fire | Century Publishing | ||
| Empire of Fear | Simon & Schuster UK | |||
| Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas | Grafton | |||
| Rumours of Spring | Bantam UK | |||
| Kairos | Unwin Hyman | |||
| Life During Wartime | Grafton | |||
| Whores of Babylon | Grafton | |||
| * | ' | Unwin Hyman | ||
| ' | Century Publishing | |||
| ' | Arrow Books | |||
| Desolation Road | Bantam UK | |||
| Soldiers of Paradise | Grafton | |||
| Ivory | Century Publishing | |||
| Neverness | Grafton | |||
| * | Take Back Plenty | Unwin Hyman | ||
| Rats and Gargoyles | Bantam UK | |||
| Use of Weapons | Macdonald Publishing | |||
| Red Spider, White Web | Morrigan Publications | |||
| Farewell Horizontal | Grafton | |||
| ' | Pan Books | |||
| * | Synners | HarperCollins | ||
| Eternal Light | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Raft | Grafton | |||
| White Queen | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Subterranean Gallery | Grafton | |||
| ' | Headline Publishing Group | |||
| * | Body of Glass | Michael Joseph | ||
| Red Mars | HarperCollins UK | |||
| Hearts, Hands and Voices | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Destroying Angel | Headline Publishing Group | |||
| Stations of the Tide | Legend Publishing | |||
| Correspondence | ||||
| Lost Futures | Grafton | |||
| Doomsday Book | New English Library | |||
| * | Vurt | Ringpull | ||
| ' | Millennium | |||
| Ammonite | Grafton | |||
| Snow Crash | Roc UK | |||
| ' | Millennium | |||
| ' | HarperCollins UK | |||
| * | Fools | HarperCollins UK | ||
| Mother of Storms | Millennium | |||
| North Wind | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Pasquale's Angel | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Towing Jehovah | Arrow Books | |||
| Alien Influences | Millennium | |||
| * | Fairyland | Victor Gollancz Ltd | ||
| ' | Legend Publishing | |||
| Happy Policeman | New English Library | |||
| ' | HarperCollins UK | |||
| ' | Simon & Schuster UK | |||
| ' | Viking UK | |||
| * | ' | Picador | ||
| Voyage | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| ' | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Blue Mars | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Gibbon's Decline and Fall | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Looking for the Mahdi | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| * | ' | Black Swan | ||
| Titan | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Glimmering | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Days | Phoenix Books | |||
| Nymphomation | Doubleday | |||
| ' | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| * | Dreaming In Smoke | Orbit Books | ||
| Earth Made of Glass | Orion Publishing Group | |||
| Time on My Hands | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| ' | Orbit Books | |||
| ' | Simon & Schuster UK | |||
| Cavalcade | Millennium | |||
| * | Distraction | Millennium | ||
| ' | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| ' | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Silver Screen | Macmillan UK | |||
| Cryptonomicon | Heinemann | |||
| ' | Millennium | |||
| * | Perdido Street Station | Macmillan Publishers | ||
| Parable of the Talents | ||||
| ' | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Cosmonaut Keep | Orbit Books | |||
| Revelation Space | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Salt | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| * | Bold As Love | Victor Gollancz Ltd | ||
| Pashazade | Earthlight | |||
| Fallen Dragon | Macmillan Publishers | |||
| ' | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Mappa Mundi | Macmillan Publishers | |||
| Passage | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| * | ' | Scribner UK | ||
| Kiln People | Orbit Books | |||
| Light | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| ' | Macmillan Publishers | |||
| Speed of Dark | Orbit Books | |||
| ' | HarperCollins | |||
| * | Quicksilver | Heinemann | ||
| Coalescent | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Darwin's Children | HarperCollins UK | |||
| Pattern Recognition | Viking Press | |||
| Midnight Lamp | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Maul | Orbit Books | |||
| * | Iron Council | Macmillan Publishers | ||
| River of Gods | Simon & Schuster | |||
| Cloud Atlas | Sceptre | |||
| Market Forces | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| ' | Jonathan Cape | |||
| ' | Heinemann | |||
| * | Air | Victor Gollancz Ltd | ||
| Learning the World | Orbit Books | |||
| Pushing Ice | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Never Let Me Go | Faber and Faber | |||
| Accelerando | Orbit Books | |||
| Banner of Souls | Tor UK | |||
| * | Nova Swing | Victor Gollancz Ltd | ||
| End of the World Blues | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Oh Pure and Radiant Heart | Heinemann | |||
| Hav | Faber and Faber | |||
| Gradisil | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Streaking | PS Publishing | |||
| * | Black Man | Victor Gollancz Ltd | ||
| ' | Snowbooks | |||
| ' | Faber and Faber | |||
| ' | Canongate Books | |||
| ' | Orbit Books | |||
| ' | Faber and Faber | |||
| * | Song of Time | PS Publishing | ||
| ' | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| House of Suns | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Anathem | Atlantic Books | |||
| ' | HarperCollins | |||
| Martin Martin’s on the Other Side | Jonathan Cape | |||
| * | ' | Macmillan Publishers | ||
| Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Yellow Blue Tibia | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Galileo's Dream | HarperCollins | |||
| Far North | Faber and Faber | |||
| Retribution Falls | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| * | Zoo City | Angry Robot | ||
| Monsters of Men | Walker Books | |||
| ' | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| ' | Atlantic Books | |||
| Declare | Corvus Books | |||
| Lightborn | Orbit Books | |||
| * | ' | Sandstone Press | ||
| Hull Zero Three | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| ' | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Embassytown | Macmillan Publishers | |||
| Rule 34 | Orbit Books | |||
| ' | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| * | Dark Eden | Corvus | ||
| 2312 | Orbit Books | |||
| Angelmaker | Heinemann | |||
| ' | Headline Publishing Group | |||
| Intrusion | Orbit Books | |||
| Nod | Bluemoose | |||
| * | Ancillary Justice | Orbit Books | ||
| God's War | Del Rey Books | |||
| ' | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Nexus | Angry Robot | |||
| ' | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |||
| Blue Door | ||||
| * | Station Eleven | Picador | ||
| Canongate Books | ||||
| Europe in Autumn | Solaris Books | |||
| Orbit Books | ||||
| Orbit Books | ||||
| Memory of Water | HarperVoyager | |||
| * | Children of Time | Tor Books | ||
| The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| Europe at Midnight | Solaris Books | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Arcadia | Faber and Faber | |||
| Way Down Dark | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
| * | Fleet Publishing | |||
| Hodder & Stoughton | ||||
| Ninefox Gambit | Solaris Books | |||
| After Atlas | Roc Books | |||
| Occupy Me | Gollancz Books | |||
| Central Station | PS Publishing | |||
| * | 47North | |||
| American War | Picador | |||
| Borne | HarperCollins | |||
| Gather the Daughters | Tinder Press | |||
| Sea of Rust | Gollancz Books | |||
| Spaceman of Bohemia | Sceptre | |||
| * | Rosewater | Orbit Books | ||
| Semiosis | HarperVoyager | |||
| Revenant Gun | Solaris Books | |||
| Frankenstein in Baghdad | Oneworld Publications | |||
| Simon and Schuster | ||||
| Unsung Stories |