Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award, first given in 1987, is for the best SF novel published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. A panel of experts, whose membership varies from year to year, chooses each year's winner. The award is administered by the Science Fiction Foundation, of which UK science fiction/science fact author Arthur C. Clarke was patron; the British SF Association; and the International Science Policy Foundation. Each organization appoints two jurors to the panel of experts.

The physical award consists of an inscribed plaque and a prize of 1,000 pounds from a grant donated by Clarke who lived in Sri Lanka, Ceylon, from 1956 until his death in 2008.

Many authorities writing in the field feel that the Clarke Awards came about, at least in part, because only American authors were winning the Hugos and Nebulas each year (although Clarke himself had won both the Hugo and the Nebula before the Clarke Awards were inaugurated, and the British SF Association had been giving out awards for SF writing, principally to UK authors, since 1969).

The Clarke Awards for SF novels should not be confused with other awards that bear Clarke's name: the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Space Education, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Technology, and the Arthur C. Clarke Trophy, all associated with achievements in science and technology.

The first Clarke Award went to Margaret Atwood for her novel The Handmaid's Tale in 1987.

Year	Author	Novel
1987	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale
1988	George Turner	The Sea and Summer
1989	Rachel Pollack	Unquenchable Fire
1990	Geoff Ryman	The Child Garden
1991	Colin Greenland	Take Back Plenty
1992	Pat Cadigan	Synners
1993	Marge Piercy	Body of Glass
1994	Jeff Noon	Vurt
1995	Pat Cadigan	Fools
1996	Paul J. McAuley	Fairyland
1997	Amitav Ghosh	The Calcutta Chromosome
1998	Mary Doria Russell	The Sparrow
1999	Tricia Sullivan	Dreaming In Smoke
2000	Bruce Sterling	Distraction
2001	China Miéville	Perdido Street Station
2002	Gwyneth Jones	Bold As Love
2003	Christopher Priest	The Separation
2004	Neal Stephenson	Quicksilver
2005	China Miéville	Iron Council
2006	Geoff Ryman	Air
2007	M. John Harrison	Nova Swing
2008	Richard Morgan	Black Man
2009	Ian MacLeod	Song of Time
2010	China Miéville	The City & the City
2011	Lauren Beukes	Zoo City
2012	Jane Rogers	The Testament of Jessie Lamb
2013	Chris Beckett	Dark Eden
2014	Ann Leckie	Ancillary Justice
2015	Emily St. John Mandel	Station Eleven
2016	Adrian Tchaikovsky	Children of Time
2017	Colson Whitehead	The Underground Railroad
2018	Anne Charnock	Dreams Before the Start of Time
2019	Tade Thompson	Rosewater

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