Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is an award first given in 1987 for the best SF novel written in English by an author of any nationality, provided that the novel is published for the first time by a UK publisher between 1 January and 31 December of the year for which submissions are open. The Award is currently administered by the Serendip Foundation, a non-profit organisation with a mission to coordinate the yearly prize, positively promote science fiction and honour the memory of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. The winner is selected by a jury of five or six people nominated by its supporting organisations, currently The Science Fiction Foundation, the BSFA, and the Sci-Fi-London film festival.
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 |
| 2020 | Namwali Serpel | The Old Drift |
| 2021 | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in that Country |
| 2022 | Harry Josephine Giles | Deep Wheel Orcadia |
| 2023 | Ned Beauman | Venomous Lumpsucker |
| 2024 | Martin MacInnes | In Ascension |
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