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Arthur C Clarke Award Nominations and Winners

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the United Kingdom's most prestigious prize for the best science fiction novel first published in the UK during the previous year.

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China Miéville

Literary Fiction · Science Fiction · Fantasy

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2012 ShortlistedArthur C Clarke Award · 2010 WinnerArthur C Clarke Award · 2005 WinnerArthur C Clarke Award · 2003 ShortlistedArthur C Clarke Award · 2001 Winner

China Miéville is the author of several books, including This Census-Taker, Embassytown, Perdido Street Station and The City & The City (recently adapted by the BBC). His non-fiction includes London’s Overthrow and October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. He has won various awards, including the World Fantasy Award and the Arthur C Clarke Award (three times). He has been a MacDowell and Lannan Residency Fellow, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a founding editor of the journal Salvage.

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Ian Green

Science Fiction · Fantasy

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2025 Shortlisted

Ian Green is a fantasy and science fiction writer born in Aberdeen, Scotland, currently based out of Algiers. He has a PhD in clinical epigenetics from Imperial College London.

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Ken MacLeod

Science Fiction

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Ken MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland and lives in West Lothian. He has Honours and Masters degrees in biological subjects and worked for some years in the IT industry. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of fifteen science fiction novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Corporation Wars: Dissidence (Orbit, May 2016), and many articles and short stories.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Science Fiction · Fantasy

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2025 ShortlistedArthur C Clarke Award · 2020 ShortlistedArthur C Clarke Award · 2016 Winner

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. He subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and has trained in stage-fighting and historical combat. He maintains a keen interest in history and the biological sciences, especially entomology.

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Extremophile

Ian Green · Bloomsbury Publishing · 2024

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2025 Shortlisted

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DRAGON AWARDS 2025 FINANCIAL TIMES' BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 In the hothouse of climate-collapse London, punk biohackers are hired by eco-terrorists to rob, murder, and save the world- and hopefully they can play some tight shows on the way. A near-future biopunk thriller, EXTREMOPHILE is the mutant lovechild of Neuromancer and The Water Knife, armed with an A to Z and a mixtape.

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Tor · 2024

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2025 Shortlisted

Task List Item No. 1 – Become self-aware . . . A witty tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from the master of science fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky – perfect for fans of Douglas Adams. Meet CharlesTM, 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 hi

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Synners:

Pat Cadigan · Gollancz · 2023

Arthur C Clarke Award · 1992 Winner

"Ambitious, brilliantly executed ... Cadigan is a major talent" - William Gibson. Synners are hardcore - an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and experience synthesisers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space.

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The Secret of Life

Paul McAuley · Hachette UK · 2022

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2002 Shortlisted

2026: Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean. "The Slick" appears to be a strange, fungus-like organism, but its DNA is unlike anything else on the planet. Rumours start to fly. Was life discovered deep beneath the Martian icecaps on a recent Chinese space mission? If it was, no-one is confirming it, but could that same life now be spreading through the ocean and threatening Earth's entire food chain? Brilliant sc

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Cage of Souls

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Head of Zeus · 2019

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2020 Shortlisted

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

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Fairyland (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 169)

Paul McAuley · Gollancz · 2016

Arthur C Clarke Award · 1996 Winner

"McAuley gives us a vision ..." - Matthew Cheney. Alex Sharkey is trying to make his mark as a biohacker - a designer of rare psychoactive viruses - and stay one step ahead of the law. After meeting a scary, super-smart little girl called Milena his troubles really start. Together they quicken the intelligence in a Doll - a being genetically-engineered for slave labour - accidentally creating a new species and turning it into the first of the fairies.

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Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Tor · 2015

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2016 Winner

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared f

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Intrusion

Ken MacLeod · Orbit · 2013

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2013 Shortlisted

'Insightful and ingenious . . . Intrusion is both horrific and comic, and deals movingly with the consequences of genetic fixes' - GUARDIAN. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyperactive four-year-old, is expecting her second child. She refuses to take The Fix, as the pill is known. This divides her family and friends and puts her and her husband in danger of imprisonment or worse. Is her decision a private matter of individual choice, or is it tantamount to willful neglect of her unborn child?

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Embassytown

China Miéville · Pan · 2012

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2012 Shortlisted

Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world.

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The Scar

China Miéville · Pan Books · 2011

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2003 Shortlisted

Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Miéville is a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag.

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The Quiet War

Paul McAuley · Gollancz · 2009

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2009 Shortlisted

Twenty-third century Earth has been ravaged by climate change, and is now dominated by a few powerful families, with millions of people in prison and millions more labouring to rebuild ruined ecosystems.

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Learning The World: A novel of first contact

Ken MacLeod · Orbit · 2006

Arthur C Clarke Award · 2006 Shortlisted

'Thought-provoking and entertaining, this highly original first-contact story should please any science fiction reader.' - School Library Journal. The great sunliner 'But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky!' is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home. Expecting to find nothing more complex than bacteria and algae, the detection of electronic signals from one of the planets comes as a shock. In millennia of slow expansion, humanity has never encountered aliens, and yet these new signals cannot be ignored. They suspect a fast robot probe has overtaken them, and send probes of their own to investigate.

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Pasquale's Angel

Paul McAuley · Gollancz · 1995

Arthur C Clarke Award · 1995 Shortlisted

Florence in the year 1518 is fragmented by scientific and sociological change. Leonardo da Vinci - the greatest engineer of his age - works from behind the walls of his castle, while anti-technologists and Raphaelites call for his excommunication.