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 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 40 nomination years, 166 authors have had works nominated, 36 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 yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; the other entries are the other nominees on the shortlist.

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+ YearAuthorNovelPublisher 1987 * 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 1988 * 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 1989 * 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 1990 * Unwin Hyman Century Publishing Arrow Books Desolation Road Bantam UK Soldiers of Paradise Grafton Ivory Century Publishing Neverness Grafton 1991 * 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 1992 * Synners HarperCollins Eternal Light Victor Gollancz Ltd Raft Grafton White Queen Victor Gollancz Ltd Subterranean Gallery Grafton Headline Publishing Group 1993 * 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 1994 * Vurt Ringpull Millennium Ammonite Grafton Snow Crash Roc UK Millennium HarperCollins UK 1995 * 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 1996 * Fairyland Victor Gollancz Ltd Legend Publishing Happy Policeman New English Library HarperCollins UK Simon & Schuster UK Viking UK 1997 * Picador Voyage HarperCollins Voyager HarperCollins Voyager Blue Mars HarperCollins Voyager Gibbon's Decline and Fall HarperCollins Voyager Looking for the Mahdi HarperCollins Voyager 1998 * Black Swan Titan HarperCollins Voyager Glimmering HarperCollins Voyager Days Phoenix Books Nymphomation Doubleday HarperCollins Voyager 1999 * Dreaming in Smoke Millenium Earth Made of Glass Orion Publishing Group Time on My Hands Victor Gollancz Ltd Orbit Books Simon & Schuster UK Cavalcade Millennium 2000 * Distraction Millennium Manifold: Time HarperCollins Voyager HarperCollins Voyager Silver Screen Macmillan UK Cryptonomicon Heinemann Millennium 2001 * Perdido Street Station Macmillan Publishers Parable of the Talents Ash: A Secret History Victor Gollancz Ltd Cosmonaut Keep Orbit Books Revelation Space Victor Gollancz Ltd Salt Victor Gollancz Ltd 2002 * Bold As Love Victor Gollancz Ltd Pashazade Earthlight Fallen Dragon Macmillan Publishers HarperCollins Voyager Mappa Mundi Macmillan Publishers Passage HarperCollins Voyager 2003 * Scribner UK Kiln People Orbit Books Light Victor Gollancz Ltd Macmillan Publishers Speed of Dark Orbit Books HarperCollins 2004 * Quicksilver Heinemann Coalescent Victor Gollancz Ltd Darwin's Children HarperCollins UK Pattern Recognition Viking Press Midnight Lamp Victor Gollancz Ltd Maul Orbit Books 2005 * Iron Council Macmillan Publishers River of Gods Simon & Schuster Cloud Atlas Sceptre Market Forces Victor Gollancz Ltd Jonathan Cape Heinemann 2006 * 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 2007 * 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 2008 * Black Man Victor Gollancz Ltd Snowbooks Faber and Faber Canongate Books Orbit Books Faber and Faber 2009 * 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 2010 * 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 2011 * Zoo City Angry Robot Monsters of Men Walker Books Victor Gollancz Ltd Generosity: An Enhancement Atlantic Books Declare Corvus Books Lightborn Orbit Books 2012 * Sandstone Press Hull Zero Three Victor Gollancz Ltd HarperCollins Voyager Embassytown Macmillan Publishers Rule 34 Orbit Books Victor Gollancz Ltd 2013 * Dark Eden Corvus 2312 Orbit Books Angelmaker Heinemann Headline Publishing Group Intrusion Orbit Books Nod Bluemoose Books 2014 * Ancillary Justice Orbit Books God's War Del Rey Books Victor Gollancz Ltd Nexus Angry Robot Victor Gollancz Ltd Blue Door 2015 * Station Eleven Picador Canongate Books Europe in Autumn Solaris Books Orbit Books Orbit Books Memory of Water HarperVoyager 2016 * Children of Time Tor Books Hodder & Stoughton Europe at Midnight Solaris Books Hodder & Stoughton Arcadia Faber and Faber Way Down Dark Hodder & Stoughton 2017 * Fleet Publishing Hodder & Stoughton Ninefox Gambit Solaris Books After Atlas Roc Books Occupy Me Gollancz Books Central Station PS Publishing 2018 * 47North American War Picador Borne Fourth Estate Gather the Daughters Tinder Press Sea of Rust Gollancz Books Spaceman of Bohemia Sceptre 2019 * Rosewater Orbit Books Semiosis HarperVoyager Revenant Gun Solaris Books Frankenstein in Baghdad Oneworld Publications Simon and Schuster Unsung Stories 2020 * Hogarth Press Cage of Souls Head of Zeus Tor Books, Titan Books Hachette Saga Press, Angry Robot Tor Books 2021 * Scribe Canongate Books Titan Books Vagabonds Head of Zeus Edge of Heaven NewCon Press Chilling Effect Orbit Books 2022 * Deep Wheel Orcadia Picador Tor UK Faber and Faber Canongate Books Skyward Inn Solaris Books Wergen: The Alien Love War NewCon Press 2023 * Hodder & Stoughton Unsung Stories Bloomsbury Michael Joseph Gollancz Books Gollancz Books 2024 * In Ascension Atlantic Books Chain-Gang All-Stars Harvill Secker Corey Fah Does Social Mobility Hamish Hamilton Weidenfeld & Nicolson Some Desperate Glory Orbit Books Solaris Books 2025 * Annie Bot The Borough Press Extremophile Head of Zeus Sceptre Private Rites Fourth Estate Service Model Tor Books Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock Angry Robot 2026* When There Are Wolves Again Arcadia Dungeon Crawler Carl Michael Joseph Bloomsbury Circus Luminous Magpie qntm There Is No Antimemetics Division Del Rey Solaris

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