Winners of the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in Britain. It is becoming recognised as one of the most prestigious science fiction awards in the world, the equivalent of the Booker Prize.
It is awarded every year to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during the previous calendar year. The Award is chosen by jury.
The Award was established with a generous grant from Arthur C. Clarke with the intention of encouraging science fiction in Britain. The Award was set up in 1986 and the first winner was announced in 1987.
The Award has sometimes been controversial, and the Science Fiction Encyclopedia points out that the very first award was made to a non-genre novel – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Nevertheless, the Clarke Award is now acknowledged as the most important science fiction award in Britain and one of the most highly regarded around the world.
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