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.

Send to Printer 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.
	1.		The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
	2.		Drowning Towers by George Turner
	3.		Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
	4.		The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
	5.		Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland
	6.		Synners by Pat Cadigan
	7.		He, She and It by Marge Piercy
	8.		Vurt by Jeff Noon
	9.	?	Fools by Pat Cadigan
	10.		Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
	11.		The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery by Amitav Ghosh
	12.		The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
	13.		Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
	14.		Distraction by Bruce Sterling
	15.		Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
	16.		Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones
	17.		The Separation by Christopher Priest
	18.		Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
	19.		Iron Council by China Mieville
	20.		Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
	21.		Nova Swing (Gollancz SF) by M.John Harrison
	22.	?	th1rte3n by Richard K. Morgan
	23.		Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
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