The Award Tally

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Awarded by a panel of judges appointed by the Serendip Foundation, in partnership with the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) and the Science Fiction Foundation (SFF)

An annual British award given to the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous calendar year, established in 1987 with funding from author Arthur C. Clarke and widely regarded as one of the most prestigious science fiction awards in the UK.

2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Shortlisted
Luminous
Silvia Park
Shortlisted
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
Shortlisted
The Salt Oracle
Lorraine Wilson
Shortlisted
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
Shortlisted
When There Are Wolves Again
E.J. Swift
Shortlisted

2025

Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
Won
Extremophile
Ian Green
Shortlisted
Private Rites
Julia Armfield
Shortlisted
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shortlisted
The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
Shortlisted
Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
Maud Woolf
Shortlisted

2024

In Ascension
Martin MacInnes
Won
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Shortlisted
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
Isabel Waidner
Shortlisted
Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
Shortlisted
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler
Shortlisted
The Ten Percent Thief
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Shortlisted

2023

Venomous Lumpsucker
Ned Beauman
Won
Metronome
Tom Watson
Shortlisted
Plutoshine
Lucy Kissick
Shortlisted
The Anomaly
Hervé Le Tellier
Shortlisted
The Coral Bones
E. J. Swift
Shortlisted
The Red Scholar's Wake
Aliette de Bodard
Shortlisted

2022

Deep Wheel Orcadia
Harry Josephine Giles
Won
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
Shortlisted
A River Called Time
Courttia Newland
Shortlisted
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Shortlisted
Skyward Inn
Aliya Whiteley
Shortlisted
Wergen: The Alien Love War
Mercurio D. Rivera
Shortlisted

2021

The Animals in That Country
Laura Jean McKay
Won
Chilling Effect
Valerie Valdes
Shortlisted
Edge of Heaven
RB Kelly
Shortlisted
The Infinite
Patience Agbabi
Shortlisted
The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez
Shortlisted
Vagabonds
Hao Jingfang
Shortlisted

2020

The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
Won
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Shortlisted
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shortlisted
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
Shortlisted
The Last Astronaut
David Wellington
Shortlisted
The Light Brigade
Kameron Hurley
Shortlisted

2019

Rosewater
Tade Thompson
Won
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi
Shortlisted
Revenant Gun
Yoon Ha Lee
Shortlisted
Semiosis
Sue Burke
Shortlisted
The Electric State
Simon Stålenhag
Shortlisted
The Loosening Skin
Aliya Whiteley
Shortlisted

2018

Dreams Before the Start of Time
Anne Charnock
Won
American War
Omar El Akkad
Shortlisted
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
Shortlisted
Gather the Daughters
Jennie Melamed
Shortlisted
Sea of Rust
C. Robert Cargill
Shortlisted
Spaceman of Bohemia
Jaroslav Kalfar
Shortlisted

2017

The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Won
A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers
Shortlisted
After Atlas
Emma Newman
Shortlisted
Central Station
Lavie Tidhar
Shortlisted
Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
Shortlisted
Occupy Me
Tricia Sullivan
Shortlisted

2016

Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Won
Arcadia
Iain Pears
Shortlisted
Europe at Midnight
Dave Hutchinson
Shortlisted
The Book of Phoenix
Nnedi Okorafor
Shortlisted
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Shortlisted
Way Down Dark
James Smythe
Shortlisted

2015

Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Won
Europe in Autumn
Dave Hutchinson
Shortlisted
Memory of Water
Emmi Itäranta
Shortlisted
The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
Shortlisted
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
Shortlisted
The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
Shortlisted

2014

Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Won
God's War
Kameron Hurley
Shortlisted
Nexus
Ramez Naam
Shortlisted
The Adjacent
Christopher Priest
Shortlisted
The Disestablishment of Paradise
Phillip Mann
Shortlisted
The Machine
James Smythe
Shortlisted

2013

Dark Eden
Chris Beckett
Won
2312
Kim Stanley Robinson
Shortlisted
Angelmaker
Nick Harkaway
Shortlisted
Intrusion
Ken MacLeod
Shortlisted
Nod
Adrian Barnes
Shortlisted
The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Shortlisted

2012

The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Jane Rogers
Won
Embassytown
China Miéville
Shortlisted
Hull Zero Three
Greg Bear
Shortlisted
Rule 34
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
The End Specialist
Drew Magary
Shortlisted
The Waters Rising
Sheri S. Tepper
Shortlisted

2011

Zoo City
Lauren Beukes
Won
Declare
Tim Powers
Shortlisted
Generosity: An Enhancement
Richard Powers
Shortlisted
Lightborn
Tricia Sullivan
Shortlisted
Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness
Shortlisted
The Dervish House
Ian McDonald
Shortlisted

2010

The City & the City
China Miéville
Won
Far North
Marcel Theroux
Shortlisted
Galileo's Dream
Kim Stanley Robinson
Shortlisted
Retribution Falls
Chris Wooding
Shortlisted
Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant
Gwyneth Jones
Shortlisted
Yellow Blue Tibia
Adam Roberts
Shortlisted

2009

Song of Time
Ian R. MacLeod
Won
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Shortlisted
House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds
Shortlisted
Martin Martin's on the Other Side
Mark Wernham
Shortlisted
The Margarets
Sheri S. Tepper
Shortlisted
The Quiet War
Paul J. McAuley
Shortlisted

2008

Black Man
Richard K. Morgan
Won
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall
Shortlisted
The Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod
Shortlisted
The H-Bomb Girl
Stephen Baxter
Shortlisted
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
Shortlisted
The Red Men
Matthew de Abaitua
Shortlisted

2007

Nova Swing
M. John Harrison
Won
End of the World Blues
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Shortlisted
Gradisil
Adam Roberts
Shortlisted
Hav
Jan Morris
Shortlisted
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Lydia Millet
Shortlisted
Streaking
Brian Stableford
Shortlisted

2006

Air
Geoff Ryman
Won
Accelerando
Charles Stross
Shortlisted
Banner of Souls
Liz Williams
Shortlisted
Learning the World
Ken MacLeod
Shortlisted
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Shortlisted
Pushing Ice
Alastair Reynolds
Shortlisted

2005

Iron Council
China Miéville
Won
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Shortlisted
Market Forces
Richard K. Morgan
Shortlisted
River of Gods
Ian McDonald
Shortlisted
The System of the World
Neal Stephenson
Shortlisted
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Shortlisted

2004

Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson
Won
Coalescent
Stephen Baxter
Shortlisted
Darwin's Children
Greg Bear
Shortlisted
Maul
Tricia Sullivan
Shortlisted
Midnight Lamp
Gwyneth Jones
Shortlisted
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Shortlisted

2003

The Separation
Christopher Priest
Won
Kiln People
David Brin
Shortlisted
Light
M. John Harrison
Shortlisted
Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
Shortlisted
The Scar
China Miéville
Shortlisted
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
Shortlisted

2002

Bold As Love
Gwyneth Jones
Won
Fallen Dragon
Peter F. Hamilton
Shortlisted
Mappa Mundi
Justina Robson
Shortlisted
Pashazade
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Shortlisted
Passage
Connie Willis
Shortlisted
The Secret of Life
Paul J. McAuley
Shortlisted

2001

Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Won
Ash: A Secret History
Mary Gentle
Shortlisted
Cosmonaut Keep
Ken MacLeod
Shortlisted
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Shortlisted
Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
Shortlisted
Salt
Adam Roberts
Shortlisted

2000

Distraction
Bruce Sterling
Won
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Shortlisted
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Shortlisted
Manifold: Time
Stephen Baxter
Shortlisted
Silver Screen
Justina Robson
Shortlisted
The Bones of Time
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Shortlisted