The Arthur C Clarke Award is the UK’s most prestigious prize for literary science fiction, and is administered by the Serendip Foundation, a non-profit organisation with the mission of promoting both excellence in and the extension of science fiction.
The 6 shortlisted titles were selected from a list of 108 individual eligible submissions, and the winner will be announced at a public award ceremony held in partnership with Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, on Wednesday July 18 2018.
The winner will also be presented with a cheque for £2018 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend.
The 2018 Shortlist
- Sea of Rust , C Robert Cargill (Gollancz)
- Dreams Before the Start of Time, Anne Charnock (47North)
- American War, Omar El Akkad (Picador)
- Spaceman of Bohemia, Jaroslav Kalfař (Sceptre)
- Gather the Daughters, Jennie Melamed (Tinder Press)
- Borne, Jeff VanderMeer (4th Estate)
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