2021 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist For Science Fiction Book Of The Year Announced

The shortlist for the 2021 Arthur C Clarke Award has been announced.

The Arthur C Clarke Award is the UK’s most prestigious prize for literary science fiction published the previous year.

 

The Award was originally established by a generous grant from Sir Arthur C Clarke with the aim of promoting science fiction in Britain, and is currently administered by the Serendip Foundation with Sir Arthur continuing to donate a cash prize via Rocket Publishing, his UK representatives.

The award judges are a voluntary body with members nominated by the award's supporting organisations, currently the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Sci-Fi-London film festival.

 

The 2021 Shortlist

• The Infinite, Patience Agbabi (Canongate)
  
• The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez (Titan)
  
• Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (Head Of Zeus)
  
• Edge Of Heaven, RB Kelly (Newcon)
  
• The Animals In That Country, Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
  
• Chilling Effect,  Valerie Valdes (Orbit)
  

2020 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist For Science Fiction Book Of The Year Announced

The shortlist the 34th Arthur C Clarke Award has been announced.

The Arthur C Clarke Award is the UK’s most prestigious prize for literary science fiction published the previous year.

The award judges are a voluntary body with members nominated by the award's supporting organisations, currently the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Sci-Fi-London film festival.

This winner will be announced in September 2020, and the winning author will receive a cash prize of £2020.00, as well as an award plaque.

The 2020 Shortlist

• The City in the Middle of the Night  by Charlie Jane Anders (Titan)
• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot)
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
• The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth)
• Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)
• The Last Astronaut by David Wellington (Orbit)

2019 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist For Science Fiction Book Of The Year Announced

The shortlist the 33rd Arthur C Clarke Award has been announced.

The Arthur C Clarke Award is the UK’s most prestigious prize for literary science fiction published the previous year.

The award judges are a voluntary body with members nominated by the award's supporting organisations, currently the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Sci-Fi-London film festival.

The 2019 Shortlist

• 'SEMIOSIS' by Sue Burke (Harper Voyager)
• 'REVENANT GUN' by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• 'FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD' by Ahmed Saadawi (Oneworld)
• 'THE ELECTRIC STATE' by Simon Stâlenhag (Simon & Schuster)
• 'ROSEWATER' by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
• 'THE LOOSENING SKIN' by Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories

2018 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist For Science Fiction Book Of The Year Announced

The shortlist the 32nd Arthur C Clarke Award has been announced.

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)