Book prize winners

Arthur C. Clarke Award winners

12 winners and 71 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2020 The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell First edition: Hogarth Press 2019
  2. 2019 Rosewater by Tade Thompson First edition not yet identified
  3. 2016 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky First edition: Pan Macmillan 2015
  4. 2015 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel First edition not yet identified
  5. 2014 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie First edition not yet identified
  6. 2004 Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson First edition not yet identified
  7. 2001 Perdido Street Station by China Miéville First edition: Macmillan 2000
  8. 1997 The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh First edition: Avon Books 1995
  9. 1994 Vurt by Jeff Noon First edition: Crown 1993
  10. 1993 He, She and It by Marge Piercy First edition: Knopf 1991
  11. 1992 Synners by Pat Cadigan First edition not yet identified
  12. 1987 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood First edition not yet identified

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. 2024 Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah First edition: HarperCollins 2022
  2. 2024 Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler First edition not yet identified
  3. 2024 Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh First edition: Little, Brown 2022
  4. 2023 The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier First edition not yet identified
  5. 2022 A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine First edition not yet identified
  6. 2022 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 2021
  7. 2020 A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine First edition: Tor 2019
  8. 2020 The Last Astronaut by David Wellington First edition: Orbit 2019
  9. 2020 The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley First edition: Saga Press 2019
  10. 2019 Semiosis by Sue Burke First edition: Tor 2018
  11. 2018 Borne by Jeff VanderMeer First edition not yet identified
  12. 2017 A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers First edition not yet identified
  13. 2017 Central Station by Lavie Tidhar First edition: Tachyon 2016
  14. 2016 The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor First edition not yet identified
  15. 2016 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers First edition not yet identified
  16. 2015 Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta First edition: Harper Voyager 2014
  17. 2015 The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber First edition: HarperCollins Canada 2014
  18. 2015 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North First edition: Orbit 2014
  19. 2015 The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey First edition: Orbit 2014
  20. 2014 Gods War by Kameron Hurley First edition: Night Shade Books 2011
  21. 2013 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: Orbit 2012
  22. 2012 Embassytown by China Miéville First edition: Brand: Macmillan 2011
  23. 2012 Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear First edition: Orbit 2010
  24. 2012 Rule 34 by Charles Stross First edition: Ace Books 2011
  25. 2011 Declare by Tim Powers First edition not yet identified
  26. 2009 Anathem by Neal Stephenson First edition not yet identified
  27. 2009 House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2008
  28. 2008 The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall First edition: Canongate 2007
  29. 2006 Accelerando by Charles Stross First edition: Ace Books 2005
  30. 2006 Learning the World by Ken MacLeod First edition: Orbit 2005
  31. 2006 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 2005
  32. 2006 Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2005
  33. 2005 Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan First edition: GOLLANCZ (ORIO) 2004
  34. 2005 System of the World by Neal Stephenson First edition: Heinemann 2003
  35. 2005 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger First edition: MacAdam/Cage 2003
  36. 2004 Darwin's Children by Greg Bear First edition not yet identified
  37. 2004 Pattern Recognition by William Gibson First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
  38. 2003 Kiln People by David Brin First edition: Tor 2002
  39. 2003 Light by M. John Harrison First edition: Gollancz 2002
  40. 2003 The Scar by China Miéville First edition: Macmillan 2002
  41. 2003 The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon First edition not yet identified
  42. 2003 The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition not yet identified
  43. 2002 Passage by Connie Willis First edition: Bantam Books 2001
  44. 2001 Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod First edition: Orbit 2000
  45. 2001 Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler First edition: Seven Stories Press 1998
  46. 2001 Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds First edition: Gollancz 2000
  47. 2000 A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge First edition not yet identified
  48. 2000 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson First edition not yet identified
  49. 1999 The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod First edition: Little, Brown 1998
  50. 1998 Titan by Stephen Baxter First edition: HarperPrism 1997
  51. 1997 Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition not yet identified
  52. 1996 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson First edition: Bantam Books 1995
  53. 1996 The Prestige by Christopher Priest First edition: Touchstone 1995
  54. 1996 The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter First edition: HarperCollins 1995
  55. 1994 Ammonite by Nicola Griffith First edition not yet identified
  56. 1994 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson First edition: Bantam Books 1992
  57. 1994 The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick First edition: Millennium 1993
  58. 1993 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis First edition not yet identified
  59. 1993 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson First edition: HarperCollins 1992
  60. 1993 Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick First edition: Morrow 1991
  61. 1992 Hyperion by Dan Simmons First edition: Doubleday 1989
  62. 1992 Raft by Stephen Baxter First edition: Grafton 1991
  63. 1992 The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons First edition: Doubleday 1990
  64. 1991 Use of Weapons by Iain Banks First edition: OrbitBooks 1990
  65. 1990 Neverness by David Zindell First edition: D.I. Fine 1988
  66. 1989 Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard First edition: Bantam Books 1987
  67. 1988 Fiasco by Stanisław Lem First edition not yet identified
  68. 1988 Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H. F. Saint First edition not yet identified
  69. 1988 Replay by Ken Grimwood First edition: Arbor House 1986
  70. 1987 Eon by Greg Bear First edition: Bluejay Books 1985
  71. 1987 Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany First edition not yet identified

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