Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners by the Year

Zoo City

2011 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Zoo City

by Lauren Beukes

LAUREN BEUKES is a writer, TV scriptwriter and recovering journalist. For the sake of a story, she’s jumped out of planes and into shark-infested waters and hung out with teen vampires, township vigilantes, and AIDS activists among other intere… read more

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The City & the City

2010 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

The City & the City

by China Mieville

China Miéville is the author of King Rat ; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar , winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council , winner of the Locus … read more

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Song Of Time

2009 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Song Of Time

by Ian R MacLeod

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Black Man

2008 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Black Man

by Richard Morgan

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Nova Swing

2007 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Nova Swing

by M John Harrison

M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of eight previous novels and four collections of short stories. His fifth novel, Viriconium , was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and his sixth, Climbers, won the Boardman Tasker Award. Ligh… read more

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Air

2006 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Air

by Geoff Ryman

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Iron Council

2005 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Iron Council

by China Mieville

Iron Council (2004) is the fourth novel by China Miéville, set in the same universe as his previous books Perdido Street Station (2000) and The Scar (2002), although they can all be read independently of each other. In addition to the steampunk infl… read more

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Quicksilver

2004 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Quicksilver

by Neal Stephenson

Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Quicksilver tells the intertwining tales of 3 unforgettable main characters (descendants of characters from Cryptonomicon) as they traverse a landscape populated by mad alchemists, B… read more

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Separation

2003 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Separation

by Christopher Priest

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Perdido Street Station

2001 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Perdido Street Station

by China Mieville

Perdido Street Station is the second published novel by China Miéville, and the first in a series that is set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, a world where both magic (referred to as 'thaumaturgy') and steampunk technology exist. Perdido … read more

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Bold As Love

2001 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Bold As Love

by Gwyneth Jones

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Distraction

2000 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Distraction

by Bruce Sterling

Distraction is the diversion of attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction. Distraction is caused by one of the following: lack of ability to pay attention; lack of interest in the object of… read more

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Dreaming In Smoke

1999 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Dreaming In Smoke

by Tricia Sullivan

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The Sparrow

1998 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Sparrow

by Mary Doria Russell

The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God. This experience--the first contact between h… read more

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Calcutta Chromosome

1997 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Calcutta Chromosome

by Amitav Ghosh

The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1996 English Language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. The book, for the most part set in Calcutta at some unspecified time in the future, is a medical thriller that dramatizes the adventures of apparently disconnecte… read more

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Fairyland

1996 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Fairyland

by Paul J McAuley

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Fools

1995 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Fools

by Pat Cadigan

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Vurt

1994 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Vurt

by Jeff Noon

Vurt is a 1993 science fiction novel written by British author Jeff Noon. Both Noon and small publishing house Ringpull's debut novel, it went on to win the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award and was later listed in The Best Novels of the Nineties.

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He She and It

1993 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

He She and It

by Marge Piercy

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Synners

1992 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Synners

by Pat Cadigan

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Take Back Plenty

1991 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Take Back Plenty

by Colin Greenland

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The Child Garden

1990 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Child Garden

by Geoff Ryman

The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Geoff Ryman. It won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1990. The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally pub… read more

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Unquenchable Fire

1989 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Unquenchable Fire

by Rachel Pollack

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Drowning Towers

1988 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

Drowning Towers

by George Turner

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The Handmaid's Tale

1987 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. It depicts a totalitarian world known as Gilead, portraying the subjection of women in a patriarchal society. The near-future New England setting illustrates a bleak por… read more

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