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The 2023 Arthur C. Clark Award has been announced.

WINNER:

• Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)

FINALISTS:

• The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
• Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick (Gollancz)
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
• The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
• Metronome by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)

Our congrats to Ned Beauman and all the finalists.

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The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2023 has been announced:

• Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
• The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)
• Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick (Gollancz)
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter (Michael Joseph)
• The Coral Bones by E.J. Swift (Unsung Stories)
• Metronome by Tom Watson (Bloomsbury)

The winner will be presented with a check for £2,023.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend on August 16, 2023. For more information, see the Clark Award website.

So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?

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The 2022 Arthur C. Clark Award has been announced.

WINNER:

• Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles (Picador)

FINALISTS:

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor UK)
• A River Called Time by Courttia Newland (Canongate)
• Wergen: The Alien Love War by Mercurio D. Rivera (NewCon)
• Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley (Solaris)

Our congrats to Harry Josephine Giles and all the finalists.

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The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2022 has been announced:

• Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles (Picador)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber)
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor UK)
• A River Called Time by Courttia Newland (Canongate)
• Wergen: The Alien Love War by Mercurio D. Rivera (NewCon)
• Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley (Solaris)

The winner will be presented with a check for £2,022.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend. For more information, see the Clark Award website.

So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?

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The 2021 Arthur C. Clark Award has been announced.

WINNER:

• The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)

FINALISTS:

• The Infinite by Patience Agbabi (Canongate)
• The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (Titan)
• Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang (Head of Zeus)
• Edge of Heaven by R. B. Kelly (NewCon)
• Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (Orbit)

Our congrats to Laura Jean McKay and all the finalists.

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The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2021 has been announced:

• The Infinite by Patience Agbabi (Canongate)
• The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez (Titan)
• Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang (Head of Zeus)
• Edge of Heaven by R. B. Kelly (NewCon)
• The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe)
• Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes (Orbit)

The winner will be presented with a check for £2,021.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend. For more information, see the Clark Award website.

So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?

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The 2020 Arthur C. Clark Award has been announced:

WINNER:

• The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth US & UK)

FINALISTS:

• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)
• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)
• The Last Astronaut by David Wellington (Hachette)
• Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)

Our congrats to Namwali Serpell and all the finalists.

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The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel for 2020 has been announced:

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

The winner will be presented with a check for £2,020.00 and the award itself, a commemorative engraved bookend in September. For more information, see the Clark Award website.

So what do you think of this lineup? Which is your pick to win?

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The 2019 Arthur C. Clark Award has been announced:

WINNER:

• Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Orbit)

FINALISTS:

• The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag (Simon & Schuster)
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Oneworld)
• The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
• Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• Semiosis by Sue Burke (HarperVoyager)

Our congrats to Tade Thompson and all the finalists.

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The 2018 Arthur C. Clark Award has been announced:

WINNER:

• Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock (47North)

FINALISTS:

• Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill (Gollancz)
• American War by Omar El Akkad (Picador)
• Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar (Sceptre)
• Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed (Tinder Press)
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (4th Estate)

Our congrats to Anne Charnock and all the finalists.

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