Arthur C. Clarke Award

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the UK's premier prize for science fiction literature.

Best Novel Awards

2011
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Generosity by Richard Powers
Declare by Tim Powers
Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (winner)

2010
Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
The City & the City by China Miéville (winner)

2009
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Margarets by Sheri S Tepper
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
Song of Time by Ian R MacLeod (winner)

2008
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
The H-bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Black Man by Richard Morgan (winner)

2007
End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay-Grimwood
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
Hav by Jan Morris
Gradisil by Adam Roberts
Streaking Venus: The Adventures of Paddle Squad Leader Mistress Venus-Venus by Raud A Kennedy
Nova Swing by M John Harrison (winner)

2006
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
Banner of Souls by Liz Williams
Accelerando by Charles Stross
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Air by Geoff Ryman (winner)

2005
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
Market Forces by Richard Morgan
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Iron Council by China Miéville (winner)

2004
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (winner)

2003
The Scar by China Miéville
Kil'n People by David Brin
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Light by M John Harrison
The Separation by Christopher Priest (winner)

2002
Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson
Passage by Connie Willis
Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton
Pashazade: The First Arabesk by Jon Courtenay-Grimwood
The Secret of Life by Paul McAuley
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones (winner)

2001
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
Salt by Adam Roberts
A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (winner)

2000
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Time by Stephen Baxter
Distraction by Bruce Sterling (winner)

1999
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
Time On My Hands by Peter Delacorte
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan (winner)

1998
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
The Family Tree by Sheri S Tepper
Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
Titan by Stephen Baxter
Days by James Lovegrove
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (winner)

1997
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Looking for the Mahdi by N Lee Wood
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Voyage by Stephen Baxter
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S Tepper
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh (winner)

1996
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
Fairyland by Paul McAuley (winner)

1995
Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
Mother of Storms by John Barnes
Pasquale's Angel by Paul McAuley
North Wind by Gwyneth Jones
Alien Influences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Fools by Pat Cadigan (winner)

1994
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
The Broken God by David Zindell
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Vurt by Jeff Noon (winner)

1993
Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
The Broken Land by Ian McDonald
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Correspondence by Sue Thomas
Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle (winner)
He, She and It by Marge Piercy (winner)

1992
Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo
Eternal Light by Paul McAuley
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Raft by Stephen Baxter
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones
Synners by Pat Cadigan (winner)

1991
Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
Farewell Horizontal by K W Jeter
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks
Red Spider, White Web by Misha
Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland (winner)

1990
Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future by Mike Resnick
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
Neverness by David Zindell
A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman (winner)

1989
Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
Rumors Of Spring by Richard Grant
Philip K Dick Is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
The Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack (winner)

1988
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Aegypt by John Crowley
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
Grainne by Keith Roberts
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H F Saint
Drowning Towers by George Turner (winner)

1987
Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R Delany
Eon by Greg Bear
The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
Queen of the States by Josephine Saxton
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (winner)