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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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