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Arthur C. Clarke Award - Best Novel

Chosen by a panel of judges, for science fiction novels first published in the UK. Awarded since 1987. This site's source, the ISFDB, lists the award's winners but few of its shortlisted books, so this holds 51 books, 40 of them winners.

Winners and shortlisted books, by year

  • The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood (1987) · winner
  • The Ragged Astronauts — Bob Shaw (1987)
  • Fiasko — Stanisław Lem (1988)
  • The Sea and Summer — George Turner (1988) · winner
  • Rumors of Spring — Richard Grant (1989)
  • The Empire of Fear — Brian Stableford (1989)
  • Unquenchable Fire — Rachel Pollack (1989) · winner
  • A Child Across the Sky — Jonathan Carroll (1990)
  • A Mask for the General — Lisa Goldstein (1990)
  • Desolation Road — Ian McDonald (1990)
  • The Child Garden — Geoff Ryman (1990) · winner
  • Rats and Gargoyles — Mary Gentle (1991)
  • Take Back Plenty — Colin Greenland (1991) · winner
  • Eternal Light — Paul J. McAuley (1992)
  • Synners — Pat Cadigan (1992) · winner
  • He, She and It — Marge Piercy (1993) · winner
  • Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (1993)
  • Vurt — Jeff Noon (1994) · winner
  • Fools — Pat Cadigan (1995) · winner
  • Fairyland — Paul J. McAuley (1996) · winner
  • The Star Fraction — Ken MacLeod (1996)
  • The Calcutta Chromosome — Amitav Ghosh (1997) · winner
  • The Sparrow — Mary Doria Russell (1998) · winner
  • Dreaming in Smoke — Tricia Sullivan (1999) · winner
  • Distraction — Bruce Sterling (2000) · winner
  • Perdido Street Station — China Miéville (2001) · winner
  • Bold As Love — Gwyneth Jones (2002) · winner
  • The Separation — Christopher Priest (2003) · winner
  • Quicksilver — Neal Stephenson (2004) · winner
  • Iron Council — China Miéville (2005) · winner
  • Air — Geoff Ryman (2006) · winner
  • Nova Swing — M. John Harrison (2007) · winner
  • Black Man — Richard Morgan (2008) · winner
  • Song of Time — Ian R. MacLeod (2009) · winner
  • The City & the City — China Miéville (2010) · winner
  • Zoo City — Lauren Beukes (2011) · winner
  • The Testament of Jessie Lamb — Jane Rogers (2012) · winner
  • Dark Eden — Chris Beckett (2013) · winner
  • Ancillary Justice — Ann Leckie (2014) · winner
  • Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel (2015) · winner
  • Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky (2016) · winner
  • The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead (2017) · winner
  • Dreams Before the Start of Time — Anne Charnock (2018) · winner
  • Rosewater — Tade Thompson (2019) · winner
  • The Old Drift — Namwali Serpell (2020) · winner
  • The Animals in That Country — Laura Jean McKay (2021) · winner
  • Deep Wheel Orcadia — Harry Josephine Giles (2022) · winner
  • Venomous Lumpsucker — Ned Beauman (2023) · winner
  • In Ascension — Martin MacInnes (2024) · winner
  • Annie Bot — Caragh M. O'Brien (2025) · winner
  • When There Are Wolves Again — E. J. Swift (2026) · winner