Ned Beauman wins Arthur C Clarke award for ‘bleakly funny’ novel
The prize for the year’s best science fiction novel was given to Venomous Lumpsucker, a satire which addresses ‘humanity’s shortsighted self-interest’
October 2022
Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘thrilling’ verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles
Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for ‘making you rethink what science fiction can do’
August 2022
Books interview
Namwali Serpell: ‘I find uncertainty compelling in literature’
The award-winning Zambia-born writer on her reading habits, being emboldened by Toni Morrison, and her belief that books aren’t about self-improvement, but engagement
September 2021
Laura Jean McKay wins the Arthur C Clarke award
The Australian writer has won the prestigious science fiction prize for her debut novel The Animals in That Country
September 2020
'The great African novel of the 21st century': Namwali Serpell wins Arthur C Clarke award
The Old Drift takes prestigious science fiction award with what judges called ‘an extraordinary saga that spans eras from Cecil Rhodes to Rhodes Must Fall’
July 2020
Two Tribes by Chris Beckett review – 250 years after Brexit
Hungry, flooded and under surveillance, Britain in 2266 feels the impact of civil war and a climate catastrophe
November 2019
Book of the day
The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson review – stunning conclusion
Stories of alien invasion are rarely told from the perspective of the formerly colonised – this series set in a future Nigeria expands the SF genre
July 2019
From Black Panther to Tade Thompson: why Afrofuturism is taking over sci-fi
Tade Thompson's 'gritty' alien invasion tale wins Arthur C Clarke award
July 2018
Arthur C Clarke award goes to 'classic' novel exploring the limits of pregnancy
Anne Charnock’s novel Dreams Before the Start of Time, which focuses on changing reproductive science, hailed as ‘rich but unshowy’ by judges
July 2017
Colson Whitehead adds Arthur C Clarke award to growing prize haul
The Underground Railroad, a fantastic reimagining of US slavery, takes the UK’s pre-eminent science fiction prize a day after being longlisted for the Man Booker
May 2017
Colson Whitehead leads Arthur C Clarke award shortlist
The Underground Railroad heads up finalists for science fiction honour in wake of Pulitzer prize win and presidential endorsement
August 2016
Arthur C Clarke award goes to Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel of 'universal scale'
Children of Time, about humans who leave a dying Earth for a terraformed planet where they meet a strange new species, praised for Clarkean sense of wonder
April 2016
Science fiction’s future: where next for the Arthur C Clarke award?
Tom Hunter
Iain Pears' app-based novel shortlisted for Arthur C Clarke award
May 2015
Arthur C Clarke award goes to 'elegy for the hyper-globalised present'
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, which follows a troupe of actors across a devastated America, praised by judges for transcending the post-apocalypse genre
April 2015
Michel Faber's space missionary joins MR Carey's zombies on Arthur C Clarke shortlist
The Book of Strange New Things and The Girl With All the Gifts lead contenders for UK’s top SF prize
May 2014
Ann Leckie's novel Ancillary Justice wins Arthur C Clarke award
Debut science fiction novel, narrated by a military space ship, triumphs over work of established authors, writes Alison Flood
March 2014
SF newcomers invade Arthur C Clarke award shortlist
International debutantes – two of them women – make up half of list, joining established writers in race for UK's foremost science fiction prize, writes Alison Flood
January 2014
Books blog
The Arthur C Clarke awards put women first
David Barnett: After last year's embarrassing all-male shortlist, organisers are this year reminding voters that women write SF too
