Arthur C. Clarke Award

Arthur C. Clarke Award

:"This article describes the Arthur C. Clarke Award. For the awards that recognise British space achievement, see Sir Arthur Clarke Award".The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. The award was established with a grant from Arthur C. Clarke and the first prize was awarded in 1987. The book is chosen by a panel of judges from the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and a third organization, currently SF Crowsnest. It is now administered by the Serendip Foundation. The winner receives a prize consisting of a number of pounds sterling equal to the current year (£2008 for year 2008). In recent years, the award has been presented on the opening night of the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.

List of winners

* 1987: "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
* 1988: "The Sea and Summer" by George Turner
* 1989: "Unquenchable Fire" by Rachel Pollack
* 1990: "The Child Garden" by Geoff Ryman
* 1991: "Take Back Plenty" by Colin Greenland
* 1992: "Synners" by Pat Cadigan
* 1993: "Body of Glass" by Marge Piercy (published as "He, She and It" in the U.S.)
* 1994: "Vurt" by Jeff Noon
* 1995: "Fools" by Pat Cadigan
* 1996: "Fairyland" by Paul J. McAuley
* 1997: "The Calcutta Chromosome" by Amitav Ghosh
* 1998: "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
* 1999: "Dreaming in Smoke" by Tricia Sullivan
* 2000: "Distraction" by Bruce Sterling
* 2001: "Perdido Street Station" by China Miéville
* 2002: "Bold as Love" by Gwyneth Jones
* 2003: "The Separation" by Christopher Priest
* 2004: "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson
* 2005: "Iron Council" by China Miéville
* 2006: "Air" by Geoff Ryman
* 2007: "Nova Swing" by M. John Harrison
* 2008: "Black Man" by Richard Morgan

2008 awards

The winner of the 2008 award, announced on 30 April, was "Black Man" by Richard Morgan (Victor Gollancz). The full shortlist was:

*"The H-Bomb Girl" by Stephen Baxter (Faber and Faber)
*"The Red Men" by Matthew de Abaitua (Snowbooks)
*"The Carhullan Army" by Sarah Hall (Faber and Faber)
*"The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall (Canongate Books)
*"The Execution Channel" by Ken MacLeod (Orbit Books))
*"Black Man" by Richard Morgan (Victor Gollancz)

The judges for the 2008 Award were Pat Cadigan and Francis Spufford for the Science Fiction Foundation, Niall Harrison and Claire Weaver for the British Science Fiction Association, and Pauline Morgan for SF Crowsnest.

External links

* [http://www.clarkeaward.com/ Official Arthur C. Clarke Award site]
* [http://www.sfsite.com/lists/award-arthurcclarke01.htm Reviews of current and previous winners]
* [http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/features/arc/2008/nz12348.php Interview with Tom Hunter, Administrator of the Arthur C. Clarke Awards]
* [http://www.awardannals.com/wiki/Honor_roll:Arthur_C._Clarke_Award Most honored Clarke Award nominees]
* [http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_clarke.asp Listing of current and previous winners with excerpts and summaries]


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