Award Shortlists

The complete shortlists for the Arthur C. Clarke Award by year:

2018

2017

• The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead – WINNER
• A Closed and Common Orbit – Becky Chambers
• Ninefox Gambit – Yoon Ha Lee
• After Atlas – Emma Newman
• Occupy Me – Tricia Sullivan
• Central Station – Lavie Tidhar

2016

• Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky – WINNER
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
• Europe at Midnight – Dave Hutchinson
• The Book of Phoenix – Nnedi Okorafor
• Arcadia – Iain Pears
• Way Down Dark – J.P. Smythe

2015

• Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel – WINNER
• The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey
• The Book Of Strange New Things – Michel Faber
• Europe In Autumn – Dave Hutchinson
• Memory Of Water – Emmi Itäranta
• The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August – Claire North

2014

• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie – WINNER
• God’s War by Kameron Hurley
• The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
• Nexus by Ramez Naam
• The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
• The Machine by James Smythe

2013

• Dark Eden – Chris Beckett – WINNER
• Nod – Adrian Barnes
• Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway
• The Dog Stars – Peter Heller
• Intrusion – Ken MacLeod
• 2312 – Kim Stanley Robinson

2012

• The Testament of Jessie Lamb – Jane Rogers – WINNER
• Hull Zero Three – Greg Bear
• The End Specialist – Drew Magary
• Embassytown – China Miéville
• Rule 34 – Charles Stross
• The Waters Rising – Sheri S. Tepper

2011

• Zoo City – Lauren Beukes – WINNER
• The Dervish House – Ian McDonald
• Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness
• Generosity – Richard Powers
• Declare – Tim Powers
• Lightborn – Tricia Sullivan

2010

• The City & The City – China Miéville – WINNER
• Spirit – Gwyneth Jones
• Yellow Blue Tibia – Adam Roberts
• Galileo’s Dream – Kim Stanley Robinson
• Far North – Marcel Theroux
• Retribution Falls – Chris Wooding

2009

• Song of Time – Ian R. MacLeod – WINNER
• The Quiet War – Paul McAuley
• House of Suns – Alastair Reynolds
• Anathem –  Neal Stephenson
• The Margarets –  Sheri S. Tepper
• Martin Martin’s on the Other Side –  Mark Wernham

2008

• Black Man – Richard Morgan – WINNER
• The Red Men – Matthew de Abaitua
• The H-Bomb Girl – Stephen Baxter
• The Carhullan Army – Sarah Hall
• The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall
• The Execution Channel – Ken MacLeod

2007

• Nova Swing – M. John Harrison – WINNER
• End of the World Blues – Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Oh Pure and Radiant Heart – Lydia Millet
• Hav – Jan Morris
• Gradisil – Adam Roberts
• Streaking – Brian Stableford

2006

• Air – Geoff Ryman – WINNER
• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Learning The World – Ken MacLeod
• Pushing Ice – Alastair Reynolds
• Accelerando – Charles Stross
• Banner Of Souls – Liz Williams

2005

• Iron Council – China Miéville – WINNER
• River of Gods – Ian McDonald
• Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
• Market Forces – Richard Morgan
• The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
• The System of the World – Neal Stephenson

2004

• Quicksilver – Neal Stephenson – WINNER
• Coalescent – Stephen Baxter
• Darwin’s Children – Greg Bear
• Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
• Midnight Lamp – Gwyneth Jones
• Maul – Tricia Sullivan

2003

• The Separation – Christopher Priest – WINNER
• Kil’n People – David Brin
• Light – M. John Harrison
• The Scar – China Miéville
• Speed of Dark – Elizabeth Moon
• The Years of Rice and Salt – Kim Stanley Robinson

2002

• Bold As Love – Gwyneth Jones – WINNER
• Pashazade – Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Fallen Dragon – Peter F. Hamilton
• The Secret of Life – Paul J. McAuley
• Mappa Mundi – Justina Robson
• Passage – Connie Willis

2001

• Perdido Street Station – China Miéville – WINNER
• Parable of the Talents – Octavia E. Butler
• Ash: A Secret History – Mary Gentle
• Cosmonaut Keep – Ken MacLeod
• Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds
• Salt – Adam Roberts

2000

• Distraction – Bruce Sterling – WINNER
• Manifold: Time – Stephen Baxter
• The Bones of Time – Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Silver Screen – Justina Robson
• Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
• A Deepness in the Sky – Vernor Vinge

1999

• Dreaming In Smoke – Tricia Sullivan – WINNER
• Earth Made Of Glass – John Barnes
• Time On My Hands – Peter Delacorte
• The Cassini Division – Ken MacLeod
• The Extremes – Christopher Priest
• Cavalcade – Alison Sinclair

1998

• The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell – WINNER
• Titan – Stephen Baxter
• Glimmering – Elizabeth Hand
• Days – James Lovegrove
• Nymphomation – Jeff Noon
• The Family Tree – Sheri S. Tepper

1997

• The Calcutta Chromosome – Amitav Ghosh – WINNER
• Voyage – Stephen Baxter
• Engines of God – Jack McDevitt
• Blue Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
• Gibbon’s Decline and Fall – Sheri S. Tepper
• Looking for the Mahdi – N. Lee Wood

1996

• Fairyland – Paul J. McAuley – WINNER
• The Star Fraction – Ken MacLeod
• Happy Policeman – Patricia Anthony
• The Time Ships – Stephen Baxter
• The Prestige – Christopher Priest
• The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson

1995

• Fools – Pat Cadigan – WINNER
• Mother of Storms – John Barnes
• North Wind – Gwyneth Jones
• Pasquale’s Angel – Paul J. McAuley
• Towing Jehovah – James Morrow
• Alien Influences – Kristine Kathryn Rusch

1994

• Vurt – Jeff Noon – WINNER
• A Million Open Doors – John Barnes
• Ammonite – Nicola Griffith
• Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
• The Iron Dragon’s Daughter – Michael Swanwick
• The Broken God – David Zindell

1993

• Body of Glass – Marge Piercy – WINNER
• Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
• Hearts, Hands and Voices – Ian McDonald
• Destroying Angel – Richard Paul Russo
• Stations of the Tide – Michael Swanwick
• Correspondence – Sue Thomas
• Lost Futures – Lisa Tuttle
• Doomsday Book – Connie Willis

1992

• Synners – Pat Cadigan – WINNER
• Eternal Light – Paul J. McAuley
• Raft – Stephen Baxter
• White Queen – Gwyneth Jones
• Subterranean Gallery – Richard Paul Russo
• The Hyperion Cantos – Dan Simmons

1991

• Take Back Plenty – Colin Greenland – WINNER
• Rats & Gargoyles – Mary Gentle
• Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks
• Red Spider, White Web – Misha Nogha
• Farewell Horizontal – K.W. Jeter
• The City, Not Long After – Pat Murphy

1990

• The Child Garden – Geoff Ryman – WINNER
• A Child Across the Sky – Jonathan Carroll
• A Mask for the General – Lisa Goldstein
• Desolation Road – Ian McDonald
• Soldiers of Paradise – Paul Park
• Ivory – Mike Resnick
• Neverness – David Zindell

1989

• Unquenchable Fire – Rachel Pollack – WINNER
• Empire of Fear – Brian Stableford
• Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas – Michael Bishop
• Rumours of Spring – Richard Grant
• Kairos – Gwyneth Jones
• Life During Wartime – Lucius Shepard
• Whores of Babylon – Ian Watson

1988

• The Sea and Summer – George Turner – WINNER
• Fiasco – Stanislaw Lem
• Ancient of Days – Michael Bishop
• Aegypt – John Crowley
• Replay – Ken Grimwood
• Gráinne – Keith Roberts
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man – H.F. Saint

1987

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – WINNER
• The Ragged Astronauts – Bob Shaw
• Eon – Greg Bear
• Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand – Samuel R. Delany
• Escape Plans – Gwyneth Jones
• The Memory of Whiteness – Kim Stanley Robinson
• Queen of the States – Josephine Saxton
• Green Eyes – Lucius Shepard