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This is a list of shortlisted books and winners of the Arthur C. Clarke award, including ratings for those books that I've read and links to reviews where I've written one. Winners are in bold.
This is a juried award awarded for the best SF novel published in the UK (the author does not have to be British).
| 2023 | Ned Beauman | Venomous Lumpsucker | |
| 2023 | Aliette de Bodard | The Red Scholar’s Wake | |
| 2023 | Lucy Kissick | Plutoshine | |
| 2023 | Hervé Le Tellier | The Anomaly | |
| 2023 | E.J. Swift | The Coral Bones | |
| 2023 | Tom Watson | Metronome | |
| 2022 | Harry Josephine Giles | Deep Wheel Orcadia | |
| 2022 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun | |
| 2022 | Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | 8 out of 10 |
| 2022 | Courtitia Newland | A River Called Time | |
| 2022 | Mercurio D. Rivera | Wergen: The Alien Love War | |
| 2022 | Aliya Whiteley | Skyward Inn | |
| 2021 | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | |
| 2021 | Patience Agbabi | The Infinite | |
| 2021 | Simon Jimenez | The Vanished Birds | |
| 2021 | Hao Jingfang | Vagabonds | |
| 2021 | R.B. Kelly | Edge of Heaven | |
| 2021 | Valerie Valdes | Chilling Effect | 6 out of 10 |
| 2020 | Namwali Serpell | The Old Drift | |
| 2020 | Charlie Jane Anders | The City in the Middle of the Night | 4 out of 10 |
| 2020 | Kameron Hurley | The Light Brigade | 6 out of 10 |
| 2020 | Arkady Martine | A Memory Called Empire | 10 out of 10 |
| 2020 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Cage of Souls | |
| 2020 | David Wellington | The Last Astronaut | |
| 2019 | Tade Thompson | Rosewater | |
| 2019 | Sue Burke | Semiosis | 6 out of 10 |
| 2019 | Yoon Ha Lee | Revenant Gun | 7 out of 10 |
| 2019 | Ahmed Saadawi | Frankenstein in Baghdad | |
| 2019 | Simon Stålenhag | The Electric State | |
| 2019 | Aliya Whiteley | The Loosening Skin | |
| 2018 | Anne Charnock | Dreams Before the Start of Time | |
| 2018 | C. Robert Cargill | Sea of Rust | |
| 2018 | Omar El Akkad | American War | |
| 2018 | Jaroslav Kalfař | Spaceman of Bohemia | |
| 2018 | Jennie Melamed | Gather the Daughters | |
| 2018 | Jeff VanderMeer | Borne | |
| 2017 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | |
| 2017 | Becky Chambers | A Closed and Common Orbit | 9 out of 10 |
| 2017 | Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit | 7 out of 10 |
| 2017 | Emma Newman | After Atlas | |
| 2017 | Tricia Sullivan | Occupy Me | |
| 2017 | Lavie Tidhar | Central Station | |
| 2016 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Children of Time | |
| 2016 | Becky Chambers | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | 9 out of 10 |
| 2016 | Dave Hutchinson | Europe at Midnight | |
| 2016 | Nnedi Okorafor | The Book of Phoenix | |
| 2016 | Iain Pears | Arcadia | |
| 2016 | James Smythe | Way Down Dark | |
| 2015 | Emily St. John Mandel | Station Eleven | |
| 2015 | Michel Faber | The Book of Strange New Things | |
| 2015 | Dave Hutchinson | Europe in Autumn | |
| 2015 | Claire North | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | |
| 2015 | M.R. Carey | The Girl with All the Gifts | |
| 2015 | Emmi Itäranta | Memory of Water | |
| 2014 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | 10 out of 10 |
| 2014 | Kameron Hurley | God's War | |
| 2014 | Phillip Mann | The Disestablishment of Paradise | |
| 2014 | Ramez Naam | Nexus | |
| 2014 | Christopher Priest | The Adjacent | |
| 2014 | James Smythe | The Machine | |
| 2013 | Chris Beckett | Dark Eden | |
| 2013 | Adrian Barnes | Nod | |
| 2013 | Nick Harkaway | Angelmaker | |
| 2013 | Peter Heller | The Dog Stars | |
| 2013 | Ken MacLeod | Intrusion | |
| 2013 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2312 | 5 out of 10 |
| 2012 | Jane Rogers | The Testament of Jessie Lamb | |
| 2012 | Greg Bear | Hull Zero Three | |
| 2012 | Drew Magary | The End Specialist | |
| 2012 | China Miéville | Embassytown | 9 out of 10 |
| 2012 | Charles Stross | Rule 34 | |
| 2012 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Waters Rising | |
| 2011 | Lauren Beukes | Zoo City | |
| 2011 | Ian McDonald | The Dervish House | 7 out of 10 |
| 2011 | Patrick Ness | Monsters of Men | |
| 2011 | Richard Powers | Generosity | |
| 2011 | Tim Powers | Declare | 5 out of 10 |
| 2011 | Tricia Sullivan | Lightborn | |
| 2010 | China Miéville | The City & The City | 9 out of 10 |
| 2010 | Gwyneth Jones | Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant | |
| 2010 | Adam Roberts | Yellow Blue Tibia | |
| 2010 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Galileo's Dream | |
| 2010 | Marcel Theroux | Far North | |
| 2010 | Chris Wooding | Retribution Falls | |
| 2009 | Ian R. MacLeod | Song of Time | |
| 2009 | Paul J. McAuley | The Quiet War | |
| 2009 | Alastair Reynolds | House of Suns | |
| 2009 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | 9 out of 10 |
| 2009 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Margarets | |
| 2009 | Mark Wernham | Martin Martin's on the Other Side | |
| 2008 | Richard K. Morgan | Black Man | |
| 2008 | Stephen Baxter | The H-Bomb Girl | |
| 2008 | Matthew de Abaitua | The Red Man | |
| 2008 | Sarah Hall | Daughters of the North | 7 out of 10 |
| 2008 | Steven Hall | The Raw Shark Texts | |
| 2008 | Ken MacLeod | The Execution Channel | |
| 2007 | M. John Harrison | Nova Swing | |
| 2007 | Jon Courtenay Grimwood | End of the World Blues | |
| 2007 | Lydia Millet | Oh Pure and Radiant Heart | |
| 2007 | Jan Morris | Hav | |
| 2007 | Adam Roberts | Gradisil | |
| 2007 | Brian Stableford | Streaking | |
| 2006 | Geoff Ryman | Air | 10 out of 10 |
| 2006 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | |
| 2006 | Ken MacLeod | Learning the World | 7 out of 10 |
| 2006 | Alastair Reynolds | Pushing Ice | |
| 2006 | Charles Stross | Accelerando | 8 out of 10 |
| 2006 | Liz Williams | Banner of Souls | |
| 2005 | China Miéville | Iron Council | |
| 2005 | Ian McDonald | River of Gods | 6 out of 10 |
| 2005 | David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | |
| 2005 | Richard K. Morgan | Market Forces | |
| 2005 | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife | 8 out of 10 |
| 2005 | Neal Stephenson | The System of the World | 5 out of 10 |
| 2004 | Neal Stephenson | Quicksilver | 5 out of 10 |
| 2004 | Stephen Baxter | Coalescent | |
| 2004 | Greg Bear | Darwin's Children | |
| 2004 | William Gibson | Pattern Recognition | |
| 2004 | Gwyneth Jones | Midnight Lamp | |
| 2004 | Tricia Sullivan | Maul | |
| 2003 | Christopher Priest | The Separation | |
| 2003 | David Brin | Kiln People | 5 out of 10 |
| 2003 | M. John Harrison | Light | 7 out of 10 |
| 2003 | China Miéville | The Scar | 9 out of 10 |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Moon | Speed of Dark | 9 out of 10 |
| 2003 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Years of Rice and Salt | 6 out of 10 |
| 2002 | Gwyneth Jones | Bold As Love | |
| 2002 | Jon Courtenay Grimwood | Pashazade | |
| 2002 | Peter F. Hamilton | Fallen Dragon | |
| 2002 | Paul J. McAuley | The Secret of Life | |
| 2002 | Justina Robson | Mappa Mundi | |
| 2002 | Connie Willis | Passage | 8 out of 10 |
| 2001 | China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | 9 out of 10 |
| 2001 | Octavia E. Butler | Parable of the Talents | 8 out of 10 |
| 2001 | Mary Gentle | Ash: A Secret History | |
| 2001 | Ken MacLeod | Cosmonaut Keep | 6 out of 10 |
| 2001 | Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | 6 out of 10 |
| 2001 | Adam Roberts | Salt | |
| 2000 | Bruce Sterling | Distraction | |
| 2000 | Stephen Baxter | Manifold: Time | |
| 2000 | Kathleen Ann Goonan | The Bones of Time | |
| 2000 | Justina Robson | Silver Screen | |
| 2000 | Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon | 9 out of 10 |
| 2000 | Vernor Vinge | A Deepness in the Sky | 8 out of 10 |
| 1999 | Tricia Sullivan | Dreaming in Smoke | |
| 1999 | John Barnes | Earth Made of Glass | |
| 1999 | Peter Delacorte | Time on My Hands | |
| 1999 | Ken MacLeod | The Cassini Division | 6 out of 10 |
| 1999 | Christopher Priest | The Extremes | |
| 1999 | Alison Sinclair | Cavalcade | |
| 1998 | Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | 8 out of 10 |
| 1998 | Stephen Baxter | Titan | |
| 1998 | Elizabeth Hand | Glimmering | |
| 1998 | James Lovegrove | Days | |
| 1998 | Jeff Noon | Nymphomation | |
| 1998 | Sheri S. Tepper | The Family Tree | |
| 1997 | Amitav Ghosh | The Calcutta Chromosome | |
| 1997 | Stephen Baxter | Voyage | |
| 1997 | Jack McDevitt | The Engines of God | 6 out of 10 |
| 1997 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Blue Mars | 5 out of 10 |
| 1997 | Sheri S. Tepper | Gibbon's Decline and Fall | |
| 1997 | N. Lee Wood | Looking for the Mahdi | |
| 1996 | Paul J. McAuley | Fairyland | 4 out of 10 |
| 1996 | Patricia Anthony | Happy Policeman | |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | 4 out of 10 |
| 1996 | Ken MacLeod | The Star Fraction | 6 out of 10 |
| 1996 | Christopher Priest | The Presige | |
| 1996 | Neal Stephenson | The Diamond Age | 7 out of 10 |
| 1995 | Pat Cadigan | Fools | |
| 1995 | John Barnes | Mother of Storms | |
| 1995 | Gwyneth Jones | North Wind | |
| 1995 | Paul J. McAuley | Pasquale's Angel | |
| 1995 | James K. Morrow | Towing Jehovah | |
| 1995 | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Alien Influences | |
| 1994 | Jeff Noon | Vurt | |
| 1994 | John Barnes | A Million Open Doors | |
| 1994 | Nicola Griffith | Ammonite | 8 out of 10 |
| 1994 | Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash | 9 out of 10 |
| 1994 | Michael Swanwick | The Iron Dragon's Daughter | |
| 1994 | David Zindell | The Broken God | |
| 1993 | Marge Piercy | Body of Glass | |
| 1993 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | 5 out of 10 |
| 1993 | Ian McDonald | Hearts, Hands and Voices | |
| 1993 | Richard Paul Russo | Destroying Angel | |
| 1993 | Michael Swanwick | Stations of the Tide | 6 out of 10 |
| 1993 | Sue Thomas | Correspondence | |
| 1993 | Lisa Tuttle | Lost Futures | |
| 1993 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book | 8 out of 10 |
| 1992 | Pat Cadigan | Synners | 6 out of 10 |
| 1992 | Stephen Baxter | Raft | |
| 1992 | Paul J. McAuley | Eternal Light | |
| 1992 | Gwyneth Jones | White Queen | 4 out of 10 |
| 1992 | Richard Paul Russo | Subterranean Gallery | |
| 1992 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | 10 out of 10 |
| 1992 | Dan Simmons | The Fall of Hyperion | 8 out of 10 |
| 1991 | Colin Greenland | Take Back Plenty | |
| 1991 | Iain M. Banks | Use of Weapons | 8 out of 10 |
| 1991 | Mary Gentle | Rats and Gargoyles | |
| 1991 | K.W. Jeter | Farewell Horizontal | |
| 1991 | Pat Murphy | The City, Not Long After | |
| 1991 | Misha Nogha | Red Spider, White Web | |
| 1990 | Geoff Ryman | The Child Garden | |
| 1990 | Jonathan Carroll | A Child Across the Sky | |
| 1990 | Lisa Goldstein | A Mask for the General | |
| 1990 | Ian McDonald | Desolation Road | |
| 1990 | Paul Park | Soldiers of Paradise | |
| 1990 | Mike Resnick | Ivory | |
| 1990 | David Zindell | Neverness | 2 out of 10 |
| 1989 | Rachel Pollack | Unquenchable Fire | |
| 1989 | Michael Bishop | Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas | |
| 1989 | Richard Grant | Rumours of Spring | |
| 1989 | Gwyneth Jones | Kairos | |
| 1989 | Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime | |
| 1989 | Brian Stableford | Empire of Fear | |
| 1989 | Ian Watson | Whores of Babylon | |
| 1988 | George Turner | The Sea and Summer | |
| 1988 | Michael Bishop | Ancient of Days | |
| 1988 | John Crowley | Aegypt | |
| 1988 | Ken Grimwood | Replay | |
| 1988 | Stanislaw Lem | Fiasco | |
| 1988 | Keith Roberts | Gráinne | |
| 1988 | H.F. Saint | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | 7 out of 10 |
| 1987 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | |
| 1987 | Greg Bear | Eon | |
| 1987 | Samuel R. Delany | Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | |
| 1987 | Gwyneth Jones | Escape Plans | |
| 1987 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Memory of Whiteness | |
| 1987 | Josephine Saxton | Queen of the States | |
| 1987 | Bob Shaw | The Ragged Astronauts | |
| 1987 | Lucius Shepard | Green Eyes |
Ratings for books that don't have a review are based on my memory of the book. The rating may well change if I get a chance to read the book again.
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