Award Category: Best Science Fiction Novel (Arthur C. Clarke Award)

Award Category: Best Science Fiction Novel Award Category Record # 140
Award Type: Arthur C. Clarke Award
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1987

1	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood
2	The Ragged Astronauts	Bob Shaw
--- Finalists -------
*	Eon	Greg Bear
*	Escape Plans	Gwyneth Jones
*	Green Eyes	Lucius Shepard
*	Queen of the States	Josephine Saxton
*	Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand	Samuel R. Delany
*	The Memory of Whiteness	Kim Stanley Robinson

1988
1	Drowning Towers (variant of The Sea and Summer)	George Turner
2	Fiasko	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
--- Finalists -------
*	Ancient of Days	Michael Bishop
*	Gráinne	Keith Roberts
*	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	H. F. Saint
*	Replay	Ken Grimwood
*	Ægypt^?Aegypt Egypt	John Crowley

1989
1	Unquenchable Fire	Rachel Pollack
2	The Empire of Fear	Brian Stableford
3	Rumours of Spring (variant of Rumors of Spring)	Richard Grant
--- Finalists -------
*	Kairos	Gwyneth Jones
*	Life During Wartime	Lucius Shepard
*	Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas	Michael Bishop
*	Whores of Babylon	Ian Watson

1990
1	The Child Garden	Geoff Ryman
2	A Child Across the Sky	Jonathan Carroll
3	A Mask for the General	Lisa Goldstein
3	Desolation Road	Ian McDonald
--- Finalists -------
*	Ivory	Mike Resnick
*	Neverness	David Zindell
*	Soldiers of Paradise	Paul Park

1991
1	Take Back Plenty	Colin Greenland
2	Rats and Gargoyles	Mary Gentle
--- Finalists -------
*	Farewell Horizontal	K. W. Jeter
*	Red Spider, White Web	Misha
*	The City, Not Long After	Pat Murphy
*	Use of Weapons	Iain M. Banks

1992
1	Synners	Pat Cadigan
2	Eternal Light	Paul J. McAuley
--- Finalists -------
*	Hyperion	Dan Simmons
*	Raft	Stephen Baxter
*	Subterranean Gallery	Richard Paul Russo
*	The Fall of Hyperion	Dan Simmons
*	White Queen	Gwyneth Jones

1993
1	Body of Glass (variant of He, She and It)	Marge Piercy
2	Red Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
--- Finalists -------
*	Correspondence	Sue Thomas
*	Destroying Angel	Richard Paul Russo
*	Doomsday Book	Connie Willis
*	Hearts, Hands and Voices	Ian McDonald
*	Lost Futures	Lisa Tuttle
*	Stations of the Tide	Michael Swanwick

1994
1	Vurt	Jeff Noon
--- Finalists -------
*	A Million Open Doors	John Barnes
*	Ammonite	Nicola Griffith
*	Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson
*	The Broken God	David Zindell
*	The Iron Dragon's Daughter	Michael Swanwick

1995
1	Fools	Pat Cadigan
--- Finalists -------
*	Alien Influences	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
*	Mother of Storms	John Barnes
*	North Wind	Gwyneth Jones
*	Pasquale's Angel	Paul J. McAuley
*	Towing Jehovah	James Morrow

1996
1	Fairyland	Paul J. McAuley
2	The Star Fraction	Ken MacLeod
--- Finalists -------
*	Happy Policeman	Patricia Anthony
*	The Diamond Age	Neal Stephenson
*	The Prestige	Christopher Priest
*	The Time Ships	Stephen Baxter

1997
1	The Calcutta Chromosome	Amitav Ghosh
--- Finalists -------
*	Blue Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	Gibbon's Decline and Fall	Sheri S. Tepper
*	Looking for the Mahdi	N. Lee Wood
*	The Engines of God	Jack McDevitt
*	Voyage	Stephen Baxter

1998
1	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell
--- Finalists -------
*	Days	James Lovegrove
*	Glimmering	Elizabeth Hand
*	Nymphomation	Jeff Noon
*	The Family Tree	Sheri S. Tepper
*	Titan	Stephen Baxter

1999
1	Dreaming in Smoke	Tricia Sullivan
--- Finalists -------
*	Cavalcade	Alison Sinclair
*	Earth Made of Glass	John Barnes
*	The Cassini Division	Ken MacLeod
*	The Extremes	Christopher Priest
*	Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs	Peter Delacorte

2000
1	Distraction	Bruce Sterling
--- Finalists -------
*	A Deepness in the Sky	Vernor Vinge
*	Cryptonomicon	Neal Stephenson
*	Silver Screen	Justina Robson
*	The Bones of Time	Kathleen Ann Goonan
*	Time	Stephen Baxter

2001
1	Perdido Street Station	China Miéville^?China Mieville
--- Finalists -------
*	Ash: A Secret History (variant of A Secret History)	Mary Gentle
*	Cosmonaut Keep	Ken MacLeod
*	Parable of the Talents	Octavia E. Butler
*	Revelation Space	Alastair Reynolds
*	Salt	Adam Roberts

2002
1	Bold As Love	Gwyneth Jones
--- Finalists -------
*	Fallen Dragon	Peter F. Hamilton
*	Mappa Mundi	Justina Robson
*	Pashazade	Jon Courtenay Grimwood
*	Passage	Connie Willis
*	The Secret of Life	Paul J. McAuley

2003
1	The Separation	Christopher Priest
--- Finalists -------
*	Kiln People	David Brin
*	Light	M. John Harrison
*	The Scar	China Miéville^?China Mieville
*	The Speed of Dark	Elizabeth Moon
*	The Years of Rice and Salt	Kim Stanley Robinson

2004
1	Quicksilver	Neal Stephenson
--- Finalists -------
*	Coalescent	Stephen Baxter
*	Darwin's Children	Greg Bear
*	Maul	Tricia Sullivan
*	Midnight Lamp	Gwyneth Jones
*	Pattern Recognition	William Gibson

2005
1	Iron Council	China Miéville^?China Mieville
--- Finalists -------
*	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell
*	Market Forces	Richard Morgan
*	River of Gods	Ian McDonald
*	The System of the World	Neal Stephenson
*	The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger

2006
1	Air	Geoff Ryman
--- Finalists -------
*	Accelerando	Charles Stross
*	Banner of Souls	Liz Williams
*	Learning the World	Ken MacLeod
*	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro
*	Pushing Ice	Alastair Reynolds

2007
1	Nova Swing	M. John Harrison
--- Finalists -------
*	End of the World Blues	Jon Courtenay Grimwood
*	Gradisil	Adam Roberts
*	Hav	Jan Morris
*	Oh Pure and Radiant Heart	Lydia Millet
*	Streaking	Brian Stableford

2008
1	Black Man	Richard Morgan
--- Finalists -------
*	The Carhullan Army	Sarah Hall
*	The Execution Channel	Ken MacLeod
*	The H-Bomb Girl	Stephen Baxter
*	The Raw Shark Texts	Steven Hall
*	The Red Men	Matthew De Abaitua

2009
1	Song of Time	Ian R. MacLeod
--- Finalists -------
*	Anathem	Neal Stephenson
*	House of Suns	Alastair Reynolds
*	Martin Martin's on the Other Side	Mark Wernham
*	The Margarets	Sheri S. Tepper
*	The Quiet War	Paul J. McAuley

2010
1	The City & The City	China Miéville^?China Mieville
--- Finalists -------
*	Far North	Marcel Theroux
*	Galileo's Dream	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	Retribution Falls	Chris Wooding
*	Spirit or The Princess of Bois Dormant	Gwyneth Jones
*	Yellow Blue Tibia	Adam Roberts

2011
1	Zoo City	Lauren Beukes
--- Finalists -------
*	Declare	Tim Powers
*	Generosity: An Enhancement	Richard Powers (I)
*	Lightborn	Tricia Sullivan
*	Monsters of Men	Patrick Ness
*	The Dervish House	Ian McDonald

2012
1	The Testament of Jessie Lamb	Jane Rogers
--- Finalists -------
*	Embassytown	China Miéville^?China Mieville
*	Hull Zero Three	Greg Bear
*	Rule 34	Charles Stross
*	The Postmortal	Drew Magary
*	The Waters Rising	Sheri S. Tepper

2013
1	Dark Eden	Chris Beckett
--- Finalists -------
*	2312	Kim Stanley Robinson
*	Angelmaker	Nick Harkaway
*	Intrusion	Ken MacLeod
*	Nod	Adrian Barnes
*	The Dog Stars	Peter Heller

2014
1	Ancillary Justice	Ann Leckie
--- Finalists -------
*	God's War	Kameron Hurley
*	Nexus	Ramez Naam
*	The Adjacent	Christopher Priest
*	The Disestablishment of Paradise	Phillip Mann
*	The Machine	James Smythe

2015
1	Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel
--- Finalists -------
*	Europe in Autumn	Dave Hutchinson
*	Memory of Water (translation of Teemestarin kirja)	Emmi Itäranta^?Emmi Itaranta Emmi Itaeranta
*	The Book of Strange New Things	Michel Faber
*	The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August	Claire North
*	The Girl with All the Gifts	M. R. Carey

2016
1	Children of Time	Adrian Tchaikovsky
--- Finalists -------
*	Arcadia	Iain Pears
*	Europe at Midnight	Dave Hutchinson
*	The Book of Phoenix	Nnedi Okorafor
*	The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet	Becky Chambers
*	Way Down Dark	James Smythe

2017
1	The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead
--- Finalists -------
*	A Closed and Common Orbit	Becky Chambers
*	After Atlas	Emma Newman
*	Central Station	Lavie Tidhar
*	Ninefox Gambit	Yoon Ha Lee
*	Occupy Me	Tricia Sullivan

2018
1	Dreams Before the Start of Time	Anne Charnock
--- Finalists -------
*	American War	Omar El Akkad
*	Borne	Jeff VanderMeer
*	Gather the Daughters	Jennie Melamed
*	Sea of Rust	C. Robert Cargill
*	Spaceman of Bohemia	Jaroslav Kalfař^?Jaroslav Kalfar

2019
1	Rosewater	Tade Thompson
--- Finalists -------
*	Frankenstein in Baghdad (translation of فرانكشتاين في بغداد^?Frānkištāyn fī Baġdād Fraankishtaayn fii Baghdaad )	Ahmed Saadawi
*	Revenant Gun	Yoon Ha Lee
*	Semiosis	Sue Burke
*	The Electric State (translation of Passagen)	Simon Stålenhag^?Simon Stalenhag
*	The Loosening Skin	Aliya Whiteley

2020
1	The Old Drift	Namwali Serpell
--- Finalists -------
*	A Memory Called Empire	Arkady Martine
*	Cage of Souls	Adrian Tchaikovsky
*	The City in the Middle of the Night	Charlie Jane Anders
*	The Last Astronaut	David Wellington
*	The Light Brigade	Kameron Hurley

2021
1	The Animals in That Country	Laura Jean McKay
--- Finalists -------
*	Chilling Effect	Valerie Valdes
*	Edge of Heaven	Rachael Kelly
*	The Infinite	Patience Agbabi
*	The Vanished Birds	Simon Jimenez
*	Vagabonds (translation of 流浪苍穹^?liú làng cāng qióng )	Hao Jingfang

2022
1	Deep Wheel Orcadia	Harry Josephine Giles
--- Finalists -------
*	A Desolation Called Peace	Arkady Martine
*	A River Called Time	Courttia Newland
*	Klara and the Sun	Kazuo Ishiguro
*	Skyward Inn	Aliya Whiteley
*	Wergen: The Alien Love War	Mercurio D. Rivera

2023
1	Venomous Lumpsucker	Ned Beauman
--- Finalists -------
*	Metronome	Tom Watson
*	Plutoshine	Lucy Kissick
*	The Anomaly (translation of L'anomalie)	Hervé Le Tellier^?Herve Le Tellier
*	The Coral Bones	E. J. Swift
*	The Red Scholar's Wake	Aliette de Bodard

Award Category: Best Science Fiction Novel (Arthur C. Clarke Award)

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