Announcing the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2024We’re delighted to reveal the shortlist for the 38th Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year.May 13, 2024May 13, 2024
The complete judges’ reading list for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024The annual publication of our submissions list, the complete list of eligible books received by our judges every year, has gone from…Apr 22, 2024Apr 22, 2024
The Nonfiction of J.G. Ballard: An interview with editor Mark BlacklockJ. G. Ballard was a colossal figure in English literature and an imaginative force of the twentieth century.Dec 3, 2023Dec 3, 2023
5 judges, 988,172,368 possible shortlist combinationsThe complete list of eligible titles submitted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke AwardJun 4, 2023Jun 4, 2023
“Beyond the Borders — How Science Fiction examines more than just what we already know”Review of the Science Museum, London’s, science fiction exhibition, Voyage to the Edge of Imagination.May 28, 2023May 28, 2023
Chair of Judges speech for the 36th presentation of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardSpeech by Dr Andrew M. Butler, Chair of Judges, introducing the shortlist for the 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction book of…Nov 19, 2022Nov 19, 2022
Submissions list 2022: The complete list of eligible titles submitted for this year’s Arthur C.Every year, in addition to revealing our award shortlist, we also publish the complete list of eligible titles received in submission.Jul 8, 2022Jul 8, 2022
The Apocalypse, and What Happens Next (No Spoilers)Introducing the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2021 shortlist by Andrew M. Butler, Chair of JudgesSep 25, 2021Sep 25, 2021
Representation mattersAuthor and two-times award judge, Stewart Hotston, takes a deep-dive into diversity within the Clarke Award’s submissions listsJul 13, 2021Jul 13, 2021
Submissions list 2021: The complete list of eligible titles submitted for this year’s Arthur C.For over a decade now, the Clarke Award has committed itself to publicly sharing the complete list of eligible submissions, as received by…Jun 30, 2021Jun 30, 2021
Chair of Judges speech for the 34th presentation of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardWhen your award judging experience starts to feel less Arthur C. Clarke and more John Wyndham, you know there is something seriously wrong.Sep 23, 2020Sep 23, 2020
The Good News and the Bad: the Clarke Award submissions list under the lensAuthor and Clarke Award 2020 judge Stewart Hotston on representation and the state of contemporary SF publishing in the UK.Jul 16, 20201Jul 16, 20201
Submissions list 2020: The complete list of eligible titles for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke AwardIt has become something of an Arthur C. Clarke Award tradition now to publish our Submissions List, the complete list of eligible titles…Jun 18, 20201Jun 18, 20201
Chair of Judges speech for the 33rd presentation of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardTwo hundred years before this year’s shortlisted books were released, Frankenstein was published. Among many other candidates, it marked…Jul 18, 2019Jul 18, 2019
Yes, more women are publishing science fiction, but so are way more menWe review 13 years of submissions data from the Arthur C. Clarke Award with Ada Lovelace Day’s Suw-Charman-AndersonMay 9, 2019May 9, 2019
The Shortlist Has Landed!Announcing the 33rd Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction literatureMay 7, 2019May 7, 2019
Diversity in science fiction needs action nowDirector of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Tom Hunter, reveals only 7% of books received in 2018 were written by writers of colourMay 4, 2019May 4, 2019
A record-breaking year: The complete submissions list of eligible titles for the Arthur C Clarke…It began as an experiment, but for a decade now we’ve been releasing the full submissions data for the Arthur C. Clarke Award as a first…Apr 23, 2019Apr 23, 2019
Women Invent The Future: A further reading list‘The starting point for building a better future is to imagine that future.” Catherine Mayer, author & co-founder of the Women’s Equality…Sep 15, 20181Sep 15, 20181
Chair of Judges speech for the 32nd presentation of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardThis is the full text of Chair of Judges Andrew M. Butler’s speech given at the award ceremony of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science…Jul 28, 2018Jul 28, 2018
