Review of the Science Museum, London’s, science fiction exhibition, Voyage to the Edge of Imagination. by Stewart Hotston “In the Science Museum’s Voyage to the Edge of Imagination exhibition we have a chance to explore how this genre of literature (in all its many and varied forms) speaks to us…

Speech by Dr Andrew M. Butler, Chair of Judges, introducing the shortlist for the 36th Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction book of the year, Oct 2022. Watching them come and go The judges and the submissions They’re judging the Clarke Award Opening trilogies Pleasure comes and torture goes …

Every year, in addition to revealing our award shortlist, we also publish the complete list of eligible titles received in submission. What follows is not a long-list, or some other form of curated list, it is simply the full list of titles considered by this year’s judging panel and from…

Introducing the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2021 shortlist by Andrew M. Butler, Chair of Judges A few years ago, I was asked to write about the future. Or, rather, future studies and futurology. In a lot of futurology there is the sense of a coming apocalypse that would destroy everything…

Author and two-times award judge, Stewart Hotston, takes a deep-dive into diversity within the Clarke Award’s submissions lists Representation matters. Last year, using the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award submission list, I wrote about the problems facing the genre publishing industry here in the UK[1]. Since then we’ve collated the data from 2013 through 2020 to look for progress. We could have gone back further, but there’s nothing…

For over a decade now, the Clarke Award has committed itself to publicly sharing the complete list of eligible submissions, as received by our panel of judges, alongside our shortlisted titles and annual winner. This started as a fun way of allowing the science fiction community of fans (and indeed…

When a judging meeting that you happen to know is for the Clarke Award starts off by sounding like it is for a Wyndham Award, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. I’m not entirely sure if this has been a cosy catastrophe — I don’t remember Wyndham predicting the Toilet…

Author and Clarke Award 2020 judge Stewart Hotston on representation and the state of contemporary SF publishing in the UK. This article has some relatively good news and then some particularly bad news. First the good news. Of 121 submissions to the Clarke Award in 2020 from 45 imprints, it…

It has become something of an Arthur C. Clarke Award tradition now to publish our Submissions List, the complete list of eligible titles submitted for consideration to our judging panel, alongside announcing our jury-selected shortlist and our final winning title. [Scroll down now to see the list in full] In…