Commencing countdown, engines on, for our 2024 winner announcement!
Join us for our award ceremony, Wednesday 24th July.
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
It’s less than two Earth weeks until we announced the winner of our 38th science fiction book of the year, and we would love you to be first to know and join us when we open the envelope and make the big reveal!
Every year we aim to make public tickets available to our award event and these are live and bookable online now.
We hope you can join us, and look forward to welcoming you on the night.
Before the 24th though, we just have time to remind you of our six shortlisted titles…
In a now a fan-favourite Clarke Award tradition, our friends at fivebooks.com have interviewed our chair of judges, Dr Andrew M. Butler, on our six finalists.
The shortlist for the 2024 Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year is:
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Harvill Secker)
The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Solaris)
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes (Atlantic Books)
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (Orbit)
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner (Hamish Hamilton)
Clarke Award winners in the press: