Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners by the Year
2011 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award
Zoo City
by Lauren Beukes
LAUREN BEUKES is a writer, TV scriptwriter and recovering journalist. For the sake of a story, she’s jumped out of planes and into shark-infested waters and hung out with teen vampires, township vigilantes, and AIDS activists among other intere… read more
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The City & the City
by China Mieville
China Miéville is the author of King Rat ; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar , winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council , winner of the Locus … read more
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Nova Swing
by M John Harrison
M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of eight previous novels and four collections of short stories. His fifth novel, Viriconium , was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and his sixth, Climbers, won the Boardman Tasker Award. Ligh… read more
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Iron Council
by China Mieville
Iron Council (2004) is the fourth novel by China Miéville, set in the same universe as his previous books Perdido Street Station (2000) and The Scar (2002), although they can all be read independently of each other. In addition to the steampunk infl… read more
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Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson
Set against the backdrop of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Quicksilver tells the intertwining tales of 3 unforgettable main characters (descendants of characters from Cryptonomicon) as they traverse a landscape populated by mad alchemists, B… read more
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The Cambridge Guide To the Solar System
by Kenneth R Lang
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Perdido Street Station
by China Mieville
Perdido Street Station is the second published novel by China Miéville, and the first in a series that is set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, a world where both magic (referred to as 'thaumaturgy') and steampunk technology exist. Perdido … read more
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Distraction
by Bruce Sterling
Distraction is the diversion of attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction. Distraction is caused by one of the following: lack of ability to pay attention; lack of interest in the object of… read more
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The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God. This experience--the first contact between h… read more
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Calcutta Chromosome
by Amitav Ghosh
The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1996 English Language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. The book, for the most part set in Calcutta at some unspecified time in the future, is a medical thriller that dramatizes the adventures of apparently disconnecte… read more
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Vurt
by Jeff Noon
1990 Winner Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Child Garden
by Geoff Ryman
The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Geoff Ryman. It won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1990. The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally pub… read more
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. It depicts a totalitarian world known as Gilead, portraying the subjection of women in a patriarchal society. The near-future New England setting illustrates a bleak por… read more
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