2024 Clarke Award Winner

The winner for the annual Arthur C. Clarke Award, celebrating the best science fiction novel published in the UK, has been announced:

  • WINNER: In Ascension, Martin MacInnes (Atlantic)
  • Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Harvill Secker)
  • The Ten Percent Thief, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Solaris)
  • The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
  • Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Orbit)
  • Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Isabel Waidner (Hamish Hamilton)

The winner receives an engraved bookend and £2,024 in prize money. The judges were Dolly Garland and Stark Holborn for the British Science Fiction Association, Nic Clarke and Tom Dillon for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Glyn Morgan for the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival. Andrew M. Butler represented the Clarke Award directors as non-voting Chair of the Judges.

For more information, see the Clarke Award website.


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