Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award honors the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, established it in 1987 with a grant meant to promote science fiction in Britain, and it is run today by the Serendip Foundation, a volunteer organization.

Each year a panel of judges nominated by the award's supporting organizations, the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival, reads every eligible submission and chooses a shortlist of six books and then a winner. The winner receives an engraved commemorative bookend and prize money that matches the year in pounds, so the 2026 winner received £2,026, a tradition that began in 2001. Authors of any nationality are eligible as long as the book's first UK edition appeared in the year before the award.

Full-length science fiction novels whose first UK edition was published during the previous calendar year, by authors of any nationality, submitted by their publishers.