Arthur C. Clarke Award
Given to the best first edition novel published in the British Commonwealth.
Winners are listed in italics.
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| EON | Greg Bear | |
| Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | Samuel R. Delany | |
| Escape Plans | Gwyneth Jones | |
| The Memory of Whiteness | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Queen of the States | Josephine Saxton | |
| The Ragged Astrounauts | Bob Shaw | |
| Green Eyes | Lucius Shepard | |
| 1989 | Drowning Towers | George Turner |
| Ancient of Days | Michael Bishop | |
| AEgypt | John Crowley | |
| Replay | Ken Grimwood | |
| Fiasco | Stanislaw Lem | |
| Grainne | Keith Roberts | |
| Memoirs of an Invisible Man | H.F. Saint | |
| The Glass Hammer | K.W. Jeter | |
| A Tail of Time City | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| A Door into Ocean | Joan Slonczewski | |
| Hardwired | Walter Jon Williams | |
| 1990 | Unquenchable Fire | Rachel Pollak |
| The Empire of Fear | Brian M. Stableford | |
| Rumours of Spring | Richard Grant | |
| The Secret Ascension | Michael Bishop | |
| Kairos | Gwyneth Jone | |
| Life During Wartime | Lucius Shepard | |
| The Whores of Babylon | Ian Watson | |
| Great Sky River | Gregory Benford | |
| Sleeping in Flame | Jonathan Carroll | |
| Fade | Robert Cormier | |
| Days Between Stations | Steve Erickson | |
| Roofworld | Christopher Fowler | |
| Mona Lisa Overdrive | William Gibson | |
| Lavondyss | Robert Holdstock | |
| East of Laughter | R.A. Lafferty | |
| Half a Glass of Moonshine | Graham Dunstan Martin | |
| Lincoln's Dreams | Connie Willis | |
| 1991 | The Child Garden | Geoff Ryman |
| A Child Across the Sky | Jonathan Carroll | |
| A Mask for the General | Lisa Goldstein | |
| Desolation Road | Ian McDonald | |
| 1992 | Take Back Plenty | Colin Greenland |
| Rats and Gargoyles | Mary Gentle | |
| The City, Not Long After | Pat Murphy | |
| 1993 | Synners | Pat Cadigan |
| Eternal Light | Paul J. McAuley | |
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | |
| 1994 | He, She and It | Marge Piercy |
| Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Hearts, Hands and Voices | Ian McDonald | |
| Correspondence | Sue Thomas | |
| Destroying Angel | Richard Paul Russo | |
| Stations of the Tide | Michael Swanwick | |
| Lost Futures | Lisa Tuttle | |
| Doomsday Book | Connie Willis | |
| Sarah Canary | Karen Joy Fowler | |
| The Course of the Heart | M. John Harrison | |
| 1995 | Vurt | Jeff Noon |
| A Million Open Doors | John Barnes | |
| Ammonite | Nicola Griffith | |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | |
| The Iron Dragon's Daughter | Michael Swanwick | |
| The Broken God | David Zindell | |
| 1996 | Fairyland | Paul J. McAuley |
| The Star Fraction | Ken MacLeod | |
| Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | Samuel R. Delany | |
| Happy Policeman | Patricia Anthony | |
| The Time Ships | Stephen Baxter | |
| The Prestige | Christopher Priest | |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | |
| 1997 | The Calcutta Chromosome | Amitav Ghosh |
| Voyage | Stephen Baxter | |
| Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Engines of God | Jack McDevitt | |
| Gibbon's Decline and Fall | Sheri S. Tepper | |
| Looking for the Mahdi | N. Lee Wood | |
| 1998 | The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell |
| Titan | Stephen Baxter | |
| Glimmering | Elizabeth Hand | |
| Days | James Lovegrove | |
| Nymphomation | Jeff Noon | |
| 1999 | Dreaming In Smoke | Tricia Sullivan |
| Time On My Hands | Peter Delacorte | |
| The Cassini Division | Ken MacLeod | |
| The Extremes | Christopher Priest | |
| Cavalcade | Alison Sinclair | |
| Earth Made of Glass | John Barnes | |
| 2000 | Distraction | Bruce Sterling |
| Time | Stephen Baxter | |
| The Bones of Time | Kathleen Ann Goonan | |
| Silver Screen | Justina Robson | |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | |
| A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge | |
| 2001 | Perdido Street Station | China Miéville |
| Ash: A Secret History | Mary Gentle | |
| Cosmonaut Keep | Ken MacLeod | |
| Parable of the Talents | Octavia E. Buter | |
| Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | |
| Salt | Adam Roberts | |
| 2002 | Pashazade | Jon Courtenay Grimwood |
| Fallen Dragon | Peter F. Hamilton | |
| Bold as Love | Gwyneth Jones | |
| The Secret of Life | Paul McAuley | |
| Mappa Mundi | Justina Robson | |
| Passage | Connie Willis |
