On 16 December 2017, it was 100 years since the birth of Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke was a British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the most prestigious award for science fiction in Britain, and is given for the best science fiction Arthur C. Clarke novel published in the UK during the previous year. To celebrate the centenary, we have chosen a selection of Centenary science fiction novels from the last two decades of the award.

Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan The Long Way to a Small Memory of Water by Emmi Angry Planet by Becky Itäranta A genre defining novel that Chambers begins with the mystery of a A coming of age story full of woman who barely knows Rosemary was to escape her secrets, emotional drama and herself and ends with a troubled past, but finds more wonderment. discovery than transcends than she bargained for as she space and time. travels through war-torn interstellar space.

Nexus by Ramez Naam Intrusion by Ken MacLeod Embassytown by China Miéville In the near future, the A pill that can eradicate many experimental nano-drug common genetic defects from An intelligent and Nexus can link humans an unborn child, and a immersive exploration of together, mind to mind. mother who refuses to take language in an alien world. it. Is it her decision, or is it wilful neglect? readinggroups.org

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam The Quiet War by Paul Roberts McAuley Zinzi is catapulted deep into a city twisted by crime In 1946, Stalin tells the top While twenty-third century and magic, where she is science fiction authors to Earth has been ravaged by forced to confront the dark write a story about aliens to climate change, on Jupiter secrets of former lives— trick the Soviet population. and Saturn, live the Outers including her own. After Chernobyl, their story who want to colonise Earth. seems to be coming true...

The Red Men by Matthew De Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Abaitua Lydia Millet Ishiguro

When Nelson is put in charge When the world’s first atomic Kathy, now 31, attempts to of Redtown, a virtual city, he bomb is tested in 1945, the come to terms with her finds himself at the helm of a men responsible suddenly childhood at the seemingly grand project that seems find themselves in 2003 and idyllic Hailsham school. increasingly authoritarian and have to adjust to life in the catastrophic. ‘future’. readinggroups.org

The Time Traveler’s Wife Darwin’s Children by Greg Kil’n People by David Brin by Audrey Niffenegger Bear A world in which every The extraordinary love Stella Nova is one of the person, every day, can be in story of Clare and Henry, ‘virus children’, a generation any number of places at the who has a rare condition of genetically enhanced same time. It’s the world of where his genetic clock babies born a dozen years dittos. resets and he finds himself before to mothers infected pulled suddenly into his with a virus. past or future.

Passage by Connie Willis Parable of the Talents by Silver Screen by Justina Robson Octavia E. Butler A psychologist specialising in An exploration of the many near-death experiences, and a It is 2032 and Lauren interfaces between humans and neurologist who can Olamina’s daughter Larkin their technologies, between the manufacture them. But each narrates the story of her promises of science and the time Joanna goes under, her mother’s life as she spread explanations of faith. sense of dread begins to the word of her Earthseed grow. philosophy. readinggroups.org

The Extremes by Titan by Stephen Baxter The Calcutta Chromosome by Christopher Priest Amitav Ghosh When signs of organic life are After her husband is killed, discovered on Saturn’s Antar, a computer-bund Teresa join a virtual reality largest moon, Paula proposes Egyptian clerk in New York, company, where she finds a mission that borders on the investigates the strange truth relief from her grief in impossible, and while in of what happened in a other worlds and space they discover a tropical laboratory in the personalities. universal secret that will 1890s. change lives forever.

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