Clarke Award Winner

On 16 August 2023, after hours of debate by the judging panel, the 2023 Arthur C Clarke Award was announced: Venomous Lumpsucker (2022) by Ned Beauman (whom see for more about the book). "Ned Beauman receives a trophy in the form of a commemorative engraved bookend and prize money to the value of £2023.00; a tradition that sees the annual prize money rise incrementally by year from the year 2001 in memory of Sir Arthur C Clarke."

The other finalists first published in the UK in 2022 were:

• The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
• Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier, translated by Adriana Hunter
• The Coral Bones by E J Swift
• Metronome by Tom Watson