We’re delighted to share that WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN by E.J. Swift, and published by Arcadia, is the 40th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.

Tonight we reveal our 40th anniversary science fiction book of the year (right after the eclipse)! 🏆 Sign up for our newsletter to get word of the winner beamed to your inbox: open.substack.com/pub/clarkeaw... 📡 HAL has volunteered to be on bubbly opening duties, what could go wrong? 🍾

Looking for weekend reading inspiration? 📚 Check out the Clarke Award shop page supporting independent booksellers 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea... Includes our 2026 shortlist + wider book recommendations, collections & non-fiction from Clarke Award nominated authors! 🚀

CHILDREN OF TIME ttrpg Kickstarter just unlocked Solo Mode! Final week of fundraising 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gsh... Virtual high-fives from HAL to @aptshadow.bsky.social & @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social and everyone with the good taste to support this!

Monolith-sized thanks to the team at Forbidden Planet for this great poster of our shortlist! 😍🚀

Looking for weekend reading inspiration? 📚 Check out our Clarke Award shop page supporting independent booksellers 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea... Includes shortlists and wider recommendations on collections & non-fiction from Clarke Award nominated authors! 😍

Have you read the Clarke Award shortlist yet? 📚 Would you like to be one of the first to find out the winner? 🚀 The latest edition of the Clarke Award newsletter has all the details you need and more! 👉 clarkeaward.substack.com/p/have-you-r...

The Art of Opposition by Courttia Newland (Clarke Award shortlisted author of A River Called Time) explores what it means to be an artist operating in the margins and creating beyond the mainstream. Out now: uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9780...

Now booking! M. John Harrison: The End of Everything Friday 9th October, 6.30pm–7.30pm, Birmingham Rep: The Studio Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) Link: www.ticketsource.com/booking/t-oe...

Congratulations to the @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social team and @aptshadow.bsky.social for a successful first week kickstarting the new CHILDREN OF TIME ttrpg and hitting funding goals! Support now and help the team hit their next milestones here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gsh...

Looking for new weekend reads? 📚👀 Check out the Clarke Award shelves on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page - includes this year's shortlist plus a curated selection of novels, non-fiction and short story collections from our author alumni! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea...

Holiday reading: Inventing the Renaissance by @adapalmer.bsky.social Recommending reading for historians & SF fans alike, even if you are not in Florence (although the view definitely helps!)📚🇮🇹

Buy the Clarke Award 2026 shortlist (or any other books that take your fancy) before 20th June for the chance to win a £250 gift card for MORE BOOKS! 📚 Our bookshop 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea...

Buy the Clarke Award 2026 shortlist (or any other books that take your fancy) before 20th June for the chance to win a £250 gift card for MORE BOOKS! 📚 Shop now 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea...

📡 Looking for this year's shortlist, plus loads of other great Clarke Award related titles? Check out our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social shop page! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea...

The winner will receive a trophy in the form of a commemorative engraved bookend and prize money to the value of £2026.00; a tradition that sees the annual prize money rise incrementally by year from the year 2001 in memory of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Thank you to this year’s judging panel 🙌 Eliza Claudia Filimon & Antony Jones for the British Science Fiction Association Tiffani Angus & John Coxon for the Science Fiction Foundation Esther MacCallum-Stewart for the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival

Celebrating our 40th year, the Clarke Award shortlist is: DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Matt Dinniman THE DREAM HOTEL, Laila Lalami LUMINOUS, Silvia Park THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION, qntm WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN, E.J. Swift THE SALT ORACLE, Lorraine Wilson Buy: uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-ar...

The winner will receive a trophy in the form of a commemorative engraved bookend and prize money to the value of £2026.00; a tradition that sees the annual prize money rise incrementally by year from the year 2001 in memory of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

✨The Shortlist 2026!✨ DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL, Matt Dinniman  THE DREAM HOTEL, Laila Lalami LUMINOUS, Silva Park THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION, qntm WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN, E.J. Swift THE SALT ORACLE, Lorraine Wilson This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 12 August.

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As we gear up for this year’s award we can now happily cross off ‘order new stickers’ from HAL’s to do list!

Spotted in the wild! Paperback copies of Clarke Award winner 2025 ANNIE BOT, now with our official winner sigil printed on the cover 😍

We've been adding to our list of top books on the art of writing science fiction over on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page. 🚀 👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/furthe... What books have you read / would you recommend? 📚

Today’s post. Classic Ballard short stories in Panther paperback

Coming in February, LOSS PROTOCOL is the new novel from Paul McAuley, the Clarke Award wining author of Fairyland. Available for pre-order now: uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9781...

📡Signal Boost! There's still time to enter our quantum micro-fiction competition, closing Mon 8th Dec ⚛️ 👉 london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/s... We're looking for original works of micro-fiction between 300-500 words. Good luck!

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…” … including this great Blade Runner inspired art piece spotted at London’s Other Art Fair by artist Fletcher Sibthorp! #TearsinRain

Hope in Fiction, Are we living in the darkest timeline? Probably. Can storytelling still inspire us? Absolutely. Is the future set? You tell us. These collections from our Clarke Award authors may just be the creative fire you were looking for! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/hope-i...

📣 Did you hear that @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social now offers ebooks? If you're looking for an excuse to check them out (like you need one) we should also flag that this year's Clarke Award winner ANNIE BOT is only 99p on their site right now! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9780...