When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, published by Arcadia, is the winner of the 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. The selection was revealed today at an award ceremony held in London.
Swift receives 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.
Chair of Judges, Dr Andrew M. Butler, said:
“For forty years, the many Arthur C. Clarke Award judges have made the difficult choice of best sf novel. For our anniversary year, they picked E.J. Swift’s near future When There Are Wolves Again, a story of environmental change and possible recovery. If the industry continues producing such awesome novels, the ten years between now and the award’s 50th anniversary will be worth watching out for.”
Marking the award’s 40th anniversary year, Award Director Tom Hunter said:
“Following Sir Arthur’s passing, the award faced the real possibility of being forced to close after its 25th year. I am delighted that we have been able to steward the award successfully all the way to its 40th anniversary, and am happy to report the directors are already making plans for celebrating in 2036.”
The judging panel for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2026 were Eliza Claudia Filimon for the British Science Fiction Association, Tiffani Angus and John Coxon for the Science Fiction Foundation, Esther MacCallum Stewart for the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival, and Dr Andrew M. Butler represented the Arthur C. Clarke Award directors in a non-voting role as the Chair of the Judges.
The annual Arthur C. Clarke Award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.
Members of the judging panel are nominated by supporting organisations, currently the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.
[Based on a press release.]
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