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2020
Winner
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

Shortlist
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
2019
Winner
Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Shortlist
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag
The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley
2018
Winner
Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock

Shortlist
Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill
American War by Omar El Akkad
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
2017
Winner
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Shortlist
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
2016
Winner
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shortlist
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
Arcadia by Iain Pears
Way Down Dark by JP Smythe
2015
Winner
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Shortlist
The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Europe In Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
2014
Winner
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Shortlist
God's War by Kameron Hurley
The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann
Nexus by Ramez Naam
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
The Machine by James Smythe
2013
Winner
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett

Shortlist
Nod by Adrian Barnes
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
2012
Winner
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers

Shortlist
Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
The End Specialist by Drew Magary
Embassytown by China Mieville
Rule 34 by Charles Stross
The Waters Rising by Sheri S Tepper
2011
Winner
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Shortlist
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Generosity by Richard Powers
Declare by Tim Powers
Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan
​2010
Winner
The City & the City by China Mieville

Shortlist
Spirit by Gwyneth Jones
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
2009
Winner
Song of Time by Ian R MacLeod

Shortlist
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
The Margarets by Sheri S Tepper
Martin Martin’s on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
2008
Winner
Black Man by Richard Morgan

Shortlist
The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
2007
Winner
Nova Swing by M John Harrison

Shortlist
End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
Hav by Jan Morris
Gradisil by Adam Roberts
Streaking by Brian Stableford
2006
Winner
Air by Geoff Ryman

Shortlist
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Learning the World by Ken MacLeod
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Accelerando by Charles Stross
Banner Of Souls by Liz Williams
2005
Winner
Iron Council by China Mieville

Shortlist
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Market Forces by Richard Morgan
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
2004
Winner
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Shortlist
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Darwin’s Children by Greg Bear
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
2003
Winner
The Separation by Christopher Priest

Shortlist
Kiln People (Kil'n People) by David Brin
The Scar by China Mieville
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
2002
Winner
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones

Shortlist
Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton
The Secret of Life by Paul McAuley
Mappa Mundi by Justina Robson
Passage by Connie Willis
2001
Winner
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Shortlist
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler
Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Salt by Adam Roberts
2000
Winner
Distraction by Bruce Sterling

Shortlist
Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
1999
Winner
Dreaming In Smoke by Tricia Sullivan

Shortlist
Earth Made Of Glass by John Barnes
Time On My Hands by Peter Delacorte
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
1998
Winner
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Shortlist
Titan by Stephen Baxter
Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
Days by James Lovegrove
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
The Family Tree by Sheri S Tepper
1997
Winner
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh

Shortlist
Voyage by Stephen Baxter
Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall by Sheri S Tepper
Looking for the Mahdi by N Lee Wood
1996
Winner
Fairyland by Paul McAuley

Shortlist
Happy Policeman by Patricia Anthony
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
1995
Winner
Fools by Pat Cadigan

Shortlist
Mother of Storms by John Barnes
North Wind by Gwyneth Jones
Pasquale’s Angel by Paul McAuley
Towing Jehovah by James K Morrow
Alien Influences by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
1994
Winner
Vurt by Jeff Noon

Shortlist
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
The Broken God by David Zindell
1993
Winner
Body of Glass by Marge Piercy

Shortlist
Hearts, Hands and Voices by Ian McDonald
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
Correspondence by Sue Thomas
Lost Futures by Lisa Tuttle
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
1992
Winner
Synners by Pat Cadigan

Shortlist
Raft by Stephen Baxter
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones
Eternal Light by Paul McAuley
Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
1991
Winner
Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland

Shortlist
Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks
Rats & Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
Farewell Horizontal by KW Jeter
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Red Spider, White Web by Misha Nogha
1990
Winner
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

Shortlist
A Child Across the Sky by Jonathan Carroll
A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein
Desolation Road by Ian McDonald
Soldiers of Paradise by Paul Park
Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future by Mike Resnick
Neverness by David Zindell
1989
Winner
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack

Shortlist
Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
Rumours of Spring by Richard Grant
Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
Empire of Fear by Brian Stableford
Whores of Babylon by Ian Watson
1988
Winner
The Sea and Summer by George Turner

Shortlist
Ancient of Days by Michael Bishop
Ægypt by John Crowley
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
Grainne by Keith Roberts
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by HF Saint
1987
Winner
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Shortlist
Eon by Greg Bear
Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand by Samuel R Delany
Escape Plans by Gwyneth Jones
The Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
Queen of the States by Josephine Saxton
The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw
Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard