Sierra Greer Wins 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award
Posted on June 28, 2025
Sierra Greer has been named the winner of the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award. She won for novel Annie Bot (The Borough Press).
Sierra Greer wins a commemorative engraved bookend and 2025 pounds prize money. The prize money amount is a tradition where the annual prize money rises incrementally by year from the year 2001 in memory of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
The award is presented each year for the best science fiction novel of the year. The winner is chosen from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year.
This is the shortlist for this year's award.
- Private Rites – Julia Armfield (4th Estate)
- The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley (Sceptre)
- Extremophile – Ian Green (AdAstra)
- Annie Bot – Sierra Greer (The Borough Press)
- Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK)
- Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock – Maud Woolf (Angry Robot)
Annie Bot is described as "a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control" by Harpercollins. It can be found on Amazon.com.
