News awards Sierra Greer Wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Annie Bot By Molly Templeton | Published on June 26, 2025 Author photo: Dittmeier ©2023 Comment 0 Share New Share Author photo: Dittmeier ©2023 Sierra Greer has won the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Annie Bot, published in the UK by The Borough Press and in the US by Mariner Books. Greer receives a trophy and £2025. The Clarke Award is given to the best science fiction novel published in the UK in the previous calendar year. Tim Hunter, the Clarke Award Director, said in a statement, “This year’s shortlist explored themes of planetary crisis, non-human intelligences, and technology run amok. Concepts that would have enthralled readers in the times of Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells or, of course, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, but refreshed and reimagined for the 21st century by our six nominated authors. But what might we be reading in the post-human future? A concept we’re still struggling to imagine even as it looms over our lived reality. Perhaps, if we ask nicely, Annie Bot might just show us the way.” Writing in The Washington Post, Charlie Jane Anders said of Annie Bot, “All the best stories about artificial intelligence hinge on identity: Do our memories define us? Do our bodies represent who we are? Annie Bot, astonishingly, finds new ways to ask these well-worn questions.” The other finalists this year were Private Rites by Julia Armfield, The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Extremophile by Ian Green, Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf. This year’s judges were Dolly Garland and Gene Rowe for the British Science Fiction Association, Nic Clarke and John Coxon for the Science Fiction Foundation, and Glyn Morgan for the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.[end-mark] The post Sierra Greer Wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award for <i>Annie Bot</i> appeared first on Reactor.