Awards: Arthur C. Clarke Winner

Anne Charnock won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction literature for her novel Dreams Before the Start of Time. The winner was announced during a special ceremony held at the Foyles flagship bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London. She receives a commemorative engraved bookend and £2,018 (about $1,525).

"Humanity's attitudes to reproduction have been core to science fiction at least as far back as Frankenstein," said chair of judges Andrew M. Butler. "Anne Charnock's Dreams Before the Start of Time explores the theme with a delightfully rich but unshowy intergenerational novel that demands rereading."

Award director Tom Hunter commented: "This is a much-deserved win for a writer whose time has definitely come. Charnock's multi-generational vision of expanding human reproductive technologies is smart, science-literate fiction that embraces the challenge of humanizing big ethical questions and succeeds by exploring possible future scenarios that feel utterly real."

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