Chris Beckett has become the twenty-seventh winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel, Dark Eden.

The award ceremony was held at a special celebratory event hosted by the Royal Society, London, and introduced by a panel on near-future science chaired by editor-in-chief of SFX Magazine, Dave Bradley.

A full video of the evening can be watched on the Royal Society’s website here.

Every year the organisers of the Arthur C. Clarke Award release the full list of novels submitted for consideration by the judging panel.

This year a total of eighty-two individual novels were submitted by thirty-two individual publishing houses and imprints. The largest ever number to be submitted to the award.