In 2011, the judging panel received 54 eligible novels, submitted by 22 different publishers and imprints, one of the highest submissions rates the Clarke award has had. The submitted novels are:
- Black Hand Gang by Pat Kelleher (Abaddon Books)
- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
- Generosity by Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
- Declare by Tim Powers (Corvus)
- Finch by Jeff VanderMeer (Corvus)
- Holy Machine by Chris Beckett (Corvus)
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Corvus)
- On the Third Day by Rhys Thomas (Doubleday)
- Salvage by Robert Edric (Doubleday)
- Bring Home the Stars by Jennifer Kirk (DS Press)
- Sylvow by Douglas Thompson (Eibonvale Press)
- Red Plenty by Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber)
- The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (Faber & Faber)
- Paradise by Glenn Myers (Fizz Books)
- A Matter of Blood by Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
- Above the Snowline by Steph Swainston (Gollancz)
- Absorption by John Meaney (Gollancz)
- Eve: The Burning Life by Hjalti Danielsson (Gollancz)
- Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn (Gollancz)
- New Model Army by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
- Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)
- The Black Lung Captain by Chris Wooding (Gollancz)
- The Dervish House by Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz)
- The Silent Land by Graham Joyce (Gollancz)
- Veteran by Gavin G Smith (Gollancz)
- Watch by Robert J Sawyer (Gollancz)
- Zendegi by Greg Egan (Gollancz)
- Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart (Granta)
- For the Win by Cory Doctorow (Harper Voyager)
- Things We Didn’t See Coming by Steve Amsterdam (Harvill Secker)
- C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)
- Feed by Mira Grant (Orbit)
- Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
- Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (Orbit)
- The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross (Orbit)
- The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod (Orbit)
- The Unit by Terry DeHart (Orbit)
- The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Orbit)
- Version 43 by Philip Palmer (Orbit)
- The Passage by Justin Cronin (Orion Books)
- Blood and Iron by Tony Ballantyne (Pan Macmillan)
- Empire of Light by Gary Gibson (Pan Macmillan)
- Kraken by China Miéville (Pan Macmillan)
- The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton (Pan Macmillan)
- The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell (Pan Macmillan)
- The Technician by Neal Asher (Pan Macmillan)
- Zero History by William Gibson (Penguin)
- Pornogram by Osric Allen (Robert Temple)
- The Meat Tree by Gwyneth Lewis (Seren)
- The Age of Zeus by James Lovegrove (Solaris)
- The Noise Within by Ian Whates (Solaris)
- Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)