Anne Charnock


Anne Charnock is an author of science fiction novels. In 2018, she won the Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction, for her novel Dreams Before the Start of Time.

Career

Charnock has a background in environmental science, journalism, and fine art, which she incorporates into her science fiction writing. She has worked as a science writer for The Guardian and New Scientist, and as a foreign correspondent.
In 2018, Charnock was a judge in the James White Award short story competition.

Publications and awards

Charnock's first novel, A Calculated Life, was originally self-published in 2013, and was later picked up by 47 North, an imprint of the Amazon company. The story follows migrant workers attempting to make a living in the UK, and is one of a quartet of short stories published by NewCon along with stories by Neil Williamson, Simon Morden and Alastair Reynolds. It was nominated for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award.
Charnock is also the author of Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind, published in 2015, the story of an Italian female artist in the 15th-century.
Her 2017 novel Dreams Before the Start of Time, is set in a future world where artificial wombs have become the primary method of reproduction and infertility has been eradicated. It won the Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction in 2018. In 2017, it was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel.
In 2017, Charnock won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction for her novella The Enclave, published by NewCon.