Anne Charnock

Anne Charnock is a British author of speculative fiction who won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Dreams Before the Start of Time (2018), a near-future novel exploring how reproductive technology will change family structures and human relationships across multiple generations. Charnock originally trained as a journalist and worked as an artist before turning to fiction. Her debut novel A Calculated Life won the BSFA Award for Best Novel. Dreams Before the Start of Time, her follow-up, traces several family lines across the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries as artificial wombs become available to all. She has also written Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind and The Enclave. Charnock is based in Manchester, England.