Winner
Deep Wheel Orcadia
Arthur C. Clarke Award · 2022 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur C. Clarke Award | 2022 | Winner |
About This Book
Written entirely in Orkney Scots dialect, this novel-in-verse follows a young woman who returns to a future space station community—a fragile, isolated place facing hard choices about survival, identity, and belonging.
About the Author
Harry Josephine Giles is a Scottish poet, performer, and author who won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Deep Wheel Orcadia (2022), a novel written entirely in Orkney Scots dialect—a remarkable and unprecedented achievement for a Clarke winner. The novel is set in a future space station community and explores questions of migration, belonging, and indigenous identity. Read more →
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