This page provides information about all the nominations received for the BSFA awards to be presented at Easter 2008. The shortlists announced for these awards can be found here.
Nominations for best novel of 2007
Nominations for best short fiction of 2007
- ‘A Hint of Mystery’ – Ian Whates (The Hub #4)
- ‘Ack-Ack Macaque’ – Gareth Lyn Powell (Interzone #212)
- ‘Always’ – Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov’s #375-#376)
- ‘Art Attack’ – Mark Harding (The Future Fire #9)
- ‘Babel 3000’ – Colin P Davies (Asimov’s, March)
- ‘Berian Winslow and the Stream of Consciousness Storyteller’ – anon (Zencore!)
- ‘Blue Raspberries’ – Kek-W (Zencore!)
- ‘Bossanova’ – Steve Aylett (Postscripts #11)
- ‘Burying the Carnival’ – Simon Avery (Black Static #1)
- ‘Cages’ – Ian Watson (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed. George Mann)
- ‘Dark Integers’ – Greg Egan (Asimov’s, October/November)
- ‘Dead Horse Point’ – Daryl Gregory (Asimov’s, August)
- ‘Dead Money’ – Lucius Shepard (Asimov’s #375-#376)
- ‘Deadnauts’ – Ted Kosmatka (Ideomancer, vol 6 issue 3)
- ‘Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind’ – Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean, Summer)
- ‘Duck and Cover’ – William Earl McGee Jr (The Harrow, vol 10 number 10)
- ‘Exvisible’ – Carlos Hernandez (Interzone #211)
- ‘Fantastic Glasgow’ – Ian Hunter (Ludovic Press)
- ‘Fifth Day’ – Jack McDevitt (Asimov’s #375-#376)
- ‘Impasse’ – Andy West (disLocations, ed. Ian Whates; Newcon Press)
- ‘Finisterra’ – David Moles (F&SF, December)
- ‘For Solo Cello, op.12’ – Mary Robinette Kowal (Cosmos Magazine #13)
- ‘Grey Matter’ – Shaun C Green (Nostalgia for Infinity, 7 September)
- ‘Hormiga Canyon’ – Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling (Asimov’s, August)
- ‘Islington Crocodiles’ – Paul Meloy (Interzone #208)
- ‘Knowledge’ – Grace Dugan (Interzone #211)
- ‘Light’ – Kelly Link (Tin House #34)
- ‘Lighting Out’ – Ken MacLeod (disLocations)
- ‘Induction’ – Greg Egan (Foundation #100, ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Graham Sleight; Science Fiction Foundation)
- ‘Fantastic Glasgow’ – Ian Hunter (Ludovic Press)
- ‘Memorare’ – Gene Wolfe (F&SF, April)
- ‘Metal Dragon Year’ – Chris Roberson (Interzone #213)
- ‘Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results’ – John Scalzi (Subterranean Press Magazine, winter)
- ‘Of Love and Other Monsters’ – Vandana Singh (Aqueduct Press)
- ‘One Night in London’ – Ian Whates (Fusion Fragment #2)
- ‘One One Three’ – Michael Marshall Smith (Postscripts #10)
- ‘Osama Phone Home’ – David Marusek (MIT Technology Review, March/April)
- ‘Passing the Test’ – Anna Feruglio Dal Dan (Farthing #5)
- ‘Reflecting Glory’ – Margo Lanagan (Foundation #100)
- ‘Roxie’ – Robert Reed (Asimov’s, July)
- ‘Sea Change’ – Una McCormack (Foundation #100)
- ‘Softly Shining in the Forbidden Dark’ – Jason Stoddard (Interzone #208)
- ‘Stars Seen Through Stone’ – Lucius Shepard (F&SF, July)
- ‘Starship Summer’ – Eric Brown (PS Publishing)
- ‘State of Grace’ – David Barnett (Postscripts #11)
- ‘Sulphuric Acid’ – Amelie Nothomb (Faber)
- ‘Tales from the Big Dark: Among Strangers’ – Pat Cadigan (disLocations)
- ‘Tearing Down Tuesday’ – Stephen Francis Murphy (Interzone #210)
- ‘Tears for Godzilla’ – Daniel Kaysen (Interzone #209)
- ‘Terminal’ – Chaz Brenchley (disLocations)
- ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate’ – Ted Chiang (F&SF, September)
- ‘The Barn at the End of Our Term’ – Karen Russell (The Best of Young American Novelists 2, ed. Ian Jack; Granta)
- ‘The Beacon’ – Darja Malcolm-Clarke (Clarkesworld)
- ‘The Flag Game’ – Marianne De Pierres (Hub #34)
- ‘The Fox and the Foreigner’ – Loren Rhoads (Not One of Us #38)
- ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ – Jay Caselberg (Electric Velocipede #12)
- ‘The Gift of Joy’ – Ian Whates (TQR)
- ‘The Good Detective’ – M John Harrison (Interzone #209)
- ‘The Hide’ – Liz Williams (Strange Horizons, 7 May)
- ‘The Locum, Yellow Rose’ – Chris Bell (Not One of Us #37)
- ‘The Lost Xuyan Bride’ – Aliette de Bodard (Interzone #213)
- ‘The Master Miller’s Tale’ – Ian R MacLeod (F&SF, May)
- ‘The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter’ – Alastair Reynolds (Interzone #209)
- ‘The Star Necromances’ – Alexander Marsh Freed (Interzone #208)
- ‘The Sum of His Parts’ – Kevin J Anderson (Apex #9)
- ‘The Tamarisk Hunter’ – Paolo Bacigalupi (F&SF, May)
- ‘The Tree and the Switch’ – Barry J House (Black Petals #38)
- ‘The Turn’ – Chris Butler (Asimov’s, October/November)
- ‘The Whenever at the City’s Heart’ – Hal Duncan (Interzone #209)
- ‘Three Days of Rain’ – Holly Phillips (Asimov’s, June)
- ‘Toys’ – Dev Agarwal (Aeon #12)
- ‘White Plate Red Lobster’ – Mark Harding (Whispers of Wickedness)
- ‘Winter’ – Jamie Barras (Interzone #209)
Nominations for best artwork of 2007
- ‘Attack of the Toyceivers/Nurse Melt’ – Vincent Chong (Interzone #208 – illustration for ‘Islington Crocodiles’ by Paul Meloy)
- Cover of Black Static #1 – David Gentry
- Cover of Black Static #2 – David Gentry
- Cover of Brasyl – Stephan Martinière (novel by Ian McDonald; Pyr edition)
- Cover of Clarkesworld #5 – Tomasz Maronski
- Cover of Clarkesworld #8 – Serj Iulian
- Cover of Dark Benediction – Dominic Harman (novel by Walter M Miller; Gollancz SF Masterworks edition)
- ‘Cracked World’ – Andy Bigwood (cover of disLocations, ed. Ian Whates; Newcon Press)
- ‘Dada Jihad’ – Chris Nurse (Interzone #212)
- Cover of Dark Space (novel by Marianne De Pierres; Orbit edition)
- Cover of Fairyland (novel by Paul McAuley; Gollancz Future Classics edition)
- ‘Finisterra’ – Cory & Katscha Ench (cover of F&SF, December)
- ‘H P Lovecraft in Britain’ – Les Edwards (cover of chapbook by Stephen Jones, published by the British Fantasy Society)
- Cover of Holland SF #231 – Tais Teng
- Cover of In War Times (novel by Kathleen Ann Goonan; Tor (US) edition)
- Cover of Interfictions – Connie Toebe (anthology ed. Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss; Small Beer Press)
- ‘It Will Never Fly Again’ – Alexander Kruglov (cover of Albedo One #32)
- Cover of Kop – Stephen McGrath (novel by Warren Hammond; Tor)
- Cover of Light – Dominic Harman (novel by M John Harrison; 2007 Gollancz edition)
- ‘Looking In, Looking Out’ – Martin Deep (Murky Depths #1)
- ‘Lunar Flare’ – Richard Marchand (cover of Interzone #211)
- ‘Transcendance Express’ – Vincent Chong (cover of Hub #2)
- Cover of Mainspring – Stephan Martinière (novel by Jay Lake; Tor)
- >‘Metal Dragon Year’ – Kenn Brown (cover of Interzone #213)
- Cover of Old Man’s War – Vincent Chong (novel by John Scalzi; Subterranean Press edition)
- Cover of Postscripts #12 – Ben Baldwin
- Cover of Slan Hunter – Bruce Jensen (novel by A E Van Vogt & Kevin J Anderson; Tor)
- ‘Softly Shining in the Forbidden Dark’ – Kenn Brown (cover of Interzone #208)
- ‘Sphaira’ – Jim Burns (cover of Interzone #209)
- Cover of Splinter (novel by Adam Roberts; Solaris)
Nominations for best non-fiction of 2007
- Review of Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories by Samuel R Delany – Graham Sleight (Strange Horizons, 18 December)
- Brave New Worlds – ed. Jeff Prucher (Oxford University Press)
- ‘Cyberpunk and the New Wave: Ruptures and Continuities’ – Rob Latham (New York Review of SF #226)
- ‘Fantastika in the World Storm’ – John Clute (lecture, 20 September)
- Gateways to Forever: the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1970 to 1980 – Mike Ashley (Liverpool University Press)
- ‘Night’s Plutonium Shore’ – Mike O’Driscoll (Black Static #1)
- ‘Staring Down the Witches’ – Andrew Hedgecock (Interzone #211)
- The Art of Bryan Talbot – Bryan Talbot (NBM)
- The Country You Have Never Seen – Joanna Russ (Liverpool University Press)
- The Naked Artist, and Other Comic Book Legends – Bryan Talbot (Moonstone)
- The Target Book: a history of the Target Doctor Who books – David J Howe (Telos)
- Thrill-Power Overload: 2000 AD – David Bishop (Rebellion)
Nominations for best novel of 1958 (BSFA fiftieth anniversary award)
- A Bicycle Built for Brew – Poul Anderson (Astounding, November & December)
- A Case of Conscience – James Blish (Ballantine)
- Close to Critical – Hal Clement (Astounding, May – July)
- Have Spacesuit, Will Travel – Robert A Heinlein (F&SF, August – October)
- Non-Stop – Brian Aldiss (Faber)
- Peril on Mars – Patrick Moore (Burke)
- Slaves of the Klau – Jack Vance (Ace)
- Star Gate – Andre Norton (Harcourt)
- The Big Time – Fritz Leiber (Galaxy, March & April)
- The Languages of Pao – Jack Vance (Ace)
- The Lincoln Hunters – Wilson Tucker (Rinehart)
- The Time Garden – Edward Eager
- The Tower of Zanid – L Sprague de Camp (Science Fiction Stories)
- The Triumph of Time – James Blish (Avon)
- Threshold of Eternity – John Brunner (New Worlds, December 1957 – February)
- Who? – Algis Budrys (Pyramid)
- Wisdom of the Gods – Kenneth Bulmer (Nebula #32-35, July – October)
A longer list of the novels first published in 1958 can be found here.