Thanks to everyone who has sent in more nominations for the BSFA Awards – just a week remains to tell us about what works have been just your cup of tea in 2013.
A word about eligibility: we appreciate that when faced with a collection of art published together, it is difficult to pick out individual pieces. They’re all so good, you tell us. Fantastic… but please try to pick which piece(s) you think is (are) the best. I know, I know…
Plenty of links to follow in the items nominated so far, so fill your boots. Please keep them coming in… and today we are especially appealing for your favourite non-fiction works. Thanks everybody!
| Best Novel | ||
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| 2121: A Tale from the Next Century | Susan Greenfield | Head of Zeus |
| A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | Canongate Books Ltd |
| Abaddon’s Gate | James S A Corey | Orbit |
| Ack-Ack Macaque | Gareth L Powell | Solaris |
| Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | Orbit |
| Arena Mode | Blake Northcott | Amazon media |
| Between Two Thorns | Emma Newman | Angry Robot |
| Doctor Sleep | Stephen King | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Evening’s Empires | Paul Macauley | Gollancz |
| Familiar | J. Robert Lennon | Serpent’s Tail |
| Gemsigns | Stephanie Saulter | Jo Fletcher Books |
| Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl | David Barnett | Snowbooks Ltd |
| God’s War | Kameron Hurley | Del Rey |
| I, Phone | David Wake | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| iD | Madeline Ashby | Angry Robot |
| Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | Doubleday |
| Marauder | Gary Gibson | Tor |
| More Than This | Patrick Ness | Walker |
| Necessary Evil | Ian Tregillis | Tor Books |
| Night Film | Marisha Pessl | Windmill Books |
| On the Steel Breeze | Alastair Reynolds | Gollancz |
| Osiris: The Osiris Project | E. J. Swift | Del Rey |
| Paradox | Patti Roberts | Createspace Independent Publishing |
| Quantum Drop | Saci Lloyd | Hodder |
| Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett | Doubleday |
| Red Doc | Anne Carson | Jonathon Cape |
| Secret Cargo | Charles Christian | UrbanFantasist.com |
| Sensation: a superhero novel | Kevin Hardman | I&H Recherche Publishing |
| Shackleton’s Man Goes South | Tony White | Science Museum |
| Shopocalypse | David Gullen | Monico |
| The Adjacent | Christopher Priest | Gollancz |
| The Age Atomic | Adam Christopher | Angry Robot |
| The Disappearances | Gemma Malley | Hodder |
| The Disestablishment of Paradise | Philip Mann | Gollancz |
| The Eidolon | Libby McGugan | Solaris |
| The Folded Man | Matt Hill | Sandstone Press Ltd |
| The Glass Republic | Tom Pollock | Jo Fletcher Books |
| The History of the Future in 100 Objects | Adrian Hon | Skyhook |
| The Lives of Tao | Wesley Chu | Angry Robot |
| The Long War | Pratchett and Baxter | Doubleday |
| The Machine | James Smythe | Blue Door |
| The Mad Scientist’s Daughter | Cassandra Rose Clark | Angry Robot |
| The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | Headline |
| The Serene Invasion | Eric Brown | Solaris |
| The Shining Girls | Lauren Beukes | Harper |
| The Vengeance Path | Andrew Jamieson | Amazon media |
| The Violent Century | Lavie Tidhar | Hodder & Stoughton |
| The Water Sign | C.S. Samulski | Booktrope Editions |
| Warmaster’s Gate | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Tor UK |
| What Lot’s Wife Saw | Ioanna Bourazopoulou | Black & White Publishing |
| Wolfhound Century | Peter Higgins | Gollancz |
| Best Short Fiction | ||
| Title | Author | Place of Publication |
| A Bridge of Words | Dinesh Rao | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
| A Heap of Broken Images | Sunny Moraine | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
| A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill | Elizabeth Knox | Tor.com |
| Black Shuck | Henry Gee | Looking Landwards, Newcon Press |
| Build Guide | Helen Jackson | Interzone 244 |
| Cave & Julia | M. John Harrison | Kindle |
| Charlie’s Ant | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Looking Landwards, Newcon Press |
| Distant Like the Stars | Leah Cypress | Asimov’s April/May |
| Droplet | Rahul Kanakia | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
| Entangled | Ian R. Macleod | Asimov’s |
| Enyo-Enyo | Kameron Hurley | The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium |
| Fade Out | Gavin Salisbury | Pendragon Press |
| Feast and Famine | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Solaris Rising 2, Solaris |
| Free Fall | Graham Templeton | Clarkesworld |
| Getting Out of There | M. John Harrison | Nightjar Press |
| Golden Apple | Sophia McDougall | The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium |
| Henchman 1 | Jamison Raymond | Henchman Comics |
| Hypervigilant | Eric del Caro | Unknown |
| In Metal, In Bone | An Owomoyela | Eclipse Online |
| In Time for Christmas | Fred Strange | Diesel E Books |
| Leaving Megalopolis | Gail Simone | self-published |
| March of the Undead | Andrew Webber | andrewwebber.net |
| Memory Palace | Hari Kunzru | V&A |
| Nunslinger | Stark Holborn | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Old Domes | J. Y. Yang | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
| Out in the Dark | Linda Nagata | Analog, June 2013 |
| Pam | Peter C Loftus | Jupiter SF Magazine issue 41 |
| Saga’s Children | E. J. Swift | The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium |
| Selkie Stories are for Losers | Sofia Samatar | Strange Horizons |
| Sing | Karen Tidbeck | Tor.com |
| Spin | Nina Allan | TTA Press |
| Such & Such Said to So & So | Maria Dahvana Headley | Glitter & Mayhem |
| The 9th Technique | China Mieville | The Apology Chapbook |
| The Electric Spanking of the War Babies | Maurice Broaddus & Kyle S. Johnson | Glitter & Mayhem |
| The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself | Ian Sales | Whippleshield Books |
| The First Dance | Martin McGrath | Solaris Rising 2, Solaris |
| The Ink Readers of Doi Saket | Thomas Olde Heuvelt | Tor.com |
| The Landline | Bruce Sterling | Omnireboot.com |
| The Skull | Lucius Shepard | Gollancz |
| The Taking of the Stamp | Hal Duncan | La Case |
| The Truth of Fact the Truth of Feeling | Ted Chiang | Subterranean Magazine |
| Them Shios | Silvio Moreno-Garcia | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
| Three Memories of Death | Will Hill | The Book of the Dead, Jurassic London |
| Vector | Benjanun Sriduangkaew | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
| Waiting for Medusa | Jack Dann | Asimov’s, Octo/Novr 2013 |
| Water | Rames Naam | Institute for the Future |
| You Have to Follow the Rules | Ada Hoffmann | Strange Horizons |
| Zero Hours | Tim Maughan | Futures Exchange |
| Best Artwork | ||
| Artist | Work | Publisher/Source |
| Andy Bigwood | cover of Aria: Returning Left Luggage, by Geoff Nelder | LL-Publications |
| Anja Uhrin | Zarin der Vampir by Tatana Fedorovna, front cover | Createspace Independent Publishing |
| Ben Baldwin | Cover of Bite by Gardner Goldsmith | Pendragon Press |
| Daniele Serra | cover of Open Waters by Davbid Gullen | theEXAGGERATEDpress |
| Dominic Harman | cover of Phoenicia’s Worlds by Ben Jeapes | Solaris |
| Euclase | Red 5 | DeviantArt |
| Galen Dara | Storytellers | Fireside Magazine |
| J.H.Williams III | Cover of The Sandman Overture no1 by Neil Gaiman | Vertigo Comics |
| J.H.Williams III | Cover of The Sandman Overture no1 | Vertigo Comics |
| Finn Dean | Cover of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World | Folio Society |
| Jeremy Zerfoss | Cover of Wonderbook: the Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff Vandermeer | Abrams Image |
| Jim Calfiore | Leaving Megalopolis | self-published |
| Joey Hi-Fi | Cover of Dream London by Tony Ballantyne | Solaris |
| Joey Hi-Fi | Cover of Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human | Century |
| Joey Hi-Fi | Cover of The Lowest Heaven | Jurassic |
| Kevin Tong | Poster for Metropolis | |
| Michael J. Windsor | cover of Maddadam by Margaret Attwood | Bloomsbury |
| Paul Kidby | Cover of Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett | Doubleday |
| Phillipa Rice | My Cardboard Life | Web series |
| Pickwick | The Hodderscape Dodo | Hodderscape.com |
| Richard Wagner | The Angel at the Heart of the Rain | Interzone 246 |
| Rob Davis | Don Quixote – Cervantes/Davis | Selfmadehero |
| Todd Lockwood | Cover of a Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan | Tor |
| Will Staehle | Cover of The Age Atomic by Christopher Adam | Angry Robot |
| Ykuko Shimizu | Cover for the Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M Valente | Haikasoru/VIZ Media |
| James Boswell | He Pressed on Through the Darkness Alone, Like a Blind Fish in an Endless Forgotten Sea, cover to J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World | Folio Society |
| Best Non-Fiction | ||
| Title | Author | Place of Publication |
| Adventures in Space and Time | Mark Gatiss | BBC |
| An Introduction in Three Parts (intro to VURT 20th anniversary edition) | Lauren Beukes | Tor UK |
| An Introduction in Three Parts (intro to VURT 20th anniversary edition) | Lauren Beukes | Tor UK |
| Ballardian | Simon Sellars | Ballardian |
| British Genre Fiction Focus | Niall Alexander | Tor.com |
| Fantasy Faction | Mark Alpin | Fantasy Faction |
| Going Forth by Night | John J. Johnston | Unearthed (Jurassic) |
| Going Forth by Night | John J. Johnston | Unearthed (Jurassic) |
| Intro to J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World | Will Self | Folio Society |
| Queers Dig Time Lords | Sigrud Ellis and Michael Damien Thomas (eds) | Mad Norwegian Press |
| Science Fiction Film | Mark Bould | Routledge |
| Secret Identity 563 | Brian & Matt | www.secretidentitypodcast.com |
| Sleeps with Monsters | Liz Bourke | Tor.com |
| Story Behind the Book vol 1. | Upcoming4.me | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Tea and Jeapardy Podcast | Emma Newman | www.geekplanetonline.com |
| The Coode Street Podcast | Wolfe & Strahan | The Coode Street Podcast |
| The Gemmell Award Shortlist | Jared Shurin | Pornokitsch |
| The Kick-Ass Writer | Chuck Wendig | Writer’s Digest Books |
| The Retro Critic | Adam Ezragouri | The Retro Critic |
| Verity! A Podcast | Various | Verity! A Podcast |
| Wonderbook | Jeff VanderMeer | Abrams Image |
| Writing the Science Fiction Film | Robert Grant | Michael Wiese Productions |
