THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARDS
The British Science Fiction Association is delighted to announce the longlists of nominees for the BSFA Awards, for work published in 2025. The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. The awards are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association and by the members of the year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention, held since 1955. This year’s Eastercon, Iridescence will be held at the Hilton Lanyon Place and the Birmingham Metropole, from the 3rd April to 6th April 2026, where the winners will be announced.
We would be delighted if you circulated this longlist. #BSFAAwards2026
BSFA members may vote for up to four nominations in each category to proceed to the shortlists. The voting form is available here.
Voting is open to all BSFA members. You can select up to four works per category. Voting will close at 23:59 on the 19th of February.
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Best Audio Fiction
| Title | Author | Publisher | Link |
| Wasteland: A Dex Legacy Story | Emily Inkpen | Alternative Stories | |
| The Dex Legacy Series 3 | Emily Inkpen | Alternative Stories | |
| The Flash Fiction Podcast | Manawaker Studios |
https://www.manawaker.com/manawaker-studios-flash-fiction-podcast/ |
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| Five Finger Stories | Rick Danforth | Tall Tale TV | |
| Star Trek: Khan | Kirsten Beyer & David Mack | Eye Podcast Productions | |
| Burnout | Lewis Carter | Alternative Stories | |
| Just Let Me Help | Tara Campbell | Space Cowboy Books |
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spacecowboybooks/episodes/2025-08-15T05_17_36-07_00 |
| Unicorn Spotting | Rick Danforth | The Tiny Bookcase | |
| The Downloaded: Ghost in the Machine | Rob Sawyer | Independent |
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Downloaded-2-Ghosts-in-the-Machine-Audiobook/B0FNRXT971 |
| Chronicles of the Residuum: The Age of Destruction | Robert Ratcliffe | Independent |
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx5_JDL9rdKwLJTI1Aq_ojEF9FoAPLf6V&si=WC2GFOyX7FZ93X00 |
| Shakedowns in Hyperspace | Naomi Wood | BBC Radio 4 | |
| A Pixel, A Word, A Lie, A Speck of You | Hannya Kay | Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast |
https://www.manawaker.com/series/manawaker-studios-flash-fiction-podcast/page/3/ |
| Breathing Night | Laura Blackwell | Space Cowboy Books |
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spacecowboybooks/episodes/2025-10-15T00_07_26-07_00 |
| Within The Wires Season 10 | Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson | Night Vale |
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/within-the-wires/id1121391184 |
| Silent Aria | Sean MacKendrick | Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast | |
| The Rift | James Gaddas | Independent | |
| Plucking Flowers from My Garden of Poison | Renan Benardo | Space Cowboy Books |
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spacecowboybooks/episodes/2025-06-15T04_30_54-07_00 |
| Red Valley Season 4 | Jonathan Williams | Red Valley |
Best Artwork
| Title | Artist(s) | Link |
| Parting | Molly Mendoza |
https://www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flash-fiction-online-august-2025/ |
| Cover: Cage of Stars by Frasier Armitage |
Tithi Luadthong |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cage-Stars-Frasier-Armitage/dp/1919171908 |
| The Dust Library | Sylvain Sarrailh | |
| Shared Silence | Roberto Robert | |
| Highway Above the Clouds | Tiziano Zhou |
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/086/262/460/large/tiziano-zhou-.jpg?1742779956 |
| Cover: Blood of the Kami | Christian Benavides |
https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/093/109/041/large/voyager-ps-1.jpg?1761618422 |
| Cover: Dark Crescent | Jenni Coutts |
https://www.everand.com/book/838214436/Dark-Crescent-Dark-and-seasonal-tales-from-Scottish-Folklore |
| Cover: The Immeasurable Heaven | Sam Gretton | https://geni.us/immeasurables/ |
| Cover: Saint Death's Herald | Kate Forrester | |
| Mushroom Fairy | Jenni Coutts |
https://bsky.app/profile/jennicoutts.bsky.social/post/3m2vqht7cd22oo/ |
| Interior artwork for Atacama by Jendia Gammon | Jendia Gammon |
https://jendiagammon.com/2024/10/18/cover-reveal-atacama-by-jendia-gammon/ |
| Cover: The Gospel of Gollum | Jay Johnstone |
https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/the-gospel-of-gollum7D |
| Fractal Series by Allen Stroud (12 book tessellated cover) | Nick Wells |
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rDcTXddta1tQTofE6RLk4RNqelvXZvA4/view?usp=sharing |
| Cover: The Company of Birds by Nerine Dorman (February 2025 edition) | Stephen Embleton |
https://stephen.embleton.co.za/2023/01/book-cover-designs-various.html |
| Cover: Echoes and Embers |
Raul Cruz |
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| Cover: Of Shadows, Stars and Sabers | Niall C. Grant |
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-shadows-stars-and-sabers/ |
| Cover: The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon | Stephen Embleton |
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ngaphandileh-whisperer/ |
| Cover: Archipelago of the Sun | Harriett Lee Merrion | |
| Cover: Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson | Aarushi Menon | |
| Cover: Automatic Noodle | Eric Nyquist | |
| Neo Mars | Guy Warley | |
| Alone | Matt Dixon | |
| Joust |
Pascal Blanché |
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| Chronicles of the Residuum Album Cover | Igor Kieryluk | |
| Cover: Ragwort by Sam K Horton |
Veronica Park |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ragwort-Eythin-Sam-K-Horton/dp/183786585X |
| Cover: The Salt Oracle by Lorraine WIlson | Sam Gretton | |
| Cover: The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell | Sam Gretton |
https://reactormag.com/cover-reveal-the-door-on-the-sea-by-caskey-russell/ |
| Cover: The River Has Roots Amal El Mohtar | Spencer Fuller |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/River-Has-Roots-Amal-El-Mohtar/dp/1529443369 |
| Cover: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao | Regina Flath |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Moon-bestselling-romantic-adventure/dp/1804993328 |
| Cover: The Measurement Problem by David Whitmarsh | Mark Thomas | |
| Cover: Red Sword by Bora Chung | Jieun Hahm | https://dauntbooks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9781915829078.jpgs/ |
| Cover: Ice by Jacek Dukaj | Yehrin Tong | |
| Cover: The Wolf of Whindale by Jacob Kerr | ARTIST |
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81soxU75J-L._SY522_.jpgo/ |
| Cover: Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami | ARTIST | |
| Destruction of Troy | Arula Ratnakar | |
| Grasps of the Forgotten | Peter Marco |
https://willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Magazine-issue-2.jpg |
| First Light (Complete Art Book) | Alex Storer |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Light-Science-Fiction-Storer/dp/B0G4DVNV2Y |
Best Collection
(For Collections and Anthologies.)
Best Non-Fiction (Long)
| Title | Author | Publisher | Link |
| Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age | Vauhini Vara | Grove Press UK | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Searches-Vauhini-Vara/dp/1804710687 |
| Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction | Paul Kincaid | Briardene Books | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colourfields-Writing-About-Science-Fiction-ebook/dp/B0DZPBC65J/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 |
| Writing the Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction | Dan Coxon and Richard Hirst (eds) | Dead Ink | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-Magic-Crafting-Fantasy-Fiction-ebook/dp/B0FCMJHG92 |
| That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film | Payton McCarty-Simas | Luna Press Publishing | https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-Very-Witch-Feminism-American/dp/1915556600 |
| Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Colour Re-Imagine a Genre | Joy Sanchez-Taylor | Ohio State University Press | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dispelling-Fantasies-Reimagine-Sexuality-Speculative/dp/0814259499/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 |
| Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmsophy, and the Kubrickian Consciousness | D Harlan Wilson | Stalking Horse Press | https://www.amazon.com/Strangelove-Country-Filmosophy-Kubrickian-Consciousness/dp/196045109X |
| Spring, Summer, Asteroid Bird | Henry Lien | WW Norton & Co | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spring-Summer-Asteroid-Bird-Storytelling/dp/132407910X |
| The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers | Terry Bisson | PM Press | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Outspoken-Incendiary-Interviews-Radical-Speculative/dp/B0DQSGC3MW/ref=sr_1_1? |
| Castrovalva | Andrew Orton | Obverse Books | https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/77-castrovalva/ |
| Exterminate / Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who | John Higgs | W&N | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Exterminate-Regenerate-Story-Doctor-Who/dp/1399614770/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 |
| The Gospel of Gollum | Ivano Sassanelli | Luna Press Publishing | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gospel-Gollum-Ivano-Sassanelli/dp/1915556554 |
| Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age 1952-1963 | Ada Palmer | Apollo | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inventing-Renaissance-Myths-Golden-Age/dp/1035910128 |
| Fantasy: A Short History | Adam Roberts | Bloomsbury Academic | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fantasy-Short-History-Adam-Roberts/dp/1350407828/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 |
| Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era | Adam Kotsko | University of Minnesota Press | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Late-Star-Trek-Franchise-Storyworlds/dp/151791910X |
| Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature | Lesley Larkin | Ohio State University Press |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reading-Postgenomic-Age-Bionarrativity-Contemporary/dp/081425943X |
| Finding the Numinous: An Ecocritical Look at Dune and The Lord of the Rings | Willow Wilson DiPasquale | Kent State University Press |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Finding-Numinous-Ecocritical-Look-Rings/dp/1606354922 |
| Russell Hoban: Faithful to the Strange | Graeme Wend-Walker | McFarland | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hoban-Faithful-Graeme-Wend-Walker/dp/1476682828 |
| Speculation and the Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction, 1859-1914 | Kate Holterhoff | Ohio State University Pressd | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speculation-Darwinian-British-1859-1914-Victorian/dp/082142596X |
Best Novel
Best Short Fiction
(For short stories and their equivalent.)
| Title | Author | Publisher | Link |
| Firestarter | Dan Peacock | Phano | https://www.phano.com/articles/firestarter |
| Handsomest Gentlest | MR Robinson | Haven Speculative Magazine | https://www.havenspec.com/handsomest-gentlest |
| Bone-Eater Earth | Emma Burnett | Uncharted Magazine | https://www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone-eater-earth/ |
| 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days | Samantha Mills | Uncanny Magazine | https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/10-visions-of-the-future-or-self-care-for-the-end-of-days/ |
| Laser Eyes Ain't Everything | Effie Seiberg | Diabolical Plots | https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-123b-laser-eyes-aint-everything-by-effie-seiberg/ |
| The Ghost Merchant | Rick Danforth | The Colored Lens #55 | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1TV54JL/ |
| One Step at a Time | Rick Danforth | Vivid Worlds (Slab Press) | https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=wctnzjPhB9SYyPz8WkSXhVWQk3XIOahdzdC9L9U5Si4 |
| They Return | Eleanna Castroianni | Psycho Pomp | https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/issue-98/they-return/ |
| The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends | Eugenia Triantafyllou | Uncanny Magazine | https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-life-and-times-of-alavira-the-great-as-written-by-titos-pavlou-and-reviewed-by-two-lifelong-friends/ |
| Tractors in the Mist | Cecile Cristofari | Vivid Worlds (Slab Press) |
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=wctnzjPhB9SYyPz8WkSXhVWQk3XIOahdzdC9L9U5Si4 |
| 25 Peppercorns | Emma Burnett | Mythaxis | |
| Through the Machine | P. A. Cornell | Lightspeed Magazine | https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/through-the-machine/ |
| Kinje'kitile and the Jintu | Eugen Bacon | Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War Two (Blackstone Publishing) |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Combat-Monsters-Untold-Tales-World-ebook/dp/B0DDRHNHVQ |
| For A Limited Time Only | Peng Shepherd | Amazon Original Stories | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Limited-Time-Only-Travelers-Passport-ebook/dp/B0FHJ54NLL |
| Of Seagrass Fins and Slippery Fingers | A. J. Van Belle | Augur Society | https://augursociety.org/augur-issue-8-2/ |
| The Shadow Eater of Órino-Rin' | Eugen Bacon | Of Shadows Stars and Sabers (Stars and Sabers) | https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-shadows-stars-and-sabers/ |
| The Flaming Embusen | Tade Thompson | Uncanny Magazine | https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-flaming-embusen/ |
| Listen, Don't Touch | Cheryl S. Ntumy | Mythaxis | https://mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/listen-dont-touch.html |
| An Examination of the Trolley Problem Using a Sentient Warship and a Rotating Black Hole | Gareth L. Powell |
Worlds of IF Issue #178 and Who Will You Save? (Titan Books) |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Will-Save-Gareth-Powell/dp/1803368659 |
| My Vagus Proxy | Stephen Oram | Dubai Futures Forum | |
| The Hermit Crab God | ego_bot | Pseudopod (Escape Artists) | https://pseudopod.org/2025/08/29/pseudopod-991-the-hermit-crab-god/ |
| Hearts and Half-Measures | Cassiopeia Gatmaitan | Pseudopod (Escape Artists) |
https://pseudopod.org/2025/08/22/pseudopod-990-hearts-and-half-measures/ |
| The Story-Stealer’s Night | Madhu Campbell | Pseudopod (Escape Artists) | https://pseudopod.org/2025/10/17/pseudopod-998-the-story-stealers-night/ |
| Chattering Spines | Mike Wyant Jr. | Pseudopod (Escape Artists) |
https://pseudopod.org/2025/09/05/pseudopod-992-chattering-spines/ |
| Breathing Night | Laura Blackwell | Simultaneous Times #92 (Space Cowboy Books) | https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spacecowboybooks/episodes/2025-10-15T00_07_26-07_00 |
| Cold Case | SJ Groenewegen | Lethbridge Stewart The Havoc Files #6(Candy Jar Books) | |
| The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn | Louise Hughes | Kaleidotrope | https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/autumn-2025/the-nine-crashes-of-flight-lieutenant-hilla-quinn-by-louise-hughes/ |
| The Walled Garden | Fiona Moore | Clarkesworld | https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_07_25/ |
| For Tomorrow's Moon | Ana Sun | Our Dust Earth (Air and Nothingness Press) | https://www.aanpress.com/aanorder.html |
| Coriander | Ana Sun | Bright Green Futures 2024 | https://susankayequinn.com/books/coriander |
| Appendix: Witness Interviews Transcripts | Ana Sun | Fitzrovia Futures 2055 | https://fitzroviafutures.wordpress.com/the-stories |
| The History Bricks | Stephen Oram | Fitzrovia Futures 2055 | https://fitzroviafutures.wordpress.com/the-stories/#Stephen-Oram |
| AI Chronicles: Properties of a Human Curse | Eugen Bacon | You Human: Volume 2 (Written Backwards) | https://www.amazon.com/You-Human-Anthology-Science-Fiction/dp/B0F74LJCYW |
| Autogas Ferryman | Wongsatayanont | Nightmare Magazine | https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/autogas-ferryman/ |
| Missing Helen | Tia Tashiro | Clarkesworld Magazine | |
| The Twenty-One Second God | Peter Watts | Lightspeed Magazine | https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-twenty-one-second-god/ |
| Mavka | A. D. Sui | Pseudopod (Escape Artists) | |
| Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth | Kate Francia | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/holly-on-the-mantel-blood-on-the-hearth/ |
| Hope is the Thing with Circuits and Steel | Elitsa Dermendzhiyska | Flash Fiction Online | https://www.flashfictiononline.com/article/hope-is-the-thing-with-circuits-and-steel/ |
| The Last Time Gladys Howled at the Moon | Jennifer Hudak | Strange Horizons | https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-last-time-gladys-howled-at-the-moon/ |
| Ghosts of Summer | Catherine Tavares | Apex | https://inkfoundry.net/ghosts-of-summer/ |
| Blanquitos | Karlo Yeager Rodríguez. | Typebar Magazine | https://www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/ |
| Salvage | Emily Tesh | Novacon | No Link |
| The Place I Came To | Filip Drnovsek Zorko | Lightspeed Magazine | https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-place-i-came-to/ |
| The Last Lunar New Year | Derek Künsken | Clarkesworld | |
| Ancestor's Gift | Chisom Umeh | Tractor Beam Earth | |
| Divergence | David Whitmarsh | New Myths |
https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-72/issue-72-stories |
| A Vertical History of Ramis' Pilar | Henry Sanders-Wright | Translunar Travelers Lounge | |
| Asylum | David Whitmarsh | Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores |
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/science-fiction/ |
| The Lonesome Sea | Christopher Caldwell | Call and Response (Neon Hemlock) |
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| Mother Menzies' Tablet from the Afore Times | Lindz McLeod | Apex Magazine |
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/one-by-one |
| Wheat Futures | Vaughan Stanger | The Growers (New Myths) |
https://www.amazon.com/Growers-Best-New-Myths-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0F63YZMW4 |
| The Big Outside | Anne Charnock | Parsec (PS Publishing) |
https://pspublishing.co.uk/parsec-digital-magazine---issue-14-6619-p.asp |
| The Cancer Wolves | Fiona Moore | Clarkesworld Magazine | |
| King of the Castle | Fiona Moore | Clarkesworld Magazine | https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_02_25/ |
| On the Water its Crystal Teeth | Marissa Lingen | Uncanny Magazine |
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/on-the-water-its-crystal-teeth/ |
| Song of Water | Anna Madden | Abyss and Apex | |
| The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet | Carolyn Zhao | Strange Horizons | |
| The Last Projectionist | Ajay Patri | Between Worlds - The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Between-Worlds-Anthology-New-Indian/dp/9371976543 |
| Tomorrow's Ancestors | Srividya | Between Worlds - The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF |
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Between-Worlds-Anthology-New-Indian/dp/9371976543 |
| Wider Than The Sky, Deeper Than The Sea | Rebecca Campbell | The Other Shore (Stelliform Press) | https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/the-other-shore-by-rebecca-campbell/ |
| For the Rectitude of our Intentions | Stephen Kotowych | Candle of Fools | https://calendaroffools.com/stories/for-the-rectitude-of-our-intentions-stephen-kotowych/ |
| On the Birthday of a Princess | Jendia Gammon | Tales of Sley House Anthology 2025 | https://www.sleyhouse.com/product-page/tales-of-sley-house-2025 |
| Fen's Sutton | Emma Coleman | Hiding Under the Leaves (Slab Press) | https://theslab.press/2025/06/20/who-is-hiding-under-the-leaves/ |
| The Tiddymun | Kev Rooney | Hiding Under the Leaves (Slab Press) | https://theslab.press/2025/06/20/who-is-hiding-under-the-leaves/ |
| Let Sleeping Hyenas Lie | Rutendo Chidzodzo | Strange Horizons | https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/let-sleeping-hyenas-lie/ |
| Barbershops of the Floating City | Angela Liu | Uncanny Magazine |
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barbershops-of-the-floating-city/ |
| Dead Dog Mans The Lighthouse | Max Franciscovich | Strange Horizons | https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/dead-dog-mans-the-lighthouse/ |
| Because I Held His Name Like a Key | Aimee Ogden | Strange Horizons |
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/because-i-held-his-name-like-a-key/ |
| The Hunting of the Phoenix | S. L. Harris | Kaleidotrope | https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/autumn-2025/the-hunting-of-the-phoenix-by-s-l-harris/ |
| In the Shells of Broken Things | A. T. Greenblatt | Clarkesworld | |
| Imperfect Simulations | Michelle Z Jin | Clarkesworld | |
| Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike | EM Faulds | Podcastle (Escape Artists) | https://podcastle.org/2025/07/29/podcastle-902-godzilla-as-a-young-man-named-mike/ |
Best Short Non Fiction
(For short articles and their equivalent.)
| Title | Author | Publisher | Link |
| Comparing Colonialisms in Dan Simmons The Terror and its AMC Adaptation | Fiona Moore | Foundation | |
| Review of When There Are Wolves Again | Paul March Russell | Strange Horizons |
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/when-there-are-wolves-again-by-e-j-swift/ |
| Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other | Eugen Bacon | Strange Horizons | |
| Should Galadriel Have Taken the Ring? | Nick Hubble | Speculative Insight | |
| The Dublin Portal... Or the Dublin Intrusion? | Val Nolan | Speculative Insight | |
| What Lies and Threats? History and Nationalist Myth-Making in The Lord of the Rings | Abby Roberts | Speculative Insight | https://www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-lies-and-threats |
| Science Fiction, and the Problem(atic) of Seriousness | Ciarán Kavanagh | Extrapolation, Volume 66, No.1 | https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2025.2/ |
| When People Giggle at Your Name, Or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident | Grigory Lukin | Blog Article | https://grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/when-people-giggle-at-your-name-or-the-2025-hugo-awards-incident/ |
| These Marbles Were Never White | Danai Christopoulou | khōréō | https://www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/these-marbles-were-never-white/ |
| How Solarpunk Can Help Us Rewild Our Lives | Ana Sun and Susan Kaye Quinn | Ecological Citizen, Volume 8, No.2 | https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-139.pdf |
| Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Facism | Zachary Gillan | Ancillary Review of Books |
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/reading-weird-fiction-in-an-age-of-fascism/ |
| Snap! Criticism (Essay Series) | Dan Hartland | Ancillary Review of Books |
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/category/series/snap-criticism/ |
| Decadent Echoes: Arthur Machen, M. John Harrison, K.J. Bishop and the Ends of Mystery | Matthew Chaney | Humanities, Volume 14, No.8 | https://doi.org/10.3390/h14080169/ |
| Review: House of Open Wounds, Days of Shattered Faith, Lives of Bitter Rain By Adrian Tchaikovsky | Abigail Nussbaum | Asking the Wrong Questions |
https://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/house-of-open-wounds-days-of-shattered.html |
| The Legacy of Discworld | Rick Danforth | The British Fantasy Society | |
| With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic | Jenny Hamilton | Reactor Magazine | https://reactormag.com/with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off-the-problem-with-trad-pub-fanfic/ |
| Snap! Criticism: Tchaikovsky and Mangham | Dan Hartland | Ancillary Review of Books | https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/02/19/snap-criticism-tchaikovsky-mangham/ |
| Snap! Criticism: Roberts and Pheby122 | Dan Hartland | Ancilliary Review of Books | https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/13/snap-criticism-roberts-and-pheby/ |
| Decoding Animal (and Alien?) Language | Gunnar De Winter | Clarkesworld | https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/dewinter_12_25/ |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Yen Ooi | Imaginary Papers 23 (Newsletter) | https://mailchi.mp/asu.edu/imaginarypapers23-aug2025 |
| Discussing the Female Man | Farah Mendlesohn, Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane and Rebecca Fraimow | (Hogmanay SF Book Club 2025) | No Link |
| My Open Letter to that Open Letter About AI in Writing and Publishing | Chuck Wendig | Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds | https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/12/28/my-open-letter-to-that-open-letter-about-ai-in-writing-and-publishing/ |
| Snap! Criticism: Sanchez-Taylor and Onyebuchi | Dan Hartland | Ancillary Review of Books | https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/12/snap-criticism-sanchez-taylor-and-onyebuchi/ |
| A Path Through the Landscape: My Own Route Through Science Fiction | Roseanna Pendlebury | A Reader of Else | https://readerofelse.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/a-path-through-the-landscape-my-own-route-through-science-fiction/ |
| Neither Girls Nor Friends: the Artificial Women in American Science Fiction | William Shaw | Strange Horizons | https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/neither-girls-nor-friends-the-artificial-woman-in-american-science-fiction/ |
| Collective Dreaming: The Schrodinger's Cat Approach to Framing Futures | Jacqueline Nyathi | Strange Horizons | https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/collective-dreaming-the-schrodingers-cat-approach-to-framing-futures/ |
| The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI | Cory Doctorow | Medium | https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-05-pop-that-bubble-u-washington-8b6b75abc28e |
| Snap! Criticism: Okorafor and Phillips | Dan Hartland | Ancillary Review of Books | https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/06/04/snap-criticism-okorafor-and-phillips/ |
Best Shorter Fiction
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Best Fiction for Younger Readers
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