Calling all BSFA members – we STILL need your nominations!
Members have until 11th January to get their nominations in and can find all the rules and regulations of what to do here.
If you have a list, you may prefer to email me at awards@bsfa.co.uk rather than use the form. I don’t mind!
Many of the nominations are viewable online and links are provided – why not have a peek?
Also, just because you see something on the list, don’t assume it has a shortlist number of nominations behind it. It’s on the list if it got at least one nomination – and some of them do have just the one nomination.
Thank you to those who noticed the artwork hyperlinks had got a little mixed up – it should all be sorted now, but if you do spot any anomalies I’ll sort them out as quickly as possible.
Best Novel
Title | Author surname | Author First Name | Publisher |
Red Country | Abercrombie | Joe | Gollancz |
The Drowned Cities | Bacigalupi | Paulo | Atom |
The Hydrogen Sonata | Banks | Iain M. | Orbit |
Elves: Rise of the TaiGethen | Barclay; Rapoza | James; David | Gollancz |
Nod | Barnes | Adrian | Bluemoose Books |
The Teleportation Accident | Beauman | Ned | Sceptre |
Dark Eden | Beckett | Chris | Corvus |
Alt.Human | Brooke | Keith | Solaris |
Helix Wars | Brown | Eric | Rebellion |
Folly of the World | Bullington | Jesse | Orbit |
London Falling | Cornell | Paul | Tor |
The Outcast Blade | Courtenay Grimwood | Jon | Orbit |
The Eternal Flame: Orthogonal Book Two | Egan | Greg | Gollancz |
The Sigil Trilogy | Gee | Henry | ReAnimus Press |
The Ward | Grey | S. L. | Atlantic Books |
Empty Space: a Haunting | Harrison | M. John | Gollancz |
The Troupe | Jackson Burnett | Robert | Orbit |
The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857-1879) | Karlinsky | Harry | The Friday Project |
The Wind Through the Keyhole | King | Stephen | Hodder & Stoughton |
Redemption in Indigo | Lord | Karen | Jo Fletcher Books |
Age of Aztec | Lovegrove | James | Rebellion |
In the Mouth of the Whale | Macauley | Paul | Gollancz |
Intrusion | Macleod | Ken | Orbit |
Defiant Peaks (The Hadrumal Crisis) | McKenna | Juliet E. | Solaris |
Transmission | Meaney | John | Orion |
Railsea | Mieville | China | Macmillan |
The Broken Isles (Legends of the Red Sun 4) | Newton | Mark Charan | Tor |
Channelskin | Noon | Jeff | Amazon Media |
The Long Earth | Pratchett; Baxter | Terry; Stephen | Doubleday |
Blue Remembered Earth | Reynolds | Alastair | Gollancz |
Jack Glass | Roberts | Adam | Gollancz |
Red Shirts | Scalzi | John | Gollancz |
The Explorer | Smythe | James | Harper Voyager |
2312 | Stanley-Robinson | Kim | Orbit |
Grandville, Bete Noir | Talbot | Bryan | Jonathan Cape |
Entanglement | Thompson | Douglas | Elsewhen Press |
Bitter Seeds (The Milkweed Triptych) | Tregellis | Ian | Orbit |
Alif the Unseen | Willow Wilson | G. | Corvus |
Best Short Fiction
Title | Author surname | Author First Name | Publication | Publisher |
The Green | Beukes | Lauren | Armored | Baen Press |
One Way Ticket | Brown | Nigel | Interzone #239 | TTA Press |
The Flight of the Ravens | Butler | Chris | Immersion Press | |
The Girl Who Went Out For Sushi | Cadigan | Pat | Edge of Infinity | Solaris |
Conquistadors | Cairns | Iain | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
One Day in Time City | Cleary | David Ira | Interzone #241 | TTA Press |
Fata Morgana | Cluley | Ray | Interzone #238 | TTA Press |
On 20268 Petercook | Cook | Andy | Tor.com April | Tor.com |
Forests of Eden | Counihan | Elizabeth | PS | |
Immersion | de Bodard | Aliette | Clarkesworld #69 | Clarkesworld |
Ship’s Brother | de Bodard | Aliette | Interzone #241 | TTA Press |
Let’s All sing Like the Birdies Sing | Di Filippo | Paul | Daily Science Fiction | |
Black Box | Egan | Jennifer | The New Yorker | |
Dancing on the Red Planet | Ellingsen | Berit | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
The Grinnell Method | Gloss | Molly | Strange Horizons | |
The Lonely Hunter | Grant | John | PS Publishing | |
Attenuation | Harkaway | Nick | 1.2 | Arc Magazine |
Switchgirls | Hershman | Tania | Still: Short Stories Inspired by Photographs of Vacated Spaces | Negative Press |
Shuffle | Hill | Will | Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric & Arcane | Solaris |
A Hundred Ghost Parade Tonight | Jia | Xia | Clarkesworld #65 | Clarkesworld |
Not Because They are Easy | Kepfield | Sam S | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
The Battle of Candle Arc | Lee | Yoon Ha | Clarkesworld #73 | Clarkesworld |
Mono No Aware | Liu | Ken | The Future is Japanese | Haikasoru |
Song of the Body Cartographer | Loenen-Ruiz | Rochita | Philippines Genre Stories, June | Philippines Genre Stories |
Limited Edition | Maughan | Tim | 1.3 | Arc Magazine |
Pathfinder | McGrath | Martin | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
Three Moments of an Explosion | Mieville | China | Rejectamentalist Manifesto | |
Eyepennies | O’Driscoll | Mike | TTA Press | |
Proposition 23 | Okogu | Efe | AfroSF | StoryTime |
A Biosphere Ends | Palmer | Stephen | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
Ghost in the Machine | Parvin | Christopher | Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology vol. 5 | Bristol Review of Books |
The Tomb | Quifan | Chen | The Apex Book of World SF | Apex Publications |
Twember | Rasnic Tem | Steve | Interzone #243 | TTA Press |
Trauma Pod | Reynolds | Alaister | Armored | Baen Press |
Lune and the Red Empress | Reynolds, Williams | Alastair, Liz | ODYSSEY 2010 SOUVENIR BOOK | |
How We Ran the Night | Ridgway | Keith | Hawthorn and Child | Granta Books |
What did Tessimond Tell You | Roberts | Adam | Solaris Rising 1.5 | Solaris |
The Kendal Iconoclasm | Rooney | Paul | Dust and Other Stories | Akerman Daly / Aye-Aye Books |
Red at The End of the World | Rucker | Lynda E | Daily Science Fiction | |
Where the Summer Dwells | Rucker | Lynda E | Fantasy & Science Fiction Sep/Oct 2012 | F&SF |
Adrift on the Sea of Rains | Sales | Ian | Whippleshield Books | |
Courtship in the Country of Machine Gods | Sriduangkaew | Benjanun | Future Fire 24 | Future Fire |
The Complex | Swift | E. J. | Interzone #238 | TTA Press |
A Spotted Trouble at Dolor-on-the-Downs | Tanzer | Molly | A Pretty Mouth | Lazy Fascist Press |
Volwys | Thompson | Douglas | Albedo One | |
A Lexicon of Steam Literature of the Third Reich | Tidhar | Lavie | website | |
Choosing Faces | Tidhar | Lavie | 1.3 | Arc Magazine |
The Indignity of Rain | Tidhar | Lavie | Interzone #240 | TTA Press |
I Dream of Ants | Tidhar | Lavie | Murky Depths | |
The Lord of Discarded Things | Tidhar | Lavie | Strange Horizons | |
Tiger Stripes | Vo | Nghi | Strange Horizons | |
The History Thief | Warren | Kaaron | Visions Fading Fast | Pendragon |
Countless Stones | Wood | Lucy | Diving Belles | Bloomsbury |
Best Artwork
Title | Artist surname | ArtistFirst Name | Publication | Publisher | Associated writer |
cover | Aja | David | Hawkeye #6 | Marvel | |
cover | Baldwin | Ben | Dark Currents | Newcon | |
cover | Baldwin | Ben | Forests of Eden | PS Publishing | Elizabeth counihan |
The Hermit | Baldwin | Ben | Interzone #241 | TTA Press | |
cover | Baldwin | Ben | Interzone #238 | TTA Press | |
cover | Black Sheep | Jack Glass | Gollancz | Adam Roberts | |
cover | Fangorn | Stories From the Northern Road | Newcon | Tony Ballantyne | |
cover | Harbour | Charlie | The Flight of the Ravens | Immersion | Chris Butler |
cover | Harman | Dominic | Saving for a Sunny Day | Newcon | Ian Watson |
cover | Harman | Dominic | Helix Wars | Rebellion | Eric Brown |
cover | Hi-Fi | Joey | Thy Kingdom Come | Jurassic London | Simon Morden |
cover | Maronski | Tomasz | International Speculative Fiction 2 | ||
cover | McGuiness; Vines; Rodriguez | Ed; Dexter; Javier | Captain Marvel #2 | Marvel | |
cover | Police | Aurélien | At the Edge of Waking | Prime Books | Holly Phillips |
cover | TBA | Dark Eden | Corvus | Chris Beckett | |
cover | Tikulin | Tomislav | Visions Fading Fast | Pendragon | Gary McMahon |
Best Non-Fiction
Title | Author surname | Author First Name | Publication | Publisher |
Living Architecture | Armstrong | Rachel | TED Books | |
The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit | Burnham | Karen | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? | Erikson | Steven | Not Your Grandmother’s Epic Fantasy: A fantasy author’s thoughts upon reading The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature: 1 | NYRSF |
Distrust That Particular Flavour | Gibson | William | Viking | |
The Blind Giant | Harkaway | Nick | John Murray | |
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story | Howe | Sean | Harper Collins | |
Dancing on the Ruins | Ings | Simon | 1.3 | Arc Magazine |
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature | James, Mendlesohn | Edward, Farah | Cambridge Univeristy Press | |
The Widening Gyre | Kincaid | Paul | Los Angeles Review of Books | |
The Shortlist Project | Kincaid Speller | Maureen | website | |
Cowardice, Laziness and Irony | McCalmont | Jonathon | Ruthless Culture | |
London’s Overthrow | Mieville | China | Westbourne Press | |
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks | Mullan | John | Guardian Book Club | The Guardian |
A Ray of Sunshine | Patterson | Bill | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
Hull 0; Scunthorpe 3 | Priest | Christopher | website | |
Breaking the Fall | Raven | Paul Graham | 1.1 | Arc Magazine |
Does God Need a Starship | Roberts | Adam | Strange Divisions and Alien Territories | Palgrave Macmillan |
Extreme Metaphors – Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967 – 2008 | Sellers; O’Hara | Simon; Dan | Fourth Estate | |
Pornokitsch | Shurin; Perry | Jared; Anne | website | |
The World SF Blog | Tidhar | Lavie | website |