Calling all BSFA members – we 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.
All your lovely nominations are most welcome, but what we could do with in particular are nominations for artwork, be they 2D, 3D, printed or digital.
We are also running at 20-28% of nominations from our female members throughout the categories, so do make sure to get your voices heard.
Many of the nominations are viewable online and links are provided – why not have a peek?
Best Novel
Title | Author surname | Author First Name | Publisher |
The Drowned Cities | Bacigalupi | Paulo | Atom |
The Hydrogen Sonata | Banks | Iain M. | Orbit |
Elves: Rise of the TaiGethen | Barclay | James | Gollancz |
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 Wind Through the Keyhole | King | Stephen | Hodder & Stoughton |
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 |
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 |
Flight of the Ravens | Butler | Chris | Immersion Press | |
Conquistadors | Cairns | Iain | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
One Day in Time City | Cleary | David Ira | Interzone #241 | 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 | |
Dancing on the Red Planet | Ellingsen | Berit | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
The Grinnell Method | Gloss | Molly | Strange Horizons | |
Attenuation | Harkaway | Nick | 1.2 | Arc Magazine |
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 |
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 | Afro SF | StoryTime |
A Biosphere Ends | Palmer | Stephen | Rocket Science | Mutation Press |
Trauma Pod | Reynolds | Alaister | Armored | Baen Press |
Lune and the Red Empress | Reynolds, Williams | Alastair, Liz | ODYSSEY 2010 SOUVENIR BOOK | |
What did Tessimond Tell You | Roberts | Adam | Solaris Rising 1.5 | Solaris |
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 |
Best Artwork
Title | Artist surname | ArtistFirst Name | Publication | Publisher | Associated writer |
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 | 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 | Police | Aurélien | At the Edge of Waking | Prime Books | Holly Phillips |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
Is it worth tweeting a link to this list from the official @BSFA twitter account? Seems a good way to gain interest in the last three days…