Current status: Voting is now open in the final round of the BSFA Awards for works published in 2019. Members of the BSFA and of Eastercon are eligible to vote, online at this link: https://tinyurl.com/bsfa2019 or in person at Eastercon until 12 noon on 11th April.

The BSFA Awards for works published in 2019 will be presented at the 2020 Eastercon, Concentric, in the evening of Saturday 11th April.

2019 Shortlist

The works shortlisted for the BSFA Awards 2019 are as follows:

Best Novel:

• Juliet E McKenna – The Green Man’s Foe (Wizard’s Tower Press)
• Emma Newman – Atlas Alone (Gollancz)
• Gareth L Powell – Fleet of Knives (Titan Books)
• Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin (Tor)
• Tade Thompson – The Rosewater Insurrection (Orbit)

Best Shorter Fiction:

• Becky Chambers – To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone – This is How You Lose the Time War (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Fiona Moore – Jolene (Interzone #283)
• Gareth L Powell – Ragged Alice (Tor.com)
• Tade Thompson – The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Tor.com)
• Ian Whates – For Your Own Good (Wourism and Other Stories, Luna Press)

Best Non-Fiction:

• Farah Mendlesohn – The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein (Unbound)
• Glyn Morgan & C Palmer-Patel (Eds) – Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction (Liverpool University Press)
• Gareth L Powell – About Writing (Luna Press)
• Adam Roberts – HG Wells: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Jo Lindsay Walton – Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit (Big Echo)

Best Artwork:

• Aitch & Rachel Vale – Cover for ‘Deeplight’ by Frances Hardinge (UK edition) (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• Chris Baker (Fangorn) – Cover for ‘Wourism and Other Stories’ by Ian Whates (Luna Press)
• Julia Lloyd – Cover for ‘Fleet of Knives’ by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books)
• Charlotte Stroomer – Cover for ‘The Rosewater Redemption’ by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
• Richard Wagner – Cover for Interzone #284 (Interzone)

Further information

The BSFA Awards are awarded each year to the best Novel, work of Short Fiction, Artwork and work of Non-Fiction as voted for by the members of the British Science Fiction Association.

For the full rules and timetable visit this page: https://bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards/awards-rules/

For a list of past winners visit this page: https://bsfa.co.uk/awards-past-winners/