Hello-ho-ho again!
With just 4 weeks to go until nominations close, here is the latest list of stuff BSFA members have thought was pretty good this year. Remember, you have until January 14th to get your nominations in, but no need to wait. And don’t assume that the appearance of your favourite on this list makes it safe. A work needs only a single nomination to make this list. Some have got a dozen, some just have that single nomination… so keep them coming!
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Best Novel
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| Title | Author | Publisher |
| A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | Canongate Books Ltd |
| Ack-Ack Macaque | Gareth L Powell | Solaris |
| Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | Orbit |
| 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 |
| More Than This | Patrick Ness | Walker |
| Necessary Evil | Ian Tregillis | Tor Books |
| Osiris: The Osiris Project | E. J Swift | Del Rey |
| Red Doc | Anne Carson | Jonathon Cape |
| Shackleton’s Man Goes South | Tony White | Science Museum |
| Shopocalypse | David Gullen | Monico |
| The Adjacent | Christopher Priest | Gollancz |
| The Folded Man | Matt Hill | Sandstone Press Ltd |
| The History of the Future in 100 Objects | Adrian Hon | Skyhook |
| The Machine | James Smythe | Blue Door |
| The Shining Girls | Lauren Beukes | Harper |
| 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 |
| Best Short Fiction | ||
| Title | Author | Place of Publication |
| A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill | Elizabeth Knox | Tor.com |
| Build Guide | Helen Jackson | Interzone 244 |
| Cave & Julia | M. John Harrison | Kindle |
| 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 |
| Free Fall | Graham Templeton | Clarkesworld |
| Golden Apple | Sophia McDougall | The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium |
| In Metal, In Bone | An Owomoyela | Eclipse Online |
| Memory Palace | Hari Kunzru | V&A |
| Saga’s Children | E. J. Swift | The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium |
| Selkie Stories are for Losers | Sofia Samatar | Strange Horizons |
| Shackleton’s Man Goes South | Tony White | Science Museum Publications |
| Spin | Nina Allan | TTA Press |
| The 9th Technique | China Mieville | The Apology Chapbook |
| The Landline | Bruce Sterling | Omnireboot.com |
| The Skull | Lucius Shepard | Gollancz |
| 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 |
| Vector | Benjanun Sriduangkaew | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
| 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 |
| J.H.Williams III | Cover of The Sandman Overture no1 by Neil Gaiman | Vertigo Comics |
| Jeremy Zerfoss | Cover of Wonderbook: the Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff Vandermeer | Abrams Image |
| 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 |
| Phillipa Rice | My Cardboard Life | Web series |
| Rob Davis | Don Quixote – Cervantes/Davis | Selfmadehero |
| Pickwick | The Hodderscape Dodo | Hodderscape.com |
| Best Non-Fiction | ||
| Title | Author | Place of Publication |
| Wonderbook | Jeff VanderMeer | Abrams Image |
| An Introduction in Three Parts (intro to VURT 20th anniversary edition) | Lauren Beukes | Tor UK |
| Going Forth by Night | John J. Johnston | Unearthed (Jurassic) |
| Fantasy Faction | Mark Alpin | Fantasy Faction |
| Going Forth by Night | John J. Johnston | Unearthed (Jurassic) |
| Science Fiction Film | Mark Bould | Routledge |
| Writing the Science Fiction Film | Robert Grant | Michael Wiese Productions |
| Ballardian | Simon Sellars | Ballardian |
| The Kick-Ass Writer | Chuck Wendig | Writer’s Digest Books |
One small correction to this list…
Shackleton’s Man Goes South, published by Science Museum, should be in the Best Novel category. We’ll have that fixed for the next update.