Thanks once again to everyone who has nominated over the weekend or provided info to help grow this list. Lots more titles on the list now. Please keep them coming. Feel free to nominate something already on the list, by the way – that’s how we pick your overall favourites.
As we have been gathering nominations this year, we have been having a think about how we can make this a better process for our members. We’d love this award to be as representative of our membership as it possibly can be. And with that in mind, I would like to make a special appeal to our female members – we don’t have as many nominations from our female members in proportion to the membership.
So, without further ado, here’s the list. Thanks to all the rebloggers and retweeters, it all helps!
Best Novel | ||
Title | Author | Publisher |
2121: A Tale from the Next Century | Susan Greenfield | Head of Zeus |
A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | Canongate Books Ltd |
Abaddon’s Gate | James S A Corey | Orbit |
Ack-Ack Macaque | Gareth L Powell | Solaris |
Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | Orbit |
Arena Mode | Blake Northcott | Amazon media |
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 |
Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | Doubleday |
Marauder | Gary Gibson | Tor |
More Than This | Patrick Ness | Walker |
Necessary Evil | Ian Tregillis | Tor Books |
Nexus | Ramez Naam | Angry Robot |
Night Film | Marisha Pessl | Windmill Books |
On the Steel Breeze | Alastair Reynolds | Gollancz |
Osiris: The Osiris Project | E. J. Swift | Del Rey |
Paradox | Patti Roberts | Createspace Independent Publishing |
Quantum Drop | Saci Lloyd | Hodder |
Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett | Doubleday |
Red Doc | Anne Carson | Jonathon Cape |
Sensation: a superhero novel | Kevin Hardman | I&H Recherche Publishing |
Shackleton’s Man Goes South | Tony White | Science Museum |
Shopocalypse | David Gullen | Monico |
The Adjacent | Christopher Priest | Gollancz |
The Age Atomic | Adam Christopher | Angry Robot |
The Disappearances | Gemma Malley | Hodder |
The Disestablishment of Paradise | Philip Mann | Gollancz |
The Eidolon | Libby McGugan | Solaris |
The Folded Man | Matt Hill | Sandstone Press Ltd |
The Glass Republic | Tom Pollock | Jo Fletcher Books |
The History of the Future in 100 Objects | Adrian Hon | Skyhook |
The Lives of Tao | Wesley Chu | Angry Robot |
The Long War | Pratchett and Baxter | Doubleday |
The Machine | James Smythe | Blue Door |
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter | Cassandra Rose Clark | Angry Robot |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman | Headline |
The Rabbit Back Literature Society | Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen | Pushkin Press |
The Serene Invasion | Eric Brown | Solaris |
The Shining Girls | Lauren Beukes | Harper |
The Vengeance Path | Andrew Jamieson | Amazon media |
The Violent Century | Lavie Tidhar | Hodder & Stoughton |
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 |
Wolfhound Century | Peter Higgins | Gollancz |
Best Short Fiction | ||
Title | Author | Place of Publication |
A Bridge of Words | Dinesh Rao | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
A Heap of Broken Images | Sunny Moraine | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill | Elizabeth Knox | Tor.com |
Black Shuck | Henry Gee | Looking Landwards, Newcon Press |
Boat in the Shadows Crossing | Tori Truslow | Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
Build Guide | Helen Jackson | Interzone 244 |
Cave & Julia | M. John Harrison | Kindle |
Charlie’s Ant | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Looking Landwards, Newcon Press |
Distant Like the Stars | Leah Cypress | Asimov’s April/May |
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 |
Fade Out | Gavin Salisbury | Pendragon Press |
Feast and Famine | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Solaris Rising 2, Solaris |
Found | Alex Dally MacFarlane | Clarkesworld 63 |
Fredrich the Snowman | Lewis Shiner | Tor.com |
Free Fall | Graham Templeton | Clarkesworld |
Getting Out of There | M. John Harrison | Nightjar Press |
Golden Apple | Sophia McDougall | The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium |
Henchman 1 | Jamison Raymond | Henchman Comics |
Hypervigilant | Eric del Caro | Unknown |
In Metal, In Bone | An Owomoyela | Eclipse Online |
In Time for Christmas | Fred Strange | Diesel E Books |
Leaving Megalopolis | Gail Simone | self-published |
March of the Undead | Andrew Webber | andrewwebber.net |
Melt With You | Emily C Skaftun | Clarkesworld 79 |
Memory Palace | Hari Kunzru | V&A |
Nunslinger | Stark Holborn | Hodder & Stoughton |
Old Domes | J. Y. Yang | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
Out in the Dark | Linda Nagata | Analog, June 2013 |
Pam | Peter C Loftus | Jupiter SF Magazine issue 41 |
Saga’s Children | E. J. Swift | The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium |
Secret Cargo | Charles Christian | Urban Fantasist |
Selkie Stories are for Losers | Sofia Samatar | Strange Horizons |
Sing | Karen Tidbeck | Tor.com |
Song of the Seasons, Song four: Fire and Rain | Janine K. Spendlove | Silence in the Library |
Spin | Nina Allan | TTA Press |
Such & Such Said to So & So | Maria Dahvana Headley | Glitter & Mayhem |
The 9th Technique | China Mieville | The Apology Chapbook |
The Electric Spanking of the War Babies | Maurice Broaddus & Kyle S. Johnson | Glitter & Mayhem |
The Eye With Which the Universe Beholds Itself | Ian Sales | Whippleshield Books |
The First Dance | Martin McGrath | Solaris Rising 2, Solaris |
The Ink Readers of Doi Saket | Thomas Olde Heuvelt | Tor.com |
The Landline | Bruce Sterling | Omnireboot.com |
The Legend of Troop 13 | Kit Reed | Asimovs Jan 13 |
The Promise of Space | James Patrick Kelly | Clarkesworld 84 |
The Skull | Lucius Shepard | Gollancz |
The Taking of the Stamp | Hal Duncan | La Case |
The Truth of Fact the Truth of Feeling | Ted Chiang | Subterranean Magazine |
The Walking Stars | Aliette de Bodard | The Other Half of the Sky, Candlelight and Gleam |
Them Shios | Silvio Moreno-Garcia | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
Thread of Memory | Matt Colborn | City in the Dusk |
Three Memories of Death | Will Hill | The Book of the Dead, Jurassic London |
Vector | Benjanun Sriduangkaew | We See a Different Frontier, Futurefire.net Publishing |
Waiting for Medusa | Jack Dann | Asimov’s, Octo/Novr 2013 |
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 |
Aargh! Oxford | Cover of The Mad Scientists’ Daughter, by Cassandra Rose Clarke | Angry Robot |
Alice Laurent | Cover of Cooking with Bones, by Jess Read | Hodder & Stoughton |
Andy Bigwood | cover of Aria: Returning Left Luggage, by Geoff Nelder | LL-Publications |
Andy Council | Bristol 2050 | Resurgence & Ecologist |
Anja Uhrin | Zarin der Vampir by Tatana Fedorovna, front cover | Createspace Independent Publishing |
Ben Baldwin | Cover of Bite by Gardner Goldsmith | Pendragon Press |
Brian Roberts | Cover of The Adjacent, by Christopher Priest | Gollancz |
Daniele Serra | cover of Open Waters by Davbid Gullen | theEXAGGERATEDpress |
Dominic Harman | cover of Phoenicia’s Worlds by Ben Jeapes | Solaris |
Euclase | Red 5 | DeviantArt |
Finn Dean | Cover of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World | Folio Society |
Galen Dara | Storytellers | Fireside Magazine |
J.H.Williams III | Cover of The Sandman Overture no1 by Neil Gaiman | Vertigo Comics |
J.H.Williams III | Cover of The Sandman Overture no1 | Vertigo Comics |
James Boswell | He Pressed on Through the Darkness Alone, Like a Blind Fish in an Endless Forgotten Sea, cover to J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World | Folio Society |
Jeremy Zerfoss | Cover of Wonderbook: the Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff Vandermeer | Abrams Image |
Jim Calfiore | Leaving Megalopolis | self-published |
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 |
Kevin Tong | Poster for Metropolis | |
Marko Manev | Cover of The Violent Century, by Lavie Tidhar | Hodder & Stoughton |
Michael J. Windsor | cover of Maddadam by Margaret Attwood | Bloomsbury |
Paul Kidby | Cover of Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett | Doubleday |
Paul Raymond Gregory | Falls of Esgalduin | Studio 54 website |
Phillipa Rice | My Cardboard Life | Web series |
Pickwick | The Hodderscape Dodo | Hodderscape.com |
Richard Wagner | The Angel at the Heart of the Rain | Interzone 246 |
Rob Davis | Don Quixote – Cervantes/Davis | Selfmadehero |
Shaun Tan | Cover for How the World Became Quiet by Rachel Swirksy | Subterranean Press |
Todd Lockwood | Cover of a Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan | Tor |
Will Staehle | Cover of The Age Atomic by Christopher Adam | Angry Robot |
Ykuko Shimizu | Cover for the Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M Valente | Haikasoru/VIZ Media |
Best Non-Fiction | ||
Title | Author | Place of Publication |
The Kick-Ass Writer | Chuck Wendig | Writer’s Digest Books |
Paul Graham Raven | A Genre in Crisis: On Paul di Phillpo’s “Wikiworld” | The LA Review of Books |
The Retro Critic | Adam Ezragouri | The Retro Critic |
The Riddles in the Dark | Adam Roberts | The Riddles of the Hobbit, Palgrave Macmillan |
On YA | Adam Roberts | Sibilant Fricative |
Ytasha L. Womack | Afrofuturism: the World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture | Lawrence Hill Books |
Graham Sleight | Breaking the Frame | Parabolas of Science Fiction, Ed Attebery and Hollinger |
Secret Identity 563 | Brian & Matt | www.secretidentitypodcast.com |
David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson | Christopher Nolan: A Labyrinth of Linkages | |
Tea and Jeapardy Podcast | Emma Newman | www.geekplanetonline.com |
The Gemmell Award Shortlist | Jared Shurin | Pornokitsch |
Wonderbook | Jeff VanderMeer | Abrams Image |
Going Forth by Night | John J. Johnston | Unearthed (Jurassic) |
An Introduction in Three Parts (intro to VURT 20th anniversary edition) | Lauren Beukes | Tor UK |
An Introduction in Three Parts (intro to VURT 20th anniversary edition) | Lauren Beukes | Tor UK |
Sleeps with Monsters | Liz Bourke | Tor.com |
Fantasy Faction | Mark Alpin | Fantasy Faction |
Science Fiction Film | Mark Bould | Routledge |
Adventures in Space and Time | Mark Gatiss | BBC |
John Boston and Damien Broderick | New Worlds Before the New Wave, 1960-1964 | Borgo Press |
British Genre Fiction Focus | Niall Alexander | Tor.com |
Ethan Robinson | On Still Being Unable to Write about Joanna Russ And chaos Died | Marooned off Vesta |
Abigail Nussbaum | On the Meeting of Epic Fantasy and Western in Felx Gilman’s Half-Made World Duology | Crooked Timber |
Bodhisattva Chattopadhay | Recententering Science Fiction and the Fantastic:What would a non-Anglocentric understanding of science fiction and fantasy look like | Strange Horizons |
Writing the Science Fiction Film | Robert Grant | Michael Wiese Productions |
Queers Dig Time Lords | Sigrud Ellis and Michael Damien Thomas (eds) | Mad Norwegian Press |
Ballardian | Simon Sellars | Ballardian |
Landon/Shurin | Speculative Fiction 2012 | Jurassic London |
Michael Chabon | The Crying of September 11: on Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon | |
Pawel Frelik | The Future of the Past: Science Fiction, Retro and Retrofuturism | Parabolas of Science Fiction, Ed Attebery and Hollinger |
John Rieder | The Mad Scientist, the Failed Experiment and the Queer Family of Man: Sirius, Frankenstein and the SF stockroom | Parabolas of Science Fiction, Ed Attebery and Hollinger |
Fred Nadis | The Man From Mars: Ray Palmer’s Amazing Pulp Journey | Tarcher/Penguin |
Story Behind the Book vol 1. | Upcoming4.me | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
Verity! A Podcast | Various | Verity! A Podcast |
John Lanchester | When did you get hooked? | London Review of Books |
Intro to J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World | Will Self | Folio Society |
The Coode Street Podcast | Wolfe & Strahan | The Coode Street Podcast |
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