On 5 January the BSFA announced our longlist for the BSFA Awards, voted for by BSFA members. Congratulations to all those who have been nominated. It seems like a really strong and rich list this year.
If you’re a BSFA member, you can now vote on what should wind up on the final ballot (you can also vote by emailing Awards Administrator Clare Boothby … which is the better option if you’ve just recently joined). This round is open till the end of January.
There’s more information from Clare on the BSFA main site; you can also join the BSFA and/or join Eastercon 2019 (Ytterbium) for the final voting and awards ceremony.
Best Novel nominees:
- Rachel Armstrong – Origamy (NewCon Press)
- Andrew Bannister – Stone Clock (Bantam Press)
- RJ Barker – Blood of Assassins (Orbit)
- EM Brown – Buying Time (Solaris)
- Pierce Brown – Iron Gold (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Becky Chambers – Record of a Spaceborn Few (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Andrew Crumey – The Great Chain Of Unbeing (Dedalus)
- Juno Dawson – Doctor Who: The Good Doctor (BBC Books)
- Aliette de Bodard – In the Vanishers’ Palace (JABberwocky Literary Agency)
- Dominic Dulley – Shattermoon (Jo Fletcher Books)
- Berit Ellingsen – Now We Can See the Moon (Snuggly Books)
- Rachel Fellman – The Breath of the Sun (Aqueduct Press)
- Daniel Godfrey – The Synapse Sequence (Titan Books)
- Sam Hawke – City of Lies (Bantam Press)
- Dave Hutchinson – Europe at Dawn (Solaris)
- Simon Ings – The Smoke (Gollancz)
- T Kingfisher – The Wonder Engine (Argyll Productions)
- Mary Robinette Kowal – The Calculating Stars (Tor Books)
- RF Kuang – The Poppy War (HarperVoyager)
- Derek Künsken – The Quantum Magician (Solaris)
- Rich Larson – Annex (Orbit)
- Yoon Ha Lee – Revenant Gun (Solaris)
- Roger Levy – The Rig (Titan Books)
- Ling Ma – Severance (Text Publishing Company)
- Ed McDonald – Ravencry (Gollancz)
- Sam J Miller – Blackfish City (Orbit)
- Patrick Ness – And the Ocean Was Our Sky (Walker)
- Emma Newman – Before Mars (Ace Books)
- Naomi Novik – Spinning Silver (Macmillan)
- Malka Older – State Tectonics (Tor.com)
- Gareth L Powell – Embers of War (Titan Books)
- Christopher Priest – An American Story (Gollancz)
- Elizabeth Priest – Concrete Faery (Luna Press)
- Alastair Reynolds – Elysium Fire (Gollancz)
- Adam Roberts – By the Pricking of Her Thumb (Gollancz)
- Audrey Schulman – Theory of Bastards (Europa Editions)
- James Smythe – I Still Dream (The Borough Press)
- Anna Stephens – Darksoul (HarperVoyager)
- Tasha Suri – Empire of Sand (Orbit)
- EJ Swift – Paris Adrift (Solaris)
- Tade Thompson – Rosewater (Orbit; first UK publication 2018)
- Stuart Turton – The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Raven Books)
- Peter Watts – The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon Publications)
- Aliya Whiteley – The Loosening Skin (Unsung Stories)
- Jen Williams – The Bitter Twins (Headline)
Best Shorter Fiction nominees:
- Nina Allan – The Gift of Angels: an introduction (Clarkesworld) – https://bit.ly/2CS47bX
- GV Anderson – Crook’s Landing, by Scaffold (Nightmare #71) – https://bit.ly/2RxFTvR
- GV Anderson – Waterbirds (Lightspeed #98) – https://bit.ly/2FcHTUG
- Brooke Bolander – The Only Harmless Great Thing (Tor.com)
- Beth Cato – The Library is Open (Daily Science Fiction) – https://bit.ly/2QqbOtK
- Vajra Chandrasekera – When Leopard’s-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven (Liminal Stories #5) – https://bit.ly/2CRADej
- Tina Connolly – The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections (Tor.com) – https://bit.ly/2LGjdqh
- Aliette de Bodard – A Slow Unfurling of Truth (Shoreline of Infinity #11)
- Aliette de Bodard – The Tea Master and the Detective (JABberwocky Literary Agency)
- Malcolm Devlin – The Purpose of the Dodo is to be Extinct (Interzone #275)
- Dilman Dila – Safari Nyota: A Prologue (AfroSFv3, ed. Ivor W Hartmann, StoryTime)
- Hal Duncan – The Land of Somewhere Safe (NewCon Press)
- Stephen Embleton – Journal of a DNA Pirate (AfroSFv3, ed. Ivor W Hartmann, StoryTime)
- Alix E Harrow – A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies (Apex Magazine) – https://bit.ly/2QtcpL0
- Rita Indiana – Tentacle (And Other Stories)
- Allison Jamieson-Lucy – Sequestration; Vitrification (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2TAEOB3
- Rich Larson – Meat And Salt And Sparks (Tor.com) – https://bit.ly/2CT90BG
- Tim Major – Throw Caution (Interzone #276)
- Nick Mamatas – A Night Out at a Nice Place (Apex Magazine) – https://bit.ly/2RfC4wh
- Biram Mboob – The Luminal Frontier (AfroSFv3, ed. Ivor W Hartmann, StoryTime)
- Ian McDonald – Time Was (Tor.com)
- Samantha Mills – Strange Waters (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2SMZup3
- Ian Muneshwar – Salt Lines (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2Fd4XBR
- Daniel Mallory Ortberg – The Daughter Cells (The Merry Spinster, St Martin’s Press)
- Erin Roberts – The Grays of Cestus V (Asimov’s Sept/Oct 2018)
- A. Merc Rustad and Ada Hoffmann – I Sing Against the Silent Sun (Lightspeed #97) – https://bit.ly/2NiXEtX
- Gabriela Santiago – Tamales in Space, and Other Phrases For the Beginning Speaker (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2xulA6I
- Gavin Schmidt – Under the Sun (Motherboard) – https://bit.ly/2vgXmPn
- Vandana Singh – Requiem (Ambiguity Machines, Small Beer Press)
- Anna Stephens – Flesh and Coin (Art of War, ed. Petros Triantafyllou, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
- Adrian Tchaikovsky – The Expert System’s Brother (Tor.com)
- Natalia Theodoridou – Birnam Platoon (Interzone #278)
- Natalia Theodoridou – The Names of Women (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2KdcZLE
- Tade Thompson – Kaseem’s Way (Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein, ed. David Thomas Moore, Abaddon)
- Tade Thompson – Yard Dog (Fiyah #7)
- Lavie Tidhar – Talking to Ghosts at the Edge of the World (Infinity’s End, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris)
- Martha Wells – Exit Strategy (Tor.com) – https://bit.ly/2RuVnAZ (excerpt)
- Aliya Whiteley – Territory: Blank (Interzone #277)
- Fran Wilde – Ruby, Singing (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #261) – https://bit.ly/2Rd6tLx
- Liz Williams – Phosphorus (NewCon Press)
- Marian Womack – Kingfisher (Lost Objects, Luna Press)
- JY Yang – The Descent of Monsters (Tor.com) – https://bit.ly/2SGr07K (excerpt)
- Isabel Yap – Asphalt, River, Mother, Child (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2GWG3c1
- Cristy Zinn – The Girl Who Stared at Mars (AfroSFv3, ed. Ivor W Hartmann, StoryTime)
Best Non-Fiction nominees:
- Nina Allan – Time Pieces column 2018 articles (Interzone)
- Claudie Arseneault – Constructing a Kinder Future (Strange Horizons)
- Mike Ashley – Introduction to Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures (British Library Publishing)
- Ruth EJ Booth – Noise and Sparks column 2018 articles (Shoreline of Infinity)
- Liz Bourke – Sleeps With Monsters column 2018 articles (Tor.com) – http://bit.ly/2lBE3rQ
- Vajra Chandrasekera – Rupture & Complicity: The 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2QvN8Qz
- Will Davies (ed.) – Economic Science Fictions (Goldsmiths Press)
- Aliette de Bodard – On motherhood and erasure: people-shaped holes, hollow characters and the illusion of impossible adventures (Intellectus Speculativus blog) – https://bit.ly/2FeeyZc
- Andy Hedgecock – Future Interrupted column 2018 articles (Interzone)
- Erin Horáková – Erin Groans: A Gormenvast Review of Every Adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s Titus Books (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2zyiZcN
- Nick Hubble, Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Joseph Norman (eds) – The Science Fiction of Iain M. Banks (Gylphi)
- Polina Levontin – Scientists in Nigerian Science Fiction (in The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction, Luna Press)
- Robert S Malan – Portrayals of South Africans in Popular Entertainment: Bad Accented Baddies, Prawns and Black Panther (in The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction, Luna Press)
- Laura Miller – Ursula K. Le Guin and the Three Obstacles (Slate) – https://bit.ly/2QtoLTx
- Adam Roberts – Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance (Cambridge University Press) – https://bit.ly/2GYQbBd
Best Artwork nominees:
- (artist unknown) – Cover for ‘An American Story’ by Christopher Priest (Gollancz) – https://bit.ly/2TBQEuG
- (artist unknown) – Cover for ‘Melmoth’ by Sarah Perry (Serpent’s Tail) – https://bit.ly/2C97722
- Ben Baldwin – Wraparound cover for Strange Tales slipcase set (NewCon Press) – https://bit.ly/2FdsHXd
- Rovina Cai – Cover for ‘And the Ocean Was Our Sky’ by Patrick Ness (Walker) – https://bit.ly/2FknIn7
- John Coulthart – Cover for ‘Moonshine’ by Jasmine Gower (Angry Robot) – https://bit.ly/2C4LEHL
- Caroline Dougherty – The Red Bloom (Strange Horizons) – https://bit.ly/2LV4QMr
- Vince Haig – Abductees 1 (Interzone) – https://bit.ly/2FdVF9G
- Vince Haig – Cover for ‘Lost Objects’ by Marian Womack (Luna Press) – https://bit.ly/2CV7cs1
- Joey Hi-Fi – Cover for ‘Paris Adrift’ by EJ Swift (Solaris) – https://bit.ly/2H02Vrm
- Sarah Anne Langton – Cover for ‘Unholy Land’ by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications) – https://bit.ly/2H01pp6
- Sing Yun Lee and Morris Wild – Artwork for Sublime Cognition conference (London Science Fiction Research Community) – https://bit.ly/2RAr5MV
- Kelsey Liggett – Cover for ‘In the Vanishers’ Palace’ by Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky Literary Agency) – https://bit.ly/2CUOSiu
- Likhain – In the Vanishers’ Palace: Dragon I and II (Inprnt) – https://bit.ly/2C4rbTw
- Julia Lloyd – Cover for ‘Embers of War’ by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books) – https://bit.ly/2FdMCEC
- Julia Lloyd – Cover for ‘The Rig’ by Roger Levy (Titan Books) – https://bit.ly/2C9b1YQ
- Rachel Maclean – Make Me Up (Zabludowicz Collection) – https://bit.ly/2Rywpk6
- Siobhan McDonald – Cover for Shoreline of Infinity #12 (Shoreline of Infinity) – https://bit.ly/2CVjyAs
- Siobhan McDonald – Cover for Shoreline of Infinity #11 (Shoreline of Infinity) – https://bit.ly/2RdTzwF
- Becky Miller – Planet Impact Tax (Future of Money Award) – https://bit.ly/2SFGf0L
- Haroon Mirza – A Monument to Celestial Objects (Lisson Gallery) – https://bit.ly/2H0GIJL
- Tanya Roberts – Cover for ‘Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles’ by Gary Chudleigh and Tanya Roberts (BHP Comics) – https://bit.ly/2snJpuR
- Bede Rogerson – Cover for ‘Concrete Faery’ by Elizabeth Priest (Luna Press) – https://bit.ly/2C7mLLC
- Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar – Monster Portraits (Rose Metal Press) – https://bit.ly/2VvvMXL
- Dan Smith – Cover for ‘Ravencry’ by Ed McDonald (Gollancz) – https://bit.ly/2TzxtBz
- StikiPixels – Occupy White Walls (StikiPixels) – https://www.oww.io/
- Charlotte Stroomer – Cover for ‘Rosewater’ by Tade Thompson (Orbit) – https://bit.ly/2sel3DJ
- Amir Zand – Cover for ‘Cyberpunk Dreams Cincinatti’ by Rob Chant (cyberpunkdreams) – https://bit.ly/2FbRJ9a
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