Best Novel
- Dave Hutchinson – Europe at Dawn (Solaris)
- Yoon Ha Lee – Revenant Gun (Solaris)
- Emma Newman – Before Mars (Ace Books)
- Gareth L Powell – Embers of War (Titan Books)
- Tade Thompson – Rosewater (Orbit)
Best Shorter Fiction
- Nina Allan – ‘The Gift of Angels: an Introduction’ (Clarkesworld)
- Malcolm Devlin – ‘The Purpose of the Dodo is to be Extinct’ (Interzone #275)
- Hal Duncan – The Land of Somewhere Safe (NewCon Press)
- Ian McDonald – Time Was (Tor.com)
- Martha Wells – Exit Strategy (Tor.com)
- Liz Williams – Phosphorus (NewCon Press)
- Marian Womack – Kingfisher (Lost Objects, Luna Press)
Best Non-Fiction
- Nina Allan – Time Pieces column 2018 articles (Interzone)
- Ruth EJ Booth – Noise and Sparks column 2018 articles (Shoreline of Infinity)
- Liz Bourke – Sleeps With Monsters column 2018 articles (Tor.com)
- Aliette de Bodard – ‘On motherhood and erasure: people-shaped holes, hollow characters and the illusion of impossible adventures’ (Intellectus Speculativus blog)
- Adam Roberts – Publishing the Science Fiction Canon: The Case of Scientific Romance (Cambridge University Press)
Best Artwork
- Ben Baldwin – wraparound cover for Strange Tales slipcase set (NewCon Press)
- Joey Hi-Fi – cover for Paris Adrift by EJ Swift (Solaris)
- Sarah Anne Langton – cover for Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
- Sing Yun Lee and Morris Wild – artwork for Sublime Cognition conference (London Science Fiction Research Community)
- Likhain – In the Vanishers’ Palace: Dragon I and II (Inprnt)
- Bede Rogerson – cover for Concrete Faery by Elizabeth Priest (Luna Press)
- Del Samatar – artwork for Monster Portraits by Sofia and Del Samatar (Rose Metal Press)
- Charlotte Stroomer – cover for Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
Congratulations to all those shortlisted. More information about the awards is available on the BSFA website. Please direct any queries to the Awards Administrator Clare Boothby.
BSFA members will later receive a souvenir booklet with extracts from many of the shortlisted works. If you would like to vote in the awards, you can do so by becoming a member of the BSFA and/or Ytterbiumcon, the 2019 Eastercon.