Shortlist For The 2020 Annual British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards Announced

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) have announced the shortlist for its annual BSFA Awards for works first published in 2019.

The BSFA Awards draw on nominations from their membership, and in the case of the Best Novel Award are open to UK publications only.

The Awards will be presented during Concentric: Eastercon 2020, at The Hilton Metropole Hotel, Birmingham, from 10-13 April 2019.

Best Novel

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

Best Shorter Fiction

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

Best Non-Fiction

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