Winners Of The 2025 Annual British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards Announced

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) have announced the winners of the annual BSFA Awards, for works first published in 2024.

They are fan awards that not only seek to honour the most worthy examples in each category, but also to promote the genre of science fiction, and get people reading, talking about, and enjoying all that contemporary science fiction has to offer.

Best Novel

• Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley (Rebellion Publishing)

 

Best Short Fiction

• ‘Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole’ by Isabelle Kim (Clarkesworld)

Best Shorter Fiction (Novelette & Novella Equivalent)

• Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)

 

Best Younger Readers

• Doctor Who: Caged by Una McCormack (Penguin)

Best Collection

• Punks4Palestine: An Anthology of Hopeful SciFi for an Uncertain Future ed Jasen Bacon (Hyphen Press)

Best Audio

• The Personal Touch by Rick Danforth (Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast)

 

Best Short Non Fiction

• ‘Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art’ by Ted Chiang (New Yorker, August 31 2024)

Best Long Non Fiction

• Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene Books)

 

Best Artwork

• Cover art for Nova Scotia Vol 2 by Jenni Coutts (Luna Press Publishing)

Best Translated Short Work (Juried Award)

• ‘Bone by Bone’ by Mónika Rusval, translated from Hungarian by Vivien Urban (Samovar)

Winners Of The 2023 Annual British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards Announced

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) have announced the winners of the annual BSFA Awards, for works first published in 2022.

They are fan awards that not only seek to honour the most worthy examples in each category, but also to promote the genre of science fiction, and get people reading, talking about, and enjoying all that contemporary science fiction has to offer.

Best Novel

• 'City of Last Chances', Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)

 

Best Short Fiction

• 'Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances', Aliette de Bodard (JABberwocky)

 

Best Younger Readers

• 'Unraveller', Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s)

 

Best Non Fiction

• 'Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes', Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

 

Best Artwork

• Alyssa Winans, cover art for 'The Red Scholar’s Wake' by Aliette de Bodard (Gollancz)

Winners Of The 2022 Annual British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards Announced

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) have announced the winners of the annual BSFA Awards, for works first published in 2021.

 

Best Novel

• Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards Of Earth

 

Best Short Fiction

• Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

 

Best Younger Readers

• Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow
  

 

Best Non Fiction

• Francesca T Barbini, Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction

 

Best Artwork

• Iain Clarke, Glasgow Green Woman

Winners Of The 2021 Annual British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards Announced

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) have announced the winners of the annual BSFA Awards, for works first published in 2020.

 

The winners were announced during ConFusion, this year’s online Eastercon.

 

Best Novel

• NK Jemisin, The City We Became (Orbit)

 

Best Non-Fiction

• Adam Roberts, It’s the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? (Elliot & Thompson)

 

Best Short Fiction (under 40,000 words)

• Ida Keogh, “Infinite Tea in the Demara Cafe,” Londoncentric. Edited by Ian Whates. (Newcon Press)

 

Best Artwork

• Iain Clarke, Shipbuilding Over the Clyde, Art for Glasgow in 2024 WorldCon bid.

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

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) have announced the nominees for the annual BSFA Awards for works first published in 2020.

 

The winners will be announced April 2-5 2021 during ConFusion, this year’s online Eastercon.

 

Best Novel

• Tiffani Angus, Threading the Labyrinth (Unsung Stories)
• Susanna Clarke, Piranesi (Bloomsbury)
• M John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (Gollancz)
• NK Jemisin, The City We Became (Orbit)
• Gareth L Powell, Light of Impossible Stars (Titan Books)
• Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit)
• Nikhil Singh, Club Ded (Luna Press)
• Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden (Tor)
• Liz Williams, Comet Weather (Newcon Press)
• Nick Wood, Water Must Fall (Newcon Press)

The BSFA notes, “There was a multiple tie for fifth place this year. The committee decided that instead of abbreviating the shortlist, all nominees would be included.”

 

Best Non-Fiction

• Francesca T Barbini (ed.), Ties That Bind: Love in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Luna Press)
• Paul Kincaid, The Unstable Realities of Christopher Priest (Gylphi Press)
• Andrew Milner and JR Burgmann, Science Fiction and Climate Change (Liverpool University Press)
• Adam Roberts, It’s the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? (Elliot & Thompson)
• Jo Lindsay Walton, “Estranged Entrepreneurs” (Foundation: the International Review of Science Fiction)
• Jo Walton, “Books in Which No Bad Things Happen” (Tor.com)

 

Best Short Fiction (under 40,000 words)

• Eugen M Bacon, Ivory’s Story (Newcon Press)
• Anne Charnock, “All I Asked For,” Fictions, Healthcare and Care Re-Imagined. Edited by Keith Brookes, at Future Care Capital.
• Dilman Dila, “Red_Bati,” Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Zelda Knight and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. (AURELIA LEO)
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon,” Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Zelda Knight and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. (AURELIA LEO)
• Ida Keogh, “Infinite Tea in the Demara Cafe,” Londoncentric. Edited by Ian Whates. (Newcon Press)
• Tobi Ogundiran, “Isn’t Your Daughter Such a Doll,” Shoreline of Infinity
  

 

Best Artwork

• Iain Clarke, Shipbuilding Over the Clyde, Art for Glasgow in 2024 WorldCon bid.
• Fangorn, covers of Robot Dreams series.
• Ruby Gloom, cover of Nikhil Singh’s Club Ded (Luna Press Publishing)
• Sinjin Li, cover of Eli Lee’s A Strange and Brilliant Light (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Nani Walker, Four Black Lives Matter Murals in AR. Using drone photogrammetry, Nani Sahra Walker produced 3-D models of four Black Lives Matter murals as memorials to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others killed by police. Published by the Los Angeles Times in collaboration with RYOT and reported by Dorany Pineda.

Winners Of The 2020 Annual British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards Announced

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

The Awards were announced in a special presentation on YouTube by Allen Stroud and Luke Nicklin.

Best Novel

• 'Children of Ruin' by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)

Best Shorter Fiction

• 'This is How You Lose the Time War' by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Jo Fletcher Books)

Best Non-Fiction

• 'The Pleasant Profession of Robert A Heinlein' by Farah Mendlesohn (Unbound)

Best Artwork

• Chris Baker (Fangorn) – Cover for ‘Wourism and Other Stories’ by Ian Whates (Luna Press) 

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)

Shortlist For The 2019 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 2018.

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 on Saturday April 20 during Ytterbium, the 70th Eastercon, at The Park Inn Heathrow, London, from 19-22 April 2019.

Best Novel

• 'Europe at Dawn' by Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
• 'Revenant Gun' by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
• 'Before Mars' by Emma Newman (Ace Books)
• 'Embers of War' by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books)
• 'Rosewater' by Tade Thompson (Orbit)

Best Shorter Fiction

• 'The Gift of Angels: an Introduction' by Nina Allan (Clarkesworld)
• 'The Purpose of the Dodo is to be Extinct' by Malcolm Devlin (Interzone #275)
• 'The Land of Somewhere Safe' by Hal Duncan (NewCon Press)
• 'Time Was' by Ian McDonald (Tor.com)
• 'Exit Strategy' by Martha Wells (Tor.com)
• 'Phosphorus' by Liz Williams (NewCon Press)
• 'Kingfisher' by Marian Womack (Lost Objects, Luna Press)

Best Non-Fiction

• Nina Allan’s 'Time Pieces' column 2018 articles (Interzone)
• Ruth EJ Booth’s 'Noise and Sparks' column 2018 articles (Shoreline of Infinity)
• Liz Bourke’s '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’s wraparound cover for 'Strange Tales' slipcase set (NewCon Press)
• Joey Hi-Fi’s cover for 'Paris Adrift' by EJ Swift (Solaris)
• Sarah Anne Langton’s cover for 'Unholy Land' by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
• Sing Yun Lee and Morris Wild’s artwork for 'Sublime Cognition' conference (London Science Fiction Research Community)
• Likhain’s In the Vanishers’ Palace: Dragon I and II (Inprnt)
• Bede Rogerson’s cover for 'Concrete Faery' by Elizabeth Priest (Luna Press)
• Del Samatar’s artwork for 'Monster Portraits' by Sofia and Del Samatar (Rose Metal Press)
• Charlotte Stroomer’s cover for 'Rosewater' by Tade Thompson (Orbit)

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

The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) have announced the shortlist for its annual BSFA Awards for works first published in 2013.

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 winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Satellite 4 Eastercon convention the Crown Plaza Hotel, Glasgow Sunday 20th April 2014. BSFA Prize-winners will receive a coveted BSFA trophy. Also in the ceremony will be the annual James White Award announcing its short story competition winner.

Best Novel
God’s War by Kameron Hurley (Del Rey)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit)
Evening’s Empires by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
Ack-Ack Macaque by Gareth L Powell (Solaris)
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)

Best Short Fiction
Spin by Nina Allan (TTA Press)
“Selkie Stories are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar (Strange Horizons)
“Saga’s Children” by EJ Swift (The Lowest Heaven, Pandemonium)
“Boat in Shadows, Crossing” by Tori Truslow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

Best Artwork
Cover for Tony Ballantyne’s Dream London by Joey Hi-fi (Solaris)
Poster for Metropolis by Kevin Tong (tragicsunshine.com)
“The Angel at the Heart of the Rain” by Richard Wagner (Interzone #246)

Best Non-Fiction
Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams Image)
“Going Forth by Night” by John J Johnston (Unearthed, Jurassic)
“Sleeps with Monsters” by Liz Bourke (Tor.com)