2006 BSFA Awards Shortlist
The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlist for the 2006 BSFA Awards:
NOVEL
- Darkland, Liz Williams
- End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Icarus by Roger Levy
- The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
- Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
SHORT FICTION
- “The Djinn’s Wife” by Ian McDonald [Read a preview]
- “The Highway Men” by Ken MacLeod
- “The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “The Point of Roses” by Margo Lanagan
- “Signal to Noise” by Alastair Reynolds [See SF Signal review]
- “Sounding” by Elizabeth Bear
ARTWORK
- Angelbot, Fangorn
- Cover of Farthing magazine, issue 2, Spring 2006. Credited to ‘Vertebrate Graphics’.
- Droid, Fahrija Velic
- The Return to Abalakin, Alexander Preuss
- Ring of the Gods, William Li
NON-FICTION – BSFA Recommended Reading List
- The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology edited by Paul Kincaid and Andrew M. Butler
- Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century by Justine Larbalestier
- Great British Comics by Paul Gravett
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips [See SF Signal review]
- Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute edited by Farah Mendlesohn