NOMINEES: 2012 BSFA Awards
The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlists for the 2011
Best Novel
- Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith (Newcon Press)
- Embassytown by China Mieville (Macmillan)
- The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Gollancz)
- By Light Alone by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
- Osama by Lavie Tidhar (PS Publishing)
Best Short Fiction
- “The Silver Wind” by Nina Allan (Interzone 233, TTA Press)
- “The Copenhagen Interpretation” by Paul Cornell (Asimov’s, July)
- “Afterbirth” by Kameron Hurley (Kameron Hurley’s own website)
- “Covehithe” by China Mieville (The Guardian)
- “Of Dawn” by Al Robertson (Interzone 235, TTA Press
)
Best Non-Fiction
- Out of This World: Science Fiction but not as we Know it by Mike Ashley (British Library)
- The SF Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition ed. John Clute, Peter Nicholls and David Langford (website)
- Review of Arslan by M J Engh, Abigail Nussbaum (Asking the Wrong Questions blog)
- SF Mistressworks, ed. Ian Sales (website)
- Pornokitsch, ed. Jared Shurin and Anne Perry (website)
- The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the New Doctor Who (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction), ed. Graham Sleight, Tony Keen and Simon Bradshaw (Science Fiction Foundation)
Best Art
- Cover of Ian Whates’s The Noise Revealed by Dominic Harman (Solaris)
- Cover and illustrations of Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls by Jim Kay (Walker)
- Cover of Lavie Tidhar’s Osama by Pedro Marques (PS Publishing)
- Cover of Liz Williams’s A Glass of Shadow by Anne Sudworth (Newcon Press)
BSFA Awards: The awards will be held at Olympus 2012, The 2012 Eastercon, April 6th – 9th 2012 at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London, and will be presented by acclaimed author, John Meaney.
[See also: Past winners]
Kameron Hurley’s short story “Afterbirth” (plus another story) are available online at http://www.kameronhurley.com/free-short-fiction-from-the-gods-war-universe/ .
Updated — thanks!
Two more updates:
The short story “Covehithe” is available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/22/china-mieville-covehithe-short-story .
Paul Cornell’s “The Copenhagen Interpretation” is now up online at http://www.asimovs.com/2012_02/images/TheCopenhagenInterpretation_Cornell.pdf .
Updated again 🙂