NOMINEES: 2012 BSFA Awards

The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlists for the 2011

• 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)

• “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

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• 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)

• 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]