2017 BSFA Awards Finalists

The shortlist for the BSFA 2017 Awards was released February 15.

The Awards will be presented at Follycon, the 69th Eastercon, in Harrogate, being held from March 30-April 2.

BSFA members can vote online here. Those attending Eastercon can vote at the BSFA stand until noon on the day of the awards ceremony, Saturday, March 31 – Eastercon attendees do not need to be a member of the BSFA to vote onsite.

Best Novel

  • Nina Allan – The Rift (Titan Books)
  • Anne Charnock – Dreams Before the Start of Time (47North)
  • Mohsin Hamid – Exit West (Hamish Hamilton)
  • Ann Leckie – Provenance (Orbit)

Best Shorter Fiction

  • Anne Charnock – The Enclave (NewCon Press)
  • Elaine Cuyegkeng – These Constellations Will Be Yours (Strange Horizons)
  • Greg Egan – Uncanny Valley (Tor.com)
  • Geoff Nelder – Angular Size (in ‘SFerics 2017’ edited by Roz Clarke and Rosie Oliver, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform)
  • Tade Thompson – The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Tor.com)

Best Non-Fiction

  • Paul Kincaid – Iain M. Banks (University of Illinois Press)
  • Juliet E McKenna – The Myth of Meritocracy and the Reality of the Leaky Pipe and Other Obstacles in Science Fiction & Fantasy (in Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction edited by Francesca T Barbini, Luna Press)
  • Adam Roberts – Wells at the World’s End 2017 blog posts (Wells at the World’s End blog)
  • Shadow Clarke Award jurors – The 2017 Shadow Clarke Award blog (The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy). The 2017 Shadow Clarke jurors are: Nina Allan, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Victoria Hoyle, Vajra Chandrasekera, Nick Hubble, Paul Kincaid, Jonathan McCalmont, Megan AM.
  • Vandana Singh – The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement (Strange Horizons)

Best Artwork

  • Geneva Benton – Sundown Towns (cover for Fiyah Magazine #3)
  • Jim Burns – Cover for The Ion Raider by Ian Whates (NewCon Press)
  • Galen Dara – Illustration for ‘These Constellations Will Be Yours’ by Elaine Cuyegkeng (Strange Horizons)
  • Chris Moore – Cover for The Memoirist by Neil Williamson (NewCon Press)
  • Victo Ngai – Illustration for ‘Waiting on a Bright Moon’ by JY Yang (Tor.com)
  • Marcin Wolski – Cover for 2084 edited by George Sandison (Unsung Stories)

[Thanks to Mark Hepworth and Clare Boothby for the story.]

4 thoughts on “2017 BSFA Awards Finalists

  1. Congrats to the nominees, though I’m a little scared by the Shadow Clarke blog getting nom’d. Or I’m a little amused. Something.

    Good luck to Ann Leckie – I’m enjoying Provenance a lot!

  2. I think the collective Sharke nom makes a lot of sense – there’s a books worth of reviews and critical thought on the 2017 blog, much of which is very good.
    However, Kincaid should win that section for his Banks book, IMO.

  3. David Langford: Evidently, because I ganked the text from the BSFA page and I promise I didn’t change it to spell her name wrong.

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