The shortlist for the BSFA 2016 Awards was released February 19.
The Awards will be presented at Innominate, the 68th Eastercon, in Birmingham over the April 14-17 weekend.
BSFA members and attending members of Eastercon can vote on the winners online now, and voting will continue at the convention up to midday on Saturday, April 15
Best Novel
- Chris Beckett – Daughter of Eden (Gollancz)
- Becky Chambers – A Closed and Common Orbit (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Dave Hutchinson – Europe in Winter (Solaris)
- Tricia Sullivan – Occupy Me (Gollancz)
- Nick Wood – Azanian Bridges (NewCon Press)
Best Short Fiction
- Malcolm Devlin – The End of Hope Street (Interzone #266)
- Jaine Fenn – Liberty Bird (Now We Are Ten, NewCon Press)
- Una McCormack – Taking Flight (Crises and Conflicts, NewCon Press)
- Helen Oyeyemi – Presence (What is Not Yours is Not Yours, Picador)
- Tade Thompson – The Apologists (Interzone #266)
- Aliya Whiteley – The Arrival of Missives (Unsung Stories)
Best Non-Fiction
- Rob Hansen – THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980 (Ansible Editions)
- Erin Horáková – Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven (Strange Horizons)
- Anna McFarlane – Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Gylphi)
- Paul Graham Raven – New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, Gylphi)
- Geoff Ryman – 100 African Writers of SFF (Tor.com)
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer – Introduction to The Big Book of Science Fiction (Vintage)
Best Artwork
- Juan Miguel Aguilera – Cover of The 1000 Year Reich by Ian Watson (NewCon Press)
- Tara Bush – Transition (Cover of Black Static #53)
- Suzanne Dean and Kai & Sunny – Cover of The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan (William Heinemann)
- David A Hardy – Cover of Disturbed Universes by David L Clements (NewCon Press)
- Sarah Anne Langton – Cover for Central Station by Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon Publications)
- Chris Moore – Cover of The Iron Tactician by Alastair Reynolds (NewCon Press)
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H’h. Neither A Closed and Common Orbit or Europe in Winter are novels that I think should be read if you’ve not already read the preceding works. Certainly Hutchison’s work is far better judged as a series than as single volumes.
Cat Eldridge: Neither A Closed and Common Orbit or Europe in Winter are novels that I think should be read if you’ve not already read the preceding works.
I definitely agree on that for Europe. Orbit I think gives enough of a basic setup at the beginning that the book still makes sense; I don’t think it really reads as a prequel-dependent sequel.
It’s nice to see The Arrival of Missives getting some love.
JJ says I definitely agree on that for Europe. Orbit I think gives enough of a basic setup at the beginning that the book still makes sense; I don’t think it really reads as a prequel-dependent sequel.
Yeah you’re right. Now K.B. Wagers’ After The Crown cannot be read without having read first Behind The Throne and these novels are highly recommended — a matriarchal space opera with a first person narrative by a woman gunrunner turned empress.
Cat Eldridge: Now K.B. Wagers’ After The Crown cannot be read without having read first Behind The Throne and these novels are highly recommended
I will fifth that recommendation; I found them to be great adventure, with a main character who is greatly flawed but still worth cheering for.
I agree that A Closed and Common Orbit can be read and enjoyed without having read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. However, it contains a fairly major spoiler for it, and so should be read second for that reason.