The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlist for the BSFA Awards for works published in 2019.

The awards will be presented at the 2020 Eastercon, Concentric, taking place in Birmingham, UK from April 10-13.

The shortlisted works are:

Best Novel

• Juliet E. McKenna – The Green Man’s Foe (Wizard’s Tower Press)
• Emma Newman – Atlas Alone (Gollancz)
• Gareth L. Powell – Fleet of Knives (Titan Books)
• Adrian Tchaikovsky – Children of Ruin (Tor)
• Tade Thompson – The Rosewater Insurrection (Orbit)

Best Shorter Fiction

• Becky Chambers – To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone – This is How You Lose the Time War (Jo Fletcher Books)
• Fiona Moore – Jolene (Interzone #283)
• Gareth L. Powell – Ragged Alice (Tor.com)
• Tade Thompson – The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Tor.com)
• Ian Whates – For Your Own Good (Wourism and Other Stories, Luna Press)

Best Non-Fiction

• Farah Mendlesohn – The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein (Unbound)
• Glyn Morgan & C Palmer-Patel (Eds) – Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction (Liverpool University Press)
• Gareth L. Powell – About Writing (Luna Press)
• Adam Roberts – HG Wells: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Jo Lindsay Walton – Away Day: Star Trek and the Utopia of Merit (Big Echo) 

Best Artwork

• Aitch & Rachel Vale – Cover for ‘Deeplight’ by Frances Hardinge (UK edition) (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• Chris Baker (Fangorn) – Cover for ‘Wourism and Other Stories’ by Ian Whates (Luna Press)
• Julia Lloyd – Cover for ‘Fleet of Knives’ by Gareth L Powell (Titan Books)
• Charlotte Stroomer – Cover for ‘The Rosewater Redemption’ by Tade Thompson (Orbit)
• Richard Wagner – Cover for Interzone #284 (Interzone)

Advance voting is open to BSFA members and Eastercon members until Monday, April 6, online at https://tinyurl.com/bsfa2019, or by post (see https://bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards/). Votes will also be accepted in person at Eastercon until noon on Saturday, April 11.