The British Science Fiction Association today announced the shortlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2024.

The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. They are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association and members of the year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention, held since 1955. 

The winners will be announced at the Eastercon, Reconnect, to be held at the Hilton Lanyon Place and the Belfast ICC from April 18-21.

Voting by members of the BSFA and Reconnect will open soon.

Finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards for publications in 2024.

SHORT FICTION

• ‘Unquiet on the Eastern Front’ by Wole Talabi (Subterranean Press)
• ‘The Portmeirion Road’ by Fiona Moore (Clarkesworld)
• ‘Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole’ by Isabelle Kim (Clarkesworld)
• ‘Intrinsic – Extrinsic – Terrific’ by Aliya Whiteley Luna Press Publishing

SHORTER FICTION (NOVELETTE AND NOVELLA EQUIVALENT)

• Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard (Tordotcom)
• Charlie Says by Neil Williamson (Black Shuck Books)
• What Happened at the Pony Club by Fiona Moore (Fusion Fragment)
• Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris)

NOVEL

• Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit Books)
• Calypso by Oliver K Langmead (Titan Books)
• Rabbit in the Moon by Fiona Moore (Epic Publishing)
• Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley (Rebellion Publishing)

FICTION FOR YOUNGER READERS

• Doctor Who: Caged by Una McCormack (Penguin)
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T J Klune (Tor)
• Rebel Dawn by Ann Sei Lin (Walker Books)
• Benny Ramirez and the Nearly Departed by Jose Pablo Iriarte (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)

COLLECTIONS

• Punks4Palestine: An Anthology of Hopeful SciFi for an Uncertain Future ed Jasen Bacon (Hyphen Press)
• Schrodinger’s Wife (And Other Possiblities) by Pippa Goldschmidt (Goldsmith’s Press)
• Nova Scotia Vol 2 Neil Williamson and Andrew Wilson (eds) (Luna Press Publishing)
• Human Resources by Fiona Moore (Newcon Press)
• Fight Like a Girl 2 Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall (eds) (Wizards Tower)
• Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi (Astra Publishing House)

AUDIO

• The Dex Legacy: Swarm & Shadows of Trauma by Emily Inkpen (Alternative Stories and Fake Realities)
• The Personal Touch by Rick Danforth (Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast)
• Doctor Who: The Quin Dilemma by Chris Chapman, Robert Valentine, Jacqueline Rayner (Big Finish Productions)
• Torchwood: The Hollow Choir by Helen Marshall and Malcolm Devlin (Big Finish Productions)
• Mother Death Learns a Trick by Addison Smith (Escape Pod)

ART

• Cover – Fathomfolk by Kelly Chong (Orbit)
• Cover – Nova Scotia Vol 2 by Jenni Coutts (Luna Press Publishing)
• Cover – A Jura for Julia by Fangorn (Newcon Press)
• Cover – ParSec Magazine #11 by Fangorn (PS Publishing)

SHORT NON-FICTION

• ‘Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art’ by Ted Chiang (New Yorker, August 31 2024)
• ‘Beyond Conventions: Unleashing the Palestinian Struggle Through the Science Fiction Lens’ by Yasmin Kana (Shoreline of Infinity)
• ‘Considering the Cosy Turn in SFF: Who Gets to be Comforted?’ by Liz Bourke (Self-published)
• ‘An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal’ by Eugen Bacon (Bloomsbury)
• ‘Science Fiction and Abolishing the Police’ by S J Groenewegen (Shoreline of Infinity)
• ‘The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion’ by Chris M Barkley and Jason Sanford (File 770 and Genre Grapevine)
• ‘Machine Learning in Contemporary Science Fiction’ by Jo Lindsey Walton (SFRA Review)

LONG NON-FICTION

• Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum (Briardene Books)
• Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing More Subgenres of Science Fiction by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan (Luna Press Publishing)
• The Book Blinders by John Clute (Norstrilia Press)
• Keith Roberts’s Pavane: A Critical Companion by Paul Kincaid (Palgrave)
• JG Ballard’s Crash: A Critical Companion by Paul March Russell (Palgrave)

BEST TRANSLATED SHORT WORK (Juried Award)*

• ‘The Coffee Machine’ by Celia Corral-Vázquez, translated from Spanish by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld)
• ‘Bone by Bone’ by Mónika Rusvai, translated from Hungarian by Vivien Urban (Samovar)
• ‘Songs of the Snow Whale’ by K.A. Teryna translated from Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Reactor)
• ‘The Rambler’ by Shen Dacheng, translated from Chinese by Cara Healey (Clarkesworld)
• ‘You Glow in the Dark’ by Liliana Colanzi translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews (You Glow in the Dark)
• ‘Unicorn 2512’ by Nora Nagi translated from the Arabic by Mayada Ibrahim (Egypt + 100)

*Our Jurors for this award are Cristina Jurado, Rachel Cordasco and Nadya Mercik.