The British Science Fiction Association has released the longlists of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2023.
The awards are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association and by the members of the year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention. The 2024 Eastercon, Levitation, will be held in Telford from March 29-April 1, where the winners will be announced.
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| Title | Author | Publisher | Link |
| A City on Mars | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith | Particular Books | https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/318993/a-city-on-mars-by-weinersmith-kelly-and-zach/9780241454930 |
| A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller | Nina Allan, editor | Luna Press | https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/a-traveller-in-time-the-critical-practice-of-maureen-kincaid-speller |
| All These Worlds | Niall Harrison | Briardene | https://briardenebooks.uk/shop/ |
| An Introduction to Fantasy | Matthew Sangster | Cambridge University Press | https://www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/an-introduction-to-fantasy |
| Blake’s 7 Production Diary Series A | Jonathan Helm | Cult Edge | https://downthetubes.net/charity-blakes-7-first-series-production-diary-set-for-release-this-weekend/ |
| Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science|SF | Francis Gene Rowe, Stephen Mooney, Richard Parker | Crater Press | https://www.amazon.co.uk/CORRODING-NOW-POETRY-SCIENCE-SF/dp/1911567462 |
| David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure in Television | Simon Guerrier | Miwk Publishing Ltd | https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/david-whitaker-in-an-exciting-adventure-with-television |
| Destination Time Travel | Steve Nallon & Dick Fiddy | Luath Press | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Destination-Time-Travel-Steve-Nallon/dp/1804251011 |
| Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction by Persons of Color | Chinelo Onwualu | Hydra House | https://hydrahousebooks.com/catalog/ex-marginalia/ |
| Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction | Mingwei Song | Columbia University Press | https://cup.columbia.edu/book/fear-of-seeing/9780231204439 |
| Follow Me: Religion in Fantasy and Science Fiction | Francesca T Barbini | Luna Press | https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/follow-me-religion-in-fantasy-and-science-fiction |
| I Am the Law | Michael Molcher | Rebellion | https://rebellionpublishing.com/product/i_am_the_law_how_judge_dredd_predicted_our_future/ |
| Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy | Tanya Kirk and Matthew Sangster | British Library Publishing | https://shop.bl.uk/products/realms-of-imagination |
| Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures | Cosmopolitan Concerns | Routledge | https://www.routledge.com/Science-Fiction-Cinema-in-the-Twenty-First-Century-Transnational-Futures/Gmez-Muoz/p/book/9780367759063 |
| Selected Non-Fiction 1962-2007 J.G.. Ballard | Editor Mark Blacklock | MIT Press | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Nonfiction-1962-2007-J-Ballard/dp/0262048329 |
| Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror | Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan | Luna Press | https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/spec-fic-for-newbies |
| The Expanse Expanded | Jamie Woodcock | Red Futures | https://www.redfuturesmag.com/the-expanse-expanded/ |
| The Female Man: Eastercon talk | Farah Mendlesohn | n/a | https://farahmendlesohn.com/2023/07/06/eastercon-2023-talk-the-female-man/ |
| The Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature | Allen Stroud | Rowman and Littlefield | http://tinyurl.com/4vr5absy |
| The Weird Tales Boys | Stephen Jones | Drugstore Indian Press (PS Publishing) | http://tinyurl.com/45h4x3r8 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea | Timothy S Miller | Palgrave MacMillan | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1 |
| We’re Falling Through Space | J. David Reed | 404Ink | https://www.404ink.com/store/inklings-were-falling-through-space |
| Wish I Was Here | M John Harrison | Serpent’s Tail | https://serpentstail.com/work/wish-i-was-here/ |
| Writing the Future edited | Dan Coxon and Richard V. Hirst | Dead Ink Books | https://deadinkbooks.com/product/writingthefuture/ |
BEST NOVEL
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(For short stories and their equivalent)
| A Brief History of New Worlds in Four Forms | Tom Dillon | Foundation | https://www.proquest.com/openview/ef58788c3a24d3495a75304811f871dc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=636386 |
| A Not-So-Swiftly Tilting Planet: Global Inequities In SFF Publishing | Ng Yi-Sheng | Strange Horizons | http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/a-not-so-swiftly-tilting-planet-global-inequities-in-sff-publishing/ |
| A Political History of the Future: The Tech Billionaire | Abiail Nussbaum | Lawyers and Guns Review | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/09/a-political-history-of-the-future-the-tech-billionaire |
| Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction | Eugen Bacon | Aurealis | https://aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis-158-copy/ |
| Exposition Tax: The hidden burden of writing from the marginsby | Suyi Davies Okungbowa | Hydra House | https://hydrahousebooks.com/catalog/ex-marginalia/ |
| In Search of Green Overshoots | Niall Harrison | Strange Horizons | http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/in-search-of-green-overshoots/ |
| Introduction to Afropantheology | Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga | Public Books | https://www.publicbooks.org/introduction-to-afropantheology/ |
| It Can’t Rain All the Time: The Crow and Masculinity | Jordan Kurella | Psychopomp | https://psychopomp.com/it-cant-rain-all-the-time-the-crow-and-masculinity/ |
| Making Breaking and Extraction: an exploration of bodies and time in SFF | Shinjini Dey | Strange Horizons | http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/making-breaking-and-extraction-an-exploration-of-bodies-and-time-in-sff/ |
| Prisoners In The Temple Of The Muses | Wole Talabi | Anciillary Review of Books | https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/08/17/prisoners-in-the-temple-of-the-muses/ |
| Project Management Lessons from Rogue One | Fiona Moore | Personal blog | https://adoctorofmanythings.wordpress.com/ |
| Search of Green Overshoots | Niall Harrison | Strange Horizons | http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/in-search-of-green-overshoots/ |
| Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real Scientific American | Charles Stross | Scientific American | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/ |
| https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/ is Dead, Long Live the Year’s Best | Niall Harrison | LA Review of books | https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-years-best-is-dead-long-live-the-years-best-on-the-2023-theodore-sturgeon-memorial-award-finalists/ |
| Weaving the Rainbow: Worldbuilding and SF | Gautam Bhatia | Bombay Literary Magazine | https://bombaylitmag.com/weaving-the-rainbow/ |
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Done voted!
(Just hope my picks aren’t ruled ‘ineligible’ for running afoul of West Midlands authority bye-laws …)
I realise banning RF Kuang from awards has acquired a taint, but if you found some genre content in Yellowface, it would be news to me.
Does anyone know when the final ballot will be released?
Why does Yellowface continue to be included on genre lists?
People don’t read and just vote for whatever someone puts out. That’s the only way Yellowface is on that list. Sigh.
Will Cahokia Jazz be Hugo-Eligible? It’s coming out on Feb. 6 in the US.
On Cahokia Jazz.
Yes as I read it it will be eligible. “Individual works are eligible only in their first year of publication.” It doesn’t say their first year of publication in the US.
It was published 5 Oct. 2023 in the UK. So meets the eligibility year criteria.
Of course I doubt it will be able to garner enough nominations to make the final ballot. Not enough US fans will have read it, and it is maybe a bit too far away from the type of books that typically make the shortlist.
Mmm.. and of course one has to be a fully paid up BSFA member to vote herein. And re the Eastercon 2024/Levitation (UK Nat SFCon) 2024 in Telford (where the Award winners are announced), that venue is North West of Birmingham in the English West Midlands. [ And esp for File 770 N/American readers, overseas fen attending are most welcome indeed. By UK Rail: nearest Station is Telford. There, there are a range of Hotels beside the Con venue (the Confce Centre). The nearest Airport to the Con is Birmingham UK [ IATA code: BHX ]. Below that, there is Birmingham Intl Rail Station { Station code : BHI } and from there, northbound, there are trains to Telford. Note that some trains only go as far as Wolverhampton (then change) . Starting at BHI however there are Transport for Wales (TfW) services which go direct, no change, to Telford. And as prev mentioned, those TfW trains eventually end up near Portmeirion (the Village) : tho that is much much further up the line! Rail times and fares are available on nationalrail(dot)co(dot)uk. ]