The British Science Fiction Association announced the winners of the 2023 BSFA Awards at Eastercon on March 30.
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, held since 1955.
The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970.
BEST NOVEL
The Green Man’s Quarry by Juliet McKenna
BEST SHORT FICTION
“How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P. Djèlí Clark
BEST SHORTER FICTION
“And Put Away Childish Things” by Adrian Tchakovsky
BEST AUDIO FICTION
The Dex Legacy by Emily Inkpen
BEST ARTWORK
Cover of The Surviving Sky by Leo Nicholls
BEST COLLECTION
The Best of British Science Fiction 2022 edited by Donna Scott
BEST NON-FICTION (LONG)
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller edited by Nina Allan
BEST SHORT NON-FICTION
Project Management Lessons from Rogue One by Fiona Moore
BEST TRANSLATED SHORT FICTION
“Vanishing Tracks in the Sand” by Jana Bianchi, translation by Rachael Amoruso
BEST FICTION FOR YOUNGER READERS
The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Here is an example of this year’s award trophy. (Photo posted by Fiona Moore on Facebook.)
The British Science Fiction Association today announced the shortlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2023.
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, Levitation, to be held at the Telford International Centre from March 29-April 1.
Voting by members of the BSFA closes March 29.
Finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards for publications in 2023.
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.
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
The British Science Fiction Association announced the winners of the 2022 BSFA Awards at Eastercon on April 9.
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, held since 1955.
The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970.
NOVEL
City Of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky
SHORT FICTION
Of Charms Ghosts and Grievances by Aliette de Bodard
ARTWORK
Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Alyssa Winans
NON FICTION
Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
The British Science Fiction Association today announced the shortlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards, for work published in 2022. The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. 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, held since 1955.
The winners will be announced at the Eastercon convention, “Conversation” held at the Birmingham NEC Hilton from April 7-10.
Voting by members of the BSFA will open later in March.
Finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards for publications in 2022.
Best Artwork
Alyssa Winans, Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard, Gollancz
Manzi Jackson, Cover of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Macmillan
Chris Baker, Cover of Shoreline of Infinity 32, Shoreline of Infinity
Vincent Sammy, Cover of Parsec 4, PS Publishing
Miguel Co, Cover of Song of the Mango and Other New Myths, Ateneo De Manila UP
Jay Johnstone, Cover of The Way the Light Bends, Luna Press Publishing
The British Science Fiction Association has released the longlists of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2022.
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 2023 Eastercon, Conversation, will be held in Birmingham from April 7–10, where the winners will be announced.
(1) GATHERING NOMINATIONS. The BSFA Awards 2022: Longlist Nominations are open. According to their tweet anyone can suggest works. However, only BSFA members have a vote in the outcome.
(2) THE STARS MY QUESTIONATION. LearnedLeague has another SF-related quiz, this one written (“smithed” in LL parlance) by Filer Frasher Sherman. “Invasions From Outer Space: Film and TV” can be found here.
David Goldfarb says 1778 people played the quiz, which is a pretty good turnout for a One-Day.
(3) CALLS FOR HELP. Here are two GoFundMes for SFF writers who need help with medical expenses:
…However, this past week, the doctors found some worrying signs of endometrial cancer and have recommended a full hysterectomy, in addition to the other procedures. The recovery time required and the need to do reconstructive surgery means that I don’t expect to be able to work again for another 6 months to a year.
I was let go from my job when I had my surgery. Since then, my sister’s has been covering all our household expenses but we now find ourselves in a difficult situation.
…My medical costs are mounting with a minimum of two surgeries planned for the next six months and potentially as many as four. The results of my biopsy on November 25, will determine the next phase of my treatment. We’re already in debt and have liquidated our insurance policies to try to keep afloat.
So we’re asking for your help….
James A. Moore: “The Hits Keep Coming”. The appeal at the link contains the grim details, as related by its organizer, Christopher Golden.
…There will be time and many costs involved, but this GoFundMe is really meant only as a bridge to help Jim get to wherever they will end up next. It’s hard to fathom how anyone could endure a string of events like this, but Jim endures. Please help if you can, and if you can’t donate anything, please share with anyone you think will be able to do so….
Erewhon—established in 2018, which boasts a lineup of authors including C. L. Polk, E. Lily Yu, Benjamin Rosenbaum, and Cassandra Khaw—is now an imprint of Kensington. The acquisition includes Erewhon’s backlist as well as their titles coming out through 2024. Editorial oversight will continue under Erewhon Publisher Sarah Guan, with the rest of the Erewhon team also joining Kensington. Starting in 2023, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will begin distributing all of their books….
Erewhon was founded by Liz Gorinsky, who left in March to “pursue other projects”.
The Aliens Are Here: Extraterrestrial Visitors in American Cinema and Television looks at how movies and TV have portrayed Earth’s encounters with beings from other worlds. Each chapter takes a different topic — alien invaders, aliens as refugees, alien/Terran love stories, UFO abduction films, genre mashups — and looks at related films, themes and tropes. Then I spotlight one to three movies or TV shows relevant to the chapter topic. The alien monsters chapter, for instance, has The Thing From Another World, The Thing and The Andromeda Strain.
… As every historian, pro or amateur, knows, history repeats itself. That is, events happen in a cyclical pattern, over and over, in varying lengths of time. The story of history is a reminder even when we think that we’re learning from experience, that learning never seems to stick for more than a generation or two before dissipating into mist. Or, as I like to put it, history repeats itself because it knows we’re not listening. And it will get louder and louder until we do.
Which for the political scientist and pundit may be depressing as hell, but for the historical novelist it’s a candy store just waiting to be plundered. All that wild, wonderful detail you literally couldn’t make up without someone calling hijinks, actually happened….
(7) BAEN SALE. Baen Books’ Veteran’s Day November Ebook Sale is on. Click through for a list of Baen authors with military service and the titles of their ebooks being offered at a $1 discount. Sale ends November 30, 2022. Available wherever Baen Ebooks are sold.
(8) MEMORY LANE.
1934 — [By Cat Eldridge.] Ngaio Marsh’s A Man Lay Dead
I truly love country house mysteries. I truly do. There’s A. E. Milne’s The Red House Murder and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Christmas as novels and Gosford Park and Knives Out as the modern exemplars of it in films. And here we have a woman born and raised far from Britain, in New Zealand to be precise, with a country house murder.
Ngaio Marsh was born in 1895 Christchurch, New Zealand where she lived until 1928, when she went to London with friends on whom he would base the Lamprey family in the Surfeit of Lampreys novel, her tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn. Then after she spent time in both countries.
So let’s us talk about A Man Lay Dead which as I said is a country house murder. It is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934 by Geoffrey Bles in London.
The plot concerns a murder committed during a detective game of murder at a weekend party in a country house. But she hasn’t really developed the character of Alleyn yet so another character is focused on.
WE ARE GOING TO TELL A STORY HERE, SO BEWARE!
A small group of guests at Sir Hubert Handesley’s estate including a man about town, several of his nieces, an art expert, a gossip reporter, and pay attention as Marsh makes sure you notice him, a butler of Russian ancestry.
The murder mystery game in which one of the guests is of course chosen to be the murderer and someone to be murdered by him or her. At the time of the murderer’s choice, he tells the victim they’re dead.
At that point, the lights go out, a loud bell rings, and then everyone comes back to together for yet more drinks and to piece together who did it. It is all intended to be a good hearted diversion, except that the corpse is very, very real.
Alleyn has his holiday with Troy to investigate a murder connected to a stolen chalice in the area, but he’s called when this murder occurs at uncle’s estate.
NO MORE STORY TO BE TOLD, SO COME BACK AND I’LL POUR VINTAGE BRANDY
Marsh had being reading a short story by Christie or Sayers, she forgots which, and wondered if she could write a mystery novel set in the Murder Game which was popular at English weekend parties. So she bought some composition books and set down to write.
Marsh regretted this novel immensely once she’d refined her writing skills in years to come. Joanne Drayton noted in Ngaio Marsh: Her life in crime that she would “cringe at the thought of her first novel with its barely plausible story line, shallow characterization and confined setting”.
It would later be adapted for the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries series, the Angela North character here was replaced by Agatha Troy who appears in later novels as Alleyn’s romantic interest and eventual wife.
It, like almost everything Marsh did, is of course available from the usual suspects.
(9) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge.]
Born November 3, 1921 — Charles Bronson. He didn’t do a lot of genre acting but I’ve got him in One Step Beyond as Yank Dawson in “The Last Round” and he’s in The Twilight Zone in “Two” as The Man opposite Elizabeth Montgomery as The Women. He was also in Master of The World which is based on the Verne novel Robur the Conqueror and its sequel Master of the World. (Died 2003.)
Born November 3, 1931 — Monica Vitti. She’s best remembered in the English-language movie-going world for her performance as the lead agent in Modesty Blaise. It‘s rather loosely based upon the Modesty Blaise strip by Peter O’Donnell, who co-wrote the original story upon which Evan Jones based his screenplay. (Died 2022.)
Born November 3, 1933 — Ken Berry. He’s receiving Birthday Honors for Disney’s The Cat from Outer Space in which he was Dr. Frank Wilson. No, the cat wasn’t Goose. Nice idea though. And he played seven different roles on the original Fantasy Island. Also, like pretty much everyone else. he was a guest performer on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. I know it’s not genre, I just find that amusing. (Died 2018.)
Born November 3, 1933 — Jeremy Brett. Still my favorite Holmes of all time. He played him in four Granada TV series from 1984 to 1994 in a total of 41 episodes. One source said he was cast as Bond at one point, but turned the part down, feeling that playing 007 would harm his career. Lazenby was cast instead. I can’t actually say it’s fact, but it is a great story. (Died 1995.)
Born November 3, 1933 — Aneta Corsaut. If you saw The Blob, the original Fifties version, she was Jane Martin. Her only other genre film work was as an uncredited tourist mother in Blazing Saddles. And unless I’m mistaken, she had no other genre series work at all though she was popular in Westerns. She is best remembered for playing Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show. (Died 1995.)
Born November 3, 1952 — Eileen Wilks, 70. Her principal genre series is the World of Lupi, a FBI procedural intertwined with shapeshifters, dragons and the multiverse. Highly entertaining, sometimes considered romance novels though I don’t consider them so. The audiobooks are amazing as well! I re- listened to several of them recently and the steel booted Suck Fairy saw her boots rust away.
Born November 3, 1956 — Kevin Murphy, 66. Best known as the voice and puppeteer of Tom Servo for nine years on the Mystery Science Theater 3000. He was also the writer for the show for eleven years. I’m surprised the series was never nominated for a Hugo in the Long Form or Shot Form. Does it not qualify?
Born November 3, 1963 — Brian Henson, 59. Can we all agree that The Happytime Murders should never have been done? Wash it out of your consciousness with Muppet Treasure Island or perhaps The Muppet Christmas Carol. If you want something darker, he was a puppeteer on The Witches, and the chief puppeteer on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And he voices Hoggle in Labyrinth.
(10) COMICS SECTION.
Tom Gauld extols the advantages of shopping at a haunted bookshop.
Black Panther 2 is imminent, but in many ways the extraordinary Neptune Frost is the real Afrofuturist deal: a transgressive socialist Wakanda with an exoskeleton of punk geopolitics bolted on. As well as a denunciation of the western techno-centric order, it’s a musical lesson in conscious collaboration between the developed and developing world that Hollywood could learn from – instead of just piggybacking on African aesthetics. Filmed in Rwanda but set in Burundi, the story was developed by US musician Saul Williams – drawing on material from his recent albums – and his Rwandan wife Anisia Uzeyman; they share the directorial credit…
By Christmas, 50 hardly used FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carriers (APCs), until recently the property of the British army, and currently in warehouses in secret locations across the UK, will arrive on the frontline in Ukraine’s war with Russia in time for the toughest winter conditions.
The transfer, the largest of such APCs to Ukraine, is not due to British munificence nor to procurement by the Ukrainian ministry of defence.
It is instead just the latest example of the extraordinary scale and indeed speed of the crowdfunding campaigns that have been powering the Ukrainian military since the early days of the war.
The fundraising appeal for the armoured vehicles – tagline “Grab them all” – had only been launched on Wednesday by the Serhiy Prytula charity foundation, named after its founder, a popular comedian and TV presenter with a sizeable online following….
(13) JEOPARDY! Unlike tonight’s Jeopardy! contestants, Andrew Porter recognized what the right response should be.
Final Jeopardy: Novel Locales
Answer: This place from a 1933 novel lies in the valley of the Blue Moon, below a peak called Karakal.
Wrong questions: What is the Big Valley?; What is Brigadoon?; What is Xanadu?
Right question: What is Shangri La?
(14) FELINES OF FAME. Can there be any doubt we want to know this? “The 10 Most Famous Cats In Animated TV Shows” according to CBR.com. (I can’t find any I would kick out, but I wish Top Cat was on the list.)
…From the earliest animations, where they were nothing more than silent presence, to the more modern takes, where they have plenty of sasses to share, these felines are more than the fond memories they give their fans. Most people likely have a fictional cat that they remember, and going back to watch the series they’re from can bring nostalgia and a ton of laughs….
(15) DON’T LET IT HANG YOU UP. Rory Cellan Jones explains how cell phones can for the first time take pictures in this 2001 clip from the BBC that dropped today.
(16) VIDEO OF THE DAY. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In “Honest Game Trailers: Stardew Valley,” Fandom Games says this game is so soothing “it’s like Animal Crossing went to therapy.” But the game offers an escape by “having adventures you could never have in real life: owning your own home, forming meaningful relationships, and finding satisfaction in your work.” But if you’re tired of doing chores, head to the underground caves where you can slay demons and dinosaurs!
[Thanks to Michael Toman, Cat Eldridge, Mike Kennedy, Cora Buhlert, David Goldfarb, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Chris Barkley, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title debit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Jack Lint.]
The British Science Fiction Association today announced the winners of the 2021 BSFA Awards.
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, held since 1955.
The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. This year marks the launch of a new category, the Best Book for Younger Readers.
The British Science Fiction Association today announced the shortlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards, for work published in 2021.
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, held since 1955. Voting opens for BSFA members on Monday, February 28 at bsfa.co.uk
This year’s Eastercon, Reclamation, will be held April 15-19, and is where the winners will be announced. The BSFA Awards ceremony will be free to attend by all members of Eastercon and nominees: details will be released closer to the date.
Members of the BSFA will receive a PDF with excerpts of the nominated works via an emailed newsletter in advance of the convention, and a physical copy of the Awards Booklet at a later date.
The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. This year marks the launch of a new category, the Best Book for Younger Readers.
BEST BOOK FOR YOUNGER READERS
The Raven Heir by Stephanie Burgis, Bloomsbury Children’s Books
A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger, Levine Querido
Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao, Rock the Boat
Redemptor, by Jordan Ifueko, Hot Key Books
The Empty Orchestra, by Elizabeth Priest, Luna Press Publishing
Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep by Philip Reeve, David Fickling Books
BEST NOVEL
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine, Tor
Blackthorn Winter by Liz Williams, NewCon Press
Purgatory Mount by Adam Roberts, Gollancz
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Tor
Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley, Solaris
Green Man’s Challenge by Juliet E. McKenna, Wizard’s Tower Press
British Science Fiction Association members will have until February 21 to help choose the BSFA Awards shortlists for works published in 2021. The voting form is available to BSFA members here.
In the first round, members nominated a longlist of 74 novels, 62 works of short fiction, 25 items of nonfiction, and 28 artworks.
Once voters have determined the shortlist, BSFA members and members of the British national science fiction convention Eastercon will vote for the winners.
The full longlists follow:
BEST ARTWORK LONGLIST
Black Corporeal (Between This Air), by Julianknxx
Brick Lane Foundation, by Abbas Zahedi
Build or Destroy, by Rashaad Newsome
Cover of Danielle Lainton & Louise Coquio (eds)’s Pashtarina’s Peacocks: For Storm Constantine, by Ruby
Cover of Eugen Bacon’s Danged Black Thing, by Peter Lo / Kara Walker
Cover of Eugen Bacon’s Saving Shadows, Elena Betti / Ian Whates
Cover of Freda Warrington and Liz Williams’ Shadows on the Hillside, by Danielle Lainton
Cover of Jamie Mollart’s Kings of a Dead World, by Heike Schüssler
Cover of Rian Hughes’ The Back Locomotive, by Rian Hughes
Cover of Rosa Rankin-Gee’s Dreamland (artist’s name not given)
Cover of Shift #3, by Mark Montague
Cover of Shift #7, by Ian D Paterson
Cover of Simon Jimenez’s The Vanished Bird (2021 paperback edition), artist’s name not given
Cover of Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Son of the Storm, by Dan dos Santos / Lauren Panepinto
Cover of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Anthology, Maria Spada
Cover of Xueting Christine Ni (ed.)’s Sinopticon, by Bradley Sharp
Exhibition at 180 The Strand, by Ryoji Ikeda
Flyaway, by Kathleen Jennings
Late Hangout at Zuko’s, by Devin Elle Kurtz
MILK, by STREF (Stephen White)
Morando, by a’strict
Narrow Escape, by Larry MacDougall
Renaissance Generative Dreams: AI Cinema, by Refik Anadol
Rupture No. 1, by Heather Phillipson
Shift Pin-Up, by Warwick Fraser-Croombe
The Scottish Green Lady (for Glasgow in 24), by Iain Clarke
This Is The Future, by Hito Steyerl
Viscera, by Allissa Chan
BEST FICTION FOR YOUNGER READERS LONGLIST
A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger
All Our Hidden Gifts, by Caroline O’Donoghue
Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao
Lionheart Girl, by Yaba Badoe
Monsters of Brookhaven, by Pádraig Kenny
Noor, by Nnedi Okorafor
Redemptor, by Jordan Ifueko
Show Us Who You Are (Knights Of), Elle McNicoll
Skywake: Invasion, by Jamie Russell
Stella’s Stellar Hair, by Yesenia Moises
The Boy with Wings, by Lenny Henry, Mark Buckingham
The Empty Orchestra, by Elizabeth Priest
The False Rose, Jakob Wegelius, trans. Peter Graves
The Gilded Ones, by Namina Forna
The Outrage, by William Hussey
The Planet in a Pickle Jar, by Martin Stanev
The Raven’s Heir, by Stephanie Burgis
The Shadows of Rookhaven, by Pádraig Kenny,
The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin discovered most of the Universe, Sandra Nickel, illus. Aimée Sicuro
Utterly dark and the face of the deep, by Philip Reeve
Victories Greater Than Death, by Charlie Jane Anders
BEST NOVEL LONGLIST
10 Low, by Starke Holburn
A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine
A Heart Divided, by Jin Yong
Alien 3, by Pat Cadigan and William Gibson
All our Hidden Gifts, by Caroline O’Donoghue
All the Murmuring Bones, by A.G. Slatter
Anna, by Sammy HK Smith
Artifact Sapce, by Miles Cameron
Barbarians of the Beyond, by Matthew Hughes
Bewilderment, by Richard Powers
Black Water Sister, by Zen Cho
Blackthorn Winter, Liz Williams
Blood Red Sand, by Damien Larkin
Catalyst Gate, by Megan O’Keefe
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
Cwen, by Alice Albinia
Darkest, by Paul L. Arvidson
Discord’s Shadow, by K. S. Dearsley
Dreamland, by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Elder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Empire of the Vampire, by Jay Kristoff
Far From the Light of Heaven, by Tade Thompson
Fire of the Dark Triad, by Asya Semenovich
Firebreak, by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Four Dervishes, by Hammad Rind
Fugitive Telemetry, by Martha Wells
Galactic Hellcats, by Marie Vibbert
Gardens of Earth, by Mark Iles
Gutter Child, by Jael Richardson
Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
Iron Widow, by Xiran Jay Zhao
Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee
Kings of a Dead World, by Jamie Mollart
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Library for the Dead, by T.L. Huchu
Light Chaser, by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell
Machinehood, by S.B. Divya
Master of Djinn, by P. Djeli Clarke
Murder at the Mushaira, by Raza Mir
My Brother the Messiah, by Martin Vopenka
New Gods, by Robin Triggs
Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North
On Fragile Waves, by E. Lily Yu
One Day all This Will be Yours, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Perhaps the Stars, by Ada Palmer
Plague Birds, by Jason Sanford
Purgatory Mount, by Adam Roberts
Remote Control, by Nnedi Okorofor
Requiem Moon, by C. T. Rwizi
Shadows of Darkness: Remnants of Resistance, by Jonah S. White
Shards of Earth, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Skyward Inn, by Aliya Whiteley
Son of the Storm, by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson
The Actual Star, by Monica Byrne
The Actuality, by Paul Braddon
The Chosen and the Beautiful, by Nghi Vo
The Fallen, by Ada Hoffmann
The Green Man’s Challenge, by Juliet E McKenna
The Jasmine Throne, by Tasha Suri
The Kingdoms, by Natasha Pulley
The Maleficent Seven, by Cameron Johnston
The Past is Red, by Catherynne M. Valente
The Rage Room, by Lisa de Nikolits
The Raven’s Heir, by Stephanie Burgis
The Seep, by Chana Porter
The Unravelling, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
The Upper World, by Femi Fadugba
The Wisdom of Crowds, by Joe Abercrombie
This Is Our Undoing, by Lorraine Wilson
Three Twins at the Crater School, by Chaz Brentley
Twenty Five To Life, by RWW Greene
Wendy, Darling, by A. C. Wise
You Sexy Thing, by Cat Rambo
BEST SHORT FICTION LONGLIST
What is Mercy?, by Amal Singh
A Blind Eye, by M. H. Ayinde
Advanced Triggernometry, by Stark Holborn
An Array of Worlds as a Rose Unfurling in Time, by Shreya Anasuya
Clockwork Sister, by M.E. Rodman
Dog and Pony Show, by Robert Jeschonek
Down and Out under the Tannhauser Gate, by David Gullen
Dream Eater, by Nemma Wollenfang
Dreamports, by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Efficiency, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Fanfiction for a Grimdark Universe, by Vanessa Fogg
Fireheart Tiger, by Aliette de Bodard
First Person Singular, by Haruki Murakami
Fish, by Ida Keogh
Flight, by Innocent Chizaram Ilo
Flyaway, by Kathleen Jennings
Her Garden, the Size of Her Palm, by Yukimi Ogawa
If The Martians Have Magic, by P. Djeli Clark
Immersion, by Aliette de Bodard
Just Enough Rain, by PH Lee
Light Chaser, by Peter F Hamilton and Gareth L Powell
Metal Like Blood in the Dark, by T. Kingfisher
O2 Arena, by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Prime Meridian, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Proof, by Induction, by Jose Pablo Iriarte
Scars, by Bora Chung
Secrets of the Kath, by Fatima Taqvi
Seven Horrors, by Fabio Fernandes
Shutdown/Restart, by Jo Ross-Battett
Sorry We Missed You!, by Aun-Juli Riddle
The Abomination, by Nuzo Onoh
The Alien Invasion, by Ely Percy
The Alien Stars, by Tim Pratt
The Andraiad, by Tim Major
The Best Damned Barbershop in Hell, by Bruce Arthurs
The Center of the Universe, by Nadia Shammas
The Chorus, by Aliya Whiteley
The Constellation of Alarion, by John Houlihan
The Failing Name, by Eugen Bacon and Seb Doubinsky
The Farmers and the Farmed, by William C. Powell
The Forlorn Hope, by Verity Holloway
The Future God of Love, by Dilman Dila
The Ghosts of Trees, by Fiona Moore
The Graveyard, by Eleanor Arnason
The Hungry Dark, by Simon Bestwick
The Lay of Lilyfinger, by G.V. Anderson
The Man Who Turned Into Gandhi, by Shovon Chowdhury
The Mermaid Astronaut, by Yoon Ha Lee
The Metric, by David Moles
The Musuem For Forgetting, by Peter M Sutton
The Plus One, by Marie Vibbert
The Samundar Can be Any Color, Fatima Taqvi, Flash Fiction Online
The Song of the Moohee, by Emmett Swan
The Tale of Jaja and Canti, by Tobi Ogundiran
The Walls of Benin City, by M. H. Ayinde
Things Can Only Get Better, by Fiona Moore
Virtual Snapshots, by Tlotlo Tsamaase
White Rose, Red Rose, by Rachel Swirsky
Worldshifter, by Paul Di Filippo
Zeno’s Paradise, by E. J. Delaney
BEST NON-FICTION LONGLIST
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders
Blake’s 7 Annual 1982, eds Grahame Robertson and Carole Ramsay
Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades, by Anna McFarlane
Debarkle, by Camestros Felapton
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Colour, by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Extraterrestrial, by Avi Loeb
Gendering Time, Timing Gender, by PM Biswas
Manifestos of Futurisms, by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Octothorpe Podcast, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
On Writing Narratives, Questioning Standards, and Oral Traditions in Storytelling, by K. S. Villoso
Science Fiction and the Pathways out of the COVID Crisis, by Val Nolan
Science Fiction in Translation, by Ian Campbell
Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Sheryl Vint
Seduced, by the Ruler’s Gaze: An Indian Perspective on Seth Dickinson’s Masquerade, by Sid Jain
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space, by Fred Scharmen
Speculative Sex: Queering Aqueous Natures and Biotechnological Futures in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl, by Sarah Bezan
Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction, by Sami Ahmed Khan
Storylistening, by Sarah Dillon and Claire Craig
The Anthropocene in Frank Herbert’s Dune Trilogy, by Tara B.M. Smith
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture, by Mark Bould
The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure, by Xavier Dolla, illus. Djibril Morissette-Phan
The Importance of Being Interested, by Robin Ince
World of Warcraft: New Flavors of Azeroth, by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel
Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Francesca T Barbini
Writing the Contemporary Uncanny, by Jane Alexander
