This page provides information about all the nominations received for the BSFA awards to be presented at Easter 2009. The shortlists announced for these awards can be found here.

Best Novel Nominations

• Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic)
• Dark Blood by John Meaney (Gollancz 08)
• Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (Doubleday)
• Flood by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
• Going Under: Quantum Gravity Book 3 by Justina Robson (Gollancz)
• Halting State by Charles Stross (Orbit)
• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds  (Gollancz)
• Incandescence by Greg Egan (Gollancz)
• Killing Kiss by Sam Stone (Murky Depths)
• Matter by Iain M Banks (Orbit)
• Memoirs Of A Master Forger by William Heaney (Graham Joyce), (Gollancz)
• Nation by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday)
• Neuropath by Scott Bakker (Orion)
• Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (Orbit)
• Shadow Web by NM Browne (Bloomsbury)
• Song of Time by Ian R MacLeod (PS Publishing)
• Swiftly by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
• The Broken World by Tim Etchells (William Heinemann)
• The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway (William Heinemann)
• The Heritage by Will Ashon (Faber)
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (Harvill Secker)
• The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
• The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan (Gollancz)
• The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod (Orbit)
• Weaver by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz)
• Winterstrike by Liz Williams (Tor)

Nominations for Best Short Fiction

• Captain Ordinary by Terry Bisson --(Flurb.net #5 2008)
• Your Collar by Elizabeth bear --(Subterranean Spring 08)
• [a ghost samba] by Ian McDonald (Postscripts 15)
• 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss by Kij Johnson (Asimov's, July)
• A Brief Guide to Other Histories - Paul McAuley (Postscripts 15)
• A Buyer's Guide To Maps Of Antarctica by Catherynne M Valente -- (Clarkesworld May 08)
• A Change in Government by Kat Beyer (The Daily Cabal November 10, 2008).
• A Letter Of Complaint by James Bloomer (Spacesuits And Sixguns)
• An Empty Kind of Love by Adam Colston (Escape Velocity #2)
• An Honest Day's Work by Margo Lanagan (The Starry Rift)
• And Their Blood Will Be Prescient to Fire by Freda Warrington (MYTH-UNDERSTANDINGS ed Ian Whates - Newcon Press 08)
• Automatic Swan, Fusion Heart by James Targett (Hub #68)
• Avatar on the Belts (3 parts) by William J. Piovano (The Future Fire #11, 12 & 13.)
• Best in Class by Jonathan C Gillespie (Murky Depths #6)
• Brittney's Labyrinth by Richard A Lovett
• Butterfly, Falling at Dawn by Aliette De Bodard (Interzone 219)
• City of the Dead by Paul MacAuley (Postscripts Summer 08)
• Crystal Nights by Greg Egan (Interzone)
• Day Boy by Trent Jamieson (Murky Depths, Issue #4)
• Days of Wonder by Geoff Ryman (Oct/Nov F&SF)
• Elementals by Ian Macleod (EXTRAORDINARY ENGINES ed by Nick Gevers -Solaris 08)
• Emptier Than Void by John Meaney (SUBTERFUGE ed Ian Whates - Newcon Press)
• Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment by M. Rickert (F&SF)
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Eclipse 2)
• Graveyard of the Cloud Gods by David Seiglerin (Triangulation: Taking Flight ed. Pete Butler, 2008)
• Greenland by Chris Beckett,  (Interzone Oct 08)
• Gunpowder by Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
• His Master's Voice by Hannu Rajaniemi (Interzone 218)
• How To Make Paper Airplanes - Lavie Tidhar (Interzone 216)
• I Can't Look at the City by Jim Stewart (Apex #12)
• iCity by Paul Di Filippo (The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction Vol. 2 February 2008)
• Infestation by Garth Nix (Starry Rift)
• Jimmy's Roadside Cafe by Ramsey Shehandeh (Strange Horizons 6/30/08)
• Judgement Passed by Jerry Oltion (first published in Wastelands ed. John Joseph Adams, 2008).
• Kemistry by Terry Grimwood (The Future Fire #12)
• Ki Do (The Way of the Trees) by Sarah Thomas (Strange Horizons)
• Legolas Does the Dishes by Justina Robson (Postscripts)
• Little Lost Robot  by Paul McAuley (Interzone 217)
• Machine Maid by Margo Lanagan (Extraordinary Engines ed Nick Gevers - published by Solaris)"
• Night Bird Soaring by T.L. Morganfield (HUD #3)
• One Man Home by Shane Nelson (Not One of Us #40)
• Orange by Neil Gaiman (The Starry Rift anthology)
• Owlspeak by Storm Constantine (MYTH-UNDERSTANDINGS ed. Ian Whates -Newcon Press 08)
• Petrolpunk by Adam Roberts (EXTRAORDINARY ENGINES ed. Nick Gevers Solaris 08)
• Phase by Martha J. Allard (Not One of Us #39)
• Pseudo Tokyo by Jennifer Linnaea (Interzone 214)
• Rat Island by Chris Beckett (Interzone Oct 08)
• Salad For Two by Robert Reed ( Sep. F&SF)
• Seaborne by Kari Sperring (MYTH-UNDERSTANDINGS ed. Ian Whates - Newcon Press 08)
• Sense and Sensibility by Benjamin Rosenbaum (The Ant King and Other Stories)
• Static by Marly Youman (EXTRAORDINARY ENGINES ed. by Nick Gevers Solaris 08)
• Talk Is Cheap by Geoff Ryman (Interzone 216)
• Tenbrook of Mars by Dean McLaughlin (Analog)
• Terminator Zero & The Dream Demons by Andrew Darlington (Premonitions: Causes For Alarm)
• The Best of Both Worlds by Brian Stableford (Postscripts Summer 08)
• The Disemboweller by Ekaterina Sedia (Lone Star STories 25 Feb 2008)
• The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald (The Starry Rift anthology)
• The Ecologist and the Avon Lady by Tricia Sullivan (MYTH-UNDERSTANDINGS ed. Ian Whates - Newcon Press 08)
• The English Mutiny by Ian R. MacLeod (Asimov’s, Nov/Dec 2008)
• The Fantasy Jumper by Will McIntosh (Black Static 3)
• The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross by Margo Lanagan (DREAMING AGAIN)
• The Gambler by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fast Forward 2)
• The God Particle by Steve Longworth (SUBTERFUGE ed. Ian Whates - Newcon Press)
• The Hob Carpet by Ian R MacLeod (Asimov's)
• The Ice War by Stephen Baxter (Asimov's)
• The Imitation Game by Rudy Rucker (Interzone 215)
• The Invisibles by Elisabeth Vonarburg (Interzone)
• The Magician's House by Meghan McCarron (Strange Horizons)
• The Moth by Neil Williamson (SUBTERFUGE ed. Ian Whates - Newcon Press)
• The Paths You Would Walk by James Bloomer (Every Day Fiction)
• The Purloined Labradoodle by Barry B Longyear
• The Region of Unlikeness by Rivka Galchen (The New Yorker)
• The Right People by Adam Rakunas (Futurismic, October 2008 - http://futurismic.com/2008/10/01/new-fiction-the-right-people-by-adam-rakunas/)
• The Rising River by Daniel Keysen (Black Static #5)
• The Scarecrow's Boy by Michael Swanwick (Oct/Nov F&SF)
• The Scent of Their Arrival by Mercurio D Rivera (Interzone #214)
• The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain by Jason Sanford (Inrterzone #217)
• The Spacetime Pool by Catherine Asaro
• The Stamp by Terry Bisson (Lone Star Stories 26 April 08)
• The Sum of the Past by Ian Whates (Fictitious Force issue 5)
• The Surfer by Kelly Link (The Starry Rift)
• The Tear by Ian McDonald (GALACTIC EMPIRES)
• The Thursday Night League by James Hartley (Concept SciFi #1)
• They Left the City at Night by Sarah Singleton (SUBTERFUGE ed. Ian Whates -Newcon Press)
• Thirstlands by Nick Woods (SUBTERFUGE ed. Ian Whates - Newcon Press)
• TouchMe: Keeping in Touch by Heather Bradshaw (MYTH-UNDERSTANDINGS ed. Ian Whates - Newcon Press 08)
• We Love Deena by Alice Sola Kim (Strange Horizons)
• When Thorns are the Tips of Trees by Jason Sanford (Interzone #219.)

Best Artwork Nomination

• Cover art for Fast Forward 2 anthology by John Picacio (Pyr Books)
• Cover for Murky Depths, Issue #4 "St Darwin's Spiritual" by Vincent Chong
• Cover for Necrophenia (Gollancz S.F.) by Robert Rankin, cover by same (Hardcover - 29 Dec 2008)
• Cover for Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost - Angelo Rinaldi.
• Cover for The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, cover by latter (Hardcover - 20 Oct 2008)
• Cover of Analog Jan/Feb 08 by David Hardy
• Cover of Analog June 08 by David Hardy
• Cover of Eclipse 2 ed. Jonathan Strahan
• Cover of Flood by Stephen Baxter
• Cover of Halting State - Charles Stross
• Cover of Infoquake (David Louis Endelman, Solaris) – Stefan Martiniere
• Cover of Interzone 218 by Warwick Fraser-Coombe
• Cover of Interzone 219
• Cover of issue 1612 of 2000AD  by Simon Davis
• Cover of Jupiter XXI by Jesse Speak
• Cover of issue 1616 of 2000AD by Clint Langley
• Cover of September Asimov's
• Cover of Subterfuge by Andy Bigwood (Newcon Press)
• Cover of Swiftly by Adam Roberts
• Cover of The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
• Cover to Pantechnicon #7 – Lee Metcalfe
• UK cover for "House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds" - illustration by Chris Moore (Gollancz)

Best Non-Fiction Nomination

• Hook, Line and Narrative: the Art of Writing Story Leads by Richard A Lovett, Analog 07/08
• How to Burn a Chicken – Using Astronomy for Worldbuilding by Sheila Crosby (in Escape Velocity, vol 1 issue 2)
• The End of Science Fiction by Nader Elhefnawy (published at The Fix - http://thefix-online.com/features/end-of-science-fiction-p1/)
• The Reference Library' by Tom Easton, Analog Jan/Feb 08, Jul/Aug 08
• When It Changed', by David Redd, Banana Wings (ed/ Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer) 34 (May 2008), pp. 20-21.
• When It Stomped Beneath The Terra . . . by Matt Wallace (Murky Depths, Issue #4)
• Writing the Future Red, Journey Planet by Farah Mendlesohn (ed. James Bacon, with Chris Garcia and Claire Brialey) 2 (September 2008), pp. 33-35.
• An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett, ed. by Andrew M Butler (Publisher: Greenwood World Publishing ISBN: 978-1-846450-01-3 hb, 978-1-846450-43-3 pb)
• Back Through the Wormhole by Abigail Nussbaum (Asking the Wrong Questions)
• Dark Knight Essay Series by Todd Alcott http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/245730.html
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• Deep Space 9 Essay Series, by Abigail Nussbaum http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2008/02/back-through-wormhole-table-of-contents.html
• Notes from the Geekshow: A blog by Hal Duncan
• Off Cuts by Farah Mendlesohn: http://www.farahsf.com/  
• Physics for Amnesia by John Clute ()
• Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan)
• Science Fiction Film and Television, ed. by Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint (Liverpool University Press)
• Studio Space by Joel Meadows (Image Comics)
• Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films by Roz Kaveney (Paperback - 14 Dec 2007) I. B. Tauris
• The 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist by Abigail Nussbaum (Strange Horizons)
• The 2008 William L. Crawford Award Shortlist by Victoria Hoyle (Strange Horizons)
• The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways by Daniel Tatarsky (Hardcover - 25 Sep 2008)
• The End of Science Fiction" by Nader Elhefnawy (published at The Fix - http://thefix-online.com/features/end-of-science-fiction-p1/)
• The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr (Wesleyan)
• Tolkien: On Fairy-Stories, ed. Flieger and Anderson, Harper Collins 2008
• V For Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche; a critical study of the Graphic Novel and Film by James Keller
• Watching the Watchmen: The Definitive Companion to the Ultimate Graphic Novel by Dave Gibbons, Chip Kidd, and Mike Essl (Hardcover - 24 Oct 2008)"
• What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction by Paul Kincaid (Beccon)